After all that buildup, Leopard God merely wanted to explain why it was so well-connected and where its intelligence came from.
After Oshtur left Earth, the Big Black Cat became, in practical terms, the strongest remaining member of the benevolent ancient gods on Earth. She was the absolute trusted confidante the eldest sister had left behind to guard the house.
With Eastern Star Goddess backing it and fists of its own big enough to matter, even after retiring into seclusion, who would dare refuse it respect? Those demons that fled into Hell?
If those guys had not gotten involved with Death and helped manage the business of the soul cycle, God Eater would probably have chased them into Hell long ago and chewed them up like crackers. How could they dare bristle under those circumstances?
Thus, some ancient gods left, some retired into seclusion, some went to Hell, and some ascended to higher dimensions. Earth, the place that had birthed countless lives, seemingly returned to a state of having no owner.
As everyone knew, ownerless territory could not remain ownerless forever. With a habitable planet sitting here in plain sight, how could no one notice it?
So the Celestials came and carried out their life experiments here. As time passed, new intelligent life appeared on Earth: the Eternals and the Deviants.
Later, because of the Eternals' degeneration, the Celestials sent the Second Progenitor team and destroyed that species. The Survivors either scattered across the world and went dormant, or fled into Cosmic before it happened, becoming the Titans.
And after that came the births of extraordinary beings such as Odin, Zeus, and the Jade Emperor. They were also known as New Gods or Second Generation Gods. Naturally, wars broke out as they developed, and even more people fled into Cosmic