Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1054 The Moment of Insight
“Go ahead,” Sharo replied.

She didn't really believe it, but she needed to hear it before she could draw a conclusion.

"In what that agent told me, it is most appropriate to imagine the gods as a collection of pure desires."

If we compare desire to color and gods to pigments, then each god represents a pure primary color, while other beings and existences are colors resulting from the mixing of various pigments. Only the gods themselves are the purest.

For this reason, gods cannot come into direct contact with each other. Unlike humans, gods cannot fight each other without being affected by the one wielding the knife.

The struggle between gods cannot be understood through physical collisions; rather, it is like paint coming into contact with each other. There is no injury, only mutual influence, and both sides become murky.

God has no fear, nor does God fear destruction. The only thing God does is to take in desires and maintain an extremely high and pure self. This growth and maintenance does not come from will, but from their desires themselves, which is God himself. Therefore, we cannot end with "because therefore", but can only say "because because", because their "therefore" is "because".

The gods themselves know this law, but they don't care about it because it is meaningless to them. Just like the Splitting Scissors, desire is only to split; desires like the will to survive and the desire to exist are superfluous impurities.

However, even God is not absolutely pure; the impurities in desire are so small as to be negligible, but under certain circumstances they may exceed the limits.

The probability of exceeding the limit is much smaller than the blind turtle and driftwood example I just gave, but because the gods have an infinitely long time, things that have a probability of happening will inevitably happen, so this event will eventually occur.

The moment it happens, the deity realizes the possibility of its own demise and thus desires to continue existing.

In fact, the gods have always been aware of this possibility. However, they are truly supreme gods only when they are indifferent to it. Once they become concerned, their demise has already begun its countdown.

Just like when the three primary colors are polluted, they want to restore their original purity, so they try to devour other pigments with the same color. But there is no pigment in the world that is closer to the primary color than them, so the more they eat, the more mixed the colors become.

The most perfect God has only his own desires and begins to age... I call this change in God aging.

Yes, the aging god has other desires besides his own, such as the most common one: the will to survive.

A deity with a will to survive would naturally not reject such a desire, indicating that the desires he can accept are his original desire for power and the will to survive.

He absorbed further, became more turbid, and thus lost the qualities of God, becoming an existence that possessed the full power of God but could act independently of authority and desire.

He became the freest god, and in a sense, the strongest god.

Other gods cannot possibly clash with this kind of god, because they would be corrupted, and they don't care about the other god, because the desires of other gods are purely the desire for power.

This led to the fact that this fallen god could disregard rules and no one could punish him. He became increasingly corrupt until he came into contact with 'self-destruction' and various contradictory desires, began to cut off his own flesh, and eventually became scattered fragments.

This is a god, who completed his own death without any external interference.

However... this situation has been going on for far too long, so long that the other gods cannot tolerate it.

I know you're thinking that the gods don't tolerate this kind of impatience, right?
Yes, I understand what you mean, but this is the only analogy I can use right now, so please listen carefully, Miss Sara.

In short, let's assume that other gods also have human thoughts. They would get impatient. It's like everyone eating at the same table in a peaceful way. You like cucumbers, I like lobster, everyone takes what they need and eats their own food, and they live in harmony. They might even occasionally help each other prepare side dishes.

But suddenly one of the diners went crazy and accidentally ate something he didn't want to eat.

Then, in an attempt to vomit, he began to eat excessively, trying to eat until he was stuffed and then throw up.

But this only made him eat more of the food he disliked. He jumped onto the table and started dancing, vomiting and eating at the same time.

No matter how much he vomited, he couldn't get his stomach full of steak. This made the table messy, contaminating everyone's food and making it impossible to eat properly.

In this situation, everyone would want to kick him out and restore order to the meal. So, all the gods eventually devised a plan to kill a god and reached an agreement... From then on, whoever went mad and disrupted the meal would be asked to leave the restaurant.

Do you know what a narrative layer is? Just like someone who comes to the human world with a name can only be a human being, no force can cross the narrative layer.

Or rather, at the moment of transcending the narrative layer, the power itself loses its original form and becomes a form that adapts to the laws of the current narrative layer, so being named in the human world can only be a human form.

Where do you think narrative layers come from?

Sharo: "I don't know."

"Gods and their powers are in opposition to each other. In the gap between these oppositions, things and laws that even the gods cannot interfere with will be born."

These rules render the absolute authority of both parties less absolute, so information in the world is neither absolutely confidential nor absolutely leaked.

Objects are not only capable of cracking but cannot be mended, nor are they only capable of being mended but cannot crack.

Thus, some secrets can be kept, while others will be leaked; things can be cut apart, but they can also be mended together.

Because of phenomena that we cannot describe, each deity had its own domain, which ultimately formed the world that we can understand.

In order to bind other gods, these great powers intertwined and eventually gave birth to the laws that bind all gods.

The narrative layer is one such unbreakable rule; no one can break through it.

There is only one power… a power that can threaten the gods themselves, yet is permitted by all the gods, because it is the agreement they made together under the guise of 'reason'.”

Edward smiled faintly: "The power to kill gods! An absolute secret, impossible for anyone to know."

After saying that, he tapped his temple.

"Our thoughts are also within the authority of the gods. Even Dr. Mordis and other outstanding scientists could not have conceived of the theories I just mentioned even if they spent ten thousand years."

Even though the theory is so simple that even an elementary school student could come up with it.

The reason why this realm cannot be accessed is because of divine intervention. All gods allow secret interference, and only a very small number of people can know this secret, which can never be spread.

Because the gods commanded that this secret be kept, Mo Mi made it impossible for anyone to remember any of it.

Unless, in a special historical period permitted by the gods.

Just like... today.

"Why are you telling me all this?" Sharo put aside the thoughts that Edward had been following and thought rationally again. "Let's not discuss whether you're talking nonsense or not. Even if what you're saying is true, what does it have to do with me?"
What does it have to do with you?

The wars of the gods are too far removed from us mortals, aren't they?

"Maybe so, I just wanted to talk to someone."

I came here today to ask you to help me find a set of books.

After all, your Humanity Library should be the organization with the largest collection of books in the world.

(End of this chapter)