Chapter 4 The Truth About gods

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Ch.4 The Truth About gods As if he was removing fog off a window, Eridel removed the remaining essence of destruction from the regular hatchlings. At this point, they had no hope of gaining an affinity with those laws and keeping it within their bodies would just slowly kill them. In future, it was indeed possible to gain affinity with the Laws of Destruction and they even had better chances than any other life form - having experienced and even absorbing the Laws whilst in their gestation stage. But unfortunately, it was very, very hard. Affinity was like talent, and such a thing could scarcely be changed after birth. That’s why 9 out of 10 times, rich families inject all kinds of drugs, divine treasures and more directly into their child's while still in the womb in hopes to increase their natural talents. This would only ever benefit the child and never harm it if you knew the correct techniques. If you were foolish enough to mix in herbs with too much energy, or treasures that only suited specific races and weren't even the same as you... You could only blame yourself when the child directly blew up, killing the mother in the process, or even came out completely crippled. Eridel knew that the regular hatchlings had missed their most opportune time and they wouldn’t be able to gain affinity with destruction before that same destruction claimed their life first. They had their chance and they missed it which was perfectly fine. Having 9 ‘dragons’ of destruction with 2 of them reaching perfect affinity was already a blessing and Eridel was satisfied. Eridel also left the other 7 ‘dragons’ of destruction with the essence of destruction still inside their bodies. It was indeed still slowly killing them but Eridel didn’t care. It was not because he had confidence in his Primordial Essence removing the risk even though it did - but because he knew that they only needed their first true evolution (the one Gaia had already gone through) to become completely resistant and that would happen when he awakened magical energy in the planet. Having the essence of their Law in their bodies when they breakthrough would be extremely beneficial and make the process smooth sailing. It may seem like what the hatchlings had gone through already was an evolution, but it was not, it was more of a half evolution, commonly called a mutation. So how did World’s try their best to manipulate Laws? They don’t have a chance to own source energy so they looked for beings who did. The beings who were naturally born on their planet. When a talented individual had come to a World's attention. The World can decide to offer a... contract. The god contract. A god was someone who had complete affinity and sole governance over 1 Law in the world they were made in, they are now able to generate the essence of their Law inside their bodies instead of having to absorb and convert magical energy into it. Completely meeting the criteria of being a source energy. But in truth, they had to follow the World’s every whims and could never leave it. Why? That was because the contract ensures that in exchange for power, ‘you must do my bidding’. These contracts brand the soul of the god and if broken would kill the god in retaliation. That was why Immortals disdained the gods, calling them slaves. Immortals were those that achieved similar levels of power and obtained source energy, but completely by their own efforts. A god was also restricted in the changes they were allowed to make to the World and ironically, this was because of the contract, something that a World actually had no control of. So while a World wields gods to control Laws, the level of control is simplified so much they could only do the most basic things. Only the god of creation was the most useful to a World, but how can a mere life form like that possibly have enough energy to truly create anything relevant? When a World wanted to create a new species, they had to use the god of creation, the god of life, the god of death and all sorts of related gods, just to have enough energy to create 2 beings. 1 for each gender. Even then, each occasion would leave all involved gods on fumes for a very long time, we’re talking century or 2 here. That’s why they rarely did it. In the end, the one thing gods did the best was to defend. When other Worlds invaded, they had to be extremely careful of the gods in their own domain. So when a god is out of commission - the World is naturally vulnerable. Just another reason why a World barely actually used their gods for anything and why they were so handicapped. ‘BUT IS THAT THE SITUATION FOR THE GREAT AND MIGHTY ME? NAY!!!’ Eridel looked all over his lands greedily, thinking about the Primordial Essence that had never stopped generating inside of his soul since 2000 years ago. If he still had a face, it would look embarrassingly perverted at this moment.

Chapter 4 The Truth About gods

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