Dust swirled through the air.
The white-haired boy emerged from the dust, panting as he looked ahead, his body in a complete mess.
At the same time, Fang Zheng's voice rang out beside his ear.
"While investigating you, I found a very interesting clue... Hmm, is this what you're called... an Original Text Candidate?"
Fang Zheng slowly walked out of the dust, Ratziel in hand, narrowing his eyes at its contents. In fact, after arriving here, he had already used Ratziel to investigate these people and learned the truth.
This was the greatest question in the world of Box Garden: which came first, the chicken or the egg?
According to the laws of Box Garden, all gods came into being through the faith, myths, and legends passed down by humanity, gaining merit and elevating their divinity. Yet conversely, humanity claimed that they had been created by the gods.
So did human faith create the gods, or did the gods create humans first?
This was a question that could never be answered, much like the famous God Paradox—God could not create a stone too heavy for Himself to lift, so God was not omnipotent.
However, in Fang Zheng's eyes, all of that was nothing more than foolish idealist dross.
The latter in particular—the "God Paradox"—seemed nearly impossible to refute at first glance, but there were several questions that needed answering first.
First, who had proposed the theory of God's omnipotence?
God Himself? Or God's believers?
The Bible could not serve as a reference, because it was merely a record, not reality. Naturally, believers' records would be filled with exaggeration, like "the waterfall plunges three thousand feet"—it did not literally mean three thousand feet. Likewise, there was no direct evidence that God had ever stood before everyone and declared, "I am omnipotent."