The Goddess Who Stole Fire

She struggled to lift her head from the firelight, wanting to tell these surviving mortals that she was dying and could no longer protect them.

But when she saw the scene of decay before her, she temporarily stopped herself from saying what she was about to say.

The setting sun, like blood, spilled across the crumbling city walls.

Broken stone pillars point diagonally to the sky, and the shattered dome lets in the orange-red afterglow. The long street is covered with rubble and bones. The wind sweeps across the broken walls, stirring up fine dust that drifts silently in the blood-red light and shadow. The entire ruin is immersed in the desolate twilight.

Meanwhile, those hopeful, ragged people knelt at the edge of the square, gazing at her expectantly.

"Well."

She let out a soft sigh, but still decided to tell the truth.

She could not deceive these people, for they had all once worshipped and venerated her.

She cannot deceive them with a false sense of security, thereby causing them to lose the courage to strive for themselves.

Suffering forges strength, and despair gives rise to miracles.

In the future, survivors will have to rely on themselves to survive; it's better to face reality sooner rather than later.

Moreover, she did bring hope.

But these hopes are something they must grasp themselves.

Moweidina strained to stay upright, her eyes burning brightly in the flames of the Creation Fire Seed.

Her voice, like the sound of wind chimes, echoed through the ruins of the collapsed city.

"Listen to me, my people and the people of Mosela."

"The divine calamity has descended, Mosela has become a source of terror in this world. Although I have narrowly escaped this divine calamity, I am also on the verge of death."

She didn't mention the reason for her impending death, but instead avoided the topic altogether.

"As you can see, flames are burning on my body; I will die in the flames, and I can no longer protect you."

Her words struck the survivors present like a thunderbolt, filling them with terror.

They all spoke up in alarm.

"Your Highness, how could you die?"

"You are a great god, an immortal deity, how could you die?"

"Aren't the immortality, eternal life, and indestructibility of gods the standard of this world?"

"Your Highness Moweidina... How is this possible?"

Hehehe.

Hearing their words, the goddess's soft laughter echoed throughout the ruins.

"Then you will see it today. Gods can die too."

She emphasized this point.

"Even gods can be killed!"

She hoped that her words would be remembered by people, so that they would never lose hope for survival and the courage to defy the mad gods.

But her condition only made people more heartbroken and desperate.

Because the only god in this world who is not insane, who is lucid, is about to die before them.

Among them, the fanatical followers of the Goddess of Wisdom wept bitterly.

"No, Goddess! Without your guidance, how can we use our wisdom to usher in a new civilization?"

And then the goddess's voice rang out again.

"My people."

"Don't cry, don't be afraid, bravely face the future."

"I have brought you the possibility of God of Death and Banishment the gods."

She smiled in the firelight, cupping the flames that burned her in her hands.

Her words resonated clearly in the ears of everyone present.

Look.

"This is the Fire Seed I took for you from heaven, from before the Creator, to elevate mortals to godhood."

"When the Fire Seed of creation burns out within me, its power will flow across the earth, severing the shackles between mortals and gods, and granting every mortal the possibility of ascending to godhood!"

As she finished speaking, she mustered her last bit of divine power and pulled the broken stone pillar in the ruins to her front. With her divine power, she engraved the Path to Godhood on the stone pillar.

That is, how to start from Legendary, choose a direction, obtain one's own Divinity, and then Greater God divinity from this wisp of Divinity until one forges Divine Spark, builds Divine Kingdom, and ascends to godhood.

at the same time.

In order to enable a few gods capable of protecting mortals to be born more quickly among them, she carved five complete Path to Godhood on the broken stone pillar.

These are the five Path to Godhood that she deduced using the Law of Wisdom; all of them are Path of the Gods related to civilization and life.

These are also known as the original five Path to Godhood.

Right now:

The Lawkeeper, the Path of the Gods to the Divine Office of Order and justice.

Farmer and Herder, the Path of the Gods to a bountiful Divine Office.

