People in the sandbox, starting the final trial
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For upgrading, letting outsiders know is not a rigid requirement, but upgrading yourself depends on the outside world’s definition of your behavior… God’s grace is this strange product that satisfies the desires of gods.
For the gods, it is not important for adventurers to level up; what is important is that the great achievements accomplished through the leveling be seen by themselves.
That resume and experience must be seen by the gods and satisfy the gods’ curiosity before it can be upgraded.
But to ordinary people at the bottom of society, it doesn’t matter what God’s grace is. What matters is what they think God’s grace is.
God’s grace…isn’t that just a cheat that can improve physical fitness as long as the person concerned exercises?
Even if we really have this plug-in, ordinary people at the bottom may not be able to do it.
There will definitely be ordinary people with extraordinary talents who are buried, but as long as someone is determined and tries to join the clan in Orario for a period of time and shows up around the gods, if he or she has good qualifications, he or she will definitely be discovered and fought over by the gods.
The gods can roughly see the potential of ordinary people, and they are also eager for high-potential followers. People like Bell, who have great potential but are repeatedly rejected when applying to join the follower, are very rare.
Theoretically, no matter how talented a person is, without the grace of God, he cannot achieve success as an adventurer. If he is born with a strong body, he can only fight against level 2, which is the limit. Even an ancient hero needs the power of immortal spirit to become stronger.
Precisely because of this absoluteness, before obtaining God’s grace, even if one has the potential to be an ancient hero, their performance is not much different from that of an ordinary person.
Therefore, many ordinary people do not think that they are inferior to others after receiving God’s grace.
If there is an upward channel in the world of Dicuo that can guarantee the rules, and three or five gods hold regular ceremonies for assessment, and those who can rank top in the ceremony are hired as adventurers, then ordinary people’s attitude towards adventurers will probably be relatively objective.
Those who really think they are capable will be asked by others, “If you have the ability, why don’t you go to participate in xx festival?”
However, the gods decide who becomes an adventurer basically based on their interests. There are too many people who look average, have underdeveloped muscles, and have not shown any talent in military strategy or magic, but are recruited by the gods as adventurers.
The gods can tell who has hidden potential – but at the same time, not all gods strictly select their followers. Some irresponsible gods just hope that someone can support them, and have no intention of working hard to manage the follower game or becoming addicted to it.
Not all people with potential will be favored by the gods. Potential is the foundation. As long as the person is not a newcomer who has heroic qualities at first glance, whether the gods will recruit someone as an adventurer depends more on their impression of him.
There are cases where a person is looked down upon by a certain god, but quickly becomes a high-level adventurer in the hands of other gods.
There is an adventurer who was actively recruited by the gods, but at the same time has not been able to become a level 2 adventurer.
There are all kinds of adventurers, so much so that the claim that gods can see the potential in other people cannot stop ordinary people from talking. It cannot make most ordinary people realize that they cannot become adventurers because they lack potential.
Naturally, many ordinary people think that if they have a cheat like God’s Favor, they can also become top adventurers.
Or maybe it might be a little difficult to become a top adventurer. Some ordinary people might have a little bit of knowledge, but they would also feel that after becoming an adventurer, they would be able to achieve a certain status no matter what.
Apart from other things, level 2 shouldn’t be difficult, right? Those level 1s who are stuck on great deeds are really timid——
It’s easy to talk without any worries. I think that after becoming an adventurer, I will dare to challenge great feats. But after becoming an adventurer with the limit of lv1 attributes, where can I not enjoy the best food and drink?
It is natural for a person with nothing to want to work hard and live a decent life, but if you already have a million dollars, do you have to take the high risk of death and gamble that you can become a billionaire?
There are not many people like this.
But as I said, facts are facts. For someone or some people, what they believe is the truth.
The gods’ so-called “the future of the underworld is to be decided by the people of the underworld”, this blank space has given many people in the underworld great confidence. Coupled with the mechanism of the gods in the underworld selecting adventurers, it makes many people think that they are just talented but not appreciated, rather than that they are completely incompetent.
The gods’ protection has left a stage for people in the lower world, making them think highly of themselves.
