The Immortal Mage
Chapter 428

A Piercing Cry Shattered the Castle's Peace

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"My lord, this [God of Darkness] is also a deity who commands evil thoughts."

The moment Light-Taker spoke, he set the tone for his account of the [God of Darkness].

Then he poured out everything he knew.

From Light-Taker's perspective, as a Manifestation produced by the [God of Light], he considered himself the embodiment of "justice and light." In his eyes, the [God of Darkness] was indeed no different from the embodiment of "evil thoughts."

But in reality?

There was actually no difference between the [God of Light] and the [God of Darkness].

The two [Supreme Gods] had many things in common.

They were tyrannical and scorned living beings.

The reason they had become such polar opposites was that the [God of Light] had become a [Supreme God] 5,000 years before the [God of Darkness].

When the [God of Darkness] had ascended to [Supreme God], he had launched an unprecedented war in the Divine Realm. Ultimately, he had fought the [God of Light] to a draw and secured his [Supreme God] Divine Seat.

The two had never gotten along. The [God of Darkness] had refused to name himself according to the Divine Seat naming rules established by the [God of Light] for [Supreme Gods], deliberately choosing a name that directly opposed the [God of Light]'s.

It was simply that the [God of Light] had become a [Supreme God] 5,000 years earlier. Had their positions been reversed, with the [God of Darkness] attaining the [Supreme God] Divine Seat 5,000 years before the [God of Light]...

Perhaps the embodiment of "justice and light" today would have been the [God of Darkness].

This was the broader background behind the origins of deities in the game [Divine Descent].

It was precisely these crude, simplistic rules...

That had left so many deities unworthy of their

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