"Have you heard a rumor?"
Hawkins was making idle conversation with Luo for no apparent reason.
The two seemed to have little to do with each other, yet now they were in the same place.
"You mean about God's past? I heard that more than half the powerful figures anyone can name in the world today were his crew members."
Luo had heard the rumor too, and had previously thought it was complete nonsense.
But everything they had now seen with their own eyes on Laugh Tale forced them to start wondering whether there might be some truth to those rumors.
"This island's name was a joke to begin with, a prank. It was also the place where God appeared before going to war with the Old Gods."
"Most of you don't believe God ever existed. But all I want to know is just how powerful God is. Is he omniscient and omnipotent, or a creature more powerful than us?"
Hawkins looked toward the warships and spacecraft in the sky.
"Are you a little disappointed? That fellow in the tavern has never made a move, but a god shouldn't be like that. He looks too normal, completely at odds with the image in the legends."
Luo found it strange too. If Shane really was God, why did he seem so ordinary?
"Perhaps there's a side to this world we still don't know about. After all, a being that's merely powerful couldn't earn the recognition of so many powerful people."
The probabilities shown by the Fortune-Telling Cards in Hawkins's hands had already changed.
"My chance of survival is ninety percent, provided I don't provoke the man in the tavern."
Sure enough.
Although Shane looked ordinary, any divination involving him produced an absolute probability.
A result could only be obtained after excluding