"So the Holy Temple and the Vikings must have their own reasons for going to war, too," he murmured.
"Of course they do, and their circumstances are different from ours," he said.
"Oh? Does Your Majesty know the reasons?"
He chuckled. "Of course I do. This is hardly a secret, though very few people know about it. And information like this cannot be allowed to circulate freely. Spreading it among the common people is strictly forbidden. It would cause an uproar, a frenzy capable of overturning the entire world."
Zeng Mu bowed his head. "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."
"Those fellows in the Holy Temple have their virtues, but their faults are equally obvious. They are far too tight-lipped. A handful of people at the top keep a firm grip on countless matters, refusing to let even a scrap of information slip. Even some of their most trusted people struggle to obtain it. You could almost say they are guarding against thieves within their own household."
"Since you have brought it up, I might as well tell you. This concerns your own affairs, anyway, so it hardly counts as a secret. Let me be the one to tell you the secret behind the Holy Temple's war. Before that, though, let us talk about the Old God Kingdom."
"The Old God Kingdom? What is that?" Zeng Mu's eyes suddenly lit up. Clearly, those words had surprised him and stirred his curiosity.
"That Divine Artifact of mine, the Sixfold Wheel, came from there. It is a creation of the old gods from the previous era. Only true gods could forge something like it. Compared with it, the third-tier Elemental Artifacts forged by today's supposedly highest-ranking Elemental Artifact Masters could not even last two rounds in battle."
"What exactly is the Old God