It was him.
The Master of Illusions, master of the Dark Sun, architect of conspiracies, treacherous liar—Cyric. He had returned?
Jiang Hao looked up at the sky, his expression turning grave.
An Evil God active in the Fourth Era, Cyric had reached divine rank 18 and had once come close to 19. He stood at the pinnacle of Greater Divine Power, only one step from Supreme Divine Power.
While he was active, schemes and plots could not be exposed through Divination, Spirit Summoning, or similar means. Instead, they earned the powerful Evil God's approval. From nations and Churches down to slaves and commoners, betrayal and assassination played out every moment across the Otherworld. Even kings and great Nobility felt no safety. They lived in constant fear of being poisoned or murdered.
Then, near the end of the Fourth Era, Cyric arrogantly declared himself the only True God. He branded every other deity a heretical False God and ordered his followers to attack all their churches. He made enemies of nearly every deity of the Good and Neutral Alignments. Even the Evil Gods turned hostile toward him.
In the end, several powerful deities joined forces to shatter his Divine Kingdom, leaving his corpse to drift through the Astral Plane, the Tomb of the gods.
Only after his fall were the endless conflicts and schemes on the Main Plane brought under control.
Now that he had returned, conflict would likely erupt there again before long.
"First the God of Knowledge fell and became an Evil God, and now Cyric has returned. The Evil faction's Evil Gods have grown much stronger." Jiang Hao studied the figure in the sky. "But if Cyric announces his return to the entire Main Plane this brazenly, isn't he afraid the gods will join forces against him?"
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