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It turned out that the True Creator's real name was Grisha.
Like Klein, he had originally been a human being living in the modern era. Later, he was cast into the Chaos Sea by "God Almighty" to serve as a contingency—a vessel for the God's eventual resurrection.
In the Second Epoch, he crawled out of the Chaos Sea. Because he was the prepared backup for God Almighty's revival, he emerged directly possessing the complete pathways of the Sun, the Hanged Man, and the Error.
His appearance coincided with the era when the Ancient Gods ruled the world. These Ancient Gods were transcendent beings formed by absorbing various Beyonder characteristics.
During the First Epoch, the Original Creator had awakened, leading to the destruction of Earth's civilization. In the ensuing struggle, both "God Almighty" and the "Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth" perished. A vast amount of Beyonder characteristics were scattered across the world, allowing many ordinary organisms to evolve into transcendent beings, eventually becoming the Ancient Gods.
The Ancient Gods were primarily divided into three factions.
The first was the Humanoid Camp, mainly composed of mutated humans, such as the Progenitor of Vampires, the Giant King, and the Elf King.
The second was the Non-Human Camp, consisting of mutated flora and fauna, such as the Dragon of Imagination, the King of Mutants, and the Ancestor of the Phoenix.
The third was the Chaotic Evil Camp, which focused entirely on destroying the world, led by figures like the King of Destruction and the Devil Monarch.
Among these half-mad Ancient Gods, there was one who remained sane: Fabuti, the Devil Monarch. He had once been a modern human as well. One could think of him as a Zombie King who had evolved to his absolute limit, thereby recovering his memories. However, because his pathway was that of the Devil, he appeared even more sinister and frenzied than the Ancient Gods who had actually lost their minds.
These Ancient Gods treated the surviving humans as slaves or livestock, slaughtering them at will or forcing them into sacrificial rituals.
Grisha, however, rose like a protagonist in a wasteland epic. He either defeated and slew these Ancient Gods or brought them under his command, effectively rebuilding human civilization. He came to be known by humanity as the Ancient Sun God, the All-Knowing and All-Powerful God.
By the Third Epoch, Grisha ruled almost the entire world. He possessed five Sequence 0 pathways and controlled the "Chaos Sea." He had become a Great Old One, an existence surpassing the level of a true god.
Under his command were the Eight Kings of Angels. He also deduced and publicized the formulas for all twenty-two pathways of the divine, significantly reducing the risk of Beyonders losing control by consuming the wrong characteristics.
However, it was during this peak that he discovered a terrifying truth: "God Almighty" was beginning to awaken and revive within his own body.
Unwilling to be possessed and replaced, he fathered two children. One was named Amon, who inherited the Error pathway. The other was Adam, who inherited the Uniqueness of the Visionary. Although Adam was his son in name, he was actually a divine persona created through Imagination.
But even this was not enough to shake off the influence of God Almighty.
Thus, he devised a final gambit: to truly escape God Almighty through a process of death and rebirth. He split off another clone, Sasrir, who embodied all of his negative personalities. He then directed Sasrir to gather his most loyal Kings of Angels to form the "Redemption Rose" organization for the purpose of assassinating himself.
The plan was for Sasrir and Adam to consume the Beyonder characteristics from his corpse after his death. In this way, he could completely escape God Almighty's possession without losing any of his actual power.
Unfortunately, his plan was only half-successful.
After he was killed, his "loyal" Kings of Angels betrayed him. The three Kings of Angels—representing Wind, White, and Wisdom—devoured his remains and divided his Uniquenesses among themselves, ascending to become the Lord of Storms, the Eternal Blazing Sun, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.
Sasrir only had time to seize the Hanged Man Uniqueness before transforming into the True Creator. Grisha's blood stained the seas, turning what were once Europe and Africa into the Forsaken Land of the Gods—a place of eternal darkness and ancient curses. Meanwhile, the traitors fled to the Northern Continent, becoming the Orthodox Gods worshipped by humanity.
