Chapter 23
The young animal has a palm-sized body, a round head, and tender fleshy wings with a little white hair. Its arms are the size of fingers, soft and delicate, and would seem to break if slightly pinched.
Hades was dumbfounded.
His old enemy, the God of Light, sat in the palm of the young man's hand, with his head tilted, listening attentively, confused.
The young man seemed to have almost finished speaking, so he just added one more sentence.
"Do you understand?"
The little enemy nodded, and folded its tender white wings slightly, looking obedient and cute, just like a young animal treating its creator.
Then, a sentence that could almost blow away Hades' sanity was spoken.
"Yes, father."
The voice was subtle, but not false at all, with a hint of tenacity, as if making a promise to the young man. The golden eyes flashed again and again, as if they were quenched with gold powder, bright and mysterious, as if reflecting the Milky Way, highlighting the grandeur of light.
Although it is in the form of a young animal, the true inner core of the God of Light is clearly visible.
This is definitely His nemesis, but why is it in this state!
Hades doubted his own eyes and even suspected that he opened the door in the wrong way, otherwise how could he see such a horrifying scene.
His nemesis has always been arrogant, and when he gets angry, he becomes a war maniac who will not stop fighting until the end of the universe. All gods are afraid of him and dare not provoke him easily.
But now, it is as obedient as a young animal in the hands of a strange young man. Well... maybe it is indeed a child, because no matter how you look at it, it has just been born.
The Hades was really confused. What was even more outrageous was that there were a few cats on the table staring at him covetously, not at him who suddenly came in, but at that little old enemy. His arrival did not seem to attract their attention. Compared to him, the little old enemy who was acting cute in the hands of the young man was a more troublesome and important enemy.
When he was shocked, the little enemy suddenly paused, glanced at him with an innate rejection and hostility, and then actually stared at him, as if he wanted to report to the young man, and raised his hand to point at him.
The cognitive shock came suddenly, and Hades really couldn't understand this scene. He immediately closed the door and ran away instantly, while trying to use his reason to analyze the situation.
How could the old enemy become like that? And who was that young man? The old enemy was still a god of the original sequence, with the same status as Him. Even if he had just been reborn and awakened, it was impossible for him to have such an attitude and call that young man - "father"!
An extremely terrifying thought flashed through the mind of the God of the Underworld, a thought that even made him shudder.
Could it be that the young man's status... is above them? !
The God of the Underworld was surprised and immediately ran to the side gate of the imperial city. His brain could hardly digest this information.
It has only been a dozen years since He first woke up. Perhaps He is not mature enough as a god, and His strength has not recovered. He was also attacked, and His status almost fell. Therefore, He cannot publicize His resurrection. He learned about the situation of this era everywhere. He came to the Os Empire because he heard that the Kingdom of Light was going to destroy the Os Empire, and he took the opportunity to see the situation of his old enemy. However, he did not expect that he would have seen such an outrageous thing as soon as he saw it.
Perhaps the God of the Underworld was too shocked, his body was torn apart, pain spread throughout his body, he couldn't help but tremble, and blood flowed from his lips.
Concept gods have this weakness. They need a container to be shaped, otherwise they cannot appear in the world. And every time the container is destroyed, only when the container is shaped again can they revive new consciousness and reappear.
There was a big problem with his resurrection this time. It was not the black angel from the Dark Kingdom who presided over his resurrection, but the blasphemer who tried to use him to resurrect. After his resurrection, he became furious and killed the blasphemer immediately. However, his incomplete divine body still caused him great trouble, so much so that it collapsed at any time like now, and he had to repair it as soon as possible.
This is also the second reason why he wants to find the God of Light. Repairing the body requires divine power, and other substances are useless. He wants to get some divine power substances from the Kingdom of Light, and natural repair cannot wait.
However, I didn't expect... that my old enemy would become like that, although in a sense, his situation was much better than his.
The blasphemer who designed him was an immortal, and he was determined to get his godhood. The Dark Kingdom had even broken into him several times. There was really an incredible monster among humans, who dared to design and layout even the gods of the original series, and even dared to snatch the godhood.
