The Guardian gods-Chapter 180

Looking at her children, Nana asked, "What did you notice from the image?"

Keles spoke up, "No judge appeared when the humanoid killed the god."

Jaws followed through, "Unlike the last one, the one that killed the god first didn’t ascend."

Crepuscular spoke up again, "The death of the god triggered something in the residents of that world."

Nana nodded, confirming their words. "Indeed, when a mortal kills a god, they aren’t judged for it, but the action itself comes with a certain price and consequences, which is that the mortal, no matter what, can never ascend to godhood."

"The part I find funny is that the divinity of the god killed will be placed upon the god killer, and the divinities’ attributes and capabilities are all open for the killer. But they won’t receive any divine energy or faith energy when worshiped for that power."

"The second part of this price is what Crepuscular said. Something indeed activates in that world’s residents, which is a voice that informs them of the god’s death and its new owner. The voice, at the same time, offers the price of godhood to the person who manages to kill the new beholder of the divinity."

"That is why the last image was a scene of the god killer being besieged, and one finally ascending," Nana said with a smile on her face, while the gods frowned.

Ikenga spoke up, "Isn’t that a bit unfair to the first mortal that killed the god? If the judges are right about everything, then they should have known it was unfair for the mortal, considering he doesn’t know the price of his action."

Nana shook her head. "You are still too young, child. I told you, these beings’ existence is quite unimaginable."

Nana asked a question of her own. "Who told you that the mortal didn’t know the price for his actions?"

The gods looked confused. Nana proceeded to answer. "Since the dawn of creation, such things have already been foreseen, which is why when a mortal truly decides wholeheartedly to kill a god, he is to be met by a lesser judge existence, who will then inform him or her of the consequences of their action. Some take back their resolve, but some go through with it."

That got the gods to go silent. Nana, seeing them so down, said, "While that seems to be a problem, Ikenga’s idea isn’t so bad. For example, in a war between two worlds, one of you may strike a deal with the other world god to end the life of a god on your side. This way, no one pays a price for the god’s death as the god met their end at the hands of the opposite team."

A look of deep complication flashed across Nana’s eyes as she said, "There are ways to end a god’s life, and in your immortal life, I am sure you will come to understand and find these new ways."

Mahu spoke up this time with clear confusion. "This is related to the image, but if the mortal knew the consequence of its action, why did it still go through with it?"

Ikenga could think of a few reasons why someone can still do something crazy even after knowing the consequences, but he was curious to know what Nana would say.

Nana smiled at Mahu. "There are a lot of reasons, my daughter. It might have been hatred for the god and its way, envy, or because of a love situation. It could be anything. But in the case of this mortal, it was because it chose this path to strength."

Ikenga, taken aback by the last answer, couldn’t help but ask Nana to elaborate more on her words. "For all life, my son, godhood is the ever-reaching goal and is seen as the peak of strength. A god is someone with no limit in sight as long as there are believers ready to worship them."

"Unfortunately, while ascension to godhood is indeed within the realm of possibility for everyone, not everyone possesses the necessary qualities to attain it. Simply reaching the pinnacle of one’s abilities does not guarantee ascension to godhood. Instead, specific capabilities and qualities are required to transform one’s abilities into something truly divine. In the case of a flame mage, it’s not enough to wield fire proficiently; they must possess a quality or essence inherent to fire itself that sets them apart and makes them worthy of claiming the mantle of a god."

"Now, why this may be the case, there is a situation or path different from the divine, where a life form pushes their capabilities to the limit where they evolve to a higher life form that enables them to rise or even match the gods in strength."

"The dragons are an example of this case, as because of how high of a life form they are. The dragons have no problem with not ascending to godhood as they can grow their strength to even match the strength of the gods. There are many paths to this way of strength, and evolving to a higher life form isn’t the only path."

"That was the case for the mortal going after the god. Some, in the process of finding their way to increase their strength, turn to the gods, in hope killing them will boost them forward. This method works only for a few strong, talented individuals who are able to handle the challenges that come after succeeding," Nana answered to the best of her capabilities.

Out in space where the red dot was located, a view of the inside was shown where Björn in his full ascended form can be seen standing with his eyes closed and furrowed. His realm looked like a replica of his last battlefield only there was no one fighting in it except for the thousand of different weapons lying around. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Opening his eyes, Björn felt the faith energy gathering around him waking him up fully. Helga gauntlet in his hands making a continuous sizzling sound as it burned through his flesh. Looking down at the gauntlet Björn thought to himself "I am very luck to get my hands on this"

The weapons laying around gathered as they formed into a huge throne where he sat down, nothing was in sight except for the empty realm and the faith energy being supplied to him. Björn has never had experience in being a god but his memory has some reference on their capabilities.

Pulling on his new divine energy, Björn’s eyes changed as a view on what was happening in his kingdom presented itself in front of him. Björn was happy seeing that and wanted to explore more but as soon as his sight left his kingdom to look beyond the icy plains he felt the drainage of his divine energy increase.

Unlike origin gods whose sight and view of the world are unobstructed except for a few countermeasures, and with no spending of divine energy. Ascended gods to view the world like them have to expend faith energy, the amount of energy depends on if the area they view is where either belief system is strong or not.

Right now as Björn wanted to view the icy plains he had to spend more energy for that, noticing that, he pulled his sight back to his kingdom and its territory. He noticed the new building structure and a statue of himself with a figure he hadn’t seen before.

"So she is the one behind it" He thought to himself, Björn knows his own situation and understands that no one in his kingdom has the capabilities to build a church and spread his belief system as he hadn’t taught them of it yet.

His ascension wasn’t something planned but rather an unexpected opportunity that presented itself which he immediately took, leaving him in a bad state after his ascension but right now because of this half demon female figure he was saved.

Getting a closer look on Yuki’s figure, Björn’s eyes widened, he saw a mark he was all familiar with "Murmur?" Standing up immediately, Björn’s eyes were filled with fear.

"The main consciousness was able to survive and get into this world too?" Björn thought to himself in panic, if the main consciousness was here then there was no need for his goal of sacrificing this world to the abyss in hope of becoming the main consciousness.

Björn knows that the goal of other consciousness like itself was to reform a full demon body in hope of becoming the main consciousness, but that was the case if the main consciousness was lost. In the case of a situation like now, Björn understood that the main consciousness goal wasn’t reforming a full demon body but rather returning back to its full strength and regaining the abyss grace.

A fully powered Murmur was close to owning an abyss layer as his own and claiming the title of an abyss lord. Each layer of abyss is a world itself and an abyss lord is someone with the power of a world under their hands, making them at the level of a planet consciousness that hasn’t taken over other worlds.