Do you know about the era of divine division?
Reeve stared intently at the deep red armor.
He gently traced the intricate patterns on the armor with his fingers and asked Liya, who was standing beside him.
Lia shook her head.
She naturally didn't know much about this profound history; she had only heard about it briefly.
From a young age, Liya was mainly exposed to business-related knowledge.
She naturally had little exposure to this part of historical knowledge.
Moreover, she wasn't particularly interested in history to begin with.
Reeves nodded and began to explain to her:
"It was an era when gods ruled the world and humans became 'heroes'."
About a thousand years ago, some powerful, immortal beings appeared in this world.
They called themselves gods and brought the light of civilization to mankind.
They taught humans to read, farm, and harvest crops, and how to use fire to ward off the cold and wild animals.
They enabled humanity to overcome the fear of darkness and survive in harsh natural environments.
With the help of the gods, humankind quickly established its own civilization.
We transitioned from an era of simple clothing to an era of awakening and faith in deities.
Humanity began to center its worship on various deities.
Using their gods as totems, they began to divide the land into countless tribes.
However, this also led to the start of a war between the gods.
Perhaps the gods were jealous, feeling resentful because other gods had more followers.
Or perhaps the conflict arose from disagreements among human believers.
"Why can you live a peaceful life by farming, while we have to risk our lives to hunt every day?"
Why do you hunt and get to eat meat, while we farm and can only eat vegetarian food?
"Why is your territory so much larger, while we are crammed into this tiny piece of land?"
These conflicts among humans have intensified over time.
In that primitive era, the most direct way to resolve disputes was through force.
If we win, all disputes can be resolved.
Thus, conflict among humans began.
Perhaps because the hunters were naturally physically strong, they defeated those who engaged in agriculture.
Humans responsible for farming could only cultivate the land for hunters, and even the food they harvested had to be given priority to the hunters.
Under this system, they gradually formed the first tribal collective nation.
The gods who observe human development have also realized this.
But instead of stopping them, they tacitly allowed their followers to escalate their actions.
After all, every god desires to have more followers under their command.
Even if the gods are extremely jealous of each other, they cannot fight against each other.
It would be better to simply let the humans they serve start fighting fiercely.
In the midst of constant conflict and struggle, human casualties increased, and they finally all realized the absurdity of it all.
Some of the awakened humans finally realized that their struggles were completely meaningless.
They were nothing more than pawns played by the gods for their own amusement.
They began to yearn for rebellion, for liberation from this shackled predicament, but by then it was too late.
Because those gods have built a powerful and glorious divine kingdom through the faith provided by countless humans.
"This divine kingdom has a resounding and powerful name in history."
Reeve continued solemnly,
It is known as the 'Kingdom of Stars'.
The Kingdom of God is an extremely powerful entity, and all the humans within it devoutly serve the gods they believe in.
The territory of the Kingdom of Stars was extremely vast at the time, covering almost the entire world, every place.
As long as there are people who believe in gods there, that place is part of the Star Kingdom.
In this kingdom, there are no human rulers.
The true rulers of humankind are those majestic and powerful gods.
Among these gods, there are twelve special deities.
"They are the gods with the most worshippers among humans, and are also known as the 'Twelve Olympian Gods'."
"You wouldn't believe it, would you? Hermes, whom Victor successfully captured earlier, is one of the twelve main gods."
Commerce, war, hunting, farming, fire, forging, love, wisdom, medicine, childbirth...
It is the various needs of humankind that created these twelve most widely worshipped deities.
It can be said that they encompass almost all the beliefs and desires of humankind throughout the world.
The inexhaustible power of faith endowed them with boundless divine power, and thus they transcended the many chaotic gods.
He became the supreme being who controlled the entire Star Empire.
These gods may have foreseen that there would be humans who would rebel against their will.
So they bestowed their blessings from the stars and selected various 'heroes' from among humankind.
These 'heroes' will rule over humanity under their faith.
Therefore, the world was divided into different countries because of these heroes who worshipped different gods.
"For example, the Kingdom of Kant, not far from the Karencia Empire, whose monarch was once one of the heroes blessed by the gods in the Kingdom of Stars."
Hearing these words, Lia stood aside, one hand gently stroking her chin, lost in thought.
But then, as if suddenly realizing something, she asked Levi:
"According to you, the gods' rule seems to be very successful."
"How could humans possibly resist them?"
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