Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

What kind of creatures are humans?

St. George immediately thought of the absurd and outrageous fairy tales he had told him the night before.

Hearing of the wonders of heaven, he wanted to go there after he died, but instead suffered greatly. Even after arriving in heaven, he still had to endure hardship.

'Human nature is complex...' St. George quickly realized.

Just as the prince's true pursuit was never to suffer, but to gain the opportunity to go to heaven after suffering, but heaven may not be as wonderful as he initially imagined.

Rastin would never admit to his mistakes, because that would subject him to moral condemnation...

Moreover, St. Peter used the great river and a life-threatening crisis to force him to admit that he had stolen the sheep's heart, but what if we look at it from Rastin's perspective?

He was clever enough to perceive St. Peter's divine intervention, and if he admitted his mistake at such a time, what if the enraged St. Peter drowned him?

Sometimes, the more critical the situation, the more you must not admit it. St. Peter may only have doubts and has not yet truly confirmed the facts. As long as the facts are not confirmed, the other party will not actually kill him.

Therefore, coercion should not be used, but inducement can be.

After St. George returned, he told Rastin that he had found a treasure on the road, and they decided to split it together.

Rastin was overjoyed—he declared that the two brothers were good friends!

He didn't care where the treasure came from; getting a share was definitely a good thing!

Then St. George divided the treasure into three parts.

When Rastin asked why the two men had to divide the sheep's heart into three portions, St. George replied that the third portion was for the person who had stolen the sheep's heart! He firmly believed that the sheep's heart must have been stolen, as a sheep couldn't possibly be without its heart.

Tempted by the immense profits and seeing the gleaming gold, Rastin panicked and readily admitted to stealing the sheep's heart.

Night: "How is it, Peter—does this feel very familiar?"

Back when Christ and Saint Peter were still mortals, Christ and Saint Peter rescued a princess during their travels. However, at that time, Christ claimed to have the ability to save people and instructed Saint Peter to obey him and cut off the princess's head in his own way.

Christ then disregarded whether Saint Peter lived or died, and only when Saint Peter was about to be beheaded did Christ slowly step forward to say that Saint Peter was saving people, not killing them.

This set of PUA tactics, employing the suspension bridge effect, was exceptionally effective. It directly rendered Saint Peter, who had almost been convicted of murder, so that he would never dare to refute the words of Christ, who had saved him.

When they later received the king's gold coins, Christ also received three-tenths of the gold coins in the same way...

That's right—even Saint Peter once committed the sin of stealing a sheep's heart.

A thunderbolt seemed to strike St. Peter's mind, and his eyes widened in shock: "!!!"

I remembered……

He finally remembered.

Isn't what we're seeing just a replay of what happened in the past?

But he had just rejected Rastin, which was tantamount to rejecting his own past. Even now, he was frowning—he did not believe from the bottom of his heart that this method was guiding people towards good.

Since being enlightened by the night, Saint Peter finally stopped numbing himself and began to seriously examine his past actions.

At this point, it was no longer acceptable—that kind of bribery was not a manifestation of their genuine 'honesty'.

But—when he opened his mouth, he was speechless.

After all, St. Peter had done the same thing before! He couldn't be so hypocritical.

"Human nature is incredibly complex—it's not simply black and white; if you had to put it that way, it would be chaotic, a delicate gray mixed in with it!"

"Even a wicked person can do a good deed because of a last shred of kindness, while a good person can also make a big mistake because of a momentary lapse in judgment."

"However, human nature is often the most vulnerable to test. It is unreasonable to expect ordinary people to have the same qualities as saints."

"If one tries to use evil to prove good, people who do not have a large enough capacity to bear that evil will only be misled, tempted, and swallowed up."

That night, the story concluded with a profoundly moving statement for St. Peter: "Cholera corrupts the mind, turning cause into effect."

Chapter Twenty-One: The Impact of Rome's Strategic Planning in Human History – The General Beside Jesus is Gone!?

quiet--!!

A deathly silence!

"Cholera corrupts the mind, turning cause into effect!!" That last sentence echoed in St. Peter's mind like a curse, leaving him completely dumbfounded.

Night indicated that he had St. George test Rastin in the way that St. Peter had always known and was most accustomed to.

By directly presenting various temptations to the other person, they are lured into making a mistake...

Although Rastin wasn't particularly kind, he was a generous soldier who would share his leftover goose meat with passersby in the story. However, the passersby, unaware of the situation, ate the goose that Rastin had stolen using his magical backpack at the goose shop. When the shop owner discovered this, he took the blame for Rastin's actions...

But you can't really call this man bad. Regardless of whether he guessed St. Peter's earlier temptation, judging by his actions rather than his intentions, he did give three-quarters of his wealth to the three beggars.

But who ultimately caused Rastin's reputation to become increasingly tarnished? It was precisely the disciple who led people towards good.

The world is not black and white; it is impossible to expect everyone to be kind and good. Just as there is light, there is also darkness, and everything has two sides.

Human nature is the most complex thing.

In retrospect, the unbridled actions of the gods and their disciples on earth did not make the world a better place; on the contrary, their tests of human nature created many calamities.

At least without the existence of God, some people would probably never have the opportunity to unleash their inner desires and dark side in their entire lives, and would live an ordinary life that is neither good nor bad, at most just indulging in some petty gains.

St. Peter followed the night and saw everything from a third-person perspective.

Even long after the bet ended, he was still somewhat dazed and couldn't quite come to his senses.

I didn't feel anything when I was treated like Christ before, but when I saw Saint George disguise himself as 'himself' to trick Rastin, the subtle feeling was too strong.

