1216. What is the so-called God?
In the past, she didn't call this name, but lived with a long list of names and titles that ordinary people with a low level of education might not be able to memorize, and there was a time when they were considered gods and worshipped.
At that time, Xiao Ren probably wandered around the world bored in his long life, and happened to witness the poverty and suffering of some villages due to natural disasters, the environment, and so on. I can't say how kind I am, but I can't stand it and I use her strength to give some help. And Shinobu didn't hide herself well at that time, and was accidentally witnessed by some locals about her 'miracles' of helping those people. Since then, there has been a god to be worshipped in that area, and Shinobu has begun a period of long-term protection in the eyes of humans, but her own life is not very long.
There was also a 'mountain god' who was enthusiastic about helping mankind, but how he later became a strange king who was thought to understand people's hearts at all, "an iron-blooded, hot-blooded and cold-blooded vampire", which seems to be a complicated but simple story for the time being. As far as Levi knows, the gods who have shown their divine powers in most of the legends and stories in this world are 'people' with special and powerful powers like Shinobi. There are even 'demon gods' and 'immortals' who have been cultivated by pure ordinary human beings, and it can be said that basically the real gods in the legends are not as 'different' as people imagine, and some are just 'mortals' like everyone else.
Among these people who are revered as gods by mortals, there are also many who are not much different from ordinary people in terms of mentality. For example, if Lévy traveled back to the ignorant period when technology was far from developed in ancient times, and accidentally helped solve a natural disaster in a region, would this guy who was worshiped as a god at that time still have an epiphany and become a enlightened monk or something?
Needless to say, those so-called godmen whose mentality is no different from ordinary people, even special beings like Xiao Ren who are indeed not human beings in the first place, and they can't guarantee that they won't put some tests or tests on human beings on a whim or for some special reason. As with the root of almost all magicians, some of them believe that it is a long test of some kind of existence for those who have inherited the power of magic to truly break through themselves.
As for why these tests by the hand of God cause disasters and harm innocents in the mortal world...... After all, those are not real gods, and it is likely that they will come up with something that they can't control, or the so-called gods who created a bunch of monsters are long gone...... What's more, there are good gods in this world that are worshipped, but can there be no evil gods that make people fear?
If you want to say that this otherworld is a kind of 'game' made by the existence that likes to play pranks and doesn't take ordinary people seriously, maybe there is such a possibility in reality, after all, those strong people who are not human beings themselves at all, they really don't have the humanitarian and moral requirements to value human life, right? Just as many strong people in human beings have always ignored other life on this earth. Not to mention treating everything other than people as a 'resource' to meet one's own needs, it is to treat people as human beings, thinking that they are all so-called hegemons who should obey the law of the jungle and prostrate under their feet, and they have never disappeared from this world.
"We once found a place that appeared frequently and repeatedly over the course of several years, and after a detailed investigation, some researchers speculated that it was caused by an antique artifact of unknown purpose in a nearby museum. Later, after the local executor in charge of the association took the antique away with the cooperation of the local collaborators, it is true that there has been no otherworldly reaction in that place. ”
A mysterious object unearthed from an ancient ruin, which frequently triggers unknown mysterious phenomena. This is very much in line with the plot of common suspense horror stories. And in reality, similar things do happen from time to time. It's just that it's not necessarily the other world that Hiiragi Asuka talked about, but those antiques that ordinary people can't figure out the truth, maybe it happens to be a special prop left by a certain person in ancient times, and the collector was inadvertently triggered to exert its original magical power.
Levi had heard from Rhondo before about a time when he had solved an unknown plague outbreak in a village. At that time, there was a sudden outbreak in that village of an unknown infectious disease that even the most brilliant doctors could not treat, or even find out the details of the virus. Realizing that it was most likely not an ordinary new disease, but might have been caused by the abilities of the Alien, the country's higher-ups immediately blocked the news and invited a magician from the wizarding world to help investigate.
When Longdao went to that village, he immediately realized that the disease contracted by the villagers was actually a curse similar to that planted by Najib Springfield.
The curse does not immediately threaten people's lives, but only makes it difficult for people to work and take care of themselves. Dealing with a small village in a very ordinary small country, there is no need to make such a troublesome situation. Even if there are secret treasures in that village that no one else knows, and if you want to 'drive out' the people of the village, there should be other ways to plant the curse without alarming the government of that country.
Judging that it didn't look like someone had consciously 'poisoned', Longdao began to investigate the 'new things' that had only recently appeared in the village. Soon after, he found a beautiful little stone that his child had picked up from the mountains at a hunter's house in the village. The stone was engraved with a carving array that was no longer in use, and it would be appropriate to call it a 'cursed stone' or something like that.
However, after the antique was taken back to the Society's stronghold, it did not continue to cause any more Otherworldly incidents. Researchers believe that the object itself may not have the ability to attract alien beasts, but rather 'resonate' with other items in the museum, or something else to cause the phenomenon. ”
"'Resonance'......? One thing in particular is that I've heard a few things like this before. But since it's an antique in a museum's collection, why didn't there be a problem before?Is it because the Otherworld's sphere of influence is slowly expanding?"
Lévy almost accidentally said 'funny'.
It is not so easy for a mortal like him to put the feelings of others in his heart at all times.