As I stepped through the dimensional gate, a brilliant light filled my vision.
Before I knew it, I raised my hand to shield my eyes slightly.
This is the outside.
Crossing over to another dimension through my avatar, the omnipotence that usually enveloped my body disappeared.
Unlike before, when I could do anything I wanted, I now felt a tension in my body.
It was a strange emotion I was feeling for the first time since my birth.
“Is it really okay for me to have this much? It’s too much!”
“Oh, it’s fine. It’s all given by Lord Deus. Isn’t it only natural to return it all?”
As my sight adjusted to the surroundings and I looked ahead, I saw a man buying food at a stall in the market.
“Thank you. Here you go.”
“Uh, sir… this is too much, though?”
“I feel the same. All the money I have was given to me by Lord Deus, so shouldn’t I give more? Enjoy your meal.”
A market of humans?
I thought I had arrived somewhere with him…but it seems I’ve come to the ground.
What a blunder.
It’s my first time crossing into another dimension, and I ended up making this careless mistake.
“Please grant us our daily bread…”
A family praying before their meal.
“Worship Lord Deus! I’m an apostle of Lord Deus!”
“And I am the saint of Lord Deus!”
Children playing role-play in the streets.
The appearance of this dimension was quite different from what I had seen before.
Everyone was peaceful and relaxed… yes. It looked like heaven.
A paradise on earth that seemed only possible in dreams.
After I was defeated by Deus and lost Luke, he must have transformed this dimension like this.
I have been in a stupor the whole time, so I hadn’t realized how much this dimension had changed.
Even if it’s just a moment for me, it hasn’t been that long, yet he has altered a whole dimension like this.
…Indeed, there is no one else who can be with me.
More importantly, I shouldn’t be dawdling here.
I need to go see him.
He must be in the celestial realm.
A portal to the heavens… hmm?
The portal doesn’t open?
It’s not functioning as the divine will intends.
This space itself is rejecting my divinity.
Why?
Hmm…
At that moment, I felt a dimensional gate open behind me.
– Hmm… Who could it be?
When I turned around, a little girl with purple hair was rubbing her eyes, looking at me.
– Who would have thought an illegal resident would appear in Lord Dias’ realm.
Dias?
More importantly, this girl.
She looks strikingly similar to the woman who took Luke from me.
Her appearance, aura, and the divine energy surrounding her.
…Ah, no.
No way.
Is she related to that woman?
It can’t be.
The girl who introduced herself as Dias pointed a finger at me.
– You! What is your identity?
Just then, undecided on how to respond.
“She’s Lady Dias!”
A shopkeeper from the market shouted loudly upon seeing the girl.
“What? Lady Dias?”
“Oh! Really!”
At that, a crowd of onlookers began to gather.
“Lady Dias! Please just look this way once!”
“Wow! I saw Lady Dias!”
– Hmm? Are these my believers?
The girl made a face as if there was no helping it and turned back to the onlookers, raising her arms high.
– Praise me, my believers!
“Ahhh! Lady Dias!”
“Lady Dias! Lady Dias! She is a goddess!”
What kind of scene am I witnessing right now?
– Yes, yes! Praise and adore even more! So that I, Dias, can surpass my mother!
Divinity… she may be a deity.
But she doesn’t feel like the kind of god who is revered through their majesty by humans on the ground.
It’s like she’s being adored instead.
Meanwhile, the divinity exuding from that girl is anything but ordinary.
It’s powerful and densely concentrated divine energy, enough to create an upper deity of another dimension.
Is she acting so lightly with such power?
She’s entirely different from the gods I’ve seen so far.
Gods should show dignity, mystery, and awe to foster faith and create divinity.
Therefore, in any dimension, gods never show themselves lightly.
There’s no way divinity can manifest in such a manner.
– Oh no, without realizing it.
The girl seemed to snap back to her senses and looked at me again.
– My believers! I’m sorry, but I have something to do today, so let’s postpone our meeting!
