Seven gods.

Returning from the void and back in the Ural Plains, Joshua stood above the earth, looking up at the sky, his gaze fixed on the boundless heavens beyond the world, as if looking at the gods within.

The illusion of the gods dissipated in the growing strength of the Northlands, and the dry cold wind made the warrior's clothes flutter and beat on his cloak made of dragon skin, which could sweep away the anxiety of men, but not the doubts of Joshua.

The Seven Gods of the Terrans.

He repeated the word in his mind.

This is not an unfamiliar word, on the contrary, it can be said that everyone knows the names of the seven gods, even the most ignorant beggars and farmers, who may not be able to name each of them, but they know their existence and pray when they need to.

These great beings who have sheltered all beings since the beginning of the Starfall Age have long been an indelible part of the civilization of the entire continent, they have taught the early civilization of humans, elves and dwarves to cultivate and forge, teach magic and magic, they have witnessed how a race grows from a member of the natural cycle to the primate of the world, in a sense, the seven gods are the guides and maintainers of mankind, without them, the development of civilization will be delayed for thousands of years.

"It's a nuisance."

Looking up at the sky, Joshua muttered, and then, he closed his eyes, lowered his head, and muttered to himself, "Even if I talk to Him face-to-face, I don't get many answers, on the contrary, there are more and more doubts." ”

If a world is a book, then in the book of the world of Microf, the seven gods of the human race are undoubtedly a crucial role, and it can even be said to be one of the cores of the book, but such an important core is full of confusing unsolved mysteries, which make many people wonder.

In the perception of most people, gods need to be believed, in fact, the gods in the Microf continent are no exception, whether it is the race god of the orcs, or the master of the sea who shelters the fishmen, they need faith, but this belief is not the source of power that most people think, but the stabilizer used to maintain their own existence.

It's actually easy to understand this. Because of the strong assimilation from divinity and divine power, it is easy to wash a person's self-consciousness into a blank slate, even a legendary powerhouse like Joshua who is strong-willed cannot hold on to the impact of divinity for too long, and the gods are naturally the same, in order to protect themselves under the huge assimilation power from divinity, they need the faith of all beings to act as a mediator to safely manipulate divine power.

Gods who have lost their faith do not lose their powers, nor do they die, but they are easily assimilated by divine power and become part of the great source of the multiverse, but there is no doubt that this kind of ending is even worse than death for a mind with self-will, for this reason, almost all gods will create churches, encourage believers to preach, and perform miracles from time to time, so that more lives believe in themselves and fulfill their own teachings and ideas.

But the Seven Gods of the Terran race are an exception.

Since the founding of the Church of the Seven Gods, no one in the world has ever seen the miracles of the Seven Gods with their own eyes, if it were not for the fact that every priest could use the unique magic of the Seven Gods, and each temple altar would react during the corresponding festivals and large sacrifices of the Seven Gods, there would definitely be people who doubted the authenticity of the Seven Gods, these seven great beings were completely different from the gods of other races, and they seriously fulfilled the highest principle of 'non-interference in the world', so that most of the time the sense of existence was not as high as that of the king of a small country.

They don't seem to need the existence of faith at all, and even deliberately keep a low profile, you know, if it weren't for the Church of the Seven Gods still having a sense of existence on the mainland, the successive popes were among the strongest in the whole world, and the priests were also very good at fighting, the faith of the Seven Gods would definitely decline in the instinctive suppression of other forces, if it wasn't for the abyss invasion in the previous life, nearly a dozen layers of the abyss joined forces, and there might be evil gods behind the scenes who forced them to save the world and block the enemy's high-level combat power, even the players didn't know, These seemingly silent backdrops are so strong.

Therefore, this attitude, which is completely contrary to the instincts of the gods and the basic laws of survival, must have some secrets hidden behind it.

This is the first point of doubt, and then there is the second point, the relationship with the sages.

Every god is an existence that has gone to the extreme on the path of magic, fighting spirit, or other powers, and their power may be slightly flawed due to the limitations of the era in which they ascended to the gods, but there is no doubt that they definitely have distinct personal characteristics, and the magic and special powers they give must be absolutely different.

