"You prayed to the gods in despair, and when they didn't answer, you decided to slaughter every god?"
Xu Sanduo did not understand, but he was deeply shaken.
He simply did not care about so-called gods. He would neither deny their existence nor worship them fanatically.
Xu Sanduo was not a devout follower of the gods, much less a fanatic like Gorr had once been. He truly could not understand why, in despair, people placed their hopes in the gods they worshiped.
Placing their hopes in vague, intangible gods whose existence they did not even know for certain?
Begging the gods to grant them a shred of mercy and save them from their misery?
Xu Sanduo found this behavior extremely difficult to understand.
Moreover, according to Gorr, even when his daughter had died before his very eyes, his faith had not wavered in the slightest. He had continued worshiping his god.
Only when his god personally admitted that he did not care about him, his daughter, or even anyone else did Gorr finally become completely disappointed in the gods, and his faith finally collapsed.
It was not that Xu Sanduo had no faith. He simply did not have faith in those illusory gods. His faith lay in the direction of his own efforts, in keeping the entire nation and all his compatriots in his heart. He could sacrifice and devote everything for his people, but he would never place his hopes in a god he had never seen.
"I don't understand. Why were you still full of worship for an intangible god even in despair?"
Couldn't you just work hard yourself?
Perhaps Gorr's living conditions had been extremely harsh, but that was not a reason to place his hopes in the gods.
Who had not struggled their way out of