You can make this revelation much more solemn and unsettling by presenting it as a secret buried long before all known stories:
Lilith slowly closed her eyes.
For a few moments, no one dared to speak.
Even the most turbulent demons remained silent.
Then her voice echoed once more in the arena.
— Do you know the legendary war between the gods and the demons?
Several glances were exchanged.
Of course they knew it.
This war was considered one of the oldest conflicts in the entire Meta-Reality.
Yet Lilith gave a slight smile.
— Ancient, isn't it?
She gently shook her head.
— And yet, when that war took place, none of you existed yet.
The silence grew heavier.
— But that is not what interests us today.
Her glowing gaze swept over the assembly.
— The war against the Outergods is far older.
Expressions immediately changed.
— Far older than the war of the gods and demons.
— Far older than the first empires.
— Far older than the first mythologies.
She paused.
— It even predates Retrogenesis.
Bakuzan's eyes widened.
— What?
Salomeh swallowed with difficulty.
Deep within her soul, she felt the silence of Morlük himself.
As if something buried in the depths of her being recognized those words.
Lilith continued:
— The battle against the Outergods belongs to the Ancient Genesis.
— An era so distant that it was entirely erased from history.
— An era that no longer exists.
No one responded.
— Why do you think Retrogenesis was triggered?
Her eyes grew darker.
— Because the Outergods were winning.
A shiver ran through the arena.
Even Schela remained frozen.
Elika slowly stood up.
— Wait...
— I don't understand.
— What exactly are you talking about?
Anube frowned.
— What is Retrogenesis?
— And what is an Outergod?
Lilith sighed.
— You are listening to one of the most tragic stories the Dream has ever carried.
Her voice became deeper.
— The moment when the two most incompatible forces in all existence clashed.
She slowly turned her head toward Salomeh.
— Retrogenesis is a force of absolute annihilation.
— A power capable of completely sweeping away the domains from the Fourth Zone down to the Second Zone.
Salomeh felt several gazes turn toward her.
Lilith pointed at her.
— This young girl now carries a part of that power.
— For she is the Apostle of Morlük.
The entire arena remained silent.
— Once triggered, Retrogenesis cannot be stopped.
— Nothing can resist it.
— Nothing can survive it.
— It does not only erase beings.
— It erases their past.
— Their future.
— Their trace.
— Their memory.
— Their very possibility of ever having existed.
Lilith's voice echoed like a sentence.
— When a Genesis is consumed by Retrogenesis, not even its shadow remains.
— It is a perfect cleansing.
— A destruction so absolute that it paves the way for a new beginning.
Bakuzan clenched his fists.
— And you say the Primordial Gods ordered this?
— Yes.
— Morlük carried it out.
Silence fell again.
Then Lilith resumed:
— Because at that time, the Outergods had already begun their corruption.
Her gaze hardened.
— A corruption that no healing can reverse.
— A corruption that even the gods fear.
The demons present exchanged uneasy glances.
— We call it the Outer Substance.
At these words, even GAaron seemed to grow more serious.
— Once contaminated, an entity is doomed.
— There is no cure.
— No purification.
— No resurrection.
— Nothing.
Lilith slightly clenched her fists.
— The contaminated being becomes something else.
— Something that oscillates between existence and non-existence.
— Between being and the absence of being.
— Between the real and the unreal.
Her voice grew colder.
— It becomes an extension of the Outergods.
— A growth of their influence.
— A cell of their presence.
— And it then develops an instinctive hatred toward everything that is not like them.
Nervous murmurs spread through the arena.
— The most terrifying part...
Lilith raised a finger.
— Is that this corruption monstrously amplifies the power of its host.
— A simple contaminated insect can become powerful enough to rival Transcendents.
The entire arena froze.
Then Lilith concluded:
— So imagine what happens when a god is contaminated.
— Or worse...
Her red eyes shone in the darkness.
— When a Demon Emperor is.
At that precise moment, no one spoke anymore.
