The War God is dead.

This was one of the most surprising pieces of news Alice had ever received.

However, she instinctively thought this couldn't be true, because if the War God were truly dead, the War God Church wouldn't be so calm.

You can't hide such a thing if you want to.

This is especially true in a world as extraordinary as the Dawn Continent.

Alice was fairly certain that at least the two War God High Priests she had met didn't know the War God was dead.

The War God High Priest is arguably the closest person to the War God within the War God Church. If even they don't know, then the War God Church probably doesn't either.

[Alice raised her head, looking suspiciously at Aivia: "Does the War God Church know about what you're saying?"]

["If they knew, they would have already started a war on the Dawn Continent," Aivia elegantly raised the teacup in front of her.]

["To bury the whole world with them?"]

["To create a new War God," Aivia said.]

[Gods established the church, and the church must also need the existence of gods.]

[If gods perish, the church, losing its root of belief, has no value of existence.]

Shen Sui knew this concept, and this was the reason Vivian incited the Twilight of the Gods, directly beheading the gods.

If you start from the bottom, overthrowing the entire god's governance starting from the church, it would be too slow, and whether it could succeed was also an unknown. It would be better to behead directly, causing the belief system of the entire Dawn Continent to collapse from the top.

Reality was exactly as Vivian envisioned. At the moment of the gods' death, the collapse of belief led those most devout followers to choose to die along with their believed gods.

But you should never assume your enemies to be so foolish.

Also, never trust your camaraderie in battle.

Shen Sui knew that Vivian probably would never forget the era of the Twilight of the Gods.

It was so dreamlike, yet so heartbreaking.

At the last moment before their downfall, the gods conveyed their will to their believers, and this time, they no longer demanded the loyalty of their beliefs, only pursuing their abilities.

And during this time of the top's demise, when the new rulers' foundations were not yet firm, was precisely the era when ambitious schemers emerged, and those chosen by the gods began secretly brewing the gods' recovery.

At least in the world of the Dawn Continent, gods cannot truly be killed because divinity is eternal.

Vivian was still young at the time and didn't realize this.

Moreover, at that time, people of this world hadn't truly realized the existence of the Otherworld. Beyond the world's barriers lay the Broken Realm symbolizing death, and within the Broken Realm, there existed terrifying Boundary-breaking Worms. Therefore, the method Shen Sui now uses to seal gods into Life Cards to achieve permanent "killing" of gods was far ahead of Vivian's time back then.

The ambitious are brewing the gods' return, and the once battle companions are preparing to become new gods themselves.

Later on, these ambitious people secretly recreated the church, and joined forces with heroes aspiring to become gods. The latter wished to become gods, while the former didn't care which gods they believed in, as long as they could deceive the lower-level believers to maintain their rule in the mortal world.

Shen Sui was actually aware of the existence of these ambitious people because most of his late-game tasks in the game "Dawn Link" were tasks like eliminating the revived church.

But these tasks were unrelated to the main storyline, more akin to clearing outposts and question marks in classic open-world canned games. Unless you have obsessive tendencies, ignoring them wouldn't matter much.

After the disappearance of the Twilight Bishop, Vivian gradually got lost in madness, providing these ambitious ones the opportunity to stage the event of burning the Saintess.

The churches recreated by the ambitious might not care about the authenticity of the gods, but they still require the existence of gods.

Therefore, if the War God were truly dead, the War God Church's first reaction would absolutely not be to mourn, but to immediately seek the next War God, and then fabricate a reasonable and believable myth to explain the legitimacy of the new War God.

Furthermore, which of the current churches on the Dawn Continent hasn't seen the precedent of a god's death?

["Did the Lady of Daylight tell you this?" Alice stared into Aivia's eyes.]

[Aivia nodded.]

["How is that possible?" Alice's eyes widened.]

[The War God is a Main God, one of the most powerful gods, how could he just die silently?]

[Alice now has systematically learned much top-notch magic knowledge and has a much deeper understanding of gods than at the beginning.]

[In this world, other gods might be silently ambushed to death, but the War God cannot.]

[That War God Realm, which shields extraordinary power and forces you into close combat, is a Wall of Sighs for all would-be ambushers.]

[Historically, only Twilight Bishop Claude managed to defeat Bargas relying on an unparalleled physique.]

[Wait... Claude?]

[Alice's heart skipped a beat.]

[The state of Claude's soul was so horrible because he had fought with Bargas to protect himself.]