"A way?! Really?" Hou physically sat up, to Hamar and Zhou Tian's surprise.
"Do you have something to say Hou?" Zhou Tian asked curiously.
He opened his eyes, "ah, no. Sorry, I was doing some thinking. Go back to your conversation, it's fine."
He layed back and closed his eyes, like using a muscle he reconnected to Araxis. "You really have a way?"
"I do. I don't know if it will work on such short notice though."
"That doesn't matter. If there's a chance, it's better than nothing, we'll take whatever." Hou became invigorated again.
"Let me remind you of something. Something that has not become forgotten, but something that is neglected in many worlds. It's something known as Belief."
"Like a horseshoe..."
"I see you recall, many have been taught of it but few harness it. If enough people truly believe in something, the world might respond. There's becomes a cause for something. This is not true in all worlds, but in many, or so I have heard."
"But it is true in the false world." Hou attested, he had heard of the principle, though it was quickly forgotten; it's influence too weak.
"What few realise is that, this is inexorability linked to Causality. Every person has Causality. Without Causality there would be nothing, Causality means there are laws, there is a consciousness, there is a person."
"The more Causality one has, the stronger change belief can have. If a nobody farmer believes in a horseshoe bringing luck, the world pays little heed. But if a strong cultivator believes that same thing, there may be more change."
"What I'm trying to say is that you need to harness belief. If the people in the false world believe in you, their Causality becomes yours. But...like I have said, it may be too late."
"No." Hou seriously thought, "It isn't too late. I have a proposal, my friend."
"A proposal, that is interesting. Speak."
Hou laid out the plan in his mind, it was hastily thought but he had some precedence, "The time in and out of the false world, it's different. You must have been the one that messed with the Time Chamber, it was much longer than what it should have been."
"Smart, observant. You are in some ways correct. But explain your reason for proposing this."
"If the false world IS still subject to your world...and we say time is slow out there...can YOU spread my belief in your world?"
Silence...
Araxis thought of the proposal. It had merit, the false world was still false even if close to being True, it is not. If he could spread the boys faith...his Belief, their Causality–
"There's an issue though, my world is already being destroyed because of my flippant use of causality, how can I spare more?"
Hou smirked, "You wouldn't have given that Causality for no reason. You need us to win, you're scared of *them*."
Araxis sipped his coffee, "Kid...I like you. Your world naturally is faster than the outside, but you are right...I can change that. It does cost me...but as you say, I need you to win."
Araxis grasped the staff he kept nearby, and tapped it on the floorboards, "The vacuum you are in should be affected too, in a few moments for you I will build your Belief. All you need to do...is Believe in me."
Hou chuckled, "I d–", time seemingly froze.
Araxis saw a thousand lights glow up inside his room, he was to create a religion in just a few years. He will have to make a sacrifice, slowing the world means Causality, he would destroy a portion of his world.
"A darkness has attacked, though there is a chance to counter-attack. We must believe in my supreme god, the one I believe in!" Araxis spoke with fervour to all those rulers throughout his world. He must convince them that his npower came from a higher being.
Humanity had a tendency to believe. They were trusting yet at the same time skeptical. Humans were an anomaly, beings of contradiction.
But if there was one thing humankind would believe in, even if just for some sort of comfort, it would be that there is hope. Hope in someone, even better yet, hope in a higher being. Someone so powerful that even if they are in shambles, that there was someone looking after them.
Of course though...to these leaders, they would not believe. They thought about only what they could see. They could not see Hou, but they could see Araxis.
If the most powerful person in the world was telling them this, there was a reason. Maybe not a dressing to believe themselves, but a reason to trust this man before them.
They all responded unanimously, "We will!" An order of fighters, a church, a religion was birthed. Whether it would be enough, noone knew.
But..Araxis had to trust, he could not afford to be skeptical.
"They have me and their leaders as proof of this new god...but what they need now is miracles." He tapped his staff again, calling all magicians of the tower, "You must now work even harder than before, I appoint you as miracle-doers." He spoke to those most powerful Magicians, those he trusted.
"I cannot tell you why, I know that I do not need to though...you will do as I say and do it diligently. Make them believe. In 3 years I want the whole world to believe, believe wholeheartedly."
The people already had a great disaster coming with the rifts sending other worldly demons into this world, it was the perfect time for a religion to sprout.
***
Inside the false world, time had slowed to a crawl. To an inside perspective, nothing was happening. They were completely unaware that outside a world was being shifted in a new age.
Mo Huai's thoughts which had just become lightning fast slowed to a snail's pace. Hamar and Zhou Tian conversation become an echo. The scared cries of Jin and Yan, crying into their masters hand; that is who had come to save them. Yi Sect Vs the world, a might picture formed; though was seen by none.