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But the Tower of Babel in front of us is really hardly ever mentioned.
After all, the dungeon is underground, and ordinary people cannot see it at a glance. However, the Tower of Babel is different. It is the tallest building in Orario.
It is also the strangest building in all of Orario.
In the world of Dicuo, Orario's level of development is about that of the Middle Ages. There are only a few-story wooden buildings on the streets at most, and there are no steel jungles dozens or even hundreds of meters high like in modern society.
However, the Tower of Babel where the gods lived can be described as "towering into the clouds". It is over a thousand meters high and seems out of tune with the surrounding buildings.
Su Qing knew that what he was facing was a strange fantasy world with extraordinary powers.
But logic also needs to be followed in the other world.
Most of the wooden buildings around here are three or five stories high. With such technology and productivity, how can a tower over a kilometer high be built?
is it possible?
There may be all kinds of strange materials in the other world that can solve problems such as load-bearing, but these materials can only be used on the Tower of Babel? They can sustain the Tower of Babel's losses, but there is absolutely no surplus.
There is no doubt that this tower in front of us, which is out of tune with the surroundings, was built by gods.
Moreover, it was not made by the gods who descended to the mortal world using materials from the ground and the technology of the gods. This is definitely a "divine artifact" made by the gods using their divine power.
The Tower of Babel was built by the gods using their divine power... Anyone who has read the Bible would probably find it both laughable and ridiculous.
Su Qing shrugged.
When he saw the tower, he understood one thing.
Why has Orario survived for thousands of years?
About a few years or more than a decade before the story begins, Zeus's family and Hera's family failed in their challenge to the Black Dragon, and the adventurers of Orario were weaker than ever before.
Logically speaking, if the adventurers are weak, it will be the monsters' turn to counterattack.
In the years before the gods descended, monsters in the dungeon continued to emerge to the surface. That was the instinct of the dungeon monsters.
After the gods came... the instinct of the dungeon became that monsters would not easily cross their own level. Even so, waves of monsters would rush out of the surface from time to time.
The Tower of Babel is probably what prevents dungeon monsters from easily crossing their activity level.
The gods built the Tower of Babel and suppressed some of the instincts of the underground city.
In the underworld, the divine power is completely sealed, and if any of the divine power emerges, the gods will be sent directly back to heaven.
But there are exceptions to everything.
Su Qing knew very well that finding loopholes in existing rules was the instinct of life, whether it was humans or gods.
In the small garden, there is an exception among the two-digit numbers, Shiroyasha, who can attack with all his strength, and there is an exception among the three-digit numbers, the Queen.
Of course, there are exceptions for the gods of Orario.
The founding god of the Adventurer's Guild, Uranus, can use his divine power to suppress the dungeon.
Divine power?
Su Qing smiled but said nothing.
A kind of 'divine power' that can suppress riots in dungeons and have a real material impact on reality.
According to Su Qing's understanding, the so-called momentum and aura may scare people, but that is more of a psychological effect. It may scare people to death, but that is because the person's physical condition is already poor and he becomes ill after being frightened.
Something that can have a real impact on the material world - such as the Conqueror's Haki in the One Piece world.
Rather than saying it is courage, it is better to say that it is a kind of power that is linked to courage.
The 'divine power' that can suppress the riot in the dungeon is undoubtedly also a kind of power.
"...Very cunning, gods!"
Su Qing smiled and shook her head.
He had a rough idea of what the gods of this world were.
A group of people who are born with great power.
Iron waste.
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The top of the Tower of Babel.
The goddess swirled her wine glass and looked down at the city below.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, unless they are one male and one female - but this is not the case in Orario.
Orario has always been ruled by two families, the Zeus and Hera family decades ago, or the Loki and Freya family today.
It's not that the relationship between the families is good enough, so there is rarely any friction between the two families listed as the strongest in the labyrinth city.
The reason is simple. The dungeon needs a powerful clan to guard it to prevent monsters from rushing out of the dungeon in rare cases.
In the past, the Zeus and Hera families were responsible for a period of time respectively, but now in Orario, this task is handled by the Freya family.
