After learning about the role of Faith Power, countless "gods" appeared throughout the world.
The struggle for faith between these 'gods' is actually not much different from the civil war of Sindar Elves.
These artificial gods who have obtained Faith Power will not only drive believers to launch a 'holy war', but will also take over the believers' souls in a 'descend' manner, obtain the believer's body, and personally use magic to join the war shirtless.
These believers who provide physical bodies are called 'Chosen of God', which are actually consumables favored by God...
Regardless of whether these 'gods' are true gods or not, at least they are all extraordinary beings. If these extraordinary beings fight in person, the consequences will naturally be serious.
The whole world began to lose control, wars occurred one after another, disasters struck again and again, and people everywhere were devastated.
Thousands of years ago, the world's population dropped sharply to only one-third, and all the 'gods' suffered huge losses.
At this time, a powerful existence gave these 'gods' a warning.
The true bodies of all gods, namely Spirit Body, were pulled out of the body of 'Chosen of God' at almost the same time and were exiled to closed voids one by one.
It was a void with nothing, a chaos.
As a result, these novices who had just become gods from humans realized that there was such a powerful existence in this world that could silently lock them all in isolation.
After revealing this warning, all the gods were taken into a strange temple - the temple where Li Ang is located.
That unknown powerful existence is called 'Creator God' by the gods.
But in fact, no one knows what this existence is, and no one has seen him, because Creator God said that he cannot enter the world he created.
The gods only saw a small white dragon - this was the temporary body of Creator God.
This powerful 'Creator God' is actually quite reasonable. He told these 'gods': Sindar Elves has learned from the past, if you continue to fight like this, it will only lead to the destruction of the world, so I have no choice but to give you a warning.
But as long as you abide by the rules in the future, you won't be imprisoned in the void.
The rules are simple - no matter who has obtained Spirit Body from Faith Power, they are not allowed to appear in front of anyone again, nor are they allowed to have a physical entity. Whoever wants to gain more faith should guide people to live a better life, bring more hope to people, and let believers make spontaneous choices.
In other words, the battles between humans can only be resolved by humans. The gods are not allowed to personally participate in disputes on the earth, nor are the gods allowed to use coercive methods to obtain believers, nor are they allowed to personally initiate any disasters that will lead to species extinction. Human beings' spontaneous behavior is understandable, but the gods have the responsibility to guide their believers to do good.
If you violate these rules, you will be banished to the void forever, your magic power will be sealed, and you will be deprived of your qualifications as a 'god'.
In order to reduce the disputes between these gods, Creator God also made it impossible for all Spirit Body to lie and deceive - from now on, Spirit Body can hear other people's thoughts, and naturally cannot deceive or conceal.
At the same time, Creator God gave each god a code of rules. This code means the qualifications of a 'god' and is also the door to and from the void.
If you stop fighting, strictly abide by the rules, and bring more hope to people, you can enter the void at any time and create a brand new soul world you want with your own hands - this can be regarded as rewarding the "gods" who abide by the rules with a soul space, and is equivalent to giving them a chance to become "Creator God".
This is a very fair rule, with punishments, rewards, qualifications and visions...
As long as the gods no longer go out to fight in person, there will be a limit to any fight, at least it won't destroy the world like Sindar Elves.
After that, the various gods were put back, and then they discovered that the rules set by 'Creator God' would indeed be implemented in place.
The first ones to violate the rules were some niche beliefs, such as Ficavia, which advocated women's rights - the Ficavia kingdom was named after her, but at that time, the Ficavia island had not yet established a country.
Since she attracts followers with the logic of female supremacy, her followers are only the women of Ficavia Island, and it is indeed difficult for her to resist a war waged by humans alone.
In a war with the Old Bacchus Empire, in order to prevent the believers from being destroyed, she took over a physical body and fought personally.
The war was indeed won, and the isolated island successfully became an independent kingdom, but Ficavia's Spirit Body was also exiled to the void and never came back.
All the 'gods' suddenly understood that the rules Creator God mentioned were actually the new rules it set for this world.
Of course, they also understand that the new rules of Creator God are only to protect the world. The battle of extraordinary people can indeed easily bring about the disaster of world destruction - especially among the gods, there are non-mainstream ones such as the 'God of Plague'.
After that, the world became a little more peaceful.
The gods, who were forced to abide by the rules and did not dare to appear in front of people again, began to think about how to inspire their believers to contribute more Faith Power.
They all began to attack the souls of believers - if people's souls had a destination and were immortal, wouldn't they be able to provide themselves with faith forever?
