aircannonsinc Chapter 474 The Chronicles of the Gods, The Great War of the Gods
Chapter 474 The Chronicles of the Gods, The Great War of the Gods
In the heavens and the depths of paradise, five-colored divine light flows and billions of rays of light fall.
The Goddess of Magic and the God of War took in everything that had just happened, and their expressions changed.
And it's not just them.
Although the two main gods who had not personally visited this place did not lower their gazes, the divine power phenomena they left behind were also slightly trembling, clearly indicating that they had also noticed this scene.
The experiment was a success; Uska, the son of the God of War, successfully refined the fragments of authority left behind by Sangia.
Indeed, in the heavens and the realm, a scene of temples rising and authority being restored appeared.
But the final result was completely beyond everyone's expectations.
The realm of bliss fell silent for a time.
The goddess of the magic network frowned slightly, her exquisite face hidden behind layers of magical radiance, her beautiful eyes filled with turbulent thoughts.
But Tempas, the god of war, suddenly let out a cold laugh.
The laughter was low and cold, like thunder rolling across the sky.
The next moment, he suddenly raised his hand.
boom!
The boundless power of war converges.
A gigantic battle axe appeared out of thin air in his hand.
The axe blade was covered with divine runes, and the laws of war surged like a blood-red torrent. Just by being displayed, they caused the surrounding space to tremble and distort continuously.
Then, the God of War waved his hand.
The battle axe instantly transformed into a blood-red rainbow that pierced through the heavens and earth, shooting outwards from the Blissful Realm.
The realm of ultimate bliss is boundless.
If mortal beings mistakenly enter this place, they will be lost in an endless illusion in an instant, never to leave.
However, the main god's weapon is completely different.
The battle axe crashed into the depths of the Blissful Realm, tearing through layers of five-colored divine light, then pierced through heaven and earth, bursting out of the kingdom's heavens.
The next moment, the Axe of the God of War descended upon a vast and boundless chaotic ocean.
Rumble!
Thunder roared and the wind howled.
Thick, dark clouds covered the sky, and the boundless chaotic sea churned and roared, stirring up towering waves.
This is the kingdom of the god of war.
Chaotic Sea!
In the deepest part of the Chaos Sea stands an island of unimaginable size.
War temples stood atop the mountain, countless battle flags fluttered in the wind, and an aura of solemnity and iron-bloodedness permeated the heavens and earth.
This is the divine kingdom of the god of war, the slumber of knights!
The moment the War God's Axe descended upon the Chaos Sea, a figure suddenly soared into the sky from the depths of the Knight's Slumber.
boom!
The figure, riding a divine steed, tore through the torrential rain and plunged into the sea of lightning.
Countless bolts of lightning exploded around him, causing the gale and giant waves to retreat.
Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a figure completely encased in blood-red armor.
Her entire body was covered in blood-red divine armor, outlining her tall and graceful figure. Only her long, smooth black hair fell to her waist, dancing wildly in the wind.
The exquisite curves of her armor and her long, jet-black hair alone were enough to tell that she was a woman.
At this moment, she was riding a ferocious and majestic blood-red divine steed, galloping across the chaotic sea.
The divine steed rode the waves, and wherever it passed, crimson divine fire burned fiercely.
And the aura emanating from her was in no way inferior to that of an ordinary high-ranking god.
He is none other than the Red Knight, one of the most outstanding offspring of the God of War!
The next moment, she raised her head, and her long, slender fingers, covered in scarlet armor, slowly extended.
hum!
The heavens and earth trembled, and the giant axe of the God of War, which had traversed countless territories, seemed to be summoned, suddenly shrinking before settling steadily into her palm.
"Ok?"
The moment the Red Knight caught the War God's Axe, he already knew the whole story.
Beneath the blood-red mask, she couldn't help but raise an eyebrow slightly.
How long has it been since Usgar left the Chaos Sea? How could he have already perished?
Thinking of this, the Red Knight couldn't help but let out a soft laugh, a clear and melodious laugh, yet tinged with mockery.
"He really is a piece of trash."
For most of the gods in the heavens, the schemes personally devised by the chief gods are something they always try to avoid.
Everyone knows that a game at the level of the supreme god is far too dangerous.
If you are not careful, you will become a pawn on the chessboard.
However, Usgar, confident in his strength and relying on being one of the most favored offspring of the God of War, took the initiative to get involved.
It's not surprising that he's gotten himself involved now.
Of course, Uska's fall did not mean he was truly dead.
