The appearance of a Quasi-Supreme was beyond anyone's expectations, even Silas's, who by this point was finally beginning to recover fragments of memories from before they'd been sealed away by the cycle of reincarnation.
They came as fragments, fragments of a life he didn't remember, fragments of an intent to accomplish something that had once been unknown to him but which he came to understand over time, and that understanding led him to grasp what he needed to do to secure victory against the Abyss.
He, too, had tried to make use of the emergence of other divinities for his cause, but they proved to be far more of a problem than anyone could have anticipated.
He would have preferred to reason with them, but power corrupted them the same way it once corrupted him and Seraphine, the difference was that the two of them had obtained their powers at different times, giving them time to adjust and prevent their newfound strength from going to their heads.
