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Chapter 660: The Vanishing God
Richard was not in a hurry to attack the Kingdom of God, but dealt with other things first. Anyway, the Kingdom of God was here and he couldn't run away now.

He planned to digest it first before taking action against the Kingdom of God.

Time was on Richard's side. He lost a large number of petitioners, cut off the faith of the human world, and the angel army was defeated. Two of the four archangels died and two surrendered.

It can be said that the power of Monotheism was reduced by more than half. The most crucial thing was that the creator of Monotheism was defeated and killed by Richard once.

In fact, in monotheism, the defeat or death of the four archangels is not the key. The real key is only one, that is, the creator of monotheism.

He actually possesses 70% of the power of Monotheism.

In other words, even if the angel army was defeated, it would not be such a serious blow to the monotheism.

But the failure of this Creator is a real disaster for monotheism. It is not just talk that all the power and glory of the gods belong to Him.

It is also because of this that the consequences of its defeat will be so serious.

On the battlefield, the original legion of angels has surrendered to the Roman gods. These angels will change their appearance and become servants of the Roman gods. As for the Archangel Gabriel, he is expected to become a subordinate god of Athena.

The gods have no kingdom, and half of the faith they have must be given to Athena. But even so, for a god who is about to perish, this is already a very good condition.

However, even if he became a subordinate god, Gabriel's strength would still rank among the top three among the Roman gods.

In addition to the gods, there are also a large number of high-level angels who join polytheism. Many of these high-level angels are relatively important figures in human history, and they were absorbed into monotheism when it was at its peak.

In fact, other pantheons also have this kind of operation, such as the famous Valhalla in the Norse pantheon.

These high-level angels did not have much faith in monotheism, so they easily integrated into the Roman gods. The Roman gods enjoyed their spoils of war. After this wave, the strength of the Roman gods was bound to increase greatly.

This will also be beneficial to the upcoming war for the Kingdom of God.

Attacking the Kingdom of God is not a simple matter, otherwise the creator of monotheism would not have left the Kingdom of Polytheism unattacked and completely eliminated the Roman gods sleeping in it, because the cost of attacking the Kingdom of God is too great.

After gaining absolute advantage, the creator did not want to suffer any more losses, so he cut off the faith and waited for it to perish on its own.

If it weren't for Richard, the polytheistic Roman gods would have completely disappeared in the next few hundred years. On the other hand, the Norse gods, under the attack of monotheism, would also wither away after a thousand years.

Eventually monotheism completely unified Europe's beliefs.

But Richard's arrival completely changed everything. The Roman gods revived and monotheism suffered a heavy blow. In the entire real world, the Roman Empire rose again and built a powerful empire.

The emergence of the empire led to the suppression of monotheism, the imperial power suppressed theocracy, and eventually monotheistic beliefs were banned.

The war between Richard and the Roman gods and the monotheistic gods almost destroyed the real world. If Richard had not defeated them in the end, the damage to the real world would have been limited to a small area.

It is estimated that the whole world has now experienced various horrific natural disasters.

What do you get from killing a god?
In the extremely rare cases where a god is killed by a mortal or a deity, the victor will usually seize part of the god's priesthood power and divine power.

As for why they didn't swallow all of it, one of the important reasons was the problem of priesthood matching. Those priesthoods that were completely opposite would not only not enhance their strength, but would even reduce their strength.

Richard did not intend to become a god, so even if he killed the creator of the monotheistic religion, he would not seize his priesthood. However, he could not use these priesthoods, but the Roman gods could.

So Richard handed these lost priesthoods to Athena, and then asked Athena to distribute them. In addition to these priesthoods, there are also some broken law power and divine power.

Richard will not be polite about these things.

The fragments of the law can be used for comprehension, and the stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade. Richard did not intend to absorb these fragments of the law, but to use them to deduce.

If other legendary spellcasters or great archmages saw this method, they would definitely call it a waste. You must know that by directly choosing to devour and fuse, you can directly control this law. Although you cannot inherit 100%, you can achieve more than 80%.

Richard's method is to consume the power of these law fragments for deduction. Although the deduced power of the law will be more complete, it does not mean that you will master it, right?

Just like the knowledge in books, can you fully master it after reading it once?
Although there are more deduced laws, they are impossible to master. Everything is just like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, just to look at.

Moreover, the power of these fragments of laws can only be sustained for a few deductions at most, after which they will be completely shattered, dissipated, and reintegrated into the world.

Richard's method is the most wasteful one.

But for Richard, this method is more suitable for him because these rule fragments are not suitable for him to integrate into his body. After all, many of these rules are exclusive or contrary to the rules he has mastered.

So the best way is to use it for research rather than integration.

In addition to these rule fragments, Richard finally obtained a little over 100 divine powers. If all these divine powers were integrated, Richard would directly become a powerful divine power.

However, this also requires him to erase the remaining consciousness of these divine powers.

One hundred points of divine power is a huge sum of money for any god. This power can support a god to directly become a god of medium divine power.

As expected, only by killing the true body of the god can you become rich instantly.

"This is."

Richard tried to examine one of the divine essences, and soon a picture emerged in his mind: huge pyramids, the rushing Nile River, those tall temples, and a dazzling sun, with countless Egyptians worshiping the temples.

The god in the temple sits high on the throne, wearing a golden crown and holding a staff with a snake and an eagle on it.

"Is this the Egyptian sun god, Amon?" Richard muttered to himself.

The pantheons that have disappeared in this world are not just the Roman gods. In fact, in the Mesopotamian plains in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, many pantheons have fallen and disappeared, leaving only some broken ruins or murals.

Gilgamesh is one of them. This god from the Sumerian pantheon has completely disappeared. It is estimated that even in the Mesopotamian region, few people know about him. Only a few words exist in some ancient books.

