Chapter 1 The First Thing They Saw

Hao Ren led his group of companions out of the teleportation light screen, and the first thing they saw was a group of big shots with worried faces huddled in the conference room. There were generals, ministers, and even church officials of bishop rank, and lastly, Uruk, the werewolf representative. Basically, all the recognizable faces he had met before were there. Lily was immediately surprised to see so many people surrounding a conference table that had been smashed to pieces, creating an atmosphere like a memorial service. "That table must have been expensive, right?"

The husky's train of thought was so bizarre that basically, Hao Ren's group stopped paying attention to her.

"You're back?" Ofra didn't expect these foreigners to pop up before she could even go to Becky to understand the situation. "That black..."

"Spaceship, that kind of thing is the spaceship I told you about," Hao Ren waved his hand. "It's been taken care of. The spaceship was smashed by us, so don't worry about it coming back to seek revenge or anything. The pilot of the spaceship was also captured and is now locked up in a very secure prison. Don't worry, not even a true evil god could escape."

Several ministers who knew a lot about the "foreigners" immediately breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, feeling as if they had survived a disaster. After the black spaceship left, everyone's hearts had been in their throats. The focus of the entire meeting had been the uncertainty of whether the evil god would make a comeback, which was why they couldn't decide how to proceed with publicity, reassurance, and response. Now that they knew the crisis of the evil god had been resolved, they finally relaxed.

But Ofra could tell from Hao Ren and Vivian's faces that things were not so simple. She frowned and said, "There are follow-up troubles?"

"Troubles left over from many years ago," Hao Ren looked around and found that Archbishop Auben and several high-ranking bishops he recognized were present, but the head of the conference room was empty. He realized that it should be the Pope's seat. "Are the people here all high-level security?"

Ofra immediately became alert. "You... discovered something again?"

The first time Hao Ren had been active in front of her, he had brought news of the First Born and revealed the secrets of the founding of the Radiant Church. Ofra still remembered this vividly. Her intuition told her that these foreigners had probably brought information related to the gods again. After all, they had just been in contact with an "evil god."

"We came into contact with the owner of the black spaceship and learned some things," Hao Ren looked at Archbishop Auben. "These things are related to the Goddess faith... Don't be nervous, it's not blasphemous, but it's even more exciting, so I have to make sure that everyone here is reliable, at least not casually leaking secrets. After I finish, you can have a meeting to discuss how to deal with this information. Whether you believe it or not is up to you."

Archbishop Auben nodded slightly to show that he understood, and then waved to dismiss all the guards and recorders present.

Ofra saw that Hao Ren's face was very serious, and realized that this was not a joke. In addition, the other party had more than once used unimaginable power to help this world solve crises, and she had a strong sense of trust in this foreigner. She looked at the people left in the chamber and nodded lightly. "These are the most core members of the kingdom, including generals, ministers, bishops, and the king's representative. They have very reliable character and loyalty. However..."

Her gaze fell on Uruk, who was very self-aware. "Oh, I know, I'm an outsider, so I'll take my leave..."

"It's okay to tell you," Hao Ren waved his hand. "This matter involves not only the Holletans, but every race on this planet has a part in it."

At this time, Archbishop Auben, his face covered in runes, finally sensed some dangerous aura from Hao Ren's attitude. He stood up and said, "I need to confirm, will the things you are about to announce shake the foundation of the Radiant Church? If the religious impact is too strong, I hope you can give us bishops a heads-up before you announce it to others."

The Archbishop had his own considerations. Although the Holletta Kingdom had a miraculous symbiotic structure of politics and religion, with church personnel and kingdom nobles jointly governing the entire society, they still had their own domains on certain sensitive issues.

Ofra glanced at the Archbishop beside her with some dissatisfaction, but she didn't say much. The female marshal didn't like politics and religion, but after all, she had been on duty for hundreds of years, and she knew enough about this aspect of things just from her experience. On the other hand, Hao Ren waved his hand and said, "No need, this matter is not only related to religion."

He didn't want the church to learn about this information unilaterally and then bury it or distort it.

