Chapter 4: The Great God and the Seven Companions

"Squeak-" The heavy doorshaft turned sound, and a huge quaint double door was slowly pushed open, and there was no dim and gloomy inside. There was light, thrown from the open dome of the main hall, through the gaps of countless intertwined vines and leaves, hitting the plants growing on both sides of the main hall, reflecting a burst of vitality. In the middle of the hall is a main area paved with small gravel half a meter square, and the old stone tables and stone chairs are arranged in an orderly manner on both sides, separating the main area of the hall from the plants on both sides, and the uneven shrubs poking out from behind the chairs, like playful children looking with curious eyes.

"Come in, kid." The heroic man did not look back, and walked towards the middle of the main hall without hurrying, followed by a water-green shadow and a gray-robed old man, as well as Kazama Yangyu who was looking left and right.

Kazama was a little afraid to get too close to this mild-mannered-looking heroic man now, and he had not yet recovered from the shadows that had just been thrown down by the other party and then by the excited crowd.

"I know you must have a lot to ask right now, but allow me to introduce myself first." It was only when he reached the middle of the main hall that the man stopped and turned around, "I am the leader of the light elves in Alheim, the land of light, and the world calls me 'the Elven King', but I prefer to be called by the name given by my parents. ”

"Hi Elf King, nice to meet you!" "Fortunately, I have heard the prestige of the Elf King for a long time, and when I saw it today, it was really extraordinary, and it was really a blessing for three lives." "Oh? You're the Elven King, but it's a little different from what you imagined. "Ah, His Royal Highness the Elf King, Wencheng Wude, thousands of years, dominate the rivers and lakes! Please take the villain's knees! Kazama didn't expect that he would meet a boss-level character when he first arrived, although he was not scared to pee his pants, but he was speechless for a while, and he didn't know what to say, and he turned a thousand words of greeting in his heart, but he couldn't say a word.

"This is the greatest primitive-speaker of our elves, Barbatos." The Elven King nodded to the gray-clothed old man on his left again.

"And you hug—over, little girl, Qian."

The girl in the aqua green dress blushed when she heard the word "hug", which was deliberately stretched, and glanced timidly at Kazama Yangyu, and then lowered her head again.

"I ......" Kazama was tempted to explain, but quickly gave up on the idea that seemed unrealistic.

"I know what you want to know most right now is why we summoned you." As if he had expected Kazama's reaction, the elf king did not wait for the other party to answer him, "Actually, the reason is very simple. ”

The abrupt pause seemed to be deliberately brewing a solemn atmosphere.

"For God is dead."

"God? He's dead? Kazama Yangyu is a little stunned, as a good boy who believes in science, he naturally doesn't believe in any gods in the world, but since he came to this world, all kinds of unbelievable things have made him accept this rather nonsense sentence to a certain extent. But the question is, why doesn't it sound so big in the mouth of the Elf King? And the key question is, what does it matter if God dies, according to the general setting of the novel, is he being called as a new generation of gods?

This one...... If you sincerely plead, it's not that you can't agree to it...... Kazama nodded secretly.

"Listen to my story first."

The Elf King patted the shoulder of Kazama, who was thinking wildly, and stood with his hands in his hands.

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, after the accumulation of generations of civilization, the civilization of this dimension finally reached a point of unprecedented prosperity, and human beings also began their own god-making projects." His eyes were blurred, and his mind seemed to return to that era, "It was at that time that dragons, spirits, angels, giants, elves, mermaids, orcs and other intelligent races outside of humans appeared, all of which were the products of the failure of god-making, but the god-making plan succeeded after all." As a result, a large number of gods were born, and most of the gods broke through the limitations of the dimension with an unprecedentedly prosperous civilization and reached a higher dimension, and in the end, only five gods were left to stay in this dimensional management order. Originally, this dimension should have been peaceful like this...... However, hundreds of thousands of years of immortality finally drove the five gods into madness, and the war of the gods broke out. In that battle, the earth cracked, lava gushed, mountains toppled upside, and all races were swept into the war waged by their own gods. Everything is slowly moving towards the brink of destruction. ”

Kazama listened motionlessly, imagining the earth-shattering battle of that ancient era, and his hands clenched unconsciously.

"When all living beings thought they were going to be annihilated by this war, something unexpected happened." He paused, a hint of devotion on his face, "The sixth god appeared, without warning. He defeated the remaining gods one by one and ended the war. The living beings all cheered at that moment, celebrating the aftermath of the catastrophe. But no one noticed that the god who suddenly appeared at the end was actually mortally wounded in the battle with other gods. In the remaining tens of thousands of years, the god used the remnants of civilization to establish the current dimensional 'system' called the 'Atrium', and then divided his godhead into seven and gave it to his seven most loyal followers, thus creating seven sub-gods. They are the seven gods of original sin who are now revered as gods in this civilization. ”

"The Seven Deadly Sins?" Kazama suddenly thought of this word and blurted it out.

Yes, they are the masters of the seven deadly sins, which represent pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and laziness. These original sins of humanity are counterbalanced by them, and they also derive strength from them. The entire dimension has spent tens of thousands of years comfortably in this balance, thanks of course, thanks to the blood oath of the Seven Clans made before the god disappeared. As he spoke, under Kazama's stunned expression, he took out a strangely shaped blade and gently slashed it on his arm. The blade, as thin as a cicada's wing, opened a tiny cut in the skin, and blood gushed out of it, and finally slowly dripped down.

