The Godsfall Chronicles - Chapter 820
He was gone, having died without even a proper name. For gods names were unimportant. They were, after all, just extensions of Sumeru’s will. At best, a cog in the machine. The Cloud God was just a title the people of Skycloud chose.
The Green Alliance had lost its one godly ally. It was the painful consequence of a humiliating defeat. They killed some soldiers and captured a Supreme, but what did that matter to the God King?
Cloudhawk had lost two Elysian masters and his only way to know what the gods were doing. Mankind’s war for survival had just begun, but it started with a wrenching blow. Maybe it was true. The gods were too great for a bunch of smart monkeys to get the better of them. Under Last Judgment there wasn’t even a way to fight back.
What was the point of fighting on?
