Tome of Blood

Chapter 338 -188- The Secret of the Gods

"The Web of Faith?"

Seeing the new ability appearing on the Holy Code of Blood, Charlotte froze for a moment.

She closed her eyes to feel it, and then she was surprised to find that she seemed to have woven a huge "network" in the dark.

In the depths of the conscious world, the starlight that symbolizes believers has changed, and a constellation-like network has appeared around the starlight, linking all the starlight together, and finally converging on Charlotte, who is like a core.

And the core of the core is Charlotte's heart, or more precisely, it is the crystal of the inner fire that seems real and unreal in the heart, just like the godhead and divine fire in the Western Fantasy stories.

The network is anchored by the gods enshrined in the sub-human tribe, like a base station for mobile devices, and connected with many believers through the gods.

Charlotte found that through this network, she could easily extend her power to every statue "into the network", and she could easily project power to the believers near each statue through the statue.

It's like a cell phone signal.

Of course, this is just a simple and crude metaphor.

In Charlotte's perception, every believer is actually a "base station", which can also receive and send her "signals", but there are strengths and weaknesses.

And no matter how weak the signal is, it is much more efficient than Charlotte's simple and rude way of contacting them through the starlight that symbolizes believers before, projecting power.

Charlotte tried a little bit, and cast her eyes on the werewolf Luf, the elf Sebastian, and the blood-born Earl Urst through this new belief network.

Then I was surprised to find that contacting them through the faith network hardly consumes the divine power of blood!

To use an analogy, before she contacted believers and family members, it was like shouting from across the air, and she needed to stretch her neck to shout, but now it is as if she has a mobile phone, and she only needs to talk in a normal tone.

"This web of belief... has something!"

Charlotte couldn't help but exclaim.

And at this moment, a new line of text appeared in her field of vision——

[The Holy Tome of Blood detected the belief network in use——]

[Belief Network Belonging: Charlotte De Castel (Lord of the Holy Book)]

[Current network status: semi-activated]

[Is it fully activated? 】

fully activated?

Charlotte froze again.

After pondering for a moment, she tried to activate in the depths of her consciousness.

The next moment, the web of faith in consciousness shimmered, and at the same time, Charlotte felt that the connection between herself and the believers was further strengthened.

She showed curiosity and planned to study it carefully, but then, overwhelming voices flooded into her consciousness:

"Praise you! Great True Ancestor of Blood, may you bless me to dig a few more mithril raw ore today!"

"My lord! Please listen to the voice of the humble believer and give me the possibility of awakening my bloodline!"

"Great True Ancestor of Blood, I want to confess to you..."

"O Almighty Lord, I..."

"..."

All kinds of prayers penetrated from all directions, drilled into Charlotte's mind, and she couldn't help but burst out "Oh shit", and then quickly adjusted the web of faith to a semi-activated state again.

This time, the voice of prayer gradually disappeared, replaced by the twinkling stars in the web of faith.

Every flicker of that starlight meant that someone was praying to her.

Some are strong, some are weak.

"Huh, it's much cleaner now."

Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief.

She wanted to see how much divine power she had just consumed by activating the web of faith, but when her consciousness penetrated into the holy tome of blood, she found that the divine power of blood accumulated in the holy tome had disappeared.

"Huh? Why is there no divine power?"

Charlotte frowned slightly.

After thinking about it, Charlotte consciously mobilized the divine power of blood, and then she found that she could still mobilize the power.

It's just that this power no longer comes from the divine power of blood stored in the Holy Tome of Blood, but comes from her heart!

Or to be more precise, the half-transparent crystal in her heart.

Charlotte's heart moved, and she felt it carefully, and then found that the divine power in the Holy Tome of Blood did not disappear, but shifted.

The divine power was transferred to the crystal of the inner golden flame, and combined with the divine power retained in the statue of the ancient temple, all concentrated in it, as if forming a pool of divine power.

