Old days in the box

Chapter 418 What Exactly Is God’s Authority?
"A perfect creation. Even Odin and his realm cannot reproduce such a great miracle." Sam couldn't help but sigh with pride as he looked at the magnificent tower temple in front of him.

This incomparably huge copper-pillar tower is seamlessly integrated, as if it was directly shaped from a huge piece of metal. It is hard to imagine its casting technology. There are a large number of snake-shaped runes painted on the tower, which describe every war that has taken place in the universe since ancient times.

This is not only a tall tower, but also a monument that records the history of the world.

Sam climbed to the top of the tower with the evil bat, accompanied by Tain as a witness and Loki, the god of trickery. In addition, wind and snow surrounded the tower, and Gaul, the god of frost and night, also stood here.

There are only a handful of participants in the process of rewriting the history of the entire universe.

As the branded Sam climbed up the tower, the entire temple began to emit light one by one, as if a sleeping angel was gradually awakening, and it brought the vibration to the entire copper pillar until all the marks engraved on it began to glow.

The Fountain of Wisdom is only open to those who have successfully sacrificed. Now, as He approaches, this spring that soaks the roots of the World Tree finally makes a long-lost echo, and the infinite divinity within it boils up.

The temple at the top of the tower began to expand in an irregular fan shape. With Sam's divine power as the source, it weaved out golden transparent stairs and palaces, as if gorgeous golden flowers were growing on top of this copper pillar.

Tyne looked at the inexplicable changes before his eyes and knew something was happening.

The vibrations under the feet, the reaction of the spring water, and the changes engraved on the bronze pillars all indicate that something is slowly unfolding here, revealing its original appearance.

The huge copper pillar unfolded itself like a complex Rubik's Cube, expanding its ever-changing mechanical structure on the Fountain of Wisdom, becoming increasingly deformed.

As the mechanism was triggered, a hollow pipe opened in the middle of the entire copper pillar, leading from the temple on the top all the way to the Fountain of Wisdom below. It was like a super straw tens of thousands of meters long and thousands of meters wide, inserted from the temple high in the sky to the bottom of the Fountain of Wisdom, revealing a hole emitting infinite golden light.

Sam walked into the room, clenched the Infinity Gauntlet in his hand, and laughed uncontrollably.

He had been waiting in secret for thousands of years for this moment.

Although the authority of the Oracle had already revealed to him the success of this change, and although he always knew that he would win in the end, when this moment really came, he stood at the end of this world, overlooking the entrance to the World Tree, and that kind of fanatical pleasure was irreplaceable.

This is His moment, a new era.

"Get in position, our victory is at hand." He spoke, and the pipes opened in the temple began to slowly turn.

The evil bat stepped forward and took out various artifacts familiar to the gods from the black flames.

Grame, the sword of wrath, is a royal weapon placed in the mortal world by the gods.

Tyrfing, the legendary magic sword, is a lethal weapon that must draw blood once it is unsheathed, otherwise it will bring ruin and extinction to the host.

The Sword of Mistletoe, the sword that kills the weak of light, is a cursed object used by Hodr, the god of darkness, to kill Baldr, the god of light.

All of these materialized artifacts containing different powers were now restored to their original gem forms under Sam's Infinity Gauntlet and were absorbed into the gauntlet one by one and finalized.

Gaul also transformed into blizzard form and walked into the temple, wanting to know what Sam was going to do next.

During this relatively long period of cooperation, Sam shared many secrets with him, even sharing with him the secret of black flame researched by the Evil Spirit Bat, helping him to successfully invade several other realms.

But Sam never revealed the specific details of the so-called change to Gaul.

What Gaul knew was essentially the same as Tyne's, just those vague empty words like "great victory" and "a new era". In fact, he had no idea what Sam was going to do.

But this is not a problem for Gaul.

He himself was also an ambitious outsider who had been eyeing this world where gods really existed. He knew very well that for people like him, victory meant nothing more than conquest and possession.

