"An ability related to causality... That chunk of fate clay most likely recorded an Aphorism of Fate related to causality."
"Observing causality, establishing causal connections, and ultimately using causality to achieve one's own ends..."
"This was an extremely standard application of causality."
"This also suggested that the other party's chunk of fate clay might be very important..."
More often than not, standard also meant orthodox.
The thought that that chunk of fate clay was extremely important arose in the minds of several Saints.
This time, the Goddess of Precepts had completely abandoned the possibilities of other worlds, redeployed personnel from those possibilities, spent considerable divine power to break through the Crystal Wall Subsystem, and sent these Saints over.
From this, it was clear that the Goddess of Precepts had essentially wagered her entire fortune.
Previously, every Saint had been an immensely important node. As the medium through which gods interfered with the Material Plane, there would basically never be more than three Saints deployed at once, because that would mean wasting nodes.
Even back then, if the God of Precepts had not fallen asleep, the Hidden Saint would not have deployed alongside another Saint.
The value of Saints lay in their role as nodes, not in their own strength.
This was precisely what Naimus currently lacked.
Although the Material Plane did not appear particularly powerful, it was the foundation of this world.
The Material Plane and the Outer Planes stood in opposition to one another and, according to alchemical theory, influenced each other.
Under such circumstances, any god who neglected the Material Plane would fall into a predicament.
Naimus possessed a large number of Golden Breed subordinates, and the subordinates he had cultivated before were each capable of standing on their own.
But the problem remained the same: their strength