Inside the seemingly ancient castle, Kotel was attending Franco IV's banquet. The king, who could just barely be called their host, smiled as he recounted the friendship between the Franco Family and the Fred Family, but Kotel's mind was nowhere near their conversation.
According to the Mermaid, they were a Godslayer Squad formed by several Legendary Professionals. Only by joining forces could they exploit every advantage this world offered and succeed in killing a god.
They've clearly made plenty of preparations, and they're ready to act. That's bad news for me. I don't have enough time to tell which parts of what she said are true... Kotel pondered. Ordinarily, he would run all kinds of tests to determine whether the Mermaid was telling the truth—or which parts were true and which were false. But tests took time, and time was precisely what he lacked.
Of course, he could wait and see. Once the Mermaid succeeded in killing a god, he could follow her example. That would be safe, but he snuffed out the thought as soon as it arose.
Safe, yes, but what god would be left for us to kill? After all, in hundreds of thousands of years, the Dream God was the only god who was both a New God and had merged his Divine Kingdom with the Dream Sea.
As for killing another god, the Dream God's fate would surely put the others on guard against this world. They would not set foot here in their true forms lightly. Without this world suppressing them, storming a True God's Divine Kingdom would be possible only in dreams.
*The Mermaid probably told me now because she wants another weapon at her disposal. She can't truly want me competing fairly with them for this chance. There may be something seriously