God killing

“And the gun you lent my peon—will it kill her?”
“That is no mere rifle,” Mr. Saxby said. “That weapon has taken a hundred forms, suiting itself to the age. It’s a… machine… and it came from my allies across the stars. The Hidden One said it would kill any god weaker than he.” There was something malicious in his thin-lipped smile. “Though perhaps it would work against him too.”
“You mustn’t kill the one who pays us,” Ghorm cautioned.


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