In front of Inari Taisha Shrine, among the green trees on the mountain, countless vermilion torii gates are arranged closely and winding along the mountain road, like a tunnel made of torii gates, like a corridor, like a long dragon

.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this may just be a beautiful scenery, a scenery composed of torii houses worshiped by believers of Inari God for thousands of years.

But in Chen Yu's eyes, this is the belief and worship of gods by millions of believers. It is a chain that binds gods and the world, and a fixed anchor point.

When the rules of the world are not perfect, a world will be full of loopholes. At this time, the world will instinctively breed powerful life forms to fill these loopholes, and these powerful life forms are the original gods-the ancient gods.

Although the ancient gods are pure and powerful, they are ultimately just products used by the world to fill in the rules. They have no reason and just blindly follow instinct and primitive animality.

Therefore, new gods were born to replace the ancient gods. They were either promoted due to the worship of living beings and were chosen as gods by the world, or they were born from the bodies of the ancient gods, inherited the legacy of the old gods, and replaced the ancient gods.

New gods…

In short, the new gods have replaced the ancient gods, and because they possess wisdom and rationality, while they are filling in the loopholes in the rules of the world, they are also constantly improving the rules of the world, repairing these loopholes, and making the world more and more complete.

But in this process, as the rules of the world become more and more perfect, the gods will be assimilated by the rules of the world and gradually tend to the rules they represent. Wisdom and rationality will be replaced by the order represented by the rules, and the gods will eventually lose their

Self becomes part of the rules of the world.

At the same time, the power of the gods will become more powerful as it continues to integrate with the rules, and eventually it will not be accommodated by the world and will be expelled from the world.

However, these foreign objects expelled from the body by the world will not stay away from the world because of their close connection with the rules of the world. However, they are also blocked by the rules of the world and cannot enter the world again. They will eventually become a defense system on the periphery of the world to protect the security of the world.

The only way to keep the gods in the world instead of being expelled out of the world is to use faith to build an anchor point, a chain, a chain composed of the faith of living beings, to bind the gods to the world.

within.

The more powerful the gods, the more believers they need, and the more faith they need to fix them. When the believers' faith in the gods gradually weakens and the power of faith cannot bind the gods, they will be expelled from the world.

The gods no longer exist in this world.

The earth is at this stage at this time. With the development of world science and technology, the level of human civilization is getting higher and higher, people's belief in gods is constantly weakening, gods are gradually being expelled from this world, and the mystery of this world is also

Continuously fading.

The end of the Dharma era has arrived. This is not a decrease in the concentration of magic power, but a process in which the rules of the world are constantly improving themselves, so that the mystery is no longer there.

Because the rules representing magic are still there, magic still exists in this world. However, as the rules of the world improve, the form of magic is quietly changing.

For example, in the past, rainfall was brought by gods who controlled the rules, so mortals would pray to gods for rain, good weather, and a good harvest.

But with the improvement of the rules of the world, ordinary people with formal scientific education have understood that rainfall is a natural phenomenon. It is produced naturally and is not controlled by gods. This is the result of modern scientific research.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people who believe in science, the world has been like this since ancient times. Rainfall has always been just a natural phenomenon rather than a gift from the gods.

But, has all this really been like this since eternity?

If the truth of the world is that gods control the world, then the nature and science we know were formed after the rules of the world were perfected?

The gods who once controlled wind and rain were excluded from the world by the rules of the world. The self-improvement and evolution of the rules formed the atmospheric circulation system we know today and became common sense in our knowledge. However, the fact that gods controlled the world in the past has become

It has become a fairy tale that only children will believe.

And this is the end of the Dharma era in myths and legends, the Twilight of the Gods.

Some gods once tried to resist stubbornly and fight against the self-improvement of the world, intending to make the mysterious existence last longer, and He could also stay in this world longer.

This god is God. Belief in Him gradually emerged and spread after the belief in the gods of European civilization dissipated. After the establishment of the church, the gods of this world have gradually disappeared. They have either been eliminated or destroyed.

Expelled from this world.

In order to use faith as an anchor to tie Himself down, and at the same time to continuously absorb faith to make Himself stronger, God drives the church to obstruct the development of science and technology and civilization at all costs, trying to keep mankind in ignorance of God.

