[The quest has been completed.]0

[All the species have learned their gods’ secrets!]0

[The thirty-ninth floor has been cleared.]0

In the jungle, the sun sank beyond the horizon. The palm trees seemed to bend down to watch, as if drawn by gravity, but the sun paid them no mind. The pitch-black shade dyed thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of palm trees, turning them into black pillars, so that only the sky and the river had color. There, darkness and color were sharply divided.0

Amidst this spectacle of nature, hundreds of thousands of people chattered. 0

—This is ridiculous! There’s no way our god would do this!0

—Our god takes the great form of a dog! But what are these images playing in my head, laimu? He’s basically a Puren! This makes no sense!0

—Mr. Kekerukker is quite handsome.2

—Actually, the love story in the Cavefire play was too intense for him to be just a white lion.1

—That was just a disguise, you know. The gods deliberately took on animal forms to approach us more easily. Not just any animal, but unique creatures that stood out. Because of that, we served them like gods, so didn’t things work out well?0

—We were tricked!0

—We are believers of the Great Dog, not of this strange-looking little boy!0

The Inquisitor, watching the hologram with me, tilted his head and asked, “Do I look strange?” 0

“You certainly don’t look like a snail,” the Black Witch answered.0

“Really? I thought I looked quite a bit like a snail,” he replied....0