The Fate God's arrival left Dr. Myskina Acier both flustered and delighted.
What had he just seen?!
This person had appeared out of thin air inside Lord Bonbori's stomach.
Could this powerful stranger take him out of the giant lanternfish's stomach?
He had been trapped here for two hundred years.
His wife and daughter had died long ago. The resolve that had driven him to save lives had gradually faded, and now he wanted to leave too.
Pure Gold was worth a fortune. It could not remain buried here forever.
He still had research to pursue.
Myskina Olga, who had been cooped up for those same two hundred years, spotted the Fate God and rushed over in excitement.
She had wanted to escape Lord Bonbori's belly for a long time.
Lord Bonbori was the giant lanternfish's name.
Fate could be cruel.
The giant lanternfish's stomach held only a few islands, yet Acier and his daughter Olga had not once crossed paths in two hundred years.
Each believed the other was dead.
The Fate God looked at the approaching Olga and swatted her back.
In truth, the father and daughter's failure to meet on those few islands for two hundred years had been a little joke played by the Fate God.
The deity had simply refused to let them meet.
Even the accidental creation of Pure Gold, which could supposedly grant eternal life, had come about through the Fate God's guidance and design.
The deity had intended to use Pure Gold to tempt and toy with humanity.
The deity wanted to watch humans slaughter one another for "eternal life."
It would have provided a little amusement over the deity's long existence.
But Houka had driven the Fate God into a corner, and the deity had no interest in those insects now.