"Okay, everyone swear," Ofra didn't give the other bishops a chance to continue speaking. She suddenly stood up and drew her long sword. "In the name of the King, in the name of the Goddess, in the name of the family, unless more than two-thirds of those present vote in favor, no one present is allowed to spread what they hear today without authorization—except to inform the King."

This was the famous "Hordius Secret Meeting" in later history, and its uniqueness was still talked about with relish by people many years later. The participants in the secret meeting were bizarre and eccentric. Not only were there people from the political, religious, and military fields, but also a werewolf leader from a foreign country and several foreigners from another world. The content of the secret meeting was even more mysterious. The Holletta royal family and the Radiant Church took almost a hundred years to gradually announce these truths to the whole world, and these truths almost changed the entire planet's culture and history. Later generations of busybodies relied on imagination and the exaggerated descriptions of bards to restore various versions of the secret meeting, including solemn round table conferences and gloomy underground secret talks—but in reality, at this moment, Hao Ren and a group of princes and ministers were gathered around a pile of wood chips to make things clear.

"The first point to correct," Hao Ren looked very seriously at Archbishop Auben, "the owner of the black spaceship is not an 'evil god', his identity is a guardian—the Goddess's guardian."

While all the bishops on the scene were in an uproar, Prince Havermann pressed hard on his chest. "...I really shouldn't have come today..."

Vivian pressed her hands on the bishops, signaling them to calm down. "Don't get excited yet—because if I'm not mistaken, the Goddess was killed by your ancestors. Well, indirectly killed. Now you can get excited."

Hao Ren suspected that Vivian was doing it on purpose: this girl also had an unkind side!

The truth of ten thousand years ago was too complicated and tortuous, and there were many things that needed to be explained in order for these locals to understand, so Hao Ren and his group explained for a long time. The whole story can be simply summarized in the following paragraph:

The Creator Goddess created all living beings in the world, and a few years in the middle are omitted for the time being. Ten thousand years ago, a group of mortal races who took the wrong medicine and had something wrong with their brains popped up. Because they developed too fast, they became nervous and felt that they were invincible, so they wanted to try what it felt like to be a god. As a result, they came to the conclusion that to become a god, they must kill the previous god, so they began to build relationships and show off their acting skills, successfully stealing a part of the Creator Goddess's power, and also bribed the "mortal brothers" in the universe who could generate power connections with the Creator Goddess, preparing everything properly.

Finally, on a dark and windy night, they resolutely killed their own mother.

And the mortal races that had been bought off in advance heard the Creator Goddess's cries for help when she was dying, but in order to get a share of the power of God, they collectively chose to remain silent.

So when this tragic thing happened, the original guardians who witnessed everything said that it was a mistake to let mortals survive—and from then on, they began to correct this mistake. This is the truth of the world-destroying events that happened on various planets.

The Goddess sent the last of the guardians she could contact to activate the safety protocol of the Seed of Life, wanting to preserve her children as much as possible. This is the truth of why the First Born on some planets suddenly fell asleep.

"I'm done," two hours later, Hao Ren exhaled, took out a bottle of water from his personal space, and looked up at Archbishop Auben while unscrewing the cap. "Then you can figure out how to explain this story to the world."

The entire conference room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop—in fact, in the past two hours, apart from the voices of Hao Ren and the others, basically no one dared to say anything. This uncomfortable silence lasted for a while before a bishop suddenly jumped up, really jumped up, he almost jumped over the table: "Absurd... ridiculous!! This... this is completely unfounded, illogical! And..."

"Does it conflict with your known history?" Hao Ren knew what the other party wanted to say. "Actually, it doesn't conflict. 'The arrogance of mortals angered God, leading to divine punishment and the destruction of the world', this is the core doctrine of the Radiant Church, and the truth is actually similar to this, but even more upgraded, more extreme, and more... difficult for you to accept. I know it's hard for you to accept that your God is dead, and even harder to accept that your ancestors helped stab the last knife—but the fact is the fact, there's no benefit for me to lie to you, in fact, I could have just left without telling you anything, but you have the right to know your own history, so I came to say so much."

At this time, the data terminal, which had been silent all the way, suddenly jumped out and summarized it in one sentence: "In short, everything in the Dream Plane is: I didn't treat you badly, but you actually blew up your own mother—all the cause and effect entanglements started from this sentence."