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This idea has spread among the gods, and now the gods are waiting for the right opportunity to enter.
Uranus shook his head slightly.
In a sense, what he said was not a lie. The appearance of the magic tower gave the gods a chance to end their lives. It was indeed a chance for the gods to prove themselves.
——But the premise is that the gods can do better than the adventurers.
What if the gods' performance is not even as good as that of the adventurers... that would also be an opportunity to prove themselves.
A chance to prove that gods are nothing more than this.
Uranus just felt it was a pity and gave him another half month to guide and publicize the incident, let it ferment and create a good atmosphere for the gods to enter the magic tower... and then it immediately went wrong.
Only those gods can break the great defense.
Now the time is too short and he is afraid that the atmosphere will not be created properly.
Chapter 38 Justice
In the Mistress of Fertility, Hermes let out a long breath.
During these two days, he was probably the busiest person in Orario.
If Uranus was only busy mentally, then he was busy physically.
To say that he has a relationship with the humans in the underworld, he does like them, but it is not exaggerated to the extent that he is willing to follow Uranus and others to plot against the gods.
Once exposed, it is really possible that you will be killed by the angry gods, and be killed every time you are resurrected.
The reason why Hermes followed Uranus and others to cause trouble was mainly because he was a traveler, the god of travel.
At the very beginning of his life, Hermes did not dislike other gods. In the heavens, the territories of different gods were also interesting in their own way. Some were benevolent, some were tyrannical, and all the things displayed by the people under their command could bring different experiences to him as a traveler.
But it wasn't long before he realized something was wrong.
The people ruled by gods seemed okay at first glance, and were a novel experience for him as a traveler.
But after he toured the heavens, he turned back and continued his journey to the areas he had been to before, and everything began to change.
Under the rule of order-oriented gods, over hundreds or thousands of years, new customs and concepts will often be born, new artistic laws will appear, and there will be new heroic deeds, stories and legends worthy of being praised in the territory.
Under the rule of the chaotic gods, the gods could turn the earth into scorched earth at a whim, and nothing would be left.
If that were all, Hermes would have tolerated it. He was the god of travel, and he was even a thief when he was not traveling. He was not a very upright god, and he did not want to uphold justice.
However, the gods of chaos will turn their own territories into scorched earth and bring disaster to their own believers, and they will often extend their evil hands to the territories of other gods as a matter of course because of interest.
The gods feel bored in heaven because, during the hundreds of millions of years in heaven, everything that could be destroyed by the gods has already been destroyed.
It is obvious that humans living on earth will have their souls return to heaven after death, so why do the gods have to seal their divine power in the lower world? Can't they seal their divine power in heaven and experience life there?
Simple, because it really doesn’t work.
The soul's reincarnation system is clearly in heaven, but there is no one in heaven anymore. If one wants to reincarnate, one can only reincarnate into those alien races that have been persecuted by the gods but have not yet died.
For example, insects and the like. When the gods were in heaven, they suddenly felt like cleaning the ground with their divine power. Insects had strong vitality and survived with difficulty.
Want to be reborn as a human?
Are you kidding me? There are no humans in this heaven for you to choose from. Including elves, dwarfs, Amazons, etc., all intelligent life has long been destroyed by the gods.
Before contacting Zeus, Hermes didn't know how Uranus and his companions managed to bring some humans, dwarfs, elves and other creatures to the surface and let them survive.
Although after being transported to the surface, these alien lives whose souls belong to heaven will be targeted by the world, the world has created underground cities to exclude invaders.
But the dungeon is terrible!
Compared to living in heaven, it is much safer for these people to live on the surface.
This also led to the fact that when Uranus in heaven invited him to join, Hermes chose to join without hesitation.
Joining Uranus' plan was one of the reasons why he managed to survive the difficult time in heaven.
In heaven, goddesses like Hestia, who protect families, were unable to fulfill their duties as guardians, but at least they survived through schizophrenia.
Hestia sealed up her protective side and only showed her homebody side. She lay in her own temple and acted like a shut-in. Hundreds of millions of years were not too hard to endure.
But he, Hermes, is the god of travel, but looking at the heavens, there is no indication of where he traveled.
You know, this is how Hermes in the underworld sees himself - Hermes the traveler, it is impossible for him to stay in one place.
This is true even in Orario, the city of heroes.
In the original novel, after Freya could no longer bear her love for Bell, she used the Tower of Babel to unleash her divine power, enchanting the entire underworld and changing the memories of everyone in Orario to "Bell is a member of Freya's family."
Even gods who have sealed their own divine powers cannot escape the temptation.
Only four - or, four types of targets escaped Freya's charm.
The dungeon, and the adventurers who were inside it when Freya activated her charm ability.
The dungeon and the gods in the sky are of the same level. Freya can seduce the gods who seal their powers, but she cannot seal the dungeon herself.
For the dungeon, the little divine power that Freya unlocked from the Tower of Babel was useless, and she couldn't even invade the dungeon.
Freya could only wait at the exit of the dungeon, luring each adventurer as they came out.
The divine power suppressed Uranus in the dungeon.
It’s not that Freya’s charm is ineffective against Uranus, it’s simply that Freya doesn’t dare to. Without Uranus’s divine power, Freya herself would not be able to suppress the dungeon at all.
In the underworld, Freya can do whatever she wants for a short period of time, but if she really angers the gods, she will certainly suffer a bad end when they return to heaven.
All gods have sealed their divine power, so the charm ability can take effect. But after the gods use their divine power, the charm ability is still effective, but it is only a kind of power. It is a pure competition of divine power.
Since all the gods have released their divine powers, it would be great if Freya could charm a few of them.
