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  “I’m going too.”

  Vd touched the crystal, as his mind was quickly teleported somewhere else.

  It ce he didn’t reize, but that was eerily simir to what Chris had seen too.

  A world where two skies, one of darkness and one of light, endlessly collided.

  And the presence of this Realm’s deities slowly began to ma.

  Vd saw in disbelief as a gigantic jaw emerged within the bck sky, smiling viciously at him. It began drooling, as if he were nothing but a snack.

  [The {Evil God of Hunger and Excess} drools while seeing your delicious soul…]

  [He ’t wait to feast!]

  “S-So this is what he meant with that…”

  But that wasn’t all; although this gigantic jaw covered most of the bck skies, several other forms emerged.

  This time, they were more like prying eyes; six of them spread across the darkness. One urple with rge eyeshes, another was gold, one of them was pletely white, and one was gray.

  There was oiceable, crimson eye bzing with fmes and looking rather furious at him. Vd was left without words.

  This entire se wasn’t something he could have ever imagined!

  “To think that ging Csses would create such a… cutse?” he wondered. “If even…”

  [The {Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure} g you with i. She knows you lust after her precious, divinely cursed.]

  [She thinks that if you truly love her beautiful divinely cursed, then you will surely take her patronage.]

  [The {Evil God of Desire and Materialism} notices your amazing ability over craftsmanship and the creation of precious items.]

  [He would love to bee your patron, as long as you give him precious s every now and then.]

  [The {Evil Goddess of Hatred and Bloodshed} admires your battle abilities and the blood you’ve spilled!]

  [She says you would be a good vessel of her endless rage.]

  [The {Evil God of Stagnation and Apathy} yawns…]

  “Hahhh… S-So the same ohat visited Chris came to me as well?” Vd thought, swallowing saliva, he was very nervous. “But there are others too… Who are these guys? Wait a sed…!”

  [The {Evil God and Superiority} thinks you might be enough to carry his might, barely.]

  [The {Evil Goddess of Sorrooverty} weeps.]

  “T-They’re all here…?”

  Vd looked across the darkness.

  Yes, they were all here.

  Everyohered just for him.

  The Seven Evil Gods of Obscuritas.

  The souralid the kings of every Sin.

  “Hahh…”

  He couldn’t help but smile at the ridiculous situation he was thrown into.

  He might be in an even worse situation than Chris, being favored by every damn god.

  But why?

  “Is it because of stopping the Unending Crimson?” he wondered. “And then… right, that battle.”

  The battle against his brother too, and the powers he possessed, there were messages of something, or someone popping up from time to time.

  He could still remember that title, yes, how couldn’t he? It just happened an ho…

  The Desecrated Shadow King.

  “Was that also a being from outside?”

  That meant he had not fought and won against one, but two…

  And if what happened with Chris would be the same with him, then if he rejects their offers, they’ll get angry and try to kill him or something.

  This is a Mind Realm, acc to the game, so it shouldn’t be possible for them to deal direct damage to his character.

  Even then, he wasn’t so sure…

  “Right, he did say the Silver Moon Goddess appeared,” he thought. “Maybe it’ll be the same for me?”

  He looked into the skies, trying to search for her or someone else other than these wicked, evil gods.

  And then…

  FLASH!

  A crimson glow emerged, resembling a small ruby that rapidly grew rger until it took the shape of a moon.

  A crimson moon.

  [The {Goddess of the Crimson Moon} g you from afar, afraid te the Evil Gods that have gathered here for you.]

  Unlike before, where Chris saw the evil gods mock the goddess of the silver moon, this time they didn’t even care.

  “A moon goddess…”

  Vd khat, uhe Evil Gods, the Moon Goddesses weren’t “evil” in their nature and weren’t cursed beings.

  They granted actual divine protes without weird drawbacks and had motherly, protective natures instead of the predatory and selfish minds of the evil gods.

  “Let’s see what they offer.”

  Ding!

  [gratutions! Several Deities of your Realm are ied in you special Css Rank ups and Subcsses!]

  [What do you want to do first?]

  [Rank Up Main Css]

  [Choose Subcss.]

