"Sophocles the Deceiver is the most unfathomable Demon Main God. He loves to tempt mortal warriors and powerful individuals to fall into depravity. He's an expert at arranging fates and tragedies. I've always felt that he's more suited to the title of King of Lies than I am."
Back in the Hades, Devil Main God Tias had introduced me to Sophocles the Deceiver.
Back then, Little Tias had told me about Sophocles the Deceiver's glorious achievements.
"Sophocles' most famous achievement is probably that he once created his own evil cult in the mortal plane and successfully made his incarnation a True God. This Demon Main God actually succeeded in becoming a True God, and he even allied with many True Gods, causing all the Order Gods to lose all face. Sophocles and his believers are still the public enemies of all the True Gods' churches."
Perhaps this seemed like an unimportant background introduction, but if one were to look into it, it revealed a lot of things that were worth pondering.
First of all, Sophocles had once had an incarnation act as a human hero. Sophocles gradually grew to a certain degree and established his own church, gradually obtaining divine power and belief, and finally ascending to become a True God.
And then, not only did that incarnation of Sophocles successfully ascend to become a True God, he even received the recognition of other Order Gods and became a member of the Order Gods.
Allying with other True Gods meant that not only did Sophocles have True Gods as allies, he had also completely integrated into the Gods' system. It was highly likely that he had joined a certain God's faction and become an important part of that faction.
"This is basically the equivalent of becoming a mortal enemy's family member …"
The Gods weren't idiots or imbeciles. Sophocles had been able to successfully scam them only because he had brought out the real thing, a real Divine Concept and Divine Concept. In that case, there would be far too many things to ponder and analyze.
"Harloys, what kind of church did Sophocles establish back in the day? What were his teachings and Divine Concepts?"
"Evolution and species hierarchy. He advocated for the natural order between species, and emphasized on self-evolution through hard work. The core of his teachings was an evolutionary tree that included all species. He believed that every species had their own position, but humans were at the top, while other species were just branches. Naturally, other species had strong opinions about this. However, the human kingdoms at the time greatly welcomed this belief, and it seemed like there were no problems."
There were no problems? This was a big problem!
This doctrine itself was self-contradictory. On one hand, it fixed the species' ranks, while on the other hand, it encouraged competition and evolution … The strong would be at the top, while the weak would fight and compete to become strong. The entire world was like a huge jungle. Wasn't that the essence of the Chaos Abyss!?
How preposterous and foolish was this? Changing the nature of the Chaos Abyss into another way of describing it, and then adding on the label of humanism, he became immensely popular in the Order Faction, which was dominated by humans. In the end, he successfully became a True God of the Order Faction.
"… No wonder all the True Gods' churches view Sophocles as their mortal enemy. As long as Sophocles is still alive, he'll be the symbol of how foolish all the Order True Gods are."
It was evident that Sophocles' dark history was hidden in the shadows. Most Order Churches' popes only knew that Sophocles was Sophocles' mortal enemy, but didn't know why. However, the Devil Lord and Elven Empress Sophocles clearly remembered this.
Talking about the past wasn't just for idle chatter. Past experiences were the journey of an individual's life. What they experienced and collected formed their present.
Combining the information I received from Harloys and Sophocles' current appearance, I finally had an inference. However, this inference should have been ridiculous even in theory.
"Sophocles, you're not a demon at all, right? You … "
That's right, I could clearly see that Sophocles' armor of light was nothing more than a disguise. No matter how ridiculous the Haletdam generation was, it was impossible for a set of armor to be able to control the power of Order. If Sophocles was truly a pure demon, then the Holy Light and power of Order that he controlled would directly burn him to ashes, just like how my unfortunate experimental subject had been hypnotized into believing in the Holy Light.
Demons were pure creatures of Chaos. No matter how their minds and souls thought, the power of Order, especially the power of Holy Light that represented purification, would always conflict with their physical bodies.
And now, Sophocles was pretending to be using his armor's power to control and absorb Holy Light. However, his true body was actually simultaneously using the power of Order and Chaos. In that case, there was only one explanation.
