This news was not without basis. Although people used [cities] as boundaries, some powerful organizations always blurred those boundaries. The source of the news was a secret organization jointly established by several tycoons and corporations. It was almost exclusively responsible for matters related to the [Cup], including monitoring the Federation world.
Furthermore, during the period when the Federation's seal was stable, they had nothing better to do and attempted to communicate with the [Gods]. This work had never made any progress, but a few days ago, they suddenly received a response.
In the past, in order to communicate with the [Gods], Transcendents would inscribe extremely complicated circuits representing "sacrifice" and "inquiry," then place enough Transcendent cores and materials atop them to sustain the "communication." Though it was called a "sacrifice," the Gods did not take anything from the exchange. The Transcendent materials were only used to sustain the communication.
So whether there was a response depended entirely on "mood" and "luck."
Even a single attempt at communication required an enormous amount of Transcendent materials. Naturally, no one would casually try to chat with the Gods all day until the Gods got fed up and shut down the channel.
Therefore, after the [Cup] was sealed, the sudden disappearance of the [Gods] of other attributes also caused an enormous uproar.
Fortunately, everything that followed proved that the disappearance of the [Gods] seemed to have had no effect on anything else. They were not usually seen anyway; it was always the [Agents] doing the work. And the Agents did not seem to have been affected either, so people gradually grew accustomed to it.
After all, the [Gods] were ultimately just "Transcendent creatures" that had mastered the rules of their respective attributes. They were not true gods. They were called gods purely because, in