The Goddess's Restoration
The goddess lay in the bathtub filled with the war sap of the Goddess Department, yet the liquid barely rippled despite the volume her body should have displaced. Srrrk—! As a spiritual being, a god without vitality was little more than a ghost, her physical form too faint to fully manifest. I suspected as much when her body was barely visible, but this is far worse than I imagined.
Once she entered the transparent tub, the goddess’s figure became almost impossible to see. Still, her translucent body sank into the sap with only her face slightly exposed, and soon she began to recover, drawing on the immense vitality within. Bringing sap from the Cosmic Tree inside the Magic Tower could help her recover slowly on her own, but the contract demands the fastest method possible right now. I cannot afford a plan that would take centuries. If I want to restore the other three as well, I have no choice but to force the issue.
As she absorbed the sap, the goddess’s body grew more distinct, revealing her slender form. Perhaps because she had once been a supreme goddess, her appearance differed from the typical goddesses of the current universe—no golden hair paired with an exaggeratedly voluptuous chest and hips. Instead, her body possessed the same soft curves as Granzoa’s, with gently rounded breasts and hips. Beauty changes with the era. That must be it. Her overall figure was slender, lacking the overwhelming fullness that would dominate a man’s senses. Hera and other battle-type goddesses possess bodies so beautiful they overwhelm at a glance, yet most still retain a softer shape.
Her current state as a goddess explained the difference, but the most troublesome task remained: reconstructing her body. If I pour my own vitality or divine power into her while she remains a hollow god, she might not endure it and could vanish completely. Watching the goddess called Idea slowly regain her form inside the transparent tub, the Dimensional Lord organized his thoughts once more. As expected, granting her my divine power and vitality must wait. I need to restore her to a certain level first using the Cosmic Tree’s sap and fruit. That leaves only one method. This will be exhausting.
The treatment he had in mind was not something a goddess would accept willingly. It has nothing to do with chastity or anything of the sort, but without this method, it might truly take centuries. In times like these, force is necessary. The Dimensional Lord had to depart for the Spirit Realm in two weeks to recruit gods and fill the Divine Realm. No matter how intriguing the fusion authority of the Machine God might be, he could not afford to waste time here.
Fortunately, the other sisters seem completely absorbed in drinking the Cosmic Tree sap tea for the first time, too busy absorbing the overflowing vitality to notice anything else. He briefly ended the video call, released his divine power, and loosened his body. Divine power and vitality are not directly consumed, but this process will likely require a great deal of both.
Uuuuung—! He summoned the fruits of the Cosmic Tree. Fortunately, the Cosmic Tree within the Survival Magic Tower had already grown beyond the sapling stage and begun bearing fruit. Just looking at it, the tree is over fifteen kilometers tall and roughly ten kilometers wide. Because it is directly linked to my divine power and the vitality of the saintesses who reside here, its growth has been extraordinary. A single High Elf could sustain a population exceeding a billion. Glancing around, he noticed that everyone was still walking about completely naked. They moved and trained with complete naturalness, as though nudity had become their norm.
Why are even the spirit soldiers undressed? Well, they can do as they please. If the results are unsatisfactory, I will not spare them from the Anti-Karma. The Dimensional Lord had not forgotten how the Pope he appointed—the Gray Sage—had nearly defeated him with probability prediction, nor how they had fought inside the Survival Magic Tower without permission. Those who cause me harm must be dealt with thoroughly and without mercy. That is how one avoids trouble and grows stronger. Whether saintess or princess, if even one of them fails to reach the 7th Circle and prove her worth, I will not let it slide. I have already declared as much and set the trap to activate automatically.
With roughly half the allotted time remaining, he conducted a mid-check and found the results lukewarm at best. They are training desperately, yet I see no one with any real chance of reaching the 7th Circle. It seems they have all resigned themselves to death. Upon closer inspection, the only ones wearing clothes atop the central inner tower were the Dimensional Pope and the saintess. Meanwhile, the War God’s saintess was surrounded by dozens of spirit soldiers, weeping as she fought.
