Chapter 340: The High King's Plan
After understanding the power of faith, various "gods" appeared throughout the world.
The struggle for faith among these 'gods' is not much different from the civil war among the Sindarin elves.
These artificial gods that have obtained the power of faith will not only drive believers to launch a "holy war", but will also "descend" to occupy the souls of believers, obtain the bodies of believers, and personally use spells to join the war bare-handed.
These believers who provide their bodies are called "God's Chosen Ones", but they are actually consumables favored by God...
Regardless of whether these 'gods' are true gods or not, at least they are all extraordinary beings. If these extraordinary beings personally get involved in a fight, the consequences will naturally be more serious.
The whole world began to spin out of control. Wars broke out one after another, disasters struck again and again, and people were suffering everywhere.
A thousand years ago, the world's population had dropped to only one third, and all the 'gods' had suffered huge losses.
At this time, a powerful being gave these "gods" a warning.
The real bodies of all gods, that is, their spiritual bodies, were pulled out of the body of the "Chosen One" almost at the same time and were exiled to closed voids one by one.
It was a void with nothing in it, a chaos.
Therefore, these novices who had just become gods from humans finally realized that there was such a powerful existence in this world that could lock them all up in solitary confinement silently.
After this warning, all the gods were taken into a strange temple - the temple where Leon was.
That unknown powerful being is called the 'God of Creation' by the gods.
But in fact, no one knows what this existence is, and no one has ever seen him, because the Creator God said that he cannot enter the world he created.
The gods only saw a little white dragon - this was the temporary body used by the God of Creation.
This powerful 'God of Creation' was actually quite reasonable. He told these 'gods': With the experience of the Sindarin elves, if you continue to fight like this, the world will only be destroyed, so he had no choice but to give you a warning.
But as long as you follow the rules in the future, you will not be locked up in the void.
The rules are simple - no matter who it is, as long as the spirit has the power of faith, it is not allowed to appear in front of anyone again, nor is it allowed to have a physical body. If you want to gain more faith, you should guide people to live better, bring more hope to people, and let believers choose you spontaneously.
In other words, conflicts between humans can only be resolved by humans. Gods are not allowed to personally participate in disputes on earth, nor are they allowed to obtain believers by force, nor are they allowed to personally launch any disasters that will lead to species extinction. Spontaneous human behavior is understandable, but gods have the responsibility to guide their believers towards good.
If you violate these rules, you will be banished to the void forever, and your magic power will be sealed, depriving you of your qualifications as a "god".
In order to reduce disputes among these gods, the God of Creation also made it impossible for all spirits to lie and deceive - from then on, spirits could hear each other's thoughts, and naturally could not deceive or conceal anything.
At the same time, the God of Creation gave each god a code of rules. This code meant the qualification of being a "God" and was also the door to travel back and forth to the void.
If they stop fighting, strictly abide by the rules, and bring more hope to people, they can enter the void at any time to create a new soul world they want with their own hands - this is a reward for the rule-abiding "god" with a soul space, which is equivalent to giving them a chance to become a "creator god".
This is a very fair rule, with punishments, rewards, qualifications and vision...
As long as the gods no longer fight in person, no matter how they fight, there will be a limit, at least it will not destroy the world like the Sindarin elves.
Afterwards, the various gods were released, and they later discovered that the rules set by the 'God of Creation' would indeed be enforced.
The first to break the rules were some minority beliefs, such as the feminist Phocavian. The Phocavian Kingdom was named after her, but at that time the island of Phocavian had not yet established a country.
Since she attracts believers with the logic of feminism, her followers are only women from the island of Phicavia, and it is indeed difficult for her to resist if humans alone wage war.
During a war with the Old Bacchus Empire, she took over a physical body and fought in person to prevent the demise of her followers.
The war was indeed won, and the isolated island successfully became an independent kingdom, but Ficavia's spirit was also exiled into the void and never returned.
All the 'gods' now understood that the rules the God of Creation mentioned were actually the new rules he set for the world.
Of course, they also understood that the new rules of the Creator God were only for the purpose of protecting the world, and the fighting among the extraordinary people could easily bring about a world-destroying disaster - especially when there were non-mainstream gods such as the 'God of Plague'.
After this, the world became a little more peaceful.
The gods, who were forced to abide by the rules and dared not appear before people anymore, began to consider how to inspire their believers to contribute more power of faith.
They all began to plot against the souls of believers - if human souls could have a home and be immortal, wouldn't that provide them with faith forever?