The moment the blood was low, a colorful glare suddenly flashed on the surface of the blood, gorgeous and bewitching.

"It's ......"

"This is the blood oath of the seven races, and when God made the seven most prosperous races—humans, spirits, elves, mermaids, orcs, angels, and demons formed by the depravity of other races—make an oath of non-aggression at the cost of their own bloodlines, and if any of them break this oath, this colorful glare will become a curse, and slowly lead to the demise of this race."

"This god is really worthy of the name of God, in order to avoid the misery of life, he actually did this step......" Kazama Shoha suddenly liked this god a little, if he could still hear his own prayers, he might choose to chat with the other party.

Yan smiled, "Actually, not only because of God's mercy, but more importantly, because he made a prophecy before disappearing, and the content of the prophecy revealed another catastrophe in heaven and earth......

"Heaven and Earth...... Catastrophe? ”

"Yes, after the prophecy, he did two things, one is the blood oath of the Seven Clans, and the other is ......" said him, with a wave of his hand, a flash of electric light flashed in the space in front of him, and then a huge circular film slowly appeared in a distortion, and in the middle of the film, there was a blue planet.

"Earth?"

The lightning flickered, Kazama Yang Yu unconsciously took a step back, and when he looked up, he saw this planet that he was very familiar with, although he had only seen it on the picture, but as long as the people who passed the geography score should be able to recognize it, but at this moment, he suddenly had a feeling of trance.

"Yes, according to your name, it is your earth."

He nodded, and the earth slowly spun and then shrunk.

"But it's not in a stable space, but a gap in space, a gap in the space created by the god."

By the time he said this, the earth in the film had shrunk rapidly, merging into a silver disk-shaped point of light, and the point of light continued to shrink, forming a new point of light with other points of light flying from the edge of the film, and then continued to shrink, and so on, I don't know how many times, and finally turned into pitch black.

The pitch-black space didn't last long, and colorful translucent spheres began to appear around it, squeezing around the pitch black, and finally gradually stopped.

"Although the actual relationship between dimensions is not enough to explain it in this way, in three-dimensional space, this should be a more reasonable way of expression."

Kazama looked at the ever-changing film for a moment, and nodded blankly in reply.

"Different dimensions are adjacent to each other, just like these colorful spheres, there should be no gaps between them, but the dimensions will continue to be born, because it is also constantly disappearing." After a pause, like a trick, an orange suddenly appeared in his hand, broke it with his hand, and then threw half of the petal with a deformed small orange petal to Kazama Akiwa, "It's like, when you peel off an orange, you will accidentally find a small orange petal sandwiched between two normal oranges, and the prototype of the newly born dimension is the spatial gap, or in other words, only the spatial gap can evolve into a new dimension." ”

Kazama was startled by the orange that was suddenly thrown over, and hurriedly took it, and glanced thoughtfully at the misshapen little orange petal.

"So, our dimension is unstable?" Kazama didn't know what he was talking about, but the words naturally slipped out of his mouth, "Just like this? ”

Kazama swallowed the small orange in one gulp.

"Not only is the dimensional gap very unstable, but even the formed dimension is easily disturbed by other adjacent dimensions. Of course, this kind of interference includes both intelligent life forms and the dimension itself. So, the other thing God did to avoid the Holocaust was to create the dimensional gap where your earth is located, and to create life on it! ”

As he said this, he suddenly squinted his eyes and laughed.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, oranges are sour."

Kazama's mouth chewing oranges stopped, and the violent sour taste spread in his mouth and nose, and he couldn't catch it in one breath, and coughed violently, "cough cough ......"

"But, not to mention the age of the universe we are in, the Earth we are on alone is already 4.55 billion years old?" Kazama tried to argue with him, after all, the "fact" he suddenly heard was too subversive.

"Did you see it with your own eyes? Or has there always been a civilization that has lasted for 4.55 billion years? He smiled, but didn't wait for him to answer, "Actually, your dimension has only appeared for tens of thousands of years, and there have been four civilizations, but because there is no checks and balances similar to the seven sub-gods, the seven deadly sins accumulated by intelligent beings finally broke out, leading to destruction again and again. You, on the other hand, are the fifth civilization. ”

"Gollum ......"

Kazama finally swallowed the orange, which was so sour that it could be squeezed directly into vinegar.

"Most of the living and non-living beings in that dimension were created by God over the course of seven days based on some of the characteristics of this dimension." Yan said slowly, but the more he got to the back, the more he spoke, the more slowly he spoke, "On the first day, he cut through the dimensional gap; Day 2; He laid down the laws by which all things work according to our dimension; On the third day, he materialized the energy of the dimension, and chaos appeared; On the fourth day, chaos condensed into countless nebulae, and light and darkness were born; On the fifth day, God created all non-intelligent lifeforms; On the sixth day, God created intelligent creatures such as humans; Day 7......"

"God is dead." Kazama looked at the suddenly dimmed gaze of the mourner, and continued.

Three words, with strange magic, lingered in the air of the hall like a ghost, lingering for a long time.

Then, it was finally broken by the slightly nasal voice of a teenager.

"But why? Since we are gods, we can directly prevent the prophecy from happening, so why did we create that dimension? ”

"Theoretically, it may work, and he did use the blood oath of the Seven Clans as a kind of interference, but in fact, God himself knows that all this cannot escape the law of fate." Suddenly, he sighed slightly, "This kind of law is called Heavenly Dao. ”