Chapter 40: Trade-offs

"You're a seductive devil. Goodman gritted his teeth as he looked at the black glass beads gushing out in front of him, and suddenly let out a sigh and said, "Stop." Tell us about your requirements. ”

"Very wise choice. Yu Qian was as proud as an old fox who had just stolen a chicken, "My lord needs everything you know about Prometheus. Also, how the dense fog that covered Fort Grant came to be and how to disperse it. Tell me all. ”

"Aren't you afraid that I'll give you false information and then deceive your soul?" Goodman was still making a final effort to maintain his dignity.

"It doesn't matter. Yu Qian's tone was very relaxed, "The Lord of the Temple of Death and my Lord are both students of His Excellency Abitos. Just say hello and we'll be able to recapture the soul that bears your will. Even if we can't strip your will back, we can still imprison that poor mortal soul in the sea of divine power. ”

Yu Qian showed the carriage and told Goodman, we have enough countermeasures, and we are not afraid of your little tricks. At the same time, Goodman also understands that whether the other party will keep his promise depends entirely on the mood. Not only is he not qualified to bargain, but he also has no need to do that - it is good that the other party does not regret it. If you regret it, you will no longer be imprisoned in the sea of divine power, and there will be no change compared to the current situation.

Anyway, there is nothing left to lose, so it's better to gamble. After weighing the pros and cons, Goodman agreed to the deal.

Prometheus is indeed the first god born among humans, and he may even be the first god in the entire world of Noah. Born at almost the very beginning of human evolution, it remains to be seen whether Prometheus himself can be called a "man".

The process of Prometheus's becoming a god is basically the same as that recorded on the stone tablet that Andrei said. He started out as a very humble member of a tribe of apes. Walking upright was feasible for him, but it was still inefficient - Prometheus and his own tribesmen were usually in extremely low burrows. Walking upright only makes movement more sluggish.

Unlike his other tribesmen, Prometheus had a more violent temper. He is slow but fond of fighting, and when confronted with predators and powerful elemental creatures, Prometheus prefers to fight rather than dodge.

Prometheus' personality prevented him from getting enough food, and in this case, the primitive social division of labor gave Prometheus support. In place of Prometheus, his tribesmen would search for food and water, while Prometheus would keep them safe.

Until his tribe was attacked by the Earth Dragons.

Speaking of which, the old earth dragon may not really want to destroy the ground ape lair under his feet. It's actually more like he's getting a serious rheumatic disease because he's too old. So much so that he couldn't move his tail. Because he couldn't shake his tail at will, he couldn't stand steadily, but when he staggered back on his feet, he poked his tail into the ape's burrow.

The earth dragon is hundreds of meters tall, and the narrowest part of a tail is probably seven or eight people hugging each other. How could a crypt that required primitive people with a height of less than one and a half meters to bend down to get into it? The members of the tribe were killed and injured in an instant. And finally pulled out the tail, and the hole in the ground where primitive people relied for survival also collapsed directly. The survivors, who were lucky not to die in the first accident, died in this way.

Prometheus was the only one left.

As the dragon's tail smashed into the crypt, Prometheus grabbed a scale on the dragon's tail. Clasp the gaps between the scales with your fingernails and even bite them with your teeth. Although the scales did not move, the moment they pulled out their tails, Prometheus was also taken out of the crypt together.

The old earth dragon used the last of his strength to pull out its tail, but its four legs had no strength. The huge body like a mountain fell to the ground with a bang. During the night, a tribe of primitives living nearby dared to come to the tribe of Prometheus, not intending to rescue the wouldn-be survivors, but rather to see if there were any corpses that had fallen to the ground—the dead members of the primitive tribe would become dinner for the other tribes.

However, when the ape-men who were about to feast their feasts approached, they saw a scene that broke their hearts.

Prometheus carried a huge wooden stick and smashed open the head of the earth dragon.

The Earth Dragon had been dead for a long time, and the scales on its body had become quite fragile after they had lost the lingering earth element. And Prometheus, with a breath of anger in his chest, smashed from afternoon to night. After smashing dozens of sticks, a scale was finally cracked. Under the pressure of the blow of the stick, a stream of blood that had already cooled out and poured it on Prometheus's head.

And this scene fell seriously on the primitive tribe members who came to fight the autumn wind.

Prometheus became the hero who single-handedly avenged the entire tribe and even killed an earth dragon.