At the same time, Creator God allows gods who do not violate the rules to open up soul spaces on their own, so that the souls of believers can live in...
The first to succeed was Goddess of Justice Astaria. She opened up a 'kingdom of heaven' to accommodate her believers.
She feels that Spirit Body cannot lie or deceive each other, and everyone can see clearly what others are thinking, which is a perfect blessed place.
She hopes that after the death of believers, their souls can enter this kingdom of heaven without deception and lies and enjoy eternal blessings.
Originally this was indeed done out of good intentions - to benefit those firm and die-hard believers, to bring more hope to people, and of course God can gain more faith.
Goddess of Justice believes that it is lies and deception that prevent people from doing good.
Among her teachings, "no fraud" is also the first one - Sir Roland, this Paladin, has never told a lie.
However, there are not many good people like Roland. The vast majority of believers have evil thoughts. In this kingdom of heaven where all thoughts have no escape, almost every believer will only have one thought - to kill other souls so that they can feel safe.
Therefore, the so-called kingdom of heaven, like raising poison, created a bunch of twisted evil spirits.
The evil souls formed after devouring each other and merging with each other have become very complex, and they are no longer the original Goddess of Justice believers.
She can't prevent the souls of believers from entering the kingdom of heaven - just like Creator God cannot appear in this world, Astaria cannot appear in the world she created. This is also the law of the world.
She originally planned to let the souls of believers continue to contribute their faith to her. Unexpectedly, after the believers came in, they all turned into soul-devouring fusion monsters, and they all began to curse her...
Goddess of Justice also has a temper. The evil spirits in heaven cursed so harshly that she turned the environment of heaven into an abyss full of blood and fire in a rage.
As a result, the environment in heaven has become even worse, and the evil spirits inside have become more twisted, and have even become another species.
A kingdom of heaven was created, but nothing good came of it. Instead, it created a bunch of evil new species.
In order to make up for the loss, Astaria had no choice but to descend Oracle in a dream and tell her followers to strengthen their faith, otherwise they will enter Blood Prison Abyss after death...
Rewards and punishments both have the same effect - they both make believers stronger in their faith.
So, the Kingdom of Heaven became Blood Prison Abyss.
Slowly, under the influence of long-term negative emotions, some extremely powerful "devourers" gradually emerged among the evil spirits in the "Kingdom of Heaven". The strongest among them can even project their will onto the earth like other gods - also through dreams or inducing the subconscious.
After gradually becoming known to people, they were called Abyss Demons.
In fact, these demons can be regarded as a new generation of 'gods', because the way they obtain soul power is actually the same as that of gods - they are all Spirit Body, they all induce others to worship themselves, and they all obtain mana from faith.
Moreover, these are some evil spirits who do anything to increase their strength, and they have not accepted Creator God's warning.
In fact, these demons will not be constrained by Creator God's rules at all - they are actually residents of the new world created by Astaria. The one who can make rules to constrain them should be Astaria, not Creator God.
But all the gods at the time ignored the situation.
However, other gods no longer dare to let other souls enter the soul space they have created. They realize that anything can happen in a new world, and a careless move can cause catastrophic consequences like Astaria.
They only built the space given by Creator God into the ideal residence they wanted - perhaps Creator God's original intention was to give them a place to live so that they would not show up again...
But all the gods did not expect that the disaster caused by the devil was much greater than they imagined.
Many years later, an abyss demon induced the believers of Goddess of Justice, and the 'devourer' gave Astaria the code of rules through Creator God, which was Abyssal Gate, and appeared on the earth.
All the gods were unaware of the demon's appearance at first.
It wasn't until horrific disasters occurred frequently in various places that the gods began to panic - their believers' souls were devoured by abyss demons one after another, and the demons used force to force people to become walking zombies.
This is a brand new growth method developed by the devil after acquiring Faith Power and combined with the environment of Blood Prison Abyss - directly devouring souls.
Obtaining faith is like doing business, but swallowing it directly is equivalent to robbing them all. The latter is of course faster...
Humans call it 'Gloomy Eye', which is the Devourer Aigrem.
Of course, Devourer's actions violated the rules of the world, but the gods did not expect that the rules of the world did not sanction it...
Of course there will be no sanctions because they are not violating the rules - they are not of this world.
The gods dare not go out to fight in person because they will be punished by the rules of Creator God.
Besides, they may not be able to handle Gloomy Eye... so most of the gods hid in their soul spaces and watched with cold eyes.
And humans alone cannot resist the soul spells of demons...
Three hundred and seventy years ago, the threat of abyssal demons intensified as the gods watched.
Buckley Continent's situation is the most dangerous. If the Devourer is not stopped, all people in the entire continent may become walking zombies.
