When Charlotte had first crossed over, he learned that the nine gods ruling this world had forged a sacred covenant in an indescribably ancient age: the Law of the Gods. It stipulated that the nine gods would take turns ruling the world in periods of one hundred years, each period known as an era.
When he had first crossed over, it had been the thirty-fifth year of Lady Black Moon's rule. Now, it was already the thirty-eighth year of the Black Moon.
If everything in Charlotte's life went smoothly, he would probably live to see the day the Serpent of Destiny took charge of an era. It was not too far off—just over sixty years away.
If Charlotte chose not to step into the divine rank, he could probably spend his old age in comfort.
After all, there was nothing more fortunate than for a God-Favored to live during the era ruled by the god they believed in.
After waking up, Charlotte had his subordinates find a copy of the Law of the Gods in the library. He truly had never read the document before.
The Law of the Gods was a set of rules agreed upon by the gods—or rather, laws that circulated only among gods!
There was no original copy of the Law of the Gods in the mortal world. Every version currently in circulation had been compiled by humans themselves, and no one knew whether the gods described within were the truth!
Charlotte read until his head spun, yet he found no loophole in the Law of the Gods, much less any idea of how to alter an era.
Charlotte suspected that the version of the Law of the Gods he had found was incomplete, so he ordered several more versions brought to him. He still failed