Chapter 201: The History of Divine Grace

After a long time of sorting through the magic books he had brought back, as well as the materials in the central library and what Ciri had known before, he finally sorted out the general context of the history of the Divine Grace Realm since ancient times. Even though much of history has been buried in the ruins of the Fall, even though many of the relics of civilization have not been heard of at all, and even though perhaps the gods have forgotten everything that was once there, Ciri still sorts out the general context of the history of the Divine Grace Realm.

Unlike mortals, time is not a luxury for the gods. This distinction is reflected in history, where the history of mortals is often accurate to a certain date or even a certain day, while the history of gods is often filled with a large number of vague descriptions of "a certain period" and so on.

Therefore, when describing the history of the gods, Ciri can only use these vague dates extensively, because of many events, he really can't pinpoint the specific dates.

No one knows how the Divine Grace Realm came about, and even the current gods, there are many who don't know the truth at all. Although Ciri is more inclined to the theory of prehistoric migration, he is still cautious about what is not certain. Therefore, Ciri refers to the period of history before the Divine Grace Realm is recorded, as the Chaos Period.

Since the beginning of history, many primordial gods representing nature have existed, and the Shrine of Civilization was born after the primordial gods. When civilization is born, the civilization god mansion begins to be born gradually. This period of civilization and the development and prosperity of civilization gods is generally referred to as the period of divine formation.

During the period of godhood, civilization was born and developed from various races, and different gods also gradually developed because of some people's belief in various civilized things. Of course, many civilization gods have different origins from the original gods.

The primordial gods all came from nature, no one knew their history, and they rarely interfered with the development of civilization. Civilization gods are different, they are mostly from mortals, and for various reasons they are believed in by a large number of other people, and then evolve to another level, that is, to become gods.

The period of godhood is the easiest time to become a god, and it is also the era when the gods change most frequently. When civilization was gradually established, the throne of the gods gradually sat firmly, and the temples of gods were slowly formed. After that, it became extremely difficult to become a god, because the general framework of the civilized world had been built.

After the formation of civilization, various races began to come into contact with each other, and natural strength and talent dominated the replacement of civilizations, dragons, giants, elves, dwarves, and even the fish-man race with the weakest talent but the fastest reproduction all once ruled the world, but in the end they were all replaced by the next race. The gods of each race also rose and fell with the race, and it was an extremely turbulent time for the civilization gods.

If you look through any historical chronology, you can find an interesting phenomenon: the vast majority of "periods" decrease with the passage of time. In other words, you will see that in ancient times, it is not surprising that thousands of years elapsed from period to period, but in modern times, just a few decades or even a dozen years can be regarded as a "period".

After the Divine Formation, civilizations were constantly fighting each other, changing their dominance, and these years are generally referred to in books as the pre-human period.

Next, the Divine Grace Realm welcomed its last civilizational ruling race--- Terrans.

The best thing for the Terrans is learning, and in pre-human times, they have never ascended to the throne of the Lord of Civilization, but they have been learning and improving. It was not the gods and the Church that helped the Terrans ascend to the throne at the time, but magic that was now classified as a pagan method.

The first glorious age of mankind, and at the same time the most desirable and powerful era in the mouth of many historical historians, arose due to the development of magical skills, and the charismatic realm entered the Nether period under the rule of the human race.

At that time, almost all of the Terrans belonged to one super-empire, and that was the Netherel Empire. The reign of Netherrell is similar to what it is today, when mages ruled the empire and continued to advance the magic skills of the Wizards. Of course, there is another name for the Nether mages, and they are called Arcanists. Whereas, the spells cast by the Arcanist are known as Arcane.

At that time, the arcane artists cast arcane spells very different from the current mages casting spells, they relied on the magic net that enveloped the entire divine grace realm, and it was very easy and convenient to cast arcane arts at that time.

There is also a magic net in the Colin plane, but it is completely different from the magic net of the Nether period in the Divine Grace Realm. The current magic net of the Colin plane can only be used to transmit spiritual power and assist the magician in casting spiritual spells. During the Nether period, the magic nets of the Divine Grace Realm were simply used to cast all kinds of spells. It is likely that this web existed at the dawn of the world, and its administrator was also a primordial god --- the first god of magic, Mithriel.

In its heyday, the most powerful arcanists were comparable to the gods, and some of the most powerful were even the gods of slaughter.

Arcane made mortals too powerful, so the reigning Civilizational Mansion made a decision to attack the kingdom of the god of magic, Mithriel. At that time, although the god of magic was extremely powerful, her two fists were invincible to four hands, and in the end, she divided herself into four elemental gods by self-destructing, and the original kingdom of God was also divided into four. At the same time, the vast majority of all the civilized gods who participated in this incident were killed in battle, and a small number were seriously injured.

Originally, the priesthood of civilization could be similar or repeated, and it is said that the god of magic, Mithriel, issued a curse before splitting, and the gods will fight endlessly, and Ragnarok will surely come. Therefore, later civilizations and gods became hostile to each other, not only the opposing priests were naturally unpleasant to the opposite side, but even the similarities of the priesthood have always been careful to guard against or calculate each other, in order to have all kinds of powerful and unique priesthood forces.

This news does not sound reliable, but after checking various sources, Ciri found that it should be true, and the rules of the whole world did change after the death of the first god of magic.

The death of the god of magic caused the web to collapse completely, and the entire arcane system built on the web collapsed overnight. The vast Netherel Empire also split into many states and began to fight against each other, and humanity moved from the Nether period to the aristocratic period.

The period of aristocracy did not last long, for the power of the Church began to rise when the Civilized Residence was restored. The Civilized Shrine has erected a demonic web between itself and its followers, giving them some magic that is modeled after arcane magic. Believers no longer need to practice and study magic, they only need to cultivate spiritual power and be religious enough to gain more powerful supernatural powers. The gods of other races followed suit, and the charismatic realm began to move from a brief period of nobility to the period of the Holy See.

During this period, the entire church system gradually improved, and the clergy slowly replaced the aristocracy in charge of the civilized world because of their supernatural power. Mages who were originally transformed from the development of Arcanist knowledge during the aristocratic period are also emerging, and even the god of magic has been replaced by the second generation of the god of magic, Azus. However, due to the lack of magic nets, the development of mages obviously cannot catch up with the church with the help of the gods.