Seven gods.
After returning from the void and returning to the Ural Plain, Joshua stood on the earth, looking up at the sky. His eyes were focused on the boundless heaven outside the world, seeming to be watching the gods in it.
The illusions from the gods dispersed in the increasingly powerful Northland. The dry cold wind caused the corners of the warrior's clothes to flutter, blowing on his cloak made of dragon skin. It could brush away people's anxiety, but There was no way to brush away Joshua's doubts.
The Seven Gods of the Human Race.
He repeated the word in his mind.
This is not an unfamiliar word. On the contrary, it can be said that everyone knows it. Everyone living in the Mycroft continent knows the names of the Seven Gods, even the most ignorant beggars and farmers. They may not be able to name each god and their priesthood, but they know their existence and pray when needed.
These great beings who have been protecting all living beings since the early days of the Starfall Era have long become an indelible part of the civilization of the entire continent. They taught the humans, elves and dwarves in the early stages of civilization farming and forging, and taught divine arts and magic. They witnessed how a race grew from a member of the natural cycle to a primate of the world. In a sense, the Seven Gods are the guides and maintainers of mankind. Without them, the development of civilization will be slow. Thousands of years.
"It's really troublesome."
Looking up at the sky, Joshua murmured. Then he closed his eyes, lowered his head and muttered to himself: "Even if I talked to Him face to face, I didn't get many answers. On the contrary, my doubts became more and more... too much."
If we say that a world is a book, then in the book Mycroft's World, the Seven Human Gods are undoubtedly a crucial role. They can even be said to be one of the cores of the book, but they are so important. At its core, it is full of puzzling and unsolved mysteries, which has puzzled many people.
In the understanding of most people, gods require belief. In fact, the gods in Mycroft Continent are no exception. Whether it is the racial god of the orcs or the master of the ocean who protects the fishmen, he They all need faith, but for them, this faith is not the source of strength that most people think of, but a stabilizer used to maintain their own existence.
This is actually pretty easy to understand. Because of the powerful assimilation from divinity and divine power, it is easy to wash away a person's self-consciousness. Even a strong-willed legendary strongman like Joshua cannot persist for too long under the impact of divinity. , and the same is true for gods. In order to protect themselves under the huge assimilation power from divinity, they need the faith of all living beings as an intermediary medium to safely control divine power.
Gods who lose their faith will not lose their power or die. They will just be easily assimilated by the divine power and become part of the source of the multiverse. However, there is no doubt that this outcome is very difficult for a mind with self-will. For this reason, almost all gods will create churches, encourage believers to preach, and perform miracles from time to time to allow more lives to believe in them and fulfill their own doctrines and ideas.
But the seven gods of the human race are an exception.
Since the founding of the Church of the Seven Gods, no one in the world has seen the miracles of the Seven Gods with their own eyes. If not every priest can use the unique magic of the Seven Gods, each temple altar will be When the Seven Gods have corresponding festivals and large-scale sacrifices, some people will definitely doubt the authenticity of the Seven Gods. These seven great beings are completely different from the gods of other races. They strictly fulfill the highest principle of "non-interference in the world". So much of the time, his sense of existence is not as high as that of the king of a small country.
They seem to have no need for the existence of faith at all, and even deliberately keep a low profile. You know, if it weren't for the Seven Gods Church's presence on the mainland, the popes of all generations would be among the strongest in the world, and the clergy would also be unusual. Good at fighting, the faith of the seven gods will definitely decline under the instinctive suppression of other forces. If it were not for the invasion of the abyss in the previous life, nearly a dozen levels of abyss would join forces, and the evil gods behind the scenes might have forced them to take action to save the world and block the enemy. Even the players don't know how powerful these seemingly silent background boards are.
Therefore, there must be some secrets hidden behind this attitude that completely goes against the instincts of gods and basic survival laws.
This is the first point of doubt, followed by the second point, the relationship with the sages.
Every god is a being who has reached the extreme in magic, fighting spirit or other powers. Their power may have some flaws due to the limitations of the era when they ascended to the gods, but there is no doubt that they are absolutely perfect. With distinct personal characteristics, the magical skills and special powers they give are definitely different.
