Actually, Tia and Lind had an even more blasphemous speculation in their hearts. If death is a kind of state, then what state are the gods in the world now, especially the goddess who hasn’t responded to her believers for a long time?
Is the goddess also in a revival match?
Bernice said to herself, “There are no records of similar incidents in the scriptures, at least in the texts we have in Lantern Dream, there is no record of Outer Gods being revived.”
But then Bernice noticed Lind’s expression and asked, “Lord Governor, do you have any questions?”
Lind and Tia exchanged glances and asked, “What state is the goddess in right now?”
Lantern Dream had previously known that Lind had Holy Water, but their understanding of the Holy Water in Lind’s hands was “a Golden Age potion similar to the efficacy of the goddess’s Holy Water,” and they were not aware of how the Holy Water was produced.
They also did not know that Lind was constantly taking advantage of the goddess, but the goddess had not responded at all.
In response, Bernice explained, “The goddess is different from those false gods; the goddess needs to rest. Right now, the goddess is just in a deep sleep. Once she awakens, she will surely respond to her loyal believers.”
Upon hearing the term “false gods,” Tia mocked, “At least our Nature God doesn’t need to sleep; she can occasionally respond to her believers. Why don’t you just stop believing in that sleeping god and come to worship our Nature God instead?”
Originally thinking that Bernice would explode with anger even if she didn’t defend herself, it was unexpected that Bernice calmly said, “Thank you for your kindness, but the god you understand and the god we believe in are not the same concept. Don’t project the concept of false gods onto the goddess.”
Bernice’s expression was like that of an adult not wanting to argue with a child who hadn’t yet understood things, and after finishing her words, she even sighed, looking like she intended to comfort Tia.
“Who knows if your goddess is just like those so-called Outer Gods, waiting for revival with just a corpse?”
Tia was still unyielding, but Bernice continued to patiently explain, “Even if the goddess is sleeping, her believers can still use divine arts; that is the distinction between the goddess and those false gods.”
“You…”
Tia saw that Bernice was completely unfazed and wanted to continue the argument but was patted on the shoulder by Lind. In the end, she could only calm down; after all, Lind had reminded Tia long ago that Lantern Dream mastered many ancient scriptures, but they were also a group of zealots, and debating such issues with zealots was surely unbeneficial.
Seeing Lind’s curiosity, Bernice provided a more detailed explanation.
Lantern Dream did not deny the fact that the goddess was currently inactive; the internal explanation was that the goddess was temporarily asleep. However, the goddess was unlike other gods; even in sleep, she could respond to her believers using divine arts, only unable to descend divine revelations.
Tia felt quite disdainful of this explanation. In her opinion, this was merely a self-deceptive statement from the zealots. Many cultists had a set of explanations that differed from the real worldview but could be internally consistent.
However, after Lind listened, he began to reflect. Unable to issue divine revelations, yet capable of automatically responding to believers’ divine arts.
Lind had reviewed the Church’s official definitions of divine arts and Lantern Dream’s interpretations. Divine arts relied on faith to establish a connection with the gods, essentially borrowing the power of the gods.
And the goddess’s performance, how to say it… was a bit too intelligent.
Lind even formed a guess; perhaps Lantern Dream’s viewpoint was indeed correct. The goddess might have entered some kind of idling state, processing all requests for divine arts automatically, which allowed Lind to exploit the loophole to continuously produce Holy Water.
This posed a new question: why was the goddess different? Although the goddess was indeed a very special existence among the many deities, Lantern Dream’s perspective suggested that the goddess had become qualitatively different from other gods, and the need to rest did not seem like something other gods would do, let alone the current automatic processing of divine arts requests in this idling state.
What exactly was the goddess?
Lind looked up at the sky, of course, there was no real sky here, just a piece of sky plate.
Then Lind turned to look at the mass of pulsating flesh and blood. Was this deity of the world not just a concept but truly a physical entity?
After this meeting, Lind asked Bernice to collect all the divine revelations issued by the goddess. Bernice speculated that Lind, being a person from the Golden Age, had found some clues about the goddess and readily agreed, noting that the goddess’s divine revelations were not all issued in written form, and many divine revelations were still in the hands of the current Church, so getting them might be a bit challenging.
Lind understood this well; after all, most of the information was currently being provided unilaterally by Lantern Dream. This kind of cooperation surely wouldn’t last long, even if Lantern Dream had firmly acknowledged Lind as a person of the Golden Age.
Thus, Lind also decided to prioritize providing Lantern Dream with some technology that could be disclosed. From the perspective of various factions, Lantern Dream might be the most friendly and easiest to satisfy, of course, having Lantern Dream propagate was impossible, even if they were willing to return to Lind’s management.
“Did you gain anything?”
Lind glanced at Tia, who was in deep thought.
“These guys are indeed a bunch of zealots.”
Tia looked at her notes, somewhat gnashing her teeth.
“They indeed know a lot about the situation. Where did they get so many texts from other churches?”
However, Tia soon shook her head helplessly. Just as Lantern Dream said, the goddess was indeed very special among many deities. There was a time when the Church of the Goddess dominated the continent, and some religions even split from the Church of the Goddess, so having texts from other churches was quite normal.
“Regardless, this so-called Outer God polluting the land is definitely our enemy. We will also reveal some information that can be disclosed to other countries. It is clear that the demon clan’s deity is the enemy of all religions.”
Tia seemed quite confident, but Lind felt the situation wouldn’t progress that smoothly. Even if Lind and Tia truly had the blood and flesh of the Demon God, and the Golden Ear Plains had just finished a big battle, would others on the continent really pay attention?
Even if those deities truly responded and issued divine revelations, how would the other religions combat these monsters of the demon clan? Would they send troops into the Northern Border of the Cape Kingdom? Or directly enter the Northern Border from the High Ger Empire of the elves? No matter how one thought about it, it seemed impossible; in the end, the help might only be scattered.
Moreover, in the eyes of most people, this might not seem like a big issue. After all, the demon clan was blocked by Lind in the Northern Border. Unless they had seen it with their own eyes, many people had no concept of how strong those monsters of the demon clan were.
In fact, there were quite a few people in the Cape Kingdom who felt that Lind’s threat was far greater than the demon clan’s, as the demon clan was separated from the Royal Capital by the Northern Border, while the Northern Border was truly squatting right behind the Royal Capital.
To solve this problem, Lind would still have to talk to Her Majesty the Queen. Other than daily routines, Lind had also been writing letters to various factions these days and had finally set a specific meeting date and some detailed arrangements with the Royal Capital.
