Chapter 352: Unity of Faith (II)
After a brief period of shock, people who gradually returned to normal began to talk about Todd's words.
"Asgard?"
"I always thought it was just a legend......"
"What does it mean to rebuild?"
Listening to the whispered discussions of the people in the hall, Todd stood upright, his thick tail behind him, and his two iron claws raised high, and the image of Ragnarok was projected in the center of the main hall, attracting another exclamation from everyone.
Watching the gods and enemies perish together, the universe re-entered silence, and everyone in the Golden Palace fell into a long silence.
"The time of the gods is over. Todd flicked his tail and slowly stepped down from his throne, looked at the people kneeling at his feet, and said aloud: "We are in a chaotic and disorderly world, and the gods you worship never answer your call!
The hundreds of people in the Golden Palace listened quietly to the words of the pitch-black monster in front of them, and everyone's face was filled with doubts, uneasiness, pain, and ...... Confused.
Todd waved a pair of iron claws away, and one picture after another, one voice after another, appeared in the center of the hall. Defenceless civilians are slaughtered, refugees with no food to eat are fed, sick patients die in their beds, and ownerless corpses in the wilderness are gnawed by wild dogs.
Todd looked into the eyes of a captured Ulster nobleman and asked in a loud voice, "You always say that God is omnipotent, and God loves believers deeply. So I have a question, is that how the so-called gods love you?!"
If God is omnipotent, then where are they when war, famine, pestilence, and death are like maggots on tarsal bones, eating away at the whole world? Then the other question arises, if God is really loving, then why doesn't this trial come upon the heads of those heretics and hypocrites to persecute you devout believers?!"
"Wake up!" Todd waved his hand vigorously, and the image in the hall changed to that of countless souls wailing in hell: "The gods in your mouth are either some deceivers who can only speak big words and hide in the sky, or they are just hypocrites who are alone and ignore the believers. ”
"My ancestors, the former rulers of Asgard, were superstitious in power and indulged in pleasures, and finally ended up in annihilation. Todd's body was surrounded by fire and frost, and he turned back to the throne, looked at everyone and said, "I have inherited the power of my ancestors, but I don't intend to repeat their mistakes!"
A shaman, who looked quite old, knelt on the ground and said respectfully, "Great son of the gods, how do you plan to rebuild Asgard?"
Todd closed his hands, turned off all the images in the hall, and said, "First of all, I want to correct the bias of the gods. In the past, the gods chose the spirits and the criteria for giving them godheads, and most of them valued only martial prowess. Those who die bravely can enter Valhalla, but they never ask why they died in battle and what their lives were?"
"And those who are born, old, sick and die, no matter what good deeds they have done or accomplished in their lives, are all sent to the Heim Underworld after death, and suffer from the eternal night and winter. ”
Todd pointed his finger at the hundreds of people in the Golden Palace and asked, "Don't you think this choice is strange? A person who was blasphemous, murderous, and sinister in his life can get a ticket to enter the Sanctuary with a glorious and heroic death before he dies." And the other person, who diligently completes his work, helps the weak, fights evil, and in the end, just because he dies in bed, he must be sent to the underworld to suffer the plague of frost?!"
Todd's words caused the crowd to argue in a whisper, some people said that the teachings of the gods, which advocate force and conquest, brought war and death to this world, should indeed be revised, and others said that these are traditional principles, how can they be changed?
Todd ignored the others' remarks, reaching out and summoning a mirror, a basket of stones, and a huge scale.
Looking at the things in front of them, everyone present was dumbfounded, and someone asked strangely, "What are these?"
Todd pointed his hand at the mirror: "This mirror is the well of fate, which can reveal the actions and encounters of a person's life. ”
Then comes a basket of stones: "These are the stones of good and evil, which judge the actions of a person's life as good or evil, and adjust the weight of the stones according to the magnitude of good and evil." ”
Finally, there is the great scale: "This thing is the seat of judgment, and it will adjust the balance according to the good and evil of man." ”
"When I say that, it's still hard for people to understand how they work, so it's better to find someone to actually use them. With that, Todd looked around the crowd and saw a young man cowering at the back.
"That's you. ”
Todd's iron claws stretched forward, and the young man was dragged to the mirror by a tremendous force from the air.
"No! I don't want to see this!"
The young man struggles desperately in front of the mirror, trying to get away from this dark unknown.
Using the way of soul invasion, Todd called up all the memories of the other party from birth to the present, and turned into the mirror one by one.
