Chapter 329: Divine Substitution
"What did you say?" Hearing Luo Sheng's words, Vixen was shocked, gasped, and then asked Luo Sheng with a solemn expression: "Luo Sheng, do you mean that the God of Light has been replaced?"
The so-called substitution of the divine throne refers to the fact that after the fall of the original god, the priesthood is completely seized and inherited by others. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The new deity will not only have the priesthood and power of the fallen deity, but will also be able to completely inherit the name, throne, and followers of the previous deity.
And after the completion of the replacement of the gods, except for the core soul and real name of the new god are different from the predecessor, in other aspects, almost all other aspects will be the same as the previous fallen gods, even the most devout believers, will not notice any changes, as if the previous gods have not fallen.
Theoretically, the substitution of the god throne is the best way to seize the power of the fallen gods, and there is almost no waste. But in reality, it's incredibly difficult to do. Not only do you need to have the power to kill the gods, but you also need to have the foundation and foundation to inherit all the priesthood and power of the gods. Otherwise, at the moment of the death of the deity, the godhead will be shattered, the priesthood will dissipate, and it will not be completely inherited.
Therefore, even in the history of the entire Imir Continent, there have not been many successful cases of this kind of thing. And even if it succeeds, it is basically an existence like a weak divine power, and the replacement of a powerful divine power like the God of Light is almost unimaginable in Vixen's opinion.
"I think this is the only possibility that the God of Light will be able to avoid His Majesty the Emperor's ban. Luo Sheng nodded and said with a firm expression.
Although the ban of the Arcane Empire is incredibly powerful, it is impossible to completely seal the various origin laws of the Ymir Continent, and the heavenly gods who are already part of the origin of the Ymir Continent. Therefore, what the Arcane Emperor sealed at the beginning was only a channel of faith between the gods and the believers.
The so-called channel of faith is the channel of power communication between the gods and believers. Believers dedicate the power of their faith to the gods through the channel of faith, and the gods give the power of magic and even special divine graces such as divine power to their pastors and believers through the channel of faith.
After the Arcane Emperor sealed the Faith Channel, although he could not completely sever the Faith Channel and completely isolate the connection between the believers and the gods, it greatly hindered the exchange of power between the two. In the case of the faith channel being sealed, whether the believer's faith power is transmitted to the god he believes in, or the god wants to give divine power to the believer, the consumption will increase more than ten times.
In other words, in the past, it may only take about 100 people to provide the power of faith provided by the gods, and the gods can maintain the consumption of a silver-level priest to use the divine arts, but after being banned, it will take tens of thousands, or even more of the faith power provided by the gods, to maintain the same level of divine power consumption.
Although this change did not directly sever the belief in the gods, it increased the cost of faith by a hundredfold, and fundamentally weakened the influence of the gods and the viability of the church. After all, except for some special groups of people, most believers believe in gods in order to gain power and protection, and the essence is to exchange faith for the power of gods. When this kind of exchange is very uneconomical, most believers will choose to turn their backs on the gods and seek other powers.
Therefore, after the closure of the Arcane Empire was completed, the power of the Church of the Gods shrank rapidly, and even those powerful churches that took advantage of the chaos and preemptively laid a huge territory before finally shrank their strength, and could only maintain a basic sphere of influence, and it was difficult to dominate the situation on the continent again.
Theoretically, there is nothing loopright in the Arcane Empire's ban on the path of faith between gods and believers. Unless the original gods fall, they will not be able to break free from this seal. Although the newborn gods can establish some new faith channels and get rid of the influence of the ban to a certain extent, it is basically impossible for anyone to succeed in sealing the gods when the demon tide is sealed and the power above the demigod level is suppressed. Even if they succeed reluctantly, the new gods do not have a sufficient base of believers, and in this environment, they will only fall into a deep sleep, or even fall, and will not develop at all.
But what the Grand Arcanists who designed this seal in the first place did not expect was that in the body of the God of Light, there was a special case of the replacement of the god position. The fall of the original God of Light temporarily freed the faith channel of the God of Light from the influence of the ban. And these faith channels did not dissipate due to the fall of the God of Light, but were perfectly inherited by the new God of Light. At the same time, there are also priesthoods, divine positions, and a large community of believers.
In this way, the new god of light not only got rid of the influence of the Arcane Empire's seal on the faith channel to a certain extent, but also relied on the foundation of the old god of light, got rid of the weak period of the new god, and even avoided the countermeasures that the Arcane Empire might hide in the shadows, and directly became an old god who was less affected by the seal, and suddenly occupied a huge advantage in the situation on the entire continent.
"That's right. That's the only way to do it. Vixen pondered for a long time, and finally agreed with Rason's judgment. After all, in Vixen's opinion, the design of the highest level of the Arcane Empire must be extremely perfect, and only such an unexpected thing as the replacement of the god position could cause a flaw in the seal.
"Then Luo Sheng, do you know who has this ability to complete this kind of divine substitution for the God of Light?" After approving Luo Sheng's judgment, Vixen immediately had doubts about the identity of the new God of Light.
Although in the eyes of the archacanists of the Arcane Empire, the gods are not unattainable existences, and even the top archarcanists have studied the gods, and their strength is not weaker than that of ordinary gods, but for the power of the gods, especially the gods with powerful divine powers, the God of Light, everyone still retains a certain amount of awe.
Moreover, even the emperors of the Arcane Empire and the members of the Supreme Arcane Council need to work together to deal with an existence like the God of Light, and they need to work together to make an extremely careful plan, not to mention the more difficult substitution of the god position. In Vixen's opinion, even the Supreme Arcane Council, or other gods with powerful divine powers, would not be able to do this. So for this new god of light, Vixen is extremely curious.
"This matter is extremely secretive, and the God of Light has never revealed his name, so we don't have many clues. However, according to the speculation of the high-level leaders of all parties, this is likely to be a certain Holy Spirit of the former God of Light, and may even be a certain Pope who has assumed the role of the God of Light. ”