The Goddess had grafted the influence of the Primordial within her onto Flegrea?
Poor Magic Wolf King. No wonder he had failed to resurrect through a Miracle after Lilith killed him. The Goddess must have captured him before he was completely dead... or interrupted his Resurrection.
The Goddess had only been a Sequence 1 Knight of Misfortune then. To pull that off, she must have had help from someone else...
The Ancient Sun God, or "me"?
Judging by the Goddess's attitude, it was probably "me"—Oliver Constantine, the "God of Luck" from Goddess's Poem.
And Pallez's suspicion made sense. Mantinigro should not have continued to exist after the other races conquered it... That it had survived and become a prison for the Magic Wolf King's Evil Spirit was probably my doing.
Had the God of Luck used the Memory Theater to alter the relevant "information"? It involved an Ancient God's Divine Kingdom. "I" must have paid a steep price back then... Even with the Authority of Wisdom, I would not dare use the Memory Theater for something like that. The God of Luck's Pathway was not even suited to it. Even if the backlash had not killed him, it must have come close...
Why had he—no, why had "I" done it? Surely not just to give the Goddess someone to take the blame... She had just said he harbored ill intentions.
As Abner wondered about this, he asked, "Ill intentions... What do you mean?"
Dimples appeared again at the corners of Sia Palenque Eggers's mouth. The Pale Empress gathered her thoughts, narrowed her eyes, and said:
"All gifts of fate have their prices marked in secret.
"What's more, 'you' represented not only the Wheel of Fortune but also, to some extent, wielded part of the Circle of Inevitability's Authority.
"The Angel