"To answer your question," Ikenga rumbled, his tone heavy with disappointment, "we waited to weed out the bad from the good. If we had intervened earlier, many of you would not have shown your hand or revealed your true colors."
"Freedom was granted to you, and you have shown precisely what you are capable of when given that latitude. You have proven that you care little for this world and its people, and so it was long past due that we made our appearance."
Hearing his words, the paragons who had remained neutral and uninvolved simply shook their heads. In truth, the sudden arrival of the Origin Gods wasn't entirely shocking once all the pieces were put together.
The real surprise for many had been the prolonged silence, earlier when the first fundamental laws were shattered and the first few hundred thousand lives met their untimely ends, everyone had instinctively expected the wrath of the Origin Gods to strike down instantly.
