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"The Demon King is so despicable, he is such a piece of shit."
"Giving birth to a son without an asshole."
"Your taste in clothes is so bad, I'm afraid even your heart is black."
"Hiding his face, he must have done something shameful."
Shouts and curses came one after another, as if they were cursing the devil, or as if they were cursing something else.
The gods provide power to humans.
Without the power of gods, mankind would have probably perished thousands of years ago. The heroes of ancient times also relied on the power of gods.
But... who still remembers these?
To the gods, everything that happened thousands of years ago seems like just a day ago, but to humans, it was already something that happened in the time of their ancestors’ ancestors.
Humankind has enjoyed peace for too long. There are still wars from time to time on earth, and there is unrest between countries and between tribes, but there are no more wars that can lead to genocide.
Most people living today only remember.
——The gods deprived them of the right to go to the dungeon.
Some people may complain that no clan is willing to accept them, and that no gods bestow them with divine grace, but this voice is not mainstream.
Anyone who understands the truth will know that the gods have no obligation to bestow favors on mankind.
Some people will feel lost and complain about this, but most of them will just keep it in their hearts. Some will curse the gods for being blind for not giving them divine grace, but if they say it out loud they will only be laughed at by outsiders.
This dissatisfaction will eventually be released in another form - against the Adventurer's Guild.
Why doesn't the union allow ordinary people to enter the dungeon?
As long as ordinary people prepare hunting tools, they can cope with it before the tenth underground floor and obtain valuable magic stones.
Many people know in their hearts that without a guild to organize adventurers to explore the dungeon regularly, the monsters in the dungeon will soon rush out of the surface.
But they will still complain and vent their dissatisfaction.
After all, because of the existence of God's grace, a privileged class called adventurers was created above humans and below the gods.
Adventurers enjoy various privileges, can easily become stronger, and easily obtain a lot of wealth. At the same time, adventurers also protect humans on the surface.
Logically speaking, there is no reason for ordinary people to hate adventurers.
But there is only one thing - the right to become an adventurer is always in the hands of the gods.
There is no fair and open selection mechanism.
If the gods are willing to grant you the grace of God, you can become an adventurer. If the gods are not willing, you cannot become an adventurer even if you are extremely wealthy or have superb martial arts.
——Although if the external conditions are really good enough, it would be easy to join some clans.
But many people often don’t think that being rejected by other clans is because of their own poor conditions.
If you lose in a competition of physical fitness, and the strong become adventurers without them, then you can only admit defeat.
If you lose in a contest of intelligence, and a better person becomes an adventurer, there is no room for complaint.
However, the decision of whether or not one can become an adventurer lies entirely in the hands of the gods, and depends entirely on the gods' subjective opinions, which leaves room for many people to be dissatisfied.
The most common people in the world are ordinary people. Even in Orario, the number of ordinary people is countless times more than that of adventurers.
Ordinary people envy adventurers, and as time goes by, envy will gradually turn into jealousy.
Before becoming an adventurer, before receiving the grace of God, no one is sure whether they can quickly upgrade and become an excellent adventurer after becoming an adventurer - not even the gods can confirm it.
There is no way for gods to completely determine a person's potential. If they could, they would not play the clan game.
Therefore, no one will think that they are incapable. Instead, they will think "I can do it too" and feel that they have become adventurers and can make a career.
But complaining that the gods do not bestow them with grace is like complaining that a rich man has a lot of wealth but is unwilling to give alms to him. It is an unreasonable complaint.
But when people get emotional, they often won't be reasonable - this unreasonableness is not directed at the adventurers, but at 'they can't become adventurers'.
In other words, against the gods.
Now that there is an opportunity, the gods have personally taken action against adventurers. Those who dreamed of meeting someone in Orario, but were ultimately rejected by various clans, but were unwilling to give up hope and could only barely make it in Orario, it was as if they had found a channel to vent their dissatisfaction accumulated in the past.
But soon, their expressions changed slightly.
……
"That has completely reached the realm of the gods. Even Ota has no chance to fight back. I guess it would be useless even if all members of Loki's family were mobilized!"
The leader of Loki's clan, a small human named Finn, said with a wry smile.
“…But that’s proof that humans can solve this crisis,” Riveria added.
Finn nodded slightly, bit his thumb, and said in a deep voice, "I think so."
"Next, it depends on how to verify it. After Ota wakes up, maybe there will be results."
Finn stared intently at the light curtain in the sky. A skeleton monster carried Ota and Alan and locked the two unconscious adventurers into a cell.
Time passes slowly.
