When he met that eye,
in an instant,
his soul and body began trembling at the same time.
All his mental preparation, all his confidence, all the experience he had accumulated were like a thin sheet of white paper dragged into water and pulled apart, torn to shreds in an instant.
Kallen had seen the God of Order when he underwent "Purification" to become a Divine Servant, but that had only been a mechanical response from the God of Order. The god's eyes had been closed.
He had also looked through a window deep within Raniedal's memories and thoughts and seen Raniedal personally suppress the Sea God, but that felt like watching a film in a cinema: you already knew it was a recorded memory.
So,
this was the first time.
It was Kallen's first time seeing a god who was truly "alive."
This fear did not stem from religious theology, reverence for gods, or insincere flattery before a real god.
It was an overwhelming force,
an overwhelming force bearing down on him from a higher level of life!
Kallen had discussed it with Alfred before: "gods" were not collections of rules, nor were they the "heaven and earth" in "heaven and earth are indifferent." Gods were merely more powerful beings... nothing more.
But when the gap between levels of life grew terrifyingly vast, a single glance was enough to bring you close to collapse.
It was like walking down a road, bending down, and finding an ant crawling on the ground. It was busy with its own affairs, and even when it saw the sole of your boot, it still behaved normally;
then you gently picked that ant up between two fingers, taking care not to crush it, brought it before your eyes, and stared at it, stared at