What were the gods?
This was a religious and philosophical question that even the most devout believers would have a hard time answering.
According to the Church for thousands of years, the Gods were like the protectors and shepherds of mankind, protecting their believers from the invasion of evil forces. In the Dark Age where monsters ran rampant, such a saying had always been popular. However, the priests who spread the Gods' blessings all over the world had intentionally or unintentionally overlooked a problem. The Gods' contributions were not free.
— Faith!
Humans still didn't know the purpose of this thing, but one thing was for sure: the gods had been working hard to collect faith. There were hundreds of thousands of words in the Holy Bible, but there was only one core, which was the exchange of faith and divine power.
Believers provided faith to the gods, and the gods would bestow divine power to the clergy.
Although humans had been worshiping the gods, for thousands of years, the relationship between them and the gods was actually a kind of interdependent relationship.
Humans needed the gods, and the gods needed humans as well.
That was until the emergence of the mages, which weakened the role of the protectors of the temples. During the First Magic War, Roland and the mages led by him stepped onto the stage of history. To a certain extent, they replaced the position of the human protectors of the temples. After the Second Magic War, mages became the most powerful profession, and humans became the overlords of the Dawn Continent. All of this was due to the rapid development of the magic civilization.
However, behind the prosperity, the church and the gods represented by the church faced a crisis.
As time passed, the Magic Association gradually replaced the temples as the protectors of humans.
"We are facing the same problem as the four-eyed 'human' civilization. The development of magic has weakened the dependence of humans on the gods, but at the same time, our threat has increased. This will definitely alert those things because the previous dependence is evolving into a one-sided parasitic relationship."
"What are the gods?" Rob threw out the previous question again. This time, he didn't go into the history but gave his answer directly. "If the gods were the protectors of humans thousands of years ago, they are now slowly becoming parasites on us."
Shocked by this shocking statement, Lolo found it hard to accept. "But, but you said … magic is created by the gods. If that's the case, why would they create a power that will threaten their position?"
The future Supreme Magus Your Honor raised his finger. "There are two reasons. The first is the Treasury Theory that I told you before. In order to hide the existence of the Force, they had to split it into two forces, which are the current divine power and magic. They first gave the least threatening divine power to humans, and the way to use magic was discovered by Merlin. The modern magic system created by Roland is thousands of years later than the divine power, but once magic appeared, they couldn't stop the development of magic. Or more accurately, they didn't want to stop it."
"Didn't want to stop it?"
"Yes. Don't forget their relationship with humans. Whether it's symbiotic or parasitic, their interests are the same as humans in a sense. They want humans to be strong because only when humans are strong, the population will continue to multiply. Only then can they absorb more believers and gain more faith. But on the other hand, they don't want humans to be too strong because it will cause humans to gradually break away from their control and no longer need to worship them. At the same time, they will become as dangerous as the four-eyed 'human' civilization."
"I shouldn't have announced the mana sharing mechanism," the future Supreme Magus Your Honor said frankly.
After meeting the light giant on the top of Anarep, Rob had a trace of worry for the future of the human race. Perhaps even he didn't realize that a large part of the reason why he revealed the mana sharing mechanism so quickly was because of the sense of crisis in his heart. But now, it seemed that this might not be a good thing.
The gods had already felt the threat of humans, and the emergence of the mana sharing mechanism would probably increase this sense of threat.
"Let's hope that I'm just worrying too much. Normally speaking, we haven't reached the level of those four-eyed 'people'. Even if the gods have the ability, they wouldn't easily destroy a civilization because it means that they have to wait a long time for the next civilization to appear and continue to collect faith. That shouldn't be an easy task for them."
Rob paused. "There's some progress in your body. Matata did a check on you and found that there's a type of Origin Force toxin hidden in your blood."
"Toxin? In my blood. Wait, isn't it in the spiritual world? "Lolo was very surprised.
"We've been going in the wrong direction from the beginning. The illusion in your spiritual world is actually one of the reactions caused by the Origin Force toxin. That's why my teacher couldn't find anything unusual before."
"When was I poisoned? Why didn't I know about it?"
"Matata said that this Origin Force toxin probably existed since you were very young. It seems to be an extremely rare natural toxin, but everyone has a different incubation period. If it's a short one, it's only a few months. If it's a long one, it might be more than ten years. Strictly speaking, it can't even be called a toxin because other than the illusion, it doesn't cause any harm to your body. On the contrary, it will subtly influence you to gain Origin Force."
Lolo was stunned. "Let me gain Origin Force? What do you mean? "
"I'm afraid this is the real reason why you, your mother, and the girls in Katerina's plan were targeted. In order to prevent the secrets of the Origin Force from being grasped by humans, the gods have to get rid of you. At the same time, this Origin Force toxin seems to be very attractive to them, and the church is only carrying out their orders … Don't worry, although Matata doesn't have a way to remove the toxin in your blood, he has a way to hide your scent so that those things in the sky can't find you based on the scent emitted by your soul. All they need is a simple talisman. He taught me the method to make it, and I still need to go to the eighth floor to collect some materials …"
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