"Regardless of the power system, race, or genius, the limit they can reach in the end is the same." Merlin picked up his glass and swirled it gently. "In a sense, it's fair."
Rob thought of a possibility and frowned. "You mean the gods tampered with the upper limit?"
"Those things are powerful, but not to this extent. The upper limit is set by the continent itself. As for the original intention … I guess it's to prevent the emergence of a power that could destroy the world. It's a self-defense mechanism of the world." Merlin shrugged. "And the existence of the holy kingdom is to accommodate more powerful forces."
Seeing the expression on Rob's face, the man in the fox mask smiled. "Yes, it seems you've guessed their background. The so-called gods are just a civilization or several civilizations that lived on the Dawn Continent earlier. When the masters born among them reached the limit of the power that the human world could accommodate, they entered the holy kingdom through apotheosis and continued their cultivation. However, one day, some people in the holy kingdom had other ideas. They didn't want to share this powerful force with others, so they stopped the others from becoming gods."
Merlin paused. "I've never been to a god's kingdom, so what I'm going to say next is more of a conjecture. Based on what the temple has done over the past thousands of years, I'm more inclined to believe that cultivation in a god's kingdom requires the help of faith. This explains why they choose an intelligent species from the Dawn Continent every once in a while and why they don't want anyone else to become a god because it will take away their faith."
The words of the fox masked man could be regarded as absolute treason in the past. If it was spread out, it would inevitably cause an uproar. The supreme God that the church preached was actually a more powerful mortal, and a selfish and greedy one. This was undoubtedly unacceptable to hundreds of millions of believers. However, after the incident in Setta City, the thirteen members of the Magician's Association Council used their own lives to prove that God could be killed. The previous creed was gradually collapsing, and masters like Luo Bu and Deidarion naturally thought more about it.
Your Honor, the future Supreme Magus, asked, "What should we do to destroy them?"
"Good question." Merlin's middle finger gently tapped on the glass. "First of all, you need to understand one thing — only gods can compete with gods, so there's only one way to win this war, and that is to create a human god."
"But didn't you say that the hope of becoming a god has been blocked by those things?"
"Theoretically, yes, but there are exceptions to everything." Merlin grinned. "Your teacher killed a god, but unfortunately, that guy's corpse was teleported back to his kingdom at the last moment. Fortunately, tens of thousands of years ago, our mutual friend Matata and the civilization behind him had also succeeded in killing a god. At that time, that unlucky god's corpse landed in the Endless Forest Sea. Speaking of which, you've been to that underground city. I wonder if you've reached the last floor?"
Rob shook his head.
"If you go there, you'll definitely be amazed by the greatness of those people. Their research on that god's body has entered the final stage, and they even reverse-engineered the method of becoming a god from that god's body. Unfortunately, they don't have the time, but even so, they still left the method of becoming a god. As I said, sometimes you're too concerned about that girl from the Bretton family. You had the chance to enter the world of the secret treasure, but you missed the biggest treasure inside."
"Since you've obtained the method of becoming a god, why don't you become a god?"
"How do you know that I'm not a god now?" The fox-masked man blinked.
In fact, this was also a question that Rob could not understand. Merlin was a person from the same generation as Roland, and he had lived for more than nine hundred years. His figure ran through the entire history of magic, and he still maintained his youthful appearance. Immortality happened to be the biggest characteristic of a god. From this point of view, he was indeed no longer a human, but according to what he said before, after becoming a god, he would enter the holy kingdom, but he still stayed in the human world.
What puzzled Rob the most was the strength of the fox-masked man. The future Supreme Magus Your Honor had once fought with a god's avatar on the peak of Anarep, and he was also present when the council led by Da Vinci successfully killed a god in Setta City. Therefore, in the whole human world, perhaps no one knew the true strength of those things better than him.
However, Rob did not feel a similar sense of oppression from Merlin. Of course, it might be because Merlin had a way to hide his aura, but if that was the case, there was no way to explain why Merlin had been forced to hide from the temple all these years. Although he had built an empire in the dark over the past hundreds of years, all of this was obviously not as free as walking under the sun.
"My situation is a little special. Strictly speaking, I can only be considered a demigod." Merlin did not intend to hide it, and said straightforwardly, "The reason why I became like this is because of an accident."
"An accident?"
"Yes. You haven't obtained the method of becoming a god, so you don't know how harsh the conditions are. In fact, even if I announce this method to the public, no one in the human world can successfully become a god. Merlin said, "The ceremony of becoming a god requires the assistance of one hundred and twenty materials, more than forty of which are not even in the inventory of the Sorcerer's Association. Even if you're lucky enough to collect the first thirty-nine materials, there's still one thing that you can't find no matter what."
"What is it?"
"The Flower of Souls." The fox-masked man said faintly, "This little flower is the most important material for the ceremony of becoming a god. Although there are not many on the continent, you can find it if you look carefully. But now, all the Flower of Souls have been taken to the divine world by those things, and not a single one is left."
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