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

There was a brief period of empires in Mesoamerica, but they were short-lived and soon disappeared.

Without a strong civilization to support it, it is difficult for faith to expand outward.

The spread of most mythological systems actually depends on the foreign wars waged by the main civilization to seize its land and destroy its civilization.

The best way to destroy another civilization is to replace it with a new one.

Because religious civilization combines politics and religion, it also bears the responsibility of spreading faith. Therefore, after conquering a piece of land, the new rulers often choose to force the locals to believe in the conqueror's god. The Western world is particularly fond of doing this, which is called "holy war."

Wars launched in the name of gods are the main excuse for many wars and the main way for major pantheons to spread myths.

Due to its unique geographical conditions, the Mesoamerican civilization did not need to venture into the world like maritime civilizations or civilizations that relied on commercial trade. Therefore, it has been living in a corner for many years, and their myths naturally lack influence worldwide.

After the Westerners occupied this land, the local beliefs suffered a severe blow. Under such circumstances, the gods of the Mesoamerican mythology were naturally weak, so much so that even a warrior like Artemis, who was not even a demigod, could successfully hunt gods.

Dane used his magic eyes to observe the jaguar's entire body and felt the divine power contained in the corpse. Considering the course of action reported by Artemis earlier, he had already reached a conclusion.

"If I'm not mistaken, this body belongs to Tezcatlipoca, a god who resembles a sorcerer. He is the first generation of the sun in Aztec mythology, the incarnation of the black sun, and the god of the night."

"Shouldn't a god like this be very powerful?" Diana frowned. What kind of god is this? He is so weak.

"He could have been very strong, what a pity." Dane sighed, if it was Quetzalcoatl, maybe it would be better.

Although Quetzalcoatl is not the strongest god in Aztec mythology, just like Cthulhu is not the strongest in Cthulhu mythology, they are the most famous ones in their respective mythologies.

Under the belief system, these gods are often able to exert extremely powerful strength.

Just like Zeus, if you really want to be picky, he is not the strongest god in the Olympian pantheon. The truly strongest ones are imprisoned in the abyss of the underworld.

"So is he useful?"

"Of course it will be useful!" Circe said impatiently, "This corpse is different from Arthur Curry. It is a true divine body. Even though its strength is not great, its status is undoubtedly that of a god.

I think I can research something better with this body..."

Before Cersei could finish her words, the jaguar's head suddenly opened its eyes, its head bounced up like a fish, and it opened its big mouth, and a fishy smell instantly rushed towards Cersei.

The witch was unable to react for a moment!

Fortunately, Dane, who has super speed, would not make the same mistake as the Flash. He immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed the head directly.

He used magic in his hands, and the soul in the jaguar's head was instantly sucked into his palm. After doing all this, he looked at Cersei.

"You were careless. You knew he wasn't dead."

Circe sensed his concern and approached him with a smile, "Aren't you here, dear?"

Chapter 621: The Crazy God Hunting Movement

Tezcatlipoca was not the only god to descend to the earth. Many indigenous gods also descended to other parts of the world, but most of them were less famous gods.

The Sky Eye Society, which suffered a defeat in the Amazon jungle, had no time to care about what was happening there. They were soon busy dealing with divine descent incidents in other places.

For example, recently, the Sky Eye Society successfully recovered a descendant of the Old God named Nanavi, nicknamed "Shark King". He is a descendant of the Old God on a small island in Hawaii, and is now possessed by the Old God and is the God of Sharks.

There was also an evil god from another dimension code-named "Witch", who used strange witchcraft to kill many elite subordinates of the Sky Eye Society, causing heavy losses to the vampire troops.

If the witch's strength had not yet fully recovered and the vampires had found an opportunity to steal her heart, they might not have been able to catch her.

However, the indigenous gods in America are not that powerful. The only thing that makes the Sky Eye wary of them is their strange abilities and long lifespan.

In terms of sheer physical strength, no descended god could defeat Doctor Fate. The recent success had made Amanda's situation a little better.

She connected with the guy in Washington and gained a lot of support.

Constantine did not join the Eye Society with Cyborg. He is a wanderer and still wanders around the magical world.

He discovered that with the frequent occurrence of gods descending from the sky in the world, the magic world has begun a grand god hunting movement.

All spellcasters are fanatically pursuing the traces of God and frantically trying to find out all the news about God.

Not long ago, a group of spellcasters captured Baron Samti somewhere in Haiti. Baron Samti is a voodoo god, and his name means "master of the grave" in French.

