Over the past few years, the rogue Orochimaru, bard Cheli, warlock Amon, sorcerer Frit Caesar, and ranger Andreyevich had gathered together as allied companions.
Then Olidammara, god of rogues, and his followers joined them.
They began their god-creation plan.
They wanted to forge a pantheon of their own.
Drawing on the concepts of pantheons such as Olympus, Plain of High Heaven, and the Slavic gods, combined with their individual strengths, they would create a complete pantheon belonging to them within this Crystal Wall World.
These gods would become the mechanisms that kept the world running.
And whether it was Olidammara or the newborn gods, if they could survive this calamity and continue to exist, they would come out ahead no matter what.
It was simply that they had overestimated their own abilities.
For a group that had yet to become gods to shape an entire pantheon was far more difficult than they had imagined.
Especially in such a short span of time.
Even when Ling Qing had refined spirit gods in the past, he had traveled through multiple worlds and exhausted countless efforts before finally forging a Galaxy Scroll.
The reason they had come to the Forest of Existence this time was Orochimaru's suggestion: they intended to offer some benefits in exchange for Ling Qing's help.
It was not as though they had not considered other methods.
The Christian priest David Paul had partnered with paladin John Cohen and gods such as Tyr, the god of justice.
Using the energy transmitted by Jehovah, they established Heaven.
The wizard Zhang Yuanbai had razed mountains and destroyed temples, establishing a Daoist kingdom upon the earth and seeking to erect the Heavenly Court.
Though the monk Liaofan had not established a Buddhist sect, he traveled everywhere preaching scriptures and doctrine, passing the teachings