The Watcher, the Path of the Gods leading to conquest and the Divine Office.

The Flamebearer is the Path of the Gods through wisdom and the transmission of Divine Office.

The Soul Ferryman, the Path of the Gods leading to the Divine Office of life and death.

These five paths do not conflict with the Divine Office of the gods who still exist in the world today.

It is the right path that allows ordinary people to rise up.

Of course, the Path of the Flamebearer concerning the Divine Office of wisdom was one she had just deduced, and it was the one she felt most confident about.

Because she is the Goddess of Wisdom.

Since she's going to die anyway, it doesn't matter if she hands over her Divine Office to a mortal.

After writing down these five Path to Godhood, she spoke solemnly.

"Remember, those who ascend to godhood will establish Divine Kingdom."

She feared that every Divine Office had once been in the Reincarnation, and that a deity had existed there.

"Furthermore, these five paths to the divine can be entered by countless people at the beginning, but at the end of each path there is only one."

"If someone has found a way through it, then go and choose another path."

"Of course, the laws and Divine Office of heaven and earth are far more numerous than these five, but they are all in the hands of the mad gods who are now ravaging the earth."

"When you overthrow them and banish them, you will naturally be able to open up a new Path to Godhood."

"Therefore, my people, remember my words. When you become the new gods of this world, declare war on the Old God!"

Having said that...

The beautiful goddess in the black dress seemed to sense the final chapter brought about by the Creation Fire Seed.

Because at that moment, she suddenly couldn't feel any pain.

She was about to burn out.

Thinking of this, a final smile appeared on her beautiful face as she spoke to the surviving mortals with her hands behind her back.

"Keep going, my people! Best wishes!"

"I went."

The words fell.

The flames ignited by the Creation Fire Seed instantly rose up and burned the entire goddess to ashes.

The goddess vanished like smoke.

And after the Moweidina burned out.

The power of the Creation Fire Seed did not, as it had done with the Wild Giant An Bi, the Sky God King Luosi Karl, and the Primordial Elf, to bring forth new life from their flesh and blood. Instead, it replicated and split into countless invisible and colorless Fire Seed, which merged into the soil of the earth.

Just as the Creator said, Fire Seed was brought to humankind.

Instantly.

It was as if a sudden inspiration had struck.

All intelligent beings sensed that a shackle deep within their hearts had been broken.

Those are the shackles between mortals and gods.

From that time on, every mortal had the potential to become a god.

The Goddess of Wisdom Moweidina, vanished before the surviving mortals.

The people kneeling on the ruins were in tears, wailing loudly.

"Your Highness, let's go!"

"She stole the Fire Seed of the Creator for us, for all mortals, giving every mortal the possibility of becoming a god."

They did not believe that Moweidina had found the Creator and personally requested the Fire Seed of creation. Because if that were the case, the Goddess of Wisdom would not have been burned to death by the power of the Fire Seed.

She stole Fire Seed for mortals, and that's why she died as punishment from the Creator.

"We are about to face the madness of the entire world on our own."

Some who still possessed courage stood up, watching the flames fade away amidst the ruins, feeling the pounding pulse in their hearts.

"The Fire Seed is the guiding light, the life and hope that the goddess Moweidina brought us!"

"Fellow countrymen, do not succumb to despair, fight bravely, and bring those mad Old God to the execution platform of the Divine Kingdom!"

As they stood up.

One by one, the grieving ordinary people stood up in response.

They were Knight wielding broken swords, nobles clad in tattered robes, resolute Priest, Warrior in shattered armor, and Mage with slightly pointed ears...

"Ascend to godhood!"

"Ascend to godhood!"

"Exile the Old God, save the world, and spread the Fire Seed stolen by the goddess and the Path to Godhood to all corners of the world!"

"Everyone's sins should be weighed on the scales of the Stars, and the gods are no exception!"

It was as if something had been ignited within people, and they were completely awakened.

A new chapter has finally begun.

And on a certain piece of Tablet of Fate.

One chapter quietly turns, and another begins to be written.