  “Seeing how Chris got attacked after only choosing a Main Css and had to hurriedly pick the Subcss, I’ll look at both lists at the same time to choose them both in quick succession a out of here.”

  Ding!

  [Avaible Main Css Rank Up Options]:

  [Abyssal Vampire Prince of Gluttony: ★★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Hunger and Excess}]

  [Prideful Vampire Prince of Demise: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God and Superiority}]

  [Envious Vampire Prince of Deceit: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Sorrooverty}]

  [Evil Vampire Prinischief: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure}]

  [Treasure Hunting Vampire Prince: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Desire and Materialism}]

  [Warm Vampire Prince of Bloodshed: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Hatred and Bloodshed}]

  [Slumbering Vampire Prince: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Stagnation and Apathy}]

  [Are Vampire Prince of the Crimson Moon: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Goddess of the Crimson Moon}]

  [Seventh Vampire Prince Magiight: ★★]

  […]

  “So that’s all the csses. Damn it, Gluttony really went out of his way to give me a three-star css?! That’s a whole rank I’ll be skipping!”

  Vd was dumbfouhis could accelerate his growth tremendously as he would get a stat boost equal to two ranks up instead of one, more skill slots, and alser skills and unique abilities.

  However, he was holy creeped out by the giant jaws smiling at him, stantly wanting to eat him. This might be a game, but it was very realistic within its own world. Iing with Gluttony wasn’t just talking with some random NPC; it owerful being within the game world.

  This meant that Gluttony might be fattening him up for whatever thing he wants to do, although literally eating him and then killing his avatar… was within the possibilities that Vd thought about.

  “I’m definitely not pig it… Nor the rest! I’ll just go for the Crimson Moon Goddess one.”

  He didn’t want to make any more weird tracts with those evil gods, much less get cursed, so he went for the safest optioill had yet to know much about the Moon Goddess, but that they were opposed to the Evil Gods or discriminated against by them was enough of an excuse to receive their patronage instead of the seven assholes.

  "Now, the Subcss, what I pick?”

  He took a look at Avaible Subcsses this time; there were a lot of them, first, he was shown all the sponsored ones from the gods, then the rest he had unlocked normally.

  Ding!

  [Avaible Subcss Options]:

  [Alchemical Femaster of Gluttony: ★★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Hunger and Excess}]

  [Prideful Craftsman of ons: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God and Superiority}]

  [Envious Bcksmith: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Sorrooverty}]

  [Sexual Massage Expert: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure}]

  [Multi-Faced Mert: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Desire and Materialism}]

  [Blood Alchemist: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil Goddess of Hatred and Bloodshed}]

  [Dream Alchemist: ★] [Sponsored by the {Evil God of Stagnation and Apathy}]

  [Priest of the Blood Moon: ★] [Sponsored by the {Goddess of the Crimson Moon}]

  [Craftsman: ★]

  [Alchemist: ★]

  [Mert: ★]

  [Farmer: ★]

  […]

  “Huh… Farmer?”

  Although the Crimson Moon Goddess option seemed like the most logical right now, Vd remembered that his try barely had any farmnds, and they were in serious need of some of that.

  Although he had also sidered pig the Priest of the Blood Moon, which might give him some Divied Skills, this Subcss might also carry more responsibilities than he would want.

  It wasn’t simply a slightly modified Rank Up, but an ht priest!

  Being a member of a religion wasn’t within his pns at the moment, so he didn’t really want to participate in such a thing.

  “I think she’s getting a bit ahead of herself with that request; I’ll pick Farmer instead.”

  He was already good at crafting, using alchemy, sewing, and inscribing magic circles; why need a css for something he was already good at?

  Instead, obtain something you have no idea how to do, so you learn about it quicker!

  “Farmer it is for now… Might ge it ter.”

  As Vd selected both Css Rank Up and Subcss, and the Gods quickly began r angrily, while the giant jaws of Gluttony quickly ged their creepy grin into an angry expression, suddenly…

  RUMBLE!

  “Hm?!”

  The skies shook out of nowhere, the darkness and the light of the mind realm lit apart.

  Suddenly, the eyes of the seven gods and the crimson moon g something emerging.

