Chapter 196: God-Tier Potential Pillar! Dues Ex-Machina
He was placing all his bets on this specific rolls. By now, his luck must have recovered.
That meant it was officially time to start rolling the wheels!
There were only a few things he truly liked in the world. The first was Sylvia, the second was his extraction talent, and the third was gacha!
Caelus immediately pressed roll.
The wheel began to spin. Caelus was a firm believer in manifesting whatever you wanted to happen.
He was going to manifest a God-Tier today!
Boom!
A white light flashed across his face.
His excited expression twitched.
[Ding! You’ve obtained the Dirt-Tier Pillar: Traumatized Soldier]
"Fu-" Caelus almost cursed, but he quickly caught himself and calmed down, repeating positive things in his head.
"I can do it! I can do it!" Caelus kept telling himself.
"What are you doing, Caelus?"
Sylvia had just come back from checking on the commotion outside. It turned out to only be people from the civilian area crossing over into their kingdom and demanding space. She told them to wait, then returned to find Caelus mumbling to himself with a strange smile on his face.
"I am manifesting a God-Tier Pillar!" Caelus exclaimed as he pressed roll.
The same white flash appeared on his face again.
[Ding! You’ve obtained the Dirt-Tier Pillar: The Humpty Dumpty]
Caelus’s lips twitched.
He didn’t mind, though. There were still eight more rolls left, and the fact that he got a different pillar this time meant his manifestation was working!
Maybe if he did a few more rituals, he would finally be able to manifest it!
Caelus stood up with a serious expression and began doing a strange dance and shouting strange words like a madman, he found this ritual in the forums and decided to give it a try.
Sylvia was dumbfounded at the sight.
She had only been gone for a few minutes. How had her boyfriend managed to lose his mind in that short time?
Then, the very next moment, she heard him shouting and screaming in excitement.
"RED! I JUST SAW RED!"
He knew this wasn’t an illusion!
What he saw was most definitely red, and he was absolutely sure of it!
He hit the jackpot!
It was a God-Tier!
Maybe the weird dance was exactly what he needed to do!
Boom!
A red light shot out from the gacha wheel as a notification appeared before him in great grandeur.
[Ding! You’ve obtained the God-Tier Pillar: Deus Ex Machina]
A blazing, glitching red card materialized in front of Caelus.
Sylvia was stunned by its grand entrance.
Caelus slowly walked toward the card and touched it.
His vision immediately glitched, and he saw a violent war raging in a dark world.
Creatures that looked like cyborgs were all fighting a single giant behemoth.
He identified the cyborgs as Deus Ex Machina, and the giant behemoth as something that belonged to the Hollow Faction.
Each Deus Ex Machina in the vision was being brutally destroyed, until one girl stepped forward.
She stared at the behemoth with no emotion on her face as she watched her fellow machinas fall.
Boom!
A vast amount of energy poured out of her as system screens appeared before her eyes, confirming something. The next moment, an energy sword formed in her hands. Her headpiece, which looked like a halo, blazed with power, and she shot forward at the behemoth.
The sword and the behemoth’s fists met, and a terrifying shockwave exploded outward. In the next instant, he saw the entire planet being destroyed, and along with it the behemoth. The last Deus Ex Machina was swept away into the vast darkness.
For years, she saw nothing but darkness, continuing to function as the last surviving machina.
A name appeared in his mind. Jibril. That was the name of the Deus Ex Machina he had acquired.
His vision shifted once more, and he found himself back in the domain as a notification lit up.
[Ding! You need faith power to equip a pillar]
Seeing this, Caelus’s expression turned strange.
Faith power was tied to the faction, so the pillars running on faith power made a lot of sense.
He looked at the random update he still had in his hand.
He decided to use it.
He wanted to see this Deus Ex Machina who had destroyed a world on her own.
[Ding!]
[You’ve unlocked the Sea of Faith.]
[The Sea of Faith now flows through your kingdom]
[The convergence point is located in your cabin.]
At the same time, visible changes began happening around Caelus. Golden light began appearing out of the void, shooting into him one by one.
[Ding!]
[You’ve obtained +499,921 faith power]
[Your Sea of Faith has reached level 0]
[You generate 499,921 faith power per day.]
[Generate more faith power to reach level 1]
[Perks:
[1. Heal or resurrect members of your faction using faith power]
[Cost: Depends]
[2. Summon a Pillar]
[Cost: Depends on tier]
The Sea of Faith. Caelus could sense it clearly now, and it had 499,921 faith power stored.
’Lyra must have used this faith power perk to heal me after the dragon transformation.’ Caelus nodded.
There was more to faith power, but he hadn’t fully explored it yet.
He wanted to see how much it would cost to summon and sustain Jibril, the Deus Ex Machina.
[Ding! To summon a God-Tier Pillar, you need 5M faith power per day to sustain it.]
Seeing this, Caelus didn’t panic. As things stood right now, there were more than 8.5 million people here, and he was going to invite every one of them to his faction.
He swiftly sent out an invitation, and his faction member count soared.
[Faction members: 499,921 -> 7.2M]
Out of the 8.5 million, more than 90% joined.
That was enough.
The next moment, more and more faith power came pouring in.
[Ding! You generate 7.2M faith power per day]
[Ding! You’ve successfully established the first pillar of the Chaos Faction]
[Pillar: Jibril (Deus Ex Machina) has joined your faction.]
Shnn!
The red card shone with intense light as a girl materialized in front of him. She wore fully covering clothing and had long blue hair. On the side of her head sat a headpiece, or rather a halo, that gave off a cyan and yellow glow from several floating concentric rings anchored by metallic structures.
This was Jibril, the Deus Ex Machina, made for the sole purpose of killing gods, and in the end, she had become one herself.
She analyzed Caelus with her mechanical eyes, which glowed with data.
Then, she gave a small bow.
"I am Jibril."
"I am Caelus Kross." He introduced himself in return. "Starting now, you will be the pillar of this faction. Someone who defends and guides it and its members with your life."
Jibril nodded with no emotion on her face.
"Understood. Lord Caelus."
Then he activated his appraisal through his chaos perception eyes.
He wanted to see what sort of powers she had.
