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"All gods are bound by this concept, but the divinity of some gods can slightly reduce this constraint."
"All gods have priesthood. If the concept of priesthood itself carries the attribute of growth, it will be relatively easier."
Su Qing shrugged and said, "Hestia's sacred fire is probably like this. The concept of burning conflicts with the concept of eternity. Astraea, your justice is too balanced. You may desire to become stronger and to uphold justice, but the concept of justice will not conflict with eternity."
If the priesthood is fully mastered, the power of justice can judge eternity as an enemy, but Astraea obviously does not have that ability.
——The concept of eternity is still slowing down the speed at which the gods gain control of their own concepts.
Su Qing continued, "On this basis, the two sides of the godhood, as well as some of the potential of the gods themselves... But in short, Hestia's splitting of Vesta's personality should be another way out for the gods."
"Hestia broke the eternal immutability of her own mental state. If we don't treat it as an accident and conduct in-depth research to find the law and understand the determination mechanism of eternal attributes, we should be able to explore the possibility of the gods continuing to move forward."
Su Qing smiled and said, "But as I said before, how could a god need that? Hundreds of millions of years have passed like this."
No matter how bored the gods are, they can't even go crazy because of the concept of eternity.
If one could split one's personality autonomously and put the split part of the personality to sleep, then one would have already become the mainstream in the heavenly realm.
Su Qing shook his head slightly and said faintly, "Hestia's personality split. That incident was probably the holy fire that guided the direction of the gods in heaven, but it seemed to have been unanimously ignored by the gods."
Astraea pondered for a moment and shook her head slightly. "Even if you say so, this is not an area that the gods in heaven are capable of exploring in a short period of time, right? I may not have noticed it, but I believe that other gods must have noticed it, but have not achieved any results so far."
Su Qing knocked on the table and asked, "You're talking to me about the difficulty of exploring the future and the evolution of the species?"
"If all races are put together - if all gods are put together to explore the way forward, it is common that it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time."
Su Qing said calmly: "Even if you go to the new world and can temporarily block the influence of the concept of eternity, don't think that becoming stronger will be an easy thing."
After saying that, Su Qing turned and looked out the window.
With the failure of the gods' first challenge to the magic tower, slight doubts have spread in Orario.
...It takes a thousand years to build trust, but it only takes one opportunity to build doubt.
Su Qing let out a long breath.
It's over!
Chapter 46: Events
Compared to the adventurers' challenges to the Magic Tower, the results achieved by the gods were undoubtedly even more disastrous. In comparison, the impression of the gods in the hearts of many people in the lower world must have been somewhat shaken!
However, no one can figure out whether that kind of vacillation is good or bad.
That would inevitably shake the authority of the gods, but it would also be an opportunity for the gods to get closer to the underworld.
Human beings are very complex creatures.
In the past, no matter how much indirect evidence there was to prove the power of the gods, there would always be people among the lower world who doubted the truth and felt that the gods' claim of sealing their power was just a lie.
Similarly, no matter how many examples there are, no matter how close the gods are to humans on the surface, the gods still have an aura of superiority, and there are only a few people who treat the gods completely equally.
Gods are different from humans. Even if Loki always mocks her for being omniscient and having no power, in the eyes of Loki's followers, apart from his pranks, he is still a high and mighty god.
Perhaps many gods do not appear to be high and mighty, but people in the underworld are always accustomed to respecting gods.
The shaking of the gods' authority will, on the contrary, break down this barrier to a certain extent. When people know that everything the gods perform in the lower world is not a disguise, and that the gods can make stupid mistakes and have weaknesses even if they try their best, the gods' popularity among humans will actually increase.
Only when the halo of divinity fades away will the relationship between humans and gods be closer.
If things continue to develop in this way, the gods may really be forced to understand each other with humans, but at the same time, they will gradually come into contact with the darkness and ugliness of humans - without this deified appearance, probably all ambitious people in the world will spy on the power of the gods.
The gods' trump cards in the underworld are nothing more than their own divine power and the adventurers under their command.
The ambitious people in the underworld naturally cannot do anything to the gods. Ordinary people cannot lie in front of the gods, nor can they kill or force the gods.
However, as long as you use interest as bait, select gods with suitable personalities in advance, set traps to capture the gods, and use the gods as props to mass-produce adventurers, you can do it.
The stronger the adventurer, the less reason he has to attack the gods. There will always be people who don't care about what happens to their souls after death and choose to take risks and attack the gods.
It is human nature to discover, explore, understand, and then dominate.
However, with the level of development in the European Middle World, and with slavery and heroism prevalent, even ambitious people would eventually be bound by these established ideas.
In feudal times, whether one had a firm belief in gods often had nothing to do with intelligence, but depended more on whether one had enough skepticism and rebellious spirit.
But it is different if the result that "gods also have flaws and are not superior" is put directly in front of everyone.
If this continues, whether the gods gradually fall in love with the life in the underworld, or whether they gradually lose interest in the close relationship with humans, only God knows.
But the premise is that things really develop in this way.
In the relationship between gods and people in the underworld, gods have the final say. The only choices people in the underworld can make are to obey the will of gods or die. Only gods can decide where this relationship will go.
Following the failure of the gods' first attempt, a rumor began to spread among the gods.
[We gods come to the mortal world to experience life, not to be laughed at by others.]
But this did not cause much trouble, and many gods discussed it privately and did not care.
[Being laughed at by people from the underworld is also a novel experience, right? 】
Soon, similar remarks spread throughout Orario.
[Where is the dignity of the gods? We can embarrass ourselves and beg on the streets, but the premise is subjective. It is not okay to embarrass ourselves passively. ]
[Today, the people of the underworld dared to disrespect the gods. I dare not even think about what they will do tomorrow.]