For example, the [Attenomial Instinct] unique to the orcs [Chosen Generals] and the [Multiple Rage and Bloodlust] of the [God of War Shaman] all indicate the tyranny of the former God of War, and the fish people under the Sea Master are proficient in the excavation of their own bloodline power, so the [Atavistic Awakening] of the [Awakening Guardian] and the [Ancient Form] of the [Ancient Sacrifice] are all secret techniques that make them temporarily evolve or return to the most powerful form of their ancestors.

The Seven Gods should be the same, in fact, the clergy who believe in them do have their own special secret techniques, but surprisingly, the core power system of the Seven Gods Church comes from the path of holy light left by the sages of the Glorious Age, and the followers of the seven gods need to make great achievements in the holy light before they can choose to practice special secret methods - for other gods, this is an incredible thing, who will use other people's power path to cultivate their own power? Who would do this kind of thing, which is equivalent to making a wedding dress for others? Stupid to the extreme.

But the Seven Gods did just that, not only did they do it, they even carried forward the Holy Light - now there are definitely more people or elven dwarves who know the name of the Holy Light than there are people who know the secret art of the Seven Gods, and even the Seven themselves use the Holy Light, if these guys claim to have nothing to do with the sages, Joshua will be the first to disbelieve it, and will question the brainlessness of those who believe in such words.

But now is not the time to keep struggling with such speculation.

The warrior noticed that the thinking circuit of the god machine siblings who had been following him had begun to get a little hot, and after seeing too many illusions that were unbelievable to them and witnessing the arrival of the god clone, Hotaru and Rin were now a little confused, and realized that Joshua's mind had returned from afar, and the silver-haired girl and her brother carefully tugged at the corners of his clothes.

Joshua bent down gently, while the girl stood on tiptoe and whispered in his ear with some uneasiness, "Master, are you still our master?"

The Divine Maiden didn't know what those flashing scenes in the illusion meant, and she didn't have that much mind to think about overly complicated things, but it was precisely because she didn't think about those superfluous things that she was keenly aware that the warriors of not long ago were so strange that it seemed that there was a world as a ditch between them.

"Of course."

Joshua replied patiently and simply, without the slightest thought or hesitation when he said this, and the warrior, who was not good at comforting people in this way, even simply picked them up in one hand amid the exclamations of the two siblings, and expressed his position with the most firm attitude.

Of course not.

He thought so. You are certainly not my servants, you are not my weapons, and I am not your master.

The warrior muttered to himself silently.

- You are the only family member I have in this world.

And in the extraterritorial void, at the edge of the boundless heavenly realm, the god of power looked down on the human world, and an inconspicuous light flashed on the rotating black ring, and the god was silently thinking.

"Joshua." After a long time, He said to himself, "Sinur can't find your weaknesses, but I can." ”

His gaze did not rest on the shy young girl in the warrior's arms, but on the young lord who was smiling softly.

Warrior, your weakness is your too strong will, and your belief in never giving up, never giving up.

In the face of endless, almost irresistible, invincible enemies, you will never despair, you will never run away, as long as there is a slight possibility of victory, you will always fight, and you will never be defeated.

Therefore, because of this, you will fall into a cycle, in the face of those real enemies, you don't know how to detour, don't know how to retreat, don't know how to give up and forbearance, how can you get a real victory, you will only stalemate with them in an endless battle, and finally become a part of them, or fall into an eternal battle - an eternity that is no different from death.

Just like civilizations, civilizations that only know how to fight and kill cannot achieve final victory before the final moment comes, they are destined to burn, like stars that have reached the end of their lives, releasing a brief but extremely bright light, and then disappearing in the vast river of time.

"So, don't be a god and follow our old path."

In the void, the sigh of the gods echoed in the turbulence of the demon tide and time and space: "It is a path destined to be bound. ”

The black ring turned slightly, 'looking' into the demon tide, Xing was looking at the long path of light leading to the other side of the multiverse, the world and civilization that could not be measured by numbers rose and fell in the brilliant light mist, and the burning initial fire was so eye-catching in the eyes of the gods, as if it contained endless brilliance.

That's the path you should take.

- Macro-McCrove.

Unbeknownst to the warrior, in the far void, a god stopped because of his presence.

The surface of his body has a faint flow of light, and the huge and vast power surges inside his body, transforming every detail of this man's body, making his body gradually transform into the most condensed, heaviest and most indestructible form in the world.

That's the 'steel' left of a star after it burns out. 8)