Before Crimson Mother reached godly ascension, the Imperial Sovereign of this region removed hēr head with the God Decapitation Altar. On the day of that event, the severed head collapsed into ashes, leaving behind nothing but a headless corpse. That corpse eventually disappeared into the River of Time.4

Later on, after Crimson Mother somehow became a god, shē came back and conquered the region. Using a god magic, shē fished her mortal husk out of ancient time, then set it up as a reserve power for the Red Moon Cathedral. It was an extraordinary item that, previously, only the godchild had been able to use. Yet here it was, having been summoned by the pontiff.18

Īt shook the entire desert as it descended, causing the desert floor to sink down by hundreds if not thousands of meters.... The quaking ground crumbled and the sky shattered. A never-ending blood rain fell, pooling together to form a huge blood-colored sea. Waves rolled out in all directions. In fact, the desert wasn’t even visible at this point. It was only the seething sea of blood.1

Converting a desert to the sea was as much of a subversion as changing heaven to earth....0