  It started as red, e, and yellow jewels, which quickly started growing everywhere, exploding into fmes.

  The fmes spread everywhere, dist space itself and breaking it apart. The skies started shattering.

  The gods panicked as their presence tio spread out everywhere.

  The jaws of Gluttony began to grow smaller.

  [The {Evil God of Hunger and Excess} detects the presence of an uninvited guest!]

  The many eyes of the ods became smaller too, gathering together to resist the immense aura ing from this entity.

  [The {Evil Goddess of Obsession and Pleasure} is shocked.]

  [The {Evil God of Desire and Materialism} desires the beautiful jewels but knows they’re dangerous to touch.]

  [The {Evil Goddess of Hatred and Bloodshed} angrily roars at the invader.]

  [The {Evil God of Stagnation and Apathy} is suddenly awakened from its nap, scared.]

  [The {Evil God and Superiority} ’t believe this!]

  [The {Evil Goddess of Sorrooverty} shivers and screams in fear.]

  “T-This is…!”

  Vd took a step back; he was supposed to be already gone from this pce, yet even after choosing the css rank up and his subcss, he had yet to leave.

  And this thing, this entity, made of crystals and burning fmes, an endless sea of crimson, spread out everywhere, dist aing everything, burning it.

  Until its mass gathered, it resembled several bodies at once, without faces or proper shapes, barely humanoid.

  [The {Unending Crimson} says that you should have at least ihem to this!]

  [They were not aware of su iiiweetle ones of this Realm.]

  It was them!

  The being that brought so much chaos to Elderbridge, that killed so many, that monster.

  Vd couldn’t believe it.

  Did that thing e here to give him a Css?!

  But he had already chosen them!

  “H-He’s calling the gods “little ones”?!”

  BOOOM!

  But that wasn’t all; the skies shattered once more, and as a part of the maion of the Unending Crimson exploded into pieces, another force emerged.

  One of pure shadows, bck fog that spread everywhere, enpassing everything, and turning it into deep bcks’ soot, deg things as it moved.

  If it weren’t for the few, purple-colored lights resembling stars within this bck cloud of shadows, Vd wouldn’t have even reized what it was.

  The purple stars aligo take the shape of a tall person, wearing heavy armor, enpassed, and made of darkness and curses of the abyss itself.

  It gred at Vd with its crimson eye.

  [The {Desecrated Shadow King} is gng at you.]

  “No way…”

  The being that had given the cursed powers to his brother and his brother’s mother was also here. A master of curses, darkness, shadows, and decay.

  Uhe abstraending Crimson, the Desecrated Shadow King held a strong title.

  He was a King, he was Shadows, and he was… Desecrated.

  Yet, it was not over yet.

  SPLAAASH!

  A tsunami of green ooze suddenly emerged from the huge cracks left behind by the two Outer Ones as a gigantic sea of emerald-colored acid poured down, beginning to melt the “floor” of the Mind Realm.

  Everything started to fall apart and decay, to be burned, or to melt into nothing. The gods quickly started to disappear oer another, no longer capable of withstanding these beings’ presences.

  The third sealed the deal.

  Yet the Crimson Moon remained, watg, worried.

  [The {Goddess of the Crimson Moon} says she will not run away.]

  “Hah, thanks…”

  And there was also ahat stayed.

  [The {Evil God of Hunger and Excess} will not give up his prey!]

  “Bastard… At least he’s not a coward.”

  And as the emerald sea of ooze and acid gathered together, suddenly it took the shape of something.

  Vd noticed millions of big eyeballs floating through it all—loacles—but it took another shape; a small body appeared amidst its endless slimy form.

  That of a beautiful woman with wide curves, a rge chest, a beautiful face, and long, emerald hair, her eyes resembled exploding stars.

  [The {Maiden of the Emerald Sea} smiles at your presence.]

  “Ugh…!”

  And Vd felt his mind spinning, nauseous, as if he were about to puke.

  [You’re before the presence of three {Outer Ones}!]

  [Their Existences distort Spad Time; your Mind is slowly being Eroded by merely glimpsing at their forms.]

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  Pach