Chapter 26: Believing in God Has Nothing to Do with God! |
Redlichia was dead.
Yin Shen gazed at the ocean outside the great hall, lost in memories.
So many things had happened.
So much time had passed.
“Een… shen!”
“Yin… Sai… God!”
In a daze, he seemed to hear Redlichia’s clumsy and comical tone, shouting his name in front of the temple’s grand entrance.
Outside the God’s Temple.
The sinners who had committed patricide and blasphemed against God also heard Redlichia’s final words, declaring that Yesael would be the second-generation King of Wisdom of the Yinsai Kingdom.
The old king had passed, and the new king was crowned.
The sinners outside the temple instantly burst into tears, some even collapsing outside in a disgraceful manner.
They wept for the passing of the King of Wisdom, but even more so for their own unknown fate that was about to befall them.
Yin Shen cast his gaze upon them, looking at the Trilobite Men of all sizes surrounding the two stone coffins, and spoke calmly.
“So noisy!”
“Shut up!”
As he spoke, a force directly acted upon the bodies of these Trilobite Men, affecting their bloodline originating from the first Trilobite Man.
The crying abruptly ceased, and they could no longer make a single sound.
They even discovered with trepidation that their bodies were undergoing changes. Their vocal organs completely disappeared, their hard shells began to soften, and two antenna-like protrusions grew from their heads.
Compared to humans, they resembled insects or soft-shelled shrimp.
They could only keep kowtowing towards the God’s Temple, begging for the divine being’s forgiveness.
When everything settled, they had evidently transformed into a species somewhat different from ordinary Trilobite Men, one more suited for survival in the depths of the ocean rather than on land.
They had been punished by God, stripped of their right to speak.
In the future, they would no longer be able to set foot on land and could only dwell in the deep sea.
Yin Shen looked at Redlichia and said to Yesael, the second-generation King of Wisdom.
“Go!”
“Leave this place.”
“Take all the people of the God-Given City and establish your kingdom on the continent.”
“Don’t come back.”
That voice, like Redlichia’s authority as the King of Wisdom, was directly imprinted in the minds of all Trilobite Men.
The voice even directly erased the memory of the God-Given City’s location from the minds of all Trilobite Men, making them suddenly unable to recall the name of the God-Given City. Once they left this place, they would never find their way back.
With Redlichia’s passing, Yin Shen had completely lost interest in the game of establishing this kingdom and no longer wished to pay attention to it.
Yesael looked at the divine being in panic, not understanding what was happening.
“Great God Yinsai?”
“Why is this? Have we done something wrong?”
Yin Shen descended from the altar and gazed upon everything Redlichia had created for him. His voice echoed in the hall.
Hollow and indifferent, no longer holding the tolerance he had shown towards Redlichia.
“Yesael!”
“Everything I bestowed upon you was because you are Redlichia’s descendants, not because of yourselves.”
The divine being paused for a moment, “He was my firstborn.”
“You are not.”
“This is the God-Given Land I granted to Redlichia, a paradise for him and me, not for you.”
Yesael crawled forward on his knees, prostrating himself before Yin Shen.
He spoke in an urgent tone, even crying out and pleading for God not to do this.
“God!”
“Do You no longer need us?”
“We are Your devout believers, the first life You created!”
Yin Shen let out a light laugh, “Even without a god, you can still survive.”
“Everything will remain the same as before, just don’t come and disturb me again.”
“I don’t need your offerings, much less your faith.”
With a voice that resonated like the pealing of bells, the lofty divine being spoke words that would forever echo in Yesael’s mind:
“Believing in me is your business.”
“It has nothing to do with me.”
Yesael descended from the pyramid in a daze, and his father’s words from not long ago suddenly echoed in his ears.
“On the path to becoming king, it’s not just about gaining.”
“It’s more about losing.”
The covenant between God and the King of Wisdom existed only between God and Redlichia, and it ended with Redlichia’s passing.
God’s favoritism existed only for Redlichia, the first-generation King of Wisdom. He alone was God’s firstborn, not the other Trilobite Men.
Yesael gathered all the subjects of the God-Given City and announced his decision to lead everyone away.
“I am your new king.”
“Yesael, the King of Wisdom of the Yinsai Kingdom. I have inherited my father’s authority and ideals as the King of Wisdom, and I am the successor of his will.”
“We will head to the land and establish a new God-Given City.”
“We will follow in the footsteps of the King of Wisdom and God, creating our future in that equally great place of origin on the other side of the sea.”
As soon as Yesael finished speaking, all the Trilobite Men below knelt on the ground in despair, and thousands upon thousands of people wept as one.
They felt as if the sky had collapsed upon them.
They had just lost their king and were now abandoned by God.
Yesael stepped down from the high platform and walked into the crowd.
He helped one person after another to their feet, saying to them as they looked at him with trusting eyes.
“God has not forsaken us. We still have the place of origin, that land God promised us, which is even vaster.”
“There are boundless lands and expansive coasts suitable for raising Ancestral Fish.”
“The authority of the King of Wisdom, the Ancestral Fish, the writing, and the language that God bestowed upon us are still with us.”
“The day will come when we will receive God’s forgiveness and return to this promised land once more.”
“Now, let us go to the other side of the sea and create an even more glorious future.”
By the seaside.
Tens of thousands of Trilobite Men left their homeland and entered the ocean, accompanied by dense schools of Ancestral Fish controlled by the power of wisdom.
They would first reach Yesael City and then set out from that underwater city.
Next, they would head to the legendary place of origin, another land God had promised them.
What no one noticed was that a small portion of the Trilobite Men had been exiled to the deep sea. They were the descendants of Ense and Boon.
These people were called the God-Forsaken People. They could no longer speak and were forever forbidden from using the Divine Words.
Tentacles grew from their heads, and they communicated through tentacle touches.
In the deep sea, they gave rise to another branch of the Trilobite Men.
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《The Hymn of Redlichia, the King of Wisdom》: 《Final Chapter》
The first-generation King of Wisdom, due to his son’s betrayal and the death of his Queen, ended his glorious and illustrious life before God.
He passed the throne to his most outstanding son, Yesael, along with his vows and covenants with God.
But the divine being was enraged by Redlichia’s death and disappointed by the Trilobite Men’s sins of patricide and fratricide.
God withdrew his promised land, and all the Trilobite Men were driven out of the God-Given Land.
The divine being erased the location and memory of the God-Given Land from their minds, making it impossible for them to ever return to that paradise God had promised.
Even if they reached the outer reaches of the God-Given Land, they could only forever wander upon the great ocean, unable to set foot on this divine island.
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