When the Hidden Saint sensed the Shepherd's transformation, he had intended to kill the Shepherd outright.
Previously, the core's achievement of Historical Rank had taken place in a special region, making it difficult for them to interfere.
Now that the thing had fused with the Shepherd, they only needed to kill him to shatter the core completely.
But before they could act,
"History" changed.
Within humanity's perception, the Humanity Domain changed from the remnant product of a fictional minor world into a nascent true plane formed from the condensation of real consciousness after a world's ascension, or perhaps a demi-plane on the level of consciousness.
This was not much of a problem for them. The Church had collected plenty of things like nascent planes.
Aside from the dozens of Sky Whales in the Main Material Plane, the Church of Precepts also managed several Material Planes.
In its early years, The Church had once carried out a great purge of a certain Material Plane, killing an unknown number of people.
They killed until the population of that small Material Plane had all but been wiped out.
The later population had all been relocated there from other Material Planes.
A high-ranking member of The Church like the Hidden Saint could sacrifice others for the God of Precepts with a perfectly clear conscience.
But then they discovered that something seemed to be wrong on Mokania's side.
Mokania was now just one step away from exploding.
His entire body was changing rapidly. His state of mind and thoughts fluctuated violently, and the crack torn open by the restraints on his mind burst apart like a breached dam, his inner emotions surging outward.
"What... have I done?!"
The mental brand on Mokania had shattered.
Previously, he had calmly regarded gods, humans, and fictional lifeforms as