Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 180 The Strength and Weakness of Laws, Restrictions on the Resurrection of the Gods

Lin Ke witnessed firsthand the forced offline process of the second map.

After most players were teleported to their original world and location out of thin air.

Lin Ke discovered that the sky over the entire world of Calter seemed to have suddenly appeared with dense, grid-like threads.

These mesh-like threads transform into tentacles that connect to the player.

It is because of the existence of these invisible tentacles that players can be instantly teleported to locations all over the world.

At the same time, the projection of the deity Marty beside Lin Ke also suddenly laughed:

"I must say, the favor you receive from the main god is far greater than I imagined."

"However, it is understandable that you would be favored, after all, you are also an ancient species of the space type."

"Once this ability condenses divinity and ascends to godhood, it will naturally occupy a very high position in terms of status. It is conceivable that Your Excellency also carries the extremely high expectations of the entire civilization, countless living beings, and deities."

The deity Marty spoke casually, as if in a normal conversation:

"Such praise for the power of space magic suggests that your Tobien Empire also has deities associated with space magic?"

Lin Ke asked this question casually, as if on cue.

"That's natural. And to be frank, in my world, the sole authority over the spatial system belongs to the great and esteemed Emperor."

"If the opportunity arises, based on the alliance between our two worlds, Your Excellency will one day meet His Majesty."

"Who knows, you might even become His Majesty's honored guest in the future."

"By then, I may not even be as good as you."

At this point, the deity Marty spoke fluently and without any reservations.

It is said that laws also have different levels of hierarchy.

Just as living beings are born with essential differences in race, that is, the difference between high and low species.

However, each deity who ascends to godhood through the laws has a different degree of control over these laws.

For example, ancient beings who ascended to godhood using the laws of space were naturally stronger than other gods who ascended to godhood using the same type of laws.

However, the strength of a law cannot be distinguished so simply.

For example, if a certain deity were to unleash the power of ordinary laws to their fullest extent.

Therefore, it is theoretically possible to achieve the state of breaking all laws with a divine body.

No law can affect Him.

In addition, many rules are also a matter of cognition.

As long as you recognize its existence, you can use it to ascend to godhood.

Whether or not one can ascend to godhood is another matter entirely.

War, hunger, scheming, poverty, shadows, race, and even the concept of a planet.

These can all become paths to godhood.

God of War, God of Shadows, God of Races, and even a theoretical 'planet god'.

There's nothing a god can't do, only things you can't imagine.

The laws of the world are not just the basic laws governing the operation of the universe.

Laws belong to the cognition of living beings; they are a kind of idealistic existence.

Furthermore, as long as a deity believes that its laws are extremely powerful, then as long as it strives to continue climbing along the path of those laws...

Then perhaps a different path can be found.

However, becoming a god is not so easy.

If we say that demigods are one in a million beings, then...

Gods are beings chosen from among hundreds of millions, or even billions, of living beings.

Therefore, ascending to godhood carries great risks and great terrors.

Of those who reach the demigod level, only one in ten can truly ascend to godhood.

And this doesn't even include the countless lives lost in the process of achieving demigod status.

Therefore, despite the fact that the Tobien Empire had previously arranged for nearly a hundred demigods to ascend to godhood on the continent of Calter, they should not underestimate them.

However, among these hundred demigods, it would be good if ten new gods were born at the same time.

Of course, if you're lucky, it's not impossible to get 20th place.

But the possibility of this is extremely low.

Therefore, it is easy to imagine how much the Troll Empire of Tobien treasured those who possessed great courage and relied on their own strength to achieve sainthood or even demigodhood.

As for what happens after becoming a deity?
Although gods can fall in war, there is even a risk that they will be replaced by others after their fall.

But for a civilization, the gods who fell while conquering the stars are like the Tobiron Empire.

The entire empire and civilization would absolutely not tolerate anyone usurping the throne of the old gods.

Moreover, under this premise, the entire Tobien Empire will prioritize helping these meritorious deities to revive.

As for how to recover.

In essence, it simply means having the entire empire's citizens worship the statues of gods in various 'pantheons' with devout hearts.

Through 'faith,' or rather, the power of the idealistic consciousness of a large number of ordinary beings, we aim to awaken and pull the dormant divine consciousness within Mana's will out of the 'spirit world.'

In the Tobien Empire's terminology, this process of divine resurrection is also called the process of 'replenishing the spirit'.

The fall of a god is not only the fall of their physical body, but also the severe damage to their consciousness.

When countless beings worship gods, they are essentially directing the spiritual energy that they might normally expend at different times onto the deities.

Then, in this process, Mana's will will use the spiritual power gathered from these numerous beings to make up for and restore the deity's spirituality.

Thus, after a long period of recuperation.

Once the spirit of a fallen deity has been fully restored and replenished, that deity can be truly resurrected.

However, there is another essential process that cannot be omitted before resurrection can be achieved.

That is, the physical body of flesh and blood.

If the fallen deity's original damaged body is still preserved, then with the help of Mana's will, the damage to the body can be quickly repaired, thus allowing for immediate resurrection.

