Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

Within the God Realm, Time continued to tick by and the second Calamity had already appeared. Demigods, Archangels, Archdemons etc, were being sent to the Middle Realm to fight for Providence.

While the Gods waited for their turn, a perfect opportunity to descent and increase their believers, thus increasing the number of prayers they get, thus breaking through even faster.

The only thing they had to do was wait, that was all. Wait for a few tens or hundreds of years, which was a couple of months here in the Heavenly Divine Realm. Approximately less than four months.

Unfortunately, that was not going to happen.

A monstrosity was born not too long ago, and was now under the process of hunting Gods. Though he hasn't killed any as of yet, he had already fought quite a few.

Like right now.

"Why are you doing this?!" A giant made out of nature itself roared at the small being that was floating not far away from him, above ground and looking down on it with curiosity within its eyes.

"There's no hard feelings, really. I'm niether compassionate nor selfish, nor do I recklessly kill without reason." Enigma, the Third Path, said right after the Minor Origin God roared at him.

He then cleared his throat and continued with a smile, "Which is why, as a Ragnarok, an intelligent one at that, I'll give you a chance. If you win, you pass and survive. If you lose, I guess I'm your downfall. How's that sound?"

Though his tone was soft and gentle, his words ticked off the nature Giant as it couldn't bare the hypocrisy anymore and flew towards him with a powerful leap.

If he wanted to kill them, then let him do it. There was no need to find excuses for himself!! It thought in rage.

"Hehehe, but I'm not, really." Despite his tone, he pulled back and cast a [Mystique-Barrier Protection] infront of him, blocking the giant fist from the god.

"Because of the Seal, my precious stats are way below Demigod level, this is really pitiful. I might die if I don't become serious." Yet he still had a mocking smile on his face, but this time around, it wasn't directed at himself, but the God.

He then immediately moved to unleash yet another skill, the greater Divine Skill, [Phobia Nightmare], a sub skill of the superior Divine Skill, [Phobia-Initiated Counter].

The nature God that struck the greater Divine [Mystique-Barrier Protection], suddenly had his vision twisted, and when his perception returned to him, he found out that he was falling towards a lava pool. His center of gravity nonexistent, as he fell with absolute force pushing down on him.

He could could not fly up, nor sideways, and only felt his body helplessly sinking through the atmosphere, towards the lava with tongues of flames frolicking at the air.

"...!!!"

He was shocked and surprised as there were no lavas here, around this area. But without hesitation, he still tried to stabilize himself because fire... was one of his weaknesses. A major one at that.

Unfortunately, he realized a tad bit too late that he stabilize himself. Thus, he continued falling and falling, getting closer to the pool, yet not really reaching it at all... keeping his fear of death at constant rate.

"No, no, noooo!!" And as he finally fell into the lava, he found himself waking up on the ground, his body covered in sweat and his breathing raggered.

He looked around, and found Enigma floating high up in the sky, looking down on him with his pair of golden eyes, that brought out an unknown fear from the God. A fear of going against something unfathomable.

"Hehehe, that expression, it's suits you quite well." Enigma said, realizing all too well that the Void Mystery he was using was affecting his personality, bringing out the disdainful side of his bundled up emotions.

But he didnt struggle or fight back at all. The Mystery wasn't controlling him or manipulating him, no, it was just influencing his already plain personality, giving him feelings and emotions he had never really delved too deeply into.

Even the other Paths were experiencing different emotions and feelings, had different perception of the world and different goals... but what was important was that, all of these was still the aspiration of one being.

To get stronger regardless of how.

"It seems like despite my stats, I can fight Gods regardless. Hahahaha, little God, I guess our journey ends here. You... have failed your ragnarok." He said, spreading his hand towards the nature God.

"No, no, wait!! Great Lord!!" The nature God wanted to struggle some more, and even use his abilities to escape, but realized a tad bit too late that... his Reiki was at a state of null, and could not be riled up, unless it would backfire on him.

