God's Last Gamble [Second Update]

That was why gods with independent souls, who could also wield the rules to a certain extent, cherished them so greatly.

Yet even gods had to pay a price to retain their independent wills—their personalities would be assimilated by the rules to some extent.

War gods were warlike, love gods yearned for love, death gods were gloomy, and sun gods were sunny, all for these reasons. Gods who wielded the same rules might differ, but the difference lay only in which aspect of the rules they manifested. Even fire gods differed only in traits such as passion and irritability. Yet passion and irritability still shared much in common, and a fire god would never be cold and detached.

Thus, besides worrying that rules would bind him to a particular world and prevent him from traveling between worlds, Ye Ting also did not wish to become a god because he feared the rules would affect his personality.

Still, gods were only influenced in part. Most of their souls remained independent, capable of the joys, anger, sorrows, and pleasures of living beings. They were not entirely the servants of rules.

If "Heaven" represented rules and "man" represented independent souls, then the part of a god that belonged to man far outweighed the part that belonged to Heaven.

That independence allowed Ye Ting to confidently entrust his back to the goddesses. Yet it was precisely because the Heavenly part of gods was incomplete that countless barriers limited their control over rules.

For instance, their need for a true ether environment, or their need for faith.

The incompatibility between souls and rules was the source of those barriers.

What Yahweh wanted was to break those barriers, to shatter the incompleteness of the "Heaven" possessed by gods.

Once that incompleteness was broken, a god's power