Many of those present had seen gods, or at least their projections or avatars—Grand Duke Mora, Marshal Komodo, Commander-in-Chief Washington... In their understanding, gods were nothing like this!
The gods they knew were majestic, powerful, imposing, beautiful... No word for anything good in the world seemed too extravagant for a god.
But what was this monster before them? Could a newborn god look like this? How was that possible?
Questions filled everyone's mind. Even Grand Duke Mora lost his composure for a moment.
His first thought was that the God-Making Plan had failed. The newborn Deity had been tainted by the aura of the Void Yin Spirit, turning into this monster.
Yet the Divine Runes on that huge, hideous creature were remarkably stable, and Divinity had begun to form deep within its body. Apart from its warped appearance, nothing else had gone wrong. The "thing" before them really was a god!
A god! What was a god, exactly? What made something a god?
That question had troubled countless living beings. Even arrogant, powerful humans, who had dared to create a Deity by artificial means, could not answer it.
And for humans, the question was all but impossible to answer. If not for the chance to advance to Saint Spirit Rank, neither Grand Duke Mora nor the Divine Eagle Empire's strongest fighters would have touched the domain of gods while still at Calamity Rank, much less risked creating a Deity.
No one understood the terror and danger of Deities better than they did. With the slightest misstep, even the mightiest Calamity-Rank Transcendent could be crushed beneath a Deity's finger as casually as a person crushed an ant.
The instant the Divine Broodmother below ruptured, the Void Tentacle that had torn through space above abandoned Grand Duke Mora and the others. It