Voodoo is a relatively special religion in the world. It is closer to the essence of faith and is a sect that rules the minds of believers purely by fear.

The gods of Voodoo love believers to sacrifice living people, and the more cruel the sacrifice process is, the better. They enjoy the painful struggle of the sacrifice.

They are more like a group of demons than gods.

Constantine was a little worried. These voodoo creatures were generally cunning and treacherous, even worse than the demons of hell.

Did the spellcasters actually catch it?

However, he seemed to be the only one who had such concerns. The entire magical world was almost immersed in the frenzy of hunting the god, and there was no rationality at all.

In the early days of God's advent, their strength is often very weak. After all, weak faith is like a dragon entering shallow water for them. Without a certain amount of time to develop, spellcasters have the opportunity to capture or even kill them.

But until now, no spellcaster has been able to strip the divinity from God, let alone plunder the divine power.

However, despite this, capturing the god still brings huge benefits to those successful spellcasters. Even if they just hang a part of the god as a pendant on their body when casting a spell, the magic amplification is quite considerable.

Not to mention that refining medicine with divine blood and divine oil can prolong life, there are still only a few spellcasters who can achieve immortality without any harm. Most people who want to live longer can only sacrifice something.

Just as werewolves lose their rationality and obey their instincts, vampires become creatures of darkness, suffering from a lifelong thirst for blood.

Humans are very crazy creatures. Back then, the human family that captured Morpheus the Sleeper had actually intended to bring him to death. This suicidal attitude was outrageous even to Dane.

The gods hunted by these spellcasters now cost very little and brought huge rewards, which naturally attracted many magicians.

But not all spellcasters can find easy targets. Constantine heard that a team of spellcasters encountered a tough guy, and the first wave of hunters were wiped out.

"So they gave up?"

In a black market somewhere in London, Constantine was chatting with an intelligence broker.

"How is that possible?" The broker laughed. "In today's magical world, no one would give up on those gods. The more powerful they are, the more valuable they are."

That's true, Constantine nodded, he could understand what those people were thinking.

"So what are they going to do?" Constantine also wanted to gain some experience from the forerunners. Some of the gods he had met recently were opponents that he could not deal with with his current abilities.

The intelligence broker touched his chin and said, "I heard that those people later borrowed the power of hell..."

Constantine raised his eyebrows. It sounded like those people had plagiarized his methods.

"It's easy to lose everything when making deals with the demons of Hell," he said frankly. "Those demons are best at misinterpreting contracts. They will faithfully fulfill their promises, but the results are often not what people want..."

He seemed to recall some unpleasant memory and his face looked unhappy.

However, the intelligence broker suddenly said, "Your information is outdated. I've received new information from that group. They...are cooperating quite happily with Hell."

Speaking of this, the broker himself felt that this matter was simply unbelievable.

"How is that possible?" Constantine frowned. He intuitively felt that something had happened that he didn't know about.

The broker continued to explain, "I heard that those people had an agreement with the demons of Hell to hand over more than half of the spoils in exchange for the demons' actions."

To be honest, this method is feasible. The quality of God's soul is naturally stronger than that of humans, but Constantine is curious, will the devil be so honest?

You must know that godhood is an irresistible temptation for demons. With godhood, they can even transform themselves into real gods.

As for the cruelty after becoming a god...even a religion like Voodoo that uses fear as its main means of preaching can exist, so the devil doesn't have to change his style even if he becomes a god.

Moreover, there are churches in this world that worship demons, but the demon sects have been without gods for a long time, and there are actually many vacancies on the throne. Constantine doesn't believe that those demons will not be tempted.

The intelligence broker was unable to answer Constantine's question and could only give an ambiguous answer: "Maybe something happened in Hell..."

Constantine's eyes suddenly flashed. For some reason, he suddenly remembered a negotiation that took place in the Rock of Eternity.

He seriously suspected that there was some hidden secret between Dane and the demon Etrigan at that time. If he wanted to know what happened in hell, it would be useless to ask human brokers. Constantine had to ask the demon dust.

So after saying goodbye to the broker, Constantine drew an inverted pentagram in his mysterious house and summoned a demon.

"John, have you finally figured it out and are you ready to give me your soul?"

Chapter 622: Changes in Hell

"Portia, I came to you this time because I have something to ask you." Constantine had no intention of wasting time talking to the other party.

The demon named "Portia" has a snake-like head, and its vertical pupils stare at Constantine, revealing astonishing greed in its tongue.

"John, you know the rules. If you want something, you have to pay for it. Have you decided what you want to pay?"

