Gaia Appears.

The moment she showed up and saved my life, I felt a fleeting sense of gratitude, but once I calmed down, she only seemed like a strange and eccentric being who had matured in a bizarre way.

That peculiar impression came with a lingering question.

Demeter had stayed by the dead emperor’s side, so it made sense she hadn’t shown up. But what the hell had Gaia been doing this whole time?

If scholars classified her as one of the Greater Divines connected to the conceptual plane, even the slightest movement should’ve left a trace in the records.