City of the Sun Wheel, the General's Daughter Princess Yao-Please Enlighten Me!

There were roughly three ways to prevent the City of the Sun Wheel from falling into a realm of death. Based on the timeline of the divine punishment's descent, they could be divided into before, during, and after.

Beforehand, naturally, meant preventing the Sun Wheel Queen's marriage and eliminating at the root the divine punishment brought down for offending Takamagahara's laws.

During it meant eliminating the caster when signs of the plague first emerged—one of the gods from the Sun God's lineage, with a very high possibility of it being the Sun God himself!

Afterward meant containing the danger through some means once the plague erupted.

These were the broad countermeasures Arata had devised before setting foot in this Ancient Sun Land.

However, there was no question that, with his current strength, he could never be a match for the Sun God's lineage.

After all, they were the highest-ranking gods of Takamagahara, fundamentally different from the eight million gods ranked alongside them. And if he truly angered them, it would be no exaggeration to say he would be going to war with all of Takamagahara.

Thus, after the second idea surfaced in Arata's mind and lingered there for only a moment, he dismissed it.

The reason he had hesitated was that nothing was absolute.

Takamagahara was indeed powerful. If Arata's strength alone was insufficient, then he would seek aid equal to that of a high god!!

Since the dark serpent sealed within Hazama had been able to throw the entire divine court into chaos centuries ago, it could do so now as well!

And Arata happened to possess a means of contacting it:

The altar established within Kyoto's Genji Clan was a place capable of communicating with that former Evil God.

Moreover, Ichimokuren had once murmured wistfully that something seemed