Chapter 908 · Tracing the Origin (Part 1)

The deification of Satan and Joniel was completely within Sui Xiong's expectations.

Needless to say, the former, Sui Xiong personally completed the preparations over the years, especially the final defeat of the will of the ancient god that had not yet completely dissipated, and provided him with the power to take the key step. Although the latter is usually not very prominent, it actually has a very deep foundation. Just looking at how it can manage the Great Swamp in the Ash Forest into an independent world, we know that its power is actually very strong, and its realm has even exceeded the level of demigods - that Great Swamp has already vaguely felt like the kingdom of God.

Joniel, the "Skeleton Devourer", is almost one of the strongest creatures in the main plane. The reason why it is only a legendary monster, not even a demigod, is mainly because of its poor wisdom.

In this world, of course, there are gods with truly low wisdom, but generally speaking, if you want to become a demigod, or even a true god, it is better to have a higher wisdom. Even if you are not a high IQ group, at least it is better not to be mentally retarded. Even if he is mentally retarded, he should at least be as stupid as a child. If he is really as stupid as a slime, then there is really little hope.

Yoniel suffered from low intelligence before. He was obviously strong enough, but he could never really integrate his power, so that his power was scattered and disorganized, and he turned into a giant soft monster - in fact, with its power form, it should have turned into a giant.

This time Satan wanted to purify the entire Ash Forest, so he naturally consulted with several big guys in the Ash Forest. The Snow Elephant King had no objection to this, but he did not want to be purified himself - he was cautious by nature and did not want to take any risks. So he chose to go to the depths of the Desolate Mountains and leave the range of the purification array to avoid accidents. And Jonil decided to stay where he was and try to use the power of the purification array to help him sort out his power to see if he could gain something.

Facts have proved that his choice was correct.

The main reason why this "Skull Devourer" has a chaotic power and a confused mind is that he was infected by negative energy. With the help of the purification array, he dispelled the negative energy in his body, regained the wisdom that a demigod should have, and then sorted out his own power, adjusted his form, and turned into a mud giant standing in the swamp.

Not only that, after transforming into a mud giant, Joniel quickly used up the power of faith that he had accumulated for a long time and won himself a priesthood of "Guardian of the Green Swamp".

The so-called Green Swamp is naturally the large swamp where it is located. This swamp was created by it and it is also protected by it. It is natural that it is deified as the creator and guardian of this land.

Although the level of this priesthood is a bit low, it is just barely on the edge of "weak divine power", which is comparable to those strange priesthoods such as "Red Dragon Treasure Room Builder God" injected into the dragon clan, but it is still a true god after all.

The true god is eternal and immortal. Even if he falls, he can be reborn from faith.

Especially for a god like Yonir who is mainly based on nature and supplemented by faith, unless he commits suicide and makes some big news, otherwise, even if he is destroyed along with the Green Swamp, as long as this world is still there, if it becomes a swamp again in the future, he can still be resurrected from this swamp.

Of course, if a god with a higher godhood than him takes action to destroy his ministry, or a god whose ministry conflicts with his absorbs his divinity, then he will really fall completely - most of the natural gods who have fallen since ancient times have died in this way.

Satan's choice is similar to Yonir. Although he can become a god of faith by relying on his achievements in magic or promoting the achievements of the Northwest Republic's magic school, after careful consideration, he still decides to become a god of nature.

As long as there is a chance to choose, most mages will choose to become gods of nature.

Compared with gods of faith, the disadvantage of natural gods is that their power increases slowly, while the advantage is that they are more free and not easy to fall. For mages, as long as they have endless life, the rest of the things are not a big problem.

Insufficient power? Just improve slowly.

Insufficient knowledge? Just accumulate slowly.

In contrast, it is dangerous and somewhat foolish to bind oneself to faith in order to quickly gain power.

From human to god, it is not only an improvement in power, but also a change in life form. Humans are complex and diverse creatures, while gods are much purer. Once a god has determined his priesthood, he will be affected by his priesthood - not bound, but changed in thought. For example, a god with fire as his priesthood, even if she does not hate water, and is even good at water spells, as long as he chooses this priesthood, he will be isolated from water.

At the beginning, one of the four ancient gods, the original god of fire, destroyed himself because he tried to integrate water and fire, and exploded into a big fireball.

The restrictions on natural gods in this regard are relatively fewer, while the restrictions on the gods of faith are more. Not only are they changed by their priesthood, they are also influenced and bound by the beliefs of their believers - if believers generally believe that a practice is right, then even if the god himself does not originally think so, he will be slowly influenced and infected by the beliefs over time, and eventually change his own views.

The deceased goddess of the previous generation of the sea is such a negative example. The goddess, who was originally brave and good at fighting and led all the tribes in the sea, was gradually influenced by their beliefs after unifying the beliefs of the offshore sea tribes, and eventually became an evil god who hated the land races and frequently launched sea tribe invasions.

His final fall was also directly related to this.

Throughout the ages, there are too many gods who were bound by faith and eventually fell into madness and even fell.

So even though it would be troublesome, even though it would take more time and energy to prepare, and even more dangerous, Satan still chose the path of a natural god.

For this reason, he had to go deep into the depths and reduce the number of times he met people. At the same time, with the help of the state machine, he tried to reduce his presence as much as possible, so that the Mage Association and even other people would not easily notice him, so as to avoid accumulating too much faith power on him.

He has been very hard over the years.

But in the end, it turned out that his hard work was worth it.

"The God of Purification" is not only a natural god, but also a good priesthood. Taking the responsibility of purifying those unnatural "Jedi" and protecting the reproduction of living beings, such a priesthood will obviously gain the friendship and support of most gods.

Moreover, the world is so big that there are always many places that need to be purified waiting for Him to purify one by one. Every time He purifies a place, He can get a little reward from the origin of the world and the gratitude of all living beings. In the foreseeable long future, His godhood will definitely continue to improve, and it will probably be no problem to go from weak divine power to weak divine power.

Such a priesthood is exactly what Satan wants.