The face of the God of the Underworld changed, and he finally stabilized his body. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and immediately looked towards the west of the imperial city.
It was the breath of that blasphemer. He actually followed me. The eyes of Hades darkened.
Yes, the Continental Human Alliance has only sent someone now, saying that they want to re-establish friendly relations with the Os Empire and protect the Os Empire from harm. They made the friendly declaration after the crisis of the Kingdom of Light being destroyed, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Os Empire has accepted it and will discuss the specific matters with the Continental Human Alliance.
That blasphemer was from the continent's human alliance, and he was probably trying to take this opportunity to infiltrate the Os Empire. Hades frowned, unsure if the other party had discovered him.
But one thing is certain, the Oss Empire will become the center of the vortex of continental struggle.
The God of Hell lowered his head with a complicated expression.
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The other party.
"What's wrong?"
Zeus looked at the cub in his arms and followed his gaze towards the store entrance.
The door was slightly open, letting in a little cold wind, but other than that, nothing happened and no one seemed to be passing by.
Because the cold wind blew in, did he feel cold? None of his fellows were afraid of the cold, maybe it was because he had just been resurrected and was not familiar with the creation skills, which caused this child to be afraid of the cold.
Hughes quickly got up and closed the door.
When I turned around, I saw the little guy sitting listlessly on the table, with his eyes drooping, his golden eyelashes trembling, and he looked drowsy and almost falling asleep.
The two cats next to him seemed curious about his condition.
I don’t know if it’s due to congenital deficiency or something else, but I always feel that this child is physically weaker than his siblings.
"Come back first."
As soon as Xius finished speaking, Zizi nodded, as if he also knew his situation.
Zeus took Him back into the atlas, thought about it, and then strengthened the settings.
The settings for creation are not added casually, especially the part of "essential settings". The description you write cannot be too exaggerated, otherwise it will be judged as over-setting and cannot even be recorded, which means it is useless. You can't write whatever settings you want. Otherwise, he could just write about a child who can destroy the world at birth, and then he could conquer the other world. So every time he created a child, he would have to worry about the description for a long time.
The child woke up on his own before he wrote the detailed description, so he neglected to describe it. Now that he just happened to remember it, he might as well write down the specific settings.
But, there is something more important... [Name].
Yes, he hasn't thought of a name for the child yet.
In this regard, Hughes fell into deep thought.
He usually uses names according to the Key of Solomon because it is convenient and the order is easy to remember, except for Beelzebub.
The child Beelzebub was a little special. He was motionless when he was first created, and then he developed consciousness. After the consciousness appeared, his appearance also changed a little. It was somewhat different from the initial modeling, and he looked somewhat similar to the eldest brother Baal.
He thought of the fact that in some legends on Earth, Baal's other name was "Beelzebub". Solomon's first demon Baal was also believed to be Beelzebub.
Actually, Zeus didn't know much about the mythology of the Earth. He just read some books while working, and his memory was not very clear, so he might have mixed up. The evolution of mythology itself also had some confusion, which resulted in the names, shapes, and deeds not necessarily being consistent, and there would be new explanations in different eras.
Beelzebub, in his memory at that time, had three key words, if he didn't remember them, they were "King of Ghosts", "Lord of Hell", and "Gluttony". He thought about it at the time and tried to write it in, and he didn't expect it to be successful.
The text "King of Demons" is gray, the text "Lord of Hell" is gray, but "Gluttony" is lit, which means that Beelzebub's power of gluttony has taken effect!
He was so happy at the time that he almost had an old age syndrome. He was full of expectations for this child. In fact, his expectations were met. This child was able to use powers as soon as he was born. He was simply a genius among geniuses.
However, Beelzebub has a shortcoming, which is gluttony. He loves to eat, and loves to eat very much. In his memory, he is eating all the time.
You see He is fine now, but if He turns around, He may be eating. Once, He even bit His compatriots and drooled at the extremely powerful monsters of the abyss.
