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Soon, the third person sneered and said, "Not only that, it is said that the Loki clan announced that when their clan sells precious materials from the deep in the future to ordinary merchants, the price will be doubled. It is said that the price of top-level magic stones will double, and even the price of ordinary magic stones will be affected."
Apollo's gossip was just a topic of conversation after dinner, but once it involved personal interests, it instantly became a major event of national concern.
Someone immediately said that it was impossible and the union would not allow Loki's family to do that.
Someone nearby retorted that Freya's family suffered heavy losses, Ota is now only at level 4, and Freya herself is trapped in the magic tower. The situation is different now. The precious materials in the deepest part of the dungeon are worth whatever Loki's family says they are worth.
Someone else retorted that it was impossible for Loki to do such a thing that would harm others and not benefit himself, and the credibility of Loki's family was recognized by Orario.
Others looked at the person who was making the excuse with disdain and retorted, "Loki is an evil god, isn't this a common occurrence for an evil god?" Besides, this is just a normal business transaction, Loki's family just raised the price, they didn't force you to buy it!
For the evil god, this is all restraint.
The news spread quickly, and before long, it seemed like everyone in Orario knew about it.
Because of their poor performance in the Demon Tower, the gods were very dissatisfied with the people of Orario.
Everyone in Orario found it funny, but also a little confused.
You guys played so badly, and you blame us for seeing it?
This is too unreasonable. We are innocent, okay?
But the ordinary people of Orario accepted this matter easily.
Firstly, when it comes to themselves, many people tend to make malicious assumptions about others, and would rather believe it than not.
Secondly, the gods don’t have a good image in Orario.
In Orario's view, the gods have brought strength and peace to mankind, and their contributions are indispensable. The gods are high above, and their power and wisdom are unimaginable to humans. Humans should be grateful for the gods' contributions to mankind and respect the gods... At the same time, they should not have too close contact with the gods.
Don't get close to the gods, you will become unlucky.
It’s okay to greet the gods occasionally and take care of their business, but if you get too close to the gods, you must be prepared to have your life ruined by them.
Many gods are both evil and capricious.
This would not even lower the reputation of the gods. Considering the general level of development in medieval Europe, many people did not think there was anything wrong with having their lives ruined because of the gods' capriciousness and being offered as sacrifices to the gods to bring peace to the underworld.
……
Despite all the rumors about Orarine's cultivation, the gods are as steady as a rock.
It’s not that the gods don’t care, nor that the gods haven’t noticed, but that the gods feel that there is no need for any response strategy.
——The gods’ failure in their second challenge to the magic tower was intentional.
Although gods live on curiosity, it is far from the extent that all gods would foolishly step into unknown traps when they see them.
At first, someone did report to Uranus that something was not right in Orario.
But when this unusual person was discovered, the answer soon came.
Ouranos: I did it on purpose.
I deliberately selected ten gods who could not control their curiosity and were prone to falling into traps. Sure enough, these gods fell into the trap early on.
This was to save face for the original ten gods - do you think we really fell into such an easy trap? We were just pretending.
We are performing extremely poorly now in order to make you mortals mistakenly believe that we gods are incompetent, and then we will surprise you by clearing the level in seconds.
Including the rumors spread in Orario, they were also deliberately made by these gods to remotely control their followers.
After all, those gods came to him for help, and it was difficult for him, the god in charge of the guild, to refuse... Besides, he only chose some gods who couldn't control their curiosity to enter the magic tower.
This shouldn't count as a violation on my part?
With this answer, no one would care about the declining reputation of the gods in Orario - it would be reversed soon anyway.
The rumor was naturally debunked afterwards.
Chapter 47: Integrity
Just as the gods were trying to break the trial of the magic tower, gods from all over the world returned to Orario one after another.
There are not many gods like Astraea who pay attention to the situation of their own family and are ready to return to Orario at any time, but most of the other gods are just a little later than her.
Not all gods made it back to Orario in time. Gods were willful creatures, and some simply didn't care what the guild said, but there were very few such gods.
When they were in heaven, Uranus and others had made some plans. Taking into account the impossibility of successfully sealing all the gods at once, when setting up matters in the lower realm, they inserted settings that were beneficial to themselves in the sealing of the divine power.
When the gods descended to the mortal world, their divine power was sealed and they could not actively lift the seal on their own. The divine power would only be triggered when the gods were in danger. During that process, the gods would be sent back to heaven and would not have time to use their divine power to harm the earth.
The reason given at the time was - if a god loses the game and becomes angry, and attacks the underworld when his divine power is unleashed, then no one will be able to play, and even a hasty attack from the gods will destroy Orario.
But the real purpose of this seal is not to prevent the gods from attacking the lower world in the process of releasing the seal, but to prevent the gods from taking the initiative to lift the seal on their divine power.
In the original book, Artemis suffered this loss.
Artemis took her followers to investigate the seal of the ancient monster Andaris, but the seal was loosened and all of her followers died at the hands of the monster. She was also devoured by the monster and her divine power was taken away.
The gods in the world of Dicuo may have all kinds of shortcomings, but when faced with known choices, their experience measured in billions of years is by no means false.
The moment any god knew that Andaris had escaped the seal, they would know that their followers were likely to die. If Artemis could really release the divine power to attack the underworld, she would have done it long ago.
The fact that the divine power could be taken away by monsters was an unexpected event for Artemis, but even if there was no way to remove the seal on the divine power before taking action, even if the gods could only remove the seal on the divine power, they would not end up being devoured by monsters.
When the gods trigger their divine power and are sent back to heaven, they cannot actively use their divine power to interfere with the lower world, but that power is real.
