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“Hmm, that was good; thanks for the breakfast, sis.”
“Yeah, it was delightful, though a bit too heavy for a breakfast…”
Ruby and Juan were sittio me oable. After my wives ate their breakfast, they wao eat some more, so they joined everyone else at the table.
My sister and her boyfriend had just joined us retly though, but they ate happily anyways. I was also quite satisfied after havien too, so I sat down for the moment while admiring the little waterfalls inside of my Zen Garden.
“Gd you liked it,” I nodded. “Would you two like to join us climbing the Tower ter? I pn to go in a day or two.”
“Sure, I don’t mind,” nodded Ruby. “I kind of want to get stronger anyway, so this is perfect! Also, I wao see the sed floor and what you did there to fix it, sis.”
“It would be an honor to join you,” said Juan.
“Alright then…” I nodded. “Hmm, might as well check this.”
I checked the system, which had been bugging me for some time. I had been pletely ign it for a while, but it was time to see what it wao tell me.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
“Okay, okay, I know you wao see you; calm down!”
I sighed, swiping my hands and quickly being surprised as I saw a few dozen of System Messages pop up at the same time.
Ding!
[gratutions! You and your Party have defeated a rge-scale invasion from a parallel timelie.]
[You have sin several Powered Maes and Meical Gods, and the Vessel of a Primal Goddess.]
[You’ve earned a generous quantity of EXP.]
[Level Up!]
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[Your Level has increased from Level 3.346 to Level 4.137/10.000!]
[All your Stats have increased. You gained Bonus Stat Points and Skill Points.]
[Several of your Skills have Leveled Up.]
Hmm, not bad! I gained quite a lot of Levels, not ohousand, but this is iremendous. Is this because these invaders were already assimited by the System and had levels and such?
Beating the spider definitely gave a lot of EXP; she was certainly very powerful.
But that wasn’t all; EXP wasn’t the only thing I could gain from sying gods.
Although she wasn’t sin, I did eat a piece of her Soul and her Divinity before she escaped.
In fact, like a crab leaving behind their limbs for a predator to eat instead of them, she cut her own pieces for me to eat and escaped.
Her survival instincts are very high, without a doubt… I suppose she’s more of a mohan a true goddess in that sense.
Ding!
[You have absorbed the Primal Goddess’ Shattered Soul Fragments and Shattered Divinity!]
[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS)] effects have been activated. You have absorbed the Divinity and Soul Fragments of the Fn Primal Goddess: {Evil Araid Queen of Malid ingness, the Great Web Mother, Arashkaghl-Dolth}]
[You obtaihe {Broken Primal Divinities}: {Malice & ingness} {Space-Weaving Spider} {Corruption Venom}]
[All Stats have increased by +12.000.000]
[You gained +4.000.000 Divinity.]
[You have stolen the Faith of the Primal Goddess you’ve wounded aen a piece of her Soul and Divinity.]
[You gained +100.000.000 Faith.]
Ohh! Three Broken Primal Divihat’s much better than I imagined! And these stat boosts, they’re better than when I ate the whole souls and divinities of like fourteen gods?!
And this is only a piece of her, perhaps a small one if she could afford to cut it off and escape… This without a doubt ts her as someone incredibly strong.
[You learhe Cssless/Magic/Css Skills]: [Abyssal Miasmiom of Corruption (SSS): Lv1] [Space-Weaving Spiderwebs (SSS): Lv1] [Primal Meical Spider Creation (SSS): Lv1]
[The Skill: [Divine Css Absorption (SSS)] Effects have been activated. You have devoured a fragment of the Divine Css of the Primal Goddess you have wounded aen a fragment of.]
[You devoured the Divine God Csses]: [Primal Spider Queen] [Araid Space Weaver] [Corrupted Undead Mae]
[You have earned +500.000 Skill Points]
And that should be it… Three new Skills, three new Csses, and more Skill Points. The Skill themselves seem to be weak, derived versions of that goddess' abilities.
I’ll probably check them out and see what I do with them ter.
For now, we should move to New York; that’s where Merh should have just arrived.
She said she really wao visit other tries, so she told me she would e to New York with Ra’s help, bringing some of the Hunters from El Cairo with her.
“Anyways! Who wants to go to New York for a small trip? Merh should have arrived by now, so let’s go pick her up.”
“Merh?” wondered Mursha. “Why so sudden?”
“We already scheduled this small meeting; we o discuss things regarding the Meical Gods parts inside my Inner Realm,” I expined. “With Hekita also her help, we’re probably aiming to repair them somehow.”
"Oh, that sounds iing,” nodded Mursha. “Sure, I want to explore that city as well! Isn’t that the pce where you were born? Sounds good; let’s go.”
Everyone else came with me too, so it ended up turning into a family trip. The rest of my disciples were iy right now as well, doing their jobs as hunters.
