Elsewhere, in the archives, the atmosphere was somewhat silent.
"Are you sure you don't want me to stop this farce?" Akrimi asked.
He had already risen to his feet. Divine power writhed faintly around him; with a single move, he could alter the surrounding environment at any time, stop the rain, and resist the taboo's further invasion.
But then Kru and the others would lose their qualification to obtain Divinity.
"The trial isn't over yet, is it?" Naimus flipped through an Earth Church tome—Solar God Biography.
During the Mythic Age, the Sun God had still been relatively "ordinary." After all, he had merely been a deity ranked fiftieth, neither high nor low.
Though he had possessed some ingenious ideas and gained certain historical achievement numbers, he had only been a somewhat stronger mid-level divine power.
His true strength had begun in the Golden Age.
This Solar God Biography recorded some of his deeds during the Golden Age.
As Naimus turned another page, he said, "You do not have much time left, Akrimi."
"They are your best choice."
"But he betrayed you." Akrimi knew Naimus was right, but he did not care.
Saving the world...
The Earth God had done it without hesitation.
The rest of them had followed, charging toward the End.
In the end, they had lost completely.
This church existed by relying on the Earth Divinity, and he was its final pillar.
Once he could no longer hold on, everything related to the Earth God would be destroyed.
But that was also their ending—their End.
Akrimi had both come to terms with it and failed to come to terms with it.
He hoped someone could step forward, obtain the Earth Divinity, and become the Earth God once more.
They could revive the people of the Earth Church, then