It is for this reason that the goddess Freya was able to reside on the highest floor of the Tower of Babel.
Forming a clan, traveling around the world, conquering dungeons... Freya experienced too much curiosity in the underworld.
By now, she was already bored with the clan game.
She is happy because of the children's growth and her heart is full of love for them, but even so, she still feels bored. The unknown that makes her feel excited will not appear endlessly. When the known becomes unknown, the excitement will only be greatly reduced.
Simply put, it is a period of burnout.
If it was Loki, the god of mischief, the burnout period wouldn't come so quickly... maybe she would never reach her burnout period.
But Freya gradually became bored with the underworld, so she settled at the highest point of the Tower of Babel. Freya's family took on the task of guarding against the monsters from rushing out of the dungeon.
Recently, the goddess has become obsessed with a new game, role-playing.
Not as a god, but pretending to be a human being and getting along with people as a human being.
A girl who was saved by Freya, whose wish gave birth to the magic of transformation, could change into the appearance of a goddess, and even imitate the power of God by using the blood of God.
It was through this magic of transformation that the goddess, without using her divine power, gave the girl her own appearance and also obtained the girl's real name and experience, allowing her to disguise herself as an ordinary person.
The goddess prefers the feeling of being a human rather than looking down on the city as a deity.
However, even with the magic of transforming into a god, if the god is familiar, he can see through the disguise.
In order to disguise herself thoroughly enough, Freya had to change her identity back every time she attended a gods meeting or met other familiar gods.
Freya was a little curious. How long could this kind of life last?
The gods have been grappling with the unknown for thousands of years, not as nearly omnipotent gods, but as gods with sealed divine powers who have been living with humans.
As the known gradually turned into the unknown, she at least felt bored, and some of the gods were probably the same as her.
Freya chose to disguise herself as a mortal and switch from playing the clan game to a role-playing game.
Not as a god with sealed divine power, but as a completely disguised human being living with humans, how long can this excite the gods?
After that, what will the underworld be like?
There must be some gods that never change.
Loki who never seems to get tired, Hestia who can stay in the temple for tens of millions of years without getting bored, Zeus who is full of energy and always thinking about yellow waste... but these gods are only a minority after all.
There is a power gap between gods, but gods will not die completely. Some gods even thought about committing suicide because they were too bored, but they were resurrected not long after.
If there is a disagreement among the gods, in the end, the minority can only obey the majority.
As more and more gods become bored with the underworld, what will be the end of this world?
No one can stop that day from coming...and, I'm afraid it will be soon.
The goddess shook the wine glass and looked down.
Currently, there are not enough human heroes in Orario to defeat the one-eyed black dragon, and the agreed time is getting closer and closer.
Even the Zeus and Hera families, which gathered the essence of the family era, failed. Expecting a super-special human hero to emerge in the remaining time is probably only a dream.
The goddess shook her head slightly.
However, this has little to do with her.
Zeus and Loki, probably hopelessly in love with the humans on earth, hoped that such days could last forever, so they actively prepared for the one-eyed black dragon to cross.
But unfortunately, she is the type who will gradually get bored.
"Helen?"
The goddess called softly.
She wanted to enjoy her life in the netherworld before the burnout period set in.
At least at this moment, she still loved the children in the underworld and was still happy about the experience of pretending to be a child.
There was no response to the goddess' call.
"...Ota?"
The goddess frowned slightly and called out to her loyal bodyguard.
A strange voice responded to her.
"Unfortunately, what happens here will not be spread outside the room."
Su Qing said: "Freya, the goddess standing at the top of Orario... I have something to ask you."
"who are you?"
The goddess took her time.
What happened to Helen? Is Ota safe? These thoughts flashed through Freya's mind. She was a little worried about the safety of her family.
But rather than worrying about her family, she was more curious.
Why was someone able to come to her room and what method did he use?
Freya also felt helpless, but this was the gods, gods who always pursued curiosity.
It is easy to force yourself to miss something you once insisted on for a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years.
But the lifespan of gods is eternal - at least measured in billions.
In the long life, the first thing the gods learn is to face themselves honestly.