Chapter 202: Conclusion

Backwardness means passivity, and competitors are the highest priority targets in any case.

Somehow, no matter why, the gods are at war against the rising mage. At this time, the second god of magic, Azus, led some of his followers to choose to compromise and rebel and join the camp of the gods.

Since the magic web has disappeared, Azus has actually ceased to be a native god, but has become a civilized god, and he is born out of the believer's belief in supernatural powers. The rebellion of Azus seemed to be taken for granted now, but it was only the mages who relied on the knowledge of the arcane at the time who had placed too much trust in the position of god of magic, and their emotions clouded their rational eyes, so that they did not realize the problem.

The second Magic God Rebellion dealt a serious blow to the mage camp. Since Azus knew most of the secrets of the mages and the distribution of personnel, most of the top mage pioneers were quickly found and eliminated by the church, and many of the arcane knowledge of the Nether period used by mages for reference and research was confiscated by the Holy See. The remaining mages had no choice but to go underground. And as the power of the Holy See continued to expand, the situation of the mage deteriorated.

After defeating a rival competing with the Church of the Gods for dominance of the Grace Realm, the curse of the first god of magic, Netheril, begins to be fulfilled. At this time, all the churches had basically taken shape, and due to the change of rules, a priesthood could only be kept by one true god, which eventually led to the divine war period in the charity realm.

The period of God's Wars was extremely bloody, and because a large number of civilized gods had the same priesthood, the gods defined all adherents of hostile gods as heretics, except for allies.

The clerical clashes between the civilized gods are often of similar strength, and it is not surprising that basically no one can help anyone between the ontologies, but they are greatly influenced by the believers. Therefore, before the battle, the true God will recruit believers to fight the church expedition, and whoever can win the church expedition and destroy the other party's church heritage in the world will have a great advantage. The gods who lose their churches and believers will be like water without a source, and they will eventually fall.

During the Divine War, the main plane, St. Moss, was in shambles. Years of warfare have resulted in the death of a large number of believers and ordinary people, and the entire land has been devastated. People yearn for justice and stability, so many people have come to believe in nature, and to represent their hearts and minds with natural phenomena and laws. It is for this reason that many of the original gods began to be eroded by faith, the most famous being Loshanda, the Lord of the Dawn.

As a primordial deity, Luoshanda, who represents the morning sun, was originally as indifferent as other primordial gods. As more and more people grew tired of the never-ending war of the gods, many of them saw the dawn as a symbol of hope and justice, and the lord of the dawn, Loshanda, began to be influenced by the faith of the believers.

Originally, he had no interest in the Divine War of Civilization and the organization of churches, so he first collected a large number of believers, spread the doctrine, and added hope, justice, and so on to the doctrine. Then, in the priesthood of Loshanda, the power of justice and hope was born. Subsequently, this original primordial god also joined the ranks of the civilization god mansion and began the god war. Facts have proved that mere faith cannot change the situation of the Divine War, but can only make the Divine War more and more tragic.

When all the priesthoods were cleared to only one, and many priesthoods merged with similar priesthoods to form another, more powerful priesthood power, the Divine Grace Realm finally ended the period of divine warfare and entered the period of confrontation between the gods.

The charismatic realm is now in a period of opposition between the gods, and churches with conflicting priesthoods and doctrines are pitted against each other. There is an eerie balance between the gods, and there are no large-scale god wars that are generally fought to the death, but small-scale rivalry and conflict continues.

Ciri wrote down the history of the charity realm in its entirety, and also recorded some of her own thoughts. History shows that the gods have evolved only at the level of strength, and in some ways they are not as good as ordinary people in terms of thinking. Because they have lost themselves, whether they are the original gods or the civilized gods.

Why did the primordial gods remain indifferent to the world and appear to be uninterested in everything? Even the first god of magic, Netheril, was a passive god war.

After analysis, Ciri believes that the primordial gods have actually been assimilated by the natural forces they represent, and nature is ever-changing, and the only common characteristic is --- ruthlessness. That's why the primordial gods seem so disinterested, indifferent. The primordial gods are like a blank sheet of paper, and they basically have no will of their own. This can be proved by the four elemental gods after the split of the first god of magic and the primordial gods such as the Lord of the Dawn, Luoshanda, who have joined the Civilized Divine Residence.

The four elemental gods have no memory of Netheriel, and they never want to avenge him, they are just four nascent gods, everything is a blank, and it has nothing to do with the previous god of magic.

And the Lord of the Dawn, Loshanda, was originally as indifferent as the other primordial gods, because the believer's belief was "polluted" and everything else was depicted by others.

The Civilized Gods are no better than the Primordial Gods, who have been assimilated by the forces of nature, and are actually controlled by believers who believe in them. It may sound incredible, but it's often that incredible.

It is generally believed that the gods guide the believers, and how can the believers manipulate the gods. It is true that God is not influenced by one or some believers, but He is always under the direction of the collective will of all believers.

In the case of Loshanda, there is righteousness in his ministry because his followers believe in righteousness. But judging from the history of the Lord of Dawn and the Church of Dawn, Losanda has been assimilated by the minds of believers. At first, Loshanda thought that if it was represented by color, black represented evil and white represented justice, so they only sought the black part. But as the church has grown, the group of believers has been influencing Loshanda.

Now the Church of Dawn has defined gray and all other colors that are contaminated with black as evil and as enemies. It is likely that in the future all colors will be a symbol of evil, an enemy of justice. Because the will of the group is often very simple and unified, it is either white or black in its eyes.

This is not alarmist, many of the believers in Los Sanda already have an idea of self-or-enemy and are very radical. The Lord of the Dawn's recent actions also show that he is being transformed by the thoughts of believers.

There are many, many examples like this, and if you look at history, you will find that some of the gods have done something very, very stupid, even worse than ordinary people. This is because the collective will is the result of a compromise that tends to be simple, extreme, and exclusionary. It does not adapt to complex realities, so it manifests itself as radical and stupid.

Based on Cirry's compilation of various sources, he finally concluded:

There are no true gods in the charismatic realm, and the so-called true gods are not as wise, heroic, great, and otherworldly as their churches preach. The so-called gods are more like machines controlled by the believers collectively and with great power and some logical abilities, and there are no gods in this world at all.