The gods only need to ask their followers to retreat and commit suicide on the way of the monsters. Then the pillar of light with divine power that sends the gods back to heaven can stop the monsters.
When the gods were sent back, they could not take the initiative to attack the underworld, but the heroes or monsters in the underworld were also unable to do anything about the column of light that sent the gods back.
But it was precisely because the gods did not take the initiative to contact the one-click sudden death function of the divine power seal that in the original book, Artemis's family was wiped out without a single survivor, and Artemis herself was captured by the monster, providing the monster with a steady stream of divine power, which almost destroyed the underworld.
Today, that hasn’t happened yet.
but……
"Uranus, is this your plan?"
In the temple, the sky blue goddess looked at Uranus with disdain.
"That's right. You will be used as the first subject of the experiment on divine power. After the omnipotent power of divine power is taken away, will it conform to the wishes of the original owner or the wishes of the master? And to what extent can the second holder of the omnipotent power adapt to the divine power?"
Uranus said that he knew very well that once his true purpose was exposed, it would be impossible to hide any clues about his and Zeus' past from Artemis.
In addition, the guild had already sent out a commission for Artemis to go and check the seal of Andaris, but they called Artemis back halfway.
This was enough for Artemis to guess the situation almost exactly.
The Moon Goddess looked at Uranus coldly, frowned deeply and asked: "Are you crazy?"
"Maybe, but am I the one who is crazy? Or are they the gods who haven't evolved in hundreds of millions of years?"
"How many gods in heaven support you?"
"I can't say, but at a critical moment, I can guide the gods who remain in heaven to take action and eliminate Andaris who can use divine power. This level of thing is still possible."
Uranus replied that his plan was based on the underworld. If the underworld was really destroyed by Andaris with his divine power, the gods would just pat their butts and return to heaven.
He and his many fellow gods had planned everything, but if they couldn't even implement it in time, they would become complete clowns.
He knew the risks of allowing the monster to use divine power if it succeeded.
The worst possible scenario is that the divine power is completely mastered by the monsters, who exert their omnipotent power to elevate the monsters' life levels to a level that matches the divine power. In that case, the monsters would be just Artemis with divine power but no godly attributes, and could easily destroy the lower world.
——At this time, the gods who remain in heaven need to unseal their power and go down to the mortal world to get rid of the monster. Even if the monster can perfectly use the divine power, it will not have the immortality of the gods. It is not difficult for the gods who are doing their best to deal with it.
This is his last insurance.
A slightly less bad possibility is that the monster can obtain Artemis's power, but the monster is not the original owner of the power and can only use the power, and the scale of the power is limited by the monster's own size.
Monsters were born in dungeons to destroy gods, humans, elves and other outsiders. Divine power would follow the monsters' wishes to construct moves to destroy the underworld. Divine power could certainly do it, but it was limited by the monsters' own power output, so it would be a long process.
Divine power is okay, Artemis has that kind of output, but Andaris, the monster who acts as a middleman, will be a drag.
During this period, Uranus and others could naturally come up with the finishing preparations they had made long ago.
Moreover, in this case, it is equivalent to the monster constantly guiding the divine power to construct a move to destroy the underworld. The monster's own power is not fully exerted, which is approximately equivalent to a computer's CPU occupancy rate of 99%, leaving only melee combat power.
In the most optimistic scenario, by killing the monster that is about to destroy the world, the executor may be able to accomplish the great feat of saving the world.
No matter what level the person was at the time, he used the merit of saving the world to raise his attributes beyond the rated upper limit. Three to five thousand is not too little, and eight thousand is not too much - with just such a great achievement, when the person reaches level 7 or 8 in the future, he will probably have the capital to face the black dragon directly.
Of course, that's under optimistic circumstances.
If Andaris really has the possibility of destroying the lower world at that time, it will be because of the power of Artemis.
As for God's grace, even the gods themselves don't know whether it will count towards great deeds when it comes to gods and divine power.
After all, when the gods are constructing the grace of God, the gods who don't have this idea will not think about it, and the gods who have this idea are afraid that if they bring it up, other gods will associate it with something, so they will not mention it.
There are also other situations, such as the monster seizes Artemis's power but cannot use it, can use it but can only use a little, or even cannot seize control of the power... Uranus has made certain plans for each possible outcome.
The worst possibility is that after Andaris obtains divine power, he can destroy the area where he is sealed, but that area is a dangerous relic where an ancient monster is sealed, and there is no one around.
There is no possibility that the scope of destruction will exceed this result. If the situation becomes more serious, gods from heaven will naturally come down to earth to defeat Andaris.
But in this experiment, Artemis and her family are doomed to die.
To be precise, Artemis was doomed to die, but her family could only die with her. Uranus could not think of any possibility, so he transferred Artemis' family away, leaving Artemis alone to go to the ruins that sealed Andaris.
——There are as many excuses as you want to prevent Artemis from going and only let her family members go to check the seal.
Uranus also knew that what he did was not very decent, but he had his reasons for doing so.
Artemis also knew the reason.
The sky-blue goddess looked at Uranus, sighed softly and said: "...Just believe me, when I know your plan, I will stand opposite you."
"It would be the righteous Artemis who would stop such a conspiracy, wouldn't it?" Uranus responded.
The gods in heaven can be described in one word: rotten. However, among these rotten gods, there are rare ones with conscience.
"Tell me now, aren't you afraid that I will reveal your plan?"
The goddess bit her lip unwillingly and asked back.
"The answer to this question..." Uranus shook his head and said, "Similarly, because you are Artemis. The righteous one is not like a god, but like a human being."