In belief, this is the Dark Middle Ages that lasted for a thousand years.

But in the end, those great explorers and seekers of knowledge in human history were not defeated by the conspiracy of the gods, nor were they intimidated by the church's power to rule the world for thousands of years. They raised their swords of rebellion to the sky and eventually

The gods pulled down the altar, and the world moved towards science. This is how it should be.

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"Why are you telling me this, Your Highness?" In a room in Inari Taisha Shrine, Chen Yu and his party of nine people were all here, accompanied by a shrine maiden. However, except for Chen Yu and his wife, no one else

Facing this situation, Chen Yu fell asleep on the ground after drinking the spiked tea. Faced with this situation, Chen Yu asked the shrine maiden, the incarnation of Inari God, who had just told him the truth about the world.

Facing Chen Yu's inquiry, the shrine maiden incarnated by the God of Inari simply said calmly: "I just want to tell you, Mr. Chen Yu, the truth about this world. Even if you become a god, as an ancient god you do not need to be bound by faith, but

This also means that you cannot use faith as an anchor to fix yourself in the world.

The moment you become a god will also be the moment the world rejects you, and without believers, you will be more directly excluded from the world, instead of becoming the shell of the world like other gods."

Inari God's answer made Chen Yu fall into silence. Although the things Inari God told were all knowledge that can only be understood after becoming a god, or even a god that is so powerful that the world cannot accommodate it. Even "Multiple Diversity"

The "Universal Universal Necromancy Encyclopedia" also does not show the knowledge about becoming a god, but Chen Yu knew that this was true.

There is no relevant knowledge in the "Compendium of Universal Necromancy in the Multiverse". This is just because he has not yet become a god, and the knowledge that only gods can understand and know is not something he can know now.

However, gods cannot walk in the world, which is a rule common among many worlds in the multiverse.

Originally, Chen Yu thought this was a way for the gods to keep themselves mysterious, but now through Inari God's explanation, he understood that this was actually a mechanism for the world to protect itself.

If gods that are so powerful that they exceed the maximum capacity of the world still remain in the world, they will only destroy the entire world and affect the self-improvement of the rules.

Knowing this, Chen Yu was not affected at all. If this was the inevitable price to pay for becoming a god, then Chen Yu would only accept it happily, instead of choosing to give up becoming a god because he would be rejected by the world.

He just wanted to ask Inari God: "If I become a god, how long will it take for me to be excluded from the world?"

"At present, weak gods can still remain in the world, and medium-sized gods can still use faith as an anchor to fix themselves as long as they have enough believers, but powerful gods have exceeded the limit of what the world can accommodate." Inari God.

The expression on the transformed miko's face was still indifferent, but she spoke to her in detail.

Chen Yu explained: "Take me as an example. I became a powerful god with the spread of faith hundreds of years ago. The world's rejection of me is constantly strengthening. Now it has reached its limit. If I can't

If I go further, in another hundred years, I will be forcibly excluded from the world.

And Chen Yu, if you aim to become a mid-level god, then the time from when you become a mid-level god to when you are excluded from the world will be about three hundred to five hundred years. If you can fix yourself with faith,

If you suppress the growth of your own strength, then this time can be extended further."

"Three to five hundred years? This is much longer than I expected." After listening to Inari God's explanation, Chen Yu did not feel disappointed, but instead felt relieved.

Although three to five hundred years is only a short period of time for gods, it is long enough for mortals. Such a long time is enough for Chen Yu to complete what he hopes to accomplish and become a god without any burden.

, stepping into the multiverse.

After sorting out his mood, Chen Yu smiled at Hiromi Jonouchi who was worried about him. Then he turned to Inari God and said, "Let's talk about these things later. Let's continue with our plan now."

"This is nature, not a god, everything is empty talk." The shrine maiden incarnate as Inari God also nodded, looked at Sanami and Inomata Naoki who were unconscious in the room, and raised her hand to wave to them.

Suddenly, two beams of divine power flew toward the two of them and flew into their heads.

"My magic will allow them to experience three lives in their sleep without retaining any memory, but can this really achieve the effect?" God Inari still has doubts about Chen Yu's plan. Without memory, that feeling

How can it be preserved?
Chapter completed!