Hawks from the Land of Light are calling me a dove and an undercover agent in the chat group.

However, their strength is extremely difficult to determine, and Tiga has no way of judging the power of these gods.

Because each of them is extremely special. (Zero point)

In terms of pure raw stats, a considerable number of these gods are inferior to Ultraman Tiga in his normal era. The very few most powerful among them, while not comparable to Gatanothor, are still stronger than characters like Kirieloid II.

Regardless of the numerical values ​​of these gods, none of them pose a low level of threat to Ultraman Tiga.

Because these gods seem to be like substitutes, their strength is not defined by pure hard numbers, but by something else.

The biggest difference between the gods and their stand-ins is that, because their stats have reached a sufficient level, no matter what special abilities they rely on, as long as there is no huge gap in stats between them and Tiga, they all have enough means to threaten Tiga.

At this level, their abilities are already capable of causing real damage to Ultraman.

Therefore, these gods were only slightly wary, not afraid of the giant of light before them. Taking advantage of this composure, they began to consider winning over the giant of light.

They were willing to admit that although they could easily and effortlessly defeat this giant of light, who was already severely injured from the start and unable to exert his full strength, if he were at his peak, he would also be capable of threatening one of them in return.

Yes, one of them.

In a one-on-one situation, Tiga could very well defeat any of them except for the top-tier gods. Furthermore, the opponent also possesses a higher-dimensional aspect, and is even more adept at navigating between higher and lower dimensions than they are.

This means that this giant of light is undoubtedly a new god from outside the universe, equal to these other gods.

Faced with such equal deities, they are willing to give each other a chance.

"Buzz!"

The power of the gods was at work, slowly revealing some of the greatest mysteries of this world, mysteries that neither humans nor other aliens could access or know, and expounding them before Ultraman Tiga.

Long, long ago, the gods were born.

They are related to this universe, but not completely connected to it, possessing sufficient freedom.

The gods at that time were ethereal and had no real form or self. They simply followed their instincts and mastered their powers over a long period of time. During this time, they acquired various conceptual abilities without even realizing it, whether by choice or by force.

They had no emotions, so they did nothing and thus spent an immeasurable amount of time.

During this period, a very small number of planets in the universe gradually evolved life, and these life forms also evolved and transformed over time.

The gods observed these planets but did nothing. As a result, most of these already scarce life-bearing planets suffered extinction due to various natural disasters and returned to dead planets.

Earth was one of the planets that survived by chance, and then, humanity appeared.

Over a long period of observation, the gods, out of habit, began to solidify themselves, convergently evolving, and giving rise to various emotions similar to those of three-dimensional beings.

Anger, curiosity, greed, fear, competitiveness and other emotions begin to emerge.

Of course, these emotions evolved out of their own interest, not because they were influenced by humans. If one day they no longer want to have these emotions, they can simply delete them and revert to their state before these emotions appeared.

How humans are affected does not affect them; how they are affected does not affect how humans are.

But this ideal, undisturbed state changed after the gods developed their own emotions, and they began to intervene in human history.

Their power is far too great for humans. If they were to descend in their true form, the entire Earth would be devastated, let alone humans, who are countless times weaker than Earth.

In order to preserve this hard-won interest of humanity, they chose to incarnate, using different humans as vessels, walking on Earth in human bodies, wantonly turning the Earth into a chessboard, and instigating all kinds of wars and massacres.

Sometimes, they will directly kill the soul of the chosen human.

And sometimes it gets even more wicked.

The soul of that human was preserved, forced to watch helplessly as the other was possessed, witnessing a drastic personality change and the individual committing numerous despicable acts, desperately trying to prove to the world that it wasn't them, but no one could see it. Tianxi

He himself couldn't even speak.

Even if God doesn't deliberately oppress humanity, even if God deliberately restrains His concepts, the human soul, upon witnessing such an existence, will immediately lose all its voice and then be forced to slowly perish.

Humans are God's playthings.

