The Unveiled Betrayal
The goddesses of the Goddess Department tensed, ready to respond to the killing intent radiating from the Dimensional and War God. But they were unarmed, and this was his personal temple. The realization that he could restrict their divine power to the extreme at any moment only added to their bewilderment. Moreover, when he unleashed killing intent laced with his fully released combat divine power, they finally understood the vast difference in their levels.
Even if we all attacked together, we’d have almost no chance of winning.
How can the output of a High Lord God create such a gap?
Are title-bearing Absolute Beings all monsters?
The one small mercy was that his murderous aura wasn’t directed at them.
For a long time, the Dimensional and War God remained wrapped in killing intent and fighting spirit. He ground his teeth audibly, then began connecting to other divine realms.
“I found the sudden departure of the former Main God of the Divine Realm and the Main Divine Realm’s swift response suspicious, so during my vacation I reviewed all visitor logs and communication records. That’s when I discovered something interesting. During the vacation period, external communications and personal visits increased more than threefold. Of course, some people left the realm after the authentication battle to celebrate or made courtesy calls, but the problem is…”
He projected the volume of calls and number of visitors into the air as he continued his explanation.
“The fact that high-ranking gods from divine realms that had never contacted us before suddenly exchanged countless messages with internal gods, and some even visited in person to meet the former Main God of the Divine Realm.”
“…….”
Since this matter involved the goddesses to some degree, they could say nothing and simply listened.
After the authentication battle ended, many came to offer congratulations and renew old ties.
But threefold? Were there really that many?
This is getting strange.
The Dimensional and War God continued.
“There were even long conversations with High Lord Gods of the highest divine realms with whom he normally had almost no contact. When I traced those calls, I found that the conversation records had been completely erased on the former Main God’s orders. Multiple layers of divine power processing had been applied, with safeguards that prevented recovery even if time was reversed.”
The goddesses’ faces darkened. They could guess what the content had been.
He must have decided to abandon the Divine Realm in exchange for compensation.
And he would, too.
Since everyone already knew the situation, this alone wasn’t enough to justify the Dimensional and War God radiating killing intent.
“Restoring the content took considerable effort, but I temporarily regressed the Divine Realm’s ego to a limited point in the past and recovered the conversation. Listen.”
A video communication filled the entire space, connecting directly to the temple of one of the highest divine realms.
“You conspirators should listen as well.”
The sudden video and voice startled the High Lord Gods who had been in a meeting on the other side. They could be seen turning to stare at the intrusion. The image of their highest divine realm expanded across the air, illuminating the entire conference room and capturing the faces of every supreme god present.
Connecting a direct video feed to a Main God’s temple without any prior notice was an enormous breach of etiquette. But seeing the Dimensional and War God’s divine power surge with terrifying intensity, they all maintained stiff expressions and stayed silent. Their faces said it all—they had known this moment would come.
Then the voices of the former Main God of the Divine Realm and another Main God of a divine realm began playing in the space.
“As you said, if I temporarily hand management of my Divine Realm over to the Dimensional and War God, he will certainly clash with the goddesses. Roughly half of them will remain. Given his strength, mutual destruction is all but guaranteed. In the aftermath of the fight between the Dimensional and War God and the goddesses, my realm will drop to an Intermediate Divine Realm. In exchange for helping with the disposal of the remaining goddesses and the restoration process, do you promise to support me?”
The other voice answered smoothly.
“I expect about four goddesses to survive. The Upper Main Gods of the Main Divine Realm will handle them—both punishing them for causing the realm’s demotion to an Intermediate Divine Realm and suppressing the resulting chaos. After that, I will dispatch a management Main God. Until your direct descendant becomes an Intermediate Main God, we will manage the realm. During that time, we will claim all the vitality and divine power. I will personally nullify the existing pact with the Demon Realm that was maintained without an eternal Demon God, and the vitality we recover through renegotiation of the alliance terms will continue to belong to us. Since I will handle the negotiations myself, the Demon Realm won’t be able to ignore it. We should be able to reclaim about half.”
“This offer gives me no benefit at all. First, the Dimensional and War God and I are allies, and it is still my Divine Realm. Sacrificing both sides to gain nothing but a direct descendant’s succession to a Main God position makes no sense.”
