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Chapter 540 Turbulent World

Richard had learned from Mia about the Roman and Greek gods, and that the gods were active thousands of years ago.

In the beginning, it was an era when humans and gods lived together. At that time, gods walked the world and gave birth to many sons of gods. This era was the mythological era.

When the mythological era ended, the gods began to return to heaven and no longer appeared on earth, but only influenced the world in the form of churches and priests.

The closest time to human contact with God was several hundred years ago, when the son of the creator of monotheism came to the world and walked on earth.

It was also that Son of God who brought monotheism into the Roman Empire.

The Roman pantheon was a mess, as they merged various gods into the Roman pantheon as they conquered region after region.

The most famous of these is the integration of Greek gods, the most special of which is Apollo, the sun god, who is the Greek sun god and also the Roman sun god.

Other gods were Greek-Roman, such as Zeus becoming Jupiter, Hera into Juno, Athena into Minerva, Aphrodite into Diana, and so on.

After the rise of monotheism, the Romans no longer believed in these gods, and the Pantheon located in the center of Rome was later transformed into a Catholic church.

Strictly speaking, the current monotheism is far from its heyday. The heyday of monotheism was after the fall of Rome.

Without the suppression of imperial power, monotheism developed extremely rapidly and finally succeeded in suppressing royal power.

In the later Middle Ages, the king had to be crowned by the Pope to be legitimate. Once the royal power dared to dispute with the Pope, the Pope would directly excommunicate the king.

At this time, the people ruled by the king were basically Christians. After being excommunicated, the king became a pagan. At this time, the Pope could call on Christians to oppose the rule of pagans.

At that time, monotheism did not have such a strong influence, and monotheism in this era was not as stable as Mount Tai. For example, they also had to face the same problem.

The Huns invaded.

The powerful Han Dynasty in the East launched a century-long Han-Xiongnu War against the Huns. Finally, through the efforts of successive Han emperors, the Han Dynasty completely defeated the Huns.

A part of the Huns were forced to migrate westward. They first came to Wusun and then moved to Kangju. Then they discovered that these western nations were so easy to defeat and conquer, and that the environment here was not as harsh as that in the Mobei grassland.

On one side is the Mobei area with its harsh climate and the powerful Han Dynasty, and on the other side is the weak Western Regions. Any normal person would know what to choose, so the Huns began to migrate westward on a large scale.

This process lasted for about three or four hundred years, and the Huns migrated all the way from East Asia to West Asia and entered Europe.

The Huns at this time were actually no longer the Huns of the Mobei grasslands. During the migration process, these Huns gradually merged with other ethnic groups to form a new Hun tribe.

Although there is some blood relationship, it is very distant, but some of their living customs are still very similar to those of the Huns.

The Xiongnu Empire, which had conquered many ethnic groups along the way, had become very powerful.

So the powerful Hun Empire began to invade Europe. The first stop of these Huns was to destroy the Alans. And at this time, the Roman Empire did not know that a powerful Hun Empire had appeared in the East.

Next, the Huns destroyed the Ostrogothic Kingdom established by the Germanic people. These Goths entered the Roman Empire. Due to the strong pressure from the Huns, the Roman Empire had to join forces with the barbarians to fight against the Huns. However, even if the two sides joined forces, they were no match for the Huns.

The Goths later rebelled against the empire and defeated the Roman emperor. They took the opportunity to plunder the city of Rome, then fled westward with a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry and entered the region of present-day Spain, where they re-established a Visigothic Kingdom.

The unfortunate Roman emperor suffered heavy losses in the Visigothic rebellion, and these Visigothic rebels even burned the Roman emperor to death.

The Roman emperor's disastrous defeat brought the empire's deterrence to a freezing point, and the provinces, which were originally difficult to control, basically became autonomous. The Roman emperor had no way to govern the princes and provinces.

The only threat to the monotheistic rule now is the Hun Empire. If the powerful Hun Empire really attacks desperately, European countries will not be able to stop it.

The Huns at this time did not believe in monotheism. They had their own beliefs and would not abandon their beliefs to believe in the gods of a country that they had destroyed.

And from the historical events told by Mia and the Druid, Richard discovered that wars between humans had a great impact on the gods.

Just as the Romans defeated the Greeks, and the Greek gods were assimilated by Rome, the same was true when the Romans conquered other nations.

Once the Huns completely defeated Rome, the gods worshipped by Rome would inevitably be assimilated by the Huns.

The influence of gods on the human world is not too strong. After all, this is the rule of this world.

However, I don’t know why the Huns retreated when they were about to win.

This gave monotheism an opportunity, and Attila, the emperor of the Hun Empire, died suddenly soon. The Hun Empire was originally integrated by tribal alliances and was composed of one tribe after another.

The position of Hun emperor was not passed down from father to son, which led to a power struggle within the Hun Empire after Attila's death.

Each tribe wanted to compete for the emperor, resulting in a significant decline in the power of the Hun Empire.

There is no more power to attack Europe. Attila's sudden death is full of doubts, and Richard doubts whether the creator is involved.

But Li felt that there must be one, otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence. From this point of view, this monotheistic creator is not that strong.

The gods used their divine power to force the king of a powerful empire to die suddenly under the rules of this world. The price they had to pay was not small.

Richard is now ready to use the power of the human world to influence the war between gods. If he can have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, Richard is confident that he can sweep all the beliefs of these gods into the garbage dump.

Others might not be able to resist the gods' direct attack, but Richard was different. Although he was restricted by the rules of the world and could not use his powerful divine power, he could still resist the gods' plots.

More importantly, it is now his real body that has entered the human world, while the real bodies of those gods have not entered, not even their incarnations have entered.

The rules of this world place great restrictions on gods. Once the incarnation descends, Richard will use his army to surround and kill it, and it is estimated that a large amount of divinity will be dropped.

(End of this chapter)