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Then, in just the blink of an eye, the light in Asthesia's eyes, the holy fluorescence lingering around her, and the divine power that was briefly released from her body disappeared again.

however.

that's enough.

Xia Yan didn't have to wait too long.

In just a minute or so, the entire rock hall began to shake, and the powerful earthquake instantly expanded outward and affected the entire floor.

Then, amidst the earth-shaking, a black figure was suddenly reflected on the smooth, flat surface of the Wall of Sighs. Immediately afterwards, the wall cracked into hideous cracks, and finally there was a roar like an avalanche.

There was a bang.

The wall of the Wall of Sighs exploded.

A black Goliath giant, who looked taller than an ordinary Goliath, swung his huge fist to smash the wall in front of him and squeezed himself out from the Wall of Sighs.

Then, this man, who was definitely over ten meters tall, with gray-black skin and pale hair, turned his red eyes to look at where Xia Yan, Irena and Asthesia were.

then.

"Ao~!"

The black giant raised his head and let out a deafening roar, taking steps so heavy that the ground shook and trembled, and rushed towards the three people.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—

After crossing the entire rock hall in a few strides, the black giant raised its huge arm above its head and smashed it down with the force of thunder and lightning that crushed everything.

boom--!

A wailing sound was heard in the air. After the giant's fist landed on the ground, it immediately stirred up a wave of violent air waves and impact. Pieces of rubble flew up from the shattered ground, carrying the shock wave and sweeping out like a storm.

next moment.

In the dust and wind.

A large number of pink petals drifted away.

Then, in just a blink of an eye, flying pink petals covered the entire rock hall, turning every corner within sight into a gorgeous sea of ​​pink flowers.

This scene made the black giant stand there in a daze.

The black Goliath giant, which was temporarily created not long ago by the will of the dungeon maze, was stimulated by the slight divine power released by Asthesia. It had no self-awareness at all and was just a beast acting on instinct. The beast's simple thinking was completely unable to understand why the barren cave before had turned into a sea of ​​flowers in the blink of an eye.

But soon, the black giant noticed three familiar figures who reappeared in the sea of ​​flowers not far from it.

"Roar."

Then, the giant roared again, his blood-red eyes filled with murderous intent, and the sea of ​​flowers under his feet was trampled down by him. His huge body pounced forward rapidly, and his two strong arms that stretched behind his back to gather strength suddenly tore through the air and swung out, smashing towards the three figures.

The next second, the sea of ​​flowers collapsed.

The explosive force generated by the two fists caused the ground to crack and the shock wave to spread outward, rolling up countless petals like a tsunami.

But an obvious look of bewilderment appeared on the giant's ferocious face, which was as ferocious as a beast.

It did not feel the touch of life being crushed.

Wait until it stands up and looks up.

The giant's eyes became increasingly red.

Because in front of it... the three figures that had been "killed" by it twice appeared again intact.

The difference is that among the three tiny figures, the two with black hair and gray hair and the one with dark blue hair were separated for some reason. The former was in front of its left, and the latter was in front of its right.

The black Goliath, who was completely incapable of complex thinking, made his choice without any hesitation. His blood-red eyes emitted a fierce light, his back slightly tilted back, and he opened his mouth, roaring at the figure with dark blue hair.

This time it was not a simple shout. The magic power gathered in its mouth and, along with its roar, turned into a tangible shock wave and spewed out.

There was a boom.

The dark blue-haired figure disappeared in the shockwave.

But a moment later, she appeared again intact, and caught the eyes of the giant who had just released a shockwave of magical roar and was about to turn around to chase the black-haired and gray-haired people.

The Black Goliath giant once again left the two men behind. After judging that the shockwaves of the Magic Roar had no effect, Simple Thinking drove it to take a step forward and launch a charge.

This time, it ran to the dark blue-haired figure with agility that was disproportionate to its size, reached out and grabbed the figure and the large pink petals, opened its mouth to the extreme, put them into its mouth and swallowed them.

However, just when the giant thought that it had eaten the dark blue-haired figure that it hated and loathed the most, it raised its head again... and saw the dark blue-haired figure again and again, appearing in its sight intact in another direction of the pink sea of ​​flowers.

"Ouch——"

So, the black Goliath giant ignored the other two and charged towards the dark blue-haired figure with a roar.

"..."

"..."

"..."

At the same time, far behind the Black Goliath, Xia Yan, Irena and Asthesia stood in an illusory sea of ​​pink flowers, watching the giant chasing a goal that did not exist in vain.

Watched for a while.

"how?"

Xia Yan turned and looked at the two girls beside him.

"Hmm, the black monsters created by stimulating the will of the dungeon maze are indeed targeted..."

Irena held up Lady Avalon's staff, maintaining a large-scale illusion that blurred the boundaries between reality and illusion, forming a sea of ​​pink flowers throughout the entire rock hall, and dragging the giant whose strength was comparable to that of a LV5 into an illusion from which he could not escape, while casting spells to sense the monotonous but direct thought fluctuations of the black monster.

"...Furthermore, its murderous intent towards Athesia has basically evolved into the goal of 'eating' her—while I can't be completely certain, it at least proves that it's targeting you."

