Chapter 898 (1/2)

Chapter 898: Vol V Chapter 258

As compared to suffering for an extended period of time, it was better to settle the matter right now. Serious issues required drastic measures…

Sui Xiong was aware of many Chinese sayings about such a notion.

He fell silent and did not speak, sweeping glances across all the gods.

The gods were all silent as well.

The conflict between the humans and the Orcs had started all the way from when the two races had first emerged. Originally, the Goddess of Life had created the Golden Race. This was an extremely strong race that had been dubbed “high-ranking followers.” With the Golden Race’s help, she swept the skies and defeated all the great gods of her time. With that, the Goddess of Life managed to become next in line after the top four gods.

Of course, the other great gods were not about to sit around and do nothing. They copied what the Goddess of Life had previously done but instead creating races that belonged to them as tools for war.

Amongst these created races, “Ancestor,” better known as the Ancestral Beast God, had created the Orcs while the “Mother of Sea” had created the humans. These two gods had the worst relationship among all the gods, and they often fought mercilessly and fiercely. With the creation of two separate races, they used their respective races mostly to fight each other, although the original intention of creating races was to challenge the Goddess of Life.

Although the situations and relationships among the gods evolved over time and both creators had already fallen, the hatred and tension between the two races could not possibly be dissolved so easily. Even if people such as the Orc God System’s “Sky Devourer Canine” Lefon wanted to reduce this prejudice, the best method he could think of still did not achieve ultimate peace as he had wanted to change all humans into Half-Orcs.

As for the human side, even if they eventually slipped out of the control of the “Mother of Sea” and even underwent anti-phasing by killing the “Mother of Sea,” this did not change their enmity towards the Orcs.

More importantly, all long, the leader of the Human Gods, be it the God of Knights or the God of Light, all continuously kept up war efforts against the Orcs on the frontline. The base idea was that the humans innately hated the Orcs to the core.

This hatred between the two races was really severe. It got to a point where all the Orc gods who had fallen had all done so in battle with the Human God System. For the God of Knight, one of the previous leaders of the Human God System had also fallen while battling the various Orc Gods.

With so many gods’ deaths due to this conflict, how could there possibly be peace between the two races?

Sui Xiong thought for a long time and was still unable to come up with a solution that would generate true peace between the two races.

Actually… It was not that it was impossible. For example, Sui Xiong had read in a random webcomic before that there once was a strongman who loved humans and did not want the various countries on Earth to fight. He thus made himself a big great devil, and this forced all the countries to unite against this new common enemy, reducing their own personal, smaller tensions.

While this solution seemed useful, it was rather foolish as well.

Sui Xiong definitely did not want to learn from that foolish big devil and act solely based on theory and daft aspirations. He definitely would not convert himself just to generate peace.

The so-called confrontation of the Great Devil was nothing more than the use of external contradictions to transfer internal contradictions. This did not mean that internal contradictions would not exist. In fact, they existed and were likely to develop more intensely and cruelly.

With the help of his lofty art history teacher’s ramblings, Sui Xiong had gotten a basic understanding of some different stages of history on Earth. In the recent history of China, there had been an intense external contradiction that had temporarily superseded internal contradictions, and the opposing parties had worked together to settle the bigger issue at hand. However, one had to understand that such a temporary alliance was extremely fragile. Although both sides worked together in the short term and used this new strength to help defeat the bigger enemy, once the bigger enemy was defeated, they would dissolve the alliance soon after. Internal wars would resume, and this conflict would even escalate! This was because both sides had developed themselves while working together to defeat a bigger enemy and had accumulated greater power and resources in the process to fight each other.