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RUMBLE!
“How is this possible?!”
CLASH!
“You’re able to hold against my might?!”
BOOOM!
“I am the bination of all Nine Heavens!”
CRASH!
“Ngh…! Hah, you’re strong indeed, so very strong… Strohan me, without a doubt. But I am not weak either, you Interdimensional Alien God!”
TRUUUM!
The csh between ic deities tihrough dozens of years across the os, time going much different outside the tower and the worlds ected to it.
The girl whose ey was made of pink and purple ic light overflowed with tremendous power, dist spad time with her mere presence.
“My tower is a pce where mortals shall dream and work to make their wishes e true! I couldn’t ever call myself a Tower Master if I let an abomination such as you overtake it! You were able to steal Vestrellenth Tower, but he’s not even parable to me.”
“Just give up already! I’ll take all I desire, for I am the Nine Heavens inated! I rule and create order!”
The titanic made of pure white light with a gigantic rainbow halo behind his back attacked the ic girl, his titanic cws tearing through spad time.
“With the power of this artifact, I ow ma a further part of myself outside of Murim! And ohat tower is mine, I’ll take it all!”
“No, I won’t let you!”
The ic girl khat this entity would eventually defeat her after hundreds of years of fighting him.
A threat of this caliber had never appeared across the os and the interected star system streams.
“My power ot grow any further,” she thought. “What I do to stop him? Must I rely on my children? No… They’re too weak, selfish… stantly thinking about themselves and overtaking one another’s worlds. What do I do? Where do I ask for help?”
Then, her glistening eyes, which were actually two small nebus, widened as an idea sparkled in her mind.
“If such a being does yet, then I’ll create it…” She gnced down into the one hundred worlds and a dozen more that posed the tower. “I am by no means a benevolent being. But I simply work towards the be of the many instead of a few… Please five me.”
Suddenly, amidst an old temple floating in the skies of a world withiower, an old ma a gss orb with a frustrated expression.
“So those didn’t work either… not even that accursed spider they summoned, hm?” he sighed. “Oh well, it’s not like half of them are there yet. And so many more are ing—huh?”
His eyes widened as he saw someone suddenly appear by his side.
“Grandfather of Time, I require your power.”
“Wha…? AAACK!”
Without hesitating, the girl pierced his chest, infusing her iergies and power into his own.
FLUOSH!
“I always kept you because you were a useful tool, and with this power you have, I was going to use it one day. That day came soohan I expected.”
“W-What?! Wait, you’re…?! The Tower Master?!”
“Stand Still, Grandfather of Time... Or should I say ostasis? I am the only ohat knows your true name, Fragment of the Primordial Time Wheel inated. Yo has decayed greatly due to the amount of selfishness you’ve developed over eons, but your purpose is all the same.”
“M-my ego…?! Ah!”
RUMBLE!
And theire tower started trembling, beginning to distort stantly, creating afterimages of itself, as if it were stantly “glitg”.
Each afterimage showed different “what if” sarios, duplig the same over and ain.
“This is a gamble, but… in one of such parallel timelihere must be something!”
Her eyes stantly fshed through thousands of what-ifs, many sarios, many worlds.
Until suddenly she saw it—a future, a ruined future.
Despite how it seemed so despairing.
There was someohere, a tremendously powerful being.
They stood amidst a destroyed world, having saved it.
But at what cost?
Everything they once had was now lost.
They were pletely alone.
Their family, their loved ones…
So lonely.
“Is this the only way…?”
She thought about this, using her incredibly fast thought process that seemed to slow time in front of her.
But came to the same clusion as before.
“There’s no time to hesitate… She might not be ready yet, but this person could hasten her growth expoially.”
FLUOSH!
“This is a gamble at the end… Time dition withiire tower will help me dey this as much as possible, but… Ultimately, it all depends on her. You have to take responsibility fing this monster here, Bing Xue.”
Her spiraling, nebu eyes glowed brightly as she disappeared, the Grandather of Time gasping for air, suddenly realizing there was no wound on his chest or anything at all.
“W-What happened?! What… Who…!” he felt fused, utterly shaken. “My powers were used by someone else, and I was uo do a sihing! T-This is… so pathetic…”
As the a god’s ego crumbled to pieces, he g the orb that allowed him to see through the world where Bing Xue came from.
“Huh?!”
The portals he had pced had more than tripled.
And not only that, but…
“T-This is…?!”
As he smiled maniacally, he saw the same portals begin to appear slowly, oer another, across the many other worlds of the Tower.
“Haha… Hahahaha!” He ughed in disbelief. “I did this?! Did I do this?! Yes… With this, everything, every world, shall be ed by my pehahahaha!”
pletely unaware that he had been used as a tool, ostasis only ughed, believing himself as a genius.
