Mystery: Time Travelers of the Fourth Era

Chapter 471 The Hermit's Relationship with the World

The White Emperor died, and the magical system he built collapsed with the re-separation of the spirit world and reality. The hermits also died, and extraordinary knowledge became secret, no longer freely circulating and spreading in the world.

In the Fourth Age, the Age of the Gods came to an end. The four true god emperors who had ushered in a great era passed away one after another, and the gods no longer walked on the earth.

The hermit is like a catfish. The era of the hermit has long passed, but will the influence the hermit had on the gods disappear?

Now that a hermit has appeared, will the gods still view the world in the same way as before?

Impossible. The ideologies of the true leaders on Earth have already changed.

With the restart of the era, only the ordinary people of the North and South continents, as well as most of the new generation of extraordinary individuals below the level of angels, are restarting.

Solomon, Tudor, Trensost, and Eggers, the four royal families recognized by the northern and southern continents and by various churches, became Einhorn, Soren, Augustus, and Castile.

In essence, there is no difference; it is still the Church of the Righteous God and the Extraordinary Family jointly ruling the world.

The civilization of the Northern Continent was restarted with the collapse of the four great empires and the establishment of the four great kingdoms.

When the people of the Fourth Age died out or went into hiding over a thousand years, the Church of the True God loosened its high-pressure control, and the Northern Continent finally began a period of cultural and artistic prosperity, a "Renaissance," and began to reflect on the constraints and high-pressure policies of religion on people.

The ambiguity of history, the scarcity of documents, and deliberate guidance have resulted in some members of these royal families, including the Sauron family, being less insightful and knowledgeable than their contemporaries in the Fourth Age. Not to mention, other ordinary people with even shorter histories still need to wait for Roselle to push civilization forward a small step.

The seven true gods erased their human forms, retaining only symbolic representations. The four great angelic families ruled the northern continent. The highest rank of the king did not exceed rank 5. The extraordinary became secretive, and the gods became even more sacred. There was even a wave of de-responsibility that advanced their consciousness.

During the Fourth Age, in the era of the Four Emperors, the majesty of the gods and angels was both tangible and terrifying.

But a person's thoughts are their own.

The Tudor Empire's proactive enlightenment resulted in a distortion of faith.

With so many people, there must be some who are unhappy with their lives. Don't they secretly resent the gods in their hearts?

You are clearly the Mother Goddess of the Earth, and your authority is to ensure a bountiful harvest, so why is there still a reduction in grain production this year?

You are clearly the Lord of Storms, and I have such a devout faith in you, so why do I still encounter storms at sea?

Ordinary people naturally fear the gods, but they also cannot control their resentment. When this gradually forms a certain trend, the entire belief system and the entire ocean of collective subconsciousness will show a tendency.

The power of the Thodol Empire lay in the fact that it had no church.

Without priests spreading the faith, they would preach how great our gods are. If you want power, glory, and money, then risk your life to become a nobleman. Ordinary people would clearly realize that the Red Priest is the emperor, and the Five Dukes are nobles. By becoming nobles, they become part of this system.

Ambitious individuals, in the Fourth Age, can truly feel the power of gods and angels.

They dared to dream of becoming extraordinary nobles, but they would never dare to dream of becoming gods.

So, the Church of the True God, an exploitative organization, one with divine backing and whose divine power is clearly visible, their priests constantly preach how great their god is, how their god symbolizes such and such, and how their god is the light that saves the world...

But gods don't actually save anything. They aren't emperors; there's a natural species barrier, making them so unattainable. As the Age of Exploration, sparked by the Tudor Empire, progressed, and with the increasing exchange of information at sea, the winds of change gradually shifted...

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It is almost inevitable that people will hate the gods more than they hate the nobles.

Even the most devout believers, the greater their expectations, the more likely their faith will crumble in the face of divine indifference and disregard. They may either accept that they, as believers, are not important in the eyes of the gods, or accept that the gods they worship are not so righteous.

The clergy of the True God Church are able to bask in the glory of God. I ask myself, my faith is no less than that of this broad-shouldered, cunning priest, so why am I not being taken care of?

Such thinking is almost inevitable, and it will inevitably be imported back to China via smuggling ships from various countries.

Although the gods do not care about people's attitudes, the seven gods do not want to bear this kind of hatred.

Therefore, in the Fifth Age, they completed the process of de-responsibility, becoming fictitious symbols, no longer human-shaped gods, but like the sun, similar to impersonal gods.

The nobles oppress you, so you hate the nobles; the gods are great.

Of course, isn't solar energy amazing? How can we not revere it?

But would you hate the sun for not saving you from starvation?

The evil gods don't do this; they retain their human form, probably because they don't care.

Their faith is relatively weak, and hatred and fear are actually more suitable anchors for them, which are close to their own authority. However, the seven true gods are somewhat unable to withstand it. If the entire Kingdom of Rune, including Rune's several enemy countries, Rune's vast colonies, all those who are oppressed, affected by war and colonization, all those who have suffered shipwrecks and those who make a living from the sea, all periodically hate the Lord of Storms in their hearts.

Leodorus probably won't be having an easy time either.

From the Fourth Age to the Fifth Age, civilization did not regress; technology and ideas were actively destroyed and sealed off.

The protagonists on the world stage have not regressed in their thinking; on the contrary, they have remained very clear-headed.

The world's pattern remains unchanged.

The Sauron family not only cooperates with the Church of the Eternal Sun, but they also have marriage alliances with Einhorn and other angelic families. Although they sometimes fight each other, it has never affected their marriage alliances. The Sauron family also has branches in the Church of the Witches and the Morse Penitentiary, among other secret organizations.

Even in Intis and Trier, which are ruled by the Soren family, there is still room for secret organizations such as the Secret Order to develop in secret.

Even in Backlund, ruled by the Augustus family, there was a whole clan of vampires.

The Jacob family, too, has spread far and wide. The Hermit of Fate... recruits, controls, and influences thieves through various means, using the Cardmaster's Guild as a shell to develop in Intis. They have connections with the Sauron family. In the Fursak Empire, there are still Cardmaster organizations that have connections with the Einhorn family.

On the surface, the Fourth Era has reopened after the devastating purge of the Four Emperors' War, and there are no similarities to the past, but in reality, it is no different from before.

The appearance of the Hermit, like a catfish, also stimulated deities such as the True Creator, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and the Eternal Sun to explore the Source.