"The insect race?" Zeus seemed to understand at once. "You mean the insect race's development has made Them wary?"
Gaia, the Earth Mother Goddess, nodded slowly. "I don't know what the crucial factor is, but that seems to be the chain of cause and effect. Otherwise, given Their usual nature, They would treat us as toys in a 'box' while They watched from on high outside it. They wouldn't casually interfere with what happens inside."
Zeus nodded slowly. He had no reason to doubt that. When the Titan Race was defeated, Lonanks should have died, yet he had clung to life through special means.
That had already defied Their script, but in the end, They had accepted the outcome.
Yet another question followed: why was the insect race so special? Why did those proud beings, who looked down on everything, care so much about it?
What was the insect race's special significance?
At that thought, everyone present turned grave. They realized that if they found the reason, they might gain a weapon they could use against Them!
Meanwhile, in the Mist World...
After his last brush with danger, Green had also developed a keen interest in the insect race.
Although the insect race's Queen had brought him little in the way of tangible gains, she had pointed him in a direction.
If its secret were so easy to obtain, the insect race would never have caught Their eye.
Just then, a new development arose in the Main World.
The Abyssal Demons, who had established a foothold in the Asgar Kingdom, suddenly changed course without warning and attacked the Divine Eagle Empire.
After occupying the Asgar Kingdom, the Abyssal Demons had been trying to break through toward the Lorenzo Kingdom and the Rune Federation.
Although they had met fierce resistance in