Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 263 God’s Return to God, Man’s Return to Man

Haitel could sense that someone was fighting with Xia, and Xia seemed to be at a disadvantage.

"It seems like it has already started." Azik also turned his head to look in that direction and said lightly.

"Your Highness Azik, are those your people attacking Xia over there?" Haitel asked with some difficulty.

Azik glanced at him and said calmly, "I don't need any voice other than mine within the Spiritual Cult."

Haitel: ...

I understand. It seems that if Xia doesn't surrender, she will be doomed this time.

At the same time, Heiter also knew that His Highness the Archon of Death was also speaking to him - if he was unwilling to surrender, then he might really have to return to the underworld.

Is it faith or life? This is a difficult choice. Fortunately...

The person in front of him is the Archon of Death.

Haitel suddenly knelt on one knee, lowered his head, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty Azik, your will is my will."

Haitel chose to surrender.

"Very good." Azik looked at him, and after discerning that his words were sincere and not just a pretense, he nodded and said with a raised lip, "You made a wise choice."

When Haitel heard this, he smiled bitterly in his heart, but he felt a familiar sense of security, because the Death Archon back then was also so cold and domineering.

Haitel then remembered something and asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, what is your next decree?"

"The current Spiritual Cult is not the one I need, so after I unify the entire Spiritual Cult, I will reform its members." Azik glanced at him and said calmly, "As for the direction of the reform, you've probably guessed it."

Haitel did guess it, because he thought of the oracle of the "God of Death" before, which made him feel a little conflicted. After all, the Church of the God of Death has always been cold-blooded since ancient times, and now it suddenly starts to take the right path, which inevitably makes Haitel feel weird.

But thinking of the seven major churches that are now thriving on the continent, Haitel felt relieved again - after all, the times have changed now. If the Spirit Cult wants to restore the glory of the Death Church, it is indeed not suitable to engage in bloody sacrifices, which is not conducive to large-scale promotion.

Haitel is not a brainless person. He knows very well that under the current circumstances, if a sect wants to expand, it must appear gentle and kind on the surface. Otherwise, even if it is to maintain its own glory and righteousness, the seven major churches will never tolerate the existence of a bloody and brutal orthodox church.

So Haitel lowered his head and said respectfully: "I will follow your will. Your will is the will of the Spiritual Cult."

"Get up, your cooperation is still needed for the next thing." Azik looked at him, smiled after figuring out his thoughts, and did not explain anything. After all, Haitel's idea was not wrong in a sense.

According to Lucifer's plan, if the Spiritual Cult is successfully transformed and makes enough contributions in the subsequent changes, the Church of Death may not necessarily appear in the future.

Rollin, wearing Jack's vest, glanced at Haiter and, seeing what he was thinking, couldn't help but smile. Rollin didn't intend to abolish the church after the reforms. After all, this world truly had God, truly needed God, and God truly needed believers.

What's more, even without mentioning the existence of God, considering the extraordinary events that continue to occur around the world, the world does still need extraordinary people from the church to deal with them. The existence of the church can also give many people spiritual sustenance and has a high degree of positivity.

It is meaningless to simply deny the existence of a certain objective need. What Rowling needs to do is to restrain theocracy after the reform, so that God's will belong to God and man's will belong to man.

In fact, the seven major churches today have already shown this trend because the seven gods cannot easily leave the star realm. Take Loen as an example. No matter how much Augustus fears the three major churches, it is still the real ruler of Loen. Even the three major churches cannot easily interfere with the king's decision-making. Otherwise, how could Augustus secretly mess up the emperor's ceremony?

But this trend is still just a trend. After all, when the gods need it, they can still easily interfere in wars, interfere with the direction of the world, and interfere with the fate of the country.

Even because the difference in individual strength is too great, it should be a war between mortals, but the existence of mortals themselves seems to have no meaning, and everything is determined by the outcome of the war between gods.

This is not good, Rowling doesn't like it.

Therefore, what Rowling needs to do is to further restrain the power of the church or God, so that God can no longer easily interfere with people.

There is no doubt that achieving this requires absolute strength, but fortunately, in a sense, what Rowling lacks the least is strength.

Of course, you can say that Rowling's behavior is, in a sense, equivalent to replacing the existence of God and controlling the fate of mortals.

But first of all, as a matter of fact, the mortals in the mysterious world today need such an existence. Secondly, Luo Linfang has several people with the highest moral standards.

In the end, Rowling is not a good person. He never denies that he actually follows the principle of the survival of the fittest - so since he is powerful, the rules are naturally decided by him.

"Of course, I am looking forward to the future when human technology is advanced to a certain level and can in turn check and balance me. That would be so interesting." Rowling muttered in his heart, with anticipation flashing in his eyes.

While Rowling's thoughts were drifting away, Azik had already told Haitel what to do - generally speaking, it was very simple, nothing more than summoning and suppressing the members of the Spirit Cult, compiling the corresponding roster, etc.

After Haitel received the order and left the room, the faint expression on Azik's face disappeared. He raised his hand and rubbed his face, only to find that his face was a little stiff.

The way he just acted was naturally a deliberate act to make himself more like the former Archon of Death. This was not difficult, after all, Azik already had most of the Archon of Death's memories. He just had to do as he remembered. The only problem was to control his emotions.

Fortunately, Azik didn't have any feelings for Haitel herself, so he could hold it together.

Klein couldn't help but laugh as he watched Azik frantically rubbing his face. He muttered to Jack beside him, "Mr. Azik's appearance just now really scared me. I thought Mr. Azik's personality was unstable."

"To be honest, Mr. Azik was indeed very imposing and ruthless just now." Luo Lin nodded in agreement, then touched his arm exaggeratedly and said, "I'm a little cold."

"Is there a possibility that this room is really cold now?" Little Amon glanced at the door to the underworld behind him that was still not closed and raised a possibility.

(End of this chapter)