Chapter 2 Waste Goddess and Summoner(1/2)
Since ancient times, people have been praying to the wind.
The power of faith of countless ancestors gathered and took shape, and a wind elf named Janna was born.
Janna's power was once very powerful. However, as time passed and history changed, people gradually abandoned their belief in the wind elf.
They will also shout "Jana is on top", but this is just like modern people occasionally shouting "Mazu bless you", it is just a mantra derived from folk customs. There are not many people left who truly believe in the existence of Janna.
Faith without believers is a tree without roots, so Janna gradually lost her power.
It is usually difficult for her to even maintain her divine body for a long time, so she can only come to the world in the form of a blue bird.
And just a few hours ago...
Janna turned into a bluebird and rested on the tree outside the apartment building. She happened to see Levi's body through the window——
He died suddenly in the rental house long after he returned from working the night shift.
Janna was about to pray for this poor Zaunite.
However, it didn't take long for her to see: the dead young man was sitting up again in full swing!
It's just that this resurrected Levi is obviously not the original Levi.
If that was just the case, Janna wouldn't be surprised.
As a goddess with thousands of years of experience, Janna, who is almost omniscient, certainly knows that there are many evil spells in this world that can take away the bodies of the dead.
Seizing one's body and being reborn sounds bizarre enough to mortal ears, but it's really nothing new to her.
But the problem is that Li Wei's abilities are far more than just snatching a dead body:
The moment after Levi "seized his body and was reborn", Janna found that she had uncontrollably crossed space and teleported in front of Levi!
Frightened and angry, she exhausted all her remaining strength to try to resist, but in the end...
The powerful divine power she unleashed on Li Wei was like a mud cow entering the sea, and disappeared into thin air in a very strange way without causing even a single ripple.
As a result, Janna not only failed to break free from the "slavery curse", but she also overdrawn her last divine power, drained her last bit of strength, and became a useless bird that couldn't even fly.
Then, she was even more shocked to discover that she had lost her freedom without even realizing it, and had completely become a slave to this terrifying existence!
She had to do whatever Li Wei said, even escaping was a luxury.
Janna was extremely afraid of this mysterious man who could easily enslave even gods.
She struggled several times to no avail, so she had no choice but to accept the fate of being controlled, and cautiously tried:
"Who are you?"
"A wandering god from the universe, an emperor resurrected from the underworld, or a star spirit descended from heaven?"
In Janna's view, Levi must be at least a demigod-level powerhouse.
However, Li Wei's answer was:
"I am nothing, I am just a LOL player."
"I was playing the game at home, but just because I chose you during the matchmaking, I ended up traveling through time inexplicably——"
"I traveled through time and became your [Summoner]."
As he spoke, he sighed: "Hey, if I had known this, I should have chosen the Star Casting Dragon King..."
Of course Janna couldn't understand these strange words.
But Li Wei's casual tone in which he mentioned her as a goddess and even the Star-casting Dragon King as if they were pawns still made her secretly frightened.
Janna was even more afraid of him.
So she secretly observed Levi's every move, trying to figure out the true purpose of this terrifying existence coming here.
However, Levi's operation made her even more confused.
He first had a serious chat with her, and after learning that her faith had collapsed, all her powers had been lost, and she was nothing more than a useless bird that couldn't fly a few meters...
Li Wei's expression became a little unhappy.
He didn't talk to Janna anymore, but stood quietly in this narrow rental house, thinking alone for a long time.
And just when Janna was wondering if this evil god was planning another terrorist conspiracy, Levi's eyes suddenly darkened, as if he had strengthened his determination...
Then he dug out an old "A Brief History of Piltover and Zaun" from the book box of the original owner's sister... who was also his current sister.
Then, Li Wei quietly began to read and study history.
Not only did he study on his own, he also ordered Janna, a living history textbook who is thousands of years old, to be there for one-on-one question-and-answer guidance throughout the process.
I studied for several hours, from ancient times to modern times, and asked many details. I was more serious than the history students at the University of Piltover.
This made Janna even more confused.
So she couldn't help but ask:
"Mr. Summoner." Levi called himself a Summoner, and Janna called him the same: "What exactly do you want to do?"
"Did you seize the body of a dead person and enslave a goddess just to learn history from me?"
"Of course not." Levi explained: "Janna, I am trying to find a way to help you regain your strength. Only when you become stronger can I become stronger along with you."
This explanation made Janna even more puzzled:
What is the relationship between learning history and helping her regain her supernatural power?
She is a god shaped by the power of faith.
There is only one way to help her restore her divine power, and that is to spread her faith, develop believers, let more devotees believe in Janna again, and continuously provide her with the power of faith.
But can these believers and divine power be found out by reading history books?
"This means you don't understand what 'god' is, Janna."
"?" Janna was speechless. She is a god, how can she not understand what a god is?
"Jana, let me ask you, what do you think you are to believers?"
"Of course I am their god."
"Wrong!" Levi's answer was unexpected: "To believers, you are actually just a story, a story told to them by others."
"Because they are willing to believe this story, you are the goddess."
Janna was silent for a while, but finally nodded in agreement.
Because her origin is indeed a story -
An ancient navigator bragged to others after drinking wine that he saw a gust of wind transforming into a bluebird on the sea. The bluebird used its chirping to warn them and helped them avoid the terrible storm on the sea.
This story spread further and further, and became more and more mysterious. As it spread, more people saw the blue bird. Some sailors even saw the blue bird transformed into a beautiful girl with pointed ears. The girl also had a handful of
A staff that could control the storm and cast a spell to disperse the wind and waves for them.
Janna, the Fury of the Storm, was born from the story.
"But then, why didn't they believe the story?" Li Wei asked again.
Janna herself summed up many reasons.
First, during the ancient Shurima rule, the Shurima rulers who believed in the giant gods of the heavens did not allow civilians to worship her as a "false god", which caused her statues, temples, and religious orders in the mortal world to be almost wiped out.
Faith has been passed down.
Second, during the canal explosion more than two hundred years ago, she almost exhausted all her strength in order to prevent the victims from the massive earthquake and tsunami caused by the explosion.
Since then, Janna has rarely had the energy to appear in front of others and continue to help her believers.
With fewer manifestations, people do not believe that Janna is real.
And as more and more people no longer believe in Janna, she naturally has less power to appear before divine beings.
Under this vicious cycle, Janna's faith inheritance was completely extinct.
"These are actually secondary reasons. The main reason is - times have changed!"
"Miss Janna, your teachings have long been outdated!"
"Doctrine?" Janna said thoughtfully:
Her teachings...
She has no teachings at all!
Even including her, no one actually has any teachings, whether it is the giant gods of ancient Shurima or the demigods of Freljord.
Because the gods in this world are all real.
The true God is too lazy to make up stories with his believers.
I don’t have any big principles to teach you. You can believe it or not if I say whatever I say.
"That style of play is too primitive and rough."
"You have not grasped the pain points of users, have not formed a closed loop in business logic, and have not formed a stable user ecology, let alone maintain the life cycle of the product. No wonder a real god like you can be eliminated by the market
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To be continued...