Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 876 - 875: Quasi-god

Moon, Tranquil Sea Cloud Palace.

The gentleman penguin Archille, dressed in a spacesuit, at some unknown time, set up a gray-brown large-headed TV on a relatively flat piece of lunar rock.

The large-headed TV had two signal receivers on top, and its power cord draped down the back wasn't plugged in, but the screen displayed an ultra-high-definition image, completely different from its casing's style.

The picture showed Hoenhem, Tai Hao, Li Ang, and others engaged in a fierce battle with otherworldly demons in the gateway skirmish.

The penguin Archille leaned on a cane,

Professor and Drought Demon stood at a distance from each other, watching,

Mirage Dragon raised its head, overlooking the TV screen from above, seemingly squinting to see clearly due to the distance. An onlooker, unaware, might regard the scene as evoking awe and mythic majesty.

"There are ten minutes left until the ritual track is completed,"

Archille murmured, leaning on the cane with the front of his short wings, "Ten minutes..."

"To be precise, it's eight minutes and fifteen seconds,"

The Professor said softly from the side, "This ritual track is a special part of a Divine Enthronement ceremony, something I've witnessed and attempted in another world."

Archille and Drought Demon's gaze shifted towards the Professor,

The latter gave a wry smile and said, "Back then, youthful recklessness, ignorance is fearless...

In short, the purpose of this ritual track is to disassemble and segment one's own flesh, soul, and true name,

to merge willingly, or in a state of binding imprisonment, delirium, or near-death, with a quasi-god."

A quasi-god is an existence incredibly close to divinity. As long as they have enough worshippers, they can ignite the divine fire, obtain god status, and ascend to godhood through some mysterious and symbolic ritual, whether simple or complex. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

There are three subcategories of quasi-gods: demigods, titans, and binding spirits.

Demigods refer to beings born of a deity and a mortal, and also primitive totem deities or mortal beings with divinity and other extraordinary powers but without god status;

Titans are divine creations or beings born from miracles on par with deities. For example, the ancestor of the Nordic mythological giants, Yumil, born from the Heswagmeil Spring River, equaled and even surpassed some deities;

Binding Spirits are deities or demigods who have lost their God's Kingdom, worshippers, and are near death. Divine abominations (products of godly powers that shouldn't exist) sometimes fall into the category of Binding Spirits.

"Deities are great beings of infinite power but also prisoners within the Crystal Wall System—of course, this is from the perspective of us Jumpers,

to ordinary people, becoming a deity remains an immensely tempting leap."

The Professor explained, "Generally speaking, mortal beings who want to achieve divine enthronement must possess divinity, followers, and land, gradually solidifying their foundation to become demigods.

On this basis, they must further plan.

The mysterious roots within each Crystal Wall System are limited in total and cannot accommodate too many deities.

If each godly position is occupied, then mortals wishing to enthrone must wait for divine demise or plot deicide.

Currently, in Earth's killing game, some players have discovered that rising from mortals to demigods is exceedingly difficult,

having full divinity, followers, and land, and divine power, yet unable to complete the demigod ascension ritual. For this reason, they even plan to hunt semigods or divine creatures with the same attributes,

to merge forms and ascend to demigods..."

"This can theoretically be achieved, right?"

Archille interjected, "Demigods aren't that rare."

"In other worlds—or Earth's past, this might have been the case."

The Professor said calmly, "But when I arrived on Earth, I found this planet tampered with.

Now, life forms tainted by Earth's 'roots' find it exceedingly difficult to ascend to demigods.

It's unclear if this is due to the punishment of the last game's slaughter game,

or if players of previous games collectively set it up—there's a term I recall, 'Immortal Path Termination,' prohibiting mortal life from attempting the path to deity."

The Professor glanced at the Drought Demon, who snorted coldly, "I've been asleep these years, unaware of what's happening on the ground."

"Is that so..."

The Professor coughed slightly, "As of now, this current batch of Earth's players aren't aware. They're still investigating, including one of my disciples, a very clever child...

At any rate, in other worlds, the difficulty for mortal life to ascend to demigods is much lesser, though not nonexistent,

especially in those lower-level worlds lacking in 'mystical roots' riches.

The people on the planet I traveled invented this ritual track for such purposes,

allowing mortal life to resist the high-mystery pollution of demigods, titans, and binding spirits during the root fusion, retaining their originality without assimilation,

going as far as to impose themselves, devour countless,

completely engulfing the mysterious character of demigods, titans, and binding spirits,

making a single bound, directly becoming quasi-gods.

Once obtaining the quasigod's 'root,' they can bypass various restrictions,

being just one step away from igniting the divine fire, obtaining god status, becoming formal deities.

Desolated Lion and his companions harbored this very thought—they wanted Desolated Lion to merge, replace the sub-surface existence of the Lost World,

and promote Desolated Lion to quasigod."

The Professor paused and said softly, "Desolated Lion's world perhaps performed well in the previous intro-game, receiving the System's favor,

or their world's Jumpers made sufficient sacrifices to obtain information on the Lost World.

Allowing them to prepare for divine enthronement in advance.

Their world, like Earth, should have instruments to fully broadcast the Lost World schedule—if so, Desolated Lion might not even need to maintain quasigod status for long,

able to exploit the worship of billions in their world,

skipping the quasigod phase,

to immediately ascend to deities..."

"And become their world's, sole, source-exclusive deity."

Archille said softly, "Lesser divine power? Moderate divine power? Even strong divine power?

If, in this game, their world first produces a deity with strong divine power,

then all other worlds connected by gateways will stand no chance..."

"This includes Earth."

The Professor added, "The twenty privately controllable gates are just the beginning.

The interconnected worlds will gradually connect, whoever seizes the early advantage will soar ahead...

This is a winner-takes-all competition..."

"..."

The Drought Demon listened coldly to the Professor's analysis, glanced at him, indifferent, "But you don't seem very nervous."

"I believe we will win."

The Professor's expression was solemn, "Certainly."

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