The original dark mirror surface has changed, like a projection in a well, and this young man named Sandrola, his life has completely appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
As a child, Sandrola rescued a deer that had fallen into a trap in the forest near her hometown. After the event was played, a thumb-sized stone slowly flew up from the basket and finally landed on the side of the scales that represented goodness.
As a teenager, Sandrola and a few friends punished a businessman who had come to the village to defraud and helped the villagers recover the money they had been defrauded. A palm-sized stone fell into the balance of goodness again.
As life progresses, stones of different sizes, representing good and evil, slowly fly into the two ends of the scale. But in general, the weight of good is still much greater than the weight of evil.
Things gradually began to change when Sandrola's village was breached by the Ulsters, and he was captured as a slave and sent to the ancient city.
When Todd's army breached the city, and the freed Sandrola stormed her master's mansion and stabbed her sharp blade into the evil, murderous Ulster, a stone the size of a bronze star, and it took a long time for it to finally fall to the good side of the scales.
But then things took a turn for the worse, and Sandrola, who had tasted the thrill of murder for the first time, rushed into the manor with a torch and a sword, and killed anyone he saw. When he killed the guards and thugs, the stones fell to the good end, but when he did not spare the maids, the boys, the gardeners, and even the swaddling baby, the stones continued to fall to the evil end.
By this time, the scales had gradually balanced and moved towards the worst-case scenario.
When Sandra boarded the cargo ship bound for Froststone's camp, he and a few companions snuck into the Ulster captive's underground warehouse at night, raped and brutally murdered an Ulster woman in front of the victim's family, disfigured her with a torch, and threw her body into the sea.
A stone the size of an apple flew into the evil side of the scales at this time.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Todd sighed.
After the ship docked, Sandrola, who was already completely immersed in the pleasure of the atrocity, had no intention of stopping.
He spearheaded several horrific atrocities against Ulster captives. He even prepared a box for a certain part of the victim's body to be used as a trophy to play with. Sometimes it's teeth, noses, ears, and sometimes even human skin cut from a living person......
Heavy stone after stone, flying into the evil disc of the scales. Eventually, the scales, which could no longer bear the burden, completely tilted to the evil side, and never regained their balance.
Todd stepped down from the throne and looked at the earth-colored young man who was slumped on the ground, frowning and not saying a word.
"I'm not wrong! It's the world that's wrong!"
Sandrola pounded the ground of the Golden Palace with both hands, and writhed her body wildly: "My mother and sister, like livestock, were killed by those Ulster bastards! Their human skins were stripped off and made into fine canvases! Their wails before they died, I can still hear them in my dreams! Why?! Why can't I return my pain to them?!
Todd changed from tyrant form to human form. He squatted down, looked at the violent and unscrupulous young man in front of him, and said softly: "There is nothing wrong with revenge, and there is nothing wrong with removing evil. The mistake is that after you killed the demon, there was a demon in your soul that turned you into another demon through and through......"
Standing up straight, Todd looked at the crowd around him: "This is the new order I am talking about, and I hope to incorporate the good and evil of mankind into the teachings of Asgard in the way of the judgment of fate." In addition to this, there is a new set of teachings that I will have the shamans pass on to all of you......"
Just as Todd was about to introduce the teachings contained in the new religion, someone suddenly asked, "What will happen to this sinner, great son of the gods?"
Todd stopped talking, looked at Sandrora, and shook his head helplessly.
With a snap of his fingers, a huge black hole appeared directly above the hall, and a group of terrifying-looking demons emerged from the black hole, dragging Sandrora, who screamed in fear, into the endless darkness.
While everyone was in shock, Todd resealed the black hole and said, "His soul has been sent to the bitter cold of the underworld, where he will forever repent of what he has done." ”
At first there was just one man, then a crowd, and finally all fell to their knees and proclaimed in unison the justice of the sons of the gods.
Todd looked at the crowd in front of him and continued, "Now that the believers have accepted the Soul Judgment, I will explain in detail what the other teachings are...... The first is ......"
After the meeting in the soul space, Sandra's body lay on the square, looking particularly glaring.
Under the words and deeds of the attendees that night, the new teachings of the Children of the Gods soon spread throughout the camp.
The people's beliefs were gradually unified under Todd's control.
After that, there are a few more interesting things.
1. The leader of the tribe named Aimo, after participating in the soul assembly, took the initiative to return the spoils of war to the warriors of the clan, and promised not to touch the personal belongings of the warriors again.
2. The practice of doing good in the camp gradually prevailed. The idea of solidarity and assistance gradually broke down the barriers between races and factions.
3. A month after the assembly, the people spontaneously organized themselves and built a temple in the square of the camp, which was dedicated to Todd's tyrant form.