The Witch of Dust turned her head and glanced at Athesia.

"The Terrans are indeed physically strong. With a little training, they can even reach Level 2. They are far superior to the other gods in the lower realms who can only use ordinary human physical fitness. I can now clearly feel and distinguish the aversion of the dungeon maze towards the 'gods'..."

Asthesia whispered:

"...Xia Yan, you seem to have guessed correctly. If the black monster before only intended to destroy my body, now it is ready to 'eat' me under the will of the dungeon. Simply eating the body of the god in the lower realm still cannot kill the god. At most, it can only imprison the god's consciousness, making it impossible for it to be recalled by the [Heaven]... This method can only be considered a seal."

"A seal that isolates the gods from the dungeon maze, preventing them from 'connecting' with it—your hypothesis now seems very likely. Uranus has fixed and nailed himself to a part of the dungeon maze, and the dungeon maze's will reacting so strongly to the gods may be to prevent a second 'god' from being nailed to it."

"In other words, the gods of the underworld can no longer find opportunities to 'tug' the dungeon maze with some kind of ritual like Uranus did?"

"Well, that's impossible. As long as the will reaction in the dungeon maze is just as intense, there will be no chance of the same happening again."

Asthesia said:

"But I still don't understand one thing. Even the gods in the Celestial Realm aren't sure if they can traverse the divine path of Essence. Even if a Level 10 being is born in the future, can a 'demigod' that's infinitely close to a Celestial Realm god really achieve the same effect?"

"Have you forgotten?"

"Ok?"

"In the [Divine Grace] system, if leveling up is like gradually building Essence—then, Abilities reflect the adventurer's physical qualities in all aspects, and a fixed number of spells reduces the difficulty of learning magic, allowing even those without the aptitude to learn it later... then, what are Skills?"

"..."

"[Dedicated Aspiration] allows one to repeatedly break through limits and refresh the upper limit of basic ability values ​​in a short period of time;"

"[Talent Compensation] (the skill of Bell's Level 7 aunt in the side story) allows you to bring your ability values ​​to the limit at any time, at the cost of negative damage to your body and mind, gaining combat power that surpasses adventurers of the same level."

"[Divine Food Grace] strengthens oneself through eating, including monsters and humans. The stronger the object, the greater the increase in strength. During the Behemoth subjugation, the person who used this skill bit and swallowed a piece of Behemoth's flesh. Although they were subsequently corroded by the toxins in Behemoth's flesh and began to rot from within, their life countdown began. However, this skill allowed Charles, a Level 7 member of Zeus's Familia, to help Zeus's Familia achieve the final victory in the subjugation of Behemoth.

"These aren't magic. No matter how special or powerful the magic is, for example, the [Fairy Ring] mastered by the elf named Lefiya of Loki's family, any magic learned by the elven race can be used through that magic... or the [Asteria's Memoirs/Star Memory] which has a similar effect... In theory, with sufficient talent, it can be analyzed and deciphered bit by bit."

"Only skills are special. It's like some kind of trait of an adventurer, a trait that can bend reality and create miracles through one's own actions and will... Ordinary skills aren't obvious, but things like [Devoted Aspiration], [Talent Compensates for Misfortunes], and [Divine Grace] are different... Don't you think this is very similar to—"

Xia Yan hadn't finished speaking yet.

"—Divine power, the extraordinary divine power driven by the godhood and divinity of the gods in the [Heaven Realm] in their complete state."

Asthesia answered the question in advance.

"So, skills produce completely different results depending on the adventurer. If an adventurer, an adventurer who has reached Level 10, is qualified to drag the 'remains of the gods' back to the [Heaven], even at the cost of their own 'sacrifice', they will still be able to develop new skills through the [God's Grace] due to this unprecedented development and change."

"However, a Level 10 adventurer is a 'demi-god', infinitely close to a Celestial God. The skills they gain in this situation are almost a distortion of their own reality, and are no longer skills."

"After all, the result of a great feat of saving the world and ending the catastrophe of the dungeon labyrinth can only be... the embryonic form of godhood and divinity, the godhood and divinity that symbolizes [savior] and [heroism]."

"So that's how it is. This is Uranus's true plan. A demigod might not be able to completely pull back another corpse that could potentially be a living being, but the savior hero who ascends to godhood is another story. Even if the savior hero can't complete the complete transformation from human to god, as long as his soul returns to the Heavens and prepares for the next reincarnation, he can still drag the impaled corpse back to the Heavens."

(PS: I'll update 5k5 to relieve my boredom... Also, the last piece of this modification is completed... Hmm, what do you guys think of this? Is my modification of God's Grace and the original protagonist's settings just okay?

Then, today's card pool... emmmm, someone asked me in the thread before why I didn't quit, that's because I'm a Star Core Master! The bottom line is not to become the yellow-haired guy next door, as long as I don't cross this bottom line, I really can't bear to run orz, otherwise I have been screwed by this slot card pool so many times, old readers should have seen how many times I broke down in the past two years, there is almost no normal time, let alone thirty outs, after Jingliu, I basically go for the big guaranteed bottom every time... Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ~o(╥﹏╥)o collapse)

The fourth copy: 119. The symbol of hope and the future - Uranus (I seem to have pigeoned my own pigeon)

Does God love the world?

