Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan

Witch Slaughter was as insignificant as an ant in a palace of white jade.

But the terrifying figure of the Flying Lizard was truly divine.

It looked down on Witch Slaughter with indifference, its expression devoid of emotion.

And as for Witch Slaughter?

He raised his head, gazing at the deity among the snow-white clouds.

The deity was lizard-like—the very same deity of the Flame Race from his Contemplation Method.

However,

This time, Witch Slaughter discovered that compared to the deity he had last visualized in his contemplation thirty years ago,

the deity before him no longer bore any of its once-horrifying injuries.

Not only were there no injuries,

but as he gazed upon his deity, he could feel a terrifying aura.

This aura was countless times stronger than it had been thirty years ago.

Witch Slaughter even noticed that the Divine Body of his Witch God, Roasted, seemed slightly larger than it was thirty years ago.

Whether it was a trick of the light or not,

in short, seeing the deity before him, who appeared to have fully recovered,

Witch Slaughter was overcome with a strange excitement!

'Finally!!!'

'My God has finally recovered!'

Witch Slaughter's heart was filled with unprecedented joy.

At the same time, the tension that had gripped his heart finally began to ease.

The pressure that had felt like a great mountain crushing him, leaving him breathless, vanished in an instant.

"Witch Slaughter!"

"Greetings, Blazing God!"

"Blazing God, have... have your injuries healed? If not, please preserve your Divine Body. We of the Mortal Race can still endure."

It had to be said that in any other world, a mortal directly asking a deity if they were still unwell,

or even presuming to 'tell a deity what to do,' was an extremely rare occurrence, if it happened at all.

After all, in the eyes of many Deities, such an act was tantamount to overstepping one's bounds and station.

Forget about Deities.

Even ordinary people in positions of power wouldn't appreciate such forwardness from a subordinate.

However,

it all depended on the circumstances.

In a barbaric world like this one,

although the gap in status between Deities and mortals was immense,

such strict rules regarding speech and conduct had not yet been formed.

So, in this world,

the dialogue between Deities and Witches was actually quite straightforward.

How straightforward?

Well, it was something like this.

Witch: "God, have you eaten?"

Deity: "Oh, I've eaten, but I'm not full yet. Can you get me something tasty?"

Witch: "Tasty? This humble Witch doesn't know your tastes, my God. How about for the next blood sacrifice, I roast all the offerings over a fire before presenting them to you?"

"..."

The dialogue was extremely direct, with no beating around the bush.

As for the art of language?

Perhaps some could grasp it, but for the Deities of this era,

rhetoric wasn't really that important.

Ultimately,

it was because the Deities of this period treated mortals with utter contempt.

They largely viewed mortals as personal assets.

So, if a Deity was in a bad mood, it was entirely possible for them to eat a Witch God Guard or two.

In this regard, the Primordial Deities of this Cosmos and this world were actually very similar to the Ancient Gods on the Barbaric Planets of the Star Empire.

And the so-called Witch God Guards

were similar to the Demigods and Divine Attendants of the Star Cosmos.

They served to help gang up on other Deities, but for these particular Deities, they also served as a reserve of blood-food.

After all, a Witch God Guard could be considered a high-energy food source.

A single one was worth at least tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of ordinary mortals as blood-food.

Didn't the Witches know about this?

Of course they knew.

But in the eyes of these Witches, being eaten by a Deity was a supreme honor.

It was a sacred process of merging with their God, another form of achieving eternal life.

Therefore, while some Witches might fear this fate,

most displayed a fervent fanaticism for it.

It felt very much like a cult, a form of self-brainwashing.

This, too, was a common trait of an ignorant age.

However, as Lince sorted through the information in his mind, He also realized it was only natural for the Witches to be this way.

This was because the Human Race of this world, ever since the dawn of their intelligence in ancient times,

had sought out and willingly placed their faith in these Primordial Deities after comprehending the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Through this, they grasped the so-called Contemplation Method, which was the only way for them to obtain Extraordinary Power in a human body and slowly transform into a form that most closely resembled a Deity.

This process was quite different from that of the Star Cosmos.

However, unlike the Ancient Gods of the Star Cosmos, who automatically radiated and mutated surrounding lifeforms into their own Clans,

in this Cosmos, mortal species had to use the so-called Contemplation Method to become a Clan-like existence, who were known as Witches.

In the Star Cosmos, Ancient Gods could proactively radiate surrounding lifeforms to turn them into their Clan.

In the Witch God Cosmos, Ancient Gods couldn't do this proactively. Instead, they relied on primitive lifeforms to worship them willingly, and then used a tool like the Contemplation Method to passively convert them into a Clan.

The two processes seemed similar on the surface,

but in essence, they were fundamentally different.

This was because the Ancient Gods of the Star Cosmos did not require faith. Even the Gods of Mortal Species could grow without mortal belief; their growth would just be slightly slower without something akin to Divine Power Crystals.

But what about the Ancient Gods of this Cosmos? Even the so-called Gods of Mortal Species needed faith!

Moreover, faith was an indispensable component.

Ultimately,

this was all related to the fundamental laws of this Cosmos.

In the Star Cosmos, whether Ancient Gods or Gods of Mortal Species, they could all grow using Star Energy.

But what about the Witch God Cosmos?

There was no so-called Star Sea, and no such thing as Star Energy. All that existed was the Void Realm, a place of utter nothingness.