As a Bishop of the Goddess of the Night Church, Ernest knew a fair amount about the Eternal Frost Glacier. It was no place for the living, but the final destination of the dead.
A group of Gods resided in the Eternal Frost Glacier. They possessed certain aspects of death authority and governed the souls of the dead.
Most Extraordinaries were familiar with death authority. After all, it governed the lives of all living things, and Gods who possessed such authority were immensely powerful.
But those authorities were not exclusive to Gods. If Extraordinaries had the chance to acquire even fragments of authority, they would qualify to enter the ranks of Gods. This involved the advancement of their Beyonder abilities.
Ordinary people could forget about it. They scarcely had any chance of coming into contact with authority.
An authority was a kind of rule, and there were many rules. That meant there were many authorities in the world, merely waiting to be discovered.
An Extraordinary who possessed authority, even one who had only just become an Extraordinary, started out as a Demigod.
Death, light, night, life-whether concrete or abstract, any of them might have an associated authority. This was the power of a rule, and mastering such power could allow someone to become a God, just as the Goddess of the Night wielded authority over night.
Death, as a divine authority, was naturally held by certain Gods. Several Gods, of course, rather than a single one.
If one God alone held death authority, that God would be incomparably powerful, a unique true God on equal footing with the Goddess of the Night.
But none had emerged so far. The Gods who currently possessed death authority were all competing to become the first true God and fully master death authority. The