If placed in the stories of many original myths, this question would probably be questioned, because fear and authority are the most primitive forms and the core that will never change of all religious beliefs.

Whether in polytheism or monotheism, as well as the worship of nature and ancestral spirits, fear and authority coexist... It is actually difficult to evaluate whether the view that God loves the world is completely correct.

But in this 'copy' world.

The gods from Heaven truly love all living beings in the world.

It’s just that they have completely different views on “God loves the world”, which may not be the same as what the world expects, and they are also different from each other.

Just like Hephaestus, as a [god] related to forging, being able to get along with Hestia means that she is a member of the protagonist camp and is also friendly to the world. However, Hephaestus's good impression of the world still inevitably tends to prioritize "craftsmen".

The same goes for Hestia.

Both goddesses love the world, but their "love" will be poured into the people they care about the most first. They will not talk about fairness. As long as the actions of the people they care about do not touch their bottom line, when they have conflicts with others, they will definitely choose to help their relatives instead of others.

Therefore, the gods of this world do indeed all "love the world", but their love and the way they love may not be something that most people can understand and accept without hesitation.

Including the main gods of the dark factions that carry out terrorist attacks.

As one of the earliest [Gods] in the underworld, Uranus created the labyrinth city of Orario from scratch, as well as the entire social system that has maintained the underworld for a thousand years. Naturally, he is a true "God who loves the world."

Uranus even achieved absolute fairness. Even though he had a good personal relationship with Zeus's family and Hera's family, he still watched indifferently as the two families were driven out of Orario, and never used his own influence or the Adventurer's Guild to interfere.

Boundless love and fairness and justice can be said to be the highest moral character and character for a mortal.

But put it on a god who has strong preferences, has lived for a time so long that it can be called eternity, and has witnessed the vicissitudes of the world.

Not to mention, this god himself does not possess the divine qualities and divinity such as "fairness" and "justice", which is very intriguing.

"Do you think Ouranos is a good man?"

"If our speculation is largely accurate, then he is absolutely a good man for the entire underworld, a benevolent god who embodies God's love for the world... This requires us to wait until the next millennium, when future generations will look back on history and make a fair assessment."

Xia Yan said:

"However, this millennium is not going to work, or rather, unfortunately, it's just as we expected. Whether it's for the other 'sacrifice' or for the Netherworld, whose production and economy are deeply tied to the dungeon maze, it can't be any worse..."

In fact, it doesn’t really matter whether the protagonist of the original story, Bell, will become the ‘sacrifice’, reach LV10 and welcome the sublimation of ‘ascension to godhood’, and hold high the throne of [saviour] and [hero]. It doesn’t mean that Uranus is definitely a conspirator plotting the protagonist behind the scenes.

After all, Uranus is immortal in this world. He has already waited for a thousand years and doesn't mind waiting another thousand years.

As long as the underworld still has the current production and economic system that has lasted for thousands of years and is deeply connected with the dungeon maze, as long as the gods form their own tribes and grant [God's grace], they will still be the extraordinary power that dominates the underworld.

It doesn’t matter whether he is the protagonist of the original story or not.

In other words, even if the protagonist of the original story reaches level 10 one day in the future and refuses to become the "sacrifice" that holds high the throne of "savior" and "hero", Uranus will probably not do anything...

...Because as long as time is on his side, Uranus will sooner or later wait for a LV10 adventurer who is dedicated or bold enough to face challenges and voluntarily sits on the throne of the ceremony.

Then, the hidden dangers of the dungeon maze will be ended forever, the entire underworld's current social system, production and economy will collapse, kingdoms and city-states will be involved in war, and one or more unified regimes will be formed in the chaos, promoting changes in civilization and social systems that have been rigid for thousands of years.

Until the gods got tired of losing the dungeon maze, they returned to the underworld as it was three thousand years ago, and finally all returned to the [Heaven].

“Excellent deduction.”

Asthesia exclaimed softly:

"However, based on my previous impression of Uranus, this guy might actually be the same as what you just inferred, Xia Yan."

"I remember that in Greek mythology, Uranus was the first king of the gods. He represented the deification of the sky and symbolized hope and the future. The entire mythological lineage began with him, and everything in the future was created because of him... Although the gods in this world are somewhat different, I'm sure they all symbolize the same thing."

Irena also added:

"It just so happens that the sky and the earth are now both in the underworld, and have 'overlapped' together. The social ideology and system of the underworld are actually no different from before the emergence of the dungeon maze. It's no exaggeration to say that they have remained rigid and unchanged for three thousand years."

"Perhaps to you, me, and the rest of this world, the current stability doesn't necessarily require drastic change. However, in the eyes of this Uranus, who is likely like the first god-king in the original Greek mythology, a symbol of hope and the future, or perhaps even a tyrant unlike the original, the dungeon maze and gods should not exist in the underworld. They may also be 'troubles' that will stifle the hope and future of the underworld."

"Then do we have to blackmail him later?"

"of course yes."