Many people have experienced this stage. When they have just entered school and have not yet entered society, they feel that they can do something successful and they must work hard during the four years of college.
But after thinking about it, I think it would be more comfortable to stay at home for four years.
As for the situation in the world of Dicuo, the vast majority of ordinary people do not even have the opportunity to prove themselves. The most they can do is apply to join various clans but be rejected, and then curse all the clans for being blind.
——Especially in the original book, in the next hundred years, all ordinary people will be more justified in cursing.
Look at that guy from Hestia’s family. When he was young, he applied to join almost all the families, but was rejected every time.
What do you mean that the eyes of gods can see potential? If one clan did not accept you, it might be because they did not like you enough. If all clans did not accept you, it means that you did not have the potential?
Bellcraney almost walked out of Orario in disgrace. Almost all his followers rejected him, but in the end, he still became a hero of Orario, didn’t he?
Ordinary people in the underworld, no matter how much they believe in gods, will instinctively agree that “the affairs of the underworld are under the jurisdiction of the people of the underworld.”
If you repeat a lie a thousand times, it becomes an instinct.
Although these words were spoken by the gods from the beginning, the pride and honor that came from them were given by the gods from the beginning.
But it is also real.
Many people may not care so much about the source.
And now, everyone in Orario has seen the gods using their divine power.
The gods had said that the affairs of the underworld were the responsibility of the people of the underworld, so the gods could ignore the sacrifices of all adventurers, the floods and epidemics on the earth, and hide in Orario to be worshipped by the people of the world.
But gods can use their divine power.
In the lower world, before everyone in Orario’s eyes, divine power unfolded…
And, he was not sent back to heaven.
Everything that happened in the past…
So what?
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The moment the divine power appeared in his hands, a part of the god fell into deep thought.
There is no doubt about the intelligence of gods. Over hundreds of millions of years, they have eaten more salt than ordinary people eat rice.
But having a high IQ does not mean having no limitations in thinking, just as the ancient kings, princes and generals did not know that the earth is round. That was not a problem of IQ but a problem of common sense.
Some gods were confused and couldn’t figure out why their divine powers were used in the underworld but not sent back to heaven, but they didn’t think about it in detail. Years of boredom made many gods too lazy to think too much.
The more you think, the more you can see through the truth of the event, and the less interesting things there are. If you think less, you may be more surprised when you come into contact with the event.
But not all gods limit themselves from asking questions.
The divine power appeared, but he was not sent back to heaven. What kind of changes will this bring, and who will be most affected?
Wherever is most affected, that’s where the other party will likely deploy its layout.
The gods can use their divine power in the underworld, and the ones who are most affected must be the believers and ordinary people who believe that the gods cannot use their divine power.
But this alone cannot determine anything.
In the final analysis, compared to the lower world, gods are in a higher position. It only takes a god to explain to the life in the lower world afterwards that the use of divine power was an accident, and the majority of people will believe it.
From this, it is easy to conclude that the person who caused the current incident did not even intend to give them a chance to explain.
The evil god’s plan?
All speculations cannot be groundless. The gods could never have imagined that there was a possibility of completely killing the gods.
Even though Ishtar had mysteriously disappeared in recent days, and there had been no pillars of light showing the gods being sent back to heaven, it was impossible for the gods to think of killing the gods.
Whenever gods have a second chance, the next time a similar thing happens, the death of the god will be taken into consideration – whether this can be imagined depends not on whether the god has a high enough IQ, but on whether the god is limited by the common sense he or she recognizes in daily life.
In a flash, some gods realized that the evil god was preparing to cause trouble, and sent some of the gods directly back to heaven.
I thought that it must be not just one god, but a group of gods who participated in this incident.
Some people also speculated what kind of changes might have happened in heaven that led to the current changes, resulting in the ability to use divine power but not being sent back to heaven.
In the current thinking of the gods, there is no so-called correct answer, and the most basic logical points do not match, but some processes can always be guessed – for example, there must be a part of the gods as collaborators, who guide the public opinion in the lower world after the gods die and return to heaven.
