The sun appeared before our eyes, and the snow on the ground became thicker again.
"This snow is finally over."
During the heavy snow, all activities were suspended. Ryan, who conquered the people of Gam and Fenrir, was trying to change them.
The arena still exists, but it is Ryan's arena. The most powerful warriors will be blessed by Ryan, giving them extraordinary power, but such an arena no longer produces a large number of deaths.
Ryan's spiritual balance is slowly growing. Although it is not like Bilki World who has an extra 100,000 spiritual beings in an instant, the growing spirituality also gives Ryan a different perception, giving him the joy of farming and harvesting.
With the emergence of such slow harvest, Ryan began to arrange for the people of Gam to go to Frozen Earth Territory to participate in the construction of the city of Frozen Earth Territory, the city was determined to be twenty-five kilometers away from Rhino Horn Mountain, and Alchemist Rose had already brought a large number of manpower to mine rocks to free up the city area.
"This city won't be too tall. Its purpose is to gather the population."
Ryan finalized the size of this city. Although it is very close to Orcs, and there are even many Orcss closer to Rhino Horn Mountain than here, the role of the city wall is still not entirely for defense.
The planned Great Wall is the real line of defense.
During the slow and effective rule, the nobles of Northwind Province all focused on the emergence of the Chamber of Commerce. No one knew that Baron Ryan's strength had greatly improved.
However, the situation in Northlands is becoming increasingly tense. The emperor of the Empire continues to order that countless grains and grass be transported to several provinces in the north. Because more and more quantities appear in human sight, when the scale reaches a certain level, the nobles have reason to suspect that Orcs will launch another large-scale attack.
What is more obvious is that Andara Kingdom sent more envoys to the Empire. Just a few days ago, Columbus III ordered Winged Gorge's army to send 10,000 soldiers to station at the Andara Kingdom's military fortress defense line.
This is half the number of troops Winged Gorge has except Extraordinary Legion. It can be seen that the emperor also has great support for the Andara Kingdom.
The dispute between the Empire and the Church has moved from the frontal battlefield to the political realm.
Ryan is also preparing for this. The original two watchtowers have now been increased to ten. The forging of the giant crossbow has not been completed until now. It can be said that 70% of the entire population of Frozen Earth Territory is currently working on the construction.
The flow of population has also made Frozen Earth Territory unprecedentedly prosperous, but no one is in the North of Frozen Earth Territory, so even if those chambers of commerce come to Frozen Earth Territory, they don't know what the people here are busy with.
When supervising these constructions, Ryan was also very busy, learning about history.
The history of more than a hundred years ago, everything about War of the Deities Across Planes.
This forced him to leave Frozen Earth Territory. After all, the history of his territory only lasted a few years. He could only ask the great nobles for advice about what happened more than a hundred years ago.
Visiting Count Winter's territory again with gifts, Ryan was immersed in the count's book collection.
He flipped through the books and saw a lot of interesting things. For example, Count Winter's ancestor was indeed not Empire or a native noble of Norris.
Winter Family's bloodline has the bloodline of Imperial Noble, which was left behind by a certain demon Mages's journey, which allowed Winter Family to be initially accepted by the Empire.
The Otherworldly Plane where Winter Family once was also encountered the Pan-Planar War of Deities, and the Dead Silence of Eternal Winter made them flee, but even the southernmost land was icy frozen soil. The death of the world and the destruction caused by the war made them make the final choice.
Ryan did not find a more direct history about the Winter Family here, which can only be read by the blood of the Winter Family.
However, there are still many records about War of the Deities Across Planes more than a hundred years ago.
"Eighty-three years ago, the great Deities came with his will, and the world's beliefs gathered together to form a terrible army, and they destroyed the world."
The eighty-three years recorded in the book are already one hundred and fifty years ago. From this point of view, the war in this world started more than ten years earlier than Norris Continent.
"They have many enemies. Humans like them are their enemies. The terrible Orcs is their enemy. The cruel Demons is also their enemy. Elves and Dwarves are also attacking. The flames of Dragons have destroyed cities one after another. They are trying to kill all humans."
"Until... Deities no longer has its will, and the war begins to come to an end. The soldiers in the north never have the chance to return to South, and the icy cold wind blows towards South from the north."
"At first, no one cared about this cold wind, but when the warmth stopped coming, when the wind and snow continued to flood the world of South from the northern land and did not disappear for several years, the world ushered in the end."
"Countless lives are fleeing the Northlands of ice and snow. The land of South is overcrowded, and killings and conflicts have broken out one after another."
"Finally, the population became sparse, and the land was reasonably distributed to all life. We all thought it was over, but we didn't expect that the end was just the beginning."
"Every year, colder winds and icy snow arrive. The land in the north is constantly being squeezed, and the world of South is once again tense."
