Chapter eight hundred and eighty underground flame demon
"The realm of gods is the last piece of pure land independent of the world."
"The gods rarely fight directly, because we are the guardians of this world."
After seeing Viserys silent for a long time, R'hllor finally spoke.
"Guardian of the world?"
Viserys knew nothing about this realm of gods at this moment, so all the conditions for him to obtain knowledge came from the red god in front of him.
R'hllor knew Viserys' doubts and spoke frankly.
"We protect all creatures in this world, resist the covetousness from the gods outside the sky, and also resist the invasion from the underground flame demons."
Then R'hllor didn't hide anything, but told everything. After all, this was the purpose of his trip to meet Viserys.
The Realm of Gods is built based on the gods of the entire world. They are the embodiment of the will of the world and mainly resist the erosion of forces from two directions, one from the sky and the other from the ground.
As the leader of the Realm of Gods and the leader of the gods in the sky, R'hllor should not have come in person to greet a junior who had just lost his mortal body and become a god.
However, Viserys' path to becoming a god was very special. Unlike other gods, big and small, he had accumulated enough power long before he became a god, but he lacked the fire of divinity to burn.
Therefore, after Viserys became a god, he jumped to the middle and upper ranks among the gods in the divine domain. His divine power is even comparable to that of some old gods such as the Drowned God and the Black Goat God who have been gods for thousands of years.
Although Viserys does not yet know much about the use of divine power and is unable to exert too much power, it is only a matter of time.
Therefore, as a new god who has joined the divine realm and possesses extraordinary combat power, Viserys' existence cannot be ignored.
As soon as he left his physical body and came to the realm of the gods, R'hllor, the leader of the gods, stepped over and personally came to the door to win over him.
"The world faces threats from two directions, one from outside and the other from underground?"
When Viserys heard R'hllor confessing his purpose, he fell into silence slightly, and then asked rhetorically.
He had known these things in advance in the mortal world. They called the inexplicable attacks from the outer universe the void and alien gods, and the nameless black stone was the representative of them.
These black rocks are meteorites traveling through the universe. Over thousands of years, meteorites containing a unique magnetic field will occasionally cross the planet and then fall down, bringing disaster to the world.
One of the responsibilities of the gods in the Realm of Gods is to intercept these inexplicable attacks from the universe and prevent these black stones from falling into the mortal world.
But resisting attacks from the outer world is not the main responsibility of the realm of gods. The main responsibility of these gods above the surface is actually to resist attacks from the underground world.
There is also a world under the earth's surface, which is a paradise for underground fire demons to survive. Many fire-related monsters live in the underground world because they like the high temperature environment there.
These fire demons from the underground world are not actually gods, but they have powers comparable to gods, mainly due to the terrifying bodies created by the harsh environment of the underground world.
If these underground Balrogs want to survive in such a harsh environment, they need a strong body. The dragons that are the pyramid-top predators in the surface world are actually one of the underground creatures. They are made of blood and fire.
However, giant dragons are just a weak race in the underground world compared to those giant Balrogs. Some underground Balrogs even feed on giant dragons, specifically hunting these creatures, tearing off their scales and peeling them dry.
Clean it, boil it with lava and eat it.
The gods on the surface have been working hard to prevent the invasion of underground fire demons for thousands of years. The whole world seems to be calm, and few people have heard of the underground world, but in fact there is a turbulent undercurrent behind it.
The gods tacitly commanded their followers to erase all news about the underground world, including Valyria's Doomsday Disaster, to prevent Valyria's tragedy from happening again.
Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for a great empire that had dominated the world for thousands of years to suddenly collapse without leaving any legacy behind. Even intelligence documents were poorly understood. It was like a mystery.
But if you think about it carefully, you can understand that someone deliberately erased the secret of the Valyrian Free Fortress and made them forgotten by the world.
And who in the entire world has the power to directly erase the news of the existence of Valyria Free Fortress? Braavos? Volantis? Or the Iron Throne?
If you think about it carefully, you can understand that none of these city-states and countries have such ability. Only the gods in the sky have such ability.
Only through the collective efforts of their believers and the pervasive religious force embedded in the human social system were they able to obliterate the existence of Valyria, turning it into a mystery shrouded in smoke.
The gods on the surface worked together to erase all traces of Valyria's existence, and the reason was very simple.
That legend is not false, the regime of the ancient Valyrian Free Fortress has actually threatened the safety of the divine domain.
They had the power to challenge the gods, and for other reasons, the gods in the sky felt uneasy, so they collectively wiped them out of the world.
However, R'hllor just said that the gap between mortals and gods is like a chasm. No matter how powerful a mortal is, even the best assassin or magician in the world, they cannot harm the gods who are protected by divine power.
How could the wizards of the Ancient Free Fortress make the gods feel uneasy?
Viserys raised his doubts, and R'hllor patiently explained.
"Although you have Valyrian blood, there is no need for you to care. After all, the body is just empty."
R'hllor is actually an ancient Rhoynar who lives beside the mother river Lorne. However, there are not many Rhoynar people who believe in him. The Rhoynar people have their own gods.
Moreover, Azor Ahai became the Red God, and after getting rid of his physical body, he no longer considered himself a Rhoynar, but R'hllor, the King of Light.
However, now that the Valyrian Free Fortress has been destroyed, the emerging Valyrian Empire has nothing to do with it except that it is named Valyria.
The emerging Valyrian Empire was neither free nor a fortress.
Moreover, the system is not the king-selection system of the Forty Houses, and even most of the country is different. R'hllor does not feel that Viserys still cares about his homeland.