Chapter 349 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

It might be common sense that gods consisted of good gods, evil gods, devils, and demons which were all equal.

But this was completely wrong.

Between good gods and evil gods were neutral gods. These three made one category of gods who abided by and protected the world’s order. They were also called “order gods” or “legitimate gods,” as they were now under the rule of the Master of Order.

Not all legitimate gods were governed by the Master of Order, like the lords in hell who were not in the Pantheon temple even though they protected the world’s order. The nature of “order” in them was even more prominent than other gods in the Pantheon temple.

Strange as it may be, they were good gods, though they committed evil things. “Punishing evil behaviors” and “preventing the invasion of the abyss” were both considered to be positive.

The opposite of legitimate gods were devils, or “chaotic gods” by some theologians. Yet “chaotic gods” also included those powerful abyss masters.

Devils were independent, not bound to orders and lived a free but messy life.

In view of this, legitimate gods were combined with devils. They had different stances but shared one general principle to ensure the sustainability of the Ring of the World. Even those madmen who saw the rest of the people in the world as their enemies wished for the world to be sustained. Otherwise, their own existence would not be possible.

The opposite of this combined group was demons.

Demons came into being from the divine powered creatures that had gone mad. They had unparalleled powers and intended to destroy the world. That was their only goal, and nothing else interested them.

That made it simple to please or attract demons—just keep on destroying. For example, some mad humans held various blood rituals to please demons for specific purposes.

Yet none of these madmen had good results, as demons would never stop until the last day of the world. No one would be with the demons forever unless they were willing to give their own life.

It was miserable to be abandoned by demons of course. But it might be even worse to be with demons all the time.

Therefore, good gods, evil gods, and neutral gods belonged to one faction, and devils and abyss masters were a part of an opposite faction. Together, they were in a larger counter-demon faction, and simply dividing them into four categories was totally wrong.

Let’s get back to the subject. The point was, devils were not weak. Though they were not good at preaching or establishing a religion for themselves, they would lose to none of the legitimate gods.

Just like now, more than ten devils were rushing over to the Goddess of Bumper Harvest’s God’s Kingdom, and the Goddess could not stop them even though she had put up defenses around her God’s Kingdom and had some hands to help.

In fact, a few of her “hands” had escaped when they noticed these devils.

They shouldn’t be blamed as this was too horrifying. Other bystanders were also scared and immediately ran away.

They had seen a three-headed dragon with a slender body. Its body was changing colors, and so were the three heads. More strangely, its three faces were continuously changing expressions between joy, anger, and sorrow.

Any human who saw its faces, even for one second, would find themselves in mental chaos and would have all kinds of thoughts flooding over. Staring any longer would make that chaos or confusion last forever and turn the person into a hopeless psychopath.

Though gods had stronger will power than humans, they also felt uneasy looking at those faces. Some weak gods stopped prying right away and closed their eyes to adjust themselves. But still, more than one of them turned pale and even spat out blood. Apparently, they had already been seriously injured by just one look.

Even the stronger gods froze when seeing this weird dragon. Some of them turned away while some stared at it and frowned. Feeling the energy inside surging, others sighed and turned around to leave.

“Hey, old man. You are gonna do something?” Yorgaardman moved to the front of the Pantheon temple and asked the Master of Order.

The Master of Order looked down and stood still like an old monk. He didn’t intend to reply.