Constantine nodded calmly and lit a cigarette without paying any attention to the people around him. "I've prepared a gift for you. Consider it your reward."

"what?"

"How's your life?"

Portia attacked instantly, its snake-like mouth opened wide, its mouth corners opening and closing almost 180 degrees, but apart from fangs, it had no other teeth.

Only a fishy smell hit me.

But Constantine remained calm until Portia rushed up to him and suddenly stopped.

Of course, it wasn't that he wanted to stop, but there was an invisible force restraining him.

"Portia, seriously, you should work on your oral hygiene. It stinks."

Constantine took two steps back, as if he was infuriated by the other party's breath. Then he snapped his fingers, and Portia's body suddenly fell backwards and hit the ground directly.

It wanted to get up, but it felt like a mountain was pressing down on it, making it difficult to stand.

"You...what did you do to me?"

"This 310-mile place is a magical place, Portia. It's called the House of Mystery. I can control everything here with my mind."

He held the half-smoked cigarette between two fingers and pressed the spark to Portia's snake head.

This temperature had no effect on the devil, but it was extremely insulting. Portia's two ping-pong ball-like vertical pupils flashed with vicious light.

"No wonder you didn't use any magic to restrict my behavior. It turns out you have such a good thing..."

When a general sorcerer summons a demon, he must set restrictions on the summoned demon in advance to prevent the demon from harming the summoner.

After all, demons are generally stronger than their summoners. Even a wizard with great magical powers can be easily killed by a nearby demon if caught off guard. Therefore, it is necessary to keep a trick up your sleeve.

But when Portia was summoned, she did not feel any restrictions. She thought that Constantine was careless, but she did not expect that the other party had other ways to restrain her.

"Let's make things simple. You tell me what I want to know, and I'll make sure you get back to Hell safely in a little while. How about that?"

"make a deal."

Constantine nodded in satisfaction: "Did something happen in Hell?"

Portia's eyes flickered, and she didn't answer immediately. I don't know what she was thinking.

"I advise you not to lie to me. It's just mind reading. I can do it too. Although it costs a little, the price you pay will be greater than mine."

Portia immediately stopped lying and told Constantine the truth about what had happened in hell recently.

"What? You said that Satan from Hell is missing, or all three?" Constantine frowned, not expecting it to be such a big deal.

“Now that Satan’s position is vacant, the power vacuum in Hell needs to be filled. Therefore, powerful lords are fighting each other, and battlefields are everywhere.

But this is a good thing for us lower-level demons." Portia spit out the snake's tongue and sucked it back in.

"Without Satan's control, we no longer have to hand over most of our gains in the human world. Therefore, many demons are willing to give up some of their benefits to humans."

In the past, whenever any demon in hell made a deal with humans, Satan could take most of the profits from the demons' gains by virtue of his personal advantage, so Satan did not need to work as hard as the demons to complete the contract.

However, as the ruler among the demons, Satan's greed is the greatest among all demons. Most of the profits that the middle and lower-level demons have worked hard to earn from the human world are taken away by Satan, and very little is left.

This also forces these demons to try their best to tamper with the content of the contract and use behaviors that damage their credibility to gain more benefits for themselves.

The demons are not fools either, they certainly know the principle of taking things slow and steady.

Humans who can arrange summoning rituals are either ignorant, vicious, or stupid. In any case, as long as the desires of these humans are satisfied, the possibility of them summoning again is very high.

If humans can profit from the ritual of summoning demons for a long time, then they are likely to become dependent on this method. The demons will then have a group of regular customers and can continuously make money from these "old customers". Why would they exhaust all the resources?

It's not that they don't want to do this, but Satan's exploitation makes it impossible for them to do so.

In order to get the most out of their appearances, the demons had to resort to killing the chicken to get the eggs in order to complete the contract, causing their reputation to become worse and worse.

But now that Satan has disappeared, this means that every demon in the world can keep most of the gains in the world. Therefore, many clever demons began to cultivate their own reputation, hoping that more humans can solve problems by summoning demons.

This is why there are so many cases in the magic world today where spellcasters and demons cooperate happily.

It’s not that the demons are planning something bad, but the environment has changed. The demons have kept pace with the times and changed the way they “do business.”

"Have you already known about the 'God's Descent'?" Constantine continued to ask.

"That's right." Portia nodded decisively. "The Divine Realm and Hell border each other. Although it's difficult for demons to enter the Divine Realm, some old gods who have a good relationship with Hell have already revealed the news to us."