Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 217 - 178: The Strength and Weakness of Laws, Restrictions on Godly Revival

Chapter 217: Chapter 178: The Strength and Weakness of Laws, Restrictions on Godly Revival

Lince had now witnessed the forced logout from the second map firsthand.

After most Players were teleported out of thin air back to their original world and their original positions, Lince discovered that the sky of the entire Karte World was suddenly filled with dense, grid-like threads.

These grid-like threads transformed into tentacles, each one connecting to a Player.

It was because of these invisible tentacles that the Players could be instantly teleported to all corners of the world.

At the same time, the projection of Divine Matty next to Lince suddenly smiled and said,

"I must say, the favor you’ve received from the Main God is far greater than I imagined."

"However, it makes sense that you would be so favored. After all, you are an Ancient Species of the Space System."

"Once a person with such an Ability condenses Divinity and achieves Ascension to Divinity, they will naturally occupy a very high position in the hierarchy. It’s conceivable that you carry the great expectations of an entire civilization, countless beings, and even Deities."

With a relaxed expression, Divine Matty spoke as if they were having a casual chat.

"To praise the Power of the Space System so highly, I assume your Tobien Empire also has Deities of the Space System?"

The thought occurred to Lince, and he asked casually.

"Naturally. And to be frank with you, in my world, the sole authority over the Space System belongs to our great and noble His Majesty the Emperor."

"If the opportunity arises, given the alliance between our two worlds, you will one day meet His Majesty."

"Who knows, you might even become an honored guest of His Majesty by then."

"At that point, I might not even be your equal."

As he said this, Divine Matty spoke freely, without a hint of resentment.

He explained that Laws also have a hierarchy.

It was just as living beings are born with fundamental differences in their Race—the distinction between high-tier and low-tier species.

However, the degree of control each deity who achieved Ascension to Divinity through a Law had over that Law was also different.

For example, an Ancient Species who achieved Ascension to Divinity using Space Law would naturally be stronger than other Deities who ascended using the same type of Law.

But the strength of a Law could not be distinguished so simply.

For example, if a deity were to push the ordinary Law of Power to its absolute limit, then it was theoretically possible for them to shatter all other Laws with their Divine Body alone.

No Law would be able to affect them.

Furthermore, many Laws were also a matter of perception.

As long as you perceived it to exist, you could use it to achieve Ascension to Divinity.

Whether you could actually succeed in ascending was another matter entirely.

War, Hunger, Strategy, Poverty, Shadow, Race, and so on—even the concept of a planet.

All of these could be paths to Ascension to Divinity.

The God of War, a God of Shadow, a God of a Race, or even a theoretical ’Planet God.’

There was nothing you couldn’t imagine that a deity couldn’t achieve.

World Law was not just the fundamental Law governing the Cosmos.

Law also pertained to the perception of living beings; it was a metaphysical existence.

If a deity believed their Law was exceptionally powerful, as long as they strove to continue climbing the path of that Law, they might be able to forge a different path.

However, Ascension to Divinity was not that easy.

If a Demigod was a Strong Person chosen from among tens of millions, then a deity was absolutely one chosen from hundreds of millions, or even billions.

Therefore, Ascension to Divinity carried great risks and great terrors.

Of those who reached the Demigod Tier, not even one in ten would successfully achieve Ascension to Divinity.

And that wasn’t even counting the thousands upon thousands of beings who died in the process of trying to reach the Demigod Tier.

So, don’t be fooled by the Tobien Empire arranging for nearly a hundred Demigods to attempt Ascension to Divinity on the Karte Continent.

Out of these hundred Demigods, it would be considered a good outcome if ten New Gods were born from that group.

Of course, if they were lucky, twenty wouldn’t be impossible.

But the probability was extremely low.

Thus, you can imagine how much the Giant Demon’s Tobien Empire treasured those who possessed the great courage to reach the Saint Tier, or even the Demigod Tier, on their own Power.

And after becoming a deity?

Although Deities could fall in battle, and there was even a risk of being replaced by others after they fell, for a civilization like the Tobien Empire, when it came to Deities who had fallen while warring in the Star Realm, the entire Empire and civilization absolutely would not permit anyone to usurp the divine throne of a fallen god.

Furthermore, under this premise, the entire Tobien Empire would prioritize helping these meritorious Deities to revive.

As for how they are revived, it was nothing more than having the citizens of the entire Empire, with pious hearts, continuously worship the statues in the Divine Hall of Many Gods throughout the land.

Using "faith," or in other words, the metaphysical conscious power of a vast number of ordinary beings, they awaken the slumbering divine consciousness within the Mana Will and pull it out of the Spirit Realm.

In the words of the Tobien Empire, this process of a deity’s revival is also called the "Spiritual Supplement" process.

Because when a deity falls, it’s not just the fall of their physical, flesh-and-blood Divine Body; their consciousness also suffers grievous damage.

When thousands upon thousands of beings worship a deity, they are essentially projecting their Spiritual Power—which would otherwise be consumed normally at different times—precisely toward that deity.

Then, during this process, the Mana Will uses this aggregated Spiritual Power from countless beings to replenish and restore the deity’s Spiritual nature.

Thus, after a long period of recuperation, once the fallen deity’s Spiritual nature has been fully restored and replenished, that deity can be truly resurrected.

But there was another indispensable prerequisite for resurrection.

That is, a physical body of flesh and blood.

If the fallen deity’s original, damaged Divine Body had been preserved, they could naturally use the help of the Mana Will to quickly repair the injuries to their Divine Body and be resurrected immediately.

