“Is this the calm before the storm?”

17 days had passed since the dimensional barrier had been opened. The expected storm had yet to arrive. The mortal plane was incredibly and abnormally calm.

The wars here that hadn’t ceased for several decades had all finally stopped. All sorts of information and guesses about what might happen spread throughout the entire land. Ancient Gods reappeared in the world. A tremendous amount of information arrived every day, but none of the information had anything concrete.

The fairies were furiously active in the world, searching for any information on possible external enemies. The most ancient texts in the Mage Country were perused, but judging from how those books were written in the modern language, such books wouldn’t contain enough history to record the secrets of the Gods’ wars from the first generation.

The sudden death of the God of Holy Light brought not only shock to everyone, but also fear.

In this world which had plenty of powerful or even undying individuals, the God of Holy Light represented the strongest Main God of them all. He was someone undefeatable. Even though he had been weakened by the battle in the chaotic domain after he killed numerous Chaos Main Gods, it was still beyond everyone’s comprehension how he died instantly the moment that he stepped outside the Eich Universe.

Panic, anxiety, worry, and despair spread amongst the citizens. Even though ordinary people still didn’t know yet about how the dimensional barrier had been opened, just the very fact that the God of Holy Light had perished was more than enough to unleash a tidal wave of despair.

Since the God of Holy Light had died, a large amount of Holy Light priests lost their skills and source of power. These divine power users suffered the sensation of having lost their divine power connection. Some Holy Light priests went insane, some chose to commit suicide, and most fell into a silent despair.

This wasn’t like my original world of Earth where religions were mysterious and unprovable. This was a world with verifiable True Gods, and churches here were the Gods’ representatives in the mortal plane. The Gods also provided actual support for the churches while also being the target for their believers’ worship. If a True God perished, then their church’s existence would naturally have no more meaning.

Since the Holy Church had Cardinals and priests at its core, it collapsed with unbelievable speed. Their leader Pope Caloma chose to immediately commit suicide, while more than 70% of their Cardinals became completely incapacitated. The chain reaction from the God of Holy Light’s death affected the entirety of human society.

If such chaos continued, it could easily be predicted that human society would implode by itself before any outside invaders arrived.

Luckily, this world had another God with the Divine Concept of Holy Light.

In this critical moment when the Holy Light was about to be extinguished, the Southern Sect and Hell Faction stood up and decided to become an idol… ahem, I meant they decided to use Hell’s Pillar of Holy Light to become the new God of Holy Light.

“This is just a replacement of the God of Holy Light. It’s just some temporary chaos. The old God of Holy Light is tired, so he’s chosen the Strongest Holy Knight Estrada as his successor.”

Would anyone believe such ridiculous words? No matter if you believed them or not, I still believed them… ahem, what I actually meant was that as long as a lie had value in existing, and as long as there were enough benefits from the lie, there would naturally be people who covered their ears and pretended to be fooled.

Rather than completely having an authority overthrown, it would obviously cause a lot less panic by changing out the leader. As for whether previous grudges needed to be settled afterwards, that would be something for the future.

The Holy Church, which was the core of human society, had shattered. Part of the Holy Church chose to join us and become part of the new Southern Sect. To them, perhaps it was simply having a new face for their God and changing a name when praying. They could still worship the God of Holy Light and use the divine power server to obtain Holy Light power for themselves. Additionally, the teachings of the Pure Holy Light had far fewer restrictions than the Holy Church’s teachings.

As for the others in the Holy Church, they ended up choosing self-imposed exile, either due to not wanting to accept reality or due to having grudges against the Hell Faction. But actually, there wasn’t much meaning in their actions.

This was because they had already lost their powers. The God they worshipped had died. As believers who didn’t accept reality, and were now praying to an existence who didn’t exist, this made them no fundamentally different from an Evil God’s worshippers.

It seemed that the Holy Light Faction Gods had no intentions of accepting the new God of Holy Light. They returned to the upper planes and ignored the revolution happening in the mortal plane. It seemed that they were waiting to see what would happen in the future before making a decision.

This was the same for the other God Factions. The Chaos Main Gods returned to the deep levels of the Chaos Abyss, and the Nature Faction Gods hid themselves in their own dimensions, content in their own fortresses.

The Hell Faction started taking over the Holy Church’s legacy and incredible wealth. When considering the Holy Church’s intricate connections with human society, this instantly caused the Hell Faction to multiply several times in size.

Hell’s Four Pillar Gods were gradually revealed to everyone in the world. The God of Holy Light was only one of the primary Four Pillar Gods of Hell. Hell’s teachings on how evil sinners would receive judgement after death also started to spread. It seemed that Hell’s teachings would start replacing the teachings of the Holy Church.

Perhaps after a few hundred years and a dozen generations, the Hell Faction’s path of law and order would become the new prevailing mainstream religion in human society.

However, many people currently viewed the Hell Faction’s current actions as foolishly suicidal and shortsighted.

“…The Hell Faction isn’t merely taking over the Holy Church’s wealth and authority. The Hell Faction is also taking on the responsibility of fighting against external invaders. Although the Hell Faction has gained power, they have no path of retreat, and have made themselves the number one target forced to fight the invaders first.”

But in my opinion, those who hid in their nests while waiting for others to become cannon fodder first, meaning that they were passively waiting to see what happened, were the ones who were truly foolish.

“Hide? Where can you possibly hide? You think you can hide in the rear and wait for others to become cannon fodder? There’s truly nowhere to escape this time.”

I knew better than anyone about how frightening the external invaders were as the Goddess of Order had recently been constantly injecting me with all sorts of information on how powerful and ridiculous those invaders were, even if her information was already outdated by several million years.

“The Void Distorter. He is a gigantic ball of distorted light who can devour anything, including even Gods and Titans. Yet, his true body doesn’t even need to come to the Eich universe…

“Crystal Gravity Fish. He’s not even actually a fish, but rather a terrifying soul devourer. Any life who gets close to him will have their soul absorbed. He also has countless other supernatural abilities…”

I gave all of this information to the fairies for them to transmit to everywhere in the world. However, I also told the fairies to only tell those in power and authority about this information when these monsters truly appeared, so as not to cause even more unnecessary panic and fear.

This was absolutely necessary. Not only were the fairies incredibly frightened by my information, even I somewhat understood why the Goddesses of Order and Chaos had decided to seal off the Eich universe once I learned all of this information.

“I should do as much as I possibly can. Even if there’s a 99% chance that this is meaningless, it’s best to have even 1% extra chance of winning if we truly do meet such monsters.”

I soon learned that I hadn’t done this for nothing, and that these ancient existences still existed in the other universes. Just as before, they attacked the Eich universe as the vanguard.

“A meteor shower appeared in the Caso Mountains. A large number of Void Distorters have been spotted there!”