His original body has long since collapsed, but in the distant territories beyond the heavens of the kingdom, there are still other human beings living in the world.
Even if all those human hosts die, it doesn't mean that Usgar will completely disappear.
Because he had a great father, Tempas, the god of war.
As long as the God of War is willing to pay a sufficient price and consume the vast amount of faith power accumulated within his divine realm, he can still pull Usgar back from the brink of death.
For mortals, death is the end, but for gods, death is an extremely distant matter.
Especially within the realm of the heavens, completely killing a high-ranking god protected by a supreme deity is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
but……
The Red Knight gently shook his head.
Since this fool willingly got involved in the gods' experiments, it doesn't seem like an accident that he'd die once.
After all, she already knew everything that had happened from the Axe of the God of War.
In winter, authority revives, the temple rises, and authority is restored.
But just before success, the power that originally belonged to Chang Tiya suddenly went berserk.
Ultimately, the temple collapsed, and Usgar's human form was also annihilated.
By all accounts, it seems to have triggered some kind of contingency plan left behind by the goddess of life and nature.
The God of War had his own purpose in sending the Axe of War.
the first.
Using the connection between the Axe of War and the fog of war, we forcibly pull back Usgar's still-living human form to examine the status of that authority.
second.
If even the last human host has perished.
Then, using the War God's Axe as a medium, the massive amount of faith power accumulated in the Knight's Sleep was mobilized to directly begin the resurrection ritual.
Thinking of this, the Red Knight held the God of War's Great Axe in one hand and gently patted the neck of the divine steed beneath him with the other.
Rumble!
The crimson giant horse let out a deep neigh, its four hooves shattering the lightning, carrying her as it galloped through the raging storms of the Chaos Sea.
Countless bolts of lightning ripped through the sky, illuminating the scarlet figure.
Unfortunately, the Red Knight was completely covered by divine armor.
Only her long, jet-black hair hung down from behind her helmet, flying wildly in the storm. No one could see her expression behind the visor, nor did anyone know what she was thinking at that moment.
But on the way back to Knight's Rest by the Crimson Steed.
The Red Knight's thoughts gradually drifted to another matter.
Was Uska really killed by a contingency plan left by Sangia?
Indeed.
For the supreme deity, leaving behind some arrangements within the authority it once held was far too simple.
In fact, it's not just the main god.
Many high-ranking gods, mid-ranking gods, and even some low-ranking gods who have lived long enough have done similar things.
Even after some deities have fallen, their will still remains within their authority.
If a newcomer rashly merges with the original, at best they will suffer a backlash and damage to their soul; at worst, their consciousness will be directly erased, turning them into a vessel for the original's resurrection.
Throughout the long history of the kingdom and the heavens.
There has never been a shortage of legendary stories of mortals finding divine status and rising to the top in one step.
Similarly, there are also those lucky individuals who consider themselves geniuses, only to be silently devoured by the remaining will within the fusion of divinity and authority.
but……
That was none other than the goddess of life and nature, Samantabhadra.
Would such a great being, praised by countless gods and revered by countless lives, really leave such a sinister trick in his power?
The Red Knight remained silent, and for the first time, a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes beneath his blood-red helmet.
She was not a follower of Samyaksam.
Because of her origins in the pantheon of war, there is a natural difference in ideology between her and the pantheon of life.
Even so, she still couldn't connect the great goddess in her memory with this kind of scheme that spans eternity and annihilates those who come after.
After all, the legend of that goddess of life and nature has long been engraved in the history of the entire kingdom and the heavens.
As a deity who grew up in the heavens and the realm of gods, she naturally read the ancient book that recorded the origins of the gods.
The Chronicles of the Gods.
Legend has it that it is an epic poem personally left behind by the great god Io, and it is the oldest and most authoritative history of the entire kingdom and the heavens.
That ancient book clearly records that after the god Aio created the kingdom and the heavens, the first two gods to be born were the goddess of light, Serene, and the goddess of darkness, Shar.
That was the starting point of history, and the beginning of all stories.
In their early years, Serene and Char were inseparable, born from the same origin.
They even believe that they are different aspects of the same existence.
Therefore, the gods of ancient times also called them "two-faced goddesses".
Later, under the guidance of the great god Eo, the two primordial goddesses began to create the world.
Together they shaped the celestial bodies and created the world. It was also during that era that they gave birth to the third great deity, the goddess of life and nature, Sangtiya.
Thinking of this, the Red Knight seemed to recall the ancient scroll recorded in the "Chronicles of the Gods".
In the beginning of chaos, all things were silent.
