Once again, the gods gathered.
Today's assembly was larger than any previous gathering of deities. Good, neutral, evil, lawful, chaotic... even some ancient gods who had remained hidden from the world—all the gods in existence had come, more or less.
This was hardly surprising. Since ancient times, there had been a few gods who attempted to ascend to great divine power, but who among them had not hidden away cautiously, secretly trying to break through? Forget inviting people to witness it—they would have preferred for neither heaven nor earth to know they were attempting a breakthrough!
For someone like the Lord of Glory to brazenly send invitations to every god, inviting them to watch him challenge great divine power, was simply unimaginable!
But from another angle, it also meant that the Lord of Glory possessed absolute confidence, convinced that he would succeed.
Otherwise, should his attempt fail, he would inevitably either die or suffer grievous injuries. When that happened, the gods attending as spectators would likely transform in an instant from refined and courteous guests into vicious bandits.
By then, the Human Pantheon, fresh from its great victory, would probably follow the Orc Pantheon down the road to destruction.
In fact, quite a few of the gods who had come to watch were indeed thinking that way. For example, Morani, chief god of the Wild Pantheon, had privately told Sui Xiong that he hoped to see the Lord of Glory fail in his attempt—preferably exploding on the spot into a dazzling firework...
Morani was quite an honest and kind-hearted person, and ordinarily would not harbor such malice. From those words alone, one could see just how deep his hostility toward the Lord of Glory ran.
He was on good terms with the Orc Pantheon, and he himself had been born