“Ah, Lady Dias.”
“I want to hug you….”
“She’s so cute.”
“Thinking like that is blasphemy.”
Just looking at those believers, are they seriously being left to their own devices?
Eschewing any thought of establishing dignity as a god?
Snap.
As the girl snapped her fingers elegantly and spun around, the surroundings filled with a bizarre realm.
No, it’s a ‘symbolic’ world.
– So. Who are you?
Even if it’s just an avatar, the fact that she easily brought me into her symbolic world is impressive.
That’s a remarkable ability.
– I am called Nyx, young god.
– Wha—what!
The girl seemed flustered.
All symbolic realms are my essence and my power.
The symbolic realm of anyone is effectively mine.
Until now, there has been only one symbolic realm that I couldn’t dominate: that woman.
– You! What in the world have you done!
Clearly panicking that her symbolic realm, which was like her own arms or legs, isn’t functioning at will.
Every god that has reached my domain has shown similar reactions.
Because the symbolic realm is the essence of a god and their ultimate ‘unique domain.’
It must feel like all their hands and feet are tied.
– I’m not here to fight.
I approached the girl.
– It’s just that… I briefly visited this dimension for some business. I don’t want to create a conflict.
– Interests… Is it okay to hold someone’s symbolic realm like this?
She was emanating divine energy from her whole body.
Hmm… Is binding someone’s symbolic realm that severe?
In reality, I’ve only used it against those who challenge me in my territory until now.
This might be my mistake.
– Ugh… Do you think I would succumb to something like this? One day, I shall surpass my mother and reclaim my father, and Dias is not going to be defeated by such trivialities!
Clang!
– What did you say?
The chains of my divine power binding her symbolic realm shattered.
No way.
Has my absolute power over the symbolic realm been broken?
– This won’t do. Time to sleep.
I placed my hand above the girl’s head and exerted my divinity.
– I can’t… this can’t…
And just like that, the girl collapsed.
I caught her.
I dismantled my intervention over the symbolic realm.
No matter how much I’m just an avatar, how could…..
– That’s enough.
I hurriedly turned around at the voice coming from behind me.
– Nyx. Will you take your hands off our daughter?
– Your daughter, huh? I had no intention of harming her. I was just holding her so her pretty face wouldn’t get hurt from falling.
Deus.
The woman who took Luke from me.
I handed over Dias, who was in my arms to her.
Dias hovered in the air, held captive by Deus’ divine power.
– No intention of harming her, huh…
Deus took her into her arms.
– Then why have you come here? Didn’t we agree to not get involved with our son anymore? The gratitude for saving my life must have run its course.
Involvement…
There’s no one else who can be with me.
How could I not?
…Wait a minute.
Daughter?
– You… that child. No way…
An unbelievable, shocking hypothesis.
I had dismissed the thought as impossible earlier, but the woman’s reaction stirred my suspicion.
– Didn’t you say ‘son’?
– Yes, my son. The most precious being in my world, whom I wouldn’t trade for anything.
She had… a child with her son?
– How could you do such a thing?
Across the entirety of this universe, such acts aren’t unheard of.
But for the god overseeing this dimension to do such a thing!
With him too!
– How could you do such a thing with your own son!
– Hah?
Deus frowned.
– You don’t mean to say there was a reason you played games with our son…?
I felt the surrounding air freeze.
– The primordial deity who was born with the universe and its creation dares to set its sights on our son? Even a hen in a coop would have spun a web a million times before daring to go near!
– I don’t think I should be hearing such words from a mother in love with her son.
Men and women.
In many cases, for these two beings to be united, they generally have to overcome hardships.
Usually, it’s the man’s mother being jealous and getting in the way.
It’s an age-old truth I’ve seen countless times throughout eternity as I’ve watched the universe.
– I need to clarify this once and for all. Our son is mine! I will never give him to anyone!
That’s why.
In order for me and Luke to unite, we need to overcome this hardship.
Deus’ divinity filled my vision.
Kuung.
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