chsdbacks Chapter 261 The Dice of Fate
Chapter 261 The Dice of Fate
Chapter 261 The Dice of Fate
Time flows on.
In the blink of an eye, several decades have passed.
The differences between the east and west sides of the Northern Continent are not as extreme, but the distance between the North and South Continents is quite large. This is not because the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom is not working hard, but because the situation in the Southern Continent is more complicated and lacks a unified political system.
The relationship between the three churches of Wind, Wisdom, and White could not be harmonious. In addition, there were the Death God Church, demon worship, and other strange beliefs in the South Continent. Even though the middle and upper-level priests of the Storm Church and the Eternal Sun Church were already enjoying the convenience of various magical constructs, the overall social environment was still the same as before.
The changes in the Northern Continent were even greater. At least in all the major cities, such as the capital of the Solomon Empire, Trier and Backlund on the east and west sides, large teleportation arrays were built.
When the White Emperor established the first large-scale teleportation array, he invited Bethel Abraham to experience it together. This "door" chuckled and even reinforced it, making it seem to anyone who didn't know better that he was leaving a back door.
Over the decades, the White Emperor successfully promoted the overall development of civilization through the Solomon Empire, while the Black Emperor indirectly strengthened the stability and centralization of his rule. This can be considered a kind of exchange of interests. Interestingly, the Black Emperor did not stop the spread of the "Light of the Spirit World".
Spanning the entire northern continent, the radiance of the spirit realm extends from the Misty Sea, across Trier, the Interstellar Sea, the Amanda Mountains, and Sonia Island, all the way to the North Sonia Sea. It glows red during the day and purple at night, and in some ways, it even replaces the sun and moon.
In the Solomon Empire, the status of scholars was almost on par with that of nobles. Even if they were not nobles themselves, they could still gain a very high degree of recognition within the empire and were easily granted noble titles, becoming part of the order system. The rise in the status of scholars promoted various aspects of civilization's development.
Magic-powered trains have appeared on the Northern Continent, and all sorts of magical items have been developed. This ability to create magical items is certainly not limited to the craftsmanship path.
Even extraordinary individuals from other sources, as long as they possess the corresponding extraordinary abilities, can conduct an alchemy full of surprises through prayer rituals, related mystical runes, and specific spiritual materials. They can create mystical rituals that may be useful, may be useless, or may simply fail and explode, leaving nothing behind.
Even ordinary people in the lower to middle ranks, including some who have acquired a certain amount of basic knowledge, may become rich overnight by accidentally creating a powerful or valuable magical item.
But many more extraordinary individuals end up heavily indebted in this "gamble."
This can be considered a form of entertainment for everyone. Anyway, what you get from this alchemy array depends a lot on luck and chance. Even some members of extraordinary families like to play a couple of rounds when they have nothing to do. The card pool is quite wide, and you can get magical items, sealed items, spiritual materials with special functions, alchemy puppets, enhanced versions of natural spirits and undead... anything is possible.
Those who seek to profit from this often look for ways to increase the success rate when holding rituals. The most common method is to use various strange dances to please the gods and hermits who symbolize "alchemy".
Because of the influence of these people, the beliefs of hermits in the eyes of the world have gradually become associated with "luck" or "fate".
This is especially true when the saying "knowledge changes destiny" started circulating from who-knows-where.
Where there is demand and a market, there will be business.
In order to save money on purchasing extraordinary materials, some daring ordinary people would form groups to try to capture natural spirits that wander around the spirit world and descend from the aurora borealis using low-level talismans and some low-grade, one-time magical items, and artificially create spiritual materials.
Even if they don't know how to manufacture them, they will try to make some counterfeit goods and sell them. This is not hard to understand in the Black Emperor's country, since the Black Emperor represents the shadow of order.
The White Emperor has not paid attention to these external changes for a long time.
Because he relinquished power, this is why his will was able to be implemented so quickly within the Solomon Empire.
The Black Emperor needs power.
This is the conclusion the hermit drew through "observation." As a deity on the real side, the Black Emperor's amplification is not necessarily stronger the larger the empire. It also depends on the actual control over his own country. If he is just a nominal emperor, the Black Emperor is almost no different from an ordinary Sequence 0, and may even be weaker.
The stronger the Black Emperor's control over the empire, the stronger his power within the Solomon Empire, and the stronger his ability to suppress the rest of the Solomon Empire.
As the Black Emperor advanced further, his majesty grew ever stronger, and the gods and extraordinary nobles within his territory retreated a step.
This is the power and authority of the order side, and also its allure.
Besides the Fallen God, this colossal true god, there are also true gods like the Hermit, who break free from the framework of the Solomon Empire and are able to accept the authoritarian rule of the Black Emperor.
Other gods, angel kings, and angels probably wouldn't like an overly powerful emperor, but for an emperor on the side of order to not centralize power is simply a joke, unless there's no chance, but isn't there a chance?
The hermit guides civilization, the dark emperor seizes power—it's a win-win situation.
Trier.
In the White Emperor's palace, the crystal chandeliers shone with a warm and bright light, like the sun. The White Emperor sat lazily on his throne, toying with a milky-white multifaceted die. Even among the common people, his reputation had faded. Compared to the two suns that had once filled the sky when the Solomon Empire was first established, he now seemed to be merely an appendage of the Black Emperor, an honorary emperor with an incomparably noble status. Yet, he remained unmoved.
The odds in your hand are constantly changing, the 108 faces of the coin are constantly jumping, and fate is changing every moment. A few jumps can gamble away a person's luck, and then directly arrange the other person's fate of losing value.
This is a forced gamble. Fate doesn't give people a choice. Influenced by the power of the "dice," you have to use your luck as a chip to gamble against the "dice of fate."
If you respond passively, you forfeit. A few random rolls of the dice will win you the "chips" of all living beings in the surrounding city—anything could be a chip: good fortune, misfortune, wealth, life, family...
The "Dice of Fate" doesn't discriminate; fate is the stake, and everything within fate is a stake. Those who lose their stakes will only become puppets of this sealed artifact. The dice can be rolled a few times to determine the ending of this fate.