Charlotte had pieced together the truth of ascending to godhood from Juno, the Holy Light Divine Kingdom, Emilia, Zimmerman, and the Great Library of Emerald. He had also considered how, if he ascended to godhood himself, he could make his true body contain even greater power.
Charlotte easily reached a conclusion—he had to merge with some kind of eternal, indestructible substance.
The second option was to merge with some primordial, imperishable "concept."
Things that endured forever were easily claimed by someone else first.
Concepts were too easily altered by others.
One could tell from the honorific titles alone that the Nine Great Righteous Gods had combined substance and concept when they ascended to godhood, thus achieving eternity and indestructibility.
Lady Black Moon's true body had to be the black moon itself!
The Old Man with the Lamp's true body was almost certainly an artifact-grade lamp!
The Dragon of Eternity and Illusion had to be a dragon.
There was even less need to mention the little snake.
Putting himself in Zimmerman's place, Charlotte had come up with several guesses about his true body, but he did not yet have the ability to verify them.
First, war had to be ruled out.
No war could possibly continue without end.
Next, chaos had to be ruled out as well.
Chaos had only a concept and no substance. It simply could not bear power on its own.
Nearly every myth on Earth had a god of war, but those gods of war were either losers or clowns. Very few had a positive image. The authority of war was extremely powerful, but it surely had a fatal weakness: it could not combine substance and concept like the Nine Great Righteous Gods.
After thinking for a long time, Charlotte said to Sophia Garland, "The Nine Great