It has become common knowledge in the underworld that the gods can use their divine powers in the underworld, but they just don’t use them to amuse the people there.
The gods of the world of Dicuo, at least at this stage, are generally orderly in their actions towards the lower world.
If she is a purely good person, such as Astraea, looking at her life, even if we stand on the moral high ground and try to discredit her, the only excuse we can give is “Asteria is seeking fame and reputation, she is not really upholding justice, but doing it for her own pleasure.”
At best, he could find some people to spread the rumor that Astraea did some shameful things behind her back, but this would be too obvious.
The more you follow certain rules, the less likely it is that your actions will be distorted and defined by outsiders. At most, they will just make some unfounded sarcastic remarks.
But it is much easier for the gods to act according to their own interests and turn it into evil.
Past causes lead to present consequences. Since the gods usually make it difficult for most people to understand what you are thinking, and they only care about their own interests when doing things, and do not care about the general consensus of the underworld, then when your actions are distorted by others, don’t expect others to defend your innocence.
Unfamiliar after all.
Most people don’t know what the gods are thinking. Even for the gods who have their eyes on the lower world, few will explain to their followers what is really going on in their hearts.
If they don’t explain and understand on normal days, naturally no one will speak for them at the critical moment.
At this moment, some gods thought, could it be that the evil gods are causing trouble, expelling those gods who are still kind to the lower world back to heaven, and then doing whatever they want in the lower world?
When they are resurrected 10,000 years later, they plan to go to the ground to take a look…
My goodness, the gods’ reputation in the underworld has been completely ruined. They have become alien creatures that once regarded the people of the underworld as toys and brought devastating disasters to the underworld.
To some extent, this is indeed possible.
Some gods thought that since there was a way to unlock the divine power and something happened in the magic tower, it was likely that the gods in heaven were involved and approved of the plan.
Think about the moral integrity of the gods in heaven, which is much higher than those gods in the lower world.
The gods who stayed in the heavens agreed to this plan of “letting the evil gods tarnish the reputation of the gods in the lower world”…it might not even be that they agreed, but it was proposed by the gods of order.
Any god who takes a closer look at the current situation in Orario will feel that defeating the Black Dragon before the deadline agreed with the dungeon will require a miracle. All the adventurers in Orario now may not be enough to defeat the Black Dragon with just one claw.
When the agreed deadline arrives, the underworld will definitely be destroyed. The gods on the side of order will not be able to stop it. The gods on the side of darkness, the evil gods, and the gods who want to watch the fun will all block the gods on the side of order and not allow the gods on the side of order to stop the dungeon.
Why not think of a way to let those gods of fun find new fun in the people of the underworld? Wouldn’t that prevent the underworld from being destroyed?
When the gods feel that the underworld is necessary, the dungeon is no longer a concern. In terms of quality, the dungeon may not be weaker than the gods, but in terms of quantity and mobility, the dungeon is really a piece of cake compared to the gods.
Before the agreed deadline, the gods who remained in heaven might have thought of some ways to allow life to continue on the surface – discrediting gods who acted in a more orderly manner, reversing the gods’ reputation in the underworld, completely destroying the trust that the gods had built up with the creatures of the underworld over the past thousand years, and making the gods who still liked humans in the underworld be hated by the people of the underworld.
These things are definitely more interesting to the Evil God and the God of Fun than simply letting the dungeon destroy life in the underworld.
…The biggest problem is whether a consensus can be reached on the side of Lezishen.
Perhaps some gods just want to see the underworld destroyed?
There is a prior contract, so even if a small number of evil gods insist on fulfilling the previous contract, the contract cannot be changed.
After all, there are some concerns among the gods. Eternal life plus the destructive power of the gods is roughly equivalent to everyone having a nuclear button in their hands. If they do not follow a certain consensus, nothing will go on in the future.
But the gods have a close relationship after all. There are hundreds of characters over hundreds of millions of years, and they all have a certain relationship with each other to a certain extent. There are also some close friends who have been together for a long time… In theory, those who stubbornly demand to abide by the agreement and believe that an agreement should not be broken may be persuaded to go back by close friends, girlfriends, etc.