Magic, Evil Gods, and the Fourth Calamity

When Edmund Ifr, the most deeply hidden villain in the game hailed as the most realistic in history, *Otherworld Online*, the source of all chaos, and the ultimate world-destroying evil god—was escorted by the righteous gods and stepped onto the stage as the primordial creator, the architect of all order, and the sole leader of the righteous gods—he looked with a touch of helplessness at the [players] who, while saving the world, had also turned it upside down. His thoughts drifted back to the day he first arrived in this world, several years ago. Back then, he was merely an evil god, punished by the righteous gods, yet not quite dead. Back then, he, too, only wanted to survive…