At that starting point, the fate of humanity—and not just humanity, but all living things, whether on Earth or on other planets—was not entirely fixed.

Although the gods possessed the concept and ability to weave and lock in destiny, they did not do so at that time.

Because no matter how advanced human and extraterrestrial technology becomes, it cannot harm them, nor can it even detect their existence.

Until a certain event that horrified the gods occurred.

That was the first appearance of a body double in history.

It was neither due to touching the remains of a saint, nor because of being pierced by an arrow from deep space. It was due to a human reaching the pinnacle of their skill, experiencing a spiritual sublimation, and through a series of other coincidences, all factors combined to create the "first substitute in the universe."

The substitute is not something else, but rather the potential that humans are born with in this world. Items like arrows simply greatly increase the probability of humans triggering this potential.

The first stand-in in the entire universe was one that humanity itself manifested.

That Stand's ability wasn't strong at all; its stats were just average, making it one of the weakest Stands by any measure.

Despite being the first Stand in the entire universe, he doesn't receive any special advantages because of this identity.

Yet this very substitute caused a great uproar among the gods at the time.

Because before this, they had never seen such a thing on any other creature.

That substitute was indeed very weak, so weak that no matter if there were a thousand, ten thousand, or more, they could not threaten any of the gods.

Even a Pillarman who hasn't evolved into an ultimate life form can easily crush the Stand and its user without any pressure. The reason why non-Stand users can't see the essence of the Stand is because ordinary people's mental strength is insufficient. As long as the mental strength is high enough, even without a Stand, one can still see it.

The Pillars, being naturally powerful beings, possess enough mental strength to see and touch Stands.

However, in the eyes of the gods, there are hundreds of thousands, millions, hundreds of billions of such pillar beings, and even if all of them are added together, they are not as good as that weak substitute!

Because no matter how powerful the Pillars are, even if they become ultimate life forms, they are still just rampaging in the material world. In fact, the numerical values ​​of those so-called ultimate life forms cannot support them to become invincible in the material world.

But a stand-in is different.

Although a large number of Stands cannot threaten any god, once a battle breaks out, it will be like Rohan Kishibe fighting against the human incarnation of Hermes. Even if he uses all his Stand abilities and wisdom, he still cannot completely defeat or deal with a human incarnation chosen by a god.

However, the Stands possess conceptual abilities just like those of the gods.

If a single god possesses a conceptual ability and numerical value of one hundred million, then a Stand might only be one, or even 01. But even so, it is still a symbol of venturing into concepts, a breakthrough from zero to one, from nothing to something.

This is a capability, a possibility, and a potential that nothing else in the entire universe possesses.

Stands may not pose a threat to gods in terms of power, but conceptually they can shake God's status and identity, making them no longer unique and even vying with God for control of the universe.

Although it was just a false struggle, fundamentally due to the huge gap in all aspects, even if the Stand became Requiem, it could not compete with the god on the same path of ability for that same "way". Moreover, humans were not aware of these things, so they would not compete for it.

It could even be said that even without these gods who had already seized the "Tao" of the universe, the power of the Stands, no matter how much they abused their abilities, could not disrupt the various concepts of the universe, nor could they shake them at their root. It was merely a change when the abilities were used; once the abilities were stopped, the concepts of the universe would immediately return to normal.

However, not being able to do it or not doing it are not excuses.

While Stands may not be able to fundamentally change the universe, they can alter certain common sense and principles, and add new time-limited rules when using their abilities. This is also a kind of "Tao".

The fact that humans possess the "conceptual possibility" of a substitute is already the greatest sin.

Does this mean we should accept that Stand users have entered the realm of gods?

This is as ridiculous as saying that humans and ants are the same species. However, it is also wrong to say that they are pure ants. If ordinary humans are normal ants, then Stand users are equivalent to ants that can speak human language.

This is an outrageous provocation against the arrogance of the gods!

Thus, the ever-turning gears of fate began to be interfered with by divine power, and gradually...

