Before long, another few hundred years had passed. The Light Alliance and the Primal Abyss had both grown steadily stronger overall, yet neither could do anything to the other.
The Seven Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins still hadn't crossed that threshold and ascended to God King rank.
That September, Norn, the Goddess of Fate, suddenly called the Seven Virtues back from the front lines and asked them to convene an emergency meeting.
The Seven Virtues slowed their offensive and invited representatives of the Light Alliance's gods to a meeting at the Holy Hall of Light.
The Light Alliance pulled back its defenses. The Seven Deadly Sins instinctively assumed that Luna, the Main God of Energy Network, was up to something again, and that another high-level Origin Plane was about to be born.
The Seven Deadly Sins ignored the Light Alliance and seized the chance to attack the Purgatory Demons and All Spirits of the Star Sea, vying for control of the Purgatory World.
Over the past few hundred years, the gap between the Light Alliance and the Primal Abyss had widened considerably. They needed the Purgatory World to even the score.
"Fate, you asked us to convene an emergency meeting. What is it you need to tell us?"
Once everyone had arrived, the Seven Virtues solemnly questioned Norn, the Goddess of Fate.
The Goddess of Fate governed the threads of destiny and could peer into the future to make prophecies.
Her face was haggard, her breath faint—a sign that she had forcibly peered into the future and suffered fate's backlash.
If the Goddess of Fate was pushing herself this far, the matter had to be grave.
"I saw the Shadow of the Outer Realm Devil approaching. If the Goddess of Light doesn't awaken in time, the Shadow of the