The so-called superhuman being, in layman's terms, refers to a person with superpowers. Scientifically speaking, it refers to a person who has active EXP in the body. The word "active" here is the key. In general, certain external conditions are required to change the nature and structure of EXP. But the superhuman can make EXP flow freely in the body and transform it into a colorful form that can be released. The EXP that can directly adapt to changes in the human body is called "active EXP". Therefore, the natural person who is imported into EXP by the outside world is not considered a super-capable person, which will also lead to various uncomfortable reactions in the body.

There are about 100 million superhuman beings in the world, accounting for about 1/60 of the total population. That's a lot more than in the past, but their influence is not as great as it used to be. Many of the stories of the superpowers' conquest and melee have become vague phrases in history books, or legends in people's mouths, and have become unverifiable.

Now, most of the superhumans have lost their combat effectiveness, and they are mixed up with natural people, and they can't be distinguished just by their appearance. Of course, there are many settlements like Tigri Town, but most of the superhuman civilians simply retain the EXP, and there are only a few who can form a combat force, and even fewer have terrifying powers. The gap between the two is heaven and earth. For example, the Laining people who operate the air conditioner, ordinary Laining people at most make air conditioning to cool down in the summer. The combat-effective Laining people can use ice and snow as weapons, shoot low-temperature energy waves, reduce the temperature of a certain area, and even create a small-scale blizzard.

Truly threatening superhumans don't easily appear in front of people, and most governments are hiding their existence while secretly spying on these dangerous guys as much as possible.

Superhumans did not come into being out of thin air, more than 1,300 years ago, around 1190 BC. One day, an alien star broke through the atmosphere and crashed on the planet. According to the written records kept by the Royal Archives of the Arctic Kingdom, the location is in the central and western part of the Via continent, another piece of land to the west of today's Anzhou continent. Even after the depletion of the atmosphere, the diameter of this meteorite reached 300 meters. Its impact triggered a small earthquake and a brief period of haze in the sky, leveling more than 20 kilometers of nearby woods. But these are negligible compared to the impact that followed.

As soon as this meteorite, which was later called the "Mystery Star", landed, it began to radiate exp in all directions frantically. Two days after the impact, many curious people approached the Lost Star, only to be infected by EXP. They felt pain, unspeakable pain. This is not as simple as a tear in the flesh or a lesion of the internal organs, but a radical, qualitative change. It's like your arm can only bend inward, but now there's a force that makes it bend outward.

These people come into contact with EXP, leave with pain, and pass on the pain to others. In a month's time, 8% of the population in Via was infected. People call it the plague, and it's really no different from the plague. The Mystic Star is also known as "Istis", which means "incurable disease" in the Viagian language. The spread of the plague centered around Istis accelerated by the fact that infected residents fled in all directions. Several countries on the continent of Via tried to stop this, but could not do anything.

About a year after the arrival of Istis, the "plague" gradually stopped spreading. It may be due to the limited energy of Istis and the gradual stabilization of EXP entering the human body, but it has brought irreversible effects. Nearly half of the infected died, and the rest actually experienced the change, the complete change. They are still human, but they have become capable of manipulating fire, ice, lightning, wind, and even more strange powers. These powers used to exist only in myths and religious teachings, and when they actually appeared, it taught those worshippers of the power of Ye Gong Hao Long a good lesson.

Monsters, as they are called, are called the unfortunate ones who first become superpowers.

Today, of course, scientists have explained the above phenomenon. The first is the appearance of Istis, proving that EXP is widespread in the universe. The second is that superhumans are special in their brains, and some neurons have been transformed into power elements by EXP, which is the main body that generates and manipulates active EXP. Superhumans have different abilities because of the different basic structures of the power elements. The quantity and size determine the strength of the ability. As for why there are force elements with different structures, this question has not been clarified until now.

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"I'll go home first, and I'll come back at lunch."

