Faced with Oberon's solemn, dead-serious expression, Jia Xiu felt that this guardian god probably was not joking.
Oberon seemed like the sort who would never be able to keep a straight face while joking and would burst out laughing first. Looking so dejected and helpless now, he did not have the acting skills to fake it.
"You said your part failed?" Jia Xiu asked to confirm.
He remembered that before the operation, Oberon had mentioned that the fairy gods had a plan of their own.
But he had said it had nothing to do with Jia Xiu, and apparently it really did not. At the very least, Jia Xiu's original goal of being able to use Fairy Runes had been achieved.
These fairy gods were certainly honest. If they said it had nothing to do with him, then it truly had nothing to do with him.
Still, unrelated or not, Jia Xiu was curious. Oberon looked as though he very much wanted to talk about it.
"Yes," Oberon answered. "The Countermeasure Spell was originally intended to accomplish two goals: strip away a portion of the God of Pain's divine authority, and verify whether our attempt to solve the problem of divine annihilation was feasible."
Yes, that was it. This was exactly what Jia Xiu wanted to hear.
Divine annihilation.
It sounded like something truly extraordinary.
Though it was clearly not something he needed to worry about anytime soon, nor something he could influence, it was like how people always liked to chat about international affairs and world events during late-night dorm conversations or drunken table talk. Nothing stopped people from drawing nourishment from things they had absolutely no power to affect—or, well, drawing amusement from them.
Oberon explained, "We originally decided not to tell you the details because we feared