American comics: I became a god at the beginning, I chose to practice both science and magic

"I'm here."

In the void, a woman clad in white light emerged from Dane's shadow.

As the god of dreams, Cortana and Dane are now two sides of the same coin. Wherever he is, Cortana will naturally be there too, but Cortana has not appeared in the human world for the time being.

There are countless gods watching behind the scenes of this world, and Cortana's abilities in the material world may not be enough to completely hide herself.

Dane handed the heart in his hand to Cortana, using her as a transit point to look through Poseidon's memories.

Direct soul searching would cause Dane's mind to be affected by the other party's memories, but memories filtered through Cortana would not have this risk.

She herself is a god evolved from artificial intelligence. She is best at data processing and is not affected by emotions in memory. This is the natural advantage of artificial intelligence.

He always remembered that he was just a newborn god, and this clone did not draw much power from the original body.

The multiverse level is powerful, but its every move is watched by other multiverse levels. Everyone can crush the existence of a universe with just a turn. If there are no restrictions, the entire DC worldview will be in great trouble.

So everyone basically defaults to following some established rules just to prevent someone from accidentally destroying a parallel universe.

This is also the reason why some multiverse-level clones have different strengths. The original body generally does not interfere with the fate of the clone, nor does it pour too much power into a certain clone.

Although power cannot be infused infinitely, memory and knowledge can be communicated. Considering the special nature of Dane himself, all his clones actually share the same soul.

This was also what Dane discovered after he was promoted to the multiverse level. He was different from other multiverse levels. He was the only one consciousness in his soul sea, which meant that he was actually controlling countless clones with one mind.

This is fundamentally different from other multiverse-level collective consciousnesses. No one can bear so many different life experiences and memories at the same time. Different experiences will shape different personalities. Once all the memories are combined into one, the disordered personality will drive people crazy. Even the multiverse level cannot handle such information density.

Therefore, their sea of consciousness is actually a collection of information similar to a chaotic algorithm, and the ontological consciousness should actually be distinguished from the sea of consciousness.

To give an example, it is like the human body. The brain has a clear consciousness, but it does not participate in the body's self-regulation mechanism, which is the work of biological instinct.

The relationship between most multiverse-level entities and collective consciousness is like that of the human body, but Dane's approach is to completely replace instinct with self-awareness.

Even the multiverse-level ones are unwilling to try this method easily. Only gods like Dane who have been promoted to the multiverse through special means will use such a crazy method.

Fortunately, his clones were split when they were promoted, and the original body had enough time to sort out those clones one by one.

But this method is not entirely a bad thing. The integration of all clones means that the connection between all clones is closer, the memories between each other are closely linked, and there is no delay in communication.

As far as Dane knows, someone like Lucifer who constantly transfers his original consciousness between various clones will actually be affected by the clone's personality and his own personality will change after the transfer.

Dane, on the other hand, was able to ensure that he remained consistent.

This special ideology will give Dane a huge intelligence advantage.

By reading Poseidon's memories, he discovered that the war involved more gods than he had imagined, and the scope was wider.

Chapter 553 Inside Story

According to Poseidon's memory, the gods involved in this war were not only Olympians, but also gods from other pantheons. The other pagan gods who held the title of "Sea God" were basically allies of Poseidon, and seemed to be vaguely centered around him.

The reason for this is probably because only Atlantis, the descendant of Poseidon, has the power to directly start a war, and the seven underwater kingdoms all believe in Poseidon, so other sea gods can only obey him.

At least that's what Poseidon himself thought.

But Dane didn't believe it. He suspected that those strange-looking sea people might have been manipulated by other sea gods behind the scenes.

Especially the Trench Clan, Dane always felt that they had a close connection with the Deep Ones. He could see from Poseidon's memory that this guy didn't like brainless believers very much.

A large race like the Trench Tribe has no brains, which means they have no way to worship God through normal sacrificial rituals and can only express their faith in God through living sacrifices.

