Endless Chaos – Chaos Void Plane: The Path of Knowledge
Chapter 7 – The Hidden Hand of Faith
The ruins of the forgotten temple stood silent beneath the pale false moon.
Arin slowly closed the ancient stone book in his hands. The final page had been nothing but fragmented prayers and half-erased diagrams of divine symbols.
But the information inside the Chaos Wonder Artifact of Knowledge was already analyzing everything.
A faint glow pulsed inside Arin's mind.
[Faith Energy Pattern Recorded]
[Belief Channel Structure Identified]
[Preliminary Deduction: The so-called "Fallen God of Belief" may not be completely destroyed.]
Arin's eyes narrowed.
"Not destroyed…?" he murmured.
According to the history recorded by the villagers, the God of Belief had fallen thousands of years ago. His divine kingdom collapsed, his followers disappeared, and his temples were abandoned.
Yet the structure of faith energy Arin had just observed told a different story.
Faith power required a receiver.
Believers generated faith energy through devotion, but that energy had to flow somewhere.
If the god truly died…
Then where was the energy going?
Arin knelt and drew several lines on the dusty floor.
He began constructing a mental model of the Faith System.
The Chaos Artifact assisted him instantly.
Step One – Believers generate faith energy.
Step Two – Faith travels through conceptual belief channels.
Step Three – The energy gathers into a divine core.
Arin stared at the diagram.
"If the god truly fell… this system would collapse."
But it hadn't.
Even now, tiny traces of faith energy were still moving through the temple's altar.
Very weak.
But still alive.
Which meant only one possibility.
Arin whispered the conclusion slowly.
"The God of Belief… is still alive."
A cold wind passed through the temple.
The broken statue on the altar looked down at him with a shattered stone face.
But now Arin could see it clearly.
The statue wasn't merely decoration.
It was a faith anchor.
A structure designed to collect belief power from distant followers and send it through hidden channels.
Arin suddenly understood something terrifying.
If the god was still alive…
Then his fall might not have been a defeat.
It might have been intentional.
"Fake death…"
The words left Arin's mouth softly.
If a god pretended to fall, the world would stop hunting him.
Other gods would lose interest.
But secretly…
He could continue spreading his method of Faith Ascension across countless worlds.
Arin felt a chill run down his spine.
The god was hiding in the shadows of the Chaos Void Plane.
And slowly growing stronger.
The Chaos Artifact pulsed again.
[Warning: Faith Network Detected Across Multiple Worlds]
[Estimated Network Growth: Expanding]
Arin smiled slightly instead of panicking.
"Interesting…"
Most people would be terrified.
But to someone walking the Path of Knowledge, this was an extraordinary discovery.
A living god secretly experimenting with faith across the Chaos Void Plane.
That meant endless information.
Endless data.
And endless mysteries to uncover.
Arin touched the broken altar.
"Faith… divine authority… godhood crystals…"
"So this is how gods are born."
The Chaos Artifact recorded everything.
But Arin already had a new idea forming.
If faith could create gods…
Then perhaps knowledge could do something even greater.
His path was different from the believers.
He would not kneel.
He would observe.
Study.
Experiment.
And understand the deepest mechanisms of godhood itself.
Above the temple ruins, the false moon flickered slightly in the sky.
Because in this world…
Even the sun and moon were not real.
They were only projections created by the Void.
But one day, when the Ultimate Path of Sun and Ultimate Path of Moon were born…
Even the heavens would change.
Arin looked toward the horizon of the strange flat world.
"God of Belief…"
"If you are hiding in the darkness…"
"Then I will find you."
The Chaos Artifact whispered within his mind.
[New Objective Recorded]
Study the Faith Ascension System
Arin stepped out of the ruined temple.
The night wind carried distant sounds from the village.
Prayers.
Hope.
Fear.
All of it feeding the invisible river of faith flowing across the world.
And somewhere far beyond the sky…
A hidden god might be listening.
But Arin was no believer.
He was a seeker of truth.
And he had just taken the first step toward uncovering one of the greatest secrets of the Chaos Void Plane.