How do gods descend?
This point was already mentioned during Norton's recovery.
The faith of all people forms Anchor, forging a beacon for the arrival of divine souls.
This is the very reason Norton was able to return, and also the reason he now attempts to use this method to bring about the birth of God.
" God is great, even if this so-called God is just a parasite that crawled off the real God, the Soul Particle needed to unite people through faith is probably not insignificant."
Is the current level of spiritual enrichment truly feasible? Is human faith sufficient to invoke God? Such a scheme to Betrayal faith cannot be repeated a second time. I should pile it up even more until the spiritual enrichment reaches its peak and the population is so large, in order to ensure absolute certainty.
As the saying goes, good dishes require a longer cooking time. This final delicacy, which may help me transcend this universe, needs to be absolutely perfect before I can savor it!
His pale, slender, narrow fingers moved from the railing and were placed behind his back.
Norton stood proudly in the scorching sun, his tall, pale body facing the sun. There was no fear of God's arrival in his words, only a slight doubt about the success or failure of his plan.
There was no way around it; the uniqueness of Norton's soul was the very foundation of his invincibility.
Norton looked up at the golden sun with his golden eyes, which were filled with calm, indifference, and even a dullness, rather than any aggressiveness.
"Just as God cannot create a stone He cannot lift, nor can God destroy something He cannot create, this seemingly illogical and absurd paradox from a past life has now become the foundation upon which I, Norton, have climbed step by step to the highest heights!"
Norton lowered his head, looking at the city before him, at his own tall, pale body, feeling his omnipotent power, feeling the truths and trajectories in his mind that already encompassed everything, the end of time, and feeling his utterly boring soul, and sighed.
"Omniscience and omnipotence, immortality and eternal vision—the highest things I, Norton, once sought—now seem not to be a blessing from the gods, but rather a curse of eternal life."
All truth resides in my mind, Norton; all time resides in my eyes, Norton.
I have comprehended all the mysteries of the universe since its birth, and all the details of time from its beginning to its end have entered my eyes, Norton.
The endless traces left by the blessings of eternity have made me, Norton, reach the pinnacle of human desire, making it difficult for me to reach the threshold of excitement again.
For me, this world is nothing but the tedium of omniscience and omnipotence, and the desolate loneliness of being utterly alone...
Ah... it's lonely at the top!
Only this still unknown ultimate, only this God beyond God, at this very moment, has become the only path that I, Norton, can pursue.
Norton turned around, no longer wearing the pure silver crown that he used to always wear on his head, nor the scarlet cloak that he used to always drape behind his back. Even the so-called nude banquet was no longer held, and even Abraham and Elizabeth were now excluded.
Compared to a thousand years ago before the war began, Norton now seems to have returned to the time when he first returned. His humanity has begun to peel away noticeably, leaving only a dull indifference and a lonely tranquility.
This millennium of war was a long process of decline and extremism for the Human Federation, and for Norton, it was also a process of moving towards extremism.
However, he was the epitome of loneliness and the epitome of boredom.
Omniscience and omnipotence might be a sacred bonus for God, but for a person with a normal personality and normal desires, it is a complete and utter minus.
He had seen all sorts of scenes, and none of the stimuli could reach the threshold of comfort, which was terrifying.
Why do the powerful and wealthy crave bloodshed and thrills, even going so far as to sit together and eat human flesh? Because ordinary thrills no longer stimulate their excitement threshold. Everything in daily life is utterly boring to them, so they seek even more unusual thrills.
This is a billion times more serious for Norton.
Because he saw the end of time, he saw all the joys and sorrows of the world, national righteousness, historical development, and even the nobility and depravity of human nature.
When he broke free from his seal in the past, the return of his consciousness still held some interest; a thousand years ago, he even created the lewd scene of female body sushi. Now, four thousand years have passed, and all that remains is boredom...
This boredom and loneliness even touches the soul.
Therefore, the true purpose of the racial extinction war he created, which was a deception from beginning to end, has gradually evolved from the previous attempt to achieve permanent rule without awakening God to the current desire to awaken God in order to achieve devouring and transcendence, to be able to glimpse a higher view, or to be sealed by God and wait for the arrival of a new era.
People can't even understand their past selves.
In the past, I, Norton, craved the abundance of humanity, using desire as proof of my existence, rejecting the highest state, vainly seeking to maintain eternal rule, and vainly desiring to enjoy eternal bliss in this Garden of Eden.
Now I am so bored that I would even attempt to awaken God, and even if I am ultimately sealed away by Him, I no longer want to endure the dullness of human desires today.
In this light, I might as well preserve the supreme separation of the past; at least I will endure forever, at least I will be supreme, at least I will not be swayed by human nature...
At this point in his speech, a hint of hesitation and confusion appeared on Norton's otherwise exquisite and perfect face.
"To this day, am I, Norton, a puppet succumbing to human desires, or a being that maintains its own independent thought? Am I truly driven by human desires, or by the essence of thought itself?"
Why am I starting to feel a little lost again...?
This guy, because he's too omniscient and omnipotent, has begun to uncontrollably drift towards nihilism.
This is indeed the normal behavior of such true deities; after all, they are qualified to touch upon the true truths that humans regard as nihilism.