Because Sasrir inherited only humanity and negative personalities without a divine persona to balance them, he went completely insane. Even while spreading his faith, he often caused the deaths of his own followers. He remained trapped in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, unable to cross over to the Northern Continent. Furthermore, he was locked in a constant struggle for dominance with Adam, preventing a successful fusion that might restore his sanity.
"So, that means the Original Creator of this world is already dead, having split apart into nothingness!"
Of all the knowledge George had extracted from the True Creator, the most valuable piece of information was that the Original Creator of this world was dead. Or rather, he had fragmented into "God Almighty" and the "Celestial Worthy."
However, both of those entities were also dead, currently existing only as contingencies waiting for revival.
What did this imply?
It meant that George no longer had to be so cautious when using his powers. Previously, he hadn't dared to use the power of his own world or the strength of other realms because he feared being discovered and hunted by this world's Creator. He had limited himself to physical strength and powers converted specifically to fit this world's system.
Now that the Original Creator was gone, he didn't need to worry about being detected by some ultimate authority.
Still, he couldn't be entirely reckless. The seven Orthodox Gods were still watching from above. While he wasn't afraid of any of them individually, facing all seven at once would be a massive headache. If these gods caught him using foreign powers, they might not realize he was a traveler from another universe, but they would certainly label him as one of the Great Old Ones from outer space.
Therefore, unless he faced a true crisis, it was still best to use the converted magics that fit this world's framework. Besides, the process of conversion was a form of research into this power system, which helped him grow and would eventually make it easier for him to devour this world in the future.
Since the Creator of this world had already fragmented and died, George had no intention of being polite. He planned to acquire the Uniquenesses of all twenty-two sequences, fuse all the Sefirot, and eventually absorb the entire world.
Of course, doing so meant that not only the will of God Almighty or the Celestial Worthy, but even the will of the Original Creator itself might try to awaken within his body.
But he wasn't worried.
As long as his other clones in other worlds increased their strength beyond the level of the Original Creator before he finished devouring this world, he could simply erase the Original Creator's will and take the world for himself.
He didn't need to rush. He would steadily advance to Sequence 0, stabilize the risks brought by the Beyonder sequences, and ensure that the Celestial Worthy couldn't revive within him.
While he might not be able to handle the Original Creator's will just yet, suppressing the Celestial Worthy's will was well within his current capabilities. Even if he couldn't completely erase it now, suppressing it with absolute force was no problem at all. If all his clones' souls were to converge, erasing the reviving will of the Celestial Worthy wasn't an impossible feat.
It just wasn't necessary yet. Even if he erased the will of the Celestial Worthy within himself, that entity could still revive within any other Beyonder of the Seer, Apprentice, or Marauder pathways. It would be better to wait until he had accommodated all three Uniquenesses before dealing the final blow to the Celestial Worthy.
Furthermore, if he encountered an enemy at the level of a True God and didn't want to fully expose himself, he could simply pull them into his own world and finish them off there. A True God wouldn't be able to see through the nature of his personal world, so they wouldn't discover him using the unfettered powers of other realms.
The only entity capable of seeing through his world—the Original Creator—was already dead.
George had originally assumed that all those "evil gods" were outside the planet. It seemed that wasn't entirely true. Quite a few were hidden right here on Earth, staying low to avoid the gaze of the seven Orthodox Gods. The Primordial Demoness was a prime example.
If the Primordial Demoness dared to follow his divination and launch a sneak attack, he would be more than happy to "accept" the Demoness Uniqueness as a gift.
"This is truly an unexpected and massive harvest!"
He had only intended to gain some knowledge regarding the Hanged Man pathway, but he had ended up obtaining the majority of the historical secrets from the first three epochs.
"No wonder the Aurora Order is always at the throats of the Churches of Storms, Eternal Sun, and Wisdom."
(End of Chapter)