She turned her head and noticed another round golden sphere beside the Observation Station, glowing like the Sun. Dense runes circled it, wrapped around layers of burning and sacred Solar Crown. "Can you tell me first, is that thing… Daylight Divine Kingdom?"
"You mean that? No idea. When Belial entered this state before, he gave me a heads-up and casually stuffed this thing to me as well. Is this Divine Kingdom?" "More precisely, it is a key plus part of the inside, but yes, that is right. You mean Mephist stripped this from the Lord himself and gave it to you? He did not keep it?"
"…What does that mean?" "That meaning is huge. It is kind of like this is only age eight and already spit out another Divine Kingdom. Looks like he really might be doing that." Ham first glanced at Daylight Divine Kingdom and then sensed the violent rule changes outside without even needing to look.
She realized they had fallen into another misunderstanding. That kind of scene was far too familiar to her, the intense rule shifts and the slowly forming domain. It was the birth process of a Divine Kingdom.
"Come to think of it, we always thought Belial was some god from nowhere." "Isn't he?" Bella shook her head in confusion, since Belial had a Divine Kingdom, had believers, and could beat other gods with ease.
"Let me put it this way. Do you know why we gave Daylight Divine Kingdom to Belial back then? There was a reason." Ham began explaining deeper causes. Dawn had noticed that Belial seemed to want to construct a Divine Kingdom, so later the Lord assisted in that battle and then passed Daylight Divine Kingdom to Belial.
It was both a gift and a way to pull him into their camp, since Daylight Divine Kingdom had long been vacant. They both believed Belial was a newly born young god, a rare ally they could not afford to lose. After becoming a god, one usually has their own Divine Kingdom, but at that time neither World nor Abyss had resources left after the war.
So they gave him a ready-made one, skipping the construction step and also preventing him from accidentally going crimson one day. But seeing this now, Ham realized her assumptions were off. He might still be in the early stage of godhood and had been using Daylight Divine Kingdom merely as a translator.
He never planned to break it into a Shard and merge it into himself, leaving it aside and taking it out whenever needed. Only now did it seem like he had accumulated enough and planned to truly build his own Divine Kingdom. For a god, a Divine Kingdom is vital, since it is where their Authority works best, essentially a small personal World.
Building one is costly. You either burn souls and tear the World apart with Rend to walk the crimson path, or slowly gather faith and endure hardship for the long road of Crimson Ascension. Ham had thought Belial had already mastered Daylight and was a mature god, but it turned out he barely used it and planned to build his own.
That meant Belial had beaten dozens of Crimson God with Divine Kingdom while operating at a level comparable to where Ham was now. Worse, from the fact that he always carried Daylight Divine Kingdom and barely received faith, he had been fighting while enduring faith deficiency and the extra consumption of an unused Divine Kingdom. It was like winning a fight, only to find out afterward that he was underage, malnourished, and wearing weights on his limbs the whole time.
"So can I understand it simply like this?" Bella summed it up. "Belial has never truly been at full strength, and only now plans to return to what he should have had?" "Even then, unless he takes back Lilith, the Clone on Chloe's side, and the parts on you, it still would not be full."
"Then why is he this strong now? Isn't he a god?" "…He is just terrifyingly strong even while stacked with weakness." Ham wiped sweat from her head and looked outside in disbelief. The scale of Laws being used was beyond anything she had seen.
It was like a complete World unfolding before her, a reenacted big bang. It was not a single concept but something hard to describe, like a perfect and complete circle. She could not grasp the whole, only sense that Belial's rules were extremely complete and complementary.
What was he trying to create, and how did he master so many Laws? The original state of World should not have allowed this. Suddenly, Ham understood why he never relied on special Authority boosts.
If her old Fate was a cup of water, then just a glance at this scale was like a truck full of water. With such complete rules contained within his body, it was obvious why he did not need special advantages. He was not a numbers monster fighting mechanism monsters.
He himself was the greatest mechanism monster of all. Every mechanic his enemies had, he also had, plus more they did not. Even piling all those rules together and swinging them like a club would be enough to smash those fragile, specialized foes.
That also explained his absurd adaptability to World, his casual use of the Holy Sword, and his ease moving between World and Abyss. He carried rules that World had long lost, so the World instinctively sought repair and resonated with him. Which raised the question again, where did Belial come from?
"Where did so many complete rules come from? Picked up from the White Tier? If there were such good things lying around, why did I never find any?" Ham complained. Bella suddenly slapped her forehead. "Right, before entering this state, Belial asked us to find that vortex he beat and drove away before. That should be the so-called dark god. Any leads?"
"Why look for that guy?" "No idea, but he probably plans to erase it." "That one is hard to find. In theory, wherever there is Dark Power, it could exist. If it wants to hide, we might never find it."
"Unless there is something extremely attractive that forces it to appear." Was there such a thing? There actually was. "Looks like we need to push the schedule again."
Belial was in a state that could not quite be called sleeping, yet not awake either. His awareness was still active to a degree, but his body and external responses were completely shut down. Unless several harsh conditions he had set were met, nothing from outside could wake him.
To make sure that in the coming great battle he could crush that bastard completely, he had taken the initiative to accelerate his own evolution. More precisely, he was restoring himself to the stage he should have reached long ago. His current energy reactions were violent not only in raw output, but also in the internal Laws and even higher-level aspects that were undergoing drastic change.
That was why Belial endured the pain and threw away his Translation Pocket. First, he likely would not need it again, since he planned to build a new one himself. Second, he was afraid that if it stayed inside him during this process, it would be torn into a Shard by his own passive purification.
The four templates collided within his body, then merged, again and again, slowly fusing and rising into a different level of existence. In the middle of this, he would occasionally kick away the Mark of Finality that tried to drift too close. With countless internal perpetual engines running, he did not worry about lacking resources for evolution.
The g-particles inside him had entered an extremely active state. Not only were they releasing stronger energy, their numbers were also increasing at high speed. If one had to compare, their activity was already close to The End in Caesar Mode, and with an energy supply approaching infinity, his body was expanding at an astonishing rate.
At the same time, it was also shrinking and burning. It was like refining impurities, forging his body anew, while the violent storm spreading outward was more like slag being cast off. In essence it was still part of him, just of a much lower tier.
Even though this was only the beginning, Belial could tell at a glance that he might truly stop caring about physics in the future. Right now, he honestly could not tell what he even was anymore. Muscles, bones, reactors, he might have them or might not, and the difference no longer seemed meaningful.
Even his outer scales or claws felt no different from things like a brain or spine. Then again, did he even still have such a concept as vital organs? After thinking it through, he realized that while g-particles had played a huge role, this change was definitely not something the End Godzilla Template alone could provide.
This was another ascension born from stacking his four templates together. The scale of change was greater than all the previous ones combined, and by coincidence, the four templates complemented each other in key areas, forming a strong positive loop. Each part pushed the others forward.
The first was SpaceGodzilla. It gave him convenient abilities like Energy Field and terrifying energy potential, letting him absorb vast and mixed energies almost without restraint. Those energies could then be coordinated within his body and converted into rapid growth.