Chapter 504: Hello, I Am Lise Deya
Ashe hadn’t completely lost consciousness.
It was a rather peculiar experience-honestly, Ashe suspected that his “normal experiences” lately might have been fewer than his “peculiar experiences.” Although he couldn’t move, speak, or do anything at all, Ashe didn’t feel uncomfortable in the slightest.
He felt like he was sitting in a movie theater, watching an endless film, without any chance of interfering with the plot. It was a bit regretful to think this way; he assumed that once he became Ashpel, he could use his authority to cancel Annan’s bounty, maybe by exploiting a time gap or something.
But there was no such loophole: The moment Ashe became Ashpel, he completely lost his sense of self. Or rather, it was only by entirely losing his self and making way for Ashpel to ascend that he could obtain deity authority.
Deity authority always belonged to Ashpel; Ashe couldn’t even touch it.
He hoped Annan and the others were safe.
It was also in this moment that Ashe understood the biggest difference between a deity and a spirit, and why mortals couldn’t contain deities: Deities have a strong self-awareness.
Actually, spirits also have self-awareness. When Ashe and the others were in Shattered Lake Prison, they could entice spirits to work through Knowledge Resonance, essentially pleasing them. However, compared to spirits, sorcerers were too strong, so strong that they didn’t need to care about the spirits’ thoughts, and could directly use spellforce to exploit their labor.
The reason sorcerers can’t contain deities essentially boils down to two strong personalities clashing and eroding each other, only ending when one side completely shatters. During this process, the sorcerer often played the role of the egg, while the deity was the stone.