At the same time, the Creator God allows gods who do not violate the rules to open up soul space themselves, so that the souls of believers can live in it...
The first to succeed was the goddess of justice Astalia, who opened up a "heaven" to accommodate her believers.
She felt that spirits could not lie or deceive each other, and everyone could see through what others were thinking, which was equivalent to a perfect paradise.
She hopes that after the death of believers, their souls can enter this heaven without deception and lies and enjoy eternal blessings.
Originally this was indeed done with good intentions - to benefit those staunch hardcore believers, to bring more hope to people, and of course God would gain more faith.
The goddess of justice believes that lies and deception prevent people from doing good.
Among her teachings, 'No deception' is also the first one - Sir Roland, the Paladin, has never told a lie.
However, there are not many good people like Roland. The vast majority of believers have evil thoughts. In this heaven where all thoughts are exposed, almost every believer has only one thought - to kill other souls so that they can feel safe.
Thus, the so-called heaven, like raising poisonous insects, created a bunch of twisted evil spirits.
These evil souls formed after devouring and merging with each other became extremely complex and were no longer the original believers of the goddess of justice.
She also had no way to prevent the souls of her believers from entering heaven - just as the God of Creation could not appear in this world, Astalia could not appear in the world , this was also the law of the world.
She had originally intended to have the souls of her believers continue to contribute their faith to her, but she didn't expect that after the believers came in, they all became soul-devouring fusion monsters and began to curse her...
The goddess of justice also has a temper. The curses from the evil spirits in heaven were too harsh, so she became furious and turned the environment of heaven into an abyss filled with blood and fire.
As a result, the environment in heaven became worse, and the evil spirits inside became more twisted, and even became another species.
They opened up a paradise, but it did not bring any benefits and instead created a bunch of evil new species.
In order to make up for the loss, Astalia had no choice but to send down an oracle in a dream, telling her believers to strengthen their faith, otherwise they would enter the bloody abyss after death...
Rewards and punishments can both have the same effect—both can make believers more resolute in their faith.
Thus, heaven turned into a bloody hell abyss.
Gradually, under the influence of long-term negative emotions, some extremely powerful "devourers" gradually emerged among the evil spirits in the "Kingdom of Heaven". The strong among them can even project their will onto the earth like other gods - also through dreams or inducing the subconscious.
After they gradually became known to humans, they were called Abyss Demons.
In fact, these demons can be regarded as a new generation of "gods", because the way they obtain soul power is actually the same as that of gods - they are all spirits, they all induce others to worship themselves, and they all obtain magic power from faith.
Moreover, these are some evil spirits who will do anything to increase their strength, and they have not received any warnings from the God of Creation.
In fact, these demons will not be bound by the rules of the Creator God at all - they are actually the residents of the new world created by Astalia. The one who can make rules to restrain them should be Astalia, not the Creator God.
But all the gods at that time ignored this situation.
However, the other gods no longer dared to allow other souls to enter the soul space they opened up. They realized that anything could happen in a new world, and if they were not careful, it would cause disastrous consequences like Astalia.
They only turned the space given by the Creator God into the ideal residence they wanted - perhaps the Creator God's original intention was to give them a place to live so that they would not appear again...
But none of the gods expected that the disaster caused by the devil would be much greater than they imagined.
Many years later, the demons of the abyss lured the believers of the goddess of justice, and the 'Devourer' appeared on the earth through the code of rules bestowed on Astalia by the God of Creation, which is the Gate of the Abyss.
All the gods were initially unaware of the demon's presence.
It was not until horrific disasters occurred frequently in various places that the gods began to panic - their believers' souls were devoured by the demons of the abyss one after another, and the demons were forcing people to become zombies.
This is a new way of growth developed by the demons after they acquired the power of faith and combined it with the environment of the Blood Hell Abyss - directly devouring souls.
Acquiring faith is like doing business, but directly devouring it is like snatching it all away, and the latter is of course faster...
Humans call it the 'Gloomy Eye', or Aigrim the Devourer.
The Devourer's actions certainly violated the rules of the world, but the gods did not expect that the rules of the world would not punish it...
Of course there will be no sanctions, because they have not violated any rules - they do not belong to this world.
The gods did not dare to fight because they would be punished by the rules of the God of Creation.
Besides, they might not be able to deal with the Gloomy Eye...so most gods hid in their own soul space and watched from the sidelines.
Humans alone cannot resist the demons' soul spells...
Three hundred and seventy years ago, the threat of the abyss demons intensified as the gods watched.
