In just a few days, Argos, with a resident population of 2 million, has reached a literacy rate of 99 percent, compared to 1 percent before.

It can have a 1% level, or because Argos is the capital of the most prosperous country in the world, the most prosperous city, and if it is replaced by other cities or other countries, it is not even 1%.

Not everyone is like Javier, who needs to see both divine grace and divine might, and even become godly disciples after being directly saved by the gods, the vast majority of people directly become Qin Heng's devout disciples when they feel the substantial benefits brought by divine grace and feel the difference between the new gods and the old gods.

Harvesting nearly two million believers in a few days, it seems that there is only 1 million more faith power every month, not to mention compared to Qin Heng's current realm, it is not worth mentioning at all compared to the more than one billion believers that Qin Heng himself has.

But in fact, this is of great significance to Qin Heng.

Because he is conquering and mastering the world.

The gods of Mount Olympus perceived this.

"If he is allowed to continue, it will only take a few years, and at least half of humanity will become his believers, and for us, it will definitely be more than half of the believers, because those who believe in God will be more likely to believe in God." Apollo, the god of light, said in a loud voice in the temple: "Of the two million people of Argos, 100,000 are still our followers, but now, I can feel that 60,000 of them no longer believe in us, and even the remaining 40,000 will no longer pray to us every day. ”

Thinking that in a few years, they might be able to increase their divine power and recover only two-fifths or less of what they are now, due to the drastic reduction of their followers, the gods felt that death was getting closer and closer to them.

The god of war Ares said loudly: "Not only will we become weaker, when he has hundreds of millions of believers, his strength will definitely be stronger than now, even if he does not ask believers to pray to him to obtain more faith power, as long as we wait a few years, we will be able to harvest the faith power that we need hundreds of years to harvest, and we will completely lose the ability to fight him." ”

The most terrifying thing is not that you are gradually getting weaker, but that while you are getting weaker, the enemy is still getting stronger.

Poseidon brandished his trident and shouted: "Then let's go to war with him directly, even if Athena doesn't gain his trust, it should make him lower his guard, let Athena directly attack him, and then all our gods will go up together, and we will definitely be able to kill him." ”

The gods nodded their heads, and they approved of Poseidon's plan.

But Zeus asked, "Do you know which one is the real him?"

Hearing this question, the gods were silent, they actually have the ability to conjure up clones, but although the clones they conjured up were extremely real to mortals, they could easily tell in the eyes of the gods whether they were true or false.

They can all see it, and Qin Heng must be able to see it too.

However, they couldn't see Qin Heng's clone and body.

"He said he was a new god, a god-king of the kingdom of God, but in fact, I didn't feel Godhead in him." Zeus said: "This means that there are two possibilities, the first possibility is that he has no godhead, and the second possibility is that he who appears in front of us has never been the real him, even if he appears in front of us and shows a stronger divine power than us, he is not the real him." Do you think that he, who claims to be a god-king and may even have complete control over a world, may not have a godhead?"

The answer to this question is obvious, and the gods are silent.

If you can't kill the real opponent but take the lead in starting a war, it means that the other party is given the opportunity to destroy the humans in this world, so that they completely lose the source of their divine power.

Poseidon said dissatisfiedly: "Then we must also find a way to stop him, if there is no way, I will definitely not wait until he is stronger and we are weaker before going to war." ”

Both left and right are dying, so why not choose to fight to the death

Few of the gods were willing to live and die.

"We can follow his example and teach human literacy and other things for free." The goddess of the hunt proposed: "We have more popularity than him, we have believers ourselves, we can gather the believers we still have, and let them help us spread these things, so that more people can benefit from us, and then, even if there are many people who will become his followers, we will have more believers than before." ”

The number of believers determines the amount of divine power, and the proposal of the goddess of hunting is approved by several main gods.

The goddess of agriculture and harvest said, "I can help them get more food, tell them how to plant to get more harvest, and even use some divine powers to help them, as long as they are willing to continue to believe in Me and provide me with divine powers through prayer." ”

"Although I see that there is a lot of knowledge in his library, there is no way to acquire truly useful skills just by reading books, and I can personally teach them how to make the tools they need, and in this way, I should be able to redeem some faith, or even increase some faith." ”

The gods began to speak, they were the godheads of the embodiment of the rules of this world, and they possessed a lot of knowledge and were able to use the rules to help humanity.

However, in the past, they were high up and believed that human beings were created by them, so they should believe that they prayed to them every day, and occasionally gave human beings some favors, and they did it casually.

Until now, Qin Heng had given them a serious sense of crisis, forcing them to start thinking of ways to help humanity in exchange for faith.

But not all of us have the ability to help humanity directly.

For example, Dionysus, the god of wine, originally he could also gain faith by helping humans make good wine, but Qin Heng's temple of knowledge has hundreds of brewing methods for fine wine, and humans don't need him at all.

For example, Hermes, the god of thieves, travelers, and merchants, has few believers in his own right, and after Qin Heng proposed the rule of law, there are even fewer of them.

For example, Poseidon, the main god whose status is second only to Zeus among the Olympian gods, could have been able to obtain faith by helping fishermen, but Qin Heng's knowledge temple has a lot of knowledge about fishing, including the habits of different fish groups, the currents in the sea, and so on.

