Discover, wage war, conquer, plunder, consolidate, empower, set forth.
That was the line of action he took every time he discovered some new planet or new star system.
During this time, he discovered that he was not the only one on the path of conquest and had even lost to other world dominators a few times, however, he carried on with his conquest, getting revenge on those who formerly defeated him more often than not.
By the time he realised, had been on the path of conquest for thousands of years, maybe two thousand, maybe three, possibly even five.
He had lost count.
Some of his weaker children had perished long before him but his increased existence level let him outlive them by leaps and bounds.
[I don't recall the exact number, but he had conquered 90% of the technologically advanced worlds in this galaxy.]
When Evan thought about how many planets supposedly existed in a galaxy, the fact that one man conquered 90% of the technologically advanced ones was shocking, to say the least.
One of the conquered planets was one that was researching inter galactic travel, and it was through this he discovered about the existence of other galaxies.
He spent another 500 years to solidify his rule across the conquered worlds before setting forth into another galaxy, the starships he and his team of scientists had invented protecting their bodies and preventing them from dying due to the increase in ambient energy concentration outside the galaxy.
Moving to another galaxy, he did the same thing he had been doing for millennia.
He conquered.
Discovering more rare and exquisite treasures unique to that galaxy, he was able to increase his existence level and his armies' strength even further.
His influence increased to the extent that his name begun to be spoken of even in other galaxies.
He kept on conquering worlds and star systems, eventually building an inter galactic empire that was unmatched my many.
At this point, he was at least twelve thousand years old and had long since broken his mortal shell and ascended to become a higher existence.
He had conquered countless worlds and multiple galaxies, even other intergalactic empires created by others fell under his rule.
Others who had also done the same thing he did in other parts of the universe, occasionally clashed with him.
He lost some wars, and won some more.
In one of the inter galactic empires he conquered; his generals had discovered a planet that ha a new energy source they had never seen before.
He decoded to visit personally and summoned the noble family that was in charge of that planet t question them on that energy source.
However, the daughter of said noble family was a rare beauty he took a fancy to and wanted to make one of his concubines.
This was where everything began to go wrong.
He had laid with many women over his thousands of years as an emperor, and the children he had sired were the ones who were in charge of the parts of his empire he was not physically present at.
Sadly, this noble's daughter was not just any random noble's daughter.
She was also the lover, of a god.
The girl's parents informed him of this fact and the emperor thought back to the times he had met a few gods in the past thousands of years.
Remembering these beings as arrogant beings that looked down on everything besides themselves, he believed that said god did not really care for the noble's daughter.
Also, he had defeated a few gods before and he had felt that they were nothing more than another race of beings that could be found anywhere.
Unknown to him, he had only battled with either weak low ranked gods and random members of the 'god race' that had not ascended to become higher existences.
Assuming all gods were like the ones he met, was his mistake.
He imprisoned the girl's parents and forcefully took their daughter, even going as far as to claim that at his level of power, even a god would fall at his hands.
Regardless of her wishes, he took this girl as one of his concubines.
Then, the god found out.
[Well, you can pretty much guess what happened from here.]
Artemisia said as she poured a cup of tea for herself and took a sip while keeping her gaze on the trio in front of her.
She studies their reactions and couldn't help but chuckle in amusement, especially at Eliza's reaction.
"Revolting bastard..."
She had such a disgusted look on her face that Artemisia wondered what would happen if she were to ever meet said emperor.
Pride on the other hand, shook her head while muttering something about the emperor being a fool while Evan just facepalmed while thinking something along the lines of;
'It was at that moment, that he should have known, he fucked up.'
He looked up at Artemisia and spoke.
"Lemme guess, he died?"
The goddess only scoffed before replying.
[If only he died...
It would have been a lot better for him.]
She dropped her tea cup on the table and relaxed he back on the couch before continuing.
[The inter galactic empire he built, the worlds he conquered, all his work, form when he was just a puny human in the bronze level, all the way till he had transcended mortality and became a *fvr%7#.
His tens of thousands of years of work, fell in less than ten minutes.
The god laid waste to it all, nothing was left.
And as for the man in question, his soul still suffers under the hands of the same god he had...what was that word again?]
Artemisia placed a hand on her chin and thought for a few moments, searching through her memories for a particular world before balling her right hand into a fist and slamming it on her left open palm
[Aha! I got it.
The emperor's soul still suffers under the hands of the same god that he had NTR'd.]
Eliza and Pride gave her questioning looks while Evan facepalmed once more, shaking his head that this goddess's behaviour.
After spending five minutes to persuade the two girls to never inquire about the meaning of that forbidden word, he urged Artemisia to carry on with her story.
The god who laid waste to an entire intergalactic empire that consisted of tens of dozens of galaxies, was naturally sanctioned for his actions and as some of those galaxies were lower levelled ones, a certain 'universal son of a bitch law' had a good time dealing with him.
However, all the sanctions in the universe would not bring back the people who had been killed, neither would it fix the damage that the high ranked god had done to the galaxies.
So, the in the end, the laws of causality in that section of the universe were strengthened and restrictions were put in place on the gods' side and on the mortal's side.
On the gods' side, too much interference was prohibited, preventing the gods from taking major actions that affected the natives of a great majority of worlds in this part of the universe.
For the mortals, knowledge of other worlds and galaxies was restricted.
After all, if they never knew of other worlds and star systems, it would have been impossible for the emperor to know that the place he had discovered when he was young was another world and he would not have thought of conquering other worlds.
And if the god didn't randomly descend and take a mortal as his lover, he would have not been NTR'd by a random intergalactic emperor and would not have killed quintillions of beings in a fit of rage.
[Thus, the reason why I was unable to personally wipe out every member of the demon race that stepped foot on this world a thousand years ago.
Even if they are more powerful than humans, they are still mortals in the end. Such an action would be considered a 'Major Action' that's currently not allowed.
Wiping them all out would be easy but that'd just give the 'others' some sort of leverage over me and honestly, that would be a hassle.]
Artemisia spoke with a yawn as she calculated how much longer she had in the Bishop's body before moving on to the real reason she had descended in the first place.
[Now then, I didn't come here to tell you stories. I came to inform you of a certain location that no one on Aidos knows exists.]
Hearing Artemisia's words, Evan's mind temporarily forgot about the entire story she had just narrated for them and replied with a question.
"Is it a place that wasn't in the game?"
[Yes.]
Hearing the two talk about some sort of 'game', Pride rose an eyebrow in question but decided to let Artemisia finish her words.
[Now to explain this.
Let's use the Dragon lord as an example. A thousand years ago, she was barely level three hundred, yet even a thousand years later, she still hasn't reached level 1000 even with how ridiculously easy the 'law of Knowledge's devour class system' made it to advance in power.
What do you think is the reason?]
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