She has slowed the flow of time within a certain space and is continuously sparring against superhumans of the 7th Circle and above. With the War God’s followers now approaching two billion, her supply of divine power had already surpassed the 7th Circle. All that remained was to complete her body, so she had resorted to such extreme measures. Without rest, 7th-Circle spirit soldiers manifest and relentlessly push her, forcibly drawing out her abilities. It was training that demanded she either dodge and grow stronger or be beaten to death. Whenever her body sustained damage, the saintess who had reached the highest rank of god would immediately restore and reinforce her. Escape was impossible; every surrounding spirit soldier was 7th Circle or higher, and the slightest opening invited a barrage of attacks.
Hah. It is certainly the correct method, but can her body and mind endure it? Well, this is my Survival Magic Tower, so it should be fine. The environment is perfect for growth. Train hard. From my experience, it will all become blood and flesh in the end. The Survival Magic Tower, created by the Dimensional Lord for the sake of survival, had become an independent world protected by hundreds of dimensional barriers that even Creator Gods could not destroy, along with a self-sustaining system. The 10th-Circle restoration magic Looking Back at Oneself, Past and Present Are the Same was permanently active, and a limited version of I Am the One and Only Special Existence in This World was also permanently in effect, specialized for training.
As long as those inside the Survival Magic Tower maintain proper reason and sanity, they will neither die nor go mad. No matter how harsh the training, they can preserve their sanity and achieve the best possible results. Thinking it over, it did seem a little excessive, but only this level of intensity could bring about true evolution. It is nearly impossible for a human to surpass human limits and become a spiritual being without a god’s help. I have learned firsthand what evolution truly means. Evolution from a sentient being to a spiritual being was literally impossible, and without his magic, transcending further would have remained nothing but a dream.
He encouraged the War God’s saintess, who was training diligently, then examined the Cosmic Tree fruits in his hand. They are smooth, spherical seeds about the size of walnuts, glowing with a colorless light. They are also compressed masses of my dimensional divine power and their own vitality. For a god, they were the ultimate source of vitality, and because they possessed no attributes, absorption was easy. There was no better material for restoring the body of a hollow god.
He observed the goddess’s body, which had absorbed the vast vitality from the Cosmic Tree sap and now displayed an almost complete physical form. She must have completely reconstructed her body from the past; there is not a single flaw or imperfection. Her head and body proportions followed a perfect golden ratio, and her smooth white skin was flawless. Her slender arms and legs, modest yet proportionate breasts, narrow waist, and the gentle curves flowing down to her lower body were like soft hills. Most notably, the sight of her most intimate area visible through the transparent sap—its perfect crimson hue and tightly closed line—suggested that even her virginity had been restored. Having become a goddess again after turning into a hollow god, she must have wanted to start with a perfect body.
Uniquely, her pubic hair and the hair on her head were not the golden blonde typical of goddesses but a platinum blonde mixed with silver. It seemed the influence of the Machine God had naturally caused this change. Her resplendent platinum hair, grown back to its full length, floated atop the sap, revealing the soft, slender, and enchanting naked body beneath. After seeing only the excessively voluptuous bodies of battle-type goddesses with their dramatically prominent breasts and hips, the sight of this gentler divine form momentarily stirred his heart, but he quickly regained his composure.
I must be careful. This body is merely a shell created from the foundation provided by the Cosmic Tree sap. While the important internal structures had been formed, she remained a hollow god without divine power. Only by restoring her with attribute-less divine power or vitality surpassing her own could the process be completed. Still, her exterior had now been fully restored to the point where the World Tree sap rippled with her movements. It was time to act.
When the Dimensional Lord approached her, she looked up at him with anxious eyes that had already recovered. Her external appearance has been completely restored, but the problem is that she is completely naked and I am a male god. Her eyes glowed platinum, and a trace of fear could be seen within them. Even though this was for treatment, she was defenseless before a male god and lacked the strength to protect herself. Her body has only just been restored—perhaps moving her limbs is still difficult? In times like this, I must proceed shamelessly.
