Those time travelers that year

"How dare you do this!" The young God of Death could not have imagined that these other gods would be so radical. At this moment, they were not just targeting the monkey, but intended to wipe out the entire Misty Realm and then covet the power of death.

"You intend to destroy the entire Misty Realm?! Just for a Wall of the Believers that has already been destroyed?!"

What plunged Kranzov into despair was that among the manifested wills above, there were traces of the current goddess of magic, Midnight.

"See that? Kid! This is what they call a god, a pathetic and laughable god, hahahahahaha..." However, despite directly withstanding the sky full of lightning, the monkey was not only completely unharmed, but also laughed heartily and mocked, "Greedy, ignorant, backward, inflexible, wanting to grasp everything in the palm of their hand, this is what they call a god!"

"That kid who rose to godhood in one step, let me, Old Sun, tell you something as a senior."

"In this world, seeking help from gods or Buddhas is not as reliable as relying on yourself."

“Sometimes, when faced with those corrupt, backward, inflexible, and unwilling-to-give-up 'ghouls' who only want to forever lie on layers of bones and enjoy their own glory… the best way is to drag them down from their altars and bring them down to the dust.”

"I'm going to the underworld to summon my old comrades, with ten thousand banners to slay Yama... It's just another rampage in the Heavenly Palace, when have I, Old Sun, ever been afraid?!"

The monkey laughed and roared, bathed in the lightning, and raised his golden cudgel towards the thunder in the sky.

"Hey, you stubborn and corrupt gods, are you having a good time playing with lightning? Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak! Let me, Old Sun, show you what power is, what the words of a strongman are!"

The golden cudgel swept across the sky, shattering endless lightning and crashing down into the thunderclouds.

Then, the light came on, and the blinding light exploded in the air, creating a rumbling shockwave that swept in all directions.

Of course, what's even more terrifying are the rampant light and nuclear radiation. If these things were to fall, the entire City of Judgment, along with this young and powerful deity, would probably be doomed.

But the monkey, still possessing some integrity, didn't let the terrifying light and nuclear radiation fall. Instead, it blasted open a spacetime tunnel, guiding all the light and nuclear radiation there in one go.

In an instant, the gods who had united for the first time on a certain issue suffered a devastating blow. The monkeys directed the light and nuclear radiation toward their plane, weakening and dispersing their power, but it was still something these gods could not withstand without paying a price.

"...cleanse all that is corrupt and backward, wash away these 'slaves' who suppress the development of civilization and the lives of all people, so that all people may be liberated and civilization may shine with glory!"

With a roar, the monkey transformed into golden light and soared into the sky, disappearing from the hazy realm. Only the City of Judgment, thrown into chaos by this scene, and Kranvor, atop the Crystal Tower, remained, his expression shifting between anger and dejection.

At this moment, this young and powerful god had no interest in the chaos within the City of Judgment. It wasn't until an old man in a black robe suddenly appeared beside him that the young and powerful god finally came to his senses.

"teacher……"

"Kranvor, seal off the entire underworld!" The black-robed elder, Yeg, said to the dejected Kranvor, "All of this has nothing to do with the God of Death anymore."

"No, teacher, just now, that..."

“The mortal named Midnight died the moment he ascended to godhood, leaving only the goddess of magic, Mysrat, the embodiment of the magic network. Weren’t you prepared for this?” Jaeger said to the young god of death. “It’s better to face reality than to indulge in fantasy. You are not one of those little guys who now rely on faith and are corrupted by it.”

"You possess greater potential and a brighter future. The entire River Styx and the Underworld need not be drawn into this turmoil. After all, from this moment on, the glory of the gods will be cast to the dust—"

"—In its place will be an era of mortals."

"I...I understand."

631. Plot Collapse

Leaving aside the frustration of the young and powerful god, Kranvor, the entire Underworld, also known as the Realm of Obscurity, was sealed off under the combined will of a powerful god and an ancient god of primal force. From then on, the souls of all the dead, once inside, were forbidden to leave. Similarly, the souls of the gods' followers would fall into the same predicament.

