Chapter 96
There were numerous religions inhabiting the world. After the fall of the temples and the ancient empire, fewer people believed in religion. However, just because the devout population had lessened in numbers did not mean that it had altogether disappeared.
Humans weren’t capable of living alone.
They wanted someone to lean on, and many even dreamed of someone deciding the direction of their life. That ‘someone’ could range from a father or a chief, to a lord or an emperor, but the vast majority of the powerless prayed, instead, for a transcendent figure who didn’t exist in reality.
Even if they knew that their god had fallen.
That was why and how religion flourished.
Perhaps it was because it served as a form of support for a person living a hard life, or simply because being religious came with its own benefits, or maybe it even stemmed from true belief in the faith.
Among the many pagan religions was a faith known as 'Circularism'.
The doctrine of Circularism was quite simple: the world repeated a cycle of birth and destruction, and this was called the ‘Cycle’.
They said that the world had been in a state of perpetual destruction since the Great Fall. The present was the time taking place before the birth of a new world, and in order for a new world to be born, the current world must be completely destroyed.