"Do you need my help?" Master Xuanzang blinked; she sensed the other party's sincerity.
Los Saint raised his hand, and a node of a dimensional portal appeared in front of him, its colorful light membrane unfolding: "The other side of this portal is the world that needs your help."
"Hey... wait a minute, tell me what's going on here, young man, what's your name, what do you do?" Xuanzang hurriedly asked. He needed to explain the situation clearly before he could let her help the world, as she was confused and didn't understand anything.
"Stop talking nonsense and get over there." Luo Sheng instantly appeared behind her and kicked her in the butt.
"Ouch!" Master Xuanzang felt a sharp pain in his buttocks and cried out in pain. Realizing what was happening, his cheeks flushed red, and he lost his balance and fell towards the colorful light membrane in front of him.
"Hey hey hey—" He was completely swallowed up by the light membrane.
"If this guy fell into the hands of those scholars who study mythology and legends in Xia Country, they'd probably be furious," Luo Sheng said with a squinting smile.
Chapter 198: Widespread Alteration of Fate Threatens Humanity's Restraining Force
Los Saint walked toward the sea of sand ahead, then suddenly stopped. In an instant, several gazes flashed across him. These gazes were extremely faint, so faint that even a goddess like Rungomminiad could not detect them, and they only happened for a fraction of a second.
If he hadn't possessed the laws of time, he wouldn't have been able to detect this wisp of divine thought.
However, not all gazes were so brief; another gaze flickered over him for 0.1 seconds.
'Those guys…' Los Saint's golden eyes shone as he looked directly at the Age of Gods, a world extremely far removed from the human world, following the timeline of the Type-Moon universe.
Human beings have existed for five million years. Fourteen thousand years ago was the Age of Absolute Gods, the Age of Complete Divinity.
Three wars occurred during the Age of Gods, which weakened the Age of Gods and led to the birth of humanity's collective self-restraint.
The first war took place 50,000 years ago, a great war between the gods. Various pantheons were born in different regions of the earth as humanity revered and believed in nature.
In a struggle for the boundaries of the pantheon of gods, which was defined by human faith, the pantheon waged a great war that established the boundaries of their respective realms.
The clear boundaries allowed humanity to rediscover the world's appearance, giving rise to the concept of 'civilization,' and this collective human understanding led to the emergence of 'Alaya'.
The Second War took place 14,000 years ago. The shockwaves caused by the First World War triggered the detection of the "Star Vanguard," the vanguard of other interstellar civilizations that were the destroyers of civilizations outside the solar system.
There is not one, but three 'Star Vanguards', who refer to each other as brothers and sisters.
The second of them went to the moon, destroyed the civilization and all life there, and then created clones to go to Earth to reap the rewards.
Because it appears as a white giant of light and shadow reaching tens of thousands of meters high, it is called 'White Giant Sephalus' by the gods.
In this great war, all the gods of all pantheons united to fight against it, but they were still defeated. Most of the gods perished, and 90% of the civilization was destroyed. Seeing that Earth's civilization was about to be completely destroyed, the surviving gods fled to the Star Inner Sea and gathered all the fairies in the Star Inner Sea to forge the 'Star Holy Sword' using the fantasy crystals accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years in the Age of Gods.
The 'Star Sword' was forged from the accumulated fantasy crystals of civilization. Only humans can unleash its true power. The first wielder of the sword used this sword to defeat the white giant that no god in any pantheon could defeat.
This war established humanity's absolute core position in civilization, and the 'human restraint' gained the opportunity to grow stronger and fully awaken.
The awakened 'human restraint' began to erode the world of the gods with human cognition, completing the transformation of all things in the world from being granted by the gods to 'human beings acquiring everything they know about the world'.
That is, from 'divinely bestowed' to 'humanly obtained'.
This point in time is the most important on the timeline, and it is also the fatal point for 'human self-control'.
Whether the gods defeat Sephalus or the Star Sword is not successfully forged, the 'Human Restraint Force' will be stillborn.
There are also many such parallel worlds on the timeline, and humanity's restraining force will completely cut off such worlds.
The third war was the 'Quegantes War', which took place in the region of the Greek gods.
The giant descendant 'Kigantes,' born from Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and Uranus, the god of the sky, led non-human species to attack the Olympian gods. However, they could not defeat them with the power of the gods alone, so the gods nurtured Heracles, a demigod.
Hercules, as the main force, defeated Quagants, who represented the earth and the sky, ending the war and allowing the Olympian gods to escape the crisis of destruction.
On the timeline, this represents humanity's victory over the earth and the sky. The defeat of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and the son of Uranus, the god of the sky, also signifies that humanity surpassed the gods, especially Gaia, the goddess of the earth, who represents the earth itself, which is equivalent to a planet.
At the same time, Zeus bestowed the title of 'Hercules' upon Heracles, elevating him to godhood and completely breaking the ironclad rule that gods are the embodiment of the planet's nature, thus tearing open the last line of defense of 'planetary restraint'.
