"You want me to help protect the bugs here while you're away?" There was a hint of hesitation in the Blue Horseshoe Crab's voice. "I could, but... why?"
"You're still far from the very highest beings, but surely you could shelter this little patch of land yourself."
The Blue Horseshoe Crab avoided making any absolute claims, but Lin Jin understood his meaning.
Why bother?
Why put so much effort into such a thankless task?
If things truly reached the point of no return, couldn't he simply leave and choose somewhere else?
To Higher Beings, mortal bugs were worth even less than wild grass.
There were too many reasons.
Over the long lives of Higher Beings, even the blink of an eye could span countless bugs' entire lifetimes.
Merely descending among them was enough to gain a great host of bugs as servants.
When they were happy, a casual reward could send the bugs into raptures. When they were unhappy and unleashed their thunderous wrath, the bugs would not dare resist.
A thousand words boiled down to one question.
Why should a god do so much for bugs?
Though the Blue Horseshoe Crab was relatively mild-tempered, he still saw no compelling reason why this kingdom had to be saved.
There was no malice in it.
It was simply a difference in thinking born of the vast gulf between their levels of existence.
But Lin Jin was different.
It was not just because he had taken the unconventional path of attaining godhood through faith, making believers a necessity.
More importantly, his experience as a human in his previous life made it difficult for him to abandon those who had chosen to trust him so coldly.
Besides...
Who said mortal bugs had to be weak, or that Higher Beings would remain great forever?