"There is no peace to speak of anymore. Everyone is struggling to survive in the apocalypse."
"We finally began to realize that the war in Deities was unusual, and the people who survived finally began to search for the hidden truth of the past."
"We couldn't find it. We tried our best and only found the remains of the great Deities. He is dead..."
"The origin of divinity turned into a crystal clear mountain peak, which was the body of Deities. When they got this conclusion, everyone fell into madness, and they no longer had reason."
"Mortals cannot look directly at Deities, not even his corpse."
"But what is puzzling is that they did not die. It seems that they just suffered a mental breakdown because they could not withstand the power radiation of Deities. If you don't consider that they are already madmen, they are still ordinary humans."
"Sick humans."
"This is different. When mortals look directly at the existence of Deities, their souls will be distorted. Everything about them will be swallowed up by Deities and disappear into the air. This is the price of facing Deities."
"The powerful Legendary is also inevitable. When faced with Deities, the soul will collapse. This is the case for these people, but there are no serious consequences."
"Maybe that's not the corpse of Deities... I take it for granted, because I still hope that Deities will appear one day and lead his people through the end of the world."
Ryan kept reading and comparing it with the history written by many people.
Maybe for Deities, that war was planned for a long time, but the believers were not alert before the war started. To them, Pan-Plane's war was sudden.
Moreover, they face many enemies, and it seems that anyone may become their enemy.
For humans, Orcs is their enemy. This is a racial stance, but War of the Deities Across Planes is different. Ryan heard more than once that their enemies also include humans, and their friends in the war are not just humans.
Why, as human beings, do some stand on the other side of the war and some stand on this side of the war?
There may be only one answer. It is not a war of races, nor a war between worlds. That war belongs exclusively to Deitiess.
The great existence started the war because of its own needs, but it ended in just a few decades because one side completely failed.
In war, all living beings are their believers. Only in this way can we explain that the enemies of mankind include Orcs and other human beings.
They belong to different Deities believers.
So... who is the winner of Pan-Planar War and who is the loser?
Ryan thought of his own Spirituality Panel. It is undeniable that those Deities who died were all losers.
The stag of Aixnier, the wilderness of Svadilfari, the Frost Lord of Bilki.
They are all losers. Looking at it this way, they should be Deities in the same camp.
What about the other camp?
Lord of Dawn...
Empire still believes in that great existence. Although Lord of Dawn seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep after the end of Pan-Planar War, rarely leaving Miracle behind, but he did not fall like those dead Deities.
Since He is alive, He is not a loser, He is on the winning side.
Ryan suddenly had a headache, because he had Spirituality Panel, and Spirituality Panel absorbed the remaining wills of those dead Deitiess and turned them into a means of blessing. In a sense, Ryan did inherit the wills of these Deitiess.
According to this statement, isn't Ryan standing in the position of a loser? What he has to face is such a great existence as Lord of Dawn and God of Light?
Ryan raised his head and saw the Sun in the sky through the window.
What the hell, is there such a thing on my list of potential enemies?
You want me to kill the Sun?
Ryan shook his head and stopped thinking about this somewhat hopeless topic. One day later, he bid farewell to Count Winter and went to the Soron Count Family.
Compared with Count Winter, Count Soron is Natives of the Norris Continent.
In the history recorded by the Soron Count Family, there is the local description of War of the Deities Across Planes by the Norris Continent, which is much more exciting.
The thickest book seems to be recorded by a certain earl.
"Sixty years ago, this date was the seventy-fifth year of Columbus II's reign. That was more than one hundred and thirty years ago, which happened to be the time of War of the Deities Across Planes."
Ryan As you continue reading, the records of this earl are much more detailed.
"That day, the glory of Dawn flooded the entire world. When night came, Lady Moon could not come out. For three days, three nights and seventy-two hours, the entire Norris world was submerged in the glory of Dawn."
"The Church is crazy. The noble Pope is bathed in the holy light. Eternal Kingdom's warriors are guarding him. We don't know how to call him, or he is already Him."
"The warriors of Kingdom of Heaven launched a war against Great Being in the distance. No one would doubt the victory or defeat of Lord of Dawn. All the territories on the Norris Continent followed him enthusiastically, and countless soldiers crossed Dawn Bridge and appeared on the battlefield."
"They never came back."
"Damn it, is it because of this reason that Florian Empire recently turned its back on the great Dawn? They were obviously the most fanatical Dawn Believers during the war. Even Pope crowned and praised the emperor Flor."
"In short, in the first ten years after the war broke out, all the soldiers who entered the battlefield never came back. The evil demons Mages and the sorcerers began to spread rumors, saying that those people had been killed by Dawn, and that Dawn was injured and needed to use the lives of believers to heal themselves."