Little did he know of how much of an important key piece he was for the schemes of the Tower Master.
“You won’t be able to protect your Tower forever! I’ve learhe same abilities you utilize…”
The monstrous dimensional invader ughed as his gigantic cws made of eternally bright light rushed towards the smaller Tower Master.
She jured giant nebus of pink, purple, and azure color as millions of stars resonated with her powers, exploding and inhibiting his advance.
However, the dimensional being smiled heless, his thousands of small tendril-like tentacles made of Primordial Heavenly Ki pierg through spad time.
Slowly expanding and dividing…
“You somehow hold on against me, so I’ll simply have to eat you away bite by bite~” he smiled. “From the i!”
Space started beginning to be disturbed as tiny white cracks began to spread slowly across space.
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Once we arrived in New York, we started walking around the streets while Mursha admired the enormous skyscrapers.
“Woah! This pce’s huge! What is this?! Amazing!”
She was sure easily amused… It was quite surprising.
BZZZTTT!
“Hm?”
Out of hough, I felt something.
It was… as if.
BBZZTTT!”
“Again?!”
I looked behind me, expanding my senses.
It was like a horrendous sound, a bination of several… meical sounds together.
No, it was simir, but it wasn’t that-
BBZZTTT!
And then I saw it—the in of the sound that could only be described as “a puter glitg out and releasing loud, ear-wreng sounds”.
The buildings—no, the ey seemed to be strangely creating afterimages of itself, made out of different lights.
Nobody but me noticed; nobody could see this except me.
“What’s going on?”
I quickly released my Aura and enpassed my entire family with it; they suddenly stopped walking, w what had happened.
BZZZTTT!
“There it is again!”
tless afterimages, “shadows” of the city, of the people, even of me and everyone else, stantly appeared behind us, but nobody could notice.
Except me.
“Someone is tearing through the fabric of spad time—reality?!”
As I was about t my family inside my Inner Realm for maximum security, suddenly…
It stopped.
Everythi back to normal.
“It’s… normal now?”
I kept my senses high, and I didn’t move a single inch; my family didher.
They knew something was wrong after seeing how I react.
Crack, crack…!
“Ah!”
I looked into the skies, notig a small cra time—a gray portal!
Another?
But this one is so small.
What gives?
“What’s ing from there?”
It was the figure of a human, a tall… young man?
He was wearing medieval ese clothes that only high nobility would wear.
ht silver and gold, with a dragon across his chest.
He was c his head with a wide white hat, but I could clearly see his hair reag his neck, waving by the wind.
It was of silvery-white color with bck strands.
I saw two golden eyes glowing too.
“This is...!” he muttered, with slight surprise. “Why… How did I…? This is… New York?”
He looked around cautiously; the people of the city panicked; some ran away; others poiheir cameras at him and started filming.
“This shouldn’t be possible… How is this…” he kept talking. “Am I back…?”
I quickly flew to front him.
Based on his clothes, he could even be someone from Murim too!
If he’s of Demonic Fas, it is my duty to take care of him.
However, I would prefer to solve this peacefully.
FLASH!
“Who are you?”
I appeared right before him.
He quickly gred at me with his sharp golden eyes, squinting them.
“Do you e from aimeline? A world?”
“You…”
Suddenly, his eyes widened in shock, but then…
His face twisted into anger, calm, uling hatred.
His Aura erupted with tremendous ferocity.
RUMBLE!
S as his Aura that the buildings below were instantly shaved apart and disied.
His Aura of tremendous power, taining highly refined Ki, Mana, Spirit Energy, and even Divinity!
Just who is this man?!
“Stop it! Your Aura will…!”
I quickly released my Venerable Authority, g against his Aura.
But then, something even more shog happened.
TRUUUM!
His Aura transformed, growing even stronger…
And being a Venerable Authority too.
CRAAASH!
Don’t tell me this is a Venerable from Murim?!
How did he eve here!
“You… You’re her! You ruined everything… Why?! Why do you show your fa front of me?!”
With utter hatred, he suddenly started growing furious; his eyes became like those of a beast, and even his humah ged into beastly fangs.
“Calm down! I don’t know what you’re talking about, but if you tih this, I’ll have to stop you!”
I held back against his own Authority, but the more furious he grew, the stro became.
“GET OUT OF MY WAY!”
With a furious roar, he charged against me, his entire aura transf into an arrow to enhance his power and speed, g against me.
BOOOM!
“Ungh?!”
And then as he hit my stomach with both of his fists, I realized something.
I vomited blood.
He’s…
A Primordial Immemorial Venerable like me?!
“YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! DON’T YOU KNOW HOW MANY DIED BECAUSE OF YOU?!”
His hands became like gigantic beastly cws as he attempted to tear my body into shreds.
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