As the news spread across the plains, more and more tribes began to know about Prometheus, and they began to worship Prometheus' heroism and unyielding prowess. And these worship and reverence are condensed in Prometheus. He's getting stronger and smarter. Until the last tribe on the plains was wiped out by him, and the survivors also fell to him. Prometheus condensed his own godhead and became a barbarian god.

Just when Prometheus, who had condensed the godhead, was full of ambition, he naturally played a huge joke with him.

A rapid ice age has arrived.

The climate first alternated at a normal frequency, and by the time winter came, the tribe of Prometheus was well prepared. As soon as spring returns to the earth, the horde will climb over the Thunder Mountains and conquer all the other tribes they come across.

However, spring has not been able to fall.

After a decade-long winter, the tribe of Prometheus could not hold on. They had hoarded so much supplies in their settlements that by the time they were scarce, the snow in the vicinity was already too thick for the tribe to move. And after the last member of the tribe died of hypothermia, Prometheus also lost his last follower.

He disappeared.

Another decade passed, and the warm sun finally shone on the earth again. And the tribe of Prometheus has completely died out. All they left behind were the corpses washed away by the melted snow, and the two steles that were supposed to celebrate the great cause of Prometheus.

Until five years ago, the two steles were discovered by farmers who were cultivating fields near Fort Grant, and then paid tribute to Archduke Samuel.

After tens of thousands of years, the pattern on the stele is still clearly visible. In the form of a painting, the pattern depicts the process of Prometheus becoming a god in detail, and at the end of the stele, Prometheus himself carved a string of strange symbols.

The symbols contain the secondary divine power from Prometheus, and the purpose is to make those who come into contact with the divine power understand how to read the two tablets.

Grand Duke Samuel thus mastered the means of becoming a god. After mastering the method, Archduke Samuel's first order was to send the dead soldiers who obeyed his son's orders to kill all those who had touched the stone tablet.

Then, he put on a black cloak and traveled between the night and the alleys, single-handedly creating the Night Dancer.

It's a pity that because he didn't reveal his identity, Archduke Samuel couldn't accept the power of faith at all. As a result, the beliefs that came from the Night Dancer were transferred to two places in his body.

Most of the faith was teleported out of the temple of Abitos, where receiving the power of the ownerless faith was one of the powers of the Supreme God. The other part reawakens Prometheus, who is drifting and sleeping in the gap between time and space and nothingness.

Prometheus, who reawakens and still has a godhead, inadvertently activates and creates his own temple in the process of finding a place to settle after awakening. And it was at that time that Goodman and the others escaped from the sea of divine power and served Prometheus.

It seems that because the original earth dragon was so important to Prometheus, there were portraits of the earth dragon everywhere inside and outside his temple - even on the costume of the servant. Therefore, the team will mistake Yu Qian, who is wearing a python robe, for the priest of the primordial temple.

Awakening, Prometheus sensed his weakness, and he angrily believed that it was all because outsiders had stolen his followers and territory. And the peasants who were engaged in agricultural activities near Fort Grant were directly regarded by him as sacrifices for evil rituals.

In order to correct his weakened state, it is necessary to stop agricultural activities and drive out these guys who have been stolen from their faith. Then he re-spread his religion.

After several months, the Primordial Temple finally found a perfect location for placing the enchantment about fifty kilometers southwest of Fort Grant.

While diving underground, Goodman accidentally discovered a vein of water with extremely high pressure, and the surface of the vein happened to be a basin that was not too large. He chiseled through the veins of water and released high-pressure groundwater into the basin.

Goodman opened an opening at the lowest point of the basin to release groundwater, which was 10 meters wide, but still spewed out a column of water hundreds of meters high. Less than a week after the water was released, the basin became a huge lake. And the lake is still expanding at an alarming rate.

With the water vapor of this man-made lake, an enchantment with the blood and teeth of the barbarian god at its core quickly took shape. It brought a dense fog area of the enchantment with a radius of up to 200 kilometers.

"The good thing is that we have a long life. Prometheus said to Goodman and the others, "If it doesn't work in one year, it will be five years, and if it doesn't work in five years, it will be ten years." It doesn't matter if you wait fifty or a hundred years - this is my territory. Only me and my tribe can live here, and those outsiders must get out!" Prometheus, who had just woken up from his slumber, was too weak after all, and after several trade-offs, he could only achieve his goals by such means.