GA: Chapter 146: Only the Weak Follow Another's Order — The Importance of Strength
Child of Nature: "A person's convictions are shaped by the upbringing they received, the experiences they accumulate as they grow, and their own fundamental nature."
Child of Nature: "If they become powerful and forge a new order, all of those things inevitably leave their mark on it."
Child of Nature: "That's what produces different ideals."
In Bai Xuan's view, the values and worldview a person cultivated from childhood carried enormous weight over the path they'd walk in the future.
In each person's own eyes, their convictions were never wrong — because they genuinely didn't see their own path as mistaken. What got called right or wrong was simply the friction produced by encountering someone whose worldview differed from theirs.
Take the Holy Lord, for instance. He was a devil — his worldview was naturally different from a human's. Viewed through the lens of human order, his actions were evil. But viewed through the lens of a devil's order, everything he did was entirely natural.
There wasn't much to say about it.
If you had objections to how someone like that behaved, the only recourse was to use your own strength to make them comply.
Words?
What powerhouse's ideals had ever been changed by mere words.
What?
Naruto from the Naruto series?
Forget I said anything.
Though even Naruto's Talk no Jutsu operated from a foundation of genuine strength. If he'd been an ordinary Jōnin, facing someone like Nagato or Uchiha Obito, he'd have been a forgettable side character eliminated in one move.
He wouldn't even have been given the chance to open his mouth.
Ordinary Group Leader: "So it all comes back to strength!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "If the Godslayer system didn't have a ceiling, and if I weren't so weak, I'd honestly love to slay a god and become a Godslayer. Instant power boost."
Lighthouse Richest: "...Even you know you can't."
Lighthouse Richest: "You're actually in a decent position though. At least you have a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit. Even without knowing your current strength, you're probably considerably stronger than most of those witches and knights."
Lighthouse Richest: "The characters in the story who became Godslayers were just ordinary people at the time, right? How exactly did they manage to slay a god?"
The Campione memory copies were incomplete — besides a handful of anime episodes, the rest was fragmentary material from Su Yunqing's memory: information about the individual Godslayers and encyclopedia-style entries. She hadn't read the novels, had only seen the short anime, and had picked up scattered details from searches when she was curious. Naturally, a lot had been missed.
According to the Campione world's setting, Disobedient Gods were extraordinarily powerful. Even the weakest had to be at a Godslayer's level.
An ordinary person against a Godslayer-class being — those two weren't even in the same category.
So how had any of them managed to kill their first Disobedient God?
Even "defeating someone above your class" didn't stretch that far.
The Oldest Godslayer: "Luck."
The Oldest Godslayer: "As much as I hate to admit it — every Godslayer's first kill was down to luck."
The gap between a human and a Disobedient God was simply too vast. Even someone like Luo Hao, who stood at the absolute peak of martial arts — before becoming a Godslayer, she couldn't have killed a Disobedient God alone.
Child of Nature: "Beyond luck, there also had to be absolute courage."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Put simply — becoming a Godslayer mostly came down to luck, combined with a complete absence of self-awareness."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Don't Disobedient Gods call them 'fools' left and right? Because any normal person understands the gap between themselves and a Disobedient God — the idea of slaying one would never cross their mind. They'd see it as suicide."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Only someone stupid enough not to know fear, with luck so absurd it shouldn't exist, could actually pull it off."
Su Yunqing considered herself a reasonably normal person. If she'd ended up in the Campione world, not once in her entire life would she have entertained the idea of becoming a Godslayer — even knowing exactly how Kusanagi Godou had done it.
If it weren't for the protagonist's halo protecting him, he wouldn't have survived in the first place.
Lighthouse Richest: "The Godslayer system actually seems quite accessible for ordinary people. With the chat group around, the ceiling issue doesn't need to be a concern anyway."
Lighthouse Richest: "The catch is the points requirement."
Lighthouse Richest: "But if you have no strength to begin with, points are even further out of reach."
Lighthouse Richest: "Trying to become powerful through sign-ins alone would take who knows how many years — and once you pass a certain age you'd need to start purchasing lifespan on top of that."
Lighthouse Richest: "Surely nobody joins the chat group and then still thinks about dying?"
Others he couldn't speak for — but he personally had no intention of it.
Not just himself, either. He wanted everyone around him to live long lives alongside him. Ideally, the whole world.
It wasn't impossible. The chat group shop had relevant technology — from a long-lived civilization in the Honkai universe. The price wasn't prohibitive. He just couldn't afford it yet.
Uchiha Dance King: "The Godslayer system doesn't conflict with other systems. Becoming one isn't a bad choice."
Be My Son: "Voban wouldn't be generous enough to let us go to his world and slay Disobedient Gods."
The Godslayer's formidable constitution, Authorities, and extended lifespan were tempting to Whitebeard — but he didn't think Marquis Voban or Grandmaster Luo Hao would kindly step aside and let others come slay gods in their territory.
The Oldest Godslayer: "That is correct."
The Oldest Godslayer: "Whoever dares compete with this old man over a Disobedient God — there is only one outcome waiting for them."
He was flexible about most things. But on the matter of Disobedient Gods, Marquis Voban was absolute.
Martial Arts King: "Except for the gods of Huaxia and those that dare descend upon Huaxia — the rest I have no interest in."
The Oldest Godslayer: "???"
The Oldest Godslayer: "Limiting yourself like this will only widen the gap between us. Without enough points, you have no chance of upgrading past the Godslayer ceiling faster than I do."
Martial Arts King: "Oh? And why do you assume I'll fail?"
The Oldest Godslayer: "!!!"
Marquis Voban's eyes went wide the instant he read Luo Hao's words, disbelief flooding his expression.
She hadn't actually succeeded — had she?
The Oldest Godslayer: "How is that possible? Has your world's storyline already started?"
The Oldest Godslayer: "You slew those two Disobedient Gods before Kusanagi Godou, seized their Authorities, and the enhancement actually succeeded?"
In his own world, the plot hadn't begun yet. He'd sent people out to locate sacred relics and find shrine maidens with the right aptitude, and none of them had returned. Which meant he hadn't managed to recover a single Authority yet — only a few accumulated odds and ends from the past that were no longer of any use.
Three hundred and seventy thousand points, poured entirely into enhancement attempts. Every single one a failure.
If Grandmaster Luo Hao had succeeded before him, there was only one explanation.