But if the fallen divine body is gone, completely destroyed.

Therefore, there needs to be a qualified being willing to offer their body to the deity.

But who is considered qualified?
That would naturally mean a demigod.

But which normal demigod isn't a treasure of a civilization? How could any civilization be willing to waste its demigods here?
In fact, which of those who ascended to demigod status on their own through their own strength wasn't arrogant and proud?
And who would be willing to sacrifice themselves? Therefore, this highlights the necessity of the existence of pseudo-demigods.

Yes, reality is indeed that cruel.

Why would a god be willing to share their divine power to create a pseudo-saint or pseudo-demigod?

Is it merely so that there are qualified and capable people under one's command?
Of course, that's one reason too.

But the biggest reason is that the so-called pseudo-saints and pseudo-demigods are actually just vessels that the gods have cultivated for themselves!

At this point, the deity Matti also revealed the approximate time required for the deity's resurrection.

Take the Tobien Empire as an example.

The entire Tobien Empire has over 2.3 billion ordinary citizens who are not of the extraordinary rank.

These 2.3 billion people do not simply believe in a single deity.

Rather, it refers to all the gods within the pantheon of gods.

Therefore, while these people worship and venerate the gods in temples all over the world.

These beliefs, and immense spiritual power, will be uniformly distributed by the Imperial Divine Council.

In peacetime, these immense spiritual forces, after being purified, are distributed to the gods as spiritual energy crystals according to their contributions and strength, thereby enabling the gods to continuously strengthen their spiritual power.

Therefore, this crystallization of faith and spiritual power is also called the crystallization of divine power.

The crystallization of divine power is naturally the product of having the emotions of countless living beings stripped away.

With no side effects, it should become the true hard currency among the gods.

But in wartime...

These crystallized divine power would naturally be distributed by the Divine Council to the fallen gods slumbering within the Mana Will Rules Network as soon as possible.

Yes.

All of it was concentrated to revive the gods.

Only after all the gods have been revived will the council of gods distribute resources according to their contributions once again.

In short, with such strong support for recovery.

According to the deity Marty, the entire Tobien Empire has seen the fall of thirty-four deities, based on inferences.

It should be able to fully recover in about five hundred years.

It's important to understand that this is a powerful mobilization capability of the entire Tobien Empire.

This is the result of over two billion living beings regularly praying and worshipping in temples across various regions.

Imagine a different world where there is little organization.

Even when living beings are so scarce that their life energy level is very weak.

This will definitely take an indefinite amount of time.

It could take thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

At that time, it will be questionable whether the fallen gods will still have faith or even be able to live.

Lin Ke listened to the eloquent speech of the deity Marty.

His brows were truly furrowed.

Funny?
Are there still so many restrictions on the resurrection of the gods?
What exactly are the gods of the Auckland continent playing at?
Knowing full well that they were about to be blocked at the door, why not leave a way to revive themselves?

Didn't you see? Across the entire continent of Auckland, all races, and even empires and kingdoms, faith is already on the verge of collapse after only three thousand years.

Of course, elves and orcs are an exception.

The human situation is the worst.

As for the Demon God Temple...

Even without Lin Ke's existence, the faith could probably have continued for a long time.

But for humans, it's best not to say anything.

In the three great empires, almost all the rights of the church were stripped away by the royal family and imperial family.

However, Lin Ke then thought that the situation might not be so bad.

The fact that the church's power has been stripped does not mean that the royal family and imperial family themselves do not promote their belief in deities.

After all, these guys are, in theory, descendants of gods.

Therefore, if we think about it this way, it's hard to say whether the gods of the Auckland continent really left behind a backup plan.

For example, did the royal families and imperial clans of various countries actually know some inside information from the beginning?

Even in the process of reclaiming power from the earthly church, they are slowly reviving their respective deities in their own way.

After all, if the church is stripped of its rights, wouldn't the credit for the resurrection of the gods fall entirely on their shoulders?
Furthermore, even in modern society on Earth.

Even if there are no real gods, before the Human Alliance, each country had its own gods.

Think of this.

Lin Ke didn't know what to say.

After chatting with the projection of the god Marty for about ten minutes.

The two originally intended to talk to each other and even learn about each other's worlds.

The projection of the god Marty suddenly stopped talking.

He looked up at the sky.

Then he looked at Lin Ke and smiled:

"The Your Excellency behind you is quite impatient; he has already given the order to leave after only a short while."

"Very well, now that everything has been settled, let's leave it at that for this matter in the mortal world."

"Your Excellency, we hope to meet again someday."

The god Marty left swiftly and decisively.

The moment the words fell, the smiling figure on His face, the projection of the deity, suddenly seemed to be blown away by the wind and completely turned into fluorescent light and disappeared.

At the same time, Lin Ke also received a familiar system notification.

[Attention cheaters: Your privileges are insufficient to remain in this world for an extended period.]

During the update, all players, including you, will be forced offline.

[Note: You will have 30 minutes to settle some matters with your subordinates. Countdown begins.]

(End of this chapter)