Lord Dar fell into thought. He was considering just who that Superstandard Divine Descent Ritual had summoned, while his true self seemed to have borrowed the opportunity-no, tagged along on it-to emerge.
Kallen fell into thought as well. He suddenly realized something: the dog at home still had many secrets it had not told him. Take this matter, for instance. If even its avatar could work out and catch that crucial point, could it have missed it?
Even if the opportunities in its canine life had sent its emotions on a roller coaster at first, it had spent so long as a dog afterward, with so much time to think. It could not possibly have failed to review what had happened.
It seemed the dog at home had only ever looked honest.
However, Kallen was not particularly excited by the "implication" in Lord Dar's words.
The one that Superstandard Divine Descent Ritual had summoned was him.
Even by the principle that whoever descended first came first, he had been the one to seize "Kallen's" body. Raniedal could only rank second.
And this was not the first hint Kallen had received about his identity. It was as though threads kept appearing at certain moments in his life, linking him to that God of Order.
Yet he knew perfectly well that he was not that "God of Order."
But these increasingly numerous hints and coincidences also forced Kallen to consider the matter seriously and prepare to check whether there was some commonality between himself and that former "God of Order."
It was precisely this commonality, or similarity, that kept making his actions and experiences "collide" with those of the most powerful being at the end of the previous era.
There were three possibilities in total. The first was that, like the God