who?
Who is this?
The voice sounded gentle and soft, yet it possessed a strange, bewitching quality.
It's here!
He was being watched.
It was as if a pair of squinting eyes were peering merrily into the back of my heart from the darkness of a forest.
In the shadows, a figure moved with light steps, approaching step by step.
What's going on here?
It was hidden so well, how could it have been exposed!
?
How could this be... Ah!?
"It's a prayer..."
The gods suddenly realized their mistake, but it was too late for regrets.
Their location has been exposed.
Prayer is a two-way street.
When mortals pray to the gods, the gods receive the power of their faith and in return, they bestow a small gift upon the mortals.
Man and God stand at opposite ends of a chain!
"If the gods are determined to hide, it would indeed be very difficult for me to find them, given that I don't have the divine authority in the areas of [hunting], [hunting], and [tracking]."
"But why should I go through all the trouble of searching for it myself?"
The mastermind behind this stage play, the primary author of the "Divine Search Manual," and the former leader of the Prophet's Guild, Ning Feng, who is definitely not a scumbag, said this:
“They definitely won’t stay put; they’ll expose themselves because greed knows no bounds.”
"Like dogs chasing cars, they simply cannot control their greed."
"They're like this now, I don't even need to bait them, they just bite the hook and actively reveal their location."
With a sneer, Ning Feng cast out another bait.
"How pitiful."
...
...
Among the stars, several burst forth with a brilliance far surpassing their previous radiance, almost vying with the sun and moon for supremacy.
But this arrogant behavior was not their intention, but rather an instinctive reaction forced upon them after hearing those words.
Someone actively motivated them to take their place.
For these gods who were still recovering, exposing their location to everyone was tantamount to courting death.
Unaware of what the hidden beings had done, these gods, realizing they had been exposed, were still searching for a way out.
Having learned from past mistakes, more deities realized that something was amiss and chose to observe and wait to see how things would unfold.
But we waited and waited... and nothing happened.
The volunteers and community outreach teams did not come knocking on the door; everything remained as usual.
This reaction gave them a sense of foreboding.
...Were we tricked?
And this premonition eventually came true.
The other party didn't come to their door; it seemed they just scared them a little, then hid in a corner and happily watched their nervous expressions.
"How dare you try to fool me like this!?"
"Don't let me find you!"
!
Gods have dignity, and they simply cannot tolerate being mocked like this.
They were like children who had been stripped naked and thrown onto the stage, becoming the laughingstock of the other, still-hidden deities.
Damn it!
Enraged, they tried to find the guy who had been searching for them, determined to make him understand the price of fooling the gods.
But just as they were burning with anger and preparing to take action themselves... the anticipated change finally occurred.
...
...
That was the night of the forty-ninth day after the gods descended to earth.
The bright moon in the sky shimmered with a soft light, illuminating the vast plains.
On this peaceful and serene night, a star suddenly dimmed, followed by a bright flash in the sky.
Outside the sanctuary, all creatures capable of observing the flow of magic witnessed an astonishing scene.
A huge meteor fell from the sky, burning with raging flames, drawing a magnificent arc in the air.
The meteor drew closer and closer to the ground, and the intense heat grew stronger, as if it were about to destroy the world.
Watchers, unaware of the situation, anxiously report back, and then prepare to do everything in their power to prevent the destruction before receiving a reply, even at the cost of their own lives.
Such a fearless choice was a very common one for them, because this war was never just a war of a few.
This is a war between the entire human race and the gods.
However, their determination was destined to be in vain.
But it wasn't because of their inability.
Rather, it's because this meteor doesn't exist in reality and won't affect the world.
This is just a special symbol.
For this world, such a scene means only one thing—a god has fallen.
The meteor didn't fall to the ground; instead, it crashed into an ancient, illusory temple, the deafening roar shaking the entire world.
The temple's ruins were scattered everywhere, and when the dust settled, everyone saw an astonishing scene—the statue that should have been in the center of the temple had become a pile of fragments.
The deity represented by the statue has already fallen.
"————"
At that moment, the whole world fell silent, speechless.
This is the first deity to truly fall before humankind since the dawn of time.
No one knows her name, no one knows her exact identity, but without a doubt, she was a deity who once sat in the heavens above all living beings.
And now, it has fallen just like that.
Without the slightest warning, no one noticed a single clue.
The gods shuddered.
They had realized before that the world was no longer as friendly as it used to be, but it wasn't until this moment that they truly felt it.
There was no sign of a battle, no one heard her final roar before she died, and no one even knew what had happened.
And so, so easily and so casually, he fell from grace.
An even greater question arose in the minds of the gods:
Is this just an isolated case?
Was there really only one deity who perished? Were there no other victims?
Good news, they were right.
The bad news is that there is more than one victim.
This is really just the beginning!
It seemed as if the laws of nature had been affected, and the strange phenomena that had been forcibly suppressed by some force could no longer be contained, erupting like a flood.
One after another, brilliant shooting stars fell from the sky!
That night, stars fell like rain.
The dazzling light turned the entire night into day, and a rain of light, formed from divinity, fell, sprinkling the whole earth.
Brilliant and beautiful, yet deadly.
The entity hidden in the shadows seemed to have finally been unable to restrain itself and revealed its fangs, giving the whole world a dazzling display of fireworks.
...Fireworks that cost the lives of gods.
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