Book 7, Chapter 53: Ancient History (2) (1/2)
Book 7, Chapter 53: Ancient History (2)
Even Gods were not immortal
This was because, before they discovered divine power, the Gods were not actually Gods
Before the Gods discovered divine power, the Gods and Origin Beasts had been, in some sense, on the same level The Gods, however, had been born in the story and better understood how to use Method Power
The first bit of divine power that the Moon Goddess ever received came from the Divine Eye Ape
This piqued the Moon Goddess’s interest, and she quickly ran a variety of different experiments to explore what exactly Divine Poas
She soon discovered that divine poas produced through faith Without faith, there would be no divine power to speak of
As such, the Moon Goddess began to search out and persuade other Origin Beasts to worshi+p her
The Moon Goddess started accurew more and more powerful as she did so Most i, and she would not die
This made the Moon Goddess incredibly happy
At the tias she could
Slowly but surely, however, she began to grow dissatisfied
Because she had realized that the h faith was lith increased, the amount of divine power that she needed to sustain her divinity also grew In other words, the longer she lived, the
The nuin Beasts was limited, so the amount of divine power that they could provide was limited as well
More i to catch onto her secret and had started gathering their own groups of Origin Beast worshi+ppers
This made the Moon Goddess incredibly anxious
The Gods began to fight with one another over the Origin Beasts, ere pampered and treated like royal pets
This all came to an end, however, when yet another discovery was made
No one kneho made this discovery, but news spread very quickly, mostly because it was virtually iin Beasts provided even more divine power
Faith was still the foundation of divine power, but absorbing it through proffered sacrifices was actually the most efficient method to do so
The ain Beast sacrifice provided was extre tiin Beasts would be birthed spontaneously every so often
This cycle was then harnessed by the Gods for them to obtain their necessary nourishin Beasts’ status went from pets to food
Food for Gods
In order to obtain eternal life, all of the Gods, even the Moon Goddess, who supposedly loved to play with her pets, began to hunt these Origin Beasts
The sudden change in the relationshi+p dynareatly They would not allow thean to retaliate against the Gods
Even though they didn’t have divine power or Method Power, the blessing of the Origin Energy Sea gave thein Energy
The two sides were soon embroiled in a fierce battle
This battle was so intense that it caused the very sky to tremble and the earth to quake Eventually, however, the Gods ein Beasts were subsequently captured and tamed as livestock that provided the Gods with divine pohile a sin Energy Sea
But the Gods soon discovered that, over the course of their battle, the reale The previous center of the Origin Energy Sea had been shi+fted to another realin Realood thing
The decreasing Origin Energy density significantly calin Real it much more peaceful
This peacefulness allowed for even in Beasts constantly cath was declining as a response to the constantly changing Origin Realained doin Beasts, they were still dissatisfied
Their need for divine poas siin Beasts to in Beasts’ reproductive rates were also declining, and that wasn’t evento weaken and become more and more like modern-day Desolate Beasts due to the natural process of evolution
The Gods fought ain Beasts a nuin Beasts had essentially becoht over
This continued until the second Sky Goddess’ appearance
This second Sky Goddess was birthed a thousand years after the death of the first Sky Goddess As a newly birthed Goddess, she was significantly weaker than the rest, and she had very few opportunities to garner any Divine Power froin Light Sabertooth that she possessed
For a long time, the second Sky Goddess remained extremely obscure
Until one day, when the barbaric Tyrant God suddenly tried to forcefully claim this Sky Goddess in a ly, he was defeated
And he had been so soundly defeated that a single finger strike froh to claim his life
It was only then that the other Gods realized that the Sky Goddess had somehow obtained an incredible amount of divine power Her true poas so immense that she was actually one of the most powerful Gods in the entire realin Beast follower, so where had her vast store of divine power come from?