Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 216 Living the Second Life

As the burial ground of the annihilated gods, the deepest part of this underworld is actually quite vast. Even though Du Yi and Elias are not slow, it still took them some time to reach the foot of the wordless obelisk.

During this process, Elias mentioned several times that he felt being watched, and as they got closer to the obelisk, Du Yi gradually felt that faint gaze that occasionally lingered on him.

"What's going on? It can't be a zombie coming back to life, can it?"

Just as he was about to enter the wordless monument, the tomb of the God of Death, Du Yi once again felt the watchful gaze from the shadows.

"Could it be that there's something else in the tomb?"

"There's something else? Besides the God of Death, what else is there?"

Elias was also somewhat puzzled.

"As for resurrection... wait a minute."

Elias also felt it, the sensation of consciousness slipping through his body.

The possibility of a corpse coming back to life is uncertain, but if it's a divine intervention, that's another story.

The so-called divine descent is the act of using consciousness to seize control of another body. This is extremely common and is a common tactic used by many unorthodox spellcasters. After all, the spellcaster's so-called spellcasting involves not only influencing themselves with their consciousness, but also affecting the external world.

For example, the most common and deadliest fireball is a concrete example.

Even if a normal flame were thrown at a person, it would at most burn their skin and muscles. Although this would be an extremely serious injury for most ordinary people, for those who are not so ordinary, it would simply be a matter of applying some medicine or getting a new skin. But a fireball thrown by a spellcaster is completely different. In addition to the already extremely serious burns, the tearing caused by the explosion is the most deadly.

Normal flames cannot explode, but the spellcaster's fireball is not an ordinary flame either. It is the external manifestation of their will. Rather than saying that the fireball shatters the opponent, it is more accurate to say that these spellcasters want to shatter their opponents. It's just that this consciousness itself is expressed through the form of a fireball.

It sounds a bit convoluted, even like a tongue twister, but the difference is extremely important—after all, it involves the essence, namely the influence of consciousness itself on the external world.

Divine intervention is also a form of consciousness influencing the external world.

However, although both have an impact, they manifest in completely different ways—the reason being that their purposes are different. The purpose of a fireball is to tear apart the opponent's body; such a destructive event only requires a momentary burst of energy.

The purpose of the divine intervention, however, was to seize control of the body.

Just like pouring another glass of water into a full glass, this is an extremely difficult task. If you insist on putting two glasses of water in, the container itself will definitely break and break. But if you want to keep the container itself usable, there will definitely be excess water overflowing. And since we're talking about divine intervention, it must be the strong descending upon the weak, which is like pouring a large glass of water into a small glass that is already full.

As for the weak wanting to transfer their consciousness into the body of the strong, that's not entirely unheard of. However, this usually happens when the strong are educating their children or when teachers are educating their disciples. In order to allow these close people to learn advanced experience directly from them, they will actively lower their defenses to create convenience so that weaker souls can enter their bodies.

However, whether you pour from a large cup into a small cup or from a small cup into a large cup, there is a prerequisite to prevent the cup from breaking.

That is, between the two cups of water, there is an overlap.

Using water to describe this is not entirely accurate; the relationship is more like two circles—the more they intersect and overlap, the smaller the area of ​​the two circles becomes.

Of course, this is only from a two-dimensional perspective. If we use the analogy of water glasses and water, then there is an overlap between the two glasses. If it were real water, this wouldn't happen, since water has volume and there's no such thing as folding—but between consciousnesses, this overlap does exist.

Just as all gods would do, they would have believers recite prayers about themselves. In the process of reciting these prayers, believers' understanding of the gods would become deeper and deeper. And at the level of the gods, as believers continue to recite the prayers and understand the content of the prayers that are related to themselves, the overlap between the believers' souls and their own souls would become more and more extensive.

The best time for divine intervention is when the two completely overlap.

"Wait a minute?"

It was at this moment that Ilios suddenly realized just how dangerous his situation was.

That's right, the God of Death who currently controls this subspace is indeed dead. At least for now, it seems that even his consciousness has dissipated and his soul has been annihilated.

However, for a god of death who has mastered the ways of the soul, is the soul really so easily annihilated?
Indeed, this god of death has been forgotten for who knows how long. Even if his soul has not been annihilated, this god of death no longer has any followers—or rather, no one knows anything about this god of death anymore. Naturally, this god of death cannot even perform the most basic divine descent.

But does no one really remember this god of death?

Obviously, there are still some.

Even though all the believers have been lost to the past, he and the ancient serpent have now begun to gain some understanding of this god of death.

And now, they have come to the tomb of the god of death.

The tomb of the God of Death must contain many things related to him. This means that the deeper they delve into the tomb, the more they will understand the God of Death. This is equivalent to saying that if the God of Death, who is well-versed in the ways of the soul, wanted to descend upon them, it would become easier and easier for him.

If one were a believer, one might feel that the descent of a god upon them was an unparalleled glory. But Elias knew that such a divine descent was like using a new cup of water to cover up the old one.

The body determines the shape of the soul, but an overly powerful soul can also affect the body itself, the vessel. This damage is often irreversible, and it is not surprising that even those who are possessed by a god may have their consciousness extinguished on the spot.

"Although we might not be able to win..."

The thought of the god of death's superb methods that he had experienced before sent chills down Elias's spine—but as the chosen one of the god of courage, backing down in the face of battle was not in his nature.

So, with a wave of his hand, the runic sword appeared in his hand.

While rune swords might not be very useful against beings of the level of the God of Death, such weapons capable of damaging the soul can still be somewhat effective.

However, just as Elias drew his sword and stood there, the consciousness that had been spying on him for so long suddenly rushed straight at him.

Elias could see it clearly.

That was clearly a huge... blue-faced lion's head?

(End of this chapter)