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"Ah!"
In the concealed darkness of the Amanda Mountains, the newly appointed "Evernight Goddess," forced to accommodate the Uniqueness, clawed agonizingly at her face with her wolf paws. The wolf fur and flesh that fell away vanished beneath the concealing veil. The Goddess's believers would not hear their deity howl like a wild wolf in the mountains, nor would they hear a language resembling a beast's roars turn into murmurs beside their ears.
This was the benefit of concealment-at the same time, they would not realize that their deity had become someone else.
Her expression alternated between ferocity and gentleness. At one moment, it revealed the savage brutality of a Demon Wolf, a born mythical creature; the next, it became a human face bearing a faint sense of peace.
Across thousands upon thousands of years, the psyches of these two high-sequence Beyonders of the Darkness Pathway, once mortal enemies, had been blended together through an extremely mocking method. Once again, they began to struggle-for authority, identity, selfhood, and even life!
The Mother of Heaven had no objection to being reduced to a tool in a struggle between those above her. In the Beyonder world, the weak were supposed to be molded this way by the strong. She had once treated humans this way, so it was only natural for stronger deities to treat her the same.
This was the law of the world!
To become the strongest, high above everyone, and forever toy with others as one pleased? Heh... where could anyone find something that good?
Though she suffered terribly from the forced accommodation, though the prayers of those anchors made her head feel as though it would split, though neither deity had considered whether she lived or died, caring only whether someone filled the position of "Evernight Goddess,"