Unless he uses divine power to change those rules and forcibly drive the fish out of the range where humans can fish, but this kind of coercion to obtain faith is itself much less than pious faith, and Qin Heng has negotiated with Zeus before that the conditions of non-coercion can be coerced.

So there was joy and sorrow.

"Therefore, you will give up on us." Poseidon's voice was full of anger and said, "You will watch us lose our faith and then our divine powers, and finally fall into eternal sleep."

Hearing Poseidon say this, the rejoicing gods understood the predicament facing Poseidon.

Zeus pondered for two seconds and then said, "We can give you a part of the divine power we have acquired, so that you will not fall asleep, and you are not completely without the opportunity to obtain the power of faith. He gave us a way to redeem our faith when we were about to lose it, and if we were willing to help humanity, then humanity would believe in us again and we would become stronger than we are now. ”

"Help humanity" Poseidon suddenly laughed and said, "The one who created humanity and said that humanity should believe in our Zeus"

Zeus also glared at Poseidon and said: "Then you tell me, what other way do we have to start a divine war, and then destroy the human beings in our world, or even destroy our world, tell me, can we still survive at that time?"

Poseidon took a deep breath, glanced at the gods around him, and after feeling their evasive or supportive gazes, he looked at Zeus and said in a calm tone: "Of course we have other ways, as long as we wake up the sleeping Kronus in the underworld, our father, then we can have divine power and endless lifespan even if we don't have the power of faith, and with the strength of our father, we can easily kill the god of that other world." ”

Hearing the name Kronos, Zeus's eyes were full of anger, and he roared: "Don't forget, he once ate you, as well as Hestia, Teheter, Hera, Hades, if I hadn't saved you, you would have always fallen asleep in his belly." Don't forget, too, that we put him to sleep, and if he wakes up, he will eat you outright. ”

Except for Hades, the names mentioned by Zeus are all one of the twelve main gods of Olympus, and they are also the brothers and sisters of Zeus and Poseidon.

Kronos is the god-king of the second generation of gods in this world, the king of the Titans, and when he overthrew the rule of the first god-king Ouranos, he was cursed by Ouranos to overthrow his rule by his children, repeating this fate.

The first god-king Ouranos was the first rule embodiment of life in this world, and he didn't even have a godhead because he was the rule himself. His strength terrified Kronos, and he ate every child he gave birth to.

Until one day when Zeus was born, he was not eaten by Kronos because of the protection of his mother and the titans of other second-generation gods, and later he united many second-generation gods and third-generation gods to finally overthrow his father's rule and use the most powerful artifact in the world to plunge his father into an eternal slumber.

Zeus's words reminded the gods of the fear of being dominated by Kronos, and they all spoke out to dissuade Poseidon.

But Poseidon said unmoved: "We could compete with him at the beginning, but now if we meet him in the past, we will only be easily killed by him, and we are much weaker than before." And although he didn't need the power of faith, he had been sleeping for tens of thousands of years, and he was much weaker than before. Most importantly, we have the artifacts that can put him to sleep, your lightning spear, my trident, Hades's two-strand fork, which, if combined, will be able to put him to sleep again. So, we can actually talk to him. ”

Hearing Poseidon's words, the gods changed their positions again like grass on the wall.

Zeus felt the eyes of the gods, and he knew that more than half of the gods wanted to support Poseidon, not only because of the current crisis, but also because they had long since had enough of relying on human faith for divine power.

Kronos can directly obtain divine power from this world, and if the world is not destroyed, then Cronos's divine power will never be used up.

This is the talent possessed by the second generation of God Titans.

As Kronos' children, they did not inherit this talent, but as long as Kronos was 'alive' and willing to help them, they could also have endless divine powers.

After a moment of silence, Zeus said, "Then you go and talk to him, as long as you dare to go." ”

Poseidon smiled, turned around and left the Temple of the Gods, flying directly to the underworld.

Zeus's gaze also looked at the underworld, which could have been easily seen through, but at this moment, there was an area filled with gray-black smoke that blocked his vision.

The gods also looked to the underworld, but when Zeus couldn't see through it, they couldn't see through it.

In the underworld, Hades looked at the giant in front of him as tall as a mountain, his eyes were full of fear, even if the giant was still asleep, he could feel the power that made him afraid.

If it weren't for the fact that he had an artifact in his hand that could hurt the giant, he wouldn't even dare to stand here.

When Poseidon came to him with another artifact, the Trident, which could hurt giants, the fear in his eyes lessened.

"Zeus didn't dare to come, he was afraid, he was not only afraid of Kronos, he was also afraid of the god of that other world." Poseidon's tone was sarcastic, and he told him about the inside of the Temple of the Gods.

Hades wasn't surprised, he didn't go because he had seen the result a long time ago.

"The premise of talking to Cronus is that we have to find a way to really wake him up, and I think Zeus's divine power is completely sufficient."

Poseidon was stunned for a moment and said, "But if you only use his divine power to awaken Kronos, he will fall into an eternal sleep because he has lost all his divine power." We can gather the power of the twelve main gods and yours, so that we don't have to fall into a deep sleep, and when Kronos wakes up, he can help us replenish our powers, and even give us more powers. ”

Hades laughed and asked, "If Cronus wakes up, then Zeus, who is no longer the king of the gods, should rule where should my underworld or your sea"

Poseidon was silent.