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In the netherworld, interference with souls is accomplished without the use of divine power.
Through analyzing the traces on Bell's soul, to be honest, Su Qing didn't think this technology was very profound.
It is commendable that only this level of results has been achieved.
In this weird world, even if the results of tens of millions of years of research are insignificant, there are still gods who can persist in research and intend to make progress.
With this technology of interfering with the soul, Bell's soul is pure white.
The soul cannot be completely independent of the body and is naturally influenced by the body. The information contained in genes, blood, etc. will all affect the soul.
Bloodline affects a person's 'destiny'.
For example, some people are born with the genetic information that says "stealing feels good", but this certainly cannot determine a person's future.
The person involved may go along with this pleasure and indulge in stealing.
It is also possible that the person involved thinks that this is not right and controls himself.
These are things that can be felt in the soul.
Freya can see the radiance of human souls. From Freya's perspective, the souls of people who carry the 'pleasure in stealing' fragment in their genes will be covered with a layer of gray. If the people are not troubled by the gene fragment, it means that they have broken through 'fate' and the radiance of their souls has dispelled the shadows.
But these are just a few possibilities.
In the eyes of the gods, most people's futures have a context.
But Bale is different. The brilliance of Bale's soul is 'unknown' and blank. His future may go in any direction.
The gods can see through the nature of humans in the underworld, but they cannot see through their fate.
A child who was originally radiant may be devastated by a small setback, and a child who was originally mediocre may become brilliant because of a reason.
But in the final analysis, the gods can see through the nature of humans in the lower world. Even if the final result is not as the gods expected, it is almost correct.
But Bell is different. Bell's soul is born blank, and no one knows which direction he will go.
Even if Bell now wants to become a hero, the gods cannot predict how far he can go, nor can they guess what kind of brilliance his soul will eventually shine.
The gods came to the underworld out of curiosity about the unknown of life on the ground. If ordinary adventurers can provide the gods with the unknown, then to the gods, Bell is made up entirely of the unknown.
That’s all, and it’s far from enough.
But with the help of Bell's talents, Bell's existence is almost like a trap for the gods.
Su Qing looked at the traces on Bell's soul and couldn't help but nodded slightly.
It's really not that Zeus wanted to hold Bell back and prevent him from entering Orario early.
But can't.
The damage that Bell suffered when his soul was adjusted to a blank by the underworld gods before he was born has probably just recovered.
It’s not that the gods of Orario are blind and fail to see Bell’s potential.
Bell Craney does have great potential, but that is limited to the current Bell.
When he first came to Orario, in the eyes of the gods, he was just an ordinary person with no potential. His soul had just recovered from its injuries and had just been reunited with his body, so his potential had not been stimulated at all.
Only a god like Freya who can see souls can discover the radiance of his soul.
Even so, in Freya's eyes at the time, Bell was probably just a person whose soul radiated a special light, but it was very weak, and she was curious about how far this child could go.
It was precisely because the gods of Orario could see the true nature of the children that they would not accept Bell, who had no potential at the time.
If Bell had come to Orario half a year later, and his soul and body had been more compatible, he would have become a candidate for the hero fought over by the gods.
Given Bell's condition at that time, he came to Orario purely for Freya.
To become a follower, the gods must personally carve a favor on the follower's back.
When gods see Bell, they will realize that Bell has no potential.
But only Freya, who can see the brilliance of the soul, can detect Bell's abnormality.
But Hestia didn't care...
Su Qing sighed slightly and glanced at Blue Ribbon.
Hestia, you have done so many evil things.
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Bell scratched his head and looked at Su Qing and Hestia in confusion.
The conversation between the two did not hide anything from him. He only had a vague understanding of the topic of soul or not.
However, he had a premonition.
This may be a turning point in his life.
Hestia let out a long breath and looked at Bell with a serious look in her eyes.
Her encounter with Bell may be a little different from what she thought. It is not just a meeting between a god who longs for a clan and a clan who longs for gods. Bell's life experience is not as simple as she thought.
But one thing will not change.
She treated him as family and he treated her as family.
If we have to say who is wrong, it is definitely not Bell, but the god who treated him as a chess piece.
Bell, who had just become an adventurer, definitely did not have any acting skills that could deceive the gods. Everything he did in his daily life came from his heart.
that's enough.
Hestia was a little worried about Bell's safety at first. Operations involving the soul level were not easy for gods... Hestia felt that, apart from Hades, this was most likely related to Erebus.
When the gods and the dungeon made an agreement to determine the future of the underworld by the deadline for conquering the black dragon, some dark gods chose to stand against the gods and support the dungeon.
The other gods would not suspect anything, and the word "fun" was enough to explain the behavior of some dark gods.
