Hate Me, Miss Witch!

"Not relying on the power of the gods."

"But rely on your own hands, in the process of constantly accumulating knowledge, and use arcana and magic to find the truth deep in the stars."

"It is forbidden by the gods, and it is a holy place that only belongs to the caster——"

""Tower of Extreme Darkness""

Western Continent.

In the magnificent palace, a dignified middle-aged man sat on the throne and slowly repeated the words on the letter in his hand.

"Is this the inspiration you got from the star realm?"

"That's right."

An old man nodded and said, "A strong man has issued such an announcement to the entire star realm."

"Any existence that can sense the star realm will get this information."

"Broadcasting to the entire star realm, how powerful is that?"

The middle-aged man wearing a crown frowned.

Now, nearly two thousand years have passed since the original catastrophe.

The influence of the Fallen Sun has also been weakened a lot.

And mankind, relying on its resistance to the pollution of the cataclysm, also successfully completed its rise.

From the original glorious era, those subordinate races of powerful extraordinary biological groups suddenly became the rulers of the Western Continent.

The system of beast masters also began to be gradually improved.

Those extraordinary creatures who were affected by the fallen sun and whose entire group fell into a semi-mad state for a long time, gradually began to try to cooperate with humans in order to avoid this situation.

Use the power of the soul contract and rely on human beings' clear souls that are pure and uncontaminated by divinity and authority to resist the madness that pervades the entire world.

Of course, the result of this is that human beings also rely on soul contracts, quickly become stronger, and establish countless prosperous kingdoms.

Today, among the human race, there are already many powerful men of legendary rank.

Even the best among them have reached the peak of legend and reached the insurmountable chasm and limit.

And the monarch of a prosperous human kingdom in front of him clearly knew that the strong man assisting him in front of him was one who had reached the limit of legend.

In the entire country, he is also a pillar that can be called a pillar of the country.

"I don't know..."

"But if it were me, I would never be able to do this."

The old man at the peak of the legend slowly answered.

Such an answer made the middle-aged man wearing the crown frown: "In other words, that was the work of a demigod?"

"No, I also know something about mythical creatures of pure semi-god level, and I have even had contact with them..."

"A demigod can never do this."

A hint of fear flashed in the old man's eyes.

People who have never reached this level will only hear it once they have heard it. At most, they can only say a few words of praise, and naturally they will not have too many thoughts.

However, only when you truly reach the limit of legend and begin to touch the existence of another realm can you know it clearly.

What a feat it is to broadcast one's will to the entire star realm.

Not to mention ordinary demigods, even the legendary old man had glimpsed in the past, those real gods who had the name of angels long before the cataclysm and could be described as false gods——

If you don't have the authority of the corresponding specialization, you will definitely not be able to do this kind of thing.

"In other words, that is a true god?"

The middle-aged king's brows furrowed even more.

"However, the content of the star broadcast clearly mentioned the rejection of gods."

"There are even words such as the gods forbid it."

"Could it be..."

"You don't need to rely on the divinity given by the gods, nor do you need to become a demigod who may be contaminated with madness and filth at any time—"

"Is another path beyond legend real?"

His constant attempts and experiences made him subconsciously want to deny such a possibility.

Because, since ancient times, in the entire Western Continent, there are demigods above legends. This can be said to be common sense in the extraordinary world and an eternal theorem.

But, on the other hand——

But there are indeed countless legends, regardless of race or age, who are all trying to explore such a path.

A new path other than the path to becoming a god.

After all, it is only more than two thousand years since the great catastrophe, and many mythical creatures who experienced that great disaster are still walking in the world.

The aftermath of the Fallen Sun, the filth and madness, is still affecting the residents of the entire Western Continent to this day.

Even though humans have risen, on the Western Continent, there are still rumors that a certain half-crazy mythical creature goes berserk from time to time and then destroys the entire human kingdom.

On the one hand, no one who is a strong man in the legendary rank wants to go further and become a strong man who transcends legend and can compete with those mythical creatures... instead of just praying that the misfortune of being rampaged and destroyed by mythical creatures will not befall them. body.

But on the other hand, not to mention the rarity of divinity, even demigods often start divine wars in order to devour each other's divinity and authority.

Moreover, most people don't want to absorb divinity in order to break through the legend, and then become one of those half-crazy mythical creatures.

"To be honest, I really hope that's true."

The old man of the legendary rank smiled bitterly: "My life span is running out. If I can't find a way to go further, I can only enter the star realm before I get old, just like countless predecessors have done before, to find the ownerless fragments of divinity in the vast star realm."

"But I also know that it was just the last desperate struggle of the predecessors who were unwilling to give up..."

If you want to become a demigod, you must devour divinity and authority.

But the fragments of divinity on the Western Continent have already been owned. If you want to obtain them, you can only hunt other mythical creatures. For ordinary legends, killing gods is undoubtedly a fantasy.

And there are indeed some ownerless divinity and authority in the star realm, but the star realm is vast and boundless, and searching aimlessly is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In the final analysis, it is just the last struggle of the unwilling, and there are very few who succeed.

For him, the "magic" and "arcane" described in the star realm broadcast are equivalent to manna from heaven.

However, after so many years of experience and the experience of stepping on countless corpses to ascend to the legend, the old man no longer dared to believe any promises easily.

"I'm worried that it was another scam by a false god to collect the power of faith."

He smiled bitterly.

In the past few hundred years, with the weakening of the pollution of the fallen sun, many mythical creatures have gradually regained some of their sanity and began to collect the power of human faith on the Western Continent, and anchored their image with the concept among believers.

