The Rise of the Urban God

CHAPTER 342

Ulmer was sitting on the rooftop alone while everyone in the house was sleeping. He was staring at the stars slowly shifting anticlockwise by a degree every four minutes. He could see the constellations, and he could hear the noises they were making.

“Making a circle every day… since they were created…” Ulmer uttered. “That’s their purpose, to be the markers of times and seasons. But what about me? What exactly is my purpose?”

[There were gods in the past who lived on the earth.] Dove said. [They came into existence because the fallen angels mingled with human women who gave birth to giants and all kinds of powerful beings, some of whom came to be known as gods. Their number increased like mosquitoes, and they filled the earth with violence where morals, laws and ethics changed with the wind. Struggle and war were inevitable means of survival back then. Even today, you need to struggle in order to survive, but it held a wholly different meaning back then.

The gods held competitions wh