Black mountains with no end in sight. The lonely gray robe, with a winding road in front and a winding road behind. There is no sky, no stars, no moon, no boundary between heaven and earth. Cheese even wondered if he was really at the bottom of the space, and if he jumped off the narrow ridge, he would instead float to the sky. However, this is not something worth taking too many risks to verify, and the safest way here is to follow the path shown, and to move through the spirit of others, especially such a powerful being, will definitely encounter a lot of trouble that could have been avoided. That being said, when is this road going to be the end?

The knot, with only the top part remaining, stood at the mage's feet like a corpse dead in the street. Cheese hadn't paid much attention to the knots before, he had simply used them as a medium for evil worship. This medium is actually everywhere, because not all things that are worshiped in the faith have sculptures that can be taken out and placed in the shrine. The reason for this may be the lack of artistic individuals or worshippers in the religious order. It may also be because the environment in which the Order is located does not allow the faithful to make figurative representations of their faith, for example, it is difficult for the worshippers who worship the god of springs in the desert to refrain from drinking the precious water sources that symbolize the gods, and their religion would not prohibit them from doing so if they were more pragmatic. But in addition to these two, the use of symbols instead of the idol of the worshiped person is more likely due to the requirements of the doctrine itself.

There are various possibilities for this requirement, and Cheese knows that some religions do not adopt the most well-known religious model, that is, the three compositions of gods, leaders, and believers, so there is no so-called leader or leader in some religions with absolute power. In those religions, believers may be so close to what they believe in that they may not even believe in a tangible individual, but rather an idea, an experience, or an ideal. Of course, it is likely that these abstract concepts were given a definite reality in the later development of the religion, but that was not an absolute development, but in any case the belief could not have been made without an image.

So could that be the case with the worm? Obviously not, no matter how you look at it, the appearance of the worm and the energy it emits are more intense than the other evil gods that Cheese has seen, it is not the type of wet soul that gently contacts mortals and then surrenders their existence and ideas to each other, this being has obviously taken a more drastic approach to intervene in the world than to develop its own religion or select followers. Therefore, the knot is not the product of a secret doctrine.

There is another possibility, or it has always been the only one in Cheese's view. In the mage's study of the evil gods and their worshippers, the worm and the person who made the knots were only a relationship. That's the relationship between him and the worm, the antagonistic relationship. Does confrontation produce faith? This sounds a bit incredible, but how confrontation can produce faith is rather a state of complete opposition to faith, and it is too strange to ask people to swing between one end of these two poles and the other.

However, this may not be the case. There is no shortage of examples in the dossiers and codex that the cheeses have read, and many worshippers of evil gods, and even their chief high priests, have initially embarked on this path with the belief of destroying the faith of evil gods. It's like a villager who finds out that something strange has happened in his village, such as an inexplicable death of livestock, a missing child, a well water mixed with an unknown substance, and so on. Instead of fleeing the village or turning a deaf ear to the anomaly, he tries to find and uncover the truth behind these strange events. Then it is possible for him to get the truth he seeks, provided that he does not die in the process or retreat in the middle of the process. When he is lucky enough to take the last step, he will see the being or the Order that dominates everything. But at the same time, after all these things, he also experienced first-hand what kind of power and ability the other person has, and when the olive branch is thrown, and the words of temptation and the disguised victory are given, it is difficult to distinguish what he has gained and what he has lost.

You may think that this is because you are standing in an absolutely weak position against the cult of evil gods as an individual, and maybe you have no chance of winning from the beginning, so it is natural to become a believer in the end. Cheese knows a lot about the opposite, and the results in those examples are often even more horrifying. The cohesion and execution of those orders that have been boycotted by entire regions and even entire countries is amazing, and they also have the ability that those hidden orders do not have, and they can stand on the weaker side and assert themselves. People are always more or less dissatisfied with the environment they are in now, and even the king feels that he has taken on too much responsibility and is not being duly rewarded. In this dissatisfaction, the oppressed begin to appear worthy of sympathy, because some people put their own unhappiness on them, magnifying their own misfortunes without thinking carefully about the fundamental differences that exist. Then the wicked become pitiful, and the wrong become oppressed. At this time, it only takes one or two sacrifices, one or two righteous people who walk up to the stake and the gallows, and preach his so-called justice to those people, and the blind fire is sown. This kind of thing actually happens everywhere, but when this "persecuted" group becomes a religion, and there is really an evil god standing behind them, things will become a different picture. It won't be long before a kingdom ruled by an evil god will emerge, and its influence will last for a hundred years.

Cheese had reason to believe that these knots were originally the totems of the grasslands or the beliefs of the nearby inhabitants, but they gradually became alienated and distorted by the transformation of the minds of those affected by the worms, and became what he saw now. And the terrible worm, through these totems, was able to manifest a projection of his body in this world, and was able to begin his destructive invasion. If left unchecked, not only will Tianmu's existence be eaten and absorbed, but as the influence of the worm expands, many people will unknowingly become its believers. The so-called stealing of faith is such a thing, the totem is still the same totem, and it has only been slightly adjusted compared to before, but in fact, the name engraved on the back of the totem is completely different.

"Huh. Mage, sighing, instead of continuing forward, he leaned down to keep his eyes closer to the knot. If this is the appearance, then there is always something that leads to the inside, it may be a door, it may be a window, it may be something else that symbolizes the connection and connection. hand, touch the knot. At the same time, the whole mountain began to tremble, and those black compositions began to slide loosely, exposed by the knots that were half-hidden in them, along with what they were rooted in.

There were no mountains at all, the whole mountain range, just a part of the giant worm. The knot, on the other hand, is the fluff on the worm's body.

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