But if the fallen Divine Body was gone, completely destroyed, then a suitable living being must be willing to offer their body to the deity.

And who was considered suitable?

Naturally, a Demigod.

But every normal Demigod was a treasure to their civilization. How could any civilization be willing to expend a Demigod in this way?

Moreover, those who had ascended to the Demigod Tier through their own power were all proud and ambitious individuals.

Which one of them would be willing to sacrifice themselves?

This was where the necessity of Pseudo-Demigods became apparent.

Yes, reality was that cruel.

Why were Deities willing to share their Divine Power to create those of the Pseudo-Saint Tier and Pseudo-Demigods?

Was it merely to have competent subordinates at their disposal?

Of course, that was part of the reason.

But the main reason was that these so-called Pseudo-Saint Tier beings and Pseudo-Demigods were actually just vessels that the Deities cultivated for themselves!

At this point, Divine Matty also mentioned the approximate time required for a deity to be resurrected.

Taking the Tobien Empire as an example, the entire Empire had over 2.3 billion ordinary citizens below the Extraordinary Tier.

And these 2.3 billion citizens did not exclusively believe in a single deity.

Instead, they had a general faith in all the Deities within the Divine Hall of Many Gods.

Therefore, when these citizens worshiped and paid homage to the Deities in the Divine Halls of Many Gods across the world, this faith, or rather... this vast Spiritual Power, was uniformly distributed by the Empire Divine Council Hall.

In times of peace, this immense Spiritual Power, after being purified, was distributed among the Deities as Spiritual Power Crystals according to their contributions and strength. This allowed the Deities to continuously strengthen their own Spiritual Power.

Therefore, these faith crystals, these Spiritual Power Crystals, were also called Divine Power Crystals.

And these Divine Power Crystals were naturally products from which the individual emotions of thousands of beings had been removed.

They had no side effects and served as a true hard currency among the Deities.

But in times of war, these Divine Power Crystals were, of course, immediately and entirely allocated by the Divine Council Hall to the fallen Deities slumbering within the Mana Will Rule Network.

That’s right.

All of it was concentrated on reviving the Deities.

Only after all the Deities had been revived would the Divine Council Hall resume distribution based on contribution.

In any case, with such massive support for their revival, according to Divine Matty, it was projected that the thirty-four fallen Deities of the Tobien Empire should be able to fully revive in about five hundred years.

One had to understand, this was with the entire Tobien Empire possessing powerful mobilization capabilities.

It was the result of mobilizing over two billion living beings to pray and worship regularly in the Divine Halls of Many Gods in various regions.

In other worlds that lacked such organizational power, or even in worlds where living beings were too scarce, or their individual Life Energy Levels were very low, the required time would undoubtedly be extended indefinitely.

Several thousand years, even tens of thousands of years, would be possible.

By that time, it would be questionable whether the fallen Deities could still command faith, or even if they could still be revived at all.

Lince listened to Divine Matty’s eloquent explanation, his brow deeply furrowed.

’Are you kidding me?’

’There are so many restrictions on the resurrection of Deities?’

’Then what in the world are the Deities of the Oakland Continent playing at?’

’They knew they were going to get themselves cornered and trapped, yet they didn’t leave behind a contingency plan for resurrection?’

’Can’t they see? Across the entire Oakland Continent, among the various Races and even the Empires and Kingdoms, faith has become almost unsustainable after just three thousand years.’

’The Elves and Beastmen are exceptions, of course.’

’The situation for the Human Race is the worst.’

’As for the Demon God Hall... without my existence, their faith would probably have lasted for a long time.’

’But the humans... it’s better not to even talk about them.’

’In the Three Great Empires, almost all the power of the Churches has been stripped away by the Royal Families and the Emperor Races.’

However, on second thought, Lince realized the situation might not be that bad.

Just because the Churches’ power was stripped away didn’t mean the Royal Families and Emperor Races themselves weren’t promoting faith in the Deities.

After all, these people were, in theory, Bloodline descendants of various Deities.

Thinking about it this way, Lince couldn’t be sure whether the Deities of the Oakland Continent had truly left behind a contingency plan.

’For example, did the Royal Families and Emperor Races of the various kingdoms know some of the inside story from the very beginning?’

’Were they even, in the process of reclaiming the mortal Churches’ power, slowly reviving their respective Deities in their own way?’

’After all, if they stripped the Churches of their power, wouldn’t all the credit for the Deities’ resurrection fall to them?’

Besides, even in the modern society of Blue Star, even if no real Deities existed, various nations had Deities they believed in before the Human Alliance.

Thinking of this, Lince didn’t know what to say.

After chatting freely with Divine Matty’s projection for about ten minutes, just as the two were about to continue their conversation, hoping to learn more information about each other’s worlds, Divine Matty’s projection suddenly stopped talking.

He looked up at the sky.

Then he looked at Lince and smiled.

"Your Majesty behind you is quite impatient. It’s only been a short while, and they’re already showing me the door."

"Very well. Since everything has been settled, let’s conclude the matter of this mortal world for now."

"I look forward to meeting you again when fate allows."

Divine Matty’s departure was clean and decisive.

The moment his words fell, his smiling projection seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, completely dissolving into fluorescent light.

At the same time, Lince received a familiar system notification.

[Attention Cheater Sealer Player, your permissions are insufficient to remain in this world for an extended period.]

[During the version update, all Players, including you, are subject to a forced logout.]

[Notice: You have a final thirty-minute grace period to arrange matters with your subordinates. The countdown has begun.]