However, this form of human sacrifice was abolished by the gods long after humans entered civilization. Only a small number of ignorant tribes still retained the custom of human sacrifice. These tribes were feudal, xenophobic, and stubborn to the point of being a headache. They were definitely not the kind of believers that Poseidon liked.

His preferences are similar to those of many Olympian gods. He prefers warriors like ancient heroes, such as Orm and Aquaman, who can fight against a hundred enemies at once.

As the ocean occupies 70% of the earth's surface, there are many sea gods who have power over it. In addition to the famous Poseidon, there is Njord in Norse mythology, the god of the near sea; and Egil, the god of the deep sea.

Aia of ancient Babylon, the mermaid-like goddess of the sea. Manannomacle of Celtic mythology, the adoptive father of Lugur, the god of light, whose father was the previous god of the sea. In their lineage, the godhood of the sea is hereditary.

There are also the Aztecs’ Tlaloc and Chalchuliqui, and Japan’s Omatsumi and Sumiyoshi trinity.

Dane discovered a very interesting phenomenon. Except for a few gods, most gods' position of "Sea God" is actually just a part-time job. They often possess composite godhood, which should be based on human needs.

Apart from the seven kingdoms that live entirely in the ocean, most humans who believe in the sea god are either sailors and pirates who sail all year round, fishermen who often go out to sea to fish, or ethnic minorities living on isolated islands.

These humans' beliefs in the God of the Sea often result in them attaching many strange titles to the God due to their different needs.

For example, the gods of tides, drowning, nets, fishing, and other gods related to human production and life were all thrown on the head of the sea god they believed in.

This results in many sea gods not actually having much authority over the "ocean". Instead, they are more like nanny gods who help humans improve their lives. There are not many gods like Poseidon who are clearly stated in mythology to be the rulers of the ocean. Even if there are, the popularity of their beliefs is far less than that of Poseidon.

Especially the seven kingdoms, as a nation that was able to survive and reproduce in the ocean because of Poseidon's divine power, their belief in Poseidon gave him extraordinary control over the ocean.

Dane vaguely understood the real reason why Poseidon allowed Atlantis to sink. You know, before this civilization completely sank into the sea, they actually had always believed in Poseidon, but this main god still watched them sink to the bottom of the sea with cold eyes.

Perhaps this is Poseidon's true purpose, to create a civilization that completely believes in him, and to compete with Zeus who controls the human beings on the surface.

You should know that there are other gods competing for the faith in the surface world, but there is only one god in the underwater kingdom from beginning to end.

In the memories that Dane saw, because Poseidon had the greatest authority among all the sea gods, he was actually the most powerful god among all the sea gods.

In fact, those sea gods who were in the same camp as him became his minions.

Although these minions were not honest and secretly extended their claws into his territory, Poseidon turned a blind eye to it in order to gain their support in this war.

No matter how those sea gods try to steal the favor, the official belief of the Seven Seas is Poseidon, which remains unchanged.

Dane also discovered another interesting thing. The god of war Ares was actually in the same camp as Poseidon at the beginning. In order to fight against Zeus's camp, the uncle and nephew chose to join forces.

But for some unknown reason some time ago, the two suddenly broke up, Ares broke his oath and became a behind-the-scenes supporter of mankind.

Dane thought that Ares' escape from Tartarus might have been helped by Poseidon.

This is not impossible. There is a legendary secret place in the ocean. It is the final destination of all drowned people and is known as "the end of the world and the abyss of the ocean."

This secret realm is likely to lead directly to Hades' underworld, and this secret realm is under the control of Poseidon.

He could completely use this secret realm to secretly cooperate with Hades. The secret realm directly under the sea was out of Zeus' sight, so it was normal that he couldn't see it.

Of course the gods can see the potential of humans, but the reason no god chooses humans is because the faith of Olympus is not dominant in the human world.

Human faith is divided among several monotheistic religions, especially in the Middle East. Local wars caused by faith have never stopped, and the gods have no way to intervene.