At the critical moment of life and death for the believers, Goddess of Justice Astaria finally gave up everything. She decided to violate the rules of the world and go out in person to solve the demon. She was the cause of this matter, and she indeed had the responsibility to solve the problem.
Goddess of Justice is still full of justice after all. She descended on the earth and gave the most powerful demon a fatal blow.
But before she could kill the other demons, she was banished to the void for violating the rules...
As a result, the crisis of the Buckley Continent has not been resolved.
Dawn Knight Order actually did not lie. The most powerful Gloomy Eye was indeed killed by a knight possessed by Goddess of Justice, and the knights who participated in the battle founded Dawn Knight Order decades later. It is actually not wrong to say that Dawn Knight Order got rid of Aigrem.
However, because this matter violated the rules of the world, the knights who formed Dawn Knight Order were not willing to let people know that Goddess of Justice was exiled, so they did not mention the specific process of killing Aigrem.
They did not advocate any demon-slaying heroes, because the top brass of the Knights knew that it was the arrival of Goddess, not the ability of the Knights themselves.
Dawn Knight Order was just formed at that time. Most of the people were indeed decent in character. It was their dogma not to lie or cheat, so they did not leave any records.
However, the crisis of the abyss demon still cannot be resolved...
Forced to have no choice, the dark Goddess Eredar took over this burden - Dark Goddess's teaching is actually "the heart has light, but the body is in darkness". Everything in the world has light and darkness. This is not an evil sect originally, but an allied sect of Goddess of Justice.
Those who have no choice but to engage in some gray industries or walk in the shadows because of life, they are the true believers of Dark Goddess.
Due to the appearance of the Abyss Demon, many people believe that Dark Goddess is a heresy. This is indeed quite unfair. The name is called darkness, but their teachings are not black at all!
Many heretics even sacrifice flesh and blood to Erebus--this is what Three Prophets calls those fools who don't understand anything.
If the devil cannot be solved, then Dark Goddess's sect may cease to exist - those heretics will not bring Faith Power to Erebus, and she does not need believers to sacrifice flesh and blood.
The abyss demon must be eliminated, otherwise people's misunderstanding will deepen...
So Erebus finally made up her mind. She expelled the abyss demon and Fallen One army from the Buckley Continent, but Dark Goddess was also exiled to the void...
Erebus has a deep research on the soul, but her magic power is indeed limited, and it can only expel demons, but cannot completely eliminate demons - she has not many true believers.
After leaving Buckley Continent, the devil was driven to the Pande Continent.
At this time, the demon was no longer too strong. Goddess of Order Eunomia used a new plan. She found a person who was not affected by soul spells, and used various illusory miracles to guide this person to grow into an excellent warrior.
This person is Kavala.
Kavala has elf blood. He is a hybrid of human and Noldo Elves. He is born with a physique that prohibits demons.
Subsequently, under the guidance of Eunomia, Kavala grew into an outstanding warrior, and he led an army to kill Gloomy Eye.
But then, Gloomy Eye appeared again in the south of the Pande Continent - Spirit Body will not die, as long as there are Fallen One, Gloomy Eye can be resurrected.
So Kavala spent more than ten years to completely unify Pande Continent, find all the demon Spirit Body, and with the joint help of Eunomia and Noldo Elves, built a Magic Suppression Tower to suppress the Gloomy Eye that appeared at that time under the tower.
The Abyss Demon finally disappeared from this world, and Kavala became Supreme King of the Pande Continent.
But then, because Kavala designated Goddess of Order Eunomia as Pandor's Official Faith, the other gods began to cause trouble - they felt that their followers had been robbed.
So, Sea Gods of Vanskery, Viyovis of the Misty Mountains, Urvit of Northern Territory... there are many more, anyway, a lot of gods jumped out.
Their followers committed crimes everywhere, and war broke out in Pendor.
This made Kavala and Eunomia extremely angry - they had not seen these gods contribute when dealing with demons before, but now they jumped out to share the cake?
Still causing trouble if you can't get the points?
Kavala was indeed the most powerful warrior at that time. He defeated all his opponents one by one and built Kingdom of Pendor into a powerful country.
But all the gods also learned Eunomia's methods, guiding the growth of their respective "god-chosen heroes", and constantly harassing Kingdom of Pendor - plundering, burning, killing... As long as they can get believers short-term benefits and gain more faith, they will guide their believers to do anything!
Anyway, they have not violated the rules. They have been hiding in their own soul space, never coming forward, and never going into battle in person. The rules of the world cannot sanction them...