But soon, they were refuted one by one by the gods of Orario.
[Dignity? Forget it, why didn't I know I had this thing? ]
[It would be nice if the children in the lower world could do something more extraordinary. ]
After all, the gods of Orario are not crazy people, but poor people who have had enough of their lives that have lasted for hundreds of millions of years and can only pursue pleasure for a living.
Most gods have no sense of good or evil in their hearts, and most gods are moody, but even so, they know the simplest way to seek benefits and avoid harm.
If humans are kept in the underworld, they can create new kinds of fun for them, such as folk customs, love stories, heroic biographies, delicious food and wine, etc.
In the future, perhaps the gods will lose interest in the underworld, but that will not be the case now, at least not for the God of Fun, who accounts for 70% of the gods.
The gods of fun all have their own way of having fun, and many of them disregard the rules of the Adventurer's Guild and accidentally ruin some people's lives, but not many of them want to destroy Orario or even the underworld.
The gods are moody and act according to their pleasure, but the gods themselves know this. The gods are far from being patient, but that is relative to their hundreds of millions of years of life.
The gods and the dungeon agreed on a period of about a thousand years, and it was not a blind agreement. After this deadline, more and more gods will be unable to endure it.
This thousand years is like the shelf life of the gods' patience. When in heaven, the gods estimate what they may encounter after going to the underworld. Within the shelf life, only a few gods are impatient enough to want to destroy the underworld. The longer the deadline passes, the more gods begin to dislike the underworld.
Relatively speaking, Orario's performance is actually not as good as the gods expected in heaven.
The gods had not expected this. They thought that as part of the three major commissioned subjugation games, there should be powerful heroes going to subjugate the black dragon from time to time, trying to reach the deepest part and solve the puzzle of the dungeon, but in these thousand years, there hasn't even been a decent black dragon subjugation battle.
Whoever cultivates the stronger hero, whose clan can finally defeat the black dragon, this is the game originally planned by the gods - after thousands of years, the gods regretfully discovered that their clans have no qualifications to compete at all.
The adventurers were so weak that it was difficult for them to even touch the black dragon.
But the pleasures of the underworld exceeded the gods' expectations.
The finest wine in the underworld cannot compare to the finest wine brewed by the god of wine, and the delicacies in the underworld are naturally not as good as the delicacies carefully prepared by the god of food. The same is true for music and art.
When the gods were in heaven, they thought they had no interest in these things in the lower world.
But after getting used to the masterpieces of the God of Art, it’s not bad to read comics occasionally. After getting tired of the art of the God of Music, it’s also good to listen to some catchy songs. Of course, if you ask the God of Music to compose catchy songs, he can compose better songs than the people in the underworld, but how many gods of music are there? Who among them would devote themselves to composing music just to please other gods? And how many musicians are there in the underworld?
This is like writing online novels. The level of the top masters is there, but how many readers only read the works of the top masters?
It’s good, but the quantity is there and it doesn’t quench my thirst. Don’t I usually have to search the library for books to read when I’m short of books?
To the gods, life in the underworld is naturally inferior to the creations of the gods, and can only be seen.
The wine brewed by Soma, the god of wine, is better than the wine brewed by people in the underworld, but can the gods drink Soma's wine to their heart's content every day?
The god of wine likes to study how to brew better-tasting wine. He is not a social animal working for the gods 007. No matter how many gods come to force Soma to brew wine, he will at most choose to die and wait for resurrection.
Anyway, it only takes a moment for the person involved, but other gods in the outside world will not be able to drink the wine of the god of wine for tens of thousands of years.
For humans, the older they are, the fewer novels they can read, and the same is true for gods - at least, with the level of development of the earthly world, the joy of creation cannot keep up with the needs of the gods.
But just because they can’t keep up doesn’t mean the gods no longer care about the underworld.
Even if you are bored with a game, the reasons that make people give up a game are usually "too busy with work to have time" or "there is another new game that is more interesting."
If you want the gods to abandon the clan game, what you need is for them to know other more interesting things.
The gods failed in their challenge to the magic tower on the first day, and some words such as "the dignity of God" and "the people of the lower world blasphemed God" began to be spread intentionally or unintentionally within the circle of gods.
Most gods were puzzled. Where did this idea come from? Who came up with this? Were the dark gods behind this? There was something wrong.
Why are you so angry over such a small matter? Have you forgotten the hard times in heaven?
——Those were all Uranus’s scapegoats.
Just as the gods never considered whether humans were willing when they decided on their relationship with the people in the underworld and changed the Age of Heroes to the Age of Adventurers, the gods' thoughts are not important now.
What the humans on the surface think the gods think is the key.
……
Time flies, and soon, the gods' second challenge to the magic tower came to an end.
It is undeniable that the gods are capable, and their combat skills and experience in dealing with crises far exceed those of Ota, the strongest adventurer.
However, the gods always fell into the obvious traps on the side of the road, and the best among them only reached the thirteenth floor.
This result left everyone in Orario speechless.
It would be understandable if they encountered those obvious traps for the first time and fell into them, but this was the second time the gods challenged the magic tower, and they couldn't help but step into those traps themselves?
Even the Orarians who believed in the gods felt as if they were being slapped in the face by the gods, and it was burning with pain.
Faintly, some news began to spread in Orario.
In the tavern, a man was vividly describing a rumor he had heard from somewhere.
It is said that due to the poor performance of the gods, some of them felt ashamed and even smashed their favorite headdresses.
Someone next to him immediately curled his lips and said disdainfully, "What's your little information? Apollo knows it, right?" The leader of Apollo's family... yes, the one who was Apollo's male favorite, wore a mask when he went out at night, and it was said that his face was almost disfigured by a beating.