Within the ruins of what had once been a grand castle, three mortals stared at the countless gods crowding the sky to confront a single being.
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Among them was the transparent soul of Rael, gazing up at the halo-filled heavens in both awe and terror.
He wasn't one to scare easily.
Still, the divinity radiating from that many divine beings combined with that of the Trickster was enough to make his very existence shudder, even within a memory.
From what Rael had read in the novel, there were different tiers of gods and once someone ascended, they faced two choices. Either create their own Divine Realm, tied to their personal growth or join an already established Divine Domain as a subordinate.
But most gods joined powerful, established domains and focused on strengthening themselves while rising through their ranks because creating domains had some conditions.
