"Chris" and her original self still had a few things in common.
Neither of them knew her true identity.
Part of the reason they had headed to the [Chaos Sea] this time was that they had sensed a familiar presence there.
Could it belong to others of their kind?
"The true God of Magic?!"
When his teacher said those words,
An Kai sprang to his feet.
He might often claim that "the God of Magic is my brother," but if An Kai actually encountered the God of Magic, he would turn tail and run.
The blame he had pinned on the God of Magic for all those [Contracts] over the years alone was enough to make the god slap him to death.
At that moment...
An Kai wanted to leave.
He did not want to hear anything about the God of Magic right now...
His teacher did not seem to notice what An Kai was thinking.
He sank into his memories, continuing on his own.
His gaze was profound, yet his face bore a look of helplessness.
"Our path to becoming Immortals... was wrong."
"Sigh..."
"There are differences even between gods."
"Differences so vast they drive you to despair."
An Kai did not respond to his teacher's sighs.
For now, he was simply a listener.
Standing at the lectern, his teacher gathered his words and continued:
"Gods are Immortals, but Immortals are not gods."
"Immortals can only be born naturally. Creating them artificially, as the [Divine Court] did, is ultimately the wrong path."
"Our path was wrong from the very beginning. Something the God of Magic and the others did for amusement gave our research into Immortals a mistaken idea."
"To the God of Magic and the others, this was merely an interesting experiment in their long, tedious lives."