Ren fell silent. His purple-gold Double Pupils fixed on the Death God, then on the slaughter below. "Death God... what exactly are you after? Don't tell me you only want to dye the entire world red."
As Ren asked, he kept his guard up. He truly didn't know the Death God's goal. Zeref's last few words had given him plenty to speculate about, but a few words could only tell him so much. So he asked the Death God directly.
The Death God took no offense at the question. Instead, he burst into wild laughter, as though his plan were already complete, as though he were certain he could deal with Ren.
Still laughing, the Death God looked at Ren. "I'm not so bored that I'd change the world's color for its own sake! My true goal is Transcendence! I've turned the entire world into a magic array. Through it, I'll sacrifice the world to fuel my Transcendence, to fuel my transformation! I've hidden and plotted for countless years to achieve this. First, I incited Ragnarok in the World of the Living and made the gods fight to the death. In the end, Divine Blood stained the earth red, making the entire world's land a perfect material for the array!
"Then I stirred up war among the gods' descendants, until the land was divided into five continents! I took the Central Continent and made it the array's center. The continents to the east, west, south, and north became earth, fire, wind, and water. Each represented one of the four elements!
"With that, the array's foundations were complete! But a basic array couldn't produce enough energy for my Transcendence. So I provoked a war between dragons and humans, using Dragon Blood, human blood, and the deaths of living beings to keep