After the end of World War III, 'Alaya' rose to prominence and grew into a unique suppressive force belonging to 'humanity' that even planetary suppressive forces could not suppress.
After three major turning points, the human restraint became unstoppable, and the world of human cognition overwhelmed the world of divine reason. The Age of Gods began to decline and give way to the 'human world'.
What followed was the gods' attempt to save themselves from this trend. The Sumerian gods sent Gilgamesh, the "Wedge of Heaven," to maintain their rule over humanity, but Gilgamesh was the first to initiate humanity's farewell to the gods.
After that, the decline of the divine age became inevitable, and the gods, unwilling to accept it, disintegrated their divine bodies and entered the 'inner sea of stars' as spirits.
Before leaving, the gods broke down the 'unified language' that triggered the mysterious contact with the source into thousands of languages, preventing humans from directly contacting the mystery and the source. Most of the gods still loved humans; this was a protection to prevent humanity from self-destruction.
The gods departed and became myths and legends, and humanity became the sole protagonist of the planet.
After the decline of the divine age, the decline of the mystical also began. The 'human restraint force' completely took over the future, suppressing the mystical in all aspects, and the planet's great source began to decline.
Until King Solomon returned the wisdom and power of God three thousand years ago, the planet's great source was exhausted in all directions, leaving only a few scattered places that were ignored by human restraint.
This is Britain and Japan, where the world's mysteries have finally faded. King Arthur, Artoria, was chosen by Alaya to end the last mystery, and her destiny was predetermined even before she was born.
Finally, it was not until Christ was born and crucified that the mysterious influence of the world was declared to have completely disappeared from humankind.
After that, the mystery of the world completely declined, and mankind truly entered the scientific and technological era of exploring, taming, and controlling nature.
As the planet's mystery faded, the last magicians began to turn to a new path, developing a method that no longer drew magic from nature but from within themselves. The founders of the Small Source Magic were the brothers Brissison and Gemstone.
After the birth of the Small Source Magic, the magicians, whose mystery had faded, split into three factions. The magicians who pursued the "Small Source Reconstructing the Great Source" found the corpse of Albion, a fantasy dragon species from Britain that failed to leave in time to protect humanity, and built a "Clock Tower" on the corpse.
Fundamentalist magicians who believe that "magic from the Age of Gods is magic" travel to the Arctic Ocean region to establish the "Wandering Sea".
A magician who values small sources but believes that 'alchemy' is the future of magic travels to Egypt in North Africa to establish the precursor to 'Atlas Academy'.
During this period, the lunar civilization, destroyed in the two previous world wars, was also revealed. The Moon King Zhu Yue deceived Earth, agreeing to become the representative of Earth's will and descend to Earth.
Because of the 'human restraint force', the Earth's restraint force cannot give birth to its own proxy, UO, and under suppression, it did the thing of letting the robbers in.
Zhu Yue wanted to rebuild the lunar civilization destroyed by the 'Star Trek Vanguard' and replace human civilization with her own. However, before the plan could officially begin, she was destroyed by the Jewel King Kishua. But the Jewel King was also transformed into a Dead Apostle by Zhu Yue and lost the potential to go further towards the Root.
“The commotion just now was indeed a bit too loud; it startled those guys.” Los Saint’s golden eyes reflected scenes from the Age of Gods.
Zeus, startled by his gaze; Odin, frozen in place; the Trinity, drenched in sweat; and a solemn monk, his image dignified, resting on a prayer mat in an ordinary temple.
There was still one aura that Luo Sheng couldn't find. That should be a 'transcendent being' from outside the Type-Moon world, giving him a primordial aura. It should be 'Primordial Celestial Venerable'.
These great gods had been paying close attention to Fujimaru Ritsuka, the savior of humanity who had already repaired five singularities. Just now, this god had displayed a tremendous miracle on earth, causing them to cast their questioning glances.
After all, they cannot descend to the human world. Even if they want to help Chaldea, they can only use the Alaya domain to attach a tiny bit of power to the Servant and perform a divine descent.
Even those weaker gods who descend into human form are downgraded and can only appear as god-level servants.
The more powerful a god is, the greater the resistance to their descent. God-kings who surpass the main gods have virtually no chance of descending.
However, gods who have not reached the level of God-King cannot observe the timeline of the human world.
This creates a paradox: the God-King cannot descend or project his power to help Chaldea, while those below the God-King can be demoted to Servants but lack the ability to observe the timeline and thus cannot establish contact with Chaldea.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to be you. Since you've already made your move, I won't pay any more attention." Zeus's respectful divine message appeared in Los Saint's ear.
"Yes, only a transcendent being like you can directly interfere with the human world." Odin's divine will appeared.
"I'm so sorry to have troubled you." This message appeared from the Hindu Trinity.
