Nature's Child: "A person's own ideas depend on the education they received growing up, the experiences they went through later, and their individual temperament."
Nature's Child: "If he becomes a strong one and pioneers a new order, those same things will inevitably still shape him."
Nature's Child: "That's what gives rise to different creeds."
In Brandon White's view, the values fostered from childhood weigh heavily on the path a person will walk.
From one's own standpoint, there is no right or wrong in one's creed—because one does not consider one's road to be in error. So-called right and wrong are produced by someone else's values clashing with one's own.
Take the Holy Lord: he is a demon; naturally, his values differ from those of humans. If you judge him by human order, he's evil. But if you judge him by the order of demons, what he does is nothing more than what should be expected.
There isn't much to debate there.
If you have a problem with what he does, you can only rely on power to make him follow your rules.
Words?
What strong one ever changed his creed because of mere words?
What's that?
You're bringing up Naruto?
Then forget I said anything.
But in fact, even Naruto's "talk-no-jutsu" rests on a foundation of power. If you're just a jōnin, then whether you face Uzumaki Nagato or Uchiha Obito, you're the kind of small fry who gets one-shot.
You don't even have the qualification to speak.
Ordinary Group Owner: "So in the end, it's still about strength!"
Ordinary Group Owner: "If the Godslayer system didn't have an upper limit—and if I weren't outmatched—I'd honestly want to slay a god and become a Godslayer, maxing my power in one go."
Richest Man: "…You realize you can't win, at least."
Richest Man: "You're better off than most, anyway. You've got a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit. Even if we still don't know your exact level now, chances are you're far stronger than those witches and knights."
Richest Man: "In the story, weren't those people who slew gods all just ordinary folks at the time? How did they manage to slay gods?"
Because the Godslayer memory playback wasn't complete, apart from a few anime episodes, the rest came from Roxie Vale's hazy recollection. Beyond several Godslayers' basic info, there were only encyclopedia-like snippets.
After all, Roxie hadn't read the manga, and the anime content was limited. The rest she'd merely searched up out of interest, so naturally a lot was missing.
According to that world's setting, Gods of Disobedience are overwhelmingly powerful. At minimum, many should be on par with a Godslayer.
An ordinary person versus a Godslayer—those aren't even the same tier.
So how did they slay their first God of Disobedience?
Even crossing tiers, it doesn't happen like that!
The Oldest Godslayer: "Luck."
The Oldest Godslayer: "Though I'd rather not admit it, every Godslayer's first slain God of Disobedience came down to luck."
The gap between humans and the Gods of Disobedience is too vast. Even Luo Hao—who stood at the pinnacle of martial arts—could hardly kill a God of Disobedience alone before becoming a Godslayer.
Nature's Child: "Besides luck, you also need absolute courage."
Ordinary Group Owner: "So basically, what matters most for becoming a Godslayer is luck—and an absolute self."
Ordinary Group Owner: "The Gods of Disobedience always call them 'fools,' right? Because any normal person knows the gap between themselves and such gods, and would never even conceive of slaying one. In their eyes, slaying a god is pure suicide."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Only a personality that's 'foolish,' that doesn't know fear—plus absolute luck—makes slaying a God of Disobedience possible."
Roxie Vale considered herself normal. If she crossed into the Godslayer world, she would never in this lifetime entertain the thought of becoming a Godslayer, even if she knew exactly how Kusanagi Godou did it.
If Godou weren't the protagonist, he wouldn't have lived through it.
Richest Man: "Feels like the Godslayer system is pretty well-suited to ordinary people—since with the chat group around, you don't need to worry about hitting your ceiling anyway."
Richest Man: "It just demands points."
Richest Man: "But if you don't even have strength, points are even more out of reach."
Richest Man: "If you plan to become strong just by daily check-ins, who knows how many years that'll take? And once you hit a certain age, you'll have to buy lifespan, too."
Richest Man: "You're not seriously planning to die after joining the chat group, are you?"
He couldn't speak for others, but he had no desire to die.
Not only himself—he wanted everyone around him to be immortal as well, even the whole world.
That wasn't difficult in principle; the chat group's mall even had tech for it, from a longevity civilization in Super Seminary. The price wasn't exorbitant; he just couldn't afford it yet.
Uchiha Dance King: "The Godslayer system doesn't conflict with other systems. Becoming a Godslayer isn't a bad thing."
Come Be My Son: "Marquis Voban's not about to graciously cede the Gods of Disobedience in the Godslayer world to us."
Whitebeard's heart stirred at the Godslayers' mighty physiques and authorities, and the extension of life—but he didn't believe Marquis Voban or Lord Luo Hao would be so kind as to let outsiders enter their world to slay gods.
The Oldest Godslayer: "Indeed."
The Oldest Godslayer: "Whoever dares compete with me for a God of Disobedience walks only one road—death."
He could compromise on other things. But on the matter of being a Godslayer, Marquis Voban was adamant.
Wuxia King: "Only the weak follow another's order."
Lord Luo Hao thought the same. After becoming a God-slayer, can human order bind them?
They follow only their own will.
The Oldest Godslayer: "???"
The Oldest Godslayer: "Doing that will only widen the gap between us. Without enough points, you couldn't possibly raise the Godslayer cap faster than I can."
Wuxia King: "Oh? And what makes you think I'll fail?"
The Oldest Godslayer: "!!!"
At Luo Hao's words, Marquis Voban's eyes flew wide, filled with doubt and disbelief.
Surely she wasn't saying she'd already succeeded?
The Oldest Godslayer: "How could that be? Has your world's plot already begun?"
The Oldest Godslayer: "Did you slay those two Gods of Disobedience before Kusanagi Godou, seize their Authorities, and then complete your enhancement?"
In his world, the plot had not yet begun. The people he'd sent to search for sacred relics and qualified shrine maidens hadn't returned. So he had yet to reclaim any Authority—he'd only sold off some useless stock from his past accumulations.
All three hundred seventy thousand points had been poured into enhancements—and all of them failed.
If Lord Luo Hao had succeeded at enhancement before him, that was the only way.
(End of this chapter)