After sending off the Presbyterian Church, Poval kissed his wife goodbye and returned home, reporting to his father about the before and after. Hody breathed a sigh of relief, the coming day will be long, and there will always be a way for things in the future.

Beauval's home was small, an ordinary rural brick house, divided into his and his wife's room, his father's room, a kitchen, a storage room, and a hallway. Poval returned to his room and lay down on the double bed. There is a small bookcase next to the bed, and he is used to reading books before going to bed for hypnosis. Relaxed, he pulled a book that was laid horizontally.

This is a children's book about mythological tales related to superhuman beings, which he bought three months ago. Read for half an hour before bedtime every time, so that it can come in handy after the child is born. Today he really felt that this was not a myth.

The birth of the superman made the Via continent completely chaotic. Some people are afraid and consider them a symbol of disaster. Some welcomed and wanted them to join their armies to expand their power. Driven by two realizations, the superhuman becomes a war machine. They were very popular with the army and rulers, but at the same time they were ostracized and disgusted by the common people. Not only that, but the soldiers weren't friendly to them either, and who knows if these monsters would suddenly turn against them or make themselves one of them?

Either way, the superhumans began to rejoin the world in a new form. For more than a hundred years since the appearance of the superhumans, they have been fighting for the good of the king, and ordinary cold weapons are vulnerable to these true magicians. The war once became a contest of the number of superpowers, and their status continued to rise, and some of them became less and less satisfied with this status.

At that time, superhumans were discovered to have eight different basic abilities. Similarly capable superhumans gradually come together, dividing all superpowers into eight new groups. Over time, they formed their own cultures and customs, and became eight independent ethnic groups, which continue to this day.

Many years passed, and in 1050 BC, all the superhuman races were divided into two camps. Among them, the four peoples of Dinik, Pabaya, Gallepo and Harruf came together to reach a consensus. In a word, superhuman beings should not continue to be tools of natural persons.

At that time, the strongest country on the continent of Via was the Gulagosh Empire, which had a powerful army of 30,000 skilled and capable supermen. The king went on a crusade in the hope of taking the whole continent of Via into his pocket. The leaders of the four ethnic groups mentioned above all held important positions in Gulagosh. They grew dissatisfied with the king's arrogance, and the idea of the elect took root in their hearts. The power of superhuman beings is a godsend, and God is definitely not asking us to work for natural people in doing this. Why don't we stand on our own, instead of doing things for the mediocrity?

So, they banded together and called themselves "Quedren", which means "free one" in Via. Quedren wiped out the royal family of Gulagosh and occupied most of its territory in a week's time. They founded a new state, a nation of superhuman beings, and then declared war on other nations. At the same time, they also warmly welcome more superhumans to join, hoping that all superpowers can unite together and rule the world.

However, the opposite is true. The remaining four peoples, Powi, Lenin, Banderru and Karin, did assemble, but not to join, but to fight. The four peoples had lost interest in conquest and did not want any more fighting. They believe that superhumans are part of the world and that only by maintaining a humble mindset can they truly survive. Otherwise, it will only bring destruction to others and to yourself. After the advent of Quedren, these four peoples also formed a union, calling themselves "Macleton", which means "humble heart" in Via.

In 1048 BCE, Quedlun declared Macton a "traitor to the gods", and in the autumn of that year, he attacked the city of Guresatta and slaughtered the city, known in history as the "Sorrow of Gallesata". Since then, the two factions have been completely opposed, and they have been fighting each other for hundreds of years. There were no peace talks, no intermissions, only brutal killings. This is the case among superpowers, who use power to decide everything. As a result, the continent of Via has been plunged into a long period of turmoil. It wasn't until 882 BC that a breakthrough discovery was made by the senior members of Quedren.

When Istis came, the place where it fell was regarded as a sacred place for the gods—a god that supernatural people believed in and who provided them with great power, and which no one had entered for hundreds of years. But some of Quedren believe that there must be a secret of God hidden there that will help them overcome Macleton, and that it is worth discovering. So they recruited a group of volunteers, and after performing a series of irrelevant rituals asking the gods for forgiveness, they stepped into the holy land. They were surprised to find that the large meteorite, Istis, with a diameter of 300 meters, had disappeared.

