The Age of Gods barrier, "Eternal Domain," sounded intimidating, but it was actually nothing remarkable.
In the past, the gods built places known as divine realms in densely populated human regions to compete for faith.
They told humans that as long as they believed in them devoutly, they could enter the divine realm and gain eternal life.
When the first batch of believers tricked into the divine realm discovered that they truly were no longer aging, they became even more devout in their faith toward those gods.
Those who had not entered the divine realm saw themselves growing old while those inside stopped aging, so they came to believe that faith in the gods could grant immortality.
One after another, they chose to worship those gods, all for a chance to enter the divine realm and obtain that fragile immortality that could shatter at any moment.
After luring their followers inside, the gods deceived them with false immortality.
They told those ignorant people that as long as they remained within the so-called divine realm, they could enjoy eternal life.
But if they abandoned the gods, they would be expelled, and once they left the divine realm, they would die under a curse.
In truth, it was merely the side effect of having all the time they had accumulated deducted at once after leaving the Eternal Domain.
The divine realm was boring. When someone could no longer endure the loneliness and fled, all their accumulated time would be deducted at once, and death would greet them.
The gods would merely say, "Look, those people abandoned their faith, fled the divine realm, and were cursed to death."
After that, those inside the divine realm no longer dared to leave, while those outside still fought desperately to get in.
The gods successfully maintained