“We will hand over all the extracted innate divine power from the slain goddesses and female gods, excluding the recovered believers. You have already broken your growth limit and become a Creator Candidate, but becoming a Creator God with 100 billion innate divine power will still take an enormous amount of time. Since each goddess possesses at least 20 billion innate divine power, this will be a tremendous help. Cleaning up that troublesome Divine Realm and gaining 20 billion innate divine power is an incredibly profitable deal. Moreover, your direct descendant’s limit is Intermediate Main God. After the battle, the realm will become an Intermediate Divine Realm. It’s a perfect fit.”
“Then the story changes. But what about backlash from the Main Divine Realm? This could be seen as Upper Gods plundering innate divine power from Lower Gods. It is a serious crime forbidden except in the case of unforgivable felons. The crime of rebellion no longer applies in his universe. Furthermore, transferring innate divine power requires the authority of a Creator God.”
“There are countless male Main Gods in the Main Divine Realm who have had their divinity reduced after being killed by the goddesses of that realm. What is there to worry about? Besides, this isn’t framed as suppressing a rebellion by the goddesses against their Main God, but as quelling chaos. In the past, there were many voices calling for the goddesses to be punished for killing and annihilating their male partners. Everyone still grinds their teeth over the massive damage the entire Main Divine Realm suffered from those venomous women’s retaliation. Now that the chance to return as independent Main Gods of their own realms is near, everyone is saying action must be taken. We will report everything to the Creator God and shape the situation. You simply report that you will focus on training and withdraw while retaining only your rights. We will handle the rest. The Creator God already qualifies as an Intermediate Creator God, so he won’t oppose anything that strengthens you. Moreover, since the goddesses already failed once despite being given a chance to return, he will not be lenient. If the Creator God extracts their innate divine power and gives it to you, the goddesses—who will have lost all their power—will be immediately sent to the Spirit Realm to begin anew as Lower Spirits. There will be no future threats to worry about. The public opinion in the Main Divine Realm will simply say they have finally received divine punishment for annihilating their former partners. There will be no issues. I will also introduce you to goddesses who are interested in becoming Creator Candidates. No matter how strong a partner was in the past, if they are a High God with a broken circle of divine power, they are far too lacking to be the partner of a Creator Candidate.”
“Hah—! That is quite generous. Then for the detailed terms, we should prepare a Karma Contract…”
It was irrefutable proof of complete betrayal.
Crack!
All expression vanished from the goddesses’ faces. Their divine power erupted wildly, surging as if it would shatter the office. Their beautifully arranged hair and elegant dresses were torn to shreds. The circles of divine power expanded endlessly, radiating overwhelming authority.
The former Main God of the Divine Realm had plotted to steal their innate divine power, while that High Lord God had made filthy backroom deals to seize the vitality of this realm. Even if they had somehow won the war against the Dimensional and War God, they would have suffered catastrophic losses and lacked the strength to stop the Upper Main Gods who would immediately invade. The fact that the Main Divine Realm approved a plan to steal all the goddesses’ innate divine power and demote them to Lower Spirits was utterly shocking.
The voice of the Dimensional and War God rang through the space once more.
The one who is greater than any other, the Main God of the Divine Realm, relinquishes only the duties of the Divine Realm and entrusts its management to the Dimensional and War God. Should a rebellion occur, he will not claim any rights to the Divine Realm and will hand over everything to the Main God who reigns above the heavens.
The Main God who reigns above the heavens shall, in the event of a rebellion within the Divine Realm entrusted to the Dimensional and War God, suppress it, assume management, and permanently receive the vitality until the direct descendant successor becomes an Intermediate Main God, as well as the vitality recovered from renegotiating terms with the Demon Realm.
In return, he shall actively take measures to recover all innate divine power from the rebel goddesses and female gods and entrust it to the one who is greater than any other, the Main God of the Divine Realm. Should the Creator God refuse and make the transfer of innate divine power impossible, equivalent divine power shall be provided to assist in the execution.
All of the above remains valid until the execution of the contract becomes impossible.
A golden Karma Contract materialized in the air, its contents visible to everyone.
The goddesses’ divine power continued to rage like a storm.