"The God of Luck..."
Derrick tried to recall what he had learned from his textbooks, but remembered only a few broad details. Just as Abner began to feel disappointed, Derrick added one last thing:
"There's a rumor that neither the God of Luck nor the Elf Queen took part in the battle where the Lord captured the Elven Royal Court... They seem to have left before the battle."
They left before the battle? But in Groselle's Travels, the Elf Singer's memories didn't suggest the Elf Queen was someone who would flee before a fight... Unless she had a mission more important than defending the royal court!
If there really was such a mission, then the God of Luck, as a Subsidiary God, had clearly taken part in it too... Perhaps it required his luck to succeed.
Come to think of it, although Hosenam, the Queen of Calamity, fell in the original story, she had clearly made preparations before her death. She split her Beyonder characteristics into many parts and even fused a portion of her spirit into the Book of Calamity...
And whatever she ultimately wanted the Hanged Man, Alger, to take from the Book of Calamity to the Western Continent might be the key!
But what happened to the God of Luck, who was with her? Why had all news of him disappeared? Hosenam herself had said that an Angel was very difficult to kill completely, even after losing their characteristics!
*So either some God personally erased the God of Luck, preventing his return despite any contingencies he'd prepared, or he took on a new identity... Judging by all those hidden powerhouses among the Subsidiary Gods of the Second Epoch, the latter seems more likely. After all, a Beyonder of the Wheel of Fortune Pathway would always go along