Father was pulling mana from the void and converted all of reality for thousands and thousands of kilometers around him. Entire planets were converted into mana for him to defend himself, and trillions of lives were lost instantly.
"I just killed a little mortal, he wasn’t that important, was he?" he muttered to the heavens but didn’t get any response. His strength was great, but... not enough to challenge these beings.
The divine punishment of black and green lightning only lasted a few minutes, but it left completely ridiculous devastation across millions and millions of miles. It was an unparalleled level of strength. Father had to sacrifice himself to defend himself.
"A few lost millennia," he muttered as he saw that he had to use a lot of his strength. Bearing the power of a god while being a mortal was incredible, but it had a huge price to pay most of the time.
"Father of false gods! Explain yourself now!" A huge golden wolf appeared near Pai. A few thousand gods were also around, trying to understand everything that was happening.
Most of them there had a lot of life experience. No one became a god just by relying on talent. Everyone understood that this was retaliation for altering fate, and it was no small thing.
"I made a mistake. I will pay for all the damages." Father could buy half the universe with all his treasures. Living longer than the universe itself was not something that could be done without gaining great wealth.
"What did you do?" The wolf god expressed everyone’s curiosity. Events at this level were ridiculously rare.
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"I don’t think you have the strength to ask that question." Father’s tone was neutral, but it sent a shiver to everyone in the room. Often, the gods at the top forgot who the real monsters were.
"I think you’ve studied the environment enough, haven’t you, Kayden?" The female voice brought Kayden out of his thoughts. He was slightly irritated. They had so much time and he couldn’t even waste a few seconds?
"That’s not the best way to greet an old friend, Kayden." The instant Kayden cursed the woman in his mind, he received this response.
"We don’t know each other and how did you read my thoughts?" At that moment, Kayden realized something was wrong.
"It’s me," Kayden raised an eyebrow. "Thoth." Kayden raised both eyebrows in surprise. "Long story, but what you need to know is that you got yourself into trouble, Kayden. In this place, death does not exist. This is a divine plan where resurrection is automatic. The false gods planned to kill you for thousands of years and learn their techniques. At some point, his mind would break and that would put an end to the cycle. So this woman would not pay with her life."
Thoth’s words confirmed all of Kayden’s fears. In the end, free lunch was an urban myth. Not even a false god at the top of the universe had the ethics to make fair deals.
"Father promised by heaven..." Kayden stopped mid-sentence as he understood what would happen. He would not lose his life. His mind would be broken to a point where he would still be alive, but without actually living.
"It seems like you noticed, but don’t worry too much. This girl has a strong will and is much stronger than you. But... in a few thousand years, you should be able to match her strength and subsequently surpass her. You must break her will to pieces." Thoth became someone more impressive every second of Kayden’s life.
"Why are you helping me?"
Thoth laughed. "I manage trillions of bets, Kayden. You are just one of them." This was true. Kayden would probably take a lifetime if he were to count the number of Thoth’s plans.
"Anything else?" Kayden should make the most of this moment.
"This world is a miniature universe from one of the ?????? " Kayden didn’t understand the word, but his body shivered when he heard it. "All laws work here. Train your way and study the space very diligently."
"What will happen when I leave? What stops the false gods from killing me?" Kayden knew that, in the grand schemes of the universe, he was insignificant, regardless of his talent or potential.
"Train space manipulation, and when you get out of here, enter a vortex and disappear. Pass the next realm into the void, and I will make sure no one can catch you on the way out. But it will depend on your ability to stay alive in the void."
Kayden didn’t have any negative thoughts. Was it a radical change in what he was experiencing? Yes, but he had no problem with that. Life was constantly changing and he just needed to adapt.
"In the end, that’s it. Good luck." Kayden saw the woman’s eyes close and open again. He knew she was no longer Thoth in this place.
The void shattered around the woman on a scale dozens of times smaller than that of a peak false god, but it was still a frightening amount of mana that Kayden didn’t think he could pull out, even utilizing his conversion to its fullest.
"Not even a few words?" Kayden smiled as he began to convert matter from hundreds of kilometers into pure mana and fortify his domain. He would probably die in a few seconds ... but not without giving it his all.
"I heard the whole conversation. We have no reason to be friendly." Here came Kayden’s big sick psychological game.
"Of course we do. We will spend a few thousand years killing each other, the least is to be friendly." The woman raised an eyebrow as if she were facing a madman.
"Converting mana into matter is one of the first steps for our race. This will open doors for you to convert other things into mana." Kayden was interested.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I swore a mana oath that I would teach him" Kayden didn’t have time to respond as a beam of light came out of the woman and came towards him burning everything around, the very air was being melted into absolutely nothing.