In terms of level, the dungeon can barely be considered on the same level as the gods, but in terms of power scale, the dungeon is far inferior.
But the dungeon’s control over the soul exceeds the gods’ understanding of the soul.
Every profession has its own expertise. Dungeons can give birth to all kinds of strange monsters, even if those monsters' souls are of extremely inferior quality and they don't even have the intelligence to communicate with humans.
Except for the occasional exceptions such as heretics.
Even at this level, it is beyond the reach of the gods.
If it were really possible, the gods would not have to come down to the mortal world at all. They could just make figures in heaven and participate in figure-making competitions - in the process, the gods would also have improved their level of refinement in power.
But if some dark gods take this opportunity to propose cooperation to the dungeon, by cooperating with the dungeon and stopping the gods' followers from attacking the black dragon as a condition, they may be able to obtain some of the dungeon's soul manipulation technology.
Even if the dark gods and the dungeon cooperate deeply, maybe they can trick some of the dungeon's origins.
Gods and dungeons may be considered to be at the same level of life, but gods were born above "eternity" and were conceived as a concept of heaven, which inherently carries a strong degree of immutability.
That is certainly not true eternity, just like the weapons with the "indestructible" attribute in Orario are not truly indestructible. But even if it is a false eternity that comes from the gods, it is unbearable for the humans underground.
The dungeon is different. It is a weapon created by the lower world to resist the invasion of creatures from the upper world. Its essence is to create, to "disperse her power."
If it is a dungeon, the power it nurtures has the possibility of being carried by humans.
The power of the dungeon is not difficult to bear. From the slime goblins at the bottom level, to the masters of each floor, to the one-eyed black dragon, they are all monsters bred by the dungeon.
Dungeons can quantify and dilute their own power, which is difficult for gods to do.
Hestia guessed that Bell's talent might come from the power of the dungeon - although it was impossible to be sure now, but if this was true, as Bell grew up slowly, some abnormalities would inevitably continue to emerge.
For example, it is easy to be attacked by monsters in the dungeon, it is easy to meet floor masters, rare items are likely to drop when killing monsters, special events are triggered in the dungeon from time to time, etc., and you will be specially "taken care of" by the dungeon.
When Hestia learned that Bell's aunt was the most talented adventurer in Orario's history, and that she had suffered from illness since birth and was known as a person cursed with talent, she became worried about Bell's safety.
Hestia naturally thought of a script.
Some gods cooperated with the dungeon and obtained part of the dungeon's origin from the dungeon - but even if the power of the dungeon can be borne by humans in theory, it is only in theory.
The higher the strength, the lower the chance of survival after bearing this power.
Too weak, with only the potential of a floor master, the gods look down on him.
Therefore, some gods planned to inject this power into human bodies so that some humans would gradually adapt to this power.
The start time of the experiment is unknown, but the first experimental product should be Alfia.
Alfia is known as the most talented adventurer because she carries the same level of power as gods - the power of the dungeon.
Although they are not as powerful as the gods in terms of magnitude, they can only be considered to have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of level.
But it was precisely because she was unable to fully digest this power that Alfia became ill and died young.
With the example of Alfia, a part of the gods, led by Zeus, began to control Bell's talents. Before his body matured, they did not allow him to train at all, and even deliberately prevented the potential squeezed in his body from awakening.
For ordinary adventurers, training should start early. God's grace only guides the adventurer's potential. The specific degree of growth depends on the adventurer's own qualifications.
There is no doubt that as long as you keep up with nutritional supplements and see a medical professional for regular maintenance, if you take the same degree of risks during the growth period of your body, your growth attributes will be greater than those in your prime and old age.
The sooner you take risks, the better, as long as you don't over-exploit your potential.
But that's not the case for Bell.
It is a fantasy to expect that he can grow to the level of killing gods with a little power of the dungeon. This world is not called godslayer. If the gods get serious, the dungeon will be destroyed in an instant.
But if he is limited to the level of adventurers and heroes, with the potential given to him by the power of the dungeon, it would not be a waste not to train him in his childhood.
On the contrary, overly intense experiences in his childhood would bring out the potential in Bell, which might make his body a mess and cause him to suffer from a disease similar to Alfia's, where his body would be unable to bear his overflowing talent.
Compared to Alfia, Bell is undoubtedly much luckier.
Although, it was clearly arranged by the gods to calculate the lives of other gods, and even the gods themselves could not judge whether the final result would be successful, this could not be called luck.
As long as you have anything to do with the gods, there will be no good ending.
Inexplicably, Hestia agreed with this gossip circulating in some corners of Orario.
"...How about being more aggressive and killing them all?" Hestia sighed and said to Su Qing.
Su Qing said calmly: "Save your sleep talk for your dreams."