In order to snatch Bell, Freya activated her wide-area charm ability and forcibly changed the memories of almost everyone in Orario. After the gods returned to heaven, they might just think of this as a fun thing.
But if Freya messes up the situation in the underworld and makes it difficult for all the gods to survive, then Freya won’t have to think about staying in heaven.
The kind that resurrects once and dies once.
Besides the fact that charm is ineffective against dungeons and those who dare not charm Uranus, the others who completely ignore Freya's charm ability are Bell and Hestia.
After all, the biggest reason why Freya caused trouble was that Bell was completely immune to the charm of the goddess of beauty. Bell's resistance in this regard was higher than that of the gods - just like the charm was ineffective against the dungeon.
Therefore, Freya came up with a plan.
If you can't seduce Bell, then let Bell think that he is a member of Freya's family and that all the memories in his mind before were just an illusion.
After Freya charmed the entire Orario, Bell was also confused. I am clearly from Hestia's family, Freya, how can you say that I am your child?
Wherever Bell went, he asked questions. His former acquaintances either didn't recognize him at all, or said that he was a member of Freya's family. Even Bell himself began to feel confused. Could it be that he was dreaming?
Freya also found an extremely precious item to unlock abilities, and forcibly unlocked the grace on Bell's back, truly turning Bell into a member of Freya's family.
The holy fire mark on the back grace that used to belong to Hestia turned into a silver-white mark belonging to Freya.
The grace on the adventurer's back can only be updated by his own Lord God. After doubting himself, Bell went to find Freya to update the attributes and verify whether everything in his mind was just his imagination.
As a result, Freya was really able to renew the favor on his back.
Freya: What Hestia Familia? That's impossible. Think about it, if you were really in Hestia Familia, how could you get the magic? That was a gift from me. Hestia is so poor, how could she afford it?
Freya: Child, did you have a nightmare? Did you run into a problem while adventuring in the dungeon?
Bell was immediately silenced.
In addition, the only one who can ignore Freya's charm ability is Hestia. The charm ability of the goddess of beauty is ineffective against all virgin goddesses.
In the original novel, Hestia was able to resolve Freya's wide-ranging enchantment of the underworld because of Hermes.
Hermes couldn't ignore Freya's charm. Even every time he realized that he was under Freya's charm and his memory was forcibly changed, Freya's power would be triggered and his memory of discovering the truth would be cleared again.
However, Hermes was able to sense several times that his memory had been altered, and he made plans to destroy Freya's Wide Area Charm.
The reason was simple - how could Hermes, the god of travel, stay in Orario for nearly half a year without traveling? This was definitely not right, and something unknown had happened in the city that affected me.
Hermes triggered the charm of the goddess of beauty and his memory was erased → Hermes felt that he was not traveling, which was not right → his memory was erased → this was not right → his memory was erased → he realized that something was wrong.
After repeating this dozens of times, Hermes began to act on the premise of "what if something happens in the city that affects me", telling himself that it was just an illusion and didn't exist at all. But every time he guessed something, his memory of what he had guessed would be erased and he would have to start all over again.
Hermes in the world of Dicuo is a travel madman of this degree. During the four months when Freya enchanted Orario, because "I, Hermes, cannot stay in Orario for so long", he realized that it was Freya who did it dozens of times. In the end, he helped Hestia use the Tower of Babel as an altar, opened the Holy Fire of Hestia, and purified Freya's enchantment ability.
The degree of Hermes' insanity is not inferior to that of Hestia, a god who cannot even give up consciousness and go crazy, and has been driven to the level of schizophrenia.
In heaven, Hestia settled down after her schizophrenia and became a stay-at-home girl, living quietly in heaven.
But Hermes was not so lucky. The heaven was boring to death. There was nothing there. There was no place for a traveler like him to travel.
Just when he could no longer bear it, Zeus secretly contacted Hermes and recruited him to join.
There are very few gods who hold noble ideals such as "for world peace", "for justice", and "for equality between humans and gods".
Those who are willing to join Uranus and secretly plot against the gods are not all kind-hearted. Most of them are like Hermes who do it out of their own selfish desires.
As a traveler, Hermes shifted his focus from 'wanting to travel around the world and experience all kinds of new things and new experiences' to 'Fuck those gods, all the evil gods who are hindering the emergence of new things and making the world boring, and all the garbage that is hindering my travels, I will kill you sooner or later'.
During the hundreds of millions of years in heaven, Hermes relied on this idea to survive and did not go completely crazy.
It can be said that anyone who has something in their heart that they cannot give up is likely to join Uranus's side - but after hundreds of millions of years, there are not many gods who still have things in their hearts that they cannot give up, and the gods of pleasure account for the vast majority.
After all, travelers like Hermes are good. No matter how entangled he is, even if he gives up on himself, there is still room for turning back when the opportunity comes.
More often, for example, Hestia, the goddess of fire who protects the family, tries to urge the person she protects because she can't stand the boredom, or a virgin goddess gives herself up to experience love - the mistake has been made, and there will never be a chance to turn back.
During the past three days, Uranus was making various arrangements, and Hermes was helping Uranus to complete them. Although he was not the only one to complete the arrangements, as a traveler and messenger of God, he was very efficient at his work and was given the most tasks.
After three busy days, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and had some time to sit down.
"Yasfei, that old guy Uranus is simply a devil. He treats God like a beast!"
As soon as he sat down, Hermes spat at his family.
"...Even so, the situation in Orario is still not optimistic."
The blue-haired beauty said calmly, "Are you really working hard, not just slacking off?"
"Haha, after all, the situation at hand is very complicated!"