The Sea God fell silent for a moment before finally sighing. "So you're determined to compete with me for him?"
"It isn't competition," the Life Goddess corrected. "It's letting him choose for himself."
"He chooses?"
"Yes."
The Life Goddess turned around, her gaze passing through the temple gates toward the vast blue sea in the distance. "After he completes the Sea God's First Trial, I'll meet him personally and give him a chance to choose."
She paused, glanced back at the Sea God, and the smile on her lips deepened. "Then we'll see whether your Sea God Godhood or my Life Godhood is more appealing."
The Sea God stood where he was, watching the Life Goddess's figure vanish through the temple gates. He remained speechless for a long time.
If any other god had dared to so openly snatch his heir, the Sea God would have shown them exactly what it meant to be the strongest beneath a God King.
But the one who had come was a God King—the Life God King, no less.
And the one standing behind the Life God King was someone he simply could not afford to provoke.
"Forget it. She's just one heir. I can always find another."
The Sea God turned his gaze back toward the mortal realm and quickly found another suitable heir.
God Realm, Destruction God Temple.
Compared to the Sea God Temple's resplendent, ostentatious grandeur, the Destruction God Temple resembled more a colossal beast lurking in the darkness.
Its main structure was built from black boulders, its surface carved with dark-red runes like solidified lava that gave off a faint glow in the gloom.
There were no lamps or candles inside the temple. Only two figures nestled together upon an enormous black throne, the light radiating from them serving as