At the time, Hughes thought that maybe there was something wrong with the setting description. He shouldn't have been so immature and wrote about gluttony, but he ended up being a gluttonous child. And once the essential setting was entered, he couldn't change it.
Alas, tears come to my eyes just thinking about it.
Of course he likes all his own kids, but sometimes they are too individualistic and he doesn’t know how to take care of them. You know, he has never taken care of a child in real life.
Fortunately, Beelzebub was only greedy when he was just born. Later, I don’t know if he understood what he said, but he was not so greedy in front of him. Well... at least he didn’t bite his compatriots.
Since then, Hughes knew one thing: the setting cannot be written randomly.
So we need to pay more attention to it now.
He looked at the new cubs gleaming in the atlas, slowly extracting key words in his mind.
Guangming is like the incarnation of light, light itself, crystal clear all over, and can emit light by itself. When it is released at night, you don’t even need to turn on the lights at home. If you take it out at night, it will probably attract countless eyes because it is too bright and dazzling.
In mythology, which gods symbolize light?
Apollo from Greek mythology, Balder from Norse mythology, Palenque from Mayan mythology... and some others he couldn't remember.
Apollo felt that this was not a good idea, as Greek mythology was too free. What if his child took the name of a god from Greek mythology and became free when he grew up? What would he do then?
So Greek mythology is ruled out. As for Balder... he is the personification of light. It is said that he is always emitting light, which is somewhat similar to this kid.
Zeus was thinking in his heart, and for some reason, he thought of the God of Light of this world.
The God of Light is a conceptual god, but before the concept was born, they were first natural gods, without emotions, without personality or thoughts. Existence was just existence, and they only fulfilled themselves without mixing with others. After the concept was born, they came into contact with others and entered into the big Other, and then they moved from simplicity to complexity.
The original consciousness is destroyed, and the consciousness that is born next becomes more and more complex.
Xiu Si didn't want his child to be like the original God of Light, high and mighty, cold and cruel. So, what should he do?
Zeus thought about it and quickly made a decision, writing into the settings - [Power of Light], [Incarnation of Light] and... [Love Everything and Be Loved by Everything].
The following words come from Balder, the god of light in Norse mythology. He thought it was very suitable for his child, so he wrote it.
These words are both his expectation and his blessing to his own children.
He hoped that this child would be able to love everything and be loved by everything, just as He is, like the sun, shining brightly and blessing everything.
Hughes thought silently, "If he's called Balder, it's only one letter different from Bal, so it's too similar. How about calling him Parde?"
The little guy in the illustrated book moved slightly, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed to like the name very much.
"Okay, let's call him Parde."
Hughes smiled.
Then, he was pleasantly surprised to see that all the essential settings he wrote took effect, and at the same time, the system panel suddenly added 50 achievement points.
Yesterday, the fall of the Kingdom of Light inexplicably added only 30 achievement points to him, but after he took a name, he suddenly added 50 points!
What on earth is this?
Xius was stunned. This had never happened before.
Is it that there is something wrong with the system, or... is there some logic behind it?
Xius couldn't figure it out, but the system sound rang again.
[Congratulations on receiving the "Blessing of Light". You will never walk in darkness, and light will accompany you forever.]
Hughes was even more confused.
This is not his problem. If it were anyone else in the world, no one would have thought that this newborn child was the reawakened consciousness of the God of Light and could use his power right after birth.
With the known information, the most Zeus could think of was that his cub was gifted and knew how to buff his dad right after he was born.
"You sleep well."
Hughes was very pleased and his smile deepened.
Seeing their father's changing expression, the two cats on the table had sparkling green eyes, and they already regarded the bird cub as a powerful enemy!
As expected, the youngest ones are the most dangerous.
Moragos and Inpos looked at each other and spoke secretly.
In Persia: The God of Light is so abominable. He couldn’t defeat us but he robbed our father.
