Chapter 682 (1/2)

Book 6, Chapter 74 – Carrot and Stick

The Cloud God was so badly battered that he'd lost consciousness Thankfully, however, the body of Godly creatures were resilient He was in no danger of dying After a short time of rest the God awakened

What was this place? It was… similar to the world he knew, but there were subtle differences He felt discrepancies in gravity and strange particles in the air This was not earth Mustering his mental powers, he sent out a wave to learn what he could It spread far and wide, covering an area tens of kilometers in diameter in an instant

Stone Flat lands Endless desert A single, large settlement

His reconnaissance revealed that this settle It ash in the din of construction and already housed several tens of thousands of people A strange forest ofthe camp with food, water and electricity Factories belched s busily

This was the Green Alliance'sbase, by the looks of it The eboncrys weapons they used were produced here It was also a rant base where over thirty-thousand people lived Cloudhawk had established a backup location for his people, where they could stage attacks or fall back if needed

The wasteland leader couldn't predict what the future would hold After all, his ai a new destiny for his people But to get there he had to pass through a dark valley, so he had to try his best while also planning for the worst outcoures nearby Cloudhawk and Wolfblade

Cloudhawk stood with his hands crossed before his chest, peering out across the horizon froh The broken world stretched out toward the horizon “This world was destroyed by the Gods A long, long tioverned by the divine Now it's nothing but dust and ruin Do you rean to grasp his situation Cloudhawk and Wolfblade had saved his life and brought hio that Cloudhawk and the Cloud God had come to blows

“The oldest divine memories have no recollection of this place”

A thousand years was the limit to Godly memories This dead world saw its destruction ten thousand years ago at least Cloudhaorld suffered its cataclyso, which saw the destruction of the planet and ht have survived in this world had long since perished

It was strange, though This place was clearly obliterated by the Gods Did they not share all memories? Even if the Cloud God did not personally know the answer, could he not extract it from the psychic matrix he shared with the other Gods?

That would mean none of the Gods knehat happened to this place But… why? Could it be some sort of power erased it from collective memory? Or perhaps the Gods of today were not the same Gods that once rules this place?

“Why are Gods cultivating human followers?”

This question had burned in the back of Cloudhawk'stime Gods and huically and socially, what they called 'Gods' were thousands of years ahead of humanity In almost every discernible way, humans were a lower life for the case, why did the Gods go through such trouble to obliterate planets? Why leave their Supres?

What where they trying to gain?

The Cloud God's eyes flashed as he searched his memories “When my consciousness arose, I knew only to follow the directives of ht to ask the reasons why”

“You were never curious? You never questioned what you and the Gods were striving toward?” This ti the question “In many ways you Gods are like machines Machines know their purpose, not the reason Their existence is merely to serve”

The demon's words weren't entirely accurate Gods were not entirely absent their own thoughts, nor were they wholly emotionless Rather these innate aspects of their personality had been greatly blunted To unknowing creatures like hu Strange that these beings – so full of wisdo