Chapter 1375 - 540: Knowledge and Secrets_2
With the two Holy Grail Level Divine Essences within her, the Holy Mother faced a massive beast, which was the strongest beast in this nearby gathering place.
In its body was a Scepter Level Divine Essence that had split from the Holy Mother.
Predictably, the Holy Mother found herself in a crisis.
But at that moment.
The warriors who had originally come with the Holy Mother began to rush forward with reckless abandon, creating opportunities for the Holy Mother.
Because this beast, also strong in power, rampaged madly around, being the greatest scourge in the vicinity.
Although victory was achieved in the end, the losses were equally significant.
Causing a tribe that was already small to lose as many as over 60 warriors, with more than 20 disabled.
And when the Holy Mother won the battle, these people still cheered for her, though their cheers carried sadness within them.
The Holy Mother looked at this devastated gathering place.
She had stayed here for a considerable time.
If she left and did not take responsibility.
This gathering place, lacking enough combat power and young men, would quickly vanish.
The icy goddess stayed.
Seeing this, Alka smiled.
Indeed.
Is this the beginning of everything?
However, not every Divine can encounter such a situation.
Some Divines, due to their inherent disposition of viewing humans as ants, find it extremely difficult to survive in human gatherings due to their various malicious attitudes.
Forming a kind of vicious cycle.
Yet some Divines, like the Holy Mother, underwent a change, discovering something different about humans — apart from strength, there is almost no difference.
They are likely their brothers created by the world, albeit without power, weak, and only able to grow in their frailty.
This sparked a peculiar desire for protection in these Divines, becoming among the earliest to establish Churches.
Spreading their faith, sharing their power.
Thus, the first batch of Divines returned to their divine positions.
Among them was the Holy Mother whom Alka particularly took note of, along with the Fourfold Divine.
Or now more fittingly called the God of Knowledge and Secrets.
This human, Alka regarded as a true legend.
Emerging from a large gathering place, he favored the pursuit of knowledge, using traps and various means to take down a beast, acquiring divinity.
Strengthening his power with this divinity, he developed the gathering place.
Due to the Calamity of All Gods, virtually every powerful beast had divinity within, and the world did not stipulate that these Divine Essences must be obtained by killing the beasts with original Divines.
This became the greatest chance for mortals to rise to prominence.
Then.
Some powerful mortals thus took down one strong beast after another.
And among them, the strongest.
Surprisingly joined the Holy Mother and others in ascending to divinity.
When the Holy Mother and others saw this newly born Divine, they were stunned.
His appearance instilled an intense sense of crisis among all Divines.
Because these humans indeed were no different from them; they could also become gods, equal beings once they possessed divinity.
This blow was too much for some Divines.
Thus, they were stirred into action.
Nevertheless, Alka once again accelerated time.
Generally speaking, the Divines gradually returned to their positions in the times that followed.
Though there were hundreds of Divines once, only seventy or eighty remained, having lost at least twenty to thirty siblings in this calamity.
Frankly, Alka considered this a good thing.
Among the deceased Divines, aside from a rare one or two who fell due to bad luck or misfortune, all of the rest were utter fools.
True fools that even Alka could not spare a glance, can honestly be said to be deserved deaths.
If not for the world, if not for their innate divinity, these fools should have perished long ago.
Yet Alka also noticed the transformative impact of this event on the Divines.
From what he observed in some experiences, many Divines magnified their hatred for humans, channeling it towards the world.
Of course, there were Divines like the Holy Mother who seemed to understand the world’s intentions.
Then in the time that followed, these Divines began creating their own races, emulating their mother.
They started to enrich the world, truly taking on the responsibility of being the world’s eldest child. They began to maintain the world, making it flourish.
Then.
The true arrival of the Golden Era.
Civilization, knowledge, and the emergence of power flourished.
Here is where the keys to the world were being unlocked less and less.
Fragments began to appear sporadically.
Sometimes spanning hundreds or thousands of years.
Until the present fragment.
This time the key holder.
Was the first mortal to ascend to divinity.
"Is it you who obtained the secret?"
This God of Knowledge and Secrets opened his Golden Crystal Eyes, the same as Alka’s, looking at Alka and asked.
Upon suddenly being addressed by this Divine, Alka was quite startled. His immediate reaction was to check whether he was still in the historical illusion of the Ancient World.
"No need to look, this is indeed a historical illusion."
Looking at the Fourfold Divine before him.
Alka couldn’t help but ask, "How did you manage this?"
The Fourfold Divine pointed to his eyes: "These eyes can see through all secrets, any secret occurring in this world, including... the future."