The United States diplomat's idea actually sounded pretty good.
The Universe Country diplomat was tempted.
The appearance of Gija, their revered ancestor, proved that the myth of Dangun was false. Meanwhile, the gods of Huaxia Mythology had ignored Universe Country. After all this time spent making offerings, they had received no response whatsoever. Worshipping gods from a different Pantheon might not be so hard to accept.
Wasn't that what the ancient Romans had done? Whenever they conquered another people, they often brought that people's gods into their Pantheon Temple and worshipped them.
Gradually, those gods had accepted their devotion and become part of Ancient Roman Mythology.
I'll ask for instructions later.
With that thought, the Universe Country diplomat joined the others in smiling as though ready to watch a spectacle.
Just then, new developments came in from the New Continent.
A technician turned the projector back on. On the screen, the enormous Shoggoth kept letting out nauseating shrieks. Its flailing tentacles stabbed tirelessly into the Barrier, and each time they did, the Barrier purified them. But with every tentacle it purified, the Barrier grew a little dimmer.
Cornelius and the others stood behind the Great Tree, pressed tightly together so they could stay within the Barrier.
The little girl stood in the tree and looked up at the sky, which had somehow turned pitch-black. "Evil has descended," she said softly. "An evil countless times more terrifying than the thing before us."
No sooner had she spoken than Shoggoths began raining from the sky. Countless creatures dropped to the ground, then crawled across it, writhing on their slimy pseudopods.
The sight of so many creatures packed together would have given anyone with Trypophobia goose bumps.
As more and more fell, they gradually merged into a colossal Shoggoth formed from untold quintillions