What is a god?

This is a religious-philosophical question that is difficult for even devout believers to answer.

According to the Church for thousands of years, the gods are like the protectors and shepherds of mankind, protecting believers from evil forces, and this statement has always been marketable in those dark ages when monsters are rampant, but the priests who spread the charism have consciously or unconsciously ignored the fact that the gods' efforts are not gratuitous.

- Faith!

Human beings still don't know what this kind of thing is used for, but there is no doubt about one thing, the gods have been working hard to collect faith, and the divine canon is sprinkled with hundreds of thousands of words, but there is actually only one core, that is, the exchange of faith and divine power.

Believers offer faith to the gods, and the gods give the priests divine powers.

Although humans have always worshipped the gods, for thousands of years, the two sides have actually been in such an interdependent relationship.

Humans need gods, and gods need humans as well.

Until the appearance of the magician, the role of the protector of the temple was invisibly weakened. In the First Magic War, Roland and the magicians he led stepped onto the stage of history, and they took the place of the guardian of the Terran Race of the Temple to some extent, and after the Second Magic War, the Magician has become the most powerful profession, and the Terran has also become the overlord of the Dawn Continent, all thanks to the rapid development of magical civilization.

But behind the prosperity is a crisis facing the church and the divine knowledge that the church represents.

Over time, the Sorcerers' Guild is gradually replacing the Temple as the guardian of humanity.

"We are facing the same problem as the Four-Eyed 'Man' civilization, the development of magic has made humanity's dependence on the gods diminishing, while at the same time our threat is increasing, which will inevitably warn those things, because the previous dependency is evolving into a one-sided parasitic relationship. ”

"What are the gods?" Rob asked the previous question again, this time he didn't talk about history, but gave his answer straightforwardly, "If the gods were the patrons of mankind thousands of years ago, now they are becoming parasites on us little by little. ”

Luo Luo was taken aback by this appalling statement, and she felt a little difficult to accept, "But, but you said it...... Magic was created by the gods, so why would they create a force that would threaten their position. ”

The future Ultra Magister raised his fingers, " Two reasons, the first is the vault theory I told you before, in order to cover up the existence of the Force, they had to split it into two powers, that is, the current divine power and magic, they gave the least threatening divine power to humans first, and the use of magic was discovered by Merlin, the modern magic system created by Roland has been thousands of years later than the divine power, but once magic appears, they can't stop the development of magic, or rather, they don't want to stop it. ”

"Don't want to stop it?"

"Yes, don't forget their relationship with humans, whether it is symbiosis or parasitism, their interests are the same as humans in a sense, they want humans to be strong, because only when humans are strong and the population continues to multiply, it can absorb more believers and gain more faith, but on the other hand, they don't want humans to be too strong, because this will make humans gradually out of their control, no longer need to worship them, and at the same time become as dangerous as the four-eyed 'human' civilization. ”

"I shouldn't have publicized the mana-sharing mechanism. His Excellency the future Ultra Magister said frankly.

After meeting the light giant at the top of Annarip's mountain, Rob had already felt a little worried about the future of the Terrans in his heart, perhaps even he didn't realize that a large part of the reason why he took out the mana sharing mechanism so quickly was because of a sense of crisis in his heart, but now it seems that this is not necessarily a good thing.

The gods have already sensed the threat of humanity, and the emergence of a mana sharing mechanism may deepen this sense of threat.

"I hope I'm just overthinking, normally we haven't gotten to the point of those four-eyed 'people', and even if the gods have the ability, they won't easily destroy a civilization, because it means that they will have to wait for the next civilization to appear, so as to continue to collect faith, which should not be an easy thing for them. ”

Rob paused, "You're in trouble, Matata gave you a check-up and found a Force toxin lurking in your blood. ”

"Toxins, in my blood, wait, isn't it in the spirit world?"

"We've been in the wrong direction from the start, and the hallucinations in your mental world are actually just one of the reactions of that Force toxin, so my teacher couldn't find anything unusual before. ”

"When did I get poisoned, and how do I not know?"

"Matata said that this Force toxin may have it when you are very young, this seems to be an extremely rare natural toxin, but everyone's incubation period is different, if it is short, it may be a few months, and if it is long, it may be more than ten years, strictly speaking, it can't even be called a toxin, because except for those hallucinations, it will not cause any harm to your body, on the contrary, it will also imperceptibly let you have the Force power"

Luo Luo was stunned, "Let me have the Force? What do you mean?"

"I'm afraid that's the real reason why you, your mother, and the girls in Katerina's plan are being targeted, the gods have to get rid of you in order to prevent the secrets of the Force from being in the hands of humans, and the Force toxin seems to have a lot of temptation for them, and the Church is only carrying out their orders...... Don't worry, although Matata can't remove the toxins in your blood, he has a way to block your breath, so that those things in the sky can no longer find you according to the smell of your soul, all you need is a simple amulet, he taught me how to make it, and I will go to the eighth layer to collect some materials later......"

The girl couldn't hear the words clearly, Luo Luo was in a trance, she began to take over her father to investigate the cause of her mother's death four years ago, no matter what difficulties she encountered along the way, she didn't give up, and she finally got the truth until now, but she didn't expect that behind this there was another civilization tens of thousands of years ago, as well as the fate of the entire human race.

(End of chapter)