Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 478: A way for the beast to become stronger?

“You should know about the phenomenon of erosion, right?”

Fei Er suddenly asked.

Linger nodded slightly and replied, "In the potion system, because magic deeply penetrates the body and mind, the souls of extraordinary people are often easily infected and assimilated by extreme emotions, gradually falling into a state of madness until they lose their reason and self-destruct. This process is erosion. It is an irreversible, irreversible and unsolvable phenomenon. The higher the sequence, the more serious the manifestation. It can only be alleviated through the role-playing method proposed by Saint Tumi."

“That’s a very good answer.”

Fei Er snapped his fingers and said, "I think even if the crazy ancient gods from the East Continent came, they wouldn't be able to explain it more clearly. However, this is only a definition given by humans based on their own cognition. The real erosion phenomenon comes from the constancy and root nature of the kingship. These two properties together determine that the laws of the universe will not have the slightest personal emotions, that is, they will not favor any object. Only in this way can light and darkness be balanced with each other, life and death can be mutually complementary, and the scale of the universe can always be maintained at a constant level, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither more nor less. The process of humans pursuing the power of the kingship is essentially a process of gradually integrating their souls with the fourteen laws that maintain the existence of the universe. However, humans are lives that are easily dominated by emotions. They cannot use this power based on an absolutely fair position, so they are often rejected by the laws of the universe. The constancy and root nature of the kingship will conflict with their strong personal emotions, and gradually change the sensory cognition of the extraordinary in the confrontation. This is the correct explanation for the erosion phenomenon."

It turned out to be the case.

Linger frowned: "But, according to your theory, the young queens who control the laws of creation shouldn't have such rich emotions, right?"

Fei Er raised her eyebrows slightly and replied, "That's because the mother loves her daughters and can't bear to see them become cold machines that exist only to maintain the balance of the universe, so she gave these young royal powers the protection from the beginning of creation, allowing them to retain their own emotions. This is also the reason why Saint Tumi was able to move the young royal powers with his words. If the latter only firmly and stubbornly followed the basic laws of the universe, he would never be able to take the power of the royal power from the Holy Temple of Heaven."

Fei Er paused for a moment, and then his eyes became particularly deep: "However, this may not be a good thing. Perhaps, it is just the beginning of another disaster."

Ling Ge was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"It's very simple."

Fei Er said, "From the perspective of morality and personality, the man known as Saint Tumi is indeed honest enough. He did not take all the credit for creating the magic potion system on himself, but made the origins of the fourteen royal sacred vessels public. This led many extraordinary people to know the existence of the young royal power, and they did not choose to join the original religious prayer meeting established by Saint Tumi, but became believers of the young royal power. Among them, the ones who have the most profound understanding of the young royal power, besides Saint Tumi, are naturally the disciples who followed him at the beginning."

"Constantine, Zoroaster, Abraham, Baimon, Tutankhamun, Mingte, and Inos." Fei'er called out their names one by one. It can be seen that these people left a particularly deep impression on her, so much so that she still remembers them in her heart today and has never forgotten them.

However, whether this impression is good or bad is still unknown.

"These seven disciples participated in the joint war against the dark dragon tide. At that time, their strength had reached Sequence 1, representing the strongest combat power of the human race. They believed that they were not much inferior to the ancient gods who ruled the elven race, so they also called themselves gods. However, due to the inherent disadvantages of the magic potion system, these human gods suffered from erosion and their mental states fluctuated. The most serious of them, Abraham, the 'God of Disaster', and Inos, the 'God of Despair', even had to rely on long periods of sleep to barely maintain their sanity. This made them unable to fight against the ancient gods of the elven race, and they were defeated in the war. The human race, who had just ascended to the hegemony of the continent, seemed to have ushered in a greater crisis in the blink of an eye." To be honest, Fei'er was not a qualified narrator. Perhaps because the time was too long ago, she had gradually forgotten her feelings at the time and truly looked at the story from the perspective of a bystander. As a result, her tone seemed very flat and did not give people much of a sense of ups and downs.

But it doesn't matter, history itself is grand and magnificent enough, not to mention that it involves the survival of countless races, and the wars, chaos, fighting and turmoil that continue to arise in the struggle for the position of continental hegemony. Even if she didn't deliberately mention the details, the audience would imagine whether there are more violent undercurrents lurking under the turbulent sea: conspiracy, killing, alliance and betrayal.

They listened intently, and no one interrupted. In the chaotic and empty game field, only Fei'er's voice echoed alone, welcoming the climax of the story: "Faced with the defeat in the war and suffering from the torture and pressure of the erosion phenomenon, Abraham, the 'God of Disaster' among the seven disciples, finally couldn't stand it anymore. He decided to pursue power above Sequence 1, that is, the kingship itself. Because he knew that the young queens would never be troubled by erosion, he took it for granted that as long as he could replace the kingship, he could also obtain the power of a true god and be above the laws of the universe. Moreover, this power will help him defeat the dark dragon tide and become the true overlord of the entire continent."

"He informed the other six conspirators of this crazy plan, and an era known as the 'Cataclysm' finally arrived under their impetus. Since these seven disciples were all gods of the Chaos Path, they first targeted the extraordinary people who believed in the seven Chaos Girls."

At this point, Fei'er's mouth slowly drew a cold and sarcastic arc, as if mocking human greed and desire: "They openly declared that the one who holds the power of Chaos is not a kind girl, but an evil witch. It is their existence that leads to constant wars and disasters in the world. Even the erosion and loss of control of the extraordinary are the shackles they set up to control mortals. Only by eliminating the witch can the erosion be completely resolved."

"In this way, many people who did not know the truth were instigated by them and began to smash the statues, hunt down the believers, and denounce the witch, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Chaos believers and forcing them to wander. But they did not give up their beliefs. Instead, they used simple methods such as horse-drawn, cart-mounted, and even shoulder-carried to embark on the road of exile with the statues of the gods." Fei Er looked at Ling Ge: "You are a pastor, so you should have heard of the Wandering Church, right?"

Lingge nodded subconsciously.

"This is the earliest wandering church." Fei Er said calmly: "In comparison, the animists' condemnation of the Religious Decree is simply not worth mentioning. They only promote their own ideas by coercing public opinion and refining believers, but the suffering they actually endure is far less than one ten-thousandth of these people."

Without giving Ling Ge time to refute, she continued, "When thousands of Chaos believers were slaughtered, the seven disciples who had committed the cruel persecution secretly collected the bones or relics left behind by the dead Transcendents of the same path, and devoured these filthy things to strengthen their souls. Their teacher, Saint Tumi, had encountered setbacks in his pursuit of the root of the law, so these students decided to take another path. They mistakenly believed that quantitative change could lead to qualitative change. As long as they had more magic power from Transcendents of the same path in their bodies, one day they would break through the bottleneck like a flood and reach a new realm."

"Later, Sister Eve accidentally found a note written by the God of Disaster Abraham himself. It recorded in detail the number of extraordinary people he devoured, their sequence levels, and his own feelings. The description was extremely crazy. After reading it, she summarized this behavior in one sentence. I think that sentence is very appropriate."

Fei Er sneered: "This is the way for the beast to become stronger."

Only wild beasts would devour the corpses of their own kind, using their flesh and bones to build the steps to the end of their evolution, yet they still shamelessly claim that they are gods.

In fact, they are not gods, but just beasts.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)