Chapter 666
The book was written by a nameless rank 5 cultivator that had witnessed the fall of the Shandal Empire that happened nine thousand years ago .
The god of the Empire had granted a title to that cultivator when it reached the heroic ranks, but the latter forsook its name when it lost faith in the almighty ruler of its nation .
'I've seen the death of countless comrades that had fought with me in the endless wars ordered by our mighty ruler . I've seen an entity with the power to destroy any mortal throne disappearing when his people needed him . Understanding dawned upon me after those sights, but my mind was still too devoted to the Almighty to recognize his flaws . '
Noah read through the contents of the books with intense interest .
The cultivators of the Empire worshipped their god, and the same seemed to have happened in the past described by the nameless author .
Yet, that entity had turned into a heretic when it saw that the god didn't intervene to save its country .
'I've spent years struggling to forget the divine light radiated by my leader, and decades researching the past to appease my doubts . In the end, I found the truth about the Empire and the hobby of its leader . '
Noah could sense the contempt that the author felt toward the god of the Empire through its words .
The nameless cultivator didn't only lose its faith, it even filled that void with hatred .
'Records have been hard to find, but there were always one or two reports hidden in the knowledge of the other two big nations . I suspect that the god left them around to add some variables to his endless game . '
Then, the book revealed the meaning behind its title .
'I've looked for records even twenty thousand years old to discover that multiple Shandal Empires had reached the apex of the Mortal Lands through those years . All of them had thrived under the Almighty's divine light, and all of them had fallen under his indifference . '
Noah had been completely captivated by those lines by then .
The nameless cultivator claimed that the god of the Empire had been in the Mortal Lands for more than thirty thousand years!
Noah couldn't even begin to imagine what it felt to remain stuck at the same level for centuries .
So, he couldn't possibly comprehend the mindset of someone who had been blocked at the first step of the divine ranks for millennia .
The god had been trapped for thousands of years in a world that he can rule easily, without any interest or input .
'The word boredom is too weak to describe his feelings . '
Noah thought before diving again in the contents of the book .
'The Almighty builds an Empire a few millennia after the fall of the previous one and vanishes whenever one of his underlings ascends in the Immortal Lands . I didn't manage to understand why nor what is his purpose . Yet, I'm sure that we are nothing but pawns in his game . '
The book ended with those lines .
Noah had ignored all the details on how the nameless cultivator managed to gather such old information and directly skipped to its final consideration .
It would be up to the Hive to sort through all the knowledge inside his space-ring and summarize it .
After all, most of those data were dated more than ten thousand years, and there would be no available gain in the current era .
'Is the god trying to exploit the ascension of his underlings for personal interests? Still, building nations just to kill time seems a bit of a stretch . '
Noah couldn't believe that such a powerful existence had surrendered himself to his fate .
Cultivators had strong personalities, especially those that had managed to reach the peak of the heroic ranks .
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