<864 – Faith Meta (8)>
The God of Void Unknown felt a significant shift in the hierarchy of the gods.
Some gods lost their pope and saw their influence drastically decline.
Some gods fell into the corruption of the Evil God, leaving their followers in great chaos.
Some gods could not significantly intervene in the monumental changes of inheritance, causing their believers to have their faith tested.
This was an opportunity for growth for the gods who had long been holding their breath.
[The God of Void Unknown increases storage fees.]
When the world is in chaos, the raiders multiply.
The God of Void, wanting to ensure the safety of possessions, extorted even more money from believers who offered enormous sums.
The gold coins offered as offerings could be used directly or converted into points.
What about the investment in protection?
Just not engaging in the usual pillaging would suffice.
In essence, it was nothing but a different scale of extortion using divine power!
Of course, Unknown didn’t care.
If anyone dared to commit blasphemy before him, all the magical tools they wielded would have their contents evaporated due to interdimensional interference, causing the magical tools to malfunction and explode.
No one was foolish enough to take that risk, and those truly foolish would meet their demise.
– The communications network of the Middle Realm is really annoying. Even if I steal treasures from the wealthy too quickly, the rumors spread immediately.
The wealthy are not fools.
If valuable items evaporate every time someone uses space magic, who would store their belongings?
Even if they are tempted, they must restrain themselves and settle for minor tributes instead of a big haul.
And today, while restraining his desires and being content with a tribute of one million gold, Unknown sensed a strong mana wave that triggered his desires.
High-grade magical tools emit mana waves simply by existing and affect the surrounding space.
Functions like treasure detection operate by sensing these waves, so truly rare items can be recognized even from afar by those who lack keen eyesight.
[Copy of the World After the Ending]
Unknown showed satisfaction upon realizing that the type was merely a single page of paper.
– Recipes. Blueprints. Treasure maps. For a piece of paper to receive such a high rating, its value must be even greater…
Not to mention, if it’s of mythic grade, then it’s a guaranteed jackpot.
One might think, what use could a god with his own sub-dimension have for treasures? However, they still hold value without needing to convert them into points.
God’s avatar.
Or, the apostle known as God’s representative.
The apostle could relay his intentions and lend power to the church that receives his divine energy. Alternatively, the apostle could enjoy creating chaos directly on earth or contribute to achieving great undertakings to grow the church using the resurrection opportunity gained through sacrificing their life.
With the strength obtained and the support of the church, they could unlock stronger powers and expand their influence, allowing even exalted celestial gods to aim for higher realms.
Thus, expectations naturally increased for a piece of paper of mythic grade.
[Some god stole a mythic-grade item from a dimensional backpack.]
Unknown swiftly snatched the page.
Is the tribute offered by one believer?
The loss of faith by those connected to that believer?
Who cares about that nonsense?
When it blatantly tempted him with a mythic-grade magical tool that could not be gained even in a lifetime!
Flap
Unknown reached for the copy in the document folder to check the prize his spiritual body had acquired.
As a god who had reached the divine rank through treasure theft, Unknown immediately discerned the identity of the copy.
It was a copy of a prophecy book recording a certain moment in the future.
Upon reading, one would be forcibly pulled into an independent dimension linked to that record.
A truly heinous trap.
There was no way he could directly experience such a dangerous item.
Let’s negotiate with other clumsy gods and have them trade it for a suitable treasure to reveal it.
[Trap Technique]
[Forced Kidnapping]
Surprisingly, this copy contained a powerful curse that would forcibly abduct anyone who picked it up without knowing its identity to a specific coordinate.
A teleportation spell that only elder liches over a thousand years old amongst the fallen mages could wield!
This ability, exerting dimensional pressure on a certain space instantaneously, amused Unknown, the God of Void and Space.
– To think a mage still remains in the world, daring to challenge me over space.
Such insolence cannot be left untouched.
Unknown surrendered to the magic without resistance.
He had to charge into the enemy’s territory, destroy that pitiful space, and capture the enemy to do justice to the name of the God of Void.
– Owner. I shall show you the true terror of the void!
With a boastful entrance into the mage’s space, the God of Void searched the world post-ending.
And he was engulfed in shock.
– Is this… really a simulated world created by a mage?
Too sophisticated a world for mere humans to imitate.
At the same time, it was a world too harsh for humans to imagine.
It exceeded the realm of human comprehension.
What he thought was water was digestive fluid.
What he thought was earth was the decaying remains.
This place was a world on the brink of destruction, barely maintaining the form of the Middle Realm.
A closed world where the proliferation of life and prosperity of species could no longer occur.
Yet, even in such a world, there were faintly screaming and writhing beings.
[Corrupted Spirit King]
[Fairy Monarch Under Magical Control]
Immortal beings or those cursed with eternal life.
Their souls and flesh were mechanically decomposed and processed at every moment.
Mechanical recovery.
Mechanical slaughter.
All existing things existed merely to be devoured by something, a feeding hell.
Unknown’s gaze turned towards the lord of this hell.
[God of Consumption]
It was the future of the Demon King of Consumption, once famously ruling the Middle Realm.
The ultimate victor after the great wars of countless gods.
A possibility that the victor became the Demon God of Consumption.
