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Chapter 515 The Punishment of the Gods

The worship of ancient and powerful creatures is a thought rooted in human nature. This obsession stems from our own weakness and powerlessness, and our yearning for beautiful things.

Of course, other motivational factors cannot be ruled out, such as resentment, hatred, and blood feuds, etc.

As the Scarlet Witch said, what a terrifying attraction that a superior who could fight the Outer Gods for his followers would have for the exiled remnants.

In the dream realm, the vast majority of people, or rather, most living beings, live the life they once dreamed of. This is a dream world, and for those who enter the dream and those who have passed away as dream creators, everything around them is a fulfilled dream—wealth, power, fame, and everything else are readily available. Various races dwell under the shade of various deities, who provide them with protection and also collect faith to solidify their divine status.

However, harmonious coexistence is only a common phenomenon. In this world where time flows extremely fast, not every place is a paradise. It's just that because time passes quickly enough, people are good at forgetting.

In ancient times, wars against the gods even took place on this land, wars started by humankind, a race that seems incredibly weak by today's standards. But people are good at forgetting, and the outcome of that war, the victors and vanquished, and even the existence of the war itself have all been forgotten.

Of course, the gods have not forgotten.

The gods have their own methods of punishment. Those dead cities that were once filled with corpses have now been replaced by the new kingdoms created by the dream weavers. With the gods' permission, the cities have once again shone with glory and prosperity.

But the descendants of that arrogant race who dared to challenge divine power were banished from civilized areas and completely exiled to a desolate forbidden land where even evil spirits could not survive. Millions of years ago, the last batch of demons and ghouls had already moved out of there.

This is the remote, forbidden eastern land.

"Os-Nargai" is the only country in this vast eastern land.

This is a country built from ruins, and before the reconstruction of Os-Nargue, the entire eastern part was known as a no-man's land.

Even today, the area outside the borders of Os-Nargue remains a restricted zone, prohibiting not only citizens of the country from entering or leaving, but also foreign travelers.

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However, the truth is that the "no man's land" is not truly uninhabited; it's just that the people who live there are not recognized as human by the gods.

They were a forgotten tribe, descendants of conquerors who faced the gods in ancient times. Their bloodline was once incredibly powerful, but as the defeated party, their former territory had been divided up, and new kingdoms were built on the corpses of their people. The names of the conquerors had long been forgotten by the world. Even if someone occasionally saw humanoid figures in the forbidden area on the towering walls of Os-Nargay, they would only mistake them for ghouls foraging in the forest.

The title of conqueror was erased millions of years ago.

Not only have people forgotten it, but even the descendants of this group are almost forgetting it.

In this hellish, desolate land, every second of survival requires an all-out effort, and every day could mean the possibility of life and death. The glory of the past can no longer offer any solace to their wounded souls; all they can think about is how to get through this cold night...

Just as the Scarlet Witch said.

The suffering never ends, and the "god" deep within the soul will never disappear.

This is a common characteristic of all those in lower ranks.

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To some extent, this is also an opportunity for evil spirits and demons.

Although Milo does not admit that he is an evil spirit, the fact is that what he does is consistent with the choices of the evil gods.

With the help of the Scarlet Witch, that is, through proselytizing and bewitching, the name of Valrokan has become widely known among the remnants of this desolate forbidden zone.

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The Dreamland is a world where gods fly everywhere and spirits are as common as dogs. Even cats can tear demons apart with their bare hands. Everything that sounds absurd and unbelievable can become reality here because its underlying logic is the dream of the waking world, and logic doesn't apply to dreams.

In the dream world, people not only know of the existence of the gods, but even their temperaments and characteristics. The distance between the gods and their inferiors seems to have been shortened like never before, but in reality, it has also been magnified like never before. Because when you know that there is a real god behind the shrine you worship, you will only lower your head even further.

All races live and thrive under the protection of a certain deity; this is the way of survival for the middle and lower-ranking races in the Dreamland.

But the remnants are an exception. They are a race abandoned by the gods.

They will be forever confined to the desolate forbidden zone, surviving by gnawing on stiff plant stems, and in extreme cases, they may even have to eat the flesh of their dead compatriots.

The rules and order of the environment are forcing them to perish and degenerate.

It seems that the wrath of the gods will never be extinguished. Instead of eradicating the entire remnant race with thunderous means, they worsen the ecology of the forbidden zone, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Perhaps the gods wanted to use this method to make their people, after a period of great suffering, begin to hate the blasphemous acts of their ancestors, thus humiliating the conquerors who had committed the sin of disrespecting the gods.

Who knows…

Perhaps the gods have long since stopped caring; to the gods above the order, the few remaining tribes of the remnants here are weaker than ants.

But whenever the icy rain of the night ends and the shimmering light of the sky reappears over the eastern continent, the bustling scene of the capital city of Os-Nargai always appears in the clouds: the extravagant and decadent wine pools and meat forests, the warm sun bathing the air, and the happy smiles on the faces of all the citizens of Os-Nargai. These layers of images are displayed with unparalleled clarity, using the clouds as a backdrop, before the remnants of the dynasty. They only need to look up slightly to witness all this illusion.

These images, created by the refraction of light, are real scenes from the city of Os-Nargue.

But for the survivors of the forbidden zone, it was even more illusory and distant than a mirage...

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All of the above information was gathered by Milo through observation around a camp after he "descended" into the forbidden zone in his avatar form.

His arrival was not silent.

mainly……

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"Heaven knows what the Scarlet Witch actually said to them when she was proselytizing..."

Milo tossed a piece of animal hide stained with dried blood back to the ground. On it, an incomplete summoning ritual was written in ancient, crooked script.

This is clearly a "book" left behind by the Scarlet Witch.

The bloodstains on this ancient text today came from the ritual performers.

Before Milo lay the severed limbs of nearly twenty humans, arranged in a circular totem.

A chilling fact is that the dismemberment was carried out by their own people, because the total number of people performing this summoning ritual was only about twenty, with no other bystanders.

Because the others were basically broken into seven or eight pieces or more, only the last piece of the totem puzzle, the owner of the last mutilated corpse, only had time to cut off his own left leg, and then died of excessive blood loss in the cold night.

Therefore, the horror and horrification of the entire ritual process is simply unimaginable.

What is truly chilling is the motivation behind these people's horrific ritual. What kind of despair must these survivors, summoned to commit suicide, have felt to complete this essential ritual of summoning totems...

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"Are these your followers?"

Dillah Shaw emerged from the shadows.

(End of this chapter)