Not A God

Chapter 6 - Summoning

Zen first moved his mouse over the Believer's World: The Age of Steam, and a row of introductory text came up.

"With the advent of the developed steam-age came to a terrible plague called the Black Death, and witches were hunted down as the origin of the Black Death, even though they did not know magic. The town's doctor, Kay, who witnessed his sister wailing at the stake and dying after being falsely accused of being a witch, wants to extinguish this evil town for good and summon the legendary evil god to resurrect his sister. He would give anything to do so, desperate for the gods to answer his wish ......"

When he saw this, Zen suddenly felt that the ancient god character he was playing in the game seemed to be no good, the background of this game was written like a villain. He was actually treated as an evil god, no, or rather, this ancient god was not really a righteous party in the first place, screwing up a large number of believers when he first answered the summons.　

Thinking about this, he paused, the text introduction ended there, and the text under the mouse suddenly turned into an elaborate stand-up design, in the shape of a tarot-style card, which depicted a doctor wearing a bird's beak mask. The doctor was dressed in a long black robe, draped in a black shawl, and held a beak cane in his hand. The gothic style of the drawing gave the whole image of the doctor an eerie feeling.

He moved his mouse over the card and an option box appeared.

"Venerable Coronation of the Ancient Gods, do you wish to answer the summons?"

Zen looked at the background introduction and the stand-up and was still quite intrigued. He had played the game so far and found that it mixed a variety of game styles; the previous Ant Race was pixelated, but now it had become a secondary manga style, and the playability was generally high. Still, Ke Su was a bit curious about the copies that appeared in the Bug world, so he temporarily exited this selection screen and tapped on the Insect cube.　　

Like the Steam era, this copy appeared with a row of text descriptions.

This old and gloomy manor hid many secrets, and even Del, who was the youngest son of the manor owner, was kept hidden. People around the manor said that the lord's family believed in evil gods and secretly used the heads of people to summon them. As word spreads, no one dares to go near the terrible manor anymore, and Del, the youngest son who believes in the God of Light with all his heart and soul, suffers greatly for it. He searches the manor for the truth of everything, only to discover that the rumours are true and that his family is really sacrificing to the evil gods and preparing to summon them to destroy everything, just as the Curtis Empire did hundreds of years ago so that the world will be judged by the gods. To redeem his family's twisted souls, Del is determined to stop this evil ritual and, with the witness and blessing of the God of Light, he will seal the evil god once and for all ......

Zen moved his mouse, and as the text introduction ended, an exquisite elevation emerged on this copy. A luxurious western classic manor was placed in the centre of the screen, the rococo architecture style of the building swept away the gloom of the gothic style just now, with a slender but gorgeous and intricate style, even the flower patterns decorating the iron gate were incomparably intricate and beautiful, the rose garden inside the gate was faintly visible, the towering roof and ivory white walls made the whole manor look more and more beautiful.

After all, the game was designed to be a bit anti-human, and the summoning progress bar was so slow that it would be too time-consuming to choose one or the other. So Zen returned to the main page, ready to plan out the game flow when he unexpectedly found a text alert on the progress bar of the ancient god's awakening at the top of the game.　　

"To congratulate the Ancient God on his awakening, the game has been upgraded, the ritual progress bar has been removed, and the coronation can answer the call of believers at any time."