For they had all just understood why, in the past, the Primordial Gods had preferred to annihilate an entire Genesis rather than let this corruption continue to spread.
Lilith let out a long sigh.
— When I think about it... I understand why Zeus prefers to keep this information so confidential.
She slowly shook her head.
— If entities from the lower zones learned such a truth, panic would spread everywhere. The Outergods are not only dangerous because of their power. Their mere existence is a danger.
Her gaze drifted into the void for a few moments.
— Their bodies are entirely composed of this so-called Outer Substance. A material that does not truly belong to the Pure Dream and whose mere contact is corrupting.
She paused.
— Every interaction with them becomes a potential contamination. Every wound. Every drop. Every fragment.
— That is why, during the first war, ordinary entities had virtually no chance of surviving.
Her eyes closed for a moment.
— Without the direct intervention of the Original Gods, everything would have been lost.
Sakolomeh frowned.
— There is still one thing I don't understand...
Lilith turned her head toward him.
— Which one?
— What triggered this war?
Silence settled.
Then Lilith simply replied:
— The Outergods appeared after the disappearance of Bivisu.
Sakolomeh blinked.
— Bivisu?
Schela crossed his arms.
— Who is that?
Lilith slightly raised her eyes toward the ceiling of the arena.
— From what I know, Bivisu was the former unique avatar of the Original Gods.
The gazes froze.
— His existence dates back to such a distant era that even the oldest legends retain almost no memory of it.
She continued calmly:
— I do not know all the details. Very few people truly do.
— But after his disappearance...
Her voice grew deeper.
— The Outergods appeared.
Silence fell again.
— I do not know why.
— I do not know how.
— I do not even know if they came because of him.
She slowly crossed her arms.
— Perhaps they were searching for Bivisu.
— Perhaps not.
— Perhaps Bivisu was holding them back in some way.
— Perhaps his disappearance simply created an opening.
She shook her head.
— No one truly knows.
Even among the Primordial Demon Emperors, this subject remains shrouded in shadows.
Bakuzan remained silent.
Lilith continued:
— However, when the true bodies of the Original Gods manifested in the Dream...
— The Outergods were pushed back.
Her red eyes glowed faintly.
— And a treaty was concluded.
Sakolomeh frowned even more.
— A treaty?
— Yes.
A slight smile appeared on Lilith's lips.
— With their Father.
The entire arena froze.
Even the murmurs ceased.
Lilith observed their reactions with amusement.
— Do you want to know who this Father is?
She let out a small laugh.
— Me too.
A few demons exchanged confused glances.
— I have absolutely no idea of his identity.
— I only know that he possesses total authority over the Outergods.
Her gaze hardened.
— An authority such that they never seem to act without his will.
— They observe.
— They wait.
— They remain silent.
— Until an order is given to them.
She set her eyes on each member of the group.
— So if a new war is truly being prepared...
— If the Outergods are starting to move again...
— If their activity is increasing across the different zones...
Her voice grew heavier.
— That probably means only one thing.
No one dared to speak.
Lilith then concluded:
— Their Father has given his approval.
The silence that followed was almost suffocating.
For the first time since the beginning of the conversation, even the most arrogant demons seemed unable to find anything to say.
Because they had just understood what this threat truly implied.
They were not going to face simple invaders.
They were going to face beings whose bodies were absolute and irreversible corruption.
Creatures capable of turning the slightest victim into an extension of their own existence.
Entities that had once forced the Gods to trigger Retrogenesis and sacrifice an entire Genesis to stop their spread.
Erasa remained silent.
She had obtained more answers than she had hoped.
And yet, each answer seemed to open ten new questions.
Her gaze settled on Lilith.
Even she seemed to ignore the identity of the Father of the Outergods.
But another thought then crossed Erasa's mind.
If there existed someone capable of knowing this truth...
It had to be Mü Thanatos.
However, since the beginning of this matter, the Goddess had remained strangely discreet.
She still answered questions.
She still guided events.
But she revealed far less than usual.
As if she knew something.
Something she was not yet ready to share.