"When a civilization's development reaches a barbaric stage, violence and conquest become its main theme."
On New God Star, Bertutan and Uncle Tian walked side-by-side across a ravaged land at the end of a war. Corpses piled up beneath their feet, blood flowed underfoot, and the bodies and souls of fallen warriors settled, bringing new nutrients to the already fertile soil.
A tribal war had just taken place here.
An experienced young chief had led his people to victory over another tribe, achieving a new conquest. This process was typically accompanied by tragic sacrifices, for victor and vanquished alike.
But neither the victors celebrating their triumph nor the vanquished, grievously wounded and dying, could see these two new gods.
Nor could they hear their conversation.
They were like observers from a higher dimension, looking down upon a war between ants.
