Seeing Xinuo like this, the captain sighed.
There had been many things he could not understand before. The Church was clearly right, so why did so many problems still exist in this world?
But after arriving in Slumber Town, he understood.
From the books in the library, he learned the fundamental reason.
Gods, The Church, and the nobles who existed by relying on The Church—this entire system was indeed the order of the Material Plane.
This system was indeed fighting against Demons, disasters, and all kinds of dangerous problems.
But once one asked the crucial question, one would discover something: where had these dangerous problems come from?
From the Mythic Age to the Golden Age, then the vanished Silver Age, followed by Elemental Chaos, the Steel Age, the Black Stone Age...
And now, the End Epoch.
The gods seemed to be growing stronger and stronger, yet people's quality of life was getting worse and worse.
Humans had been born in the Golden Age. The humans of that era were Golden Humans; even if they did nothing, they could live for thousands of years, with long lifespans, great strength, and abundant supplies.
Yet such Golden Humans were now called "sinners."
Because these sinners had been unwilling to remain merely a Golden Breed, they had researched numbers, resulting in the emergence of broken numbers and the birth of the Abyss.
The title of sinner seemed well deserved.
Yet the research of a divine Saint had pointed directly to the essence of the matter.
The Golden Humans' dissatisfaction stemmed partly from their instinctive desire to become a Mythical Breed, but also because they had wanted to resist.
Resist whom? The gods!
One of the Golden Humans' crimes was "disrespecting the gods."
Relying on their immense power, some gods and Mythical Breeds had freely