The duel between Patriarch Reginald Cross and Ghirard entered into a completely different phase after the latter had voluntarily discarded the advantages afforded by his massive size and his Saint Crusher Raiment.
The phase lord had definitely struggled to make this decision. The native aliens had always revered larger gods over the smaller ones. There was literally no way that the nunsers or any other alien race would worship a phase lord the size of a small juggernaut over one that was just as large as one of their capital homeships!
Size mattered in alien society. Bigger was already better. This principle had become so ingrained in the minds of many aliens that it had remained constant throughout many different eras in the Red Ocean.
That was why the arrival of humans in their dwarf galaxy inflicted so much shock and trauma onto the local residents.