The discovery quickly spread within Quedren. The leader of the Dynick clan at the time, the High Priestess of the Night, Dynick Evan Aried, showed great interest. He took a dozen of his followers to the crater to investigate, and saw with his own eyes the crater, as well as the trees that had regrown around it.

Did someone take Istis away? This is not a zero, but it is quite small. The depletion of Istis's power has long been confirmed, and for what purpose did someone remove a useless boulder?

Aled stood in the crater thinking, his brain cells sprang up to speed. He didn't come up with an answer to the question, but he heard a voice, a muffled whisper.

“………… Summoning ............"

The high priest looked around, his entourage was searching in the pit, and the closest to him was more than twenty meters, not the distance that a whisper could reach, and the ears of the superhuman were still normal. Believing that he was hallucinating, Arlid was about to go outside the pit to rest, but the same whisper came again, causing him to stop his steps.

"Who?" He shouted.

Several of the retinue looked at their leader in amazement. Aried asked if they had heard anything, and the answer was all negative. But Arlid was sure that there must be a voice that seemed to call him. The reason why others can't hear it may be because the sound comes directly into their heads, and their strength is not strong enough, in today's words, it is a lack of strength. So, if you concentrate your forces and amplify them, will you be able to hear them more clearly?

Curiosity drove Aried. He planted a twig in the ground beneath his feet to mark it, and then immediately ended his expedition and returned to his temporary lodgings not far from here. He ordered his men to prepare and find more priests. In addition, it is equipped with a special helmet, which can expand the area of influence of the power element to release EXP, which is called power amplification. In this way, the empathy of multiple people should have a better effect. In the end, the power of the Dinike was only at its greatest effect at night, so he demanded that all of the above preparations be completed before dark.

Late that night, twenty Dinnik priests were called. These people are all priests of the Denik clan, and although their combat ability is average, they have unparalleled spiritual strength. Everyone wore the ornate blue and black robes of the Dinike clan and wore power-amplifying helmets. Aried and the priests entered the crater, ready to begin the ritual. Outside the crater, there are guards standing to keep everyone safe.

Aried walked around the pit, found the branch he had left behind during the day, took it out and threw it away. The branch left a small hole in the ground, and Aled carefully moved his feet so that the small hole was just in the middle of the gap between the two feet, and the whole formed a near-perfect symmetry between the left and right with the small hole as the center. This neurotic movement was taken for granted by Aried, as he wanted to ensure the same position and environment as during the day.

As Aried settled on his position, the twenty priests began to take their positions. All people stand in a circle centered on Aried, the distance between each person is the same, and the radius of this circle is three meters. This is the standard formation in a small ritual of worshipping the gods in Quedren, and there is no room for error. The priests were ready to wait for Aried's command.

"Let's get started." Aled said.

At the same time, the priests concentrate the active EXP of the whole body in the brain, activate the helmet, and use the helmet to increase the strength, while reciting words in their mouths. For a time, with Aried as the center, a powerful EXP energy field surrounded everyone. In this environment, everyone can share information with the help of EXP. That is, if only one person hears that mysterious voice, all will hear it.

As the minutes ticked by, no one heard anything. The guards outside were a little worried that the ritual would continue to oppress the priests' brains and should not be carried out for a long time. Twenty minutes had passed, and the usual limit of the ritual was half an hour, which was not good. Someone tried to stop the ceremony, but they didn't dare to step forward. The sin of disturbing the priest is too great to be punished with death.

"I hear you!"

Aried's excited voice rang out, and the other priests cheered—they heard it too. It's a language they've never heard before, but in an EXP environment, they can understand what it means.

