A thousand years ago, the Double Serpent Society had coveted the core of Asgard's Floating Island. More than ten legendary wizards had ganged up on the Divine Kingdom of Odin, Thor had been killed by the Serpent Phantom, and the Arctic Continent had been shattered.
Amid the stalemate, Odin's son Loki had betrayed him and successfully assassinated him.
Even with the demigod Helga's help, the Divine Kingdom of Odin had fallen, and the pantheon's followers had scattered across Northern Europe.
Hunted relentlessly by the Double Serpent Society, they had lived like rats in the sewers.
Old Fawley's ancestor had actually been an ordinary follower of the pantheon, but he had ambition and refused to spend his life hiding and fleeing.
So he had claimed to belong to a collateral branch of Odin's divine lineage and possess divine blood. Using that claim, he had slowly assembled a resistance force that gradually grew stronger.
At first, the organization had sought only to survive.
Then, seven hundred years ago, a witch with genuine Odin blood had appeared-a descendant of Loki who had once again defected from the Double Serpent Society.
She had brought Loki's demigod godhead to Old Fawley's ancestor. The two had united, and the Northern Europe Pure Land Society had been founded.
As generations passed, under the influence of Loki's descendants and their masterful deception, resurrecting Loki had become the sole objective of the Pure Land Society's leadership.
To that end, the Pure Land Society had spent centuries working and laying its plans.
Only in Old Fawley's generation, with Shawn's arrival, had this grand, seven-hundred-year plan finally been put into motion.
After implanting Loki's demigod godhead in Shawn, Old Fawley had not actually known how it would help the boy. He had even anticipated that Shawn might innocently die, his body