【Amitabha…】The enlightened one’s divine thought appeared. He knew that the deity before him was not the original transcendent being he knew, but God was not wrong, and the other party was just a wisp of divine thought, not the real body.
"It's up to you." The divine thought of the Primordial Celestial Venerable flashed by.
"You guys are really not being polite," Luo Sheng said calmly.
Those transcendent beings are beings beyond the God-King, so it's not surprising that they know he comes from outside the universe. But those God-Kings can't see that; they just think he's the one they believe him to be.
Apart from the clear divine thoughts of the Awakener and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, the divine thoughts of the other God-Kings were extremely weak. Even if a God-King's divine thoughts traversed such a long timeline, they could only leave behind this small amount, which he could not hear unless he listened carefully.
After a fleeting thought, Luo Sheng looked at the last gaze, a slight smile playing on his lips.
Beneath the surface of the human world lies the 'Inner Sea of the Star,' the only domain governed by the planet's restraining force.
This is a world mirrored in the real world, a world where all gods, fantasy creatures, fairies, and so on live, and the magical realms that exist in myths and legends are all here.
At the border of Avalon, the Fairy Paradise in the Starry Sea, lies a pink-themed area. There is no land, no sky, only an endless expanse of emptiness. A pink tower stands here, and pink petals slowly surround the tower, forming a small 'sea of flowers'.
This tower is the 'Tower of Paradise', and also a self-imposed prison for non-human species with the qualifications of 'Grand Magician'.
"Oh dear! Oh dear! My eyes! Why can't I stop looking around!" A man in a white robe with white hair paced back and forth, sweating profusely, scratching his head repeatedly.
"It's that god! That god has descended!" The man raised his hand and slapped himself repeatedly across the face, 'Slap! Slap! Slap!': "What are you looking at! Now I'm being watched! Will I be punished by the god?!"
"That god's punishment is no joke! It's over, it's over... I'm really going to die and become a heroic spirit, no, no, maybe I won't even be able to become a heroic spirit!"
Merlin now wished he could gouge out his 'clairvoyance' right now. Why was he looking at things like that? Was it something he could just watch as that god performed a miracle? This was undoubtedly blasphemy against the gods.
His "thousand-mile eyes" cannot see the past or the future, only the present, so there is no time barrier and he sees it all at once.
He wanted to run out and apologize immediately, but it was too far from the Star Inner Sea. It would probably take at least several hundred years to get there, and by then it would be too late. Not to mention whether he would even be qualified to meet the divine countenance.
……
"Heh..." Luo Sheng chuckled as he looked at the panicked Merlin. He was the only one who didn't try to hide himself, so he was the only one who got a glance.
Ignoring this nightmare, this thing has no human emotions; all its emotions are imitations of humans. Its heart is inhuman.
Merlin helps humans because nightmares cannot exist without them. Whether it's a pleasant dream or a nightmare, they are the delicious treat he craves. If humans disappear, his nightmare will also disappear along with them.
“It would be interesting to bring this guy to the current Artoria,” Los Saint said, his eyes narrowing.
In Artoria's view, part of the reason for Camelot's destruction was that Merlin knew everything but stood by and did nothing. At the time, Merlin was indeed just watching the Knights of the Round Table kill each other for fun, and gradually betrayed them.
After realizing Artoria's resentment towards him, Merlin chickened out and claimed to have run to the 'Fairy Paradise Avalon' to imprison himself and repent for his mistakes, but in reality, he just wanted to avoid Artoria.
"I'll kick this guy over there after I'm done with my business," Luo Sheng said, squinting.
At that moment, Merlin sneezed violently, "Achoo!" A chill swept through his body, making him turn deathly pale. He sensed impending doom, not death, but certainly a tragedy.
Los Saint continued walking on the sea of sand, leaving a footprint beneath his feet. His figure slowly entered the space, and when he emerged again, he was in a desolate mountainous area.
In the mountain valleys, makeshift shacks made of wood and rags stand one after another, and ragged people struggle to work in order to survive. Everyone is severely malnourished and looks extremely haggard.
Los Santos did not conceal his divinity, walking along the mountain path leading to the shantytown, stopping in front of it.
People who were struggling to survive were all kneeling on the ground in devout prayer, their hands clasped in front of their chests. Their weary expressions were filled with a desperate plea for salvation, and tears streamed down their tired faces.
"God, great God, please save us."
"Supreme, all-knowing and all-powerful God, you have finally come. Please save us."
Two figures wearing black cloaks and skull masks appeared in front of Luo Sheng in an instant and knelt on the ground.
"The one and only God who is all-knowing and all-powerful, my Lord, we, Hassan, humbly welcome your arrival." Hassan of Cursed Wrist spoke, his devotion tinged with fervor.
“God, you have finally descended,” said the petite and serene Hassan devoutly.
“You did a good job protecting the humans seeking refuge,” Los Saint said with a smile. “You deserve recognition.”
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