Suppressing his emotions as much as possible, he spoke in a stiff, businesslike tone. “To aid your internal recovery, you must consume the World Tree fruit I have prepared. Since that alone will be insufficient, I will take additional measures.”
Seeing the walnut-sized fruit in his hand, she nodded, appearing somewhat relieved. He brought the fruit to her lips as she floated in the sap within the tub. She parted her lips slightly and took it into her mouth, but a problem arose—the fruit’s exterior was somewhat hard. She lacked the strength to bite through it. Watching her frown in confusion as she tried to exert force with her jaw, he inserted his right thumb and ring finger between her lips to open her mouth.
“Mmgh—!” Startled by the sudden intrusion of two fingers, she stared at him in bewilderment. Feeling her soft, moist tongue retreat to the roof of her mouth to avoid the invading fingers, he grasped the fruit inside her mouth with those same two fingers. “I will break it inside your mouth. You must drink every drop without wasting any.”
“Mm?” Though she looked confused, she showed no sign of refusal. He immediately crushed the fruit. Pop—! “Haaah—!” As the fruit turned to liquid upon contact with his fingers inside her mouth, an intense surge of vitality burst forth, causing her body to convulse as though struck by lightning. Desperately trying to prevent the vitality from leaking out, she tightly sealed her lips around his fingers and unconsciously began licking them with her tongue. Slurp—! Slurp—!
The fear and reluctance she had shown moments ago vanished, replaced by the sound of her deeply sucking on his fingers. The concentrated vitality of the fruit, incomparable to the sap, stimulated her parched divine body and instinctively made her crave more. The tongue that had earlier fled to the roof of her mouth now eagerly licked and absorbed every trace of the liquid from his fingers and the fruit. Since the fruit was small, swallowing it took only an instant.
“Aaaah. Mmgh—!” Letting out a blissful, longing moan, she continued sucking on his fingers, her face flushed with the color of ecstasy as the high concentration of vitality filled her with overflowing life force. Seeing the other colorless, glowing fruit in his other hand, she let out a small cry of joy and opened her mouth wide. For a god, the supply of vitality and divine power brought unparalleled pleasure. Moreover, the vitality from the Cosmic Tree fruit—once managed only by the Creator—was enough to drive one to distraction.
When he withdrew his fingers from her mouth, she let out a thin moan and urged him for more. “Mm. Ah… hurry, please.” He took another fruit with his fingers and placed it in her mouth. This time, without hesitation, her tongue immediately wrapped around both his fingers and the fruit. Her tongue, impossibly soft and moist, moved ceaselessly, clinging tightly without the slightest gap as it sought more vitality. Her lips also clamped down firmly, as though determined never to let anything escape. Pop—! “Haaah—!” The moment the fruit burst, the pleasure from the vitality flooding her tongue and mouth made her emit nasal moans as she actively sucked on his fingers and tightened her lips even further. It felt as though his fingers were being drawn into a swirling vortex of water.
As the vitality of the Cosmic Tree fruit radiated light, it began repairing the interior of her body. The glow started from her mouth, traveling down her head and neck. Now possessing the strength to bite, she lightly nipped at his fingers when he tried to withdraw them, as though unwilling to let go. He gently pulled his fingers free, placed another fruit in her mouth, and she accepted it with the delighted expression of a child receiving candy, biting into the skin little by little and sucking in the leaking vitality in a state of ecstasy. Crunch—! Suck—!
Listening to the sound of her biting into the fruit, he checked her restored physical condition and found it satisfactory. The sap had restored her to a certain extent, and now she had reached a level where she could maintain herself independently. He removed some of the World Tree sap so that her body was submerged only to the waist, fully revealing the alluring naked form of the goddess, glistening with moisture.