Naimus instantly judged Di Nai's objective and confirmed one of his earlier suspicions. "So he really was waiting!"
Di Nai had only barely become a god by relying on one-tenth of the Time Divinity.
He was not the weakest god, but he was certainly not particularly powerful either.
Under such circumstances, Di Nai had virtually no way to win.
Under the rules within the world, victory was impossible for him.
Whether in attributes, traits, or techniques, Di Nai held no advantage.
So Di Nai had chosen another way to win.
As the Sun God destroyed the framework of the world and its rules became riddled with flaws, leaving fewer and fewer openings to exploit, he had stepped forward and used alchemy to construct a platform for a knife fight.
Although Di Nai, Naimus, and the Sun God had long since ceased to be the same person, their beliefs and thoughts had diverged after their circumstances and experiences changed.
Yet none of that could deny that they had shared the same starting point.
That connection could not be severed directly, nor did it need to be. They were not so weak that they would deny that they had once been ordinary people with a few unrealistic dreams.
The journey from that starting point to the present was precisely the road they had walked, proof of their strength.
It was simply that Di Nai had now made use of that connection.
After Di Nai glanced at Naimus, Naimus sensed a faint tremor from his Philosopher's Stone, but it was not enough to establish a link with him.
Thus, Di Nai turned all his attention toward the Sun God.
Unlike Naimus, the Sun God's connection to him ran far deeper.
The Time Divinity pulsed at that moment, and the inevitable divine battle became