After Lily chose death to save me.
I buried myself in the forest, repeating my studies.
What is divinity?
How can it be obtained?
And… how can I get Lily back?
Years of research.
But I couldn’t give up on it.
It’s my reason for living.
To get my Lily back.
As time passed.
I finally figured it out.
The criteria for the power called divinity.
It is faith.
I realized it is based on the faith of sentient beings.
No matter how exceptional I am, it’s something I can’t obtain.
It can only be attained by becoming the object of someone else’s… servitude.
I stepped out of the forest.
No longer a witch hiding away,
I wanted to become a savior for the marginalized, just like me.
The prostitutes barely surviving in the city.
The farmers plundered by soldiers.
The orphans who lost their parents to war.
A god who saves them all…
I thought this must be what Lily wanted from me.
And so… I became the deity, Deus.
A god who obtains divinity through the faith of the marginalized, Deus.
-This is divinity…
The power that Lily used to save me.
The omnipotent power of a god that can achieve anything.
-If I had this power… Lily wouldn’t have had to die.
But if I have this power, I may be able to get my Lily back.
After starting my research again, not long after.
Kuoooonnng
-It was truly a long wait.
They descended.
‘Chaos.’
-If only our agent hadn’t been obliterated so suddenly, things would have proceeded easily. But for some reason, he vanished. Caught up in divinity, we couldn’t even find a trace.
The God of Evil, Saros.
He was the one who transferred divinity to the emperor…
And ultimately contributed to Lily’s death.
-But! Now that the descent is complete, I declare this dimension ours.
The energy of ‘Chaos’ spread from Saros.
The energy of ‘Chaos’ began to erode this very dimension.
A dimension where no new life could ever be born… subjugated to them.
Though there were many gods belonging to this dimension who had attained divinity, they merely watched the scene without intervening.
They were just trembling in fear.
When descending to the ground without the proper procedure, divine rank collapses.
Therefore, no one stepped forward to stop ‘Chaos.’
No, they were afraid.
Even if they could intervene, those cowards wouldn’t have dared to stop ‘Chaos.’
False and ancient gods content to dwell in reality.
They were those who were born well and had extraordinary talent, reaching divine rank despite their incompetence.
However…
This world must not be eroded.
I promised.
To meet my Lily again.
I must not let the world she will return to be taken away.
Absolutely!
I descended to the ground,
-…Hmm?
-Stop.
-I didn’t expect there to be a god trying to stop me. I thought you all were incompetent. How surprising.
Saros tilted his head, looking at me.
-I won’t let you take this dimension.
-Oho. So, you intend to stop ‘Chaos.’
If it’s to see Lily again.
For her sake.
I can do anything.
A world without Lily.
Such a thing has no meaning for me.
Tuurnn
At that moment, I felt a sharp pain from the core that constituted my divinity.
-Is it the backlash of descending directly?
Descending directly?
Perhaps.
Did I inflict damage to my divine rank by intervening in the lower realms forbidden to gods without following proper procedures?
This is… the collapse of divinity.
-You think you can stop this ‘Chaos’ with that body?
-…Yes.
Even if this divinity crumbles.
Even if I collapse, I will protect this world where Lily will return.
-Then give it a try!
From her, countless snake-shaped ‘Chaos’ imbued with divinity surged forth.
I created numerous shields of divinity, just like Lily did, to block it.
And then I realized.
This divinity.
The one that led to Lily’s death—this is it.
The one who transferred divinity to the emperor was Saros.
-You may look like a young god, but your use of divinity is quite skilled.
-I’ve always used it.
Because I’ve always used it in my research to reclaim Lily.
Now, I find divinity more familiar than magic.
-But can you keep blocking it?
Saros raised an eyebrow with a flick of her hand.
Much more snakes than those that attacked me before rushed towards me.
Kwaang
Kwaaaang
-Kugh!
I continued to block it, but I had reached my limit.
No longer… could I defend against it.
Clang
Finally, my shields of divinity shattered, and ‘Chaos’ struck me.
-Krraaaaa!
-In the end… is this all? Just a trivial matter that doesn’t even require the divine to intervene.
Numerous snakes confined me.
My divinity was frozen.
It wouldn’t budge no matter how much I tried to move.
-It continues to erode.
Turning her head away, Saros began to spread the energy of ‘Chaos’ with one hand raised.
-…No…!
I can’t let this world, where Lily will be reborn… be taken!
Kwaazik
-Wh-what!
The method Lily used when she chose sacrifice.
I overcharged the core within me and unleashed my divinity.
-H-How!
It’s my tattered divine rank anyway.
Rather…,
I annihilated all the snakes.
-The overcharge of divinity… how commendable that you wouldn’t mind losing your life. Perhaps… there’s no other way.
Until now, Saros had looked at me with a condescending expression.
Now she stared at me, baffled, with a stiff expression.
-At this rate, I’ll have to end this by using my domain. Be glad. Unlike those incompetent cowards above, I had to bring out my unique domain.
And she murmured.
-Before the creation began, all was one. In the primordial age, there existed ‘Chaos’! Apophis to Chaos (Απόφης του Χάους)!
Dense divinity coalesced in the air.
The divinities took the shape of black orbs and then transformed into a gigantic snake.
-My ultimate snake. It is Apophis of Chaos. The worst snake that even I cannot control, a blasphemy to the gods.
The snake charged at me.
I tried to block the snake with exploding divinity, but my defenses shattered in an instant.
Apophis broke through all my defenses and bit down on me.
-Krrahhhh!
-O nameless god. This is my utmost respect offered to you.
Saros looked at me with pitying eyes.
-If you hadn’t collapsed your divine rank, perhaps we could have been good allies. But now that Apophis has been activated, you cannot survive.
Ha… you wish to kill me like this.
Who would allow such a thing to happen?
Unique domain.
The strongest power one can exercise concerning the core of their constituting divinity.
Until now, I had not awakened my unique domain.
My divinity was merely a means to reclaim Lily.
Thus, I could not even create a unique domain to confront Saros.
At this rate, I’d perish, losing the world filled with memories of Lily.
The world where Lily would return.
That cannot happen… it cannot!
I will protect this world for Lily.
My divinity that constitutes my essence.
Yes.
My unique domain is…
Phaaah
Pasaak
Apophis was obliterated by the power of my unique domain.
-Kuhick! You… you actually destroyed Apophis.
-Do you have anything left to say?
-Hah… no. Even if we tried, we wouldn’t be able to win. We will retreat for now.
‘Chaos’ that took a long time to invade this world.
I can no longer afford to capture them due to my exhaustion, but if they withdraw, this world will be safe for a while.
This is the best I can do.
It is my utmost effort to see Lily.
-Deus… I shall never forget that name.
The retreating ‘Chaos.’
Having confirmed that ‘Chaos’ had completely left this dimension, I lost my strength and fell.
At the same time, my unique domain was lifted.
I protected it.
…Though I may no longer exist.
I have protected Lily’s world.
My… Lily.
I may not exist in that world.
…I want to see you. Lily.
I thought so.
And then suddenly.
“Ooh, my Lord. Please save your lowly and sinful servant.”
“I committed unforgivable sins as the princess of the empire. Your servant humbly requests mercy. Please…”
I… found myself existing again at some point.
As the omnipotent unique god, Deus.
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