Myth: The Spiritual Dominator

Since the war outside Mount Olympus ceased, the world has finally returned to its former peace.

The sun and the moon alternate in the sky, and the world is changing. Except for the gods who occasionally come and go, the earth suddenly becomes quiet. Perhaps on another level, there are still many changes taking place, but at least as far as mortals are concerned, when that night filled with visions passes, nothing similar will happen again.

So gradually, just as it had been going on before, human footprints continued to spread across the entire land as time went by. At the same time, churches that believed in gods also began to fill the area.

The first was Hestia and Themis. They were composed of those who had firm beliefs and were willing to swear to open up the wilderness for mankind and guard the sacred fire, as well as warriors who were willing to listen to the teachings of the goddess of justice, eradicate evil and eliminate injustice in the world. They received the guidance of the two goddesses and determined to spread the goddess's will to more people, so they compiled scriptures, divided their powers, and traveled among different city-states to promote the teachings of the gods.

And their behavior was undoubtedly very successful. In this era when information exchange is inconvenient and humans are separated in all directions, this organized and large-scale spread of beliefs is like a dimensionality reduction attack, and it has quickly become mainstream in quite a few places. trend of thought.

Even if according to the scope of belief defined by the gods in advance, there are many city-state monarchs who implement certain beliefs in the name of the king after seeing the manifest gods, but they are still helpless under this kind of church organization. Obviously, the actions of the priests are more attractive than the empty descriptions of the greatness of the gods.

They made stories about God's deeds and beautified God's thoughts into doctrines. It just so happened that the two goddesses were very consistent with human understanding of beauty, both in their thoughts and actions. Therefore, even if no city lists the two goddesses as orthodox sacrifice objects due to the carving up among the gods, it still does not affect their influence among humans that is greater than that of every Olympian god.

At first, this was not taken seriously by the gods, and few gods paid attention to this kind of communication between mortals. They also followed past experience and simply relied on showing miracles in front of mortals to reveal their existence. But gradually, as the names of the two goddesses spread more and more widely among humans, the gods who finally noticed it suddenly realized that maybe their casual approach saved time and energy, but it seemed too backward. .

The primitive worship of nature and power was ultimately no match for convincing ideas and real clergy, so in just a few decades, large and small religious orders were established. The gods choose their spokesmen in the world according to their own preferences, or simply directly choose the kings who believe in their own city-states, and then order them to learn the churches of the two goddesses and then spread their names.

Since then, the newly established power structure among humans has changed again. Just like the Bronze Humans, the priests serving the gods have become an indispensable member. Although unlike the previous human generation, the priests held absolute power, their identities were still extraordinary.

And before that, a small thing that happened in the middle brought something that greatly intensified the evolution process. After all, in this still barbaric era, strength is what humans value most.

Fortunately, because of this small thing, believers in gods also have the possibility to master power.

About ten years after the end of the God War, at a banquet to welcome the return of Apollo, the goddess of wisdom announced a special discovery to the gods. She claimed that she invented another special energy by observing the magic network, analyzing the elements, and finally using divine power as the basis.

It is not powerful, and even appears weak compared to divine power, because it inherently weakens divine power. However, this does not detract from its value, because it is a power that can be used by the gods in the mortal world, and even beyond the gods.

As long as this power is transferred to mortals and a witchcraft-like structure is 'fixed' to the magic net, then any human being, regardless of whether his 'qualifications' are mediocre or extraordinary, can take advantage of the existence of gods and the magic net. Master this extraordinary power.

Compared with the path that requires self-training and sufficient talent to achieve success, this system that only concerns the favor of the gods, without any talent restrictions, and with a natural upper limit is undoubtedly the most satisfying to the gods - after all, they still have Remember the mortal who wielded his sword against the son of the Sea Emperor.

If there were more people like this, it would be difficult for the gods to be as comfortable as they are now in the mortal world. But they can't stop this power, because the humans spread across the entire land are no longer able to be easily protected just because they live in one place like the previous generation. If they themselves cannot master the power to fight against the strange beasts in the wilderness, then the deterrence of the holy fire alone will not be able to expand their numbers.

Therefore, the power named "divine magic" by the goddess is particularly important, so the gods did not hesitate to ask Athena for the secret of the holy power, and praised the goddess's wisdom. Then, based on their own natural authority as a medium, Various special magical arts were developed.

As for areas other than innate authority...this is the blind spot of the innate God. Therefore, in addition to the help of Athena, the gods simplified some common magical arts with the help of the omnipotent nature of divine power. There are often huge differences in the 'holy power models' mastered by different gods, and they have various different functions.

When this power was introduced into the human world, this difference seemed to confirm the absoluteness of different gods within their own authority, which also made the compilation of many scriptures more biased. Of course, there are also mortals who question the greatness of the gods, but this has no impact.

After all, all gods are like this, and no one has ever existed, whether it is a god or anything else, claiming to be omniscient and omnipotent, so this kind of statement just comes and goes, and few people even remember that it once existed.

In any case, holy power and magic have been integrated into the world. After a few simple generations, it seems to have become a natural existence, understood and accepted by humans. Even the gods have gradually become accustomed to this convenient energy.

However, there was an additional episode in the middle. On Mount Olympus, the God King, who also learned about the birth of divine magic, seemed particularly surprised. He even once said that he had actually discovered this special system, but had not yet had time to tell the gods.

However, the gods only agreed with his words, but few believed him in their hearts.

After all, Zeus had never shown any talent for creation and invention in the past.

They would rather believe that this is related to Metis, the goddess of wisdom of the previous generation, and would not think that the God King could study such a thing. After all, power and wisdom are not equivalent. This is something the gods themselves know very well.

In short, this episode did not affect the spread of magic and the establishment of the church. Human society is also constantly exploring balance and order in the process of integrating new things.

From rough scriptures to increasingly clear doctrines, conflicts occur from time to time, but are still restrained. The conflicts that gradually arise between the king and the priests, the hidden existence of mortals' beliefs in places where the gods are less likely to notice, and the various changes in the underground and in the sky.

Time flies, one generation grows old, and another generation grows up. On the vast land, some city-states have collapsed, and some have begun to expand the areas they rule, evolving towards true kingdoms. And in the fringe areas where humans are active, there are also humans who have not been able to live in one place for a long time. migration.