Old days in the box

Chapter 425: The proxy war is played to perfection!

The holy fire ignited by golden blood floated on the surface of the boiling spring water, emitting a sharp wail that reached the sky, and brought great changes to every world in the universe along the roots of the World Tree.

In the land of giants, right above the temple of the Fountain of Wisdom, the God King "Odin" opens the stage for the new era of the gods.

Sam was suspended above the temple like a suffering God, with his arms stretched out to form the shape of a cross, but the difference was that the expression on his face was not one of pain from being tortured, but rather one of unparalleled ecstasy and enjoyment.

He succeeded, no doubt about it.

After thousands of years of lurking, waiting and deployment, Sam finally achieved his great victory, just as the "Oracle" authority predicted the future without error.

The era of believing in God has arrived, and He will be the true ruler of this era. No one can question this.

With the envelopment of the new heavenly principles, countless forces of faith have risen from the bottom of the Fountain of Wisdom along the veins of the World Tree, gathering around Him, weaving a whole new dimension for His flesh and blood, becoming an indescribable existence integrated into concepts.

Everything is so strikingly similar. In the real Earth where Zhou Xiao lives, Norse mythology declined due to the cultural invasion of Western beliefs on the Nordic countries. And now in the nine realms of the universe, this familiar scene is being staged again. Everything is like a reincarnation.

The era of physical God will eventually be replaced by the era of conceptual God. This is an irreversible trend.

Even if Sam was not brought by the box, "Ragnarok" would still descend upon the nine realms of the universe, and fate would only complete the change of eras in a more brutal and cruel way.

This is how history is. Every scene seems free, but in fact, the script has already been framed by fate and is beyond human control.

"Do you know what you are doing? You are liberating hundreds of billions of lives in the nine realms of the universe! Are you crazy?"

Gaul, who was bound, watched Sam's whole body transform and glow with new life, while his own luster was rapidly dimming. He suddenly shouted at Him in horror.

"The gods hold power and rule over mortals. This is the truth ordained by heaven! It has always been this way! What rights do you have to overthrow it?" For the first time, the emotion called fear appeared in the eyes of the once invincible giant king.

"There is no such thing as a divinely ordained truth. To be frank, the gods are just the winners of the last war of gods. Why do they need to paint themselves as so noble?"

However, Sam, who was hovering in the air, simply glanced at him indifferently, his eyes even full of disdain and contempt.

"The various powers you enjoy today are merely the result of Odin's victory in the battle of creation. He trampled the giants under his feet, won the supreme position for the gods, and consolidated his and the gods' rule with the law of equal exchange. All this is not a blessing from heaven, but a winner takes all."

Thousands of beliefs from different realms condensed into the ultimate power of faith, materialized as countless white silk threads rising from the bottom of the spring, wrapping around Sam's body, and turning into the greatest transformation of a god in history.

"But since success is the failure, and everything rises and falls, why do you pretend that everything is destiny and that your rule should be immortal?"

He broke out of the cocoon again from the body woven of white silk, with a heartbeat like a war drum. In a trance, it seemed as if he was not on this stage at all, but turned into a huge hazy illusion, assimilated into the starry cosmic background.

Countless prayers to "Odin" are rapidly converging from the nine realms of the universe, transforming Him into an indescribable existence that is integrated into concepts and no longer has any entity.

"That's all nonsense. You've been trying to take over this world from the very beginning!"

"Since the winner takes all is the unchanging underlying law of this world, and I have the ability to win, why not?"

Sam's laughter resounded through the heaven and earth, and in an instant returned to the temple from the starry sky background, as if it had never left, and as if it was everywhere.

"Most gods in this world don't know how to be true gods. They just squander the privileges inherited from their bloodline like barbarians, and have never thought about how to take a step further in their extraordinary divinity."

After coming into contact with this world where gods truly exist through the box, Sam quickly came to the same conclusion as Zhou Xiao - the gods in this world are extremely primitive.