Moragos: By the way, how was the fight between Eliog and Beelzebub? Beelzebub rarely fights seriously and his strength is unfathomable. I wonder if Eliog has been defeated.
It was not until this time that they thought about whether to help Eliog.
Even though Beelzebub was the last to awaken consciousness, his power [Gluttony] is undoubtedly one of the most troublesome powers in heaven and on earth. Even the gods dare not provoke him easily. If a fight really breaks out, it will be difficult for Eliog, who controls the power [War], to deal with him.
So, do you want to go and check out the situation?
Inposs glanced into the dormitory, unsure whether Vashak was simply sleeping or looking for Agares.
Compared to Inpos, Moragos's thoughts are simpler, but sometimes he has sudden ideas, like now.
Moragos put his paw on his chin, raised his cat eyes, and said thoughtfully; "By the way, Inbos, let me ask you a question."
Inbos turned his head and said, "Speak."
Moragos stared at Him and said seriously, "Agares is very wise, right?"
Inpos: "Yes, then, what do you want to ask?"
Moragos: "Do you remember what He said that day, when we left the abyss and scattered?"
In Persia remembered it, and of course he remembered what happened that day. It was probably the last time that his compatriots were so united.
"Of course I remember," Inpos nodded, "He told us to love each other and not to cause trouble, but we didn't listen."
Inbosi was inexplicably proud when he said this, but suddenly his expression changed.
Because if you think about it carefully, Agares's advice is absolutely right.
If they had listened to Agares at the beginning, would they have to hide it from their father today?
Agares really was the real deal. Why didn't he emphasize it a few more times at the beginning? Their compatriots had just come out of the abyss, so they didn't know anything about history and culture. Thousands of years later, when they looked back and mixed into the human world, they realized that any quarrel between them had become history.
To be honest, if Eliorg hadn't said it, they wouldn't have realized how troublesome these "bad deeds" were.
But Imbos thought about it and suddenly said, "But Agares is so wise, He must know that we won't listen to His advice."
Moragas paused, his fur almost exploding, "He didn't explain it clearly on purpose!"
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On the other side, the scene of the imperial military meeting.
All the major staff members sitting around the round table stopped their discussion at the same time and turned to look at the person approaching.
Historian Ms. Helen.
Just as a historian, Helen would never be able to attend such a high-level military meeting. Everyone in the meeting was a new pillar of the empire. Compared with them, the identity of a historian was simply not enough.
But she has another identity, the most trusted teacher of the Grand Princess of the Empire.
Who is the Grand Princess? She is the second most powerful person in the Imperial Military, and the one who actually holds power. Empress Anna handed over the military power to the Grand Princess three years ago. Three months ago, the Grand Princess went to the warp, and the military power was temporarily returned to Empress Anna. Once the Grand Princess returns, she will naturally be the controller of the Imperial Military.
In this sense, "the eldest princess' most trusted teacher" is not an ordinary identity. Moreover, the eldest princess gave Helen extremely high military authority, allowing Helen to know most of the intelligence except state secrets.
Although Helen usually only uses these permissions to look at real historical events and specific historical details.
Why did Ms. Helen come here suddenly?
They thought about it in their minds.
Helen stopped, stood at the intersection of light and darkness, and said, "Sarah will be back soon."
Everyone's expression suddenly changed.
Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Cheshire, stood up immediately.
The eldest princess is about to return triumphantly? !
The eldest princess' real name is Sarah Belus, and there are only a handful of people in the entire empire who can call the eldest princess Sarah.
Cheshire asked Helen: "Have you contacted His Royal Highness?"
It is difficult to connect the subspace with the real world, not to mention that the location where the eldest princess is going on this expedition is relatively far away, making it even more difficult to establish contact.
Many exploration teams have visited that location, but almost all of them never returned. Even a level 90 human warrior died there. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was rated as an S-level risk location.
Before the eldest princess went, many people opposed it, but the eldest princess overcame all objections and finally decided to form an exploration team with a small number of elites to go on the expedition.