The situation on the Barkley continent is the most dangerous. If the Devourer is not stopped, the people on the entire continent may all turn into zombies.
At the critical moment of life and death for the believers, the goddess of justice Astalia finally let go of everything. She decided to break the rules of the world and personally solve the devil - the root cause of this matter was caused by her, and she really has the responsibility to solve the problem.
The goddess of justice is full of justice after all. She descended to the earth and dealt a fatal blow to the most powerful demon.
But before she could kill the other demons, she was banished to the void for violating the rules...
As a result, the crisis on Barkley Continent could not be resolved.
The Knights of Dawn did not actually lie. The most powerful Gloomy Eye was indeed killed by a knight possessed by the goddess of justice, and the knights who participated in the battle founded the Knights of Dawn decades later. It is not wrong to say that it was the Knights of Dawn who got rid of Aigram.
However, since this matter violated the rules of the world, the knights who formed the Knights of the Dawn were unwilling to let people know that the goddess of justice had been exiled, so no one mentioned the specific process of killing Aigrim.
There was no promotion of any demon-slaying hero, because the top leaders of the Knights knew that it was the coming of the goddess, not the ability of the knights themselves.
When the Knights of the Dawn were first formed, most people were indeed decent people, and not lying or cheating was their motto, so no records were left behind.
However, the crisis of the abyss demon has not been resolved...
Out of desperation, the Dark Goddess Erida took on this burden - the Dark Goddess's doctrine is actually 'the heart is bright, but the body is in darkness', everything in the world has light and darkness, this was not originally an evil sect, but an allied sect of the Goddess of Justice.
Those who are forced to work in gray industries or walk in the shadows because of their livelihood are the true believers of the Dark Goddess.
Due to the appearance of the abyss demons, many people believe that the Dark Goddess is a heretical cult. This is indeed quite unfair. The name is Dark, but their teachings are not dark at all!
Many heretics even use flesh and blood to worship Erida - these are the fools who know nothing as mentioned by the three prophets.
If the demons cannot be dealt with, the Dark Goddess's sect may cease to exist - those heretics will not bring the power of faith to Erida, and she does not need believers to sacrifice flesh and blood.
The abyss demon must be eliminated, otherwise people's misunderstanding will become deeper and deeper...
So Erida finally made up her mind, and the abyss demons and the fallen army were expelled from the Barkley continent by her, but the goddess of darkness was also exiled to the void...
Erida has done in-depth research on the soul, but her magic power is indeed limited. She can only expel but not completely eliminate demons - she does not have many true believers.
After leaving the Barkley continent, the demons were driven to the Pendor continent.
The demons at this time were not too strong, so the goddess of order, Eunomia, used a new plan. She found a person who was not affected by soul spells, and used various illusory miracles to guide this person to grow into an excellent warrior.
This person is Kavala.
Kavala has elven blood. He is a hybrid of human and Noldor elf, and is born with a physique that resists magic.
Later, under the guidance of Eunomia, Kavala grew into an outstanding warrior and led the army to kill the Gloomy Eye.
But then, the Grim Eye reappeared in the southern part of Pendor—spirits cannot die, and as long as there are fallen people, the Grim Eye can be resurrected.
So it took Kavala more than ten years to completely unify the continent of Pendor, find all the demon spirits, and with the help of Eunomia and the Noldor elves, build a magic-forbidden tower to suppress the gloomy eye that appeared at that time.
The abyss demons finally disappeared from this world, and Kavala became the supreme king of the continent of Pendor.
But then, because Kavala established the goddess of order, Eunomia, as the official faith of Pendor, other gods began to cause trouble - they felt that their believers were being robbed.
So, the ice and sea gods of Vanskerry, Vijovis of the Misty Mountains, Ulvet of the North... and many more, anyway, a lot of gods jumped out.
Their followers committed crimes everywhere, and war broke out in Pandor.
This made Kavala and Eunomia extremely angry - they didn't see these gods helping when they were dealing with the demons before, but now they jumped out to share the cake?
You’re making trouble even though you can’t get any share?
Kavala was indeed the most powerful warrior of his time, and he defeated all his opponents one by one and built the Kingdom of Pendor into a powerful country.
But all the gods also learned from Eunomia's method, guiding the growth of their respective "God-chosen heroes" and constantly harassing the Kingdom of Pendor - looting, burning, killing, and killing... As long as it can bring short-term benefits to the believers and make them gain more faith, they will guide their believers to do anything!
Anyway, they didn't break the rules. They had been hiding in their own soul space, never showing up, and never fighting in person. The world's rules could not punish them...