Sam benefited greatly from that universal war between gods, and he replaced Odin and lurked secretly for so many years. What other great victory could he be plotting, other than ruling the nine realms and dominating the world?
He stood at one side of the temple, watching Sam bring the chained Tain and Loki to the stage, quietly waiting for his share of the victory to fall.

Sam gently raised his hand, gathered the silk thread that bound Tain in his hand, brought him to the front of the golden passage, and stood with him at the entrance to the end of the world.

"Now, it's time for the warm-up games before the show begins. How about we have a brief chat? The old messenger of God." Sam loosened one of the invisible threads in his hand, freeing his voice and allowing him to speak again.

"Who are you? What do the people you sent want to do to the courtyard?" Tyne yelled at Sam immediately, causing the invisible chains on his body to rattle.

The current situation was a complete mess for him. Too much information flooded in front of him at once, making it impossible for him to digest and understand it slowly.

The only thing he could be sure of was that the man in front of him was not the real God-King Odin, and that he and his army were already heading towards the atrium, intending to seize the authority of the gods that existed there.

"Shh, there's not much time left before the prologue, so this is not your turn to ask questions, but mine." But Sam had no intention of answering him. Instead, he made a gesture to shut up and looked down at the huge pipe leading to the fountain of wisdom.

The rotating channel was warming up for something, and an unprecedentedly huge divinity was gradually flowing upwards, as if it was a huge ritual with heaven and earth as the basis.

"Since you are going to witness my achievement as a spectator, you cannot be like others who know nothing about this world. Only by understanding the truth can you understand how great the victory I am about to achieve is."

Golden threads spread out along His arms, weaving into completely new laws that tightly wrapped around him, binding his body and soul.

That is the power that comes from the authority of "knowledge", which uses the omnipotent spirit of words as a bondage, commanding the bound creatures to speak out everything they know and not be able to lie.

"Let me ask you, since you already know that I am pursuing all the authority of God in the universe, then what do you think God's authority is?"

The golden thread of "knowledge" tightly restrained Tyin. Although he did not want to answer such a strange question at all, the power of authority forced him to speak.

"The authority of God is the foundation of the world. It is a power bestowed by God. It is not a tool for false gods like you to use to rule the world!"

Sam was not annoyed by Tyne's bad attitude. On the contrary, he nodded with a wild laugh and continued to question this old messenger of God who had no choice.

"Okay, then let me ask you, when you first broke the integrity of the power of death and caused a crack in that power, what happened in this world?"

"…The magic of the dead has returned to the human world, reopening a gap to the world."

“That’s right. Let me ask you again, when the authority of the Gate fell along with the Key to the Starry Sky, what happened in this world?” Sam asked a second similar question with full of confidence.

"With the full recovery of time and space magic, anyone who possesses enough power can open the road to the void, even an ambitious person like you!" Tyin gritted his teeth and answered fiercely.

"Very good, then the third question - suppose I destroy the knowledge authority in my hand at this moment, based on the experience of the first two questions, what do you think will happen in this world?"

The sound of the blizzard exploded in the sky. Tyne's ferocious expression suddenly froze, and his mouth, which was about to open, froze in mid-air.

He suddenly realized the hidden meaning behind these questions and the fact that Sam had been guiding him in his thinking.

If a crack appears in the power of death, the consequence will be that a gap in necromancy will be reopened in the world. If the power of the door disappears completely, the impact will be that the space restrictions facing the void will be freed for the entire universe.

Then, wouldn’t the destruction of the authority of “knowledge” bring about a comprehensive revival of wisdom and the spirit of words in the world?

Is this really a bad thing?
"People in the world will regain true wisdom, and will be able to draw lessons from the laws of mysteries and words, and gain greater benefits from magic... This may directly promote the progress of an entire era."

Tyne answered slowly, word by word. As his speech slowed down, he began to understand the truth behind this terrifying pattern.

Whenever a god's authority is broken or falls, the concepts it controls will not wither and die. On the contrary, these concepts will be liberated into this world again and integrated into all living things to become a force that everyone can master.

So what exactly is God’s authority? The answer is probably self-evident.

“Then I will ask you again, in your eyes, what is the essence of God’s authority?”

(End of this chapter)