The Egyptian gods also belong to the pantheon of destruction.

The Egyptian gods were indeed very glorious in the past. During their powerful period, they even suppressed monotheism and beat it so badly that it had to leave Egypt.

However, the decline of the Egyptian Kingdom also led to the decline of the Egyptian pantheon. After all, Egypt is very old and is the earliest civilization. The Egyptian Kingdom was indeed powerful, but their location was actually not suitable for large-scale human reproduction.

After passing the primary stage of civilization, population becomes one of the important criteria for measuring the strength of a country.

What about Egypt? In the whole of Egypt, only the banks of the Nile River are suitable for farming and can accommodate a large number of people to survive and reproduce. More than 90% of the rest of the country is desert.

Even if there are some oases where people can survive in the desert, how many people can survive in them?
Therefore, an important problem faced by the Kingdom of Egypt is that there is too little land suitable for survival. This directly leads to Egypt's low population development potential.

The Egyptian gods also had serious infighting. It can be said that the infighting among the Egyptian gods was more serious than that among the Greek gods.

Brothers fought against each other, and conspiracies and plots were endless. Even Ra, the highest and most powerful god of the sun and creator in the Egyptian pantheon, was plotted against and almost killed.

This also led to the decline of the Egyptian gods.

Before other civilizations developed, Egypt was able to defeat the surrounding barbarian tribes with better weapons and equipment, better organization and civilization.

However, as time went on and other civilizations developed, the gap between the two sides became smaller and smaller, and Egypt's problems began to arise.

A series of problems emerged, including insufficient manpower, land defects, limited development, serious internal strife, etc., and more importantly, the Roman Empire rose.

The rising Roman Empire quickly unified the Italian Peninsula and then began its road to conquest, which naturally included Egypt. Eventually, the declining Egypt was completely destroyed by the Roman Empire.

After the development of monotheism, it eventually divided the Egyptian gods into several hundred, and then took over all the Egyptian gods' priesthood, divine power, etc.

The Egyptian pantheon was destroyed and its beliefs were cut off by the Roman Empire.

Eventually the Egyptian gods completely perished.

"It seems that this creator not only devoured the power of the original Roman gods, but also devoured the power of the Egyptian gods. No wonder he was able to gather so much divine power." Richard waved his hand and collected the scattered divine essence.

The fall of the Egyptian gods was largely due to the Roman Empire's attack, and monotheism seized the opportunity. On the other hand, the Egyptian gods also committed suicide, and there was serious internal friction.

Monotheism's revenge on the Egyptian gods was also an important reason.

In fact, there is much more love and hatred between monotheism and the Egyptian gods than between the Roman gods. And the creator of monotheism is not a generous god, on the contrary, he is very vengeful.

Richard suspected that there was an unusual relationship between the creator of monotheism and the Egyptian gods. You know, monotheism first appeared in Egypt.

And this Creator did not choose other people, or common people, He chose an army of slaves.

A slave enslaved by the Egyptians.

Richard deduced that this was most likely due to internal strife among the Egyptian gods.

There is a certain probability that the creator of monotheism was originally one of the Egyptian gods, but his power was defeated due to internal strife, or there may be other reasons that led to his expulsion by the Egyptian gods.

This monotheistic creator chose such a slave nation and then led this slave nation to grow and develop.

In fact, after this nation grew and became stronger, it began to have constant conflicts with Egypt, and the two sides could be said to be as hostile as water and fire.

The Old Testament records a large number of struggles between the monotheistic creator and the Egyptian gods, which was partly responsible for the eventual decline of the Egyptian gods.

The struggle between monotheism and the Egyptian gods made it impossible for Egypt to develop peacefully. It was also unrealistic to rely solely on the Nile River to feed a large population.

After hundreds of years of fighting each other, the Egyptian gods were defeated by the more powerful Rome.

After defeating the Egyptian gods, the Roman gods also absorbed some of the power of the Egyptian gods. Of course, more power should have been obtained by the creator of monotheism.

This can be inferred from the divine essence dropped from the monotheistic creator.

Of course, although the Egyptian gods disappeared, they did not all die. After all, the Egyptian gods built those giant pyramids and magnificent temple buildings.

These things are difficult to build and not easy to destroy.

So even though the Egyptian gods have perished, some of them are still sleeping in the kingdom of God.

The death of a god always leaves something behind. This is not the first time a god has resurrected from the dead.

However, Richard did not find the soul of the sun god Amon from these divine essences. What remained on the divine essences were only some of Amon's memories and obsessions.

The fall of this sun god marked the decline and demise of the Egyptian gods.

In the future history, without Richard's intervention, not only would the gods of Egypt completely disappear, but even the human race would change.

Modern Egyptians have almost no blood relationship with the Egyptians of thousands of years ago.

If it weren't for the pyramids and those huge temple buildings, the Egyptian gods would probably have disappeared just like the Sumerian mythology.

It is obvious that the monotheistic creator was familiar with the Egyptian gods.

He actually destroyed the Egyptian gods so thoroughly.

Richard soon discovered the essences of divine power belonging to several other Egyptian gods from among these divine essences. Similarly, these essences of divine power no longer had souls, only some memories and obsessions.

In addition to these, there are also some divine essences whose names Richard doesn't even know. From these memories, Richard speculated that these divine essences should be the gods of some small countries in the Mesopotamian region.

When monotheism was first spreading among the squids, the country they established also flourished for a period of time in the Mesopotamian region and destroyed some countries and weak gods.

This is also recorded in the Old Testament, just like the Sumerian pantheon was destroyed by this person.

Baghdad, the largest city in the Mesopotamian region, was once conquered by those squids. If you count carefully, they have destroyed more than a dozen pantheons, big and small.

(End of this chapter)