Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 829 - 466 I... I havent gotten on the car yet

Chapter 829: Chapter 466: I… I haven’t gotten on the car yet Chapter 829 -466: I… I haven’t gotten on the car yet “Have you written it down?” Negris leaned over to see, snorted after a glance, and said, “What is this mess? How can it be so simple? I took one look and could tell there are at least two thousand independent arrays, but you don’t even have two hundred here.”

Ange ignored it, fiddling with the device on his own, occasionally enlarging, flipping, and inserting components.

Durken watched with trepidation. As an alchemist, he knew all too well how terrifying such exquisite control could be. Although he could do it himself, achieving it as effortlessly as Ange was a bit difficult.

Moreover, this obviously wasn’t Ange’s limit. While recalling, he kept inserting new arrays, the number of arrays continued to climb, but Ange’s magic power reaction remained stable all along, which meant he wasn’t straining at all, making it impossible to fathom the limit of his control power.

While Ange played with his own device, Negris continued to talk about the situation in the Sorcerer’s ladder, and then everyone analyzed it together.

Anthony said, “There’s no doubt that the Church of Light of the Sorcerer Alliance is fake, or rather an organization of a fake god. The words spoken by these classical priests have overturned the entire theological system, creating a paradox in faith—God is omnipotent, yet He cannot create a stone He cannot lift.”

“Light shines upon the land, but it cannot reach the domain of the undead; they need the God of Truth to create the Divine Country. Essentially, they’re placing the God of Truth in a higher position than the God of Light. Don’t their priests find it strange when saying such things?”

“An ugly handsome guy? A fat skinny person? A diligent lazybones? Such logically flawed statements are earnestly spoken by a Great Priest, which is utterly ridiculous,” Anthony criticized.

Curious, Negris asked, “Isn’t there such a saying in the Master Plane? About God being omnipotent and all that?”

Anthony looked at him with a strange expression and said, “Yes, if your faith is firm, then God is omnipotent. If God does not demonstrate His power, it’s certainly because your faith is wavering, and God’s power cannot be transmitted to you.”

“Kvada, it can be interpreted like that? I see, if you don’t do well, it’s not because of me, it’s because your faith in knowledge isn’t firm enough. You wavered, got distracted, didn’t earnestly receive knowledge, so the God of Knowledge couldn’t bless you. Oh, why didn’t I think of explaining it this way before? Such an oversight, such an oversight,” Negris said, patting his back and sighing deeply.

No wonder Anthony looked so awkward; here was a living counterexample.

“Because they’ve twisted the doctrine, it’s just a pseudo-religious sect in the guise of the Church of Light, and thus their faith is devoted to the God of Truth. But what’s with this Heroic Spirit?” Anthony asked, puzzled.

Negris replied dejectedly, “A Heroic Spirit is a collective embodiment of group faith. The reason a Heroic Spirit is born is that there is a large group of people with a shared imagined community, like ancestors, heroes, totems.”

“What’s the difference between it and a god?” Anthony queried, having no understanding of what a Heroic Spirit was.

Negris hesitated for a while before he said, “Well, if you’re asking for a difference, they’re both the power of faith. The difference might be what came first, the chicken or the egg. With Heroic Spirits, there’s first a shared imagined community before a Heroic Spirit is born; with gods, first there’s a god, then followers’ thoughts are unified.”

At this point, Negris fell into contemplation; it had never deeply considered the difference between Heroic Spirits and gods before, but now, analyzing with this line of thought, aren’t Heroic Spirits and gods indistinct?

The God of Light could also be regarded as a type of Heroic Spirit, or maybe a totem.

First there was the worship of a totem like the sun, which led to the concept of light. However, the sun is tangible, hanging in the sky, lacking in mystery and distance, not really suitable for playing god.

As it grew and expanded, the Church of Light came into existence, based on the aspiration for light, the future, and all things bright and beautiful.

With the Church of Light, a bunch of powerful entities emerged, eventually leading to the Gods of Light, confirmed by the God of Life.

Then, speaking of Red Star, he is a Heroic Spirit, but is he a god? First came the man Red Star, then the shared image of Red Star, and from there the Heroic Spirit was born.

But is a Heroic Spirit the same as Red Star? No.

In the midst of its dilemma, Ange suddenly lifted his head and said, “Dumb.”

That word, like a flash of insight, pierced through Negris’s thoughts, and it slapped its back exclaiming, “Right, dumb, that’s the biggest difference between Heroic Spirits and gods. Since it is born from the collective wish of a group, it lacks wisdom and will act according to the collective will.”

“But gods are not like that; gods have wisdom, strategy, cunning, and self-interest. They can be as foolish as Redemption, or as sneaky as the God of Arbitration.”

“However, the biggest difference should be the way their power is manifested. A Heroic Spirit is based on a common image; it only possesses power if it conforms to the shared image.”

“If it’s a hero, then its strength comes from what everyone imagines a hero to be. If it runs away, it loses the image of a hero and thus all its power. But a god won’t, a god will tell you, he ran away because your faith isn’t strong enough.”

Everyone nodded in realization as they listened, and Silver Coin even admired aloud, “Worthy of the God of Knowledge, your analysis is logical, easy to understand, and quite convincing.”

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