Kingdom of Pendor continued to be harassed, and Old Bacchus Empire of the Amara Continent also took the opportunity to launch a war - which was also driven by gods. The God of War and the God of Love were the main gods of the old Bax. They took advantage of the fact that the two continents Barkley and Pende suffered heavy losses in the fight against the demons, and planned to occupy more territory.
Goddess of Order wants to rebuild order, but how can it be reestablished when wars continue?
In the end, Eunomia was so annoyed that he realized that the so-called God should not exist at all!
These gods are like vampires, they only ask for faith. They are of no help to the world. Instead, they keep bringing all kinds of disasters!
Astaria is a person with a conscience and a sense of justice. At least she is willing to make up for the mistakes she made unintentionally. However, her brain that is not very easy to use also led to disasters, and Dawn Knight Order, who lost her guidance, became the Dawn Idiot Group!
And the other gods... what's the difference between them and demons?
Therefore, Eunomia guided Kavala to launch an unprecedented war, destroying most of the rules and codes of gods - including Amara Continent's Temple of War and Temple of Love.
All the gods are sealed in their own soul space and cannot come back.
Only two codexes were not destroyed, Goddess of Justice Astaria, and Dark Goddess Eredar.
Because their codex is in the Buckley Continent, and it took Kavala more than ten years to complete the expedition against the Amara Continent. It was not easy to defeat Old Bacchus Empire - the first split of the Old Bacchus Empire was also attributed to Kavala.
And then, Kavanagh died on the way to the expedition Barkley - human life is indeed a bit short.
But this is enough, because Goddess of Justice and Dark Goddess of the Buckley Continent have been exiled to the void, and they cannot come back even if there is a code.
Eunomia brought Kavala's soul to Creator God's island and placed it in this temple, while she herself entered the void through the door left by Creator God - in order to suppress the gods and reestablish order, she asked Kavala to launch a world war, which brought disaster to countless people. She could not pass this hurdle.
She also exiled herself.
Kavala's Soul Fire stayed in the temple to guard the gate - only he had the ability to stop the gods who planned to return forcibly, because Kavala himself in his later years also received many Faith Power, and he was actually a god.
Supreme King, who has been fighting for his whole life but has never been defeated, will certainly be admired by many people.
All gods disappeared for a hundred years.
In those hundred years, people did live much better than when there were gods, and the whole world regained its vitality.
But a hundred years later, perhaps after it was confirmed that Eunomia was no longer in this world, Eunomia and Kavala were retaliated against.
First, Kingdom of Pendor was suddenly destroyed by Red Death. The descendants of Kavala almost lost their inheritance, and the entire country was stolen and torn apart.
Subsequently, the statue of Eunomia was altered, and Goddess of Order lost its most important symbol - the sun and moon timing pendant.
Soon after, an apparently quite evil sect appeared and quickly invaded Pande Continent--Amara Continent's great snake Aziz Dahaka.
"That is to say, there is no god in the whole world now, and Snake Worship Cult appears to take revenge on Goddess of Order Eunomia? Do you think this big snake was created by other gods?"
Li Ang listened very carefully, and he understood what Kavala meant.
"Yes... I have blocked Az Dahaka here several times - it has been trying to come to the earth. I think it, like Aigrem, also ran out of the soul space of a certain god, and should have been deliberately created. But if the gate here is destroyed, the entrance and exit of the void will be closed forever, and no god will come to the earth again..."
Kavala said, "At the same time, this can also send you back to the mainland - wherever the last code is, you will be sent there. So, I want you to take me back with you. I want to destroy the last code. This is my mission."
There are only two copies of the Codex left. Li Ang caused such a thunderous attack that one of them was probably destroyed. There is indeed the last one left.
"So... what do I do?"
Li Ang asked hesitantly.
The stories Kavala told are probably true, but Li Ang is still a little worried.
He is worried about Kavala's true intention of returning to the mainland...
If the entrance to the void is destroyed and all gods cannot return, then will Kavala become the only god?
Although he is not a god, there is no doubt that he must have the ability of a god. Otherwise, how could Eunomia let him guard this door?
He is not a god, but he has the power of a god, which means that he is not bound by the laws of the world, but he can also do things that only gods can do...
Could he be trying to...
"Child, you just need to relax... don't be nervous, don't resist, don't think about anything... I will borrow your body for a little while."
Kavala's voice became softer.
"Li Ang, don't believe him... He is no longer Kavala... He is looking for a body for Aziz Dahaka! He is the first generation High Priest of Snake Worship Cult!"
Li Ang was hesitating, but suddenly heard another voice.
Ulrich's voice.