Everyone understood the eldest princess's determination, but she was too important to the empire, and they could not sit idly by and watch her take risks, although this was also an indispensable experience on the road to becoming an emperor.
If you want to become an emperor, you can't stay in a greenhouse all your life. You have to fight for your life to fight your way out of the real path of becoming an emperor.
But now there has been no intelligence for three months, how can they not be anxious.
In response to Cheshire's question, Helen replied: "She told me in a dream."
As we all know, Princess Sarah Belius is a student of the Abyss Lord Agares.
Agares, the Lord of the Abyss, is active in dreams and is the best at dream magic in the world. As Agares' student, Sarah is also good at dream magic.
So after saying this, everyone present understood.
The Abyss Lord Agares had many students in different eras, almost every one of them was a great man who influenced human history.
He is fundamentally different from other abyss lords. He is a symbol of wisdom and virtue, not like a demon at all. It is said that when he first appeared in front of humans, he appeared as an old man. For a long time, humans did not know his identity until one day he suddenly revealed himself, and humans realized that this greatest scholar of all time was not a human.
The shock of the people at that time was absolutely unimaginable.
However, the Lord of the Abyss Agares has disappeared for a long time. The eldest princess Sarah Belus is said to be his only student in these decades.
Cheshire continued to ask: "How is the expedition going?"
Helen frowned and said, "It's not going well."
Everyone's face turned pale and they were all nervous.
The main purpose of the eldest princess's expedition this time is "knowledge", in order to obtain the knowledge to completely bid farewell to steam and enter a new era.
Not only the Oss Empire, but all human countries are currently working hard for this. They all want to be the first country to light up the next step of the technology tree, so they have frequently marched into the subspace in recent years.
Cheshire continued to ask: "Not going well...what do you mean?"
Helen was silent for a moment, then recalled, "Sarah said that the monsters in the subspace are even more powerful, and are lurking around the world, so we should be more careful."
Everyone looked solemn. The Os Empire had recently recruited more and more monsters from the Warp, and they all knew the reasons behind it.
It’s because of the “legacy” of the previous generation of kings.
Because of the madness of the previous generation of kings, not only did the country suffer, but even the royal bloodline was forever "cursed".
If being a king is a profession, it would probably be the easiest profession to go crazy in the world, no matter if it is the king of their Oss Empire, the king of other human countries, or even the king of other races.
In order to deal with the "legacy" of the previous generation of kings, they have done a lot, and now they have to continue to deal with it, otherwise the country will not be able to live in peace.
This is something that is well known to the people. Even so, the people did not leave the Os Empire, perhaps because the living conditions in other countries were not necessarily that good.
Helen: "I'm only here to tell you this. I don't know anything else. I'm busy compiling history. If nothing else, I'll leave now."
Cheshire wanted to ask more questions, but Helen had finished speaking.
"That's right."
Helen suddenly turned around and asked curiously, "Re-establishing friendly relations with the mainland human alliance, is this true?"
Cheshire paused, "I don't know. Diplomacy is not within our jurisdiction."
"Too."
Helen looked back and thought whether they would be friends again or not, it still depended on the Empress's opinion. But the current continental human alliance...
Helen left the staff office and looked up into the distance, feeling vaguely uneasy.
The Empire found out that Kisinson was the main reason why the Os Empire was targeted by the Kingdom of Light, but further reasoning, what made Kisinson target the Os Empire instead of other countries?
I'm afraid this matter is not that easy.
Several people in the empire shared the same view.
Among them is the brave Roger.
At this moment, he was fishing by the lake at the Brave Memorial Hall, looking at the ripples on the lake, wondering what he was thinking.
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On the other side, the subspace.
After hearing what Beelzebub said, Eliog's expression became more and more unsightly.
"In other words, you suspect that it was God's doing, and your father's fall into the space crack was not an accident?"
Eliog stared at Beelzebub, as if asking him if it was real.
Beelzebub said frankly: "It's not a new line of suspicion. You must have thought of it, because you are the power of [War], and you are one of the few compatriots among us who have a game-thinking mindset."
