Myth: The Spiritual Dominator

With the help of 'light', Cohen's work became faster. Not only did his digging speed double, but he also had a sense of direction underground.

This brought great help to his work, allowing him to dig out a sloping corridor thousands of meters long without constantly calibrating the orientation.

Theoretically, this kind of unsupported pit can easily collapse, but this is a mythical world after all, and the former site of the sacred mountain is extraordinary. So Cohen dug all the way down without encountering any surprises along the way.

During the excavation process, Cohen also hunted animals many times in order to obtain food. Gradually, he discovered that existences like the previous giant beast were not uncommon.

There is not just one beast that suddenly gains power, there are even plants among them. Some of them are strong, some are weak, and their abilities are not exactly the same. A few are sensible and know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, while the greater number seem to have their minds destroyed and become very crazy.

When Cohen hunted them one by one, he dug out similar special substances from the animal carcasses. Undoubtedly, this magical thing is the source of all changes.

But Cohen did not continue to fuse, even though these seemed much weaker than what he had obtained before. He kept them separately in gold boxes because Cohn discovered that the substance was highly fusion-friendly but seemed unresponsive to gold.

"What a source of trouble."

Shaking his head slightly, even though he hadn't climbed out of the ground at that time, Cohen probably figured it out.

About one day after the Divine War, many streams of light fell from the sky and landed on the earth. Since then, there have been more of these things in the world.

These were told to him by a flower elf he met by chance. Her home was destroyed in a previous disaster, but she used her own power to protect her body. But according to what she said, those spring elves were not so lucky. They were both nymph fairies, but their bodies could not move.

Cohen rescued this flower elf from a crazy giant eagle. In order to kill this strange beast, he suffered a small injury.

"Fire coming from the sky. I hope the world can restore peace as soon as possible."

Sighing, Cohen stood at the bottom of the tunnel, raised the stone shovel, wrapped it with his own energy, and struck down again.

He had done this every day before, and today was no exception. But what he didn't expect was that this blow actually missed the target, causing him to almost lose his balance.

In front of him, through the chiseled gap, a huge hole appeared in front of him.

"Is this it? Is it here?"

There was some surprise. Facing the dark and lightless underground space, Cohen's eyes turned golden. Under that special power, he seemed to have changed his perspective, observing his surroundings from a bird's-eye view.

Soon, through the gap, Cohen saw the scene in the hollow beneath his feet. This is a cavity naturally formed by the subsidence of the earth, or it may be the effect of divine protection. In short, there are collapsed houses and broken trees there, but these are not what he pays attention to.

Until, at the very center, Cohen found his target.

That is the temple of Korora. It's a bit far away, and even the extraordinary abilities are hard to see clearly. But vaguely, Cohen felt that the shape of the temple was a bit strange.

It doesn't look like it's intact.

"impossible."

He whispered to himself, unconsciously exerting force with his right hand, and the stone shovel was deformed and made a crunching sound.

"It's probably just a matter of light."

Convincing himself in a low voice that he couldn't see clearly from here, Cohen hammered away the remaining earth and rocks with his hands and jumped down.

After more than ten seconds, Cohen fell to the ground. This underground cavity is hundreds of meters high, so much so that a large pothole was created.

The surrounding environment is familiar yet unfamiliar, and the scenery in the past is beyond recognition. After landing, Cohen followed the cracked road. The scattered scenes on both sides seemed to tell the visitor what had happened here, which gave him some more ominous premonitions in his heart.

The further forward, the slower it becomes. It took half a day for Cohen to finally overcome the last obstacle and arrive not far from the once tall and majestic Colola Temple.

There is no longer any obstruction here, and the whole view of the temple can be seen directly. However, when they climbed over the collapsed boulder, Cohen just stood there, staring at the scene in the distance.

"Why. Why is this happening?"

"Where's the power of God?!"

Some people lost their voices. Although a war broke out between the gods before, shaking the nearby area into the ground, Cohen never doubted the safety of this place.

Since the day the temple was built, it has been blessed by the power of the God King. The great Cronus himself declared that as long as he was in this world, nothing could harm it. The temple of Korola will live on forever.

But now, it collapsed. Although the main body is still there, anyone can see its dilapidation. All the promises made in the past seemed to be in vain, and the broken pillars seemed to be silently telling something.