"The gods of Our. With the strongest power in the world, the most perfect vessel, summon me! ”

The voice was low and long. The priests immediately knelt down in unison, raised their hands in the air, shouted "Abuliqilabri" – the Viagian word for "God is visible", and then took off their helmets and prostrated repeatedly until they bled out. When the ceremony was over, Aried, despite his physical exhaustion, summoned the priests to a meeting on the spot. They quickly came to the conclusion that God was calling them, and that was no doubt a sign that God was going to help. In today's world when superhuman beings are divided into two factions and fighting each other, what could be more gratifying than God's help?

Without further ado, Aried immediately sent someone to inform the leaders of the other three clans of this matter overnight. At dawn the next day, the leaders of the three tribes, Pabaya Litton Del Kole, the ghost king of the Pabaya, the holy warrior Galepo Vernon Milton of the Gallebo, and Harif Maren Syndicos, the son of the sun of the Harif, hurried to meet Aried. After a short consultation, everyone hit it off and began to prepare for the summoning of the gods.

According to the revelations of the gods, the summoning ritual requires "the strongest strength" and "the most perfect vessel". Based on the conservative calculation of the strength of the force field generated by Aried's ritual, it is estimated that 1,000 Aried will need to perform the ritual at the same time. But as the leader, Aried's strength is far beyond that of ordinary superhumans. If there is no quality, it has to be made up for by quantity.

Within two months, the leaders of the four clans were carefully selected and gathered a total of about 50,000 people. In fact, it didn't take that long to gather manpower, they had to trim the crater, dig up the trees and weeds, make the ground as smooth as possible, and prepare more amplification items - you guessed it right, these 50,000 people were to be like the previous twenty priests, centered on the four leaders, in concentric circles. In order to reflect the importance of the ritual, a temporary altar was built centered around the place where Ared performed the ritual, and all the booster items were newly crafted.

The ceremony is still held at night, also for the convenience of the Diniks. There are three layers of five thousand people and three layers outside, and the dense concentric circles are very spectacular. In terms of props, not only the helmet is used, but also the amplification chain with the same material and effect as the helmet is used, and everyone on the same circle must be connected together with chains to conduct energy to each other. In addition, it is necessary to accurately calculate the distance and location, which is cumbersome and abnormal. It took two hours just to set up the formation.

"Very well, let's start summoning the gods!" Aled announced in a high voice.

Suddenly, a dark EXP energy field appeared, slowly enveloping the sky above the field. All the people here have a fanatical thirst for gods and power. Their blind faith, excitement and eagerness blend together with EXP. Under the moonlight, the evil emanating from this unclean force is enough to make anyone shudder. Just breathe in the air and you can go crazy.

As Quedren's most prestigious priest, Aried was gratefully appointed by the crowd to take on the task of "container". He stood in the center of the circle, surrounded by the leaders of the other three clans. The four of them clearly felt that under their feet, a powerful force that had never been seen before was approaching. In ten minutes, a ray of light burst from under Aried's feet, from the ground into the sky, quickly enveloping him, making it impossible for others to look at him directly.

When the light faded, the three chiefs saw a man standing in the middle of them, and it was not Aried. The man was dressed in a simple cloth robe, with a thin figure and long hair touching the ground, floating under the constant black EXP fluctuations around him.

Is this God? The three leaders were suspicious, they had never thought that God would be in the same body as a human being. Gallepo Vernon Milton first asked, "Are you the god who calls to us?" ”

He soon realized that he shouldn't have asked such a stupid question. The man opened his closed eyes, and the black energy on his body was like a giant umbrella that suddenly opened, and it detained 50,000 people in it at once. It's not just energy, it's the consciousness of that person. The powerful mind made the weak superpowers outside fall to their knees due to fear, they could not withstand this huge psychological pressure, and only the three leaders could still stay awake. The man gave them a disdainful look and answered their questions.

"My name is Astaroth, and I am the destroyer of order, the natural enemy of the living! Give yourself your life now and use it for me! Hahahaha-"