To people in many worlds, gods were both familiar and strange.
Familiar, because whenever many people mentioned gods, they could list countless traits: lofty and untouchable, possessed of endless life, omnipotent.
Strange, because humans in most worlds had never seen gods with their own eyes, and all manner of descriptions of gods were generally considered humanity's own fantasies.
Before today, Oliver Queen and Thea Queen had viewed gods no differently from most people: gods were powerful, omnipotent, and immortal; but they did not truly exist.
Yet now, someone stood before them and told them that gods truly existed—and that this person right in front of them was one. How were they supposed to believe that?
Oliver felt that he had already seen enough bizarre things. When Yinsen said he knew magic, Oliver had not been overly surprised, since he had encountered magic long ago.
Gods...
"I've never heard of any god named Yinsen."
Yinsen spread his hands. He did not care that someone doubted his identity. Unlike those gods who relied on faith, once his strength and level had reached a certain point, they had reached it. The identity of a god would not change because someone questioned it.
Still, he gave Oliver a brief explanation of what a "god" actually was, because he did not like others thinking he was the sort of person who loved bragging and making grand claims.
After Yinsen's simple explanation, Oliver finally understood just how different gods were from what he had imagined.
Besides gaining great power through the faith of ordinary people, one could also continuously improve one's strength and life level, break through limit after limit, and ultimately step into a higher life form and become a god.
That was the path Yinsen had taken. Though he was unknown to ordinary people