For example, the "violent instinct" unique to the orcs "God's Chosen Generals" and the "Multiple Violent Bloodthirst" of the "God of War Shaman" all foreshadowed the tyranny of the former God of War, and the men of the Lord of the Ocean Because their gods are proficient in tapping the power of their own bloodline, the Murlocs' [Awakening Guard]'s [Ancestral Awakening] and [Ancient Sacrifice]'s [Ancient Form] all allow them to temporarily evolve or return to the most powerful form of their ancestors. occult.
The Seven Gods should be like this. In fact, the clergy who believe in them do have their own special secrets. But what is surprising is that the core power system of the Seven Gods Church comes from the sages of the Glorious Era. The remaining path of the Holy Light, the believers of the seven gods need to have made great achievements in the Holy Light before they can choose to practice special secret methods - for other gods, this is unbelievable, who would use other people's power to path Develop your own power? Who would do something like making a wedding dress for someone else? Stupid to the extreme.
But the Seven Gods did just that. Not only did they do it, they even promoted the Holy Light. Today, there are definitely more people or elves and dwarves who know the name of the Holy Light than those who know the unique secrets of the Seven Gods, and even the Seven Gods themselves. They all use holy light. If these guys claim to have nothing to do with the saints, Joshua will be the first to not believe it. He will also question those who believe such things as having no brains.
But now is not the time to dwell on such speculation.
The warrior noticed that the thinking circuits of the Shenji siblings who had been following him had begun to get a little hot. After seeing too many illusions that were unbelievable to them and witnessing the arrival of the god's clone, Hotaru and Rin are now both Feeling a little dazed, realizing that Joshua's thoughts had returned from afar, the silver-haired girl and her brother carefully tugged at the corner of his clothes.
Joshua bent down gently, while the girl stood on tiptoes and whispered uneasily in his ear: "Master, are you still our master?"
The mysterious girl didn't understand the meaning of those scenes that flashed rapidly in the illusion. She didn't have that much thought to think about overly complicated things, but it was precisely because she didn't think about those superfluous things that she could be keenly aware of them. , the warriors not long ago were so unfamiliar that it seemed as if there was a world as a ditch between them.
"Of course."
Joshua responded patiently and simply. He said this without any thought or hesitation. The warrior, who was not good at comforting people in this way, even simply held one in each hand, amidst the exclamations of the siblings. They hugged each other and expressed their position with the firmest attitude.
Of course not.
He thought so. Of course you are not my servants, not my weapons, and I am not your master.
The soldier muttered silently to himself.
-You are the only family I have in this world.
In the void outside the territory, at the edge of the boundless heaven, the God of Power looks down at the world. The rotating black ring shines with an inconspicuous light. This god is thinking silently.
"Joshua." After a long time, He said to himself: "Xinur can't find your weakness, but I can."
His eyes did not stay on the shy young girl in the warrior's arms, but focused on the young lord who was smiling softly.
Warrior, your weakness is your too firm will and belief in never giving up and never giving up.
Facing endless, almost irresistible, and invincible enemies, you will never despair or run away. As long as there is a glimmer of possibility of victory, you will keep fighting and will never be defeated.
Therefore, because of this, you will fall into a cycle. When facing those real enemies, if you don’t know how to detour, how to retreat, how to give up and forbear, how can you get a real victory? You will only fight with them in endless battles. Stand in a stalemate, and finally become a part of them, or fall into an eternal battle - an eternity no different from death.
Just like civilization, civilizations that only know how to fight and kill cannot achieve final victory before the final moment. They are destined to burn, just like stars at the end of their lives, releasing short-lived but extremely bright light. Then it disappeared into the vast river of time.
"So don't become a god and follow our old paths."
In the void, the gods' sighs echoed in the turbulence of demonic tides and time and space: "That is a road destined to be bound."
The black ring rotated slightly, and looked into the demonic tide. The initial fire is so eye-catching in the eyes of the gods, as if it contains endless brilliance.
This is the path you should take.
—Mycroft Continent.
The warrior didn't know that in the distant void, a god stopped because of his existence.
There is a faint flow of light on the surface of his body, and huge and vast power surges inside his body, transforming every detail of this man's body, making his body gradually become the most condensed and heaviest in the world. Also the most indestructible form transformation.
It is the strongest steel that is born after the death of a star.
There should be another chapter later
Yesterday I went to eat spicy crab with my friends... I'm allergic. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't know why I've never been allergic before. Now I'm suddenly allergic. My whole body is itchy and my stomach feels uncomfortable. Maybe it's because the crab is not fresh. I also feel the same as before. It smells a bit fishy in comparison.
(End of chapter)