Chapter 453: Chapter 163
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Some events of this year were bound to be recorded into history.
First, the Evil Camp of the Pantheon temple was badly damaged. Their largest organization, the Alliance of Evil G.o.ds, was almost destroyed. The Alliance’s leader, the G.o.d of Fear who was a great Divine Power, together with his Fear G.o.d System, was almost beaten to pieces. In a few minutes, there were about 100 evil G.o.ds who died all at once.
It was amazing enough. It was almost the worst loss that the Evil Camp had suffered in the past tens of thousands of years, but it was not over yet.
Just one day later, the G.o.d of Fear, who had been badly wounded and fled away during the war, was captured alive by his old adversary, the G.o.d of Justice, and would be tried in public and punished with justice and severity soon.
Compared to these two things, other events that should have been enough to shake the world, such as the good G.o.ds going to Void City to express their congratulations, or the War G.o.d System bowing their heads to a G.o.d that didn’t even have a formal clergy, were less amazing now.
In all these events, there was an absolute protagonist that had to be mentioned. That was the Void Mask, Auscar, a jellyfish from the sea.
“Why did you suddenly decide to submit to the Void Mask?” In the front row of the Pantheon temple, Lefon, the Sky Devourer Canine, curiously approached Wenner, the G.o.d of War. “What about him is worth you guys following?”
“First of all, he’s powerful, then he’s fair, and finally he’s full of pioneering spirit.” Wenner, the G.o.d of War, didn’t want to hide anything, so he answered frankly. “What really moved me was actually the last one.”
Lefon nodded slightly and understood what he meant.
“Auscar… He is really full of pioneering spirit. Many of his ideas are not only original but also very practical. Perhaps he can really create a situation that has never existed before and bring development and progress to the world.”
“I think the word perhaps is redundant.” Wenner laughed and said, “He has proved this through the development of the Republic of Northwest. If one wants to stop him from moving forward, one probably has to start a war. But who can defeat him? As long as he shows up, he will hold his opponent and explode twice in a row, and who can beat that?”
“Yes! He has enough strength to defend his dreams.” Lefon nodded. “I envy that a lot!”
“So I decided to follow him. To be honest, I have been at a loss for years. Although I have won countless battles, I really don’t know where I should go and where I should lead the War G.o.d System,” Wenner sighed softly and said. “Now, everything has been settled. I just follow him. I believe that there will be a brilliant future for the War G.o.d System!”
“That’s for sure. If he wants to promote his way of development, he will inevitably fight with others…”
“Haha! You’re a little too direct.”
In the middle of the Pantheon temple, there were also others discussing Sui Xiong.
“It’s hard for me to understand it now.” The G.o.d of Scholar and Debate shook his head. “His Majesty, the Void Mask is clearly just a jellyfish, but how does he know so much? Why does he have such wonderful ideas?”
Beside him, the G.o.d of Righteousness and Law was thinking about it quietly.
When heard the news of the coming public hearing, the one who felt the most shocked among the G.o.ds was the G.o.d of Law.
He had always adhered to a neutral stand. He had been impartial in doing things and was dedicated to improving the legal system and training seriously. He was a powerful law enforcer. Although he had met a lot of difficulties, he still felt that his work was fruitful and his team of followers and clergymen were gradually expanding. He believed that the future would be better and better.
However, the sudden emergence of the Void Mask had a great impact on him.
This jellyfish seemed to know everything by nature, and his policies and regulations in the Void Mask Land were amazingly perfect. The G.o.d of Law once asked his followers to collect the doc.u.ments about the Void Law System—that was what he called the laws and regulations that had been launched by the Void Mask—and spent a lot of time studying them carefully. He finally came to the conclusion that the jellyfish, the Void Mask, was really better than him, the formal G.o.d of Law.
Especially after the Republic of Northwest was founded, and its formal laws were promulgated, the G.o.d of Law read them carefully and immediately felt a sense of admiration.
He could see that there were obvious signs of deletions and revisions in this set of laws and regulations. It was probably that the Void Mask had put forward the original version of the regulations, and then the governors of the Republic of Northwest revised them based on the practical situation.
It had been so excellent a law system after the revision, and he really couldn’t imagine how great the original version would be!
With this idea in mind, the G.o.d of Law could not help but want to visit Void Mask and have a good talk with him to exchange ideas and mutually learn.
But he didn’t make up his mind. Actually, they had met and talked with each other before. That had not been a pleasant conversation because they had opposite understandings of the law. After a few words, the conversation stopped, and they almost fought with each other.
It was nothing surprising because the conversation between the G.o.d of Law and other good G.o.ds had always ended up like this. The Void Mask had been one of the mildest G.o.ds, and the fiercest, the G.o.d of Justice, had almost destroyed the G.o.d’s Kingdom of the G.o.d of Law.