"A new round of demon hunting operations has begun. In the tenth year since the war began, the terrifying power of the Church was exposed. They are looking for traces of demons Mages and Alchemist throughout the world. Just like in the past, they burned countless enemies to death with flames."
"The war is still going on. The great nobles are a little afraid of war. They have a good relationship with the Church and Archbishop. They gradually understand that their enemies are also humans, not Demons of Abyss. Even during the war, the dependents of Demons are among them."
"The nobles are a little confused and frightened. Why did Lord of Dawn declare war on mankind? Who is his enemy?"
"The nobles began to question. Of course, they questioned Church of Dawn. In the second ten years since the war began,... many nobles died."
"The authority of the Church is unquestionable. No matter in the past or now, Florian Empire will pay the price. I just don't know if Columbus Royal Family will be burned to death among Sacred Fire."
"..."
"I was wrong. No one could have imagined that in the third decade of the war, the Church would lose so miserably."
"The nobles began to reject war and began to question the Holy See. They no longer ordered their troops to form the Army of Faith in the Dawn. They began to contact those evil magicians... which actually included my father..."
The next few pages were torn out. Soron Family didn't want certain things to be recorded on them. Ryan could only read them in pieces.
"The extraordinary world is terrifying, but only extraordinary power can help the nobles see the truth about War of the Deities Across Planes. In the third decade of the war, the Church's demon hunting operation suffered an unprecedented failure."
"The nobles helped the demons Mages hide, and even supported them in launching an attack on the Church bishops at a perfect opportunity."
"Magic is indeed the power used to challenge Deities. In the third decade, the demons Mages destroyed the Church's Holy Mountain. Yes, Holy Mountain, the of that time the Church, their Holy Mountain is still in the center of Norris Grand Duchy, in Norris Great Plain, which is called the chest of the world. Holy Mountain is the only mountain there. I didn't expect that it would be destroyed by the demons Mages."
"In ten years, with the secret help of the nobles, the demons Mages killed an unknown number of clergy. Church of Dawn, which claims to have one million missionaries, can no longer see a few missionaries walking around."
"Retribution comes at the end of the third decade."
"Magic Factor on the Norris Continent is no longer active."
"Now, the magicians are scared. The magic factors in the void are no longer active. They have no eternal energy. They can no longer kill the clergy of the Holy See."
"Faith of Dawn won a huge victory. Everyone thought that this was the price of fighting Dawn. The Church rose again, and the nobles... died in large numbers."
"Is it over? How I wish it would be over when I write this, but we all know that everything has just begun."
"Magic Factor's Dead Silence is not that the demons Mages have suffered revenge, but in the north of the world, the polar wind and snow have blown to the south. In just one day Time, the northernmost North Sea Kingdom of Norris was frozen, and all humans turned into ice sculptures. Some knights went to explore, but they came back trembling and no longer had the dignity of knights."
"Northlands has arrived."
"It flooded the north of the Norris Continent at a speed exceeding the wind. In front of Northlands, both nobles and slaves are equal. The only difference is that some nobles who reacted began to flee to the south."
"Florian Empire... What an enviable luck."
"Northlands's wind and snow covered the land of the North, and even the plain where the Church Holy Mountain was was submerged, but when it was eight hundred miles away from the land of the Florian Empire, the wind and snow stopped."
"Florian Empire has received unimaginable support. Even the Church and Holy Mountain in South have their help."
"The land in the north is flooded, and the wind and snow continue to move south, but at a slower pace."
"Is it over now? No, because the disappeared demons Mages have returned again."
"They told the nobles a terrible secret. Among Northern Lands, many Deities have fallen. Their Divine Essence..."
"The evil demons Mages found the Divine Essence left behind after the fall of Deities. They even boldly began to hunt those Deities that had not yet fallen. The demons Mages joined forces with the nobles and integrated Divine Essence into their own bloodline."
"Florian Empire gained too much power and too many resources from the nobles from the north who fled to the south. This actually made their ambitions appear."
"Everyone, everyone predicted that these nobles and demons Mages would encounter Deities's revenge and backlash. How could a mortal swallow the origin of Deities?"
"But... they succeeded."
"The demons Mages don't know why. They discovered that those Divine Essence are very compatible with humans. Divine Essence did not backfire on human blood. On the contrary, Divine Essence was actively merging with the blood."
"They accepted humans and gained their own power."
"The nobles... are completely crazy."
"South and Florian Empire of the Norris Continent also challenged the Church. In the process, Magic Factor in the void actually became active again."
"The brilliance of Lord of Dawn blooms again in Norris World, and the world is restored to life, but why it is restored, no one knows the result."
"It's just that the nobles all know one thing. There is a difference between Deities."