I, The Dragon Overlord Chapter 102 - Lighting Up the Divine Authority of Magic

“Is this the true nature of Gods, or rather, the faith-based Gods? They are born from the fantasies and dreams of mortals? But according to some sources, there are Gods that aren’t faith-based. Those ‘connate’ Gods eventually came to rely on faith for some reason. For instance, the Silver Moon Goddess, Selune...”

Louie recalled everything he had learned over the last few months.

Over this period he had slyly pried information out of Marches and Sisna. As he needed to give an illusion of power and knowledge, he had no choice but to inform himself on these matters. At the very least, he had to know more than the average person.

Under this kind of situation, Louie had maintained his dignity and majesty as a demigod dragon. This was a mentally taxing task.

“Sigh, I’ve been pretending to the point that I can’t handle it anymore…”

He muttered.

“It’s not yet time for me to think about this kind of divine mystery. Once I become a God, I can take my time. For now, my goal should be increasing my power.”

As he thought about this, Louie’s gaze landed on the tree’s branches.

The tree grew out into five branches. One branch shone with a faint emerald glow while the others were unlit. Eventually, all branches converged into a single point at the top.

“Why five branches? They seem to signify authorities… Could it be that I was subconsciously prodded to select five? No, that shouldn’t be the case. If so, then had I thought about every single authority at that time, wouldn’t I have been able to grasp all the powers of the Gods? That’s too good to be true.”

“Well, no doubt that that would also result in me being attacked from all sides by them. I’d become public enemy number one.”

In situations where multiple Gods shared the same divine authority, each would think of ways to plunder that of the remaining God and attain perfection. If he really stole a piece from every God, he would undoubtedly be mobbed by them sooner or later.

Even the Terran Civilization had failed their invasion, let alone a single Louie challenging them.

“My god

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