It's fixed. (Micro Fun)

Initially, the future is uncertain. When a Stand with the ability to foresee the future appears, it predicts the most likely possibility, which can be changed through effort and luck.

However, the gods who hold the power of "prophecy," "future," and "fate" in the Stand class forcibly fix the future clearly prophesied for each Stand user, thus changing people's unseen views and understanding of Stands that can foresee the future.

A Stand is a manifestation of one's own will. When people see that no matter what kind of resistance any human does after a Stand prophecy, the result is always the one that was already predicted, they conclude that once the future is predicted, it cannot be changed and there will be no other possibility.

Thus, Stands with the ability to foresee the future also became a driving force behind this situation.

The same applies to other types of Stands; there are always deities with related concepts intervening and hindering them as superior beings.

Over time, Stands were imprisoned and compressed under the schemes of the gods. If this continues, one day, the greatest potential of humanity in this world—Stands—will be suppressed to the point of becoming ordinary and no longer involved in the realm of the gods.

As for why go through all this trouble, why not just destroy the Earth and humanity?

That's because, within the JJ universe, there are branches called parallel worlds, which even the gods haven't explored and can't know how many parallel worlds there are.

The gods are unique and parallel, but there are countless parallel Earths and humans, and the humans on those Earths also have the potential to create substitutes.

The idea of ​​having the gods spend their entire lives searching for and destroying all parallel worlds on Earth would be unimaginably time-consuming, inefficient, and exhausting.

However, directly compressing the Stand system here is different.

Killing all humans in this world directly will not destroy the humans in the parallel world, because the humans here were born no earlier than the humans in the parallel world.

However, as long as the Stand in this world is suppressed, then the Stands in other parallel worlds will also be suppressed, because the first Stand among all the Stands in all parallel worlds was born here, in this world.

In other words, this is the source of the substitute. Once the root is uprooted, the branches that have spread out will naturally wither away.

The gods' power was easily used against weak humans and their substitutes.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and the "sage" stepped forward.

The "Saint" is also a member of the gods, a god born of high status. Unlike Seven or Neos, He is not captivated by or in love with humans. In fact, He doesn't care about humans at all.

What impressed the "saint" and made him fall in love with was the system of substitutes.

In His eyes, humans are merely a necessary vessel for the appearance of His substitute.

If the substitute is a butterfly, then humans are worms. The two cannot be equated. He only likes butterflies and dislikes worms. The reason he doesn't kill worms is simply because he wants to see butterflies appear.

In order to prevent the Stand system, which is so wonderful and beautiful that it moved Him so much, from being compressed to the point of losing its beauty, the "Saint" chose to be an enemy of the gods, abandon his superior divine body, and completely degrade himself to be born as a human to protect the Stands and to develop and expand the Stand system, walking the most correct path without deviation.

The saint who walks impartially on the most correct path will face the endless revenge and favoritism of the gods. The first thing to come to him is the torrent of misfortune controlled by the gods.

And the final thing to kill him was this torrent of misfortune controlled by the gods.

The saint, one of the thirteen disciples chosen by humanity, each had a preferred stand-in. The stand-in of the traitor was associated with the torrent of misfortune and became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

But the sage had long been aware of this death.

Even before his demotion, he was perfectly aware that even as one of the most powerful among the gods, he could not survive the gods' revenge. He would be torn apart along with his very essence, with no chance of resurrection whatsoever.

But his life or death doesn't matter, because when he was reduced to a human, he had already accomplished his goal.

When a saint becomes human, he has the potential to obtain a Stand. The Stand ability he awakens is just as he wished, a Stand that can protect the Stand system. Even if he dies, his Stand will protect the Stand system to some extent.

Furthermore, due to his Stand ability, after his death, his remains will become a special item from which other Stands can be unearthed.

An even greater era of Stands is coming, and who knows how many exquisite and perfect Stands will appear!

All his wishes have been fulfilled.

Thus, at the moment of death, the saint perished with a smile.