By then, the gods had weakened, but Athena could still play with the world between applause.

At that time, civilization had declined and merged, the dragon people did not believe in gods, the poisonous people were conservative and stupid, and the Esyadians were sparsely populated and backward, and Athena finally chose the Loren Empire, which occupied the center of the world.

Most of the gods of the empire at the time came from ancient Theros, but Athena's plan to bring them all down to the altar was to gain the emperor's trust in the midst of an internal turmoil within the empire, and the mortal was determined to consolidate his power with the power of the gods.

The Emperor soon discovered that a god named Science was the best choice, and his followers insisted on the idea of one God, which could serve as a metaphor for the Emperor's supremacy, and then everything fell into place.

Science had finally become an incredibly powerful god, and Athena, who had been hidden in the shadows, helped revise the doctrine so that he could fully conform to the definition of the only ancient god.

"That's the birth of science, it's an important part, our ultimate goal is to protect the world, science is a way out. ”

"You're going to use him to protect the world?"

Magellan laughed as he pointed to the beautiful blue planet in the darkness and looked at Odin.

"If there is no science, the world may continue to exist, and now, it is the science you have created that will destroy the world. ”

"Remain ......" Odin looked up at the endless darkness, which was full of stars, "You don't know what world destruction is, science may destroy humanity, but not the world, you don't know what really matters, that's not strange, you're just a mortal." ”

"I'm a mortal," Magellan held up a hand to Odin, regretting that the sword wasn't with him, "but I've also killed a few gods." ”

"You are indeed different from the mortals I know......"

Odin looked at Magellan, then nodded.

"Magellan, you are the way out that Nuwa chose. Then you are entitled to know our thinking. ”

"What thoughts?"

"For a world, what does the so-called guardianship represent?"

"Gods are small creatures that follow human beings, but the relative longevity makes us arrogant and always think that we have eternity, so how long can the so-called eternity last?"

"There is life and death, even the world is the same, nothing can stop this day from coming, so what do we want to protect?"

"That's an unanswered question," Magellan felt Odin wasting his time, and no one knew if the next moment would be when science would win outright. ”

"Yes," Odin nodded, "but we are the gods of wisdom, so what we choose is wisdom, the desire to pursue the truth, and civilization." ”

"Civilization, that is the most glorious and precious thing in the world. ”

"But civilization is also bound to disappear, so how can we protect something that is bound to disappear?"

"You think I'm wasting my time?" Odin didn't wait for Magellan to answer, he knew he wasn't wrong, "this is your only chance, and if you don't hear the question clearly, how can you give me an answer." ”

"Answer?"

Magellan didn't understand why Odin said that.

"Nuwa told us about the other world she saw in the Endless Void, where the civilization was so brilliant and brilliant that it far surpassed ours, and you came from there. By looking at that world from afar, we get the answers to all our questions. ”

"The nature of the world is chance and necessity. ”

"Only when these two are absolutely balanced can the most brilliant civilization be obtained, which means that mortals will have time to pursue wisdom, because it must protect them, and at the same time, it also represents the emergence of progress, because chance will bring unexpected gains. ”

"The world we glimpse is like this, it is unique in the world of civilization, like the moon among the stars, so beautiful that there is no substitute. ”

"Unlike it, there are too many accidents in our world, and that is the essence of the transcendent power of this world, and it is the accident that allows the power of the gods to exist, but at the same time, it is the greatest enemy of civilization. ”

"Maybe at some point in the future, an accident that we don't know about will put out all the flames of civilization in an instant, and that's what we try to prevent. ”

"Science, on the other hand, is our endeavor, it is a collection of chances, but it will only follow the inevitable track, and the world he rules will be closer to the appearance of the perfect world than the original world. ”

"I see. Magellan looked at Odin and nodded, "Then why is there another way out?"

"We don't like mortals who are ruled by the gods, because they lose their creativity, which is almost all wisdom, that is, the path of science has the potential to overkill and lead to another danger, that is, too much necessity, leading to the stagnation of civilization. ”

But the appearance of the other path was mostly accidental, an accident that all the wise gods did not expect. ”

"That's where the essence comes in. ”

Magellan looked at Odin in amazement, he still remembered vividly how much effort the countess had put into this ancient puzzle.

"What?"

"It was an accident that completely changed the world, and we still can't be sure if it was an outsider or an accident born of the world itself, and the birth of the essence changed everything. ”

"As I said earlier, the power of chance in our world exceeds necessity, and those who have created extraordinary powers by chance, after the appearance of the essence, we have found an important change. ”

"The so-called essence is the necessity born from chance, and although we don't know how it is realized, it is the truth, the elusive force of chance becomes regular, and the essence is almost a completely certain force. ”

"The source of that change is a monster that the god of wisdom cannot approach, cannot understand, it is a giant tree of thorns of metal, and all supernatural powers, including the gods, will become its power as long as they are close to it, and the redundancy beyond this power will become the essence. ”

"Is that the so-called second way out?"

Magellan looked at Odin, before that, he had never imagined that what the gods were going to do would be like this, it was indeed beyond the cognitive limits of mortals, although he had understood what Odin was talking about.

"Athena, the one of us who has tried the most has not had time to make a choice. ”