Chapter 470: 470
Chapter 470: Hostage
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
The immemorial Ocean God Sidunwar, husband to the Water Elemental Goddess Aylos . It was said that back in the immemorial generation, he was the strongest Main God at the time, and dared to challenge the Goddess of Order's authority .
Vague descriptions like "the strongest" would always be unclear . But back in his day, he was the leader of all the Sea Gods, and there were multiple Main Gods under him . His power was more than sufficient to challenge the Goddess of Order's authority .
Unlike Gods from future generations that gained their powers through belief, the immemorial Gods had all obtained their power levels through their own efforts, making them have incredibly solid foundational strength . Since Sidunwar had multiple Main Gods under his command, including even the Queen of Storms, who was his underling at the time, it doubtlessly meant that Sidunwar and his faction had astonishing power that gave him the mistaken impression that he could challenge the Goddess of Order .
Of course, it was also said that Sidunwar was supremely arrogant precisely because of his overwhelming power . This was what led to his downfall in the end . And when he ended up meeting with difficulties, almost nobody other than his wife remained by his side to help him . Not only did his past subordinates not help him, they even attacked him while he was down . Although the two major factions of Order and Chaos would be responsible for bribing and tempting the other Gods to do so, it was still rare to see someone unpopular to such a degree .
But, regardless of history or legends, no matter how badly he acted, every story would describe Sidunwar as incredibly strong…
"Perhaps I can make use of his strength . "
Unlike most people that almost instinctively worshipped the strong, personal strength wouldn't obtain my respect at all . In fact, it was rather the opposite . The personality defects exposed by one's strength were nothing more than weaknesses to be taken advantage of .
"Although most love out there is unequal, it's quite moving just how deep Aylos' love is . Perhaps… I have an excellent hostage . "
Yep, from a certain standpoint, I had already maxed my skill points in "ruling behind the scenes", "using carrot and stick", "kidnapping, scamming, and extortion," and other such antagonist skills . It would seem that my original wish to be a good person had gone off track from the very start… By the way, if it wasn't for the fact that I was always mysteriously treated as a bad person, I probably wouldn't have wanted to be a good person in the first place .
From a certain standpoint, personality decided one's fate . Reaching my level today was no coincidence at all… perhaps I was born to be a natural antagonist .
"Elisa, don't listen to Sidunwar blathering on . He absolutely has to protect the Pillar of Ice, more than anyone else! He'll never abandon the Pillar of Ice even if he has to die again . "
Creating a physical body for one of the Gods of Hell would be no easy task . Right now, I was currently unable to move as I was still in the process of reviving . However, my will was able to transmit my words of consolation to Elisa, not even trying to hide my condescension and displeasure .
And I was indeed telling the truth . Since I knew from the very start that it would be possible to revive Sidunwar, of course I would account for him in my plans as I lacked top-tier combat strength .
In a way, perhaps I had indeed done something terrible . I made a trade with Aylos, having her sacrifice herself as the price to revive Sidunwar . And now, I created yet another unique situation where Sidunwar would be forced to fight for my cause… If he wanted Aylos to revive successfully, he would have to protect the Pillar of Ice!
That's right, the Pillar of Ice was connected to Aylos' revival . By now, my plans should be obvious .
The Four Elemental Pillars were the equivalent of the Elemental Thrones in the Elemental Planes . Naturally, there would need to be the equivalent of Elemental Gods in order to control and adjust these elements . In the plane of Hell, that would be the Four Pillar Gods that I had previously emphasized .
It wouldn't be easy to reach the level necessary to be a Pillar God in Hell . As each Pillar God would be an existence controlling the entire Concept of one of the basic elements, the lowest requirement was that this existence must already be equivalent to Godhood in power, and also have his or her powers foundationally be about one of the four elements . The most important was that the Pillar God would need to be dead…
That's right, only a dead God or mortal who had an incomplete soul would be able to become one of the Four Pillar Gods of Hell .
