Chapter 477 The Order of Inheritance (5600)

"Thank you so much! Thank you very much!"

"—The People of Fire are truly formidable!"

Element Calendar, Year 307, July 12th, noon.

On a bright and sunny day, the blue waves lapped against the shore. Along the coast of Twilight City, a large ship filled with refugees from the Sea People arrived at the makeshift port, carried by a refreshing sea breeze.

Under the supervision of the priests, the Sea People, who had endured several days of sailing, slowly disembarked, safely reaching the mainland.

Unlike the residents of the mainland, many Sea People living in the Sea of Troubles had already been plagued by storms and waves for dozens of days, even half a year. Their residential areas were engulfed by typhoons or giant waves.

Now, finally able to leave the dangerous waters and arrive on the safe mainland, almost all the Sea People were overjoyed. They didn't have the spare energy to worry about whether they would face the Holy Church's judgment.

The reason it wasn't said that all the Sea People were overjoyed was because some of them… were particularly overjoyed.

"Amazing, old sir! Thanks to you, you saved our lives, otherwise we would have ended up feeding the fish in the sea!"

"—The People of Fire are worthy of reverence!"

The gray-haired, gray-eyed old man, the proxy of the God of Judgment, Priest Aimon, gradually faded the blue light in his eyes. His expression was serious, with a hint of embarrassment.

At this moment, he was being forced by two wind spirits in the form of young teenagers, tightly shaking his hands up and down, thanking him loudly and enthusiastically. He couldn't help but respond with some embarrassment and helplessness, "You're welcome, this is what we clergy should do."

"After all, both of you have been judged by the 'Eye of Discernment', and are good residents, so protecting you to a safe area is the responsibility of us priests… Alright! Stop tickling my palm, be good!"

At the end, Aimon couldn't help but get a little annoyed. These two wind spirits were obviously a bit too active, even tickling his palm while shaking hands. Was that appropriate?!

But obviously, his tone didn't have much deterrent effect. After apologizing honestly once, the two wind spirits, who seemed to be bee people, began to chat happily again.

"Oh, honey, is this the mainland? It doesn't feel much different from the islands!"

"Yeah, honey, it feels like the mainland is just a bigger island."

"...I'll never understand the age and seniority of these wind spirits..."

Feeling helpless, Aimon gazed at the two energetic wind spirits, took a deep breath, and then looked back at the many Sea People still pouring out of the large ship, and several identical ships approaching the shore.

He said with a wry smile, "Ah, the next job is really tedious—refugee resettlement, resource coordination. These things are really a headache. God has really given me a big problem; perhaps this is a test."

More than twelve ships transporting Sea People, tens of thousands of Sea People needing resettlement, the amount of work was truly unimaginable. If Aimon hadn't been working day and night with other clergy members for the past few days, roughly sorting out all the Sea People's lists and notifying the local Twilight City Temple in advance to divide the resettlement locations, this landing would have caused massive chaos.

If that were the case, he would have greatly failed God's trust.

"God trusts me, and entrusted this responsibility to me."

Standing on the coastline, Aimon was now staring at the sea. This originally aged priest now had the youthful fighting spirit on his face: "And our cause is just, righteous, and on the right path, so I will definitely do my best to complete it."

"But then again, why do these two bee people look so familiar?"

Thinking this, the old priest's expression was subtle. He turned his head and looked at the buzzing bee people couple beside him, and couldn't help but ask, "Friends, do you… know Sara?"

"What?!"

Instantly, the two bee people who were enthusiastically discussing the weather and expressing their feelings turned their heads in surprise. They looked at each other, and then said in unison:

"Do you know our daughter?"

At the same time, not to mention Aimon's encounter with Sara's parents.

Along the coast of Twilight City, on the northern side.

Unlike the southern coast, which provided a landing site for a large number of innocent Sea People and would be established as a Sea People refugee protection zone in the future, all those unloaded on the northern coast were the many pirates arrested by the Fire People fleet in the actions a few days ago.