Therefore, Zeus and Poseidon focused their attention mainly on the Amazons and Atlanteans, as these two races were the forces they could control.

But Poseidon never expected that Ares would use the influence of the war frenzy to successfully bring the United States under his control. After the Amazon was destroyed by the dirty bomb, Ares became the strongest camp. At this point in time, Ares was the only god in Olympus who controlled the human side, and his strength was recovering at an extremely fast speed.

It is conceivable that Ares will not allow the war to stop until he realizes his ambition, even if Poseidon and the sea gods behind him want to stop.

"So that's how it is..." Dane frowned slightly. There were too many gods involved in this war. Even Poseidon had so many alien gods behind him. It was conceivable that Zeus must have the support of many foreign gods. What did they want to do?

Want to redistribute human faith?

Huh? That's not impossible!

You have to know that under the production conditions in ancient times, the global population was probably only a few hundred million. However, with such a small population, it gave rise to countless beliefs in gods, both big and small.

Today, the human population is almost breaking through the 10 billion mark. Such a huge population and the implicit wealth of faith would attract the attention of any god.

It is very likely that the gods will start a war that spreads across the entire world in order to regain control of the faith of these humans.

This will be a new holy war!

Chapter 554 Choice

If it is really as Dane guessed, then from the perspective of Zeus and others, the essence of this war is no longer a civil war between the gods, but more like a performance.

It feels a bit like a westernized version of Investiture of the Gods, where the gods fight each other to regain faith. But there is a problem here: would the main god of a monotheistic religion allow this?

Or in other words, does God allow it?

You must know that after the Twilight of the Gods, mankind's faith was basically harvested by God. The church under his command is the religion with the largest number of followers in the world. Even the main gods behind other monotheistic religions are basically of the same kind.

After that, the gods moved to the new divine realm. In the nearly thousand years, have these gods ever thought about returning to the human world?

I guess there must be, but I have never heard of a true God walking on the earth in the past thousand years. Basically, it is demigods or messengers of God with divine power who act on behalf of God.

Dane guessed that God was the real reason why the gods could not enter the human world. After the gods left, He replanned the boundaries between gods and humans. Angels and demons still had the opportunity to descend to the human world, but the gods were almost cut off from the ability to enter the human world.

No! Dane suddenly frowned.

He seemed to have made a mistake. His previous guess was based on "common sense", but the world today did not conform to the so-called "common sense".

This is a timeline that was reshaped by the Speed Force after the collision of many parallel worlds. Therefore, the cornerstone of the world is the Speed Force and old Barry, not God.

Dane's original body witnessed with his own eyes that old Barry fell into a deep sleep after creating this new timeline. To some extent, he is now equivalent to the Soul King in "Bleach", existing as a wedge to maintain the world.

If the Supreme God had not cast his gaze upon this world, then the creator god of this world would no longer be God, but old Barry.

This way, many things can be explained.

In the original movie "Flashpoint Paradox", Aquaman chose to destroy the entire world before his death in order to ensure that he could kill Wonder Woman, and he succeeded.

Now that I think about it, this is actually a bit puzzling, because if God's eyes were on this, then He should not have allowed this to happen.

Although He cannot personally take action, as the only God, He has many subordinates who can help Him solve problems. What about the Phantom Stranger? What about the Ghost? And what about the most important Chosen Worker, Constantine?

In the face of the crisis of world destruction, the magic side should not have done nothing, and Lady Xanadu should have been able to foresee the end of the world. It is hard to understand why these people did not play any role in the disaster.

Unless, in this timeline, the power of the magic side has been weakened, and if God is not in this world, then as a replacement, only old Barry can perform God's functions here.

Old Barry's own strength is obviously not enough to support so much magical power. Just preventing the gods from returning to the world would probably take all his strength.

Although DC's magical world doesn't appear often, when it does, it's basically a huge disaster, the kind that technology is simply unable to deal with.

Without the constraints of God, the ambitions of the gods are unchecked. It can be said that old Barry has done his best to hold on until today. After all, he is far behind God. It is only by relying on the special nature of the speed force that he can obtain a status similar to that of the creator god.