Normally, those gods would have already jumped up and attacked the Misty Realm. Unfortunately, they are currently preoccupied with their own problems and have no time to deal with what's happening here.

Together, they stirred up waves of the Force Sea, transforming them into terrifying bolts of lightning that crashed down. Who could have imagined that this combined power of the gods, which had already exceeded the limits of divine might, would be shattered by a single blow from the monkey's staff? Even the ancient gods of the Force shouldn't have exceeded this level.

Of course, we should try to understand the limited perspective of these bumpkins. Despite their seemingly lofty and righteous demeanor, with very few exceptions, almost all of them are utterly useless, barely even having graduated from elementary school. Even the few who are a little smarter aren't studying science, but rather theology. So, you can't really blame them for their limited knowledge, right?

The immense power of boundless light, boundless heat, and boundless radiation is beyond the comprehension of this bunch of bumpkins.

In reality, even Losanda, who holds the divine office of the sun, couldn't give a coherent explanation of what that luminous fireball of the sun actually is. But now, things might be different. In terms of embracing new knowledge, Losanda is far more adept than those unambitious bumpkins who also dislike others striving for progress. Moreover, he's not using an alias; he's wearing one.

With the monkey's single blow repelling the combined will of all the gods, the 'plot' of this world finally reached an irreversible state of collapse.

Those who could foresee this in advance, such as Jaeger, the Goddess of Fortune, and the Lord of the Nine Hells, were clever enough to close off their own domains long ago, or perhaps they had run off to some corner and made a clean getaway, acting as if it had nothing to do with them.

These guys fell silent, but the others, those powerful individuals who had access to this level, all heard the monkey's arrogant pronouncements. At this moment, the crimson stream of primal force that the monkey had created shone brightly throughout the entire Sea of ​​Primal Force, suppressing all the other streams of primal force with their own representatives.

The gods who had joined forces had no idea that this would happen.

This was an attack launched jointly by several pantheons. But the fact remains that the monkey single-handedly defeated several pantheons working together. What does this mean? It means that the gods are not the true pinnacle of this world; they too can fail, and their glory is not eternal.

This would be fatal to the glory and rule of the gods.

At this moment, the aftereffects of the collapse of the Wall of the Believers finally arrived. Those souls that escaped from the crumbling wall, those innocent souls embedded in it, cursed and raged at the gods who imprisoned and tormented them.

A single soul's curse may be insignificant, but the curses and rage emanating from countless souls are enough to drag down gods whose faith is the foundation of their existence. The backlash from the power of faith began to erupt. Some lower-level gods cried out in agony at this moment, the curses and resentment from the backlash flowing directly into their divine fire through the primal force intimately connected to them.

But what's even more deadly is that the monkey, having already broken out of the Misty Realm, is charging towards the Kingdom of the Gods with an attitude of immediate annihilation.

"No, this shouldn't be! There shouldn't be any being superior to us! It shouldn't be!" a god, tormented by the backlash, cried out. "We are the embodiment of the Force and the faith of all beings; we are the wielders of world authority. There should be no being in this world superior to us!"

"Unite, and even the ancient gods of the Force will have to bow before us..." another deity chimed in. "We are the supreme will; the rulers of the world are the gods, and only the gods."

Many gods echoed this sentiment, intending to unite here. Several powerful deities even made a decision at this moment: to join forces to suppress anything that threatened their rule, not even an ancient god of the Force, and not allow the current balance to be broken.

"Ancient God of the Force, you have broken the covenant among the gods! Your sins are unforgivable!" A powerful divine voice echoed, "You deserve punishment."

'Accept judgment and pay for your sins.'

……

To this, the monkey simply said, "Get lost!"

To put him on trial? What a joke! It's a joke among jokes.