After that, the G.o.d of Law disliked Sui Xiong more or less. He thought that this jellyfish was so idealistic that he couldn’t understand reality, just the same as the G.o.d of Justice.
But facts had proved that the Void Mask was a master who could do what he said, and he really had the ability to turn his ideas into practice!
From the Void Mask Land to the Republic of Northwest, he really launched a legal system that was more vigorous and efficient as well as fairer than ever.
This made the G.o.d of Law both surprised and curious. In the past, he had planned to visit the Void Mask more than once. He wanted to have a peaceful talk with him about the understanding of the law and society.
But he had cared about his honor too much. After all, he was older among the G.o.ds, even older than the G.o.d of Justice. Moreover, he had stubbornly maintained his absolute neutral att.i.tude all along. He had also quarreled with the Void Mask before, so he felt a little embarra.s.sed to bow his head for advice.
But now, he had no such idea. Honor? What was that for?
His Majesty, the Void Mask, by himself, had almost wiped out the whole Alliance of Evil G.o.ds and the entire Fear G.o.d System. Would it be embarra.s.sing for the G.o.d of Law to bow his head to ask such a master for advice?
On the contrary, as a G.o.d of mid-level Divine Power and a useless old man who managed to become a G.o.d when he was almost 10,000 years old, was he qualified enough to care about his honor when standing in front of such a genius master who had achieved countless great deeds in his less than a hundred years of life?
Therefore, after received the news of the upcoming public hearing, the G.o.d of Law started his journey immediately and arrived at Void City to visit Sui Xiong that night.
Sui Xiong certainly welcomed him. Sui Xiong had long wanted to have a good talk with him. However, their last conversation had ended unhappily within a few words due to their bad mood, and since then, Sui Xiong had been a bit angry and did not want to see him again. Today, the G.o.d of Law visited Sui Xiong in person, and that really made Sui Xiong happy, just like a sleepy person who saw a pillow.
They talked for almost two hours. Sui Xiong introduced his understanding of the law and society carefully, and the G.o.d of Law mainly listened and asked questions. From time to time, he raised some questions according to his own understanding. Both of them had been pleasant during the conversation.
The G.o.d of Law was indeed an expert. In this world, the society was somewhat deformed, and the development of law was slow, so his insights were limited, and he had been stubborn in many problems. However, his profound acc.u.mulation was indeed remarkable. Many times Sui Xiong just gave a brief introduction or advice, and the G.o.d of Law could think along the direction Sui Xiong had pointed out and draw a fairly reliable conclusion. That made Sui Xiong praise him more than once for his sensitivity and profound knowledge.
The G.o.d of Law learned more about the deep connotation of the Void Mask. Many problems that he had been thinking about for a long time were not even problems at all to the Void Mask and were solved by him easily. What was more striking was that this Jellyfish G.o.d also developed his ideas on more profound and essential issues, and that benefited the G.o.d of Law a lot. It was like he was climbing a very high mountain under the leaders.h.i.+p of this Jellyfish G.o.d, and he felt open-minded at last.
For example, at the beginning of their discussion, they started with the nature of law. His understanding was that law was the tool for the strong to manage the weak, while Sui Xiong said naturally that law was the embodiment of the will of the ruling cla.s.s.
At first glance, there was not much difference between them, but when Sui Xiong explained what cla.s.s and rule, social mobility and development, compromise and progress meant in detail—mainly something he had seen and learned before his time-travel—the G.o.d of Law was completely shocked. He tried his best to ask questions and to understand these concepts one by one, and then he compared it with the experience that he had learned from the Code of the Republic of Northwest and his actual governing work; he soon became enlightened and could not help but laugh.
At that moment, there was a relaxed and happy look on his face, and that was as funny as an Internet emoji on the earth.
Late at night, when the G.o.d of Law was ready to say goodbye and leave, this influential G.o.d respectfully saluted Sui Xiong and honored him as a teacher.
Thus, there was one more big event that happened in the past few days—the G.o.d of Righteousness and Law publicly declared that he had wors.h.i.+ped His Majesty, the Void Mask as a teacher and learned legal knowledge from him. He had learned so much that it could be said that he had found a new direction. From today on, if there was anyone who dared to go against his teacher, the Void Mask, the G.o.d of Righteousness and Law would treat them as an enemy and would kill them under his teacher’s order.
No one would be surprised if these words were from the G.o.d of Justice, but things would be different when it was the mature and honest G.o.d of Righteousness and Law that said that.
This was not his style!
Several G.o.ds who had a good relations.h.i.+p with him asked about the whole thing carefully to make sure that this old G.o.d was not talking nonsense. They found that he really wors.h.i.+ped the Void Mask as his teacher now, and what he had said was utterly and sincerely from his heart.
Others were more surprised, wondering whether the Void Mask was really so powerful. Otherwise, how could the G.o.d of Law be completely obedient to him?
With surprise and curiosity, they all looked forward to the upcoming public hearing.