“U-uh... Princess? Do you happen to know what that place is for?”
The boy asked, looking at the girl, who tilted her head with an innocent expression.
“Isn’t it the place where the ladies and their knights go? That couple over there is also going in...”
The girl pointed toward a couple entering a motel.
The man, weighed down with the woman’s luggage, was struggling to please her, the scene looking rather awkward.
...Ah.
How should I even explain this?
So, Princess? It’s not like that...
As the boy’s mind wandered,
“Hurry up!”
The girl grabbed the boy’s wrist and yanked him roughly.
What’s with this strength?!
“Wait a minute!”
“What do you mean ‘wait a minute’?! Come here!”
The boy, being dragged by the girl, crossed the motel’s threshold.
Boom!
The world shook.
“...Eh? I didn’t do anything though?”
Buildings around them collapsed, and everything turned into chaos.
“...Prince. Do you really hate me that much?”
“N-no! I didn’t do anything!”
It was a moment when the boy fell for the girl’s act of feigning disappointment.
-Finally! The time has come!
A voice rang out in the air.
“!!!”
The girl’s face turned pale with shock.
She knew that voice.
The voice she had heard so many times.
The voice she had never liked, from her human days up until now.
The voice she thought she would never hear again.
“...No.”
It was that voice.
“No!”
Why?
Hadn’t the nightmare ended?
The shackles had all been torn apart.
The girl began to tremble.
This doesn’t make sense.
It was only the voice, but now it was involved in reality.
Shudder, shudder.
“No... Enough now...”
Her once beautiful and radiant dream began to fade.
A sense of despair crept in, as if she didn’t deserve to experience happiness like this.
“No...!”
The girl curled up.
She no longer had the strength or will to resist.
Just hearing that voice was enough to break her.
Thud.
A warm sensation embraced her body.
“Princess.”
“!!!”
The boy held her close.
“I told you earlier, didn’t I? That nightmare is over now.”
“...Ah?”
When the girl lifted her head, she saw the face of the man she loved.
“No more nightmares will dare to trouble you, Princess. I’ll stop them.”
The face of the prince she had always dreamed of in her sleep.
The touch she had imagined would one day pull her out of this hell.
His beauty and warmth were more brilliant than anything she had ever imagined.
The girl slowly rose to her feet, holding the boy’s hand.
“That guy is the one who’s been tormenting the Princess, right?”
The boy smiled.
“If I get rid of him, will you be able to sleep peacefully now, Princess?”
“...Yes.”
Is it just about sleeping peacefully?
If the voice that had kept her from leaving her room, her domain, disappeared, she could move freely.
She could leave her domain, descend to the lower realms, sneak into the boy’s room, and sleep beside him.
How many children should we have?
Constellations can’t get pregnant, but if we create an incarnation, it’s possible.
When we return, I’ll have the apostles create the incarnations.
And then!
Crash!
“Ugh!”
Just as the girl’s fantasies reached their peak, a hand suddenly shot out from behind the boy, piercing his chest.
“Ah...”
It was a woman, identical in appearance to the girl.
“Who are you planning to get rid of?”
But her laugh was nothing like the girl’s.
It was filled with malicious, cruel energy.
Crash!
A burst of magical power erupted from the hole in his chest.
“Cough!”
A light flickered a few times.
Boom!
The boy’s body exploded and was thrown around in pieces, his form barely recognizable.
“Thanks, little worm. Thanks to you, the conditions for my resurrection have been met.”
The evil being, resembling the girl, grinned.
The director of the lab.
The one thought to be dead, had resurrected through fragments of the soul.
Thud.
The girl collapsed to her knees, weakened, losing strength.
She had been inside me all along...
The blood of the lab director, absorbed when the girl ascended as a god.
It wasn’t just a catalyst for magic.
It had hidden itself inside her, using her divine body as a host, a means for resurrection.
That’s why they didn’t make her the god but instead artificially deified her, eradicating all other researchers.
“Haaa... I’m... Finally free.”
The lab director stretched his arms wide, taking a deep breath before exhaling.
“I was running out of time. I didn’t have enough time to accumulate a narrative to become a god. But if I artificially create a god and wait inside, it was all possible.”
The lab director had a dream since childhood.
To become the greatest god, encompassing all human knowledge.
He lived with the belief that one day, he would ascend to the top of the gods.
He was a genius, recognized across the continent, and had become the head of the prestigious Imperial Research Institute, but he could never become a god.
He had the intelligence, the knowledge, but could never attain divinity.
Why was that?
After many years of research, he discovered what was missing.
Narrative.
The three great scholarly constellations, including the Magitech Engineer, all had their own narratives, but he had none.
He lacked the narrative that could serve as the core for divine essence.
When he realized this, he was too old.
He covered up his aging with a mask and forcibly extended his life, but it was reaching its limits.
He didn’t have enough time to acquire the narrative and ascend to divinity.
The lab director thought.
If I can’t become a god, I’ll make someone else one.
Then, I’ll use that god as a host and rise as a constellation.
He hid his true intentions and convinced the emperor.
The emperor, falling for his persuasion, approved the idea of artificially creating a god, not realizing that it would lead to his own downfall after the betrayal.
“And finally, all the conditions are met.”
Even with all his hidden preparations, a god is still a god.
To steal the divinity from that god, certain conditions had to be fulfilled.
The god’s emotional state must be unstable, weakened.
Most importantly, there must be contact with something from another world that can nullify some of the god’s power.
The voice that had constantly tormented the girl’s mind.
It was there to control her and guide her toward fulfilling those conditions.
“The activation condition is feeling a certain level of emotion. A worthless worm like you would surely meet all the conditions, and the shackles will weaken enough for you to act!”
The restrictions in this world were meant to intensify the curse and push her towards the otherworldly thing.
To escape the curse of knowledge, she would have to search for something from another world, and when she found it, she would experience intense emotions.
The divine power inside the girl, the force that composed the world, began to be sucked away by the lab director.
Ah...
It happened again.
Because of me, he died.
If I hadn’t gotten involved, he wouldn’t have died.
I’m the one...
The lab director, grinning greedily, devoured the girl’s divinity.
Such a magnificent feast!
The absolute power of knowledge about Reiphania, along with the power of otherworldly knowledge and dreams.
The continent would now welcome a new god of wisdom.
“Thank you, little worm! You were my greatest masterpiece! Hahahahahaha!”
The long years spent hiding inside the girl’s divinity had been tough.
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But now it was all over.
Now, the continent would submit to me!
I will stand as the true master of the continent, encompassing all knowledge and intelligence!
“Another ambush from behind?”
Then, a voice, one that should never have been heard, rang out.
“!!!!”
The lab director’s eyes widened in shock.
“If it’s the same pattern, the players will start complaining about the repetition.”
Crash!
“Grah!”
Suddenly, an invisible force slammed the lab director into the ground.
The lab director couldn’t comprehend the situation.
What happened?
How did someone manage to pierce through all his defenses and strike his core?
He should have been eradicated before this!
“The master of dreams doesn’t die in dreams.”
Crack!
The boy’s foot crushed the lab director’s back.
“Even if you want to die, you can’t in dreams.”
In dreams, anything can be achieved.
Except for one thing: dying.
As long as the power of dreams is intact, no one can stop the master of dreams.
But it seems you’re not able to nullify the power like that other guy from before?
“What kind of boss should I make you?”
I’ve heard players are tired of the old bosses. Maybe you should have a more varied pattern.