"No, what about the Forest of Steles?"

Suddenly he realized something. If even the temple had collapsed, how could the place where the golden human was buried be safe and sound?

Cohen immediately ran towards the open space in front of the temple, as if he had forgotten that he could actually see there directly. Finally, when he came to the door of this majestic building, what appeared before him were only ruined walls, collapsed inscriptions, and a few cracked but empty tombs.

There is nothing, everything is like a dream.

"They're all gone. Why. But where are their bodies? Where have they gone?!"

Invisible air waves exploded around him, and Cohen clenched his fists. The golden human body does not decay for thousands of years after death, so how can it disappear inexplicably?

He frantically opened every place where the body was supposed to be buried, and one tomb after another was opened, but he was only disappointed again and again. It's like they never existed, and everything in the past is an illusion.

The Human King did not know that when the Earth Mother exerted all her strength to exert her authority, all the objects with energy in the earth around the sacred mountain had their power drained. The divine blood and life liquid contained in the golden human body are undoubtedly excellent nutrients.

Without strength, the body is just an empty shell. Just a slight vibration caused the golden human's body to turn into dust and return to its original appearance.

After all, human beings are originally made of earth and stone.

".There is also a temple, yes, God will respond to me."

Opening the last tomb, it belonged to his former friend Hewa. Looking at the empty tomb, Cohen was stunned for a long time, and then finally remembered the dilapidated building in the distance. He ran towards the temple, roughly pushed open the half-decayed door, and rushed into the inner hall used to worship the God King.

Cohen looked towards the center. There, there should have been a towering giant statue holding a scepter, a hundred meters high, which was intimidating.

But now, there is nothing there.

"."

pat-

There was silence for a long time, and he fell to the ground as if he had lost his strength. Cohen was stunned for a while. He didn't know what to do and felt that everything he did was meaningless.

Although in the past, when the golden humans were still there, he often told others that God did not care about human belief, but even if God chose to ignore them, it was natural. They should still regard God as everything, but in fact Cohen never doubted it, but he quickly gave it up.

He is more 'complete', so he is the only one who 'questions'. The reason why he said this was just because everyone thought so. If it were other golden humans, there would be no need to convince themselves that they "just don't understand God well enough" because they have no doubts at all.

But now, Cohen feels he was wrong.

"So God is no longer here?"

"It's still God who has abandoned us."

"or."

"They were never there!"

The voice was very soft. Looking at the empty altar, Cohen couldn't help but doubt many things before.

Will golden humans really ascend to the sky and become heroic spirits after death? This is what Prometheus told them, but Cohen has never witnessed it with his own eyes.

Are gods really omnipotent? If so, where is the God King now?

God had promised that as long as he worshiped them, he would enjoy eternal happiness and peace, but why was he so pious yet unable to feel any happiness at all?

Cohen doesn't know. After all, he was just a mortal in the past, and everything he knew was given to him by God. Naturally, he wouldn't know things he shouldn't know. In the past, he had always believed in the greatness of God, but now, the great image in his heart had quietly collapsed.

Or maybe the cracks already existed. As a golden human king who has seen the [Civilization Slate], the innate restraint has never taken effect on him. The only one who restricted him in the past was himself.

"."

"Maybe I should go take a look and see what the earth looks like."

"Is it like what God said, or something else."

After a long silence, Cohen slowly stood up.

He cast one last glance at the altar, then walked out of the temple. When he passed by the open space, Cohen looked at the broken stone tablets everywhere, but he didn't think about it, but let them continue to scatter.

The stone tablet is to carry words, the words are to describe history, and history is to give meaning to the existence that was originally buried inside. But if the traces of existence themselves have disappeared, and if everything they once believed in is false, then what is the value of this record?

The slate is no longer needed. His existence itself is the past of golden humanity.

Light emerged, holding Cohen's body up slowly. He came to the place where he jumped before and stood there, looking back at the cave one last time.

Desolation, dilapidation, and silence are the last remnants of a destroyed civilization.

"."

"I will definitely come back."

".When I find the answer!"

Turning around, Cohen buried the cave and left without any regrets. With his departure, this old ruins returned to darkness and silence again.