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Chapter 66 Why Did God Leave?
Tertullian is in prison.

He was the second son of the prophet and brother of the king, and Tertullian was therefore kept in solitary confinement.

It was just dusk, and the surroundings slowly became quiet.

Even though he has been imprisoned in this stone cell for these days, because people come to deliver food every day and have simple exchanges with him, Tertullian can still know what is happening outside.

He knew that his brother Jalestos was badly wounded and that he might die.

Trapped in a cell, Tertullian could only pray for his brother every day.

Since Yar passed away, the past conflicts between the two brothers have been eliminated by time. Under the reconciliation hand extended by Jalesto, they finally learned to value each other.

In addition to the news that Alesto was seriously ill, Tertullian learned something else.

This slave riot was simply unprecedented, not only in its scale, but also in its impact.

The tens of thousands of slaves said "God has left", which shocked the spirit of the entire kingdom.

They say that God has left, so there are countless evils in this world.

They say the god is gone, no one will see the god again, the god has left the Logos.

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The nobles originally thought that the slaves were just scaremongering, but the sum of thousands of scaremongering words was enough to bring down the building of civilization.

The great King Jalesto was seriously injured, the army suffered heavy losses in the flames of the dragon, and the giant statue of the prophet also collapsed on the battlefield...

If God is still on the high mountain, still looking after the Logos,

How could the Logos suffer such disasters? !
The panicked nobles took advantage of King Jalesto's coma and instigated the priests in the Law Garden to climb to the top of the mountain.

There is no one who does not expect the priests to see the figure of God on the top of the mountain.

only…

God is not there.

No trace of him can be found.

god…

It seems to have really left.

Fear and despair are like the plague, one spreads to ten, and ten spreads to hundreds.

Not just the rioting slaves,

All the enslaved Logos throughout the kingdom cried out the same words:

God is gone!

Logos is full of evil!
For you have replaced gods with giant images, and love with slavery!
The cries and anger of the slaves crowded the entire kingdom, and every Logosian wondered if the god had left, and the Logosians once again fell into panic and crying.

Is God really gone?
Another crisis of rationality is coming!

The Logos could not understand whether God has really left, and if not, why can he tolerate so many sins, and if he has, when will he come back?
If the gods never come back...

What's the point of Logos? !

It is because of the existence of God that we are endowed with reason.

Now that God is gone, where should our rationality go?Are we going to go back to beasts in the future? !
No one can give the answer, not even the priests who serve the gods and explore the laws of the world can do anything.

The Logos civilization fell into the second crisis of rationality. This crisis of rationality was far stronger than before. Countless nobles, civilians, and slaves all started to act, and riots and divisions arose everywhere in the kingdom.

Logos is bleeding.

A brilliant civilization is about to be destroyed before it has passed its infancy.

The spirit of the Logos people is being crushed bit by bit!
Those powerful nobles unite and they are waiting for the awakening of King Alesto. Once the king wakes up, they will ask the king to execute Tertullian who led the uprising.

Countless Logosians, who were confused and unable to find their way, also followed the cry of the nobles and demanded that Tertullian should be executed.

It seems that as long as this person is executed, the god will come back.

It seems that only bloody suppression can reunite the entire kingdom.

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Tertullian heard all this from the man who delivered the meal.

What surprised him even was that his mind was so calm in the face of the gradual approach of death.

He knelt down on the straw pile, and soon the night fell completely.

Tertullian clasped his hands together and lowered his head slightly.

He was praying to the departed God, asking the departed God.

Ask a question he has asked many times.

"Lord, why are you leaving?"

"Did you leave because of the moral decay of the Logos?"

The wise men in the nobility all said that the reason for God’s departure was that the Logos people had lost their morality, people no longer performed their duties, nobles were no longer nobles, slaves were no longer slaves, and the original order was destroyed.

They also think that the earth is full of evil, so God left.

And only when the original order is restored, the gods will come back.

Tertullian closed his eyes and let his mind go empty.

He knows God's departure better than anyone.

Therefore,

He is more willing to pray than anyone.

"Lord, did you leave us because of disappointment?"

It wasn't just Tertullian who wanted an answer.

It is all the confused and wandering Logos people who hope to have an answer.

People want God to tell them exactly what to do.

But God is gone...

No one can give an answer.

At this time, it was raining heavily outside the house. This rain came suddenly, like the cry of the kingdom.

Listening to the sound of the rain, Tertullian was still praying.

Morality is lost, so God is gone.

It sounds so reasonable.

But, but ...

"Lord, the Logosians are your children."

"Would you like to see children domesticate children, some children become nobles, others slaves? Would you like to see this kind of morality of each performing his duties?"

Tertullian asked, his voice flat, but it echoed in the cell for a long time.

His prayers and questions are not only for God, but also for himself.

Tertullian pondered in prayer.

Only through God can man see himself clearly and know what he thinks.

The nobles wanted to execute themselves, because they had caused the loss of morality, and the old morality collapsed, so the god left and the disaster came.

but…

Does God love us out of morality?
Doesn’t that mean that when morality changes, God’s love will also change?
Outside the rain grew louder, and mourning hung over the kingdom.

The rain outside the cell was densely packed, stringed into beads and curtains, and the sound of falling on the ground was so disturbing, but Tertullian never cared about it.

Tertullian pondered for a long time, but he couldn't find any answer.

Suddenly he remembered that his father once said: When all that should be done is done, all we have left is our faith in God.

Then Tertullian lowered his head lower and clasped his hands more tightly.

"God,
Look what we've been through,
can you hug us
Embrace our misery in this world, embrace our despair. "

Tertullian remained patient, confident, and prayed over and over, whispering in his dark cell.

The nobles said: God left because of the loss of morality.

This rhetoric is so rational and moral.

Although Tertullian disagreed in his heart, he couldn't understand why the god left.

"No, it's not because of morality that God left."

Tertullian was talking to himself.

If it is out of morality that God leaves...

"Is God the God of morality, and not the God of man?
Does God love our morals, but not us? "

Tertullian asked himself, and he answered himself:
"When we were apes, there was no morality in this world."

So what is it that God has gone?
Tertullian knelt in the sound of the rain, praying and asking.

In search of answers,

He couldn't help recalling the records in the history books.

The great flood of the doomsday is coming, and almost all Logosians are facing the threat of death, and the flood will destroy everything.

Soon after, flames burst out from the end of the world, and the sky was covered with flames. The narwhals rushed out. They were given a mission by the gods and separated the flood.

In the sea of ​​fire, the flood was consumed, and there was no more flood to destroy the Logosians.

Because God loves us, he saved the whole world.

This is the end of history books about God.

Tertullian clenched his hands, and he raised his head slightly, as if he had caught something.

The history books compiled by Jalesto only recorded the salvation of God, but did not record the departure of God.

Now, however, God has truly departed.

Tertullian opened his eyes suddenly, and he caught something.

The rain fell on the kingdom, and Tertullian's tears fell on the ground.

Even though Alesto tried his best to hide God's departure, Alesto was a person who had seen God, and God's salvation would never be missed in the history books.

Tertullian found the answer to the departure of the gods.

"Because he loves us, God goes away."

Tertullian's tears were mixed with the sound of rain, and he understood love.

he knows,
The Logosians are children of God.

Then Tertullian murmured:

"And because we love, we must find where God is."

(End of this chapter)