Use a similar method to the soul covenant of human beast masters to fight against the madness and loss of control.

However, the soul covenant of beast masters is dominated by humans, or the two parties are equal.

In the process of faith, the gods occupy the absolute initiative. The prosperous human kingdom is nothing more than a pasture in the world for those false gods.

This process cannot be said to be good or bad.

In the process of spreading their own beliefs, there are certainly relatively gentle gods.

Their methods are relatively gentle, whether for the purpose of sustainable development of believers, or simply due to the constraints brought by authority and divinity.

But no matter what, the countries that believe in these gods have indeed benefited.

The believers are constrained by the doctrine, and the entire country has a direction and motivation.

And those gods will also protect their pastures from being invaded and destroyed by other half-crazy mythical creatures.

Regardless of the purpose of the departure, from the final result, these gods have indeed brought order to their believers, and brought a precious stable life in the current turbulent Western Continent where mythical creatures walk the world.

However, this is only a very small number of mythical creatures.

For most of the false gods, humans and them do not belong to the same race at all, and their status is even more different.

For them who are high above and overlooking the world, their believers are just pure consumables.

How can the so-called sustainable development and long-term benefits be reliable and immediate? Who knows if one day he will lose in the war of gods and his believers will become the spoils of another god?

Fire sacrifice, blood sacrifice -

For these false gods, there is no psychological burden in carrying out these things, just like humans will not feel guilty for slaughtering pigs, cattle and sheep in slaughterhouses and making them into delicious dishes.

That is why.

For the human kingdom that has not yet fallen into the vassal state of a certain god, it is extremely important to identify the purpose of some false gods with ill intentions.

The ruins of the desolate kingdoms sacrificed by the gods they believe in are bloody lessons.

"And-"

"Even if the contents of the interstellar broadcast, including the establishment of the Black Tower, are true and reliable..."

"That would be difficult."

"After all, a new road that does not rely on divinity and authority can surpass legends..."

"This is to deny the legitimacy of those gods from the source... It's like saying directly that they are all defective products."

A trace of unconcealable fear flashed in the eyes of the legendary old man.

He knew very well that today's human beings were nothing in the eyes of those lofty mythical creatures.

They were just some lambs in the pasture. At most, there were some powerful individuals in the flock, but they were never really regarded as threats by them.

From the beginning to the end, the opponents in the eyes of those mythical creatures were only each other.

To usurp each other's divinity and authority, and even one day, when the accumulation of authority leads to qualitative change from quantitative change, they will finally ascend to the throne of the new era again like the creator of the glorious era...

This is the real purpose of these mythical creatures.

It is for this reason that the human race was able to thrive in the endless battles and internal frictions among the mythical creatures.

However, the announcement from the depths of the astral world.

It was a declaration of war against all gods -

or, in other words, against all mythical creatures.

"When the Black Tower is truly built as stated in the astral broadcast."

"At that time, I'm afraid there will be a..."

"A real war of gods."

The old man's words were somewhat emotional.

"That would be an unprecedented war since the beginning of the Glorious Era."

"However, if the Black Tower had not been defeated after that war..."

"Then -"

"Perhaps humans would not have to survive in the cracks of mythical creatures like today, or rely on becoming a vassal of a certain god to protect themselves."

"Instead, truly become the master of the Western Continent."

...

Abyss, the bottom of the abyss.

"Yeah."

"In short, my previous journey across the entire abyss was like this, very monotonous, very calm."

"However, this trip is extremely meaningful."

"When I stepped onto the border of the abyss, it was a small step for me, but a big step for our elves."

"I believe that it won't be long before we can truly see the blue sea and blue sky in the book, and see flowers hanging on the branches again."

In the residential area of ​​the Gray Elves in the City of Snow and Wind.

Liliana smiled and spoke to the Gray Elves children in front of her.

Originally, as a Grey Elf elder, she should stay in the Elders' House at this moment, which is more in line with her status.

However, Liliana still likes to tell stories to the young children in front of her on the Grey Elf Square.

As for the reason why she did this, it was actually very simple-

Many years ago, when Liliana was just a child, Sister Hathaway often sat beside her and told her about the magnificent scenery of the Western Continent recorded in the library.

"Okay, it's getting late..."

"You should go home and rest, otherwise your parents will worry that I will kidnap you."

The Grey Elf children said goodbye to her politely and left.

While Liliana waved, she was still thinking about what she saw and heard in the hall shrouded in the night not long ago.

Although it was not long, she could not forget that experience.

Tsk, even though Sister Hathaway was there... she still captured the leader's heart.

Could it be that the human race has some special charm that can make the opposite sex who are close to it fall unconsciously?

Facts have proved that gossip is not only the nature of humans, but also the nature of the elves.

Even the legendary gray elves are no exception.

Liliana was still thinking.

But the next moment, her gossiping soul was interrupted by the exclamations of the gray elf children.

She followed the children's line of sight and looked at the endless snowfield covered with ice and snow outside the city wall.

The next moment, Liliana's gray-black beautiful eyes also slowly froze.

I only saw the end of the distant ice field outside the city wall, and the snow-capped mountains covered with ice for thousands of years.

Boom——

That was the sound of ice and snow melting.

Liliana had been watching for five hundred years, as if the eternal glacier had suddenly melted.

It turned into a trickling stream, gurgling down the snow-capped mountains.

In the palace shrouded in the night.

Augustina raised her eyes slightly and looked towards the direction of the iceberg.

The next moment, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth.

“So——”

“Is it warm like spring already?”