Chapter 372: Ancient Atrocity (1/2)
If the connection between the gods and their believers could be compared to a game, its genre would most certainly be RTS-a real-time strategy game.
Like a player, the gods would sit outside their computer screen (divine kingdom), observing their believers through the screen.
Interestingly, the believers were no different from troops in the game: once the gods’ gazes turned to linger upon them, there would effectively be a divine perspective.
While the believers would be unable to see for themselves or the corresponding senses, the gods would be able to observe every circumstance within a large radius around their believers, which felt similar to a radius that unravels the fog of war in a strategy game.
That was an attribute that naturally applied to Xi Wei too.
At the moment, most of his attention was focused on how to improve his control over the Elven SIN as well as observing the Players who were finding clues in the Steel Earth Stratum.
Naturally, the circumstances around the Players was also made clear for him-or at least he thought so, until Edward’s words revealed that there was a sun in the fourth stratum.
And the outcome proved to Xi Wei that there was indeed a shining comic body hovering above the seemingly empty skies.
No. It might not even be a cosmic body but something manmade.
When Edward successfully made it past the barrier Xi Wei could not see thanks to the elven gold keeping him fireproof, Xi Wei finally determined what was in the air.
It was no ‘core space’, but something much more troublesome.
“No wonder the gods would wipe out the high elves and speak not a word of them later. Not even the benevolent gods would feel remorse with the potential of destruction the high elves could wreak, and even the high elves’ own documents declared that their own kind had committed an atrocity…”
In the first place, Xi Wei had named the event (Elven SIN (Synchronized Intellect Nation): Ancient Atrocities] more or less as a joke, having simply extracted the term from an old text.
Who could have known that it was neither an exaggeration nor the symptom of the high elves’ eighth-grader syndrome, but a simple statement of the truth?
As a matter of fact, the ‘sun’ which the high elves exhausted all efforts to hide from the gods was a spheroid magitek object with thirty-two faces, and seemingly having been pieced out of obelisk plates.
The function of the object itself could not be verified, because its internal structure had long since been corrupted in its entirely, leaving a shell that was soaked with powerful presences of divine attributes.
Right now, it was merely a container.
A container that held ‘divinity’.
That’s right.
The so-called Eternal Archives that was the core of the Elven SIN, the greatest secret of the high elves and the reason their kind was destroyed by the gods was because they had dabbed their fingers into what they shouldn’t, breaking a taboo of the gods.