This World Has No God

The ocean cities in various regions.

The city administrators gathered, gazing at the colossal white bone structure piercing the sky. Its terrifying form pressed down on everyone's hearts like an unprecedented, massive mountain range.

"We can begin."

"His Majesty has ascended to godhood. We must spread his divine name across the land to celebrate the birth of a new God!"

"We've been avoiding their sharp edge, letting the Church of Light grow among the populace. It's time to fight back against the church!"

"Everything for His Majesty's glory!"

"Fight for His Majesty!"

Voices echoed.

They looked up at the Giant God in the sky, suddenly recalling the countermeasure against the Church of Light they had discussed with His Majesty in the Tower of Babel some time ago.

Some time ago.

In the imperial palace, the Imperial Hero Herodotus said with great anger:

"Your Majesty, that Church of Light has malicious intentions. They are deceiving the citizens of the various cities. Now, the tyrant theory is rampant, and more and more believers are being incited to form rebel armies and overthrow us."

The wise men of their empire had tried to explain, but it was completely ineffective.

"What a foolish populace!"

An imperial wise man couldn't help but scold, "The Evil God's methods are too brilliant! They want to strangle the spirit of our empire and turn us into his slaves!"

On the imperial throne, the Great Emperor of Atabia's expression was calm, as if nothing could disturb him, the supreme sage of this civilization:

"Don't demand too much of them. After all, we recruited all the wise men through the Tower of Babel Project. The remaining citizens are just ordinary mortals with average intelligence. They will be weak-willed and make mistakes..."

Human nature is always like this.

They don't remember the good we've done for them, forget the life-saving grace time and again. Not only are they ungrateful, but they even listen to the deceptive words of that Outer God who constantly seeks to destroy worlds.

So forgetful, they don't remember who brought them death.

The Great Emperor of Atabia suddenly smiled:

"The Outer God wants me to destroy seventy percent of them and personally create the third great extinction of life? This is a curse the Gods have bestowed upon me."

He spoke like a peculiar, contemplative philosopher, his gaze deep, his smile gentle:

"And how can I not kill them, how can I change these Gods' followers? How can I change this infamous tyrant ending that the Gods of the sky have set for me?"

"We should never try to reason with the ignorant. The only way to conquer them is to make them believe in another form of ignorance."

He turned around and looked at the wise men behind him, his tone laced with a hint of disdain: "Gentlemen, I will don the crown of a god, become a god. I will use a church to defeat a church, use ignorance to defeat ignorance, and use a god to defeat a god."

"A god?" The ministers immediately understood the profound mystery of this wild and imaginative plan. "You intend to portray yourself as a god and confront him?"

The Imperial Hero Herodotus said, "Then let us immediately establish a church for you, fabricate doctrines, and erect your majestic and divine statue."

"No, the statue shouldn't be majestic," the Great Emperor of Atabia revealed a hint of mockery.

"Since their Church of Light is so enraged that they want to nail this tyrant, me, to a cross and offer me to the gods in the heavens! Then, my church will be called the Church of the Suffering, and the image of the god will be a suffering victim, bound to a cross."

The Great Emperor of Atabia's next sentence made them feel the boundless mystery:

"We will publicly announce that Atabia is the Giant God Mebius from the heavens. Because he disagreed with the concepts of the Gods, he reincarnated into this world to bring the spark of civilization to all beings."

Mebius, in the Atabian language, refers to a person in extreme pain.

"But the Gods, seeing him bring joy, civilization, hope, and happiness to the mortals on Earth, making them no longer dependent on the Gods, were suddenly shocked and enraged. They dispatched a Giant God to attack this world, instigating the Atabians on Earth to crucify this reincarnated deity."

This?

Everyone's will was suddenly shaken.

This plan was brilliant!

It was using ignorant public opinion to defeat public opinion!

His Majesty was a reincarnated deity, possessing divinity, his status was instantly on par with the Outer God!

This way, the common people would no longer feel that his status was inferior; they were all gods from the heavens.

This was a war between gods, not a war between mortals and gods.

The meaning of this was completely different.

At the same time, the God of Suffering, Mebius, with his image of suffering, could garner sympathy and, in turn, tarnish the Church of Light.

"Your Majesty, shall we establish the church now?" asked the Imperial Hero Herodotus.

The Great Emperor of Atabia shook his head and said, "No, establishing a church now would not be very effective. Our church has no miracles, and we would be attacked by the enemy, accused of being false gods, bearing even greater sins and more infamy!"

"We will only begin to propagate our doctrines when we have miracles."

Time returns to the present.

This was the moment a miracle was about to be born.

"Begin!"

At this very moment, the subjects enduring hardship in the various underwater cities immediately began their actions.

One by one, long-prepared new temples began to be revealed to the populace.

"Great Emperor of Atabia! The Suffering One among mortals! The heavenly God Mebius! Will ascend to divinity once more in this land! Igniting divinity!"

Shouts echoed across the land.

A faint, ethereal song drifted through the air, like all the innocent children across the land singing together, praying for their emperor.

"The torrential rain will collapse into a flood~~"

"Purple clouds will cover the land, forming an abyss~"

"Ruins will give rise to tall towers~"

"Bones will be covered with flesh."

"And I will return to the heavens."

"Then I will meet you."

"And kill you."

The hymns of the new church echoed, and some followers of the Church of the Suffering revealed pious, gentle smiles, loudly reciting the sacred verses of Mebius's Suffering Hymn.

In the imperial city, countless attacking Paladins suddenly stopped their blades, staring blankly at the voice, "A new... God??"

Simultaneously, the entire world began to hear the origin of this new God within the doctrines. He came from the heavens, resisting the gods for mortals, and the Church of Light was merely a so-called conspiracy.

This is a complete reversal!

A perfect counterattack!

Li Qing's guard's spy, this Pope, was instantly shocked and angered. No wonder he had been silent before; he was plotting here!

"Great Emperor of Atabia, the reincarnation of the heavenly God, Mebius the Suffering One."

All the Atabians in the world looked up, silently sensing the heaven-shattering new God. The immense form of crystalline white bones seemed to carry a trace of pure white holiness that pierced the clouds.

"The King is the most intelligent person in the history of Atabia's peak population of 17 trillion. He sees through all suffering, contemplates all problems of the world, and drives the evolution of civilization. He... has already decided everything."

"He could have given up too."

The Imperial Hero Herodotus led the elite troops, emerging from the imperial city's basement with a faint smile.

"But he is an arrogant man; when God wanted him to do something, he refused."

"Impersonating a god with a mortal body, defeating church with church, defeating ignorance with ignorance! Using public opinion to defeat public opinion, and bring them back to our side!"

"This is his choice!"

"There are no gods in this world; gods are merely powerful people."

"If we Atabians must believe in so-called gods, have so-called spiritual sustenance, then why should we believe in Outer Gods?"

"This Holy Emperor who leads the era is the only true God that we terrestrial Atabians should believe in!"

He suddenly laughed, with the Knights of the Church of the Suffering dressed knights behind him, their battle intent burning, roaring loudly:

"Come, follow us to counterattack, reclaim the imperial city, defeat these cultists, and fight for the Church of the Suffering!"