The Lord of War had wanted to kill the Lord of Mysteries and absorb the Mystery Pantheon for far more than a day or two.
The War Pantheon was brimming with talent and powerful experts, but most of them belonged to the martial classes; spellcasters were comparatively far fewer—this was determined by both their faith and the source of their recruits. Generally speaking, those who believed in deities of war, battle, and warriors were mostly martial types. Spellcasters, by and large, had a touch of artistic flair—or perhaps scholarly inclinations. Even if circumstances forced them onto the battlefield and into combat, deep down they still considered themselves cultured people, intellectuals, not warriors.
Faith influenced deities, and it also determined the talent reserves of their divine kingdoms. Spellcasters did not worship the gods of war, so the War Pantheon naturally lacked deities of the spellcasting type.
The Lord of War, Wenna, had always wanted to change this situation. The solution it had devised was to kill the Lord of Mysteries and swallow up the Mystery Pantheon. Then spellcasters would naturally become believers of the War Pantheon, solving the problem in one stroke.
To that end, it had made countless preparations, all for the day it would attack the Mystery Pantheon.
The crucial factor holding it back was the unfathomable might of the Lord of Mysteries.
No matter what, the Lord of Mysteries' annihilation of the Elf Pantheon back then was an undeniable fact. Even with a thousand, ten thousand explanations, Wenna had no desire to directly clash with an expert capable of wiping out an entire pantheon.
But if Lord Void Mask, the alliance leader, helped out, then it dared to do so.
Wasn't it just annihilating a pantheon? The alliance leader had done that before.
Wasn't it just killing several