Eliog paused. He didn't expect that Beelzebub, such a gloomy guy, would praise him.
"I did think of it. At that time, the abyss was full of uncivilized monsters. Humans and heroes shared common interests, so it was almost impossible for them to deal with the heroes. So, excluding all others, the remaining one was the only possibility."
Eliorg's tone was extremely cold, "I just never knew what god did it."
It stands to reason that the fathers at that time could not have been a threat to the gods, and they were not powerful enough to attract the attention of the gods.
In response to his question, Beelzebub continued, "There are several possibilities. One is the God of the Underworld, one is the God of the Abyss at that time, and one is the God of War."
These were all troublesome gods at the time, and their powers spread throughout the abyss. It only took a thought to deal with the beings in the abyss.
Beelzebub: "We killed and ate the God of the Abyss together. His memories are in our brains. He can eliminate them."
Eliorg: "It's unlikely that the God of the Underworld is the God of Light. Neither he nor the God of Light would care about humans."
Most gods at that time did not take humans seriously, just as humans did not take ants seriously.
To be honest, it's not likely that the God of War can do it. The old god has trouble speaking. He is hanging high in the universe, petrified and has stopped thinking.
Eliog thought about it, but couldn't come up with anything for the time being.
Seeing His expression, Beelzebub could not help but said, "I have already said it, now I can see my father."
Eliog paused and looked at Beelzebub.
Beelzebub: "Why, I've already said it, you want to go back on your word?"
Before he finished speaking, he couldn't help releasing his magic power. His already pale face became even paler and the veins on his forehead were throbbing. It was obvious that he had almost reached his limit.
If Eliog dared to play tricks on him, he might really fight this compatriot to death.
But Eliog stared at Him, turned away, and said something that stunned Him.
"That day was not your fault."
Beelzebub's pupils trembled.
How could He not hear which day "that day" referred to?
Eliorg continued, "You will not hurt father. We all know that you tried your best that day, but the hidden trouble is beyond your ability. Even Baal couldn't deal with it, let alone you who was born not long ago."
"There is no need to be afraid now, because we have all become stronger, and nothing can take our father away from us again."
"Who dares? Die."
This was probably the first time that Eliog had "comforted" his compatriots. It was a little awkward to say it, and I didn't know what change in his mood had caused him to behave so abnormally.
Beelzebub stared at Him in silence without saying anything more. “Let’s not talk about this anymore. Take me to see my father.”
Eliorg glanced at Him and said, "Before this..."
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At this time, it is five o'clock in the afternoon.
Zeus continued to practice magic and left the antique shop to the two cats to guard, asking them to find him if anyone came.
Hughes was thinking about the relationship between "imagination" and "worldview" as mentioned by Ms. Xili.
According to Ms. Xili - magic requires a strong imagination, and imagination requires a strong worldview.
What level of worldview is his own? Xius had never thought about this question before. When he really thought about it, he felt that this question seemed simple, but it was actually not simple.
Thinking about it again, he also discovered that it seemed that each civilization created by God had its own independent and self-consistent worldview. For example, in the worldview of the Kingdom of Light, the basis of everything was light, and light was the basic element that made up the world.
As for the human worldview, the worldviews of different human civilizations are also different.
When it comes to an individual's worldview, it may be different from that of other people in the same civilization.
Hughes was thinking separately in his mind. It is said that learning to "distinguish" is the first step to learning to think efficiently. The simplest method can lead to the fastest way.
He thought so unconsciously, and he was on the right track. The magic power and life were almost synchronized, causing a magical resonance that made the two cats outside worried and surprised.
After a few minutes, the resonance state subsided. Xiu Si was exhausted, but his mind was clear for the first time.
He walked out of the dormitory in a particularly good mood and was about to announce the good news to his children, but suddenly stopped and looked at the door.
The door was opened.
First a black cat walked in, and then a silver tabby bicolor cat walked in.
Houston was stunned and thought - what beautiful hair.
He is...? !
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