Only after ascending did I discover that the Divine Realm was nothing but a pyramid. Mortals were fodder, the gods at the bottom were expendable, and the twenty-six Sovereigns sat atop the tower, monopolizing 99 percent of the faith in the entire universe. Blue Star was just one of their numbered pastures.
I fought my way from the mortal realm to the Divine Realm, cutting down foes from the bottom of the tower to the top. At last, the twenty-six Sovereigns lowered their eyes to me. “How dare a mere mortal ask why?”
I looked up at the pyramid that had floated there for billions of years and drew my dead-iron dagger.
