Within a vast underground limestone cave, an altar carved with mysterious runes was slowly operating, magnificent and solemn.
A chessboard floated above the very top of the altar. It was Gladiator Chess, once popular in the previous era but long since lost to the present, and a divine artifact of Yali Luolan, the God of Infatuation.
God Yali Luolan was not a chief god and ranked toward the bottom of the godhood sequence. She had not founded a church of her own. At the end of the previous era, the God of Order had judged her an evil god, and she had been suppressed by Order.
According to the Light of Order, Yali Luolan had attempted to beguile a certain "great personage" in the Order camp, seeking to make them turn away from the God of Order, but her plot had failed.
As for who this "great personage" was-one of the God of Order's Four Great Attendants, one of the twelve Order Knights, or another deity aligned with Order at the time-no one knew.
This was not a deliberate concealment to protect that personage's reputation. Rather, the matter had never been made public at the time and had always remained a secret.
Some bolder people even speculated that the one the God of Infatuation had chosen to seduce was the God of Order himself.
The mythological accounts of the Moon Order God Church contained a similar record: the God of Order had once been beguiled, and Moon God Artemis had offered her purest tears to help dispel it.
Now that the Moon Order God Church's reliance on the Order God Church was growing ever deeper, changes to both sides' mythological narratives-especially those of the Moon Order God Church-would certainly become more obvious. In a few years, the latest edition of