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"I have a question."
"You may speak."
"..."
The Virtual Personality had been put in his place, albeit mildly, but he asked without any change in expression, "Even if you've barely maintained the status of a Great Old One, you're only a single-pathway true god now."
"Why do you think you can bring down a complete Kingdom of God?"
The Monarch of Decay remained seated, but Adam felt that he had indeed just been "glanced at." He raised his head and found the source of that sensation to his upper left: a wandering vine with an eye growing at its tip.
"Because you've prepared every element for me."
"Deathly silence, desolation, the ruins of city-states, lost civilizations."
The Outer Deity spoke slowly, one word at a time. "Without the 'Temple of Despair,' it indeed cannot count as a complete Kingdom of God, but it has concepts to make up for that. Even if it cannot reproduce the towns and civilizations I witnessed and recorded, that is enough to give it a higher status than an ordinary Kingdom of God."
West Borough, 9 Hope Street, the prime minister's residence.
Prime Minister Aguesid Negan stood behind a broad desk, looking gravely at Earl Hall opposite him. "Your Lordship, my secretary should already have told you what happened. You were the first noble I thought of at a time like this."
Earl Hall, who sported a handsome mustache, sighed.
"I'm very sorry to hear the news. It came as a tremendous shock. I was planning to visit His Grace in the next few days to discuss those bills that concern us both. Who could have known he would be attacked..."
His youthful good looks marred by deep nasolabial folds and a plump figure, he first expressed his condolences, grief, and sympathy,