Chang Tiya stood above the kingdom's heavens, holding the sword of life. With a single swing, countless rays of life light were scattered across the heavens and earth.
Grass and trees grow, rivers flow, and boundless vitality spreads from beneath the sword's edge.
From that moment on, the world had life for the first time.
That is one of the most widely circulated myths in the entire kingdom and the heavens.
However, even with life, the world at that time was still cold and desolate.
Sang-Ti-Ya, pitying those fragile newborn lives, prayed to the two mother goddesses, hoping they could bring warmth to the world.
Only in this way can life truly flourish and thrive.
The goddess of light, Serene, readily agreed, wishing for a world filled with light and for life to pervade the heavens and earth. The goddess of darkness, Shar, however, held a completely different view. She cherished the primordial chaos and silence, desiring the universe to forever remain cold, empty, and dark.
Thus, the difference in ideas eventually turned into an irreconcilable conflict.
In response to Sangia's wish, Serene crossed the dimensional boundary and summoned the Eternal Flame.
She then personally created and ignited the sun.
That day, the first rays of sunlight illuminated the sky above the country.
And it was from that day that the two most ancient deities completely broke ties.
Enraged, Shar launched a war against her sisters.
The opposition between light and darkness thus unfolds.
Historical records refer to that war, which swept across the entire country and the heavens, as the War of Light and Darkness.
It was a war of gods that lasted for a long time, and one of the oldest and most brutal wars in the entire history of the civilization of gods.
Shar began frantically extinguishing the light and heat in the sky.
One by one, stars went out, and rays of light fell into eternal night. The entire kingdom's heavens seemed to have returned to that original, cold, lifeless, and void chaos.
Serene gradually lost ground during the long war.
Faced with a life-or-death situation, this oldest goddess of light made a decision that was almost tragic and insane.
She tore apart her own divine origin with her own hands, condensing the purest and most blazing divine power of light into an eternal light, which pierced through Shar's divine body.
As the radiance tore through Shar's body, it also forcibly ripped out a portion of the most primordial dark divine power from her body.
Light and darkness, two supreme forces, collide, merge, and transform in the chaos.
Ultimately, a new god was born in that divine war.
Mystra, the first goddess of magic.
From the day she was born, she wielded the endless magical energy flowing through the universe, which later became the foundation of the magic network revered by countless spellcasters.
As a new god born from the divinity of Selenia, she naturally leans towards the side of light.
With the arrival of the goddess of magic, the previously tilted situation was instantly reversed.
Shar was ultimately forced to retreat into the depths of shadow and void, filled with endless resentment.
That great battle of light and darkness that swept across the entire country's skies finally came to an end in a manner that resulted in near mutual destruction.
But it was this battle that truly laid the foundation for the later prosperity of the divine civilization.
The realm of heaven and earth bid farewell to chaos and death, ushering in an era of civilization and life.
Of course, while this war brought brilliant results, it also came at a heavy price.
The goddess of light, Serene, ultimately perished.
Her divine body transformed into countless rays of light, and her authority spread throughout heaven and earth.
Those divine fragments transformed into light that illuminates all worlds, becoming an eternal and indestructible part of the kingdom's heavens.
After that, it was the goddess of life and nature, Sangtiya, who truly took on all responsibilities.
This being, revered as the "Great Mother" by countless deities, accepted the legacy belonging to Serene with an almost selfless attitude.
She personally sorted out the powers scattered throughout the world, restoring order to chaos.
She travels throughout the country and the heavens, spreading life to every corner.
She witnessed the birth of countless races and sheltered the growth of countless civilizations.
More importantly, she never tried to take over those powers that had lost their masters.
Instead, she returned them to the world.
This would give the newly born gods the opportunity to ascend to the divine throne.
Even to commemorate the long-fallen Mother Goddess of Light, she spent countless years searching the entire kingdom and heavens to collect the last vestiges of divine radiance that Serene had left in the world.
Ultimately, this led to the creation of the goddess who later ruled over the moonlight, the moon goddess Selenne.
Although all the gods understood that she was no longer the goddess of light who once illuminated the heavens.
In terms of power, authority, and will, the two sides have long been completely different.
But at least, the bright moon hanging high in the night sky still carries a trace of Serene's existence.
For this reason, throughout the long years, Chang Ti Ya has always been one of the most benevolent, generous, and selfless chief gods in the eyes of the gods.
She gave life.
She gave birth to civilization.
She protects all peoples.
She was even willing to give up the benefits that rightfully belonged to her to those who came after her.
