The Evernight Goddess, larger than a mountain, looked down on the flying ark that Sonia Island had become and raised her long scythe.
The pitch-black scythe swiftly turned insubstantial, becoming a coffin of dense black mist that threatened to swallow the entire island. No matter where the Hidden Sage hid, he would die along with every living being on it.
Faced with the goddess's merciless attack, the Hidden Sage could hide no longer. A ray of light invisible to most Beyonders rose from a valley and hurtled straight toward the misty coffin.
The light had no physical form. Seemingly made of countless tangled streams of information, it swept through the coffin like a flood and rushed toward the goddess herself.
The Hidden Sage knew this could not be the Evernight Goddess's true body. If he destroyed her relatively fragile vessel, she would lose her means of descent and be unable to return for some time.
Even if he failed, he could slow her attack and buy time for the final stage of his ascension ritual.
He had chosen an Information Flow attack precisely because it was hard to detect. He did not want the Angels and Demigods already on the island to notice anything amiss and diminish the ritual's effect.
Just as the tangled streams of information were about to strike the goddess, a brass-colored eye without eyelashes appeared before her.
A glimmer shone from the eye and merged with the Hidden Sage's Information Flow.
The next instant, the Information Flow seemed to awaken from a dream. It abruptly reversed course, shooting back toward the small valley it had come from.
"The White Tower opens its eye, and all things answer its call."
This was the God of Knowledge and Wisdom's Authority!
Seeing two True Gods move against him at