This wasn't to force people down a thorny path; this was dictated by the most basic dimensional law of death in Hell . This was the same as how the Elemental Planes' Elemental Gods could only originate from elemental creatures . Only dead souls would be able to become a Hell God .
In my grand scheme, these dead souls would temporarily be stored in my soul ice crystals . They would then be combined and synchronized with the dimensional laws of Hell, finally reviving them as the Four Pillar Gods and becoming the undying Main Gods of the Hell Faction . And, the price for reviving them from death was that they would all be destined to only be able to forever remain in Hell .
This seemed quite simple, but would actually be quite difficult to achieve .
There wasn't a single God in the world which possessed the Concept of Ice . The God with the closest related Concept was the Goddess of Frost, who was a Chaos Evil God . She was the very incarnation of a blizzard, and her favorite hobby was to freeze travelers that dared to travel through snow mountains by themselves . She was an insane woman who had an evil reputation rivalling that of the Queen of Storms .
The Frigid Nightmares were of the ice element and met the power level requirement as well . However, since they were special soul existences, they didn't even have the Concept of Death . Any Frigid Nightmare that was seriously injured would naturally disappear and be returned to the snow mountain . It would be impossible to use a Frigid Nightmare for my Pillar God of Ice .
And so, my only choice was to either kill the Goddess of Frost or to use Water Elemental Goddess Aylos as water was the foundational form of ice . That was because the Elemental Gods were quite similar to the Pillar Gods to begin with . The water element also represented the power of life, similar to the intent of ice representing life in Hell . Plus, anyone who was killed off for no apparent reason would definitely have a grudge . If the Goddess of Frost became one of the Four Pillar Gods of Hell, it was highly possible that she would choose to rebel and take revenge, which would be a huge amount of trouble .
"I absolutely have to force Aylos to die in order to obtain her dead soul…"
That was the foundational reason why I had to force Aylos to suicide . And now, the current situation's development had proved that my choice had been correct . I could now heave a sigh of relief .
Yet, choosing the candidates was actually the easiest part to complete regarding the Four Pillar Gods…
There had been no other candidates from the very start for the element of Law in Hell . Wumianzhe was the only existence that had achieved Godhood by using the power of Law . And, this prerequisite condition was the largest reason why Wumianzhe ascending to Godhood became the foundational first step of the grand scheme . It was when I successfully had Wumianzhe obtain Godhood that Ayer finally made up his mind to support me .
Improving the Concept of Law, spreading the teachings of the Church of Law, sacrificing my own soul shard of Sloth to create Wumianzhe's body, and thinking of all possible methods to have Wumianzhe obtain ever more Divine Concepts and divine power… only I myself knew all the hard work and schemes that happened along the way .
And as judgement and death were the most basic dimensional rules in Hell, the God of Law and the God of Death would need to be incredibly powerful . That was why the Ayer Faction had unhesitatingly supported Wumianzhe in becoming a powerful God while disegarding the price . And as Ayer was the only Death God in the world, there were no other candidates who could replace him .
Of course, it was unknown just when the Pillar Gods would be able to revive . No, I should say that it was impossible to promise that they could even be revived at all . That was because the forbidden spell to create the entirety of Hell was based on nothing more than a theory . The probability of success would be so low it'd be impossible to calculate from the very start . Nobody knew just what would happen, and even if they could revive, they would definitely only be able to remain in Hell for the rest of their lives . That would be a great loss for the overall situation .
"The success rate for Hell's construction won't be greater than 50%, and the Hell Gods' chances of revival are also no greater than 50% . . . You're asking how I calculated these odds? Since things will either succeed or fail, the odds are naturally 50% with only two options . . . Cough, okay, I'll be a little more serious . Anyways, I've already done my very best to do everything I could think of to improve the odds . However, there's still just too many unknowns . It's impossible to even try calculating the odds of success . But, the more we do, and the better the conditions are, of course the better the rate of success will be . "
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