"You are so kind and wise."

After Hestia finished speaking, Prometheus couldn't help but praise. The gods nodded their heads when they heard this, which was indeed a good idea, but Hades, who had been silent, disagreed.

"My sister, your idea is good, but how do we measure it?"

"Unless a mortal is standing across from us, we can't tell whether a particular human being is religious or unfaithful. In today's land, the power of the gods has been limited. ”

"Moreover, if a godly human being is willing to sacrifice everything for God, but asks for eternal life in divinity, is it equivalent?"

"To mortals, he gave it all. But to God, no matter how devout a person is, it is impossible to compare with divinity. ”

The hall fell silent again, and I have to say that the words of the Hades King are also very reasonable.

The divinity that immortalizes a life is nothing to God. But the divinity that made a hundred people immortal, the main god of great divine power, will be damaged.

"Lady Themis."

In the silence, the God-King spoke.

"You are the impartial arbiter and the overseer of justice, so I hope to use the power of the [Golden Balance] to make a decision on this."

"I have no opinion." The Goddess of Justice nodded and said, "But the [Golden Scale] can't measure the size of faith, and this magical power seems to be difficult to be controlled by artifacts." ”

"So if you're going to put 'human piety' on one side of the scale, you need to have something more representative of piety."

His brows furrowed, and the God King hesitated. If faith itself cannot be measured, and it is impossible for the gods to personally go to the mortal world to sense them one by one, then how can we know the purity of mortal faith?

"Then measure it by the sacrifices they made to God." Prometheus suddenly said, "If a man is willing to give more to God than he leaves for himself, then such a person must be religious." ”

"For such a pious mortal, the gods should naturally respond in order to encourage more humans to learn from him."

"Not bad."

His complexion softened, and Zeus thought it was reasonable.

For faith, the gods are also dabbling for the first time. They have no experience, so they can only try to try.

"So be it. Whoever believes in God is rewarded according to his piety. If you don't believe, let it go. ”

"As the King of God, I make a promise first here: Whoever believes in me, there is little that I cannot give him. What mortals can gain from me depends only on how devout they are. ”

First of all, Zeus made a promise, and Zeus was careful not to make a specific promise. After all, as the keeper of the oath, his promise is binding in itself.

Such a broad statement is also conducive to his adjustment according to the situation.

"Then I will allow the pious to light the flames, and the authority of the [Guardian] will henceforth accompany the flames, so that the calamities of the world will not be approached."

Hestia also made a promise that while her authority over fire only involved the burning of matter, the guardianship could give it another meaning.

On the side, after his sister finished speaking, Demeter also said.

"Then I will give them evergreen fruit trees, which will never dry up, and keep them from hunger."

Even if you can't exert your divine power in the mortal world, this macroscopic application of authority can still be done on Mount Olympus. Demeter believed that everything would pay more attention to food than to the rest.

Seeing that the three gods set an example, the gods also made promises one by one to attract the worship of mankind. After all, as the seers said, the obedience brought about by oppression is indeed only superficial. If there is no belief from the heart, it will be difficult for human beings to worship them every day, and it will be difficult to generate the power of faith.

"Very well, that's it."

With a smile on his face, when it was all over, the god-king looked around at the gods and finally stopped at Prometheus.

"Go, son of Iapetus, return to the creatures you have created, and proclaim to them the greatness of the gods, and I think you can do that."

"Honoring your will."

Prometheus was equally satisfied, he had foreseen a better future for humanity. The gods have blessed him, and man should be the chief of all souls. So he left the mountain and flew towards the earth.

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The gods were gone, but Zeus remained in the temple.

Although he did a lot today, in fact, the God King was just pushing the boat down the river.

He didn't really care as much about the belief in the bronze humans. It's just that since this has attracted the attention of the other gods, I simply called them here.

After all, among the gods present, he was the only one who relied on the authority of the God King and sensed the power of the Seer that was increasing almost every moment.

Although this is also related to his own weak divine power, this increase is still too fast.

"Prometheus, you're right, true faith is like a child to a mother, not out of fear, but out of love. But tell me, what kind of gifts do you need to make a child turn his back on his parents and revere other beings? ”

Whispering to himself, a person who can betray his parents can naturally betray others, such a person cannot talk about faith. Perhaps the great benefits could be made for them to believe, but Zeus did not want to pay this price, so until the end of this meeting, he did not propose the creation of women.

Because if even a woman is created and the bronze human race continues like this, then is it him or Prometheus who will benefit the most from faith?

"One or two hundred years, no more than three hundred years at most, the number of human beings who cannot reproduce is still very limited. Even if Prometheus still has some materials left over for the creation of people, at most one more round of creation, and in a few years he will find a reason to complete it. ”

"The next generation, I want human beings to make themselves with the help of God, so that the creator who will die will no longer be the creator."

Secretly making a decision to think about the next generation of humans, the God-King suddenly had a wonderful idea.

He reached out and touched the space around him, and an invisible web emerged. Elements are bound by a network and move along a specific trajectory. As long as the corresponding 'strings' are plucked, different elemental changes will be triggered in the material world.

That's the Magic Net. In the past, Zeus had studied this thing out of curiosity about witchcraft, and the [magic web] did not refuse any existential use.

But in the end, the god-king came to a regrettable conclusion. These elements are of little use to the gods, and even if they are combined with divine power, they will only make it a weaker force, an energy that has been diluted and has only some of the characteristics of divine power.

However, in the current world, Zeus suddenly realized that it is not necessarily bad to be weaker than divine power.

"There's no hurry."

"It's not necessary yet, there are still very few human beings, and it is not yet time for the gods to divide the territory among humans, so wait for the next generation. When they are all over the land, it will be the time when they are really needed. ”

"How can a simple gift be enough, those who believe in me should also be able to take up the sword and fight for my prestige in the world."

Holding the handle of the throne tightly, Zeus knew that the so-called 'shared' faith would not last long after all. Just as a person who listens to the orders of several kings at the same time must be unfaithful, unless he is like the golden human beings in the past, he who believes in several gods at the same time will not be too religious.

At this time, when there are enough human beings, this division is bound to occur. And as a god-king, as long as Zeus does not make the first move, the righteousness will always be on his side.

If his followers were able to kill other people's believers, it would be largely due to the spontaneous actions of mortals. At that time, if a god wants to intervene, then the god-king can take advantage of the righteousness to stop him.

One hand sword, one hand grace, the sword comes from mortals, and grace goes to the gods, this is Zeus's ideal of the world.

"It's coming."

"In a few hundred years, Mother Earth shouldn't have woken up yet."

Whispering softly, the God King secretly made plans to himself. Of course, the gods who had attended the meeting before also had different ideas.

The Prophet returned to earth to teach the newborn human beings all kinds of knowledge. The Immortal returned to the Underworld and watched as the undead worshipped the Stygian Moon, silent. Poseidon pondered, trying to get some humans of his own in the future. And near the place where the bronze man was born, there were also figures walking slowly.

Perhaps for this world, the god-king is a more substitutional change of the table era. But for Kaos, perhaps now is the beginning of the Third Age.

All myths begin here, whether true or false, and are left to posterity to comment. And the more distant past, with the catastrophe at the turn of the era, was buried in the long river of history, leaving only a few words, difficult to guess and identify.

(End of chapter)