When Kossuth, the most domineering and ruthless of them all, showed his displeasure, there was only one choice... fight.
But he was not crazy enough to offend every Elemental Lord.
Especially since the other elemental gods had no particular dissatisfaction with their own elementals running around everywhere and mingling freely.
They had become elemental gods because they were the most powerful Elemental Lords, capable of effortlessly suppressing all elemental creatures of their own kind—not because they had gained any power of faith.
So they did not care whether elementals of the same kind were willing to revere them as their masters.
As long as they were not offended, that was enough.
But in truth, even their followers would face only death if they offended them.
To put it bluntly, Kossuth was the exception.
But he had a very simple solution: wage war on the Water Elementals.
The Water Elemental God was always absentminded, with her thoughts scattered who knew where, so her reactions were always slow.
Kossuth was not targeting the Water Elemental Plane where she resided. If he succeeded in a single stroke, it would be too late by the time that Water Elemental God reacted.
Then, by taking advantage of a great victory in which he cleared out the Water Elemental Lords... meaning driving them back to the Water Elemental Plane; he was not capable of killing them all... he could send those rebellious elemental creatures, whose thoughts were anyone's guess, back where they belonged.
Of course, he could also seize control of the boundlessly vast lower layer of the Elemental Realm... the layer connected to all worlds.
Yet Kossuth had never expected that this would be unlike the elemental wars of the past. Those had looked brutal, but in reality they were disputes between the strongest Elemental