In the end, Rastin did admit his mistakes, but was it really repentance?

If St. Peter were to shamelessly admit that this was 'repentance,' then he would have won.

But just as St. Peter had completely rejected the past, he simply could not shamelessly continue to say that it was right.

This isn't true good at all; if I had to describe it—it's like…

The performance was so-so, typical of commercial performances!

Like clowns, a well-coordinated performance! A mythological performance in which mortals themselves are unaware of their own involvement, cooperating with the gods and their disciples!

They were compiled into stories and ultimately presented to the world for appreciation, serving as a tool to enhance faith.

It's not good at all, and its starting point isn't really to make people better. What's the difference between this kind of seduction and the devil's temptation?!

Saint Peter is not Yellow Eyebrows; he wouldn't utter anything like, "If we can't win, what's the point of proving cause and effect or human nature?"

Rather than being competitive, it was more about thoroughly discovering and realizing that the path they had chosen made it impossible to see the blissful world that Christ had promised them.

He fell silent—…

Before the game could continue, St. Peter voluntarily conceded defeat!

Once he understood the difference between guidance and seduction, and realized that it wasn't Saint George who subdued Rastin, but rather that night the saint, using his familiar methods, showed him how the past 'Saint Peter' had subdued Rastin.

He couldn't agree with this approach, but he was the one who truly lost!

……

Thus, somewhat mentally shaken, Saint Peter returned to the conceptual universe of night and did not want to come out for the time being.

However, before returning, he handed the magical backpack he had taken from Heaven to Night.

It is that magical spatial artifact in Rastin's story, capable of stuffing anything into a backpack in an instant.

Even the most powerful demons from hell can be stuffed inside instantly, and even mortals can beat up demons by punching the backpack.

From this perspective, this is something that cannot be achieved simply through spatial capabilities.

It was after obtaining this backpack that Ye attempted to analyze its concept and discovered that it was a miniature universe that had been materialized.

If we compare the night to a human-shaped universe, then this backpack is a backpack-shaped universe.

If it weren't devoid of ideology, it could even manifest as life. Since it's a universe capable of mimicry, without being solidified in form, it would be like a water sphere—it could be kneaded and squeezed without breaking. However, it's hard to say what would happen to other things inside that cannot be deformed.

No wonder the demons felt pain when they were put into the backpack and attacked.

Now that St. Peter has resolved the issue, it's time for the other saints to take their turn.

At the same time—just as St. Peter fully acknowledged the identity of the God of Night, no longer another god, but choosing to replace this new faith.

On the other side, boom!

The Kingdom of Heaven—representing one-twelfth of God's power—though it was a portion of twelve, was actually more than half of the other eleven combined, occupying more than a third of the power, and then vanished as if it had never existed.

It's as if it's been forcibly hollowed out by something from outside.

In the world of mythology, the moment when Saint Peter, representing an important figure, undergoes a conversion of faith is the moment that truly shakes and influences the long river of mythology. Only at this moment does the night gain not Saint Peter who merely possesses the power and authority of God, but rather Saint Peter who has completely taken away a portion of his authority from God's hands.

Of course, besides making St. Peter submit, completely destroying his soul and his faith, and sealing that authority within one's own universe, one can also devour him.

After all, without the authority of God in its native universe, it is like a fish out of water, gradually devoured by the night. Even God cannot sense the divine power that has been completely sealed in other universes.

I have to say, stealing a base from a humanoid singularity is truly shameless!

Just like now, God, who only belatedly discovered the abnormality after feeling the great damage... God, who was originally traveling in the human world, sensed something and immediately returned to heaven.

After searching for his left and right arms, Saint Peter, and failing to find him, he immediately realized that something had happened to Saint Peter.

"Who is it?!" A majestic and deep voice, filled with barely suppressed rage, resounded, affecting the entire Heavenly Universe, causing the world to tremble as if in mourning.

Just like the magical backpack, Heaven is an independent outer universe, a testing ground for God to try to open up diversity and build a multiverse, and also the most fundamental place of his power.

After passing through the path to godhood as the mortal Christ and establishing the Kingdom of Heaven, God's power has reached the pinnacle of a single universe.

All that remains is for the continued cycle of refining faith, coupled with the foreshadowing laid outside, until the part that has differentiated itself—the Holy Son Jesus—arrives in Rome, at which point it will be able to mutually verify and conversely prove the diversity of the fairy tale universe in human history.

Human history and divine history observed each other, until Jesus died and ascended to heaven, leaving behind legends of his godhood...

The two influence each other, and he will surely become the first god among all pantheons to transcend the mythological world and become a true omniscient and omnipotent being in the multiverse! He will crush all other pantheons!

But now, the gatekeepers of heaven he had carefully nurtured have vanished along with all the powers and authority he had bestowed upon them?!

Saint Peter, whose status and position among Jesus' future disciples are extremely crucial—is gone!! (The identities of the disciples in the fairy tale universe differ from those in human history, but Saint Peter, as the gatekeeper of the Kingdom of Heaven and as God's spokesperson—the face of the Kingdom of Heaven—is essential.)

'—But it has to be Saint Peter!!'

If it were any other saint, it would be fine!

Although the power that Saint Peter took away was not enough to shake the foundation of God, even after giving up most of his power, he was still a super-universe-level being in this universe, comparable to or even far surpassing the strength of most god-kings in other pantheons... As long as the god who stole his power has not left his world, God can restart the universe at any time, restore his full strength, and kill the other party to reclaim his power.

But St. Peter himself represents a special person!

He personally chose the gatekeepers of heaven!