Of course, there were also some Sea People who had committed crimes mixed in. As long as they could be distinguished using the Eye of Discernment, they were all escorted here by special armed ships and clergy members.

Ishar, a Fire Lord's believer, a black-haired, golden-eyed knight and God's Chosen, walked along the shore with a calm expression, scanning the rows of pirates kneeling neatly on the beach, waiting for the clergy to record their names.

Among the many pirates kneeling on the ground, some were Fire People, some were Wind People, some looked kind, and some looked ferocious at first glance. But no matter their appearance or temperament, as long as the Eye of Discernment, a divine skill recently passed down by the Lord of Judgment, was used to observe them, it could be seen that they were all rising with a black and red spiritual light, giving off an annoying aura.

And such an aura proved that they all deserved to die, and their sins were heinous.

"Pah! Lackeys!"

Ishar's eyes were flashing with blue spiritual light as he was using the Eye of Discernment for the third time to double-check whether there were any redeemable, less serious good people among the pirates—after all, everyone's inner evil was different, so the Eye of Discernment needed to be scanned by several priests separately to accurately determine whether a person was truly evil.

However, just as he walked past a young Fire People pirate, the one-eyed pirate with short red hair, who was only about ten years old, suddenly struggled to raise his head and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm forcefully on Ishar's armor.

As a God's Chosen, Ishar could dodge blades coming at ten times the speed of sound within three meters. He could observe the details of lightning strikes at a thousand times slower speed with his naked eyes. He could not possibly dodge a mere mouthful of phlegm from a low-level pirate.

However, it hit him, landing on Ishar's armor.

With a calm expression, the God's Chosen turned his head and looked at the spitting pirate, a young man of sixteen at most. There was a vertical blade scar on his face, shattering his left eye. This young pirate was flashing with deep red spiritual light, meaning he had killed more than three people and colluded in harming more than ten lives. As for robbing property and running rampant, it was countless.

"You slaves of the precepts! Lackeys!"

At this moment, this fearless young pirate was shouting loudly in a young man's characteristic 'unafraid of death' posture, "If you have the ability, kill me now! I know you don't dare, haha, trash! I'm guilty, I killed people, I robbed your merchant ships—but you can only slowly wait for the trial to convict me—idiots!"

He was so arrogant that even kneeling on the ground seemed to be a kind of glory. Feeling the gazes from all directions, belonging to both pirates and clergy, mixed with surprise and confusion, this made the young pirate feel a sense of victory in his heart, a victory of being the focus of everyone's attention, leaving the clergy helpless.

However, what confused him was… he didn't feel any anger.

Anger from Ishar.

On his forehead, the Fire Lord's crown runes were still flashing faintly. The God's Chosen gazed at the rebellious, fearless of death, and even at the last moment of his life, not valuing life or his own sins, and felt a sense of sorrow instead of anger.

--Children of the same age as this young man, those who are not pirates, but children with normal lives, are probably still thinking about the smile of the girl next door, spending a pure and sweet youth that can be savored for a lifetime.

They can work happily in the family shop, or study in the temple. Even if they are farmers, with the help of the priests, they won't be too struggling, and they will have time to rest and play.

If he were on the mainland, he wouldn't have to fight with other pirates, loot merchant ships, have one of his eyes cut out in the struggle, and develop such an uneasy and fearful character that can only bring himself peace of mind with superficial ferocity.

"If, if we God's Chosen, and the Lord, had not made a mistake one hundred and thirty-seven years ago..."

"Then, these people would probably not have become pirates like this, living such a sad life..."

Gazing with pity at the young pirate in front of him, who had already begun to feel somewhat inexplicable and fearful.

Ishar raised his head and looked around at the hundreds of pirates of different ages and sizes, his heart filled with heaviness.

"Judging their sins is also judging the hearts of us clergy... I understand the words of the Lord of Judgment."

