Chapter 345: Converting Divine History into Heat
In this world, the connection between gods and humans is excessively close.
The existence of gods is sustained by human faith.
Therefore, if the humans who believe in a god vanish, the god will disappear as well.
However, the reverse is somewhat similar: if any part of the pantheon responsible for the human world is missing, it would bring immeasurable consequences to the human world.
This relationship of shared prosperity and shared loss is rather troublesome.
Thus, Renji conceived a method: burning away the histories of those dead gods.
By incinerating their histories, the world would completely forget their traces, and human memory would hold no recollection of such gods. This would minimize the consequences for humanity.
Moreover, this act wouldn't alter history.
It's like solving a difficult physics problem—writing out extensive steps to arrive at a result.
Then, suddenly, someone erases all the steps. Even if the process is unknown, as long as the result remains correct and doesn't affect physical reality, it's not a problem.
Therefore, he needed the mythological core systems of various pantheons, similar to the God of the Bible's system, to conveniently access the entire mythological history and accurately identify which individuals should be incinerated.
Of course, if denied access, he wasn't truly incapable of burning these gods' histories—but he wouldn't be able to precisely target those who deserved it.
The few individuals he had just incinerated were possible because he accessed their histories through Ophis.
These were people who had interacted with or met Ophis in the past, allowing him to lock onto them directly through her.
He discovered Ophis' unique nature—she seemed intrinsically connected to the Akashic Records, or one could say she was, in a sense, the physical manifestation of the Akashic Records herself. Through her, he could comprehend this world's Akashic Records.
The distinction was that he could easily access everything Ophis had observed. For areas she hadn't witnessed, he would need to explore them himself.
It was like playing a game of Red Alert in his previous life: before the radar was established, to understand the map, one had to scout and search manually.
Ophis was equivalent to a mobile mining vehicle roaming randomly across the map, so the information visible was only from the areas she had passed through.
To see regions the mining vehicle hadn't traversed, the person on the vehicle—Renji—would have to step into the unexplored dark areas himself to investigate.
This approach was troublesome and time-consuming, which was why Renji wanted the various pantheons to voluntarily open their interfaces, allowing him to clearly see each pantheon's map—their history.
Only by clearly seeing the map could he mark which ones should be destroyed.
If the map wasn't clear and he struck based on vague coordinates, innocent people might be caught in the crossfire.
Thus, by accessing everyone's records through the pantheons' systems, he could decisively incinerate the histories of those aligned with Hades' faction, turning them into useful waste.
Of course, the primary reason he could burn these individuals' histories was because he had obtained the Infinite Cute Dragon, enabling him to achieve this level of capability.
Honestly, after these days of interaction, this cute dragon was truly easy to deceive.
She was just a simple child—any ordinary adult could easily trick her.
The reason she had survived this long without being deceived much was mainly due to her overwhelmingly intimidating presence, so no one dared to treat her as just a child.
Therefore, Renji had no intention of concealing this special ability and directly revealed it.
This was a threat!
If they didn't allow him access, when dealing with the otherworldly invasion, he would need sufficient thermal energy to confront it.
Without the time to verify which gods deserved death, he would indiscriminately burn the histories of all gods.
Faced with such a threat, the vast majority of those present glared at him angrily.
"It seems everyone is still quite concerned, but that's understandable. In that case, I'll lead by example~"
The one who said this was Odin, causing everyone to stare at him in astonishment.
They then saw the space in front of Odin warp—it was Renji opening a spatial exit, directly connecting to the space of the Norse pantheon.
Naturally, it wasn't a direct connection to the core area, but rather the periphery. After all, the core area had barrier interference, making it not so easy to break into.
So, Odin simply shrugged and entered this passage.
Boom—!
Those who tried to exit through this passage charged forward only to crash into what seemed like an invisible wall.
Hmm?
This Odin was really straightforward. Renji had already sensed the connection and began reading the records.
With the help of Ophis, the super server, to share the load, the process became much more convenient for him.
Of course, the records he accessed didn't allow him to see everything about the Norse gods clearly or fully understand their history.
That's because the Akashic Records in this world weren't as convenient as those in another world.
Therefore, judging each one's evil or righteousness was quite difficult.
What he wanted from the gods' records was actually to lock onto the coordinates of certain individuals, making it easier for him to carry out precise strikes.
And these individuals were precisely those who would soon reveal themselves.
Once he identified these troublemakers and had their Akasha record coordinates, it would be easy for him to precisely ignite their records.
Hmm? So they've started to act, have they?
...
Norse Divine Realm.
As soon as he connected to his Pantheon's core system, Odin raised an eyebrow.
Returning to the main god's temple, the Valkyrie hurried in to report that the Underworld's army had suddenly launched a surprise invasion of the Divine Realm, and battle had immediately erupted.
The attack was too sudden, as if someone had set up a special passage to a weak point in their defenses, catching the Divine Realm completely off guard.
Especially with the appearance of two Fenrirs and several smaller Jörmungandrs joining the fray, if they couldn't handle it, they would suffer heavy losses soon.
"Odin, what should we do?"
"Wait."
In normal times, Odin would have been anxious, but now he was counting on that person's capabilities.
"Other Pantheons are probably in chaos too, right?"
Odin stroked his beard and muttered to himself. He didn't think the problem was limited to his realm.
He had already received intelligence that the lords of the underworld from various Pantheons had been gathering frequently recently, plotting something.
So, today was clearly a good opportunity, and likely rebellions had broken out in various Pantheons.
"Lord Odin!!!"
"What are you waiting for?!"
"What are you thinking about, Odin!!!"
Because the displayed scenes showed the Underworld's army continuously pouring in, the Divine Realm's forces were retreating step by step.
If this continued, the Norse Divine Realm would fall.
So, some gods couldn't hold back anymore and wanted to leave immediately for the front lines.
But just then, something went wrong with the Underworld's army.
It was utterly bizarre—soldiers suddenly began spontaneously combusting, one after another...