However, it is clear that completely destroying the Wall of the Believers has thoroughly crossed the line for these gods. For these gods, they allow someone to surpass them in individual power, but they absolutely will not tolerate anyone attempting to disrupt this balance or challenge the current divine rule.

However, it is quite clear that at this time when they should have been united, different voices suddenly emerged among those gods.

"No, this world doesn't need stagnant balance; it needs hope for progress." It was a voice like light and flame, emanating from Losanda, a being of immense divine power. "What this world truly needs is innovation, a fresh hope, not to be trapped in an unchanging past."

"Lord of Dawn, what are you saying?" a furious voice boomed. "What do you mean?!"

"Shut up, Sylvanas..." Losanda roared back, "Do you think I don't know your hesitation? It's because of bastards like you that the world keeps getting worse."

'Lossanda, do you know what you're saying?'

“Tyr, I know very well that I am not like you who are content to remain trapped in stagnant waters,” Losanda replied. “Therefore, from this day forward, there is no longer Losanda, only the Lord of Light, the Goddess of the Sun—Amannatha.”

Within the Temple of Nature, the divine kingdom of Losanda erupted with scorching light—the dazzling radiance of the sun. At this moment, the name Losanda, the former Lord of Dawn, vanished, replaced by Amannata, the Goddess of the Sun. And at this moment, Amannata, having regained her former identity as an ancient god of primal force, tore her kingdom apart from the plane of the Temple of Nature, establishing her independence.

At the same moment, within the Temple of the Three Gods, the divine realm of the suffering god Ilmat also radiated a light unlike any before—a crimson glow, like blood and fire. Immediately following this change in Ilmat's divine realm, the entire plane began to tremble.

"Ilmat, what are you doing?" came the roar of the god of courage.

'Tom, Tyr, I'm sorry…' Ilmat's calm voice rang out. 'All I can say is that I have found the true path, the end of the wish I have always hoped to find.'

'But in order to reach that end, I have no choice but to become an enemy of you and all my old friends.'

632. A Monkey's One-Day Trip to the Pantheon (1)

"What do you mean?!" Tyr shouted, momentarily stunned by Amannata's actions. "Are you planning to side with that provocateur?"

'A provocateur? No, Tyr, you're wrong.' Ilmat's calm voice held an undeniable firmness. 'You've been wrong from beginning to end, compromising time and time again, yielding time and time again… This world shouldn't remain unchanged forever.'

The world needs change, not stagnation. Like Netheril before it, only through continuous development and progress can this world have a future.

"Absurd!" Tyr roared in fury. "Don't you know how Netheril was destroyed? Balance is everything; only by upholding the law and punishing those who break it can order be maintained."

'And now, are you planning to side with that lawbreaker?'

“The laws you uphold are inherently flawed. Perhaps they were correct at first, but look at the Material World. What are those laws derived from? They are nothing more than restrictions imposed by the Favored Ones of Shinworth to maintain their rule, aren’t they?” Ilmat replied. “Since the destruction of Netheril, look at the Material World. For thousands of years, has there not been a single day without constant warfare?”

"Looking at it the other way around, the Netheril civilization, at least in that era, didn't have endless wars, nor were there cultists constantly causing disasters. Every resident of Netheril could eat their fill, dress warmly, and live comfortably; they could even learn knowledge and magic..."

"...This is what constitutes a civilization; only civilization can bring development and progress."

The Temple of the Three Gods trembled as the powers of the mighty Tyr and the middling god Ilmat clashed. Tyr, regaining his senses, was powerless to stop Ilmat's actions and could only watch helplessly as Ilmat tore his divine kingdom from this plane and then used his divine power to stabilize the plane, which had begun to crumble because of Ilmat.

"You and Losanda will regret this..." Seeing his old friend and companion so resolute, Tyr was speechless and could only say, "You are challenging the entire order. Have you forgotten the [Dawn of the Gods]?"