In the light curtain, the moment Ota stood up, all the gods watching the light curtain, and all the adventurers above level 4, suddenly changed their expressions.
In the past, Ota was full of power in every move, and Ota looked like he could sense a sense of crisis...
Became an ordinary person.
……
"Thank you, brothers of the gods, for the divine support."
Su Qing said with a smile.
Power cannot be created or destroyed out of thin air. The magic tower is just a grace game in the box garden, not the video game in the original book. If you want to adjust the attributes to any value, it is just a matter of changing a string of code.
In order to use this blessing in the small garden, the mechanism adopted is to absorb the power of the contestants.
There are attribute gems in the magic tower, and the statue of the god of greed can be used to convert gold coins into attributes. There are also potions that can restore health and status, and all kinds of strange props.
Su Qing can afford these expenses. If the attributes of the person who has passed the magic tower rise to five digits, it is nothing to Su Qing.
But whether you are short of money is one thing, and whether you are willing to lose money is another.
A large part of the props in the magic tower are provided by the power of the contestants, and the magic tower comes with the ability to strip away the contestants' abilities.
Ota's own ability is actually not enough. What can support the magic tower to move forward is actually more of the power of the gods.
The gods trapped in the tower may not feel it themselves. The gods in this world are not good at controlling fine power. Although the overflowing power is small, it is a considerable number when dozens of gods are added together.
The so-called "you can't lie in front of gods" and "humans in the lower world can't kill gods" are actually the result of the overflowing power of gods.
It’s just that the gods of this world are used to making big moves and have no idea how to control the overflowing divine power.
——Even in this respect, the gods are not as good as the dungeons.
The dungeon is not even considered a living thing, but as soon as a god enters the dungeon, he will be detected by the dungeon instantly, and then the dungeon will go berserk, giving birth to monsters to kill the god who entered the dungeon.
It is not even as good as the dungeon. One can imagine how bad the gods are when it comes to abilities like concealing their aura.
It is not the case that the control over power will naturally improve after hundreds of millions of years. Rather, even after hundreds of millions of years, the gods still feel that it is completely unnecessary to control their own power.
Some gods in the world of Dicuo think they are perfect, omniscient and omnipotent, while others think they are incomplete, omniscient and powerless.
But there is no essential difference between these two kinds of cognition.
The former recognizes his own limits, but hides at the bottom of the well, thinking that is all the world has, and that his own limits are the limits of the world.
He did not explore deeper into his control over his own power because he believed that divine power was a product of this degree. Once it overflowed to a certain extent, that power could not be controlled and was part of the rules of the world.
The latter realizes that they have the potential to go further and knows that the limits of the world are higher than themselves.
But he did not think it would make sense for him to dig deeper into the control of power. Anyway, no matter how deep he dug, he could not kill other gods.
At the same time, I don’t think digging deep into the control of power can bring me any pleasure.
Those areas may be unknown even to the gods.
But... there are actually many unknowns.
For humans, exploring the mysteries of the world is also unknown, but the purpose of exploration is often to solve the puzzle rather than for the sake of exploration itself.
The same is true for the gods.
The gods of this world have the power to explore the starry sky and can wander in the starry sky without sleep, ignoring gravity.
——The starry sky is unknown to the gods, but the gods only find the starry sky boring.
After all, the gods' curiosity about the unknown is just for fun, not for yearning or awe.
When faced with a slightly difficult problem that the gods have spent a lot of time and effort on but still can't solve; when faced with the vast starry sky, knowing nothing about other planets but finding it hard to endure the long loneliness; when realizing that the control over divine power can be further improved, but being a god since birth, without the process of becoming stronger, relying on instinct to drive power, and for a while can't find a way to control power...
Although they knew that these were still unknowns that their gods did not understand, it was only natural for the God of Joy to choose to give them up.
Chapter 10: Tangled
After waking up from a coma and feeling the weakness of his own strength, Ota was confused.
It was not surprising to be able to defeat him, as there were many monsters in the dungeon that he needed to be on guard against, but depriving him of his power...
Is this possible? How can you do this?
Ota then thought, maybe it would work.
As a top adventurer, he actually knew a thing or two about God's grace.
The engraved grace of God allows you to accumulate experience points through training and become stronger by killing enemies. For ordinary people, this is undoubtedly a powerful tool for becoming stronger.
But it does limit human talent.
Today's adventurers have never enjoyed any of the treatment that heroes in ancient times received.
No adventurer can break through in battle, support the body with willpower, or squeeze out one's own potential to force oneself to fight.
It’s not that today’s adventurers are inferior to the heroes of ancient times. They were all people standing at the top of an era. Who would admit that they are inferior to others?