When the God of Precepts returned, the Storm God's expression shifted as though he had sensed something.
The Storm God did not leave. Instead, he stood some distance away, observing Naimus's starlight.
He had some suspicions. From the very beginning, the God of Precepts' behavior had been off.
Or rather, the God of Precepts' actions had been concealed beneath an apparently reasonable excuse.
From beginning to end, the God of Precepts had presented his goal as reclaiming the Precept Divinity stolen by Naimus.
Only with that Divinity could he swiftly connect to this world's laws of change, use those laws to quickly reap benefits, and then obtain Deflection Force.
Before this, there had only been seven gods with powerful divine might.
The Sun God, the God of Wisdom, the God of Precepts, the God of Life, the Storm God, the Death God, and the God of Bestowal.
Their general ranking was in that order as well.
Among them, the Sun God's power was inexplicable, with no clear reason behind it.
Next came the God of Wisdom. It was said that the God of Wisdom had initially been nothing more than an ordinary Mythical Breed of the Astral Realm.
But while traveling through the Astral Realm, he had accidentally been swept into a peculiar astral storm. Under some exceptionally special circumstances, his consciousness had drifted far away, to a place that knew neither past nor future, yet knew the past and every future.
There, he had seen an extremely supreme Number—Thought.
But at the time, the God of Wisdom had had no way to obtain the Number of Thought.
Because there, he had been only a wisp of thought.
He could only observe the Number of Thought through that wisp of thought.
It was also because of that experience that the