It meant more than ruling.
It also meant giving.
So after the Holy World had been destroyed, she had long since come to regard this blue world as her second home.
In that case... there was no need to hesitate anymore...
It was on that very day.
She turned herself into a cage.
With the immense power of a god, she fused herself with that indescribable monster, using her divinity and sacred body to suppress the Old God, as well as the disordering process within him that was constantly tearing him apart, preventing a third great upheaval.
But she knew.
There was no way to solve this problem.
It was like a fire that was already blazing. Until all the fuel had burned away, that fire could never be extinguished. Her fusion had merely added another piece of wood to the nearly exhausted flames, keeping the fire burning within their bodies instead of letting it spread.
She knew that sooner or later, she too would be burned away.
And if no solution had been found by then, that blazing fire of disorder would sweep across all of Blue Star with her destruction!
But fortunately...
"A raven once made me a promise... he foretold everything happening now... and found a solution for me..."
That increasingly feeble whisper echoed in Azephala's mind.
"I must descend into Hell..."
"Only by confining the upheaval to that dark world... can I keep it from tainting this planet... or reaching into the entire Main Universe..."
"Only, when that moment comes, I may perish as well..."
Azephala listened in silence.
And at that moment, she understood everything.
She was a savior.
She was a truly kind deity. She had descended from the Outer Cosmos, wanting only to find her elder sister amid the vast passage of time,