"Ovanna, look! Is that a meteor? It landed in the forest!"
In a little village by the forest, a little boy with some freckles on his nose glanced at the sky, suddenly speaking to the pig-tailed girl beside him.
"I've made a decision. I'm going to look for it!"
"Tiff, have you gone mad? The priest has already said that a meteor is a bad omen!"
Ovanna glanced at her friend in worry.
"Priest…"
Ovanna's eyes showed her fear.
"That's true! Then I'm not going!"
The meteor from before had evidently brought a large change to the village. Many adults gathered, looking worried, and all began to pray nearby a little altar in the village.
Ovanna and Tiff quickly separated, but what the young girl did not notice was that after parting ways, Tiff ran outside the village, an excited look in his eyes.
"A meteor shower signifies the fall of a powerful being…"
Tiff's eyes glinted,
"Though it represents something ominous, I don't really care. Such a great opportunity is hard to come by! In no time at all, this area will be crowded with adventurers. I have to be the first to get the good stuff… who knows; I might walk the path of an adventurer and become a respected noble!"
From the perspective of a young child, those adventurers who passed by the village once in a while wearing their armor were amazing and powerful. The knights nearby were even more, more of a big deal.
"If there's another legendary item…"
Tiff's eyes were shining, and some saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth.
"Don't those wandering bards always talk about these in their stories? While the heroes are young, they'll pick up some deity device by chance and thus walk the path of destiny. That's so cool…"
With his reverence towards heroes, Tiff gathered his courage and entered the dense forest.
***
As the humans were approaching Leylin, he created a semi-physical body with the help of the A.I. Chip and the God-Force his soul had.
Because the World of Gods was World, which was greatly leaning over any concept of Divinity, Godhood and so on, Leylin was able to reconstruct the semi-physical body of Nāgarāja with ease.
Nāgarāja a title used to refer to the Nāgas. It refers to the kings of the various races of the nāga, the divine or semi-divine, half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld.
The plan was to make a typical appearance to poor mortals, bestowing them with some Magic and Blessings and letting them spread the religion of the World Ending Serpent... the name was still being worked on.
With this, he would obtain a foothold in the World of Gods rather easily and because Chthonians were experts at propagating religions and Gu Long's maternal family were masters, Leylin had a very complex outline of how to create religion fast and hard.
Douluo Principal World, which was a world in the Kadath Universe, home Universe to the Zeoticus Lucifer and Gu Long's mother, Gu Yuena, was world that was functioning pretty similar to the World of Gods.
Though their God Path was a fusion of the Godhood Method, he had on his hands and more traditional Path of Faith and the Native Godhood Path of another universe. Either way, those people were experts at spreading religion and manipulation of the masses.
As he was thinking about some things, he suddenly sensed a human coming his way.
"From his appearance, he should be a child from a village nearby… while not the ideal scenario, I could work with it. It's not bad to gather intel on the lowest level of the social hierarchy and the format of their organizations."
At this thought, Leylin immediately decided o his actions.
"This should be where the meteor landed… Hic…"
It was already night. The cool moonlight fell through the treetops, and the dark forest was whistling with cold winds. The temperature had evidently fallen quite a bit, and Tiff could not help but wrap his arms around himself.
The fear of the future as well as the dark surroundings in the forest left him fearful.
Two bird calls were heard from the treetops, immediately causing Tiff to jump like a cat that had its tail stepped on.
"Who is it? Who's there!"
The youngster's sharp voice pierced through the skies, alarming a few black birds.
The sound of flapping wings was heard, followed by dark figures that disappeared into the skies.
"Hah…"
Tiff found that his heart was beating as hard as it ever could, to the point that it might even jump out from his throat.
"Mighty Goddess of the Spring Waters, please bless me! Let me complete this expedition and find those hidden treasures! Tiff swears that he will go to your church and make contributions later…"
Tiff's hands were now clasped together as he prayed. He believed in the Goddess of the Spring Waters, which was the main religion of the village, which was one of the local religions and could be considered very weak.
Though she was a newly ascended God and lacked much strength, it was for this reason that she was very generous to her followers and, therefore, the prime selection for the peasants in poverty-stricken areas.
After praying, nothing happened, but Tiff was now more courageous.
His hands were shaking slightly as he pushed the grass aside, but his footsteps were firm as he headed to the empty land.
"Nothing… there's nothing at all other than a huge charred pit!"
After noticing this, Tiff obviously looked disappointed.
"How can there be nothing? Where's the legendary weapon? Magic item? Oh gods, even a few golds are enough…"
Unwilling to admit failure, he rummaged through the area, still mumbling,
"Yet another fool ruled by greed!"
Leylin's semi-physical body watched everything under concealment as he judged disdainfully.
"But I can make use of that! This kind of person is easiest to manipulate in the end."
With this thought, threads of light shone from the sides of the broken sword, exceptionally obvious in the pitch-black night.
"Damn it! The amount of energy here is enough to use a Morning Star Spell in the Magus World, yet it only produces dim rays of light here…"
As he compared the rules of the two worlds as well as the consumption from using spells, Leylin's heart sank. Even with his superior Bloodline of Nāga, the suppression of the World of Gods was too much on him.