Hearing the other party using the word "pitiable creature" to describe the powerful god, everyone present felt it was ridiculous.
Their reaction was obviously not beyond the prophet's expectations. She said, "It sounds incredible, doesn't it? Then do you know what God is?"
It was the same question again. A similar question had been asked to Xiao Chen once by the High Priest Roland of the Capital, and once by the short-lived Queen of the Elves, the Super Saint Dahni. Now, the genuine god in front of him was asking him the same question. This time, facing the god himself, Xiao Chen found it particularly difficult to answer. He considered for a moment and said, "I think it's the difference in energy levels. You are much better at mastering and mobilizing energy than I am. But your way of thinking is very similar to ours. At least there is no communication barrier between us."
"Yes, energy. But in my opinion, it's not a question of how much energy there is, but a question of my relationship with energy. If you humans are lives that harness energy, then gods are lives that are dominated by energy. You've heard Ikasa explain the difference between magic power and divine power, right? That's all right, but more importantly, gods made up of divine power have a huge thirst for energy. This thirst is not the kind of thirst that you humans have to become stronger. It's the thirst of a starving beast in the wilderness looking for food, and it's the thirst of a drug addict in that world who craves drugs. Every god has this instinctive desire to obtain more magic power to strengthen his body. Let himself go on the road to becoming a stronger energy body and never turn back."
Everyone present noticed that the prophet used words and phrases from their world skillfully, but they didn't know whether he had peeped into their memories like a book spirit, or obtained this knowledge from somewhere else.
"Isn't strengthening yourself a way of evolution?" Ye Zi asked.
"If an individual focuses most of his energy on strengthening his own body, how much energy will he spend on understanding the nature of the world and changing the way the world works? In nature, those who only pursue physical strength are stupid beasts. They hope to evolve strong bodies and sharp teeth and claws, and then live in this world in a daze. And what God pursues is so similar to a wild boar. Isn't it ironic?" The prophet pointed to his head. "Real intelligent life uses this to make itself stronger, and the source of strength is the understanding of the world."
"Then, can't you gods think and invent?" Xiao Chen asked.
The prophet said: "Of course it will. I am not saying that we are real beasts. But as you said, our way of thinking is very similar to yours. This means that if we want to really achieve something, we must have a society and a whole as our foundation. There must be enough companions to work with us.
There are many gifted scholars and inventors in human history, and no one has not completed his creation on the basis of the entire human society. People always learn from each other, promote, inspire and compete with each other. This requires many people to contribute their wisdom and talents, and requires generations of hard work and accumulation.
But how many gods are there? The God of Nature, the God of War, the God of Death, the God of Wisdom, and me. Each god has limited talents and interests. How many people are needed to find someone who likes to study? And how many of them can become truly great scholars? There may not be one among tens of thousands of people, right? But we are only five gods. In fact, none of us is interested in exploring the world.
The God of Nature likes to plant flowers and grass and cultivate magical beasts and subspecies of humans the most. The world tree is a mutated plant he created, and the elves are the gardeners he uses to cultivate plants.
The God of War likes fighting and watching humans attack cities and destroy countries. Those war angels were originally trained by him to lead humans to attack each other. He once let these war angels join different countries and then start wars until only one country was left.
The pleasure of the God of Death is to modulate human souls. He uses the souls of the dead or the living to create all kinds of illusions. Whether it is the Tower of Dreams or the Tower of Souls, or the inheritance of those necromancers, they all have an inexplicable relationship with him.
The God of Wisdom always finds pleasure in human intrigues. Court struggles are his favorite drama. He even sends his avatar into human society to stir up trouble. In fact, the title of God of Conspiracy is more suitable for what he does.
I am more quiet and like to slowly observe how human beings evolve and change in the long river of history, but I basically won’t step forward to influence them, so this is probably why I am not well known.
We gods have the power of immortality, but apart from consuming more magic power, we are just boringly doing these worthless things year after year. The world has not become better because of our existence, so how can this kind of life be immortal? "
The hobbies of these gods made Xiao Chen and others feel uncomfortable, but they also knew that it was natural for such a powerful being to use humans as tools and toys. Even if the person in front of them was really as quiet and kind as she said, it was still unknown. Xiao Chen asked, "If you don't like research, why don't you use the power of humans?"
The prophet shook his head and said, "Except for the five of us, the others, whether demigods or saints, are far from being on the same energy level as us. The difference in our needs for new technologies is as great as that of humans and ants. When humans were studying how to destroy a stone with a magic spell, we could turn the stone into powder with just a thought; when we wanted to fly out of this planet, humans didn't know it was round; we wanted to study the essence of the superposition of divine power to form the body, but humans don't use energy in this way. Even if one day we use them to study the secrets of our bodies, we don't know whether humans will use it to destroy us or transform us in the end.
Even if the five of us have more powerful computing power than the average person, what good is that? Without the collision of ideas, we are just five pools of unfathomable stagnant water. "
"I understand what you mean," Luo Ling said. "In your opinion, only people or gods of equal power will have similar needs and a basis for communication. And only when their numbers reach a certain scale can they collide with each other to generate sparks of thought and stimulate their creativity."