"Give it up, I'm nullity around here, and without my permission, no chaos nor order will come." He used [Immersive Greed(Divine++)] and [Divinity Devouring(Divine+)] on the poor God, whose cries of Despair were completely overshadowed.

"You have used [Encompass Greed] and [Divinity Devouring] on a moderate Minor Origin God. You have recieved 23 567 units of Reiki, 46 million units of divine power, ×77 Overall Stats and huge amounts of essence"

"So little?" He complained, yet with a smile. Then he suddenly thought of something and asked, "Hey system, since I've got the Reiki, which is Condensed Divine power, where does that 46 million units come from?"

This was a very good question he had been wondering about lately. The system deducted ten million units of faith and replied, disregarding his permission.

"The Divine power units come from the Divine core, Divine Shard, Domain, Laws and Divine Body of the God. While Essence comes from the Soul and Consciousness of the God"

"I see." He nodded his head and summoned his Template, asking another question. "What about these paths? It seems useless considering that I can use Skills from the main body even now."

This time around, only five million faith was deducted as the system responded.

"Using Skills from the main body will cost you twice the usual cost, but either than that, the effects are also limited greatly"

"Makes sense." He nodded and moved on to hunt more Gods that did not have any backing. With his current stats, skills aside, he could not attack the Pantheons or God families right now. Unfortunately, the stats of the main body were restricted to a monstrous degree by the Seal of Infinity.

Otherwise... even with pure strength alone, they would be able to easily kill even Supreme beings without much of a problem.

"But soon... so, just you all wait, I'll soon be there..." He thought with a blissful smile, eager to see what amount of Chaos could he spread throughout the Heavenly Divine Realm. Unaware that it was benefitting Bella due to their connection.

Meanwhile, as the Third Path of Enigma was still searching for more stronger and appetizing opponents, hoping to get his strength to the Transcendental level, two people stood above a hill and looked down on the barrier separating the Heavenly Divine Realm from the Middle Realm.

"Hey, are you sure this is okay, won't your true body come searching for you?" Neonate asked, a bit worried about Teach, and the actions he was about to partake in. After all, though Teach was his own person, he was still a part of a Greater entity!!

Teach looked back at her and could only let out a bitter smile, he then responded, "Why are you worried about that again? I told you, that guy won't really mind too much."

He then spread out his hand slowly drawing runes above the barrier, which began to Devour the mystical power of the world, that was the Essence of a Greater World.

"Plus, if you're really pressured, you can just leave—" He said, his smile growing bitter by each word, yet his words were suddenly disrupted by Neonate, as she gently held his hand and affectionately looked up at him.

Teach looked down and didn't know what to say, he felt strange by those eyes, and he could only avoid her eyes and murmured, "I told you... I can't experience emotions, and thus will not be able to reciprocate yours."

"It's fine." She smiled, even though it was a bit silly, she didn't mind as long as they were together. "We can just cultivate them, no biggie. Plus... I have your back, and I always will."

She affectionately added, her love-filled tone different from her childish tone. Meanwhile, rubbing her stomach with a small grin, "As well the little guy in here, fufufu."

Teach could only sigh and go with the flow. He was made out of Enigma, and was a considered a part of him. An Imperfect clone unlike the others. But... he was slowly resembling the others as well.

He didn't know the feeling of love, but wasn't against experiencing it. Plus, he was sentimental as well, and couldn't bare to leave her alone... especially now, that the deed had been done, and she might be carrying his Bloodline inside her. 'How... did this even come to be?' He chuckled to himself.

This small scandal was not an accident, nor was the situation uncalled for. Teach just agreed to the heart desire of Neonate, which was something he felt she deserved. After all, the girl went through a lot for him. The least he could do was satisfy her desire.

Unfortunately... that desire would come to bear fruit. 'And here I always thought dragons were... Aiy, what's done is done. There's no going back from this point onwards.' He subconsciously smiled at those thoughts.

With that aside, he let her affectionately hug his hand while he continued to drain the barrier separating the two Realms together of its power, hoping to descend, and hoping to save as many Gods from this ragnaroks.