CHAPTER 567: CHAPTER 532: PRIMITIVE DIVINE

The plague has been cured, which is certainly a cause for celebration, but Perfikot still cautiously chose to keep the settlement under lockdown and did not immediately lift the restrictions.

After all, this plague is not a simple epidemic; it also involves the Evil God Sect and must be treated with caution.

However, to avoid escalating conflicts, Perfikot still personally appeared, explaining the related reasons to the residents of the settlement, indicating that they could temporarily leave the underground shelter but still could not leave the settlement.

The residents of the settlement did not have much objection to this, after all, they usually have few activities outside the settlement.

People’s life tracks in this era are relatively simple, without a large range of activities. As long as the food supply is guaranteed, their daily activity range is just the settlement and the surrounding area.

Now that the activities to the surrounding areas are restricted, it is slightly inconvenient for the residents of the settlement, but considering that there indeed was a plague outbreak earlier, and such a lockdown is understandable to prevent any remaining plague from spreading.

After handing over the follow-up matters here to Griffith and Fulvio, Perfikot took Eldest Princess Annie back to Chernobyl.

After all, Eldest Princess Annie is the heir to the Empire’s throne, even though she hasn’t been announced as the crown princess, as the first in line to succession, her status is unshakeable, and she naturally needs to bear corresponding responsibilities.

Previously, securing the people’s hearts in the plague outbreak area by showing concern and going to the front line was a way of winning the people’s hearts and showing herself as approachable. Now that the matter has been properly handled, the Eldest Princess naturally has no reason to stay.

Chernobyl has many matters awaiting the Eldest Princess to handle, not to mention parts of Beloburg as well.

With Perfikot’s decision to build a new district in Beloburg, various related matters are in motion, desperately needing someone to oversee all affairs and make decisions with sufficient authority.

In the past, Perfikot managed all these city constructions herself, but now with Eldest Princess Annie, who is more suitable, Perfikot naturally won’t let her be idle.

After all, the Eldest Princess will one day take over the Empire. She needs more practice in handling government affairs.

What better way to understand the intricate net of government affairs and the hardships of people’s lives than by overseeing the construction of a city?

Especially since this time it involves the placement of all departments of the Imperial Center, it is more convenient for Eldest Princess Annie to understand the situation of various departments of the Empire and how they operate.

This is an excellent opportunity for the Empire’s future ruler to understand and familiarize herself with the Empire she will govern.

As for Perfikot herself? She certainly can do these things, but she has no interest.

Compared to intrigues, machinations, or even launching a coup to seize the Empire’s supreme power, perhaps the Totem Pole in the laboratory, which she has ignored for a long time, might interest her more.

Perfikot realized that she had long overlooked the existence of the Totem Pole and the Ancestral Spirit. Although some research was initially conducted, those studies were indeed relatively superficial and did not touch the essence of the Ancestral Spirit.

Or, to put it another way, Perfikot’s previous research focused more on the Totem Pole, ignoring that the Ancestral Spirit was the more critical essence.

Because in a certain sense, the Ancestral Spirit can actually be regarded as a primitive Divine being.

Initially, Perfikot did not make this connection, or she did not associate the Ancestral Spirit with the Divine being at that time, merely considering it a part of the local indigenous tribes’ culture and a product of primitive alchemy.

Indeed, in the process of researching the Northern Territory’s local indigenous tribes, Perfikot discovered that they possessed some relatively crude and primitive alchemical techniques, yet with some unique aspects.

Among them, the Ancestral Spirit and the so-called protection of the Ancestral Spirit were indeed distinctive, but due to the limited strength of the Ancestral Spirit, Perfikot did not take these seriously.

However, after consulting the large amount of materials collected by the Church, she suddenly discovered that the Ancestral Spirit is actually a primitive form of Divine being.

The abundant information collected by the Church clearly pointed out one thing, that is, Divine beings were not born inherently, and there never were beings born as gods.

Even if two Divine beings have offspring, their essence remains not as gods but as special beings with Divinity.

The Ancestral Spirit can be regarded as such a special being with Divinity; as long as it continues to receive worship and devotion from followers, it can transform into a Divine being once sufficient faith is accumulated.

In simple terms, in humanity’s primitive stages, people once, like the Northern Territory’s indigenous people, worshiped similar Divinity beings like the Ancestral Spirit, and these Divinity beings became the Ancient Gods after gaining enough faith.

Due to the brutal rule of the Ancient Gods, humanity gradually abandoned their faith in them, and the Ancient Gods stepped back from the historical stage due to various reasons, leaving only sects worshiping the Ancient Gods continuously causing trouble, attempting to revive the era where deities ruled humanity.

In other words, an Ancestral Spirit is an unhatched Divine being egg, which, with enough faith poured into it, can hatch into a new Divine being.

Without external interference, the indigenous people of the Northern Territory might, over the years, accumulate enough faith to allow their Ancestral Spirit to hatch into a Divine being, thereby establishing a powerful civilization.

But due to the Empire’s interference, this process has now been interrupted, and the development of the local indigenous people has been hindered and interfered with, and they can no longer provide enough faith for the Ancestral Spirit.

Of course, the inability to provide sufficient faith refers to the faith required for the Ancestral Spirit to transform into a Divine being.

If it’s only to maintain the continued existence of the Ancestral Spirit, considering the current population of the Northern Territory’s local indigenous people, it’s still manageable.

This also provides Perfikot with a perfect sample for researching Divine beings.

What could be more suitable for studying Divine beings than a real Divine being? The answer is a not yet godly Divine being.

It already possesses part of the essence of a Divine being, but it is not yet a god and not so powerful, thus more suitable for research.

If she can obtain the information she needs from this, Perfikot will have more confidence in facing the potential return of the gods in the future, and more likely to surpass these so-called Divine beings and resolve this apocalyptic winter.