OF COURSE, these gods would want Neoma to lose.
If Neoma loses, she instantly becomes the Upper World's new Aether.
Ruto could tell by the festive atmosphere that Helstor had already convinced some of the major gods to help him change the rules of the upcoming war in his favor.
He had an idea about how the God of Eternal Darkness would force Neoma to agree with the changes he proposed: by complaining about how Neoma and Trevor had tricked him into signing an unfair contract with a hidden clause.
It wasn't really a hidden clause, per se.
Trevor just made a really, really tiny— barely visible— clause that even a god like Helstor had missed.
The mastermind was, of course, Neoma— the empire's greatest scammer.
"Yoan, when will the little Moonasterion princess visit us?" Astrid, the Goddess of Beauty, asked in an unusually cheerful voice. "You've already told her about the change of rules, haven't you?"
At the Goddess of Beauty's question, all eyes fell on Ruto.
