I am God LSLCCF

And through all of it he had felt dazed, as though caught inside some kind of dream.

The whole of it left him with a sense of unreality.

Those things stood too high above him, too far beyond his reach.

But here and now, in the mortal world, he was seeing with his own eyes the changes that such power could bring.

He was seeing what the Contract of the Gods and this turning of the age had brought to nations and to ordinary people alike.

The lizard man braced against the wall as a great wind came in off the sea, filling the sails of the ships below, then rushing on to break over him.

He could not help but cry out, ”Look! This is an entirely new age.”

”This is the Age of Gods. This is Lord Kurmisʼs age.”

”And it is also... our age.”

After that, he flew south along the coastline, all the way to the Witch Kingdom out on the wasteland.

The Lizard Man Anu came into Scroll City to rest and resupply, and there he found the witch spirits of the Wasteland Witch Kingdomʼs Scroll City splitting into several small bands, making ready to leave the wasteland for destinations of their own.

So he went into the Temple of Knowledge and asked these witch spirits where they meant to go.

”We have received a divine oracle. We are to travel to Suinhor and the Land of Sunrise to spread the faith.” The temple had already arranged where each of them would go.

”We are bound for the Yellow Sand Kingdom and the Thunder Kingdom.” These two bands numbered far fewer than the first.

”I hear Suinhorʼs heritage runs long and deep, and that the place holds a great wealth of books and knowledge.” The witch spirit bound for Suinhor could hardly contain their anticipation.

”I mean to go and see the Land of Sunrise for myself. They say itʼs extraordinarily prosperous there. I want to build a temple to the God of Knowledge in that land, and take on a cohort of promising witch spirit apprentices!” The witch spirit bound for the Land of Sunrise was every bit as excited.

The missionary bands of ability users had scarcely gone before Anu saw alchemists arriving out of distant lands, leading their students into Scroll City.

These alchemists had not come from the Land of Sunrise at all. They had been traveling through the Executive Nation of Ten Thousand Serpents when a letter reached them from the Land of Sunrise, and so they had made their way to Scroll City.

They wanted to watch the witch spirits craft their scrolls, to trade knowledge with the Temple of Knowledge, and to make use of the power of the Silk-Weaving Spirit Insect besides.

Then they meant to stay on here and become alchemists of this nation.

”Plenty of alchemists have already gone to fight over places in the Executive Nation of Ten Thousand Serpents. Iʼd never beat them out there. Better to come to the Wasteland Witch Kingdom instead.”

”And I figure the people here are bound to need alchemists too.”

So the alchemist with the lamp in hand told Anu.

Anu nodded. ”The Wasteland Witch Kingdom may be a little poor, but it still has real potential.”

Leaving the wasteland behind, Anu flew on southward astride the wind lizard dragon.

He came to the Executive Nation of Ten Thousand Serpents, and here the stir was greater still.

Nearly every temple and shrine, great and small, had received a divine oracle, and the divine servants in them were restless enough that no urging at all was needed before they began preparing to set out.

They meant to break new ground for the faith in distant lands, to carry their godsʼ worship somewhere farther still.

Stay where they were, and they would remain nothing more than ordinary divine servants. Go out into distant lands, and they might carve out an entirely new seat of faith to call their own.

”The god is guiding us!” someone declared, holding the templeʼs sacred canon high overhead as they rallied their followers to set out together.

”The Age of Gods has come! Believers of the God of Earth, follow me now to distant lands. We will never return. Like our godʼs own faith, we will take root in another nation,” someone vowed, kneeling with deep devotion before a divine statue.

”Witch spirits who believe in Knowledge, all who hold faith in Contract Law and the Legal Code, the time has come to prove ourselves!” Before the Contract Lawyer Academy, a great crowd of ability user apprentices gathered.

A world that had once lain still as stagnant water had begun, at last, to flow again.

Anu returned to the City of Fire Protection in Suinhor.