At the same time, this pool of divine power is also connected to Charlotte's web of belief.

Charlotte sensed that the accumulated divine power in the divine power pool was almost the same as the total divine power of the blood scriptures and ancient statues, about 2000 points, enough for her true ancestor to liberate and squander for more than half an hour.

"So... is this illusory crystal really a godhead? And that flame is a divine fire?"

Charlotte looked puzzled.

"Then what am I now? A blood race? The master of the Holy Tome of Blood? Or... am I already considered a 'god'?"

She muttered a few words, sensed her own strength, and found that if she didn't use her divine power, she would still be that little weak chicken whose strength was only Yinyue.

Charlotte is a little confused about her current state.

what is this?

Schrödinger's god?

Demi god?

False god?

Charlotte looked strange, but at this moment, her heart suddenly moved.

In her perception, a star in the web of belief suddenly flickered, and Charlotte keenly sensed that a weak energy flowed into the pool of divine power in her heart along the web of faith.

Although it is very weak, it is so weak that it cannot be perceived without careful perception, and it is so weak that even if it is magnified ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, it may not be worth a little bit of divine power, but Charlotte can be sure that the divine power in her divine power pool Added a little bit.

She suddenly came alive, realized a certain possibility, and then quickly sank into consciousness, tracing the source of that energy.

Following the belief network, Charlotte easily traced back to the twinkling starlight, and when she projected it to consciousness, her vision changed instantly.

She "saw" a forest. In the forest, a ferocious monster had fallen to the ground, with a spear stuck in its body, and a werewolf with a rough face was standing on the corpse of the monster, panting violently.

His body was fluctuating, and his whole body seemed to be exuding a strong rhythm of extraordinary power. The granulation on the hideous wound on his body was wriggling, and it was actually slowly healing.

I saw him pull out the spear forcefully, splashing a spray of blood, then stretched out his other hand, crookedly drew a symbol of thorns and roses on his chest, and then said in a deep voice:

"Praise the True Ancestor, grant me courage!"

Sensing the breath of the werewolf, Charlotte suddenly realized what happened:

"It's a werewolf believer who fought against monsters in the forest. He just broke through to the stars in a crisis..."

"So, the power collected by the web of belief just now is the extraordinary power that exploded at the moment he broke through to the stars?"

Charlotte was pretty sure that wasn't the power of faith.

Or to be more precise, she didn't know what the power of faith was, and she had never heard of it after transmigrating.

It is very likely that in this world there is no such power of faith as in the Western fantasy novels she read in her previous life. The power just now is pure extraordinary power, the power that explodes when the extraordinary breaks through and the energy surges.

With some guesses in mind, Charlotte carefully perceived the belief network again.

And this perception really made her discover a lot.

For example... Her belief network is actually connected to the blood and life of all believers, and it seems to be linked together through soul and body.

And, the more devout believer, the stronger that connection.

This connection is the pathway of the web of belief. Charlotte can use this pathway to give believers strength, and at the same time, through this pathway, absorb the power of believers.

At this time, the information about the web of faith in the holy tome of blood continued to emerge, and it seemed that the verification and loading had finally been completed:

[Web of Faith: As a totem of blood, the Lord of the Holy Book has the ability to weave a web of faith. He can weave a web of faith through the belief of believers, build a belief anchor, use faith to anchor believers, and bestow divine blessings on believers, cultivate, Absorb extraordinary power, and recover the soul and grace after the believer dies. 】

Cultivate and absorb extraordinary power?

Recycle soul and grace?

Looking at the description of the new ability, Charlotte was slightly taken aback.

She squinted her eyes, her expression was a little inexplicable:

"So... the purpose of the gods to develop believers is to establish a close connection with believers and let believers help them practice together?"

"And this... is the secret of the gods?"

Charlotte almost instantly thought of some words that Nice once said:

Gods are gods, beliefs are beliefs, Lord Cat once heard someone say that gods are just a group of selfish parasites dressed in hypocrisy.

