Chapter 44: Latent

"You know, Gaia, everything needs nourishment to grow."

"The world draws its power from its own cycles and voids, and the gods draw power from their corresponding symbols through the priesthood. The transformation of one quality into another, equivalent exchange, is the unchanging law of the world. ”

"So what?" Listening to Erebos' words, Gaia frowned, "Of course I know this. ”

"Even the plants I create need to draw nutrients from the earth, and you don't need to teach me. What do you say have to do with life and soul? ”

Smiling slightly, Erebos still seemed unhurried. Perhaps due to the influence of the priesthood, the Lord of Darkness loved the feeling of the secret being revealed little by little.

"Yes, then tell me, my sister, that plants draw their nutrients from the earth, but where do the beings created by the gods get the power to sustain their existence?"

"Didn't you see that?" Gaia felt that this was again a pointless question: "They eat plants, or they eat each other. Is there anything wrong with them drinking water and promoting the balance of elements in the body? ”

"Of course not." Erebos said briefly, "If [life] cannot be divided, then I think it's normal. But since the body and soul can exist independently, why can a life eat the bodies of other beings, but its soul cannot eat the souls of other beings?

"If the soul does not have the process of 'eating,' where does it get its nourishment?"

“......”

Gaia was silent, she already vaguely understood what the other party wanted to say.

"The nourishment for the growth of the body is water and plants, but the nourishment for the growth of the soul is the body itself."

"It doesn't need anything else," Erebos' eyes were a little deep, "under the warmth of the flesh, it directly borrows the intersection of the two in the realm of [life], and draws power directly from the former. ”

"And with the passage of time, the flesh will develop, it will mature, it will age, and the soul will too, but the cycle of the latter is longer than the former."

"So at the end of the day, they're going to come back in unison and be part of that world, you know what that means?"

It means that every soul is a seed, and the material world is the soil from which it germinates. When the body of a living body comes to an end, the fruit of the 'soul' is ripe. ”

Mother Earth said slowly, she was also a little shocked.

Kaos draws power from chaos and transforms it into an ownerless source force to continuously improve the world. The spirit world, on the other hand, uses the present world as chaos, draws strength from it, and constantly improves itself.

Faintly, Gaia seemed to see the day at the end of time when the spirit world and the present world were on a par with the present world.

From the perspective of Kaos himself, it is difficult to say whether this is good or bad, because the strength of spirituality itself also strengthens the effect of the circulation within the world. But this is certainly not good news for the materialistic and order-oriented world.

Just as the world grows stronger, the power of Mother Earth is getting weaker and weaker, Gaia knows this very well.

"No," Suddenly, Mother Earth reacted, "these beings, and their weak nature, even if they are ten million times more numerous or more, even if they are all over the land, this is nothing to Kaos." ”

"Don't be alarmist, Errebos, what the hell do you want me to do?"

Raising his eyebrows, watching his sister react, the Dark Lord was still a little disappointed.

When he first found out, he was shocked, but then he realized that drawing strength in this way was like scooping water from the sea in a basin, or an ocean where great rivers were constantly confluencing.

Unless the number of intelligent beings is in the hundreds of millions, unless their life level can be raised by more than one level, otherwise it will sound good, and it will actually be meaningless.

The power derived from the next day of the current world is more than the soul of those mortal things can transform in a hundred years.

"It's simple."

"Next time," he said, "when this group of lives dies, and the next time life is created, I want you to add this to it." ”

Reaching out his hand, an amorphous cloud of black gas swayed in the palm of Erebos' hand. At first, Mother Earth didn't recognize it, but soon, she realized its true nature.

It was darkness. Quantitatively, it is very weak, so weak that even the power of the earth god is stronger than it. But also pure, because it comes directly from the essence of the primordial gods.

"Darkness...... I don't care about stabbing you once, Erebos, but I want you to think of a more reasonable way. ”

"Combine it with the original solution in the [Vial of Life], I can do it. But let life directly contact the source force, madness is their only end, such an obvious change, do you think he will not be able to see it? ”

A little disappointed, Gaia didn't expect that his brother would come up with such a solution.

"So I'll let you dilute it as much as possible," Erebos said lightly, "It's like a drop of divine power that doesn't go into the ocean, as long as it's small enough, there's no problem." ”

"Of course, by its very nature, the minds of life may be distorted, but it will not completely destroy their sanity."

"Just find a reason, for example, before you created humans with only 'positive' emotions, and now you have to do the other way around, and create humans with more negative feelings, do you need me to teach you this?"

“...... I see, but can you help me deal with him? ”

Mother Earth nodded hesitantly, but with some confusion.

She could see that the other party was using this method to infiltrate his power into the spirit realm, but what threat could this pose to Ryan?

This little bit of power would not be taken seriously by any god with medium or higher divine power, let alone Ryan who is in the spirit realm.

In the outside world, divine power will limit his power. But in the spirit world, the interface itself is his power.

“...... Don't you understand, my dear sister, that God is immortal. So if you want to deal with him, you have to get to know him first and understand how to target his world. ”

Erebos was a little speechless, although he didn't understand the point of simply venting his breath, but he was still patient in order to get Gaia's help.

After all, in the realm of life, he really doesn't know anything.

"When my source power entered the spirit realm, I didn't expect them to come back, but anyway, this is only an insignificant point, and the soul of mortal things can only carry so much."

"Ryan harvests power through the soul, then he will definitely return the soul to the source, this must be done through the origin of the spirit world, this is my purpose."

"I'm going to get a part of me into the roots of the spirit world," Erebos looked directly at his sister, "and then I'll know how the spirit world opened up." ”

"No one will be honest with an uninvited guest who comes to the door, Gaia, so I never believed Ryan's explanation to me. I don't want him to tell me anything, I just need to see it with my own eyes. ”

"Of course, at that point, Ryan will definitely be aware of my actions. He will withhold the source forces, but I will get hope of getting rid of Kaos, and you, too, know his weaknesses. ”