Whether it is the efficiency of using extraordinary divinity or the means of ruling the world, the gods in this world are at a very primitive stage. Most gods neither care about nor value the faith of mortals. Even if there are gods who occasionally protect the world, it is just a mentality similar to chasing vanity. Almost no gods will delve into the relationship between extraordinary divinity and faith.

After noticing this, Sam and Zhou Xiao chose a completely different path.

"The secret to ruling is never closure, but freedom. Using power to enslave billions of ignorant monkeys is not wisdom, but backwardness. Only by continuously promoting the progress of the world can the gods gain greater benefits and power from it."

As a former Earthling who is familiar with Das Kapital, Sam knows that the essence of capital is profit-seeking.

A group of ignorant mortals who are as foolish as livestock are of no value to Him. Only by breaking the authority and returning the power that should belong to the world to the world, can He rewrite the laws of nature, rekindle the power of faith among countless lives, and enable His own divinity to reach the peak of immortality.

It was a dangerous gamble, but He succeeded in the end.

"Of course, during this process, you still need to keep some key powers in your own hands to ensure that mortals cannot truly confront you..."

Sam turned his palm to admire the glittering gems of power on the Infinity Gauntlet.

"War", "knowledge", "oracle", and "royal power" are the only crucial divine powers that He does not intend to return to the human world so soon. Before the new heavenly principles completely cover the old heavenly principles, He will still need the powerful powers of these authorities.

"I've had enough of your speeches! Since the winners are the kings and the losers are the bandits, give me a quick death!"

Sam opened his strange eyes, and the brilliance of the "Oracle"'s authority was shining out from his right eye socket. The golden armor that was originally draped on His body had now turned into an indescribable strange light, as if the God King Odin walked out of another painting style.

“Kill you? No no no my friend, I so need you to be alive.” He smiled as he looked at the God of Frost and Night who had lost his power and was unable to move.

"The power of faith is about believers and the laws of nature that they believe in. The more lives that are willing to believe in it devoutly, the greater the power of faith that can be gathered."

"Now the nine realms of the universe are facing an unprecedented crisis of giant invasion, and each realm is facing the huge threat of divine war. The more people fall into despair, the more people will naturally start to look up to the stars and pray—"

A huge thunder exploded in the clouds surrounding the temple, illuminating all the audience on the stage. Gaul's heart trembled, and he suddenly understood what this damn North American was really planning.

"You don't really think that I'm looking for an alliance with you because I can't enter Jotunheim?"

As the new law of the power of faith was revealed, Sam's plan finally came to light.

His cooperation with Gaul was never to get closer to the Fountain of Wisdom, but rather to the invasion of giants that was targeting the entire universe - He needed an agent of war to play the role of the villain against the entire universe.

"Only in true despair can people burst out with devout faith. The Divine Realm is the kingdom of the gods known to everyone in the Nine Realms, and Odin is the most famous God King in the Divine Realm. As long as the Universal God War continues, my name, God King Odin, will continue to be prayed for salvation by thousands of suffering people. Their faith is the cornerstone for me to step onto the eternal throne of God!"

Gaul, Loki and Tyne were all stunned by his crazy idea and were too surprised to say a word.

In order to gain the greatest possible share of the universe's faith, he even planned a massive war of gods covering all nine realms, causing all realms to fall into a disaster of unknown truth.

And all of this was just to make people pray spontaneously to him, the "God King Odin".

"Don't worry, I will never let you die easily, and Jotunheim will never be conquered by the gods. The war between you and me will last for ten thousand years, and I will never win, nor lose."

“Until one day my faith spreads throughout the Nine Realms and everyone is united in faith, I will punish Jotunheim in the name of God’s justice and truly defeat you, the ugly enemy of the universe, and become a hero who will live forever in the history of the Nine Realms, the Supreme God!”

(End of this chapter)