"Parasite... If the gods develop believers to absorb their extraordinary power, then it is indeed a kind of parasitism."

Charlotte said to herself.

Of course, having said that, not all believers of the gods are supernatural beings, more of them are actually mortals.

"Ordinary people... For ordinary people, if they are devout believers, they will return to the Kingdom of God after death."

"Hiss, so, for mortals, after they die, they reclaim their souls?"

"Soul power is also a kind of extraordinary power, different people have strengths and weaknesses..."

"Gods develop believers. Believers who possess extraordinary power will give feedback to the gods when they improve their extraordinary power. After the believers die, their souls will be taken back by the gods."

At this moment, Charlotte finally figured out the secret of the gods:

"No wonder, no wonder the gods want to develop believers. Although there is no power of faith, developing believers is part of their own strength!"

"It's like grazing. During the process of growing up, an extraordinary person absorbs the magic power that escapes around him all the time. In other words...the extraordinary power is like a sheep eating grass and growing wool."

"And the gods who have established a belief network can absorb part of the energy in this process, similar to shearing sheep."

"And when a believer dies, it's like a sheep that grows up and goes out to slaughter. The gods will recover their souls and remaining extraordinary power."

"This is also compatible with the need for funerals after believers die."

"It is preached in every church that after the funeral, the soul of the deceased can be calmed down, and the extraordinary power remaining in the corpse can also be purified..."

"But in fact, I am afraid that the funeral ceremony can 'lead' the souls of believers back to the divine kingdom of the gods, and the extraordinary power can also be recovered with the help of the net of faith!"

"Of course, this is a win-win for both mortals and gods, because if the corpses of superhumans are not disposed of or recycled, there is a high probability that they will really evolve into undead."

"The gods bestow divine grace and protection to believers, which are used to exchange believers' souls after death, as well as extraordinary power during life!"

At this moment, Charlotte realized.

Sure enough, if you want to fully understand a thing, the best way is to contact that thing yourself, or even become that thing.

In the past, Charlotte had been ignorant of the secrets of the gods and believers, making some guesses but not knowing them clearly.

Now that I have the web of belief, everything is suddenly clear.

"I'm afraid the same is true for the blood clan myths to increase their strength. The gods of the blood clan rarely care about the spread of beliefs, but they care a lot about the evolution of their offspring..."

"The bloodline of the blood race is originally a web of belief in another sense. It is proof that I can devour the bloodline power of other blood races through the power of the blood scripture."

"In other words, in the vampire, the role of the offspring of the vampire is likely to replace the believer!"

For a while, Charlotte thought of more.

At the same time, she also understood why Nice said that it doesn't matter if the belief deteriorates, because the gods really don't worry about the deterioration of the belief.

The gods only need believers to believe in them, and it is enough to establish a channel. Even if the faith has changed, as long as you still believe in the gods, the channel will still exist.

While the channel is still there, the gods can continue to gain power from the believers.

Judging from the role of the web of belief, the status of gods and believers is not equal. Gods can completely control the life and death of believers. This also confirms the degeneration of those gods that Charlotte has seen before. Believers have gone crazy or directly death story.

But then again, how could the strong and the weak be equal? ​​Ordinary people must pay a corresponding price if they want to obtain protection from the gods and obtain extraordinary power.

"My current state should be one step closer to being a god. Although I'm not a real god, I'm afraid I can't treat it as an ordinary life."

"Gods, divine power, faith, the kingdom of God... If I really want to say, I don't have the kingdom of God yet, maybe... this is the essential difference between me and the real gods now?"

Charlotte thought.

Regarding the gods, Charlotte still has many doubts that cannot be answered.

However, there is one thing she is certain of.

That is, with the web of faith, the development of believers must also be put on the agenda.

Although there is no evidence, Charlotte has a feeling in the dark, that is, she has actually embarked on the real road to becoming a god...