But once someone takes away his speed, it will be difficult for him to maintain this status.

The key to all this is the birth of Barry Allen. As the destined Flash, Barry was destined to be associated with the Speed Force since birth.

Old Barry's control over the gods depends on the ability given to him by the Speed Force, but Barry's birth took away a part of the Speed Force, which weakened Old Barry's suppression of the gods. This is why the world has now evolved into a battlefield of gods.

Although the magical environment of this world has become extremely dirty, the source of magic is stronger than in ancient times. The essence of magic is vitality. In the modern world, there are more new lives than extinct lives. The gods can completely occupy the world first, and then start to transform it to cleanse the "dirty" magic.

Atlantis' plan to use the greenhouse effect to flood the entire world also came from Poseidon's suggestion. Once the entire world becomes a sea world, Poseidon can transform all living things into marine life, just like the Atlantis civilization that sank into the sea.

By then, he will become the creator of all living things and completely control the entire planet. At that time, even Zeus, the god of the sky, will have to avoid him, the god of the sea who controls all life.

Mother Goddess of the Earth like Gaia even had to prostrate herself on the ground and bow her head in submission.

This is also the reason why Zeus and Gaia joined forces, they have the same interests.

After figuring out the reason why the gods started the war, Dane began to think about what he could gain from it.

First of all, Poseidon must not be allowed to succeed, but Zeus must not be allowed to succeed either.

No matter which camp of the gods, they are actually trying to make mankind return to the age of ignorance. To make modern people who have awakened their minds believe in the gods again, they can only reverse history and let mankind return to the period of suffering.

Only when people have no hope in life will they want to place their hopes on gods. Therefore, destroying all the happy lives that mankind currently has through war and creating suffering is the established goal of the gods.

But Dane thought, Zeus and Gaia would never allow Poseidon's plan to succeed, otherwise their plan would become a favor to Poseidon.

During the previous war, they did not choose humans because the faith of the gods had declined in the human world, and they had no way to make humans kill each other directly like they did in the Amazon or Atlantis. From this we can see that without "faith" as a bond, it is actually difficult for the gods to influence the human world.

But the god of war Ares succeeded. From Poseidon's memory, Dane did not find the method for Ares' success. He only knew that Aphrodite was now in the same camp as the god of war.

Aphrodite is not only the goddess of love and beauty, but also the goddess of desire...

Dane had a hunch that Ares's success in getting his hands on humans was probably related to Aphrodite's abilities.

"What should I do?" Dane suddenly smiled at Cortana. "Now that I'm a demigod weapon created by the gods, it seems I'm naturally on their side.

Should I join the gods, or become a lone hero? Following Ares's success, more gods will soon find a way out. Even in this day and age, there are still many ignorant humans. As long as the old gods are willing to search patiently, they will soon find new followers.

Although the war continues, more and more families will be broken, and the suffering of mankind will make it easier for the gods to radiate their power to the world, tell me, which side should I stand on?

Cortana smiled slightly. "Whatever you decide, I will be with you."

"I see..." Cortana didn't seem to answer, but in fact she had already answered.

Dane stared at the heart of Poseidon in his hand, then suddenly exerted force with his palm and crushed it!

Chapter 555: Om changes his stance

Now that we know that there are gods from other pantheons standing behind Poseidon, the original plan has to be changed.

Even if he could follow the divine thought in his hand and push back to the location of Poseidon's real body, Dane would still be facing multiple gods. Whether he could defeat the opponent was not yet determined, but he would definitely alert the enemy.

At present, the gods' interference in the world is not very deep. Even Poseidon can only contact Om through "entering dreams". Before Diana moved into the small world of gods, she could only passively accept oracles, and communication with the gods had to be carried out in the temple.

So far, only the god of war Ares has been able to communicate directly with the human world, and his ability is achieved with the help of the ubiquitous aura of war today, which has no reference value for other gods.