Chapter 154 -154-The Five Unique Beings
The possibility that Owen and the other gods were not the first group to arrive here struck him with sudden gravity. His expression darkened as his thoughts raced.
If there were indeed predecessors—gods who came before them—then where were they now?
Could they all have perished within the cruel confines of Dantean Hell?
That was certainly a worrying prospect. But Owen couldn’t rule out another explanation: the existence of innate gods—those who had been born with divinity rather than acquired it through ascension or faith.
Of course, based on the historical records he’d seen within the Caesar Empire, there had never been mention of such beings. Not once had an innate god been formally documented.
Yet Owen knew well that the Caesar Empire, like all human kingdoms, was but a brief flicker in the endless timeline of existence. The absence of records didn’t necessarily mean the absence of reality.
His instincts told him that many realms—perhaps all realms—must have birthed their own primordial gods during their creation. It seemed likely that the gods Titan had spoken of earlier were such beings.
After all, without these innate gods, how could such fearsome spellbeasts exist, or how could entities like aberrations contain fragments of order?
Even Owen himself, a god born through cultivation and faith, wouldn’t exist were it not for the foundation laid by those ancient, primal divinities.
He thought back to the divine tournament he had participated in not long ago—the one hosted in that dark, god-infested realm.
That strange world had left a deep impression on him. Unlike his own realm, it had contained no gods from the human factions. Every single god he encountered there had been of a darker nature—predators, parasites, tyrants who raised and devoured humans like livestock.