How that ominous possibility came to be was unknown.
But now he understood what the God of Consumption, who had reached that possibility, could do.
[World Domain]
[Consumption Domain]
A world domain that devoured an entire world.
Thus, the moment the Demon King of Consumption reaches the status of a protector god, he can start swallowing the existences within his domain one by one, starting from the lowest.
The precondition for consumption is to have tainted land, just as in the demon realm.
If there is a domain manifestor or a god protecting the region, that possibility cannot be established.
Conversely, it means that if all those many domain manifestors or gods have been defeated or are already defeated, it can be accomplished freely.
[Collapsed Celestial Altar]
[Vacant Beacon of the Unique God]
[Dimensional Rift]
[Whirlpool of Chaos]
[Supreme Mana Disaster]
The remnants of what he once thought were decayed earth revealed the twisted faces of gods when viewed from a greater height.
The identity of a certain mountain range was the high, haughty nose of an arrogant god.
The darkness below in a deep valley was the eternally open mouth of a beast god, screaming for eternity.
– … Abandon it.
A world in real-time destruction.
A world of irreversible annihilation.
The voice of a massive will that had dominated that world began to be heard.
Unknown felt fear.
He realized it was the voice of someone looking down from an even higher place than his vast domain that could contemplate an entire world.
That being’s status was undoubtedly above him, if not equal; it was definitely not lower.
Its identity was evident.
The culprit behind the destruction of the Middle Realm, the Demon God.
– I shall not allow it to be taken by anyone.
– If I cannot protect it, then I shall consume it instead.
– Everything will be devoured.
The massive gaze of the being that sustained the Middle Realm by consuming all malice and evil fell upon Unknown.
– Next is you.
-!!
The God of Void instinctively summoned a phantom space between this false world and himself.
A massive amount of information that resonated beyond a single dimension caused fractures, creating an emergency escape route to return to his domain through the dimensional rift.
Crack
Even that escape route was cut like something bitten away before his eyes.
Attacks coming from a higher dimension cannot be avoided merely by having a resistance that expands the area of the dimension.
‘It must widen beyond the consumption’s range to create an escape route!’
Even if it was a being from a different dimension, the fact that one bite could not consume all space indicated there were limits to its consumption.
Although Unknown suffered permanent losses in the total quantity of his phantom space, it was nowhere near enough to annihilate all of it.
– Having lived as a major deity of the 24 divine ranks and having survived from the sun of the unique god Sofemia, how could I be devoured by something like Consumption!
Once again, the phantom space unfolded.
Following that, his powers manifested again.
[Shield of Wealth]
A power of spatial summoning that fills the space with the riches he possessed.
The summoning of phantom space overlapped with the Shield of Wealth’s power, increasing the speed of the spatial development, yet even that was not enough to entirely shake off the Demon God of Consumption.
Crackle
The Demon God merely opened its mouth wider, rapidly closing the distance.
Unknown prepared for a greater sacrifice.
He had to grab whatever wasn’t already in his possession.
[Shield of Wealth]
[Void Shield]
An additional space developed by consuming the phantom spaces and treasures assigned to believers.
The enormous space pressure capable of blasting existence into the void or crushing it into instant death stretched the Demon God’s realm.
In exchange, the most precious items from the spaces of the wealthy who had offered tributes were summoned, but Unknown didn’t care.
It was a space allowed to be plundered from the beginning.
The promise made to the believers and the price of faith were nothing but empty and foolish faith that could be shattered at any moment in the face of true crisis.
He knew that with just this, he would lose a hundred years of faith, and it would take another hundred before believers would appear again to offer him faith, but he made such investments.
With this level of investment, he believed he could escape alive from the Demon King of Consumption’s feast.
[The trap technique embedded in the sacrificial item summoned by a certain god activates.]
[The trap technique embedded in the sacrificial item summoned by a certain god activates.]
[The trap technique embedded in the sacrificial item summoned by a certain god activates.]
“?!”
However, Unknown’s greed for the most valuable items provoked his fury.
The additional editions of [Copy of the World After the Ending] that Oknodie had previously distributed to merchants were of mythic grade, and naturally designated as the top priority for summoning.
As the pages of the book being summoned twisted the coordinates of the exit for escape to another page of the book.
[[World After the Ending: The Last of Intelligence All-In] replaces the exit.]
[[World After the Ending: Hell of the Sun] replaces exit number two.]
[[World After the Ending: Eternal Order] replaces exit number three.]
Unknown realized.
No matter how many times he escaped, he could no longer break free from the phantom space created by the otherworldly mage.
The many possibilities after countless dooms.
The ultimate victors.
The harsh laws that transcended divine ranks and reached the unique god’s level trampled upon Unknown’s space, hope, and escape route.
– Grrr… Just one more, just one more to get through…!
His spirit body, desperately reaching for the last escape route, halted with an abrupt jolt.
– A rather fine prey has stumbled in.
– No…!
A colossal giant’s hand seized Unknown’s spirit body.
The pressure exerted like a squeeze was unbearable for Unknown.
Boom!
A star in the heavenly realm fell asleep.
The achievement of God’s Killing Tool would be realized through Oknodie’s magic book, making all gods tremble.