Therefore, even after her fall, countless gods still believed that she would one day return.
Even many gods who had read the "Chronicles of the Gods" couldn't help but wonder:
If only Shang Tiya hadn't been so selfless back then.
If she were to take all the powers of light left behind by Serene for herself.
So, when faced with Shar's betrayal and scheming, would she have survived?
Would that have prevented the two sacred positions of life and nature from remaining vacant until now?
Unfortunately, history never offers "what ifs".
And this is precisely the biggest question in the Red Knight's mind.
Such a great being, repeatedly praised in the Chronicles of the Gods, who almost embodies "benevolence" and "maternal love" into the myth itself...
Would she really leave behind such a vicious scheme within her power, specifically designed to kill those who came after her?
The Red Knight raised his head and looked up at the boundless thunder and dark clouds above the Chaos Sea.
The wind howled, lightning bolts darted about, and the entire world was shrouded in the might of the god of war.
Her gaze seemed to pierce through the layers of storms, looking towards the revitalized Elonia mountain range deep within Elysium.
Whether Shang Tiya truly left behind a contingency plan, what the main gods actually saw, and where this experiment will ultimately lead...
These are things that she ultimately cannot see through.
She is not the supreme deity.
Without the perspective of a supreme deity overlooking the kingdom and the heavens, they are not qualified to touch the secrets that truly determine the fate of civilization.
For her, there is only one important thing now: to find that stupid good-for-nothing.
Rumble!
With thunderous roars, the Red Knight rode his crimson steed through the heavy clouds.
Finally, she returned to a magnificent plaza deep within the Knight's Rest.
The plaza stretched out endlessly, crisscrossed with ancient divine runes, and countless war divine powers transformed into a blood-red torrent that flowed slowly across the land.
The Red Knight dismounted, her slender hand gently lifting the War God's Axe high above her head.
hum!
next moment.
A massive war god's power spread out from the War God's Axe.
As one of the main artifacts of the god of war, it is naturally connected to all fog of war.
Wherever the fog of war hangs in the air, it cannot escape its perception.
However, a moment later, the Red Knight suddenly frowned.
"Ok?"
She once again activated the War God's Axe, spreading the power of war and extending her senses.
But the result remained unchanged; she still couldn't find Uska's human form.
This is clearly not normal.
If Usgar were to perish completely, then the statue that belonged to him deep within the Knight's Sleep would have already collapsed, and the divine fire would have been extinguished.
In fact, the statue still stands there perfectly intact.
Although the divine light had dimmed considerably, it was far from being completely extinguished, which meant that Usgar was still alive.
At least some of them still exist in the world.
The Red Knight's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly came to the answer.
"Are you isolated...?"
She murmured softly.
There is no other explanation.
The civilization of gods is able to isolate different planes and block perception.
As a higher civilization on par with the civilization of gods, the wizard civilization naturally possessed similar methods.
Moreover, the two are separated by an endless universe, and even though she wields the main artifact, she is often powerless to reach it.
Thinking of this, the Red Knight's gaze gradually turned cold.
"Was it the Radiant Moon Wizard who made the move?"
She was no stranger to the Moonlit Wizard.
In the past, the civilizations of gods and wizards fought several local wars.
As one of the sharpest blades of the God of War, she naturally participated in those wars and even fought against the Moonlit Wizard herself.
That is why she understood the horrors of those wizards far better than ordinary gods.
Especially those who dare to desecrate the remains of the great Mother Goddess.
Thinking of this, the Red Knight slowly tightened his grip on the War God's Axe.
Beneath the crimson armor, a pair of eyes gradually turned cold and sharp.
"Humph!"
A cold snort rang out.
"Until the day the war of civilizations truly begins..."
“I will personally cut off the heads of those who blaspheme against the great Mother Goddess.”
His voice was icy cold, carrying a chilling killing intent.
Then, she placed the War God's Axe heavily beside her.
boom!
The massive axe blade landed, causing the entire plaza to tremble slightly.
The Red Knight stood quietly in place, awaiting the outcome.
If Usgar's human form can escape from the Moonlit Wizard.
So, by using the connection between the War God's Axe and the fog of war, she still has a chance to pull that fool back to the Knight's Sleep.
But what if we can't escape...
The Red Knight looked up and glanced at the War God's Axe beside him.
Then she would have to personally carry the main artifact to the depths of the divine kingdom.
Then, consuming a massive amount of faith power, they resurrected that incompetent and utterly useless fellow. (End of Chapter)