"No, we are creating a new order." Ilmat's divine kingdom completely detached itself from the Temple of the Three Gods and entered a spacetime portal, only Ilmat's words remaining: "A new order forged in blood and fire, established through sublime sacrifice, filled with progress."

After separating from their respective divine kingdoms, within the spacetime tunnel, Ilmat's divine kingdom met Amannata, the Radiant Lord who had regained the name of the ancient god of the Force. The two divine kingdoms accepted each other and then fell together into the former Desolate Wasteland, linking with Hall's divine kingdom.

At that very moment, Amannata, Ilmat, and Hall simultaneously unleashed all their divine power, pouring it into the crimson flow of the Force within the Sea of ​​Force. At the same time, their voices began to echo in the ears of every deity.

This world has been stagnant for too long, so long that it has forgotten how to move forward.

'Since the development of civilization came to a standstill due to various unforeseen events, all order and laws have gradually decayed in the frozen time.'

"Outdated systems stifle the development of civilization. Foolish rulers imprison knowledge and culture, controlling the lower classes and keeping them far from glory and civilization, teetering on the edge of civilization and barbarism."

'Power-hungry nobles sacrifice the lives of innocent people for a pittance. Greedy lords exploit every subject with exorbitant taxes and cruel rule.'

'A foolish king, in his pursuit of unquestionable rule, restricted knowledge and culture, hoping his subjects would remain forever ignorant and foolish, thus ensuring the immutability of his rule.'

This world needs reform, this world needs change, this world needs a hopeful future, not the stagnant, hopeless state we see today.

'Reasonable laws, appropriate systems, a unified written language and spoken language…'

'...At this point, a bottom-up change is needed.'

'In particular, the power of deities needs to be restrained. Deities are not supreme rulers, much less absolute truths.'

……

'They're insane! They're all insane!!!'

'Madmen, they're all madmen...'

Within the Pantheon, deities glared angrily at the three who had made the declaration, cursing and venting their fear and rage.

This is because, after the three deities made their joint declaration, they were not abandoned by the Force. On the contrary, the Force of Order and Goodness roared within them. A crimson stream of Force surged and merged with the Force representing Order. At this moment, the divine power of Amannata, Ilmat, and Hall was unprecedentedly strong, and their radiance suppressed the glory of the other deities within the Pantheon.

'In the name of the gods…' a deity cried out, 'Amannatha, Ilmat, and Hall should not sit with us! Get out! Throw them out!'

'Unite, unite to expel these heretics, expel these arrogant ones who disrupt the order ordained by the gods.'

"Huh? Expel them? What right do you have?!" An arrogant voice rang out in the Pantheon, accompanied by an overwhelming fighting spirit. To the astonishment of the gods, a golden-red light shone at the front of the Pantheon, and a hairy-faced thunder god wielding a club appeared in the temple.

A pair of fiery eyes, burning like the ancient sun, scanned every deity in the hall. Although these deities were merely avatars within the Pantheon, those being watched by the monkey felt an intense heat emanating from their original divine bodies, far away in their divine realms.

He wore a phoenix-winged purple-gold crown on his head, a golden chainmail armor on his body, and lotus-silk cloud-walking shoes on his feet. In his hand was the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a divine treasure that stabilizes the Milky Way. Behind him was a cloak as red as burning clouds.

Simply standing here made the gods of the Pantheon feel suffocated, and weighed down by a mountain on their hearts.

"Who are you?" At this moment, the guardian god Heim stood before the uninvited guest and questioned, "This is the hall of the gods; those who are not here are not permitted to enter!"

"Hmph... I think I've seen this scene before, but the one over there was much more magnificent and beautiful than this." The uninvited guest laughed loudly, looking at the guardian god Heim, who was glaring angrily with his sword drawn. "But whatever, I'm in a good mood right now, so I won't beat you up!"

Having said that, the monkey ignored the reaction of the guardian god Heim and turned his gaze elsewhere, saying, "Comrades Amannata, Ilmat, and Hall, what do you think of this place?!"