"My divine authority... is somewhat strange." Ren pressed his forehead slightly. "To be precise, I always feel like some of my divine offices shouldn't belong to me."

The moment he became a god, He could easily sense his own divine authority.

But He always felt something was off about these authorities.

Betty was about to ask more when suddenly a figure flashed before Ren and the others. "Because the God of War attempted to corrupt you through this war, but you instead corrupted him in return."

Everyone instantly focused on the suddenly appearing figure—gorgeous violet hair, deep dark purple eyes, pale skin, impressive figure... It was actually the Goddess of Magic!

"What about the God of War?"

"After you seized part of his authority, he retreated in defeat." The Goddess of Magic's tone was cold, as if repelling the God of War was no big deal.

Ren didn't dwell on it, instead showing some surprise. "You're saying the God of War wanted to corrupt me, but instead got corrupted by me and had his authority stolen?"

"You should already have mastered war-related authority, right?"

"I'm not sure." Ren pondered slightly. "I have one authority called 'Magic Conductor Command' that lets me control all Magic Conductor equipment in the world. For example, I can freely direct rays fired from ray guns, hitting whatever I point at."

He could command fired rays?!

Betty and the book immediately showed incredulous expressions... and radiance. Betty was so surprised her head nearly fell off.

How was this different from bullets that could curve?

Oh wait, this one could auto-lock targets!

Are you kidding?

Even legendary mages couldn't do such things!

Fired rays could hit targets, could be blocked, could be intercepted, but definitely couldn't be freely commanded in flight—yet he could do it!

This was just the ray gun era. What about the magic cannon era? What if there were even more powerful Magic Conductors later?!

Even the Goddess of Magic's eyes flashed with something unusual, though she didn't show it. "This is indeed part of war's authority. Besides this, what else? Just this wouldn't be enough to drive the God of War into impotent rage."

"Besides that, I have three more authorities." Ren didn't waste words, immediately explaining his remaining authorities.

[Enlightener]: Under the illumination of enlightening fire, any life will gain knowledge enhancement and wisdom inspiration, with some probability of improving comprehension and gaining insights.

[Data Craftsman]: Traveling between reality and illusion, master of all data; possesses the ability to traverse networks and reality, every Magic Net will be a perfect 'door'; can freely obtain, modify, delete any information on networks, and while deleting and tampering, will somewhat affect creators' memories; can create and manipulate network spaces, such as building network mazes to trap intelligent beings' consciousness within.

[King of Creation]: Possesses the ability to create and master various crafted objects; can control any materials including stone, metal, plants; automatically acquires all creation-related principles, manufacturing processes, technical knowledge in the world.

"Good heavens! Lord Ren, doesn't this mean you can now go directly to the mortal realm? Wherever there's a Magic Net, you can travel freely?! That thing you complained about before—wanting to punch someone through the internet—can actually be realized now?! Such ability is truly unprecedented among gods. I've never heard of any deity capable of such things..."

"No, one deity also possesses similar abilities. He lives in the Tulip Kingdom, so I didn't let you make contact before." The Goddess of Magic directly interrupted the book. "Of course, this function is indeed very useful. Within the rules, freely traveling between reality and illusion, even appearing in the mortal realm... truly a nice ability! However, what concerns me more is that the God of Creation's authority would come to you."

"The God of Creation won't cause us trouble, will he?" Ren raised an eyebrow, immediately understanding her meaning.

The God of Creation was definitely one of the deities with the most believers in the mortal realm. Church of Creation believers were divided into hundreds of schools, each with massive followings. Practically all craftsmen and builders in the mortal realm were God of Creation believers. Races like dwarves were complete devotees!

Even one of the three great dark churches, the 'Spider's Home,' was formerly part of the Church of Creation. Only thousands of years ago did they suddenly declare the God of Creation dead, then fall into darkness...

"The God of Creation fell three thousand years ago. His authority has always been with the God of War. Otherwise, how could mortal weapons and armor have developed so rapidly these years? I didn't expect you to corrupt the God of War to this degree in such a short time. Truly impressive—even veteran gods rarely achieve this!" The Goddess of Magic's praise was undisguised.

The God of Creation really had fallen?!

Upon hearing the first half, Ren was stunned, seemingly not hearing the Goddess of Magic's latter words. After a long while, He couldn't help exclaiming, "I never thought everything the Spider's Home proclaimed was true—the God of Creation really fell!"

"This is exactly what I wanted to tell you. I think you should already be able to hear prayers from the mortal realm, right?" The Goddess of Magic's tone suddenly became serious.

"Yes." Ren also became solemn.

"Every deity consists of two parts—humanity and divinity. Humanity comes from mortals' faith and prayers, while divinity is the rules and authority we wield. Theoretically, divinity prevents us from violating rules, but humanity makes us seek loopholes within those rules. When the balance between humanity and divinity breaks... gods go mad!"

The Goddess of Magic looked deeply at Ren. "Facing mad gods, the only solution is for all gods to unite and destroy them."

"However, since you and I both transformed from mortals into gods, we have natural resistance in this regard, so there's no need to worry too much."

The Goddess of Magic spoke slowly, seemingly wanting Ren to understand as much as possible.

Piece after piece of deity-related information kept pouring out, making Ren frown deeply. What kind of rule-based horror story was this?!

Gods were special life forms.

Gods were born from intelligent beings' worship and awe.

Gods mastered rules from birth and had fixed behavioral codes—this was divinity.

Gods would grow stronger with increasing faith power, but would also be corrupted by humanity as faith power grew.

Gods would become insane from conflicts between divinity and humanity. At that point, they would choose to destroy the intelligent life that drove them mad. Other gods would destroy the mad god to prevent world destruction...

"So basically, they go crazy from listening to too many prayers." After digesting this for a while, Ren had a realization. "I'll just use Data Craftsman to create customer service in the network, having all prayers filtered there first. Wouldn't that work?"

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