The world did not celebrate its freedom.
That surprised everyone.
When the gods vanished, people expected trumpets, light, miracles.Instead, there was silence.
No prayers answered.No voices from the sky.No divine punishment.
At first, this felt like peace.
Later, it felt like abandonment.
Farmers prayed out of habit. Nothing happened.Soldiers swore oaths to empty air.Priests drank themselves into irrelevance.
And slowly—quietly—the world began to understand something terrifying:
The gods were cruel…but they were also order.