Fanatics of the Magic Academy

This "Superadaptive" trait shouldn't be that sinister...

But in any case, the die was cast and he had no choice but to proceed, so he began to organize the "God-Slaying Plan".

He first had the followers of the Ancient Dragon sect roughly study the other side's language system, and then he distributed leaflets promoting the Ancient Dragon faith throughout the other side's territory.

And they used prayers that could amplify their voices to spread the ideas of the Gu Long believers in the other party's territory.

As for distributing flyers, more than half of the people on the other side are illiterate, and even among the remaining half who are literate, most only know one or two words. Is that useful?

Nonsense. Those illiterate people are basically shallow believers at the level of sacrifices. They won't die when the gods die. These methods are only aimed at the higher-ups of the opposing side.

It is a measure aimed at those who will be affected by the collapse of faith after the death of the gods.

Under the organized manipulation of the fourth Gu Long, the other party clearly became anxious.

Although they had heard about the fanaticism of the Ancient Dragon followers and were willing to give them some face and establish good relations with them.

After all, no one wants to provoke a group of warmongers who spend their days hunting alien beasts.

But what the hell are you trying to do by using your ultimate skill at point-blank range?!

They came to our territory and preached a doctrine that "your gods should be killed"?

Do you think we have no temper?

However, when these people began to understand the thoughts of the Gu Long believers, the information they received was transmitted to the deity they worshipped through thought.

The moment that deity came into contact with this belief system, it sensed the deadly threat it contained.

That's a logic that severs the existence of gods from the very beginning.

Without hesitation, He issued a divine decree to all believers: to fight the followers of Gu Long to the death.

Ironically, when He learned of the thoughts of Gu Long's followers from the currents of thought, it meant that the thoughts of Gu Long's followers had almost permeated all of His followers.

However, in reality, no one really took the ideas of Gu Long's followers to heart.

Because under the protection of the gods, in the teachings passed down from generation to generation, and in the discipline of the entire social system, no one believes that humans should be superior to the gods.

In their understanding, gods are superior to humans, just as naturally as the sun rising in the east.

Because under the discipline of society, they believe that God is inherently superior to mankind.

Just like the social norms of the Three Cardinal Guides in Rose's previous life: the ruler guides the subject, the father guides the son, and the husband guides the wife.

These ideas have permeated everyone's hearts. When you say that humans are superior to gods, everyone will only think that you are going against the will of Heaven.

When you tell them that "human beings should be above the gods," everyone's first reaction is not anger, but bewilderment.

They couldn't even understand the meaning of the sentence.

What does it mean for humans to be superior to gods?

How could humans possibly be superior to gods?

This is as absurd as saying that water should flow uphill, or that your grandfather is your father, and your mother is your grandmother.

......

Is that really absurd?

Therefore, this also shows how great the first generation of Gu Long was.

In this social context, it is remarkable that such an idea could emerge, that someone could put it into action, and even that someone would have the ability to do so.

Just how incredible is this? It's truly defying the heavens.

If this were in Rose's hometown, that world...

Such a forward-thinking idea is simply impossible to put into practice, as determined by the limitations of productivity.

It is simply impossible to have the material and productive forces to match the ideas that are ahead of their time.

However, this is an era of extraordinary power.

It's not the kind of superhuman being who, despite having extraordinary powers in the setting, still has to conform to the times and let prostitutes continue being prostitutes.

The extraordinary power of this world can truly make a person become history itself.

Like the original Gu Long, his extraordinary power made him the birthplace of his ideology and the material basis for the path he believed in.

He was not a hero born of the times, nor a product of inevitable history; he was a pioneer who created his era from nothing with his own hands.

Admittedly, the existence of extraordinary worlds is indeed due to the absolute differences in individual strength.

At times, it is a dog-eat-dog world, a place of utter despair, where a single thought by the strong can determine the life or death of countless weaklings.

But it is also full of miracles.

It was a miracle that the belief in "human supremacy" could take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit in an era where gods were everywhere and strange beasts enslaved humanity at will.

This is what it means to be extraordinary.

There is no such thing as historical inevitability; there is only the determination of man to conquer nature.

anyway,

In fact, the fourth Gu Long did not need those people to truly believe in the ideas of Gu Long's followers.

What he wanted was never for them to convert; he just wanted to plant a seed.

The seed will take root and sprout the moment they kill the gods, the moment the foundation of the old faith crumbles beneath their feet.

That will be the only thing they can grasp in the abyss of their faith collapsing.

In fact, if someone were to convert to the beliefs of Gu Long's followers on the spot, it would not meet the expectations of the fourth Gu Long.

Because if they truly convert, it means they are simultaneously adhering to two conflicting systems, which could lead to religious conflict and accelerate the collapse of their faith.

What the fourth Gu Long wanted to do was to ensure that as many of them as possible survived.

At the same time that deity issued a divine decree to the believers that they would fight to the death, attacks from the ancient dragon's followers followed one after another.

They swept through the enemy's defenses with overwhelming force, advancing all the way to the deepest part of the temple.

Before the statue of the deity, the followers of Gulong used this statue, which embodies the power of countless faiths, as a medium to perform prayers specifically for soul-like beings.

It was a type of lightning shrouded in eerie black smoke; that was the [Death Lightning] and [Death Spark] developed by the followers of the Ancient Dragons.

It travels upstream along the connection of faith, passing through the barriers of the material world, and precisely acts upon the divine beings residing in the "spiritual realm."

The god struggled, twisted, and disintegrated amidst screams of agony.

He attempted to mobilize the faith power of all believers to resist, but that faith power was torn to shreds like paper in the face of the [Death Lightning].

In the end, He was torn to pieces inch by inch by the black lightning.

The moment the god's existence completely vanished, all of His followers, those believers whose bodies had been altered, simultaneously felt excruciating pain emanating from the depths of their souls.

Their faith began to crumble the moment their god died, and their bodies began to die.

But before that, the voice of the fourth Gu Long was amplified and spread throughout the entire territory through prayer.

He did not say "believe in me" or "submit to me".

He simply repeated those three sentences calmly, over and over again—

"Man is born noble."

"I will kill everything that exists above humanity."

"I will kill everything that kills humanity."

Those believers who knelt in the agony of their collapsing faith heard these three sentences as their consciousness was about to be swallowed by darkness.

What are these three sentences?

Is it the will of the gods? No.

Is it a precept for sacrifice? No.

Was it a command issued by any being superior to humanity? No.

Is it the joyful roar of a strange beast indiscriminately slaughtering humans? No.

Oh, they seem to understand what that is.

That was just what one human said to another human.