Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Rose suddenly remembered a paradox he had thought of before.

That is, according to Rose's understanding of the observation point, that place would select the faiths that were more marketable after the mutation, and then sell these believers as commodities.

If that's the case, how did the deity that one's ancient dragon worships appear at the observation point?

Now, this question has been answered.

That is, the "Ancient Dragon" deity before us exists within the thoughts of all the gods.

Wherever there are gods, He will exist.

The operation He described was somewhat astonishing, almost pushing the characteristics of a deity to their extreme.

Then, by his own power, he killed all the gods in the world.

Seeing that Rose seemed to understand, He continued:

"After I emerged from the fascination with deities, I wanted to leverage my connection with the ancient dragon believers to see if I could find them in this era."

However, I failed.

Obviously, because we had killed almost all the alien beasts before, and then I temporarily killed all the gods.

The Gu Long cult has no foundation for existence, and will naturally perish.

However, the ideal world that Gu Long's followers believed in took shape in this era.

This era, because we had almost killed all the alien beasts before, did not see the birth of any other alien beasts.

Then the gods, who were above humanity, were suppressed by the younger generation of this era, almost severing the divine system.

He looked at the racetrack:

"Although this era may be terrible for you, it is the era that we have all dreamed of for us."

Although there may be oppression and exploitation among people, all of this occurs within humanity itself; it is a problem within humankind.

In fact, we, the followers of Gu Long, are not a monolithic group; otherwise, how could we have disintegrated so quickly after all the elites disappeared from Sky City?

Rose fell silent for a moment.

Gu Long looked at Luo Sai Road:

"In fact, it might be a bit of self-praise, but we have also contributed to the formation of this era."

Rose frowned slightly as she looked at Gu Long.

He continued:

"Compared to reason, faith is actually not very difficult to develop, because even in the early stages, honing a skill, exercising the body, and engaging in social activities can all enhance faith."

Because faith itself is the sum of one's intuition and control over one's body.

However, rationality is different. The development of rationality requires a certain social foundation and requires people to continuously learn and develop their brains.

Learning itself requires a society with a certain foundation, accumulation, and stability in order to produce pure thinkers and have something to learn.

That era, with its strange beasts, was unsuitable; everyone lived in constant fear of peril.

Our Gu Long belief system is flawed because our society is entirely based on killing to sustain itself. We may have sufficient social foundation, but we lack stability, as almost everyone has to fight against strange beasts.

Only after we, the followers of the Ancient Dragon, nearly killed all the strange beasts in the world did the world enter a long and stable era of gods.

In this process, a unique cultural heritage and accumulation have been formed, enabling people to think and have objective things to learn continuously.

Only then do we have the basic conditions to develop reason, and then, in the long course of history...

The extremely stable system of gods naturally gave birth to a completely new extraordinary system that was enough to sweep itself into the dustbin of history—the magician system.

Although you might find that in your battles with a mage, the mage's combat strength may not even be as high as that of a believer.

However, for society and civilization as a whole, magicians possess a higher capacity for social integration than believers.

Rose understood. It was like the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens of her past life. Although the Neanderthals had better physical abilities and could easily overwhelm the Homo sapiens in a one-on-one fight.

However, Homo sapiens ultimately triumphed over Neanderthals thanks to their social organization capabilities.

Furthermore, faith and reason are not actually opposed; in fact, the magician system was conceived within the faith system.

Rose asked:

"So what? What do you need me to do? Inherit the ancient dragon's faith?"

Gu Long said:

"Young man, do you remember the condition I left for you when you advanced to the second tier?"

Rose nodded; it turned out that the promotion condition was left behind by the other party.

He continued:

"That's why I came here; I want to pass on the ancient dragon faith."

In fact, when the fourteenth generation went to the sky, I already realized that the path of the Ancient Dragon faith was coming to an end, and I had already begun a movement to slowly change the Ancient Dragon faith.

However, the deaths of the fourteenth generation were too sudden, and the gods were too ruthless. I had no choice but to kill all the gods, which completely severed the foundation of the ancient dragon faith.

As it turned out, none of Gu Long's followers were able to forge a completely new path after that.

Furthermore, my belief in the supremacy of humanity during my lifetime meant that every single moment I would spend as a god would be filled with pain and humiliation.

Is this even human language? If you can't get rid of them, you'll kill all the gods. These gods are just sitting on the sidewalk.

He looked at the racetrack:

"There are two ways to pass on the ancient dragon faith. One is to make people believe in the ancient dragon faith again. However, the environment for the ancient dragon faith no longer exists in this era."

Moreover, we later realized that this path of purely killing to sustain killing would only lead to destruction in the end.

Therefore, I chose the second option. I want to see what path you, a young man from another world, will take in this era.

He smiled and said:

"But you, young man, have indeed chosen a completely new path."

"However, the path you have chosen is not an easy one."

He held up two fingers toward the road:

"So, that's why I called you here."

I want you to transform my divine corpse into a new belief, just like the original Ancient Dragon.

In fact, there are two options for your path.

One is to take the extraordinary path to its extreme, making your thoughts impossible for anyone to ignore.

The second is to spread your own beliefs throughout the world and change the world from the bottom up.

Rose was thinking about it seriously. He felt that the second point the other party made was very feasible because faith in this world really had binding power and could bring extraordinary power.

"Furthermore, faith and reason are not in conflict; in fact, cultivating faith to a certain extent can stabilize reason, and this stabilizing effect can eliminate the world's killing line for mages."

And your faith can eliminate the killing lines created by social organizations.

Then, relying on the inherent binding force of faith, you can create your own path.

Furthermore, these two paths are not contradictory; practicing the second path itself can provide you with faith, granting you greater extraordinary power.

Rose could understand what He was saying; faith truly had the power to stabilize reason, a fact he himself had experienced firsthand.

As his faith deepens, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to trigger fanatical materialism, because his own faith has such a strong effect on stabilizing his reason.

Because of this, he even began to consider using drugs to destroy his reason and enhance his faith.

"Of course, all of this came at a price, because this new belief was built on my corpse."

Therefore, all those who believe in your new path will, like you, the ancient dragon followers of 2 years ago, retain their human form but possess golden vertical pupils in their eyes.

Rose smiled; he understood that this was the other party's clever trick.

The inheritance of the ancient dragon faith.

But what reason did he have to refuse?

Rose said, "I agree."

He smiled and said:

"Good young man!"

He paused, then said:

"Of course, besides my corpse, I will also leave you all the historical materials, knowledge, research results, and basic theories of this dream and the Ancient Dragon faith."

Huh?! What else is there to say, buddy? I'd go through fire and water for you!

Seeing Rose's shocked expression, He smiled and gave a final instruction:

"Young man, the path to the extraordinary is not easy. The accumulation of energy, extraordinary power, and knowledge only accounts for a part of it. The most important thing is the heart. Your heart determines how far you can go."

When you one day realize that you are no longer able to practice your own beliefs...

Based on the characteristic that believers die when their faith collapses.

You too will inevitably buy your way into death.