The rite of the gods is a passage performed in a seperate world that is beyond from our sights, its existence is one that fascinates the dimensional theorists who've discovered they can manipulate time, create new realities and becoming immortal from age without succumbing to your demise when you perform these techniques.
The passage consists of trials presented by the Alkorn, The grand servant of the emperor who sub-rules all the gods who serve their purppose until they die from tragedy or of useless reasons, But the current emperor will be choosing who will participate, if you somehow got in the trials, it just means that you impressed the all mighty one and if you pass, you are destined to a god of a certain thing.
There are atleast 40 chosen contestants, this passage only happens once in a hundred years, which is alot for the mortals and little for the children of the Gods, If a mortal has been chosen by the emperor or the Alkorn if the said emperor isnt present or is in a meeting, They will still participate,
The cliff involves the chosen trialists to be on top of a cliff, the main goal is to fall down this cliff and save themselves. but this happens all at the same time, The contestant who doesnt save his fellow comrades gets eliminated from the Trial immediately, But the contestant that manages to atleast save 2-3 people from death while also falling from a cliff will proceed to the next trial presented.
In this test, contestants are forced to starve for 2 weeks, once they are fully starving, thats when the trials start, the Alkorn will give the remaining participants a choice to choose between the meal that they will present, while that is happening, a close comrade of theirs will be tied to a chair and will be executed, usually these people who are about to die are either family members of the contestant or a lover of theirs, they are forced to choose between two, but the main focus here is that they should be able to save both, if they realize that the "choice" is a bait, they can save both, and thats where they pass
So far, this is only what we got about the rite of the gods, more information will come soon on the next test.