"If a trial of evildoers has no love, causing us 'judges' and 'observers' to feel touched and self-reflect, then that trial is useless, and no lessons will be learned—the same is true for those being judged. They will never understand what a happy life they could have experienced if they had not committed crimes."

Now, the black-haired, golden-eyed knight finally understood the meaning of the conversation between the Lord of Judgment and his Lord in the past. He understood in his heart: "Eradicating everything from the root, learning lessons, and ensuring that the mistake of one hundred and thirty-seven years ago does not happen a second time."

"Ordinary humans repeat the cycle of life and death, and may never learn a lesson, but we long-lived God's Chosen may not."

"This is probably the responsibility we must shoulder."

[This sense of responsibility and compassion, almost like God, Elias, is this the successor you have chosen?]

[This firm belief and enthusiasm, Teacher, is this the proxy you have chosen?]

Cheer Sea, high altitude.

Above the clouds, two gods walked in the wind, overlooking everything on the coast.

Several days have passed since the collective annihilation of the Water Gods, the birth of the Source Water Divine Tree, and the establishment of the new covenant.

The Fire People fleet, gradually returning from the distant sea, brought back a large number of Sea People and arrested pirates, completely calming the order of the Cheer Sea and the four seas around the Sea of Troubles, and re-clearing a route to the Wind Continent.

The elemental imbalance has also gradually subsided, and whether it is drought or continent, gale or giant wave, has gradually subsided and become normal.

Everything has been back on track.

And during this time, Su Zhou passed on his supernatural powers to his chosen proxy, Aimon, making him his world’s chosen priest and path inheritor, so he can preach the new judgment Lord doctrines, called the principles of universal innovation.

The youth believes that the gray-haired old priest will be able to fully express the doubt in his heart, and use the inheritance he gave him to bring stability and order to this world.

And he can also pass on a lineage here, which can be regarded as laying out the situation in advance and planning for the future.

"The subsequent judgment and order will depend on their own efforts."

Su Zhou looked down at the earth, he turned his head, and said in a low voice to Elias beside him: "Elias, an order cannot only be shouldered by one existence, even if that existence is God—you must begin to learn to let go, and let them take on this responsibility themselves."

"Otherwise, they won’t even be able to admit their mistakes, praise their successes, but attribute everything, good or bad, to the glory of God... How can such an unconfident and irresponsible civilization move towards the future?"

[I originally planned to let go!]

Seeming a little flushed, the god in the form of a teenager said in a low voice, but it aroused the youth's snicker: "You guy, are you planning to die? Don't think I can't see the inheritance runes on top of Ishar’s head."

Ignoring Elias' somewhat annoyed expression for being exposed, Su Zhou’s mouth curled up: "Planning to die is not called letting go."

[...Teacher.]

After a while, when Elias' mood gradually calmed down, He supported the crown on His head, and then asked with some doubts: [Is this really okay?]

He raised His head and looked around at the calmed Seven Seas, and the entire Tartarus world. Elias asked Su Zhou, His expression a little complicated: [The new order you have set divides the continent and the sea into two worlds—the continent is peaceful and stable, everyone obeys the precepts, and the sea has no code, except for the specified sea routes, everything else is free.]

[Whether it is killing, robbery, or enslavement, all sins are allowed... You have opened a hell called freedom to all those who do not want to abide by the precepts. Is this really okay?]

"I don't know."

Hearing this, Su Zhou’s expression was calm. He was still staring at Aimon’s every move, watching him coordinate order, and arrange for the Sea People to gradually transfer to temporary residential areas along the coast. The youth faintly replied: "The world of pirates and Sea People has long been separated from the Fire and Wind People. They have long been accustomed to such a free life, and have their own set of accustomed order."

"And the Fire and Wind People also discriminate against the Sea People. This contradiction and prejudice will take a long time to resolve. As long as it can be ensured that there is interaction between the two sides, instead of unprovoked hatred, then it will be better than before."

Speaking like this, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at Elias, his expression serious: "The affairs of civilization and the world are not accomplished overnight."