"… You, Sophocles the Deceiver, aren't even a demon at all. You're an Order True God!"
Sophocles' voice wasn't loud at all. In fact, it could only be called a murmur. However, due to a mysterious resonance, the entire battlefield could hear his voice.
Thunder boomed, bringing with it an inconceivable question. The entire battlefield paused for a moment.
At the next moment, what reverberated in the world was the double echo of a holy voice and a furious roar.
"Yes, since Order can be considered a form of Chaos, then the law of the jungle and self-evolution represented by Chaos is also a form of Order."
"Haha, you're much smarter than those old fellows. Even now, they still believe that it was just a well-planned prank. They never expected that I'd already obtained something from that prank! Not only am I the ruler of the Chaos Abyss, I'm also an evolved God! "
Was this a double personality disorder? No, it was just that my incarnation and my true self had different ways of thinking. For some reason, I felt that this was quite familiar.
"Isn't this the relationship between Wumianzhe and your true self? It would seem that someone else has already become a God before you. But, no matter how you look at it, it's the exact opposite of you. "
Harloys' reminder helped me come to a sudden realization. Both of us had created an incarnation with a portion of our soul shards and then successfully Ascended to Godhood. However, looking at the current situation, it was completely different.
I had needed a judge, which was why I had Wumianzhe become an independent individual who combined with the Concept of Law to become a merciless judge. In the end, Wumianzhe was completely cut off from me.
Meanwhile, Sophocles had done everything he could to ascend to Godhood. However, he still followed the most basic principle of the Chaos Abyss: to become even stronger.
I could basically see what he had done now.
His incarnation had used the power of faith to ascend to Godhood, and then his connection with Sophocles was discovered. His believers were viewed as evil cultists and sealed away. The collapse of the power of faith should have caused this weak new God to fall into eternal slumber. However, Sophocles had devoured and recombined with his incarnation.
Sophocles' Main God level Chaos power replaced the power of belief in order to support the God of Evolution's growth. Meanwhile, Sophocles' main body was silently transforming into an Order God. In the end, Sophocles successfully became an Order God by borrowing someone else's body. He transformed his incarnation into his main body, and his main body became his incarnation.
"… In that case, the power that he normally shows is only half of his original power?"
If that was all there was to it, it wouldn't have given me a headache. The worst part was that Sophocles possessed the special abilities of both a God and a powerful demon.
The Gods' special abilities were mainly reflected in their Divine Concepts and Divine Rights. They were incredibly skilled at creating their own combat environment and using dimensional laws to strengthen themselves and weaken their opponents. Meanwhile, a powerful demon's Chaos domain would counteract or devour the opponent's dimensional laws, which would then force both sides to the same level for a melee fight. The powerful demon who had reached the apex of bloodthirsty evolution had a terrifying and gigantic body.
"The God of Evolution together with a powerful demon who's skilled at evolution. This is truly cheating …"
Just thinking about it allowed me to discover countless possible combinations. For example, I could use the Divine Right of Evolution to speed up my own evolution, allowing me to multiply my growth rate. I could also obtain many times the results and experience in certain areas. Still, this wasn't even the worst part …
"He's trying to simultaneously control both Order and Chaos. He's also trying to obtain the Creator Goddess level of power. This isn't the first time he's been like this. Just one or two years have passed. Just what has he obtained over the past few years? Just what other aces does he have up his sleeves? "
I was already wondering if I had been too unlucky today. If things were really as I expected, then Sophocles wouldn't be the weakest Main God at all. Not only would he be the strongest, he would be overwhelmingly stronger.
The slyest Main God had suddenly transformed into the strongest Main God. Although this was unexpected, it was still reasonable. However, it was already too late to change Sophocles now. I could only grit my teeth and endure.
I kept feeling like something was wrong. Of the three Chaos Main Gods, I had originally thought that Donatis would be the leader and the core. However, this was obviously not the case. It was definitely impossible for Donatis to join the battle at a time like this. Just what was Sophocles thinking?
At the same time, the Cloud Tower descended from the sky and attracted the attention of the entire battlefield. The next instant, Sophocles began to move.
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