The Kingdom of Pendor continued to be harassed, and the old Bacchus Empire of the Amara continent also took the opportunity to launch a war - also driven by gods, the god of war and the god of love were the main gods of the old Bacchus. They took advantage of the heavy losses suffered by the two continents of Barclay and Pendor in the fight against demons, and planned to occupy more territory.
The Goddess of Order wants to restore order, but how can she do so when there is constant war?
Finally, the fed up Eunomia realized that the so-called God should not exist at all!
These gods are like vampires who only know how to demand faith. They are of no help to the world and instead have been bringing all kinds of disasters!
Astalia is a person with conscience and sense of justice, at least she is willing to make up for the mistakes she made unintentionally, but her not-so-good brain also led to the disaster, and the Dawn Knights without guidance turned into the Dawn Fools!
And the other gods...what's the difference between them and demons?
So, Eunomia guided Kavala to launch an unprecedented war, destroying most of the gods' rules and codes - including the Temple of War and the Temple of Love on the continent of Amara.
All the gods were sealed in their own soul space and could not come back.
Only two codes were not destroyed, those of Astalia, the goddess of justice, and Erida, the goddess of darkness.
Because their code was on the continent of Barkley, and it took Kavala more than ten years just to complete the expedition to the continent of Amara, and they finally defeated the Old Bacchus Empire - Kavala also contributed to the first split of the Old Bacchus Empire.
Later, Kavanagh died on the expedition to Buckley - human lifespan is indeed a bit short.
But this is enough, because the Goddess of Justice and the Goddess of Darkness of the Barkley Continent had already been exiled to the void, and they could not come back even with the code.
Eunomia brought Kavala's soul to the island of the God of Creation and placed it in this temple, while she herself entered the void through the door left by the God of Creation - in order to suppress the gods and restore order, she asked Kavala to start a world war, bringing disaster to countless people. She could not get over this hurdle.
She exiled herself.
The fire of Kavala's soul remained in the temple to guard the door - he was the only one who had the ability to stop the gods who were trying to return by force, because in his later years Kavala himself had gained a lot of power of faith, and he was actually also a god.
A supreme king who has fought throughout his life and never been defeated will certainly be admired by many people.
All the gods disappeared for a hundred years.
During those hundred years, people did live much better than when there were gods, and the whole world recovered.
But a hundred years later, perhaps after confirming that Eunomia was no longer in this world, Eunomia and Kavala were retaliated against.
First, the Kingdom of Pendor was suddenly destroyed by the Red Death, and Kavala's descendants almost lost their inheritance. The entire country was stolen and torn apart.
Later, the statue of Eunomia was changed, and the goddess of order lost her most important symbol - the sun and moon pendant.
Soon after, an obviously evil cult emerged and quickly invaded the continent of Pendor - the great serpent Aziz Dahaka of the continent of Amaran.
"In other words, there is no god in the world now, and the emergence of the Snake Cult is to avenge the goddess of order, Eunomia? Do you think this giant snake was created by other gods?"
Li Ang listened carefully and understood what Kavala meant.
"Yes... I have stopped Azi Dahaka here several times - it has always tried to descend to the earth. I think it, like Aigrim, also ran out from the soul space of a certain god, and it should be created deliberately. But if the gate here is destroyed, the entrance and exit of the void will be closed forever, and no god will descend to the earth anymore..."
Kavala said: "At the same time, this can also send you back to the mainland - wherever the last code is, you will be sent there. So, I want you to take me back with you. I want to destroy the last code. This is my mission."
There are two copies of the code left. Leon was struck by lightning, so one of them is probably destroyed. There is indeed only one left.
"So...what should I do?"
Li Ang asked hesitantly.
The stories Kavala told were probably true, but Leon was still a little worried.
He was worried about Kavala's real intention of returning to the mainland...
If the entrance to the void is destroyed and all gods cannot return, then will Kavala become the only god?
Although he is not a god, there is no doubt that he must have the power of a god, otherwise why would Eunomia let him guard this door?
He is not a god, but he has the power of a god, which means that he is not bound by the laws of the world, but can do things that only gods can do...
He might be thinking...
"Child, you just need to relax... Don't be nervous, don't resist, don't think about anything... I will borrow your body for a while."
Kavala's voice became softer.
"Leon, don't believe him... He is no longer Kavala... He is looking for a body for Azi Dahaka! He is the first high priest of the Snake Cult!"
Li Ang was hesitating when he suddenly heard another voice.
Ulrich's voice.
