GBP Chapter 727 - 225: Ideals and Reality
Chapter 727 - 225: Ideals and Reality
Reality forced them to make choices.
So, the three could only settle for the second-best option. Based on the descriptions in the notes about different aspects of soul power, combined with their own soul traits and insights, they each chose three different paths.
One was enthralled by the analysis of soul power over the world’s entities and the perception of time and space... Her figure could flicker within inches, even "foreseeing" distant future fragments.
She touched upon Sequence Seven—Stargazer.
Another harbored dreams of saving the world, eager to liberate all things to grant them happiness and freedom.
He obtained Sequence Nine—Saint.
And the last one focused on soul power’s insight and reshaping of material structures, his will softened steel like mud, rocks flowed like water, manipulating everything between heaven and earth within a single thought.
He was also the world’s closest existence to the First Generation King, mastering the last Special Sequence—Monarch.
Though they obtained only three of the ten sequences, far from the might of the First Generation Death God, which governed myriad souls, these three sequences’ power on the wasteland ravaged by the Death Domain was already akin to miracles.
When the terrifying black tide of the Death Domain, carrying twisted monsters, struck the survivors’ camp once again, three scientists mastering the Power of Sequence stood out.
The Monarch gently caressed the earth, the hard rock layers rose like living creatures, transforming into an insurmountable wall of sighs;
The Stargazer’s figure flickered unpredictably among the monster hordes, with each appearance accompanied by spatial distortion cuts, tearing apart the strong entities of the Death Domain;
The Saint perceived the energy nodes of the black tide, guiding the survivors’ feeble counterattacks, striking precisely at the weakest points of the Death Domain’s power.
With mortal bodies, they harnessed god-like power, forcibly repelling the despair-inducing black wave.
Light finally dispersed the darkness, rekindling hope in the survivors’ numb eyes.
At that moment, the three scientists were revered as gods.
They were honored as the "Origin Heroes," their names and deeds spread like wildfire across the wasteland, becoming the first dawn breaking the long night of the Dark Era.
And later generations further honored them as...
"Death God Sages"
At this moment, Yun You finally understood.
The world she saw was not the future, but the past...
In that distant wasteland era, it was the Death God Sages who led humanity out of peril, it was those three who rebuilt post-modern human civilization.
...
The essence of power needs to be inherited, order needs to be rebuilt, humanity needs a lighthouse.
The three Origin Heroes deeply understood this.
Thus, they didn’t indulge in personal power, but with the aspiration of rebuilding civilization, they began to spread and teach the skills of soul manipulation.
They established an organization, using the ruins of the first discovery of notes as a foundation.
The purpose of this organization was systematically to study, organize, spread, and teach the way of soul power left by the First Generation Death God, enabling more and more Apprentice Death Gods to emerge from it.
They named this organization—the Death God Organization.
To more clearly divide the power levels and guide successors to progressively master the Power of Sequence, avoiding the past mistakes of power loss control, the three sages based on the strength of soul essence and the human body’s strength, divided the path of Apprentice Death Gods into eight clear tiers.
From the Tier One "Awakeners" who initially awaken soul perception, to the Tier Two "Apprentices" who begin to utilize sequence characteristics, to the Tier Three "Executors" who can independently wield the Power of Sequence in battle... advancing step by step.
Up to the Tier Seven "True God" who can completely master a Sequence Origin and exert its theoretical ultimate power, each tier has defined capability standards and promotion paths.
As for Tier Eight, it is a realm no one can reach, a tier solely belonging to the First Generation King.
The establishment of the Death God Organization attracted countless aspirants yearning for power, desire to change their fate, eager to expel the Death Domain.
It illuminated the wasteland like sparks, nurturing generations of Death Gods.
Thus, human civilization, after experiencing the collapse of the Golden Era and the darkest moment of the Death Domain outbreak, finally, under the guidance of the three Origin Heroes, arduously rebuilt civilization.
Someone once said, as long as the three sages can continuously lead humanity with united force, humans will never return to the path of self-destruction of the Golden Era, eventually becoming greater than ever before.
But...
Regrettably, ideals are ultimately just ideals. When reality, like cold yellow sand, covered the initial blueprint layer by layer, as the complexity of human nature quietly arises, conflict inevitably appears.
The earliest conflict occurred within the three sages.
The Monarch, this mighty being who reshaped materials with will, over the long years, traveled across every land under the Death God Organization’s protection... He saw the order brought by power, and he saw the undercurrent flowing beneath the order.
He saw many, many things.
Within the relatively prosperous shelters, those ordinary people unable to awaken soul power or become Apprentice Death Gods gradually became second-class citizens.
They engaged in the most arduous, dangerous fundamental labor, sustaining the high-ranking Apprentice Death Gods, yet even the most basic dignity and safety were hard to guarantee.
The Monarch also observed that not every Apprentice Death God harbored the world in their hearts like the Origin Heroes.
The expansion of power bred arrogance and greed, some used the Power of Sequence to bully the weak, seize wealth, and even incited bloody storms within shelters over higher-tier promotion resources or personal grievances.