"Do you want everyone to abide by the law? What is the difference between such a delusion and a guy who tries to rule all intelligent life with heavenly tribulations and destiny? As long as you guarantee that this freedom to do evil is... with evildoers and evildoers killing each other in hell, then there is no problem."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but think of the concept of the so-called 'abyssal blood war' in some games on Earth. He shook his head slightly and smiled: "In that case, it is really a good thing for normal people, for a normal world."

It’s like a game. When there is no way to stop people from cheating, and there is no way to ban all cheaters, it is better to open a new immortal server and let all the cheaters kill each other in this immortal server.

Since those people want to kill, want to violate the precepts, and want to kill each other, then let them vent there—let lunatics and lunatics, madmen and madmen play with each other. This is also a kind of order.

[...Is that so.]

Hearing this, Elias was silent, He sighed with a complicated mood, and then shook His head and smiled: [Sure enough, I am too perfect in my pursuit, and I have fallen into a misunderstanding.]

"Progress and innovation must be completed step by step. There is absolutely no reason to reach the sky in one step. This is even a lesson I am giving you this time."

At this moment, in the Seven Seas.

From the perspective of God, overlooking the world, you can see that in the deep ocean currents, there are huge glaciers and frost divine trees drifting in the seabed thousands of meters. It sneaks silently until a specific moment, and then suddenly floats randomly in a certain sea area, scattering fruits all over the ground, briefly coming into the world for a while, and then submerging into the sea again.

The power of the Source Water Soul flows with the glacier island, and it will guide the ocean currents of the entire Tartarus world, accelerating the energy cycle of the entire world.

The Fire Lord, Elias, even gave the island the blessing of the sun, so that the island would never melt, and could reflect the sun's brilliance. In the sea area where it appeared, it would accelerate the sunlight radiation, stirring up tornadoes and typhoons, redistributing the heat of the entire world, and also activating the elemental magic of the entire world.

——Yes, that's it.

God's progress should be like this, things that benefit the entire world, not just adding a little law, and deleting a little law.

The two gods watched this scene, and they could predict that in the distant future, because of the activation of the spiritual energy of the entire world, the output of food will increase, and everyone can live and work in peace, without worrying about food and clothing—in this way, even without the need for martial law, without the need for religious constraints, people will be able to have enough food and clothing, and will not pick up lost things on the road. They will love and respect each other, and voluntarily share their existing wealth with others.

When the granary is full, people know etiquette, and when food and clothing are sufficient, people know honor and disgrace. The truth is always so simple. The development of productivity will bring about the progress of morality and ethics. This is a truth that cannot be broken in any world.

[So, Teacher.]

Staring at the world that has begun to change, that has begun to innovate, Elias stood by the youth’s side, He did not raise His head, look at the face of His teacher, but just said softly: [Are you leaving again?]

Being able to hear the complex emotions of his student, only his friend, Su Zhou was taken aback, and then, having broken the shackles of the power of vows, and transcended reincarnation once again, he couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Yes, I am going to leave."

A calm voice sounded, Su Zhou reached out and patted Elias on the shoulder, he comforted: "But don't worry."

"Because as long as injustice still exists, as long as the world is still calling my name, calling for innovation and judgment to come—then I will return, again and again."

"And next time, you won't have to wait four hundred years."

Hearing this, the god was stunned, and then showed a smile: [If that's the case, then I'll wait.]

"Haha, that's right. However, now is not the time for me to leave yet—there is still a lot of time, and there are many things that have not been done."

Laughing, Su Zhou raised his head and looked at the sky above his head. He narrowed his eyes, his expression full of eagerness to try: "Let's go, Elias, take me outside the void, let me see the so-called dust of the world."

"Me and my tree are very interested in this thing!"

[Okay, Teacher... wait? ]

But Elias beside him couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He turned his head, looked Su Zhou up and down with some confusion, and said cautiously: [You and your... ]

[Tree? ]