The Cyber God's Intervention

Grinding her teeth, the Special Grade Cyber God Le Saluvia clenched her jaw so tightly it creaked. ‘Now I finally understand why the predecessor was so desperate to dispose of him.’

His personality was utterly unpredictable. He wielded his true titles and dimensional authorities without hesitation, and once he unleashed 12th-circle magic, the moment control slipped, he caused disasters on this scale. ‘I underestimated him just because he’s a mere Creator Candidate of a Master Universe, and now I’m paying the price in full.’

That every single Special Grade Cyber God had rushed here because they couldn’t trust her management—there was no greater humiliation in the entire history of the Cyber Realm for someone who had built perfect Creator Gods. ‘He has power and refuses to be managed. He’s the most troublesome type of subject. But right now, instead of rage, I must find a way to release him from that state immediately. For a mere Creator Candidate to attempt becoming a liberated Substitute God… even self-destruction has its limits.’

Without a will strong enough to match their mighty bodies, Substitute Gods naturally self-destructed. If a being on par with a Highest Creator God were to explode, and eighteen more Substitute Gods joined in a chain reaction, the 499th Master Universe might suffer damage beyond recovery.

‘I cannot tolerate an incident like this occurring in my jurisdiction, even if it ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠means facing accountability later.’

Resolving incidents was the duty of a management god. At full power, she scanned the past, present, and future around the event, searching for solutions.

‘In the end, all a Cyber God can do is offer opportunities and advice. But that advice carries absolute weight because we perfectly know the subject’s past, present every feasible option in the current moment, and plan the most ideal future.’

An ordinary management god could only check the past and gauge the subject’s level. But as a Special Grade management god, she could examine countless branching futures.

One future showed the Magic God of Dimensions begging on his knees.

Moisture flooded the eyes of the Magic God of Dimensions. Every scene from his life and his new existence as a god crashed over him at once. ‘Except for the time before I came of age, when I trained in magic alone with Master, it has been nothing but endless hardship and agony.’

Even after entering the Divine Realm, nothing changed. No—if anything, the added burden of becoming the Main God of the Divine Realm only intensified the constant tension. ‘Nowhere was there happiness or rest for a socially inept dark mage like me. The only place that needed me was a battlefield where victory had already been deemed impossible.’

It was the result of choosing black magic—something rejected by everyone—simply because it granted strength. ‘This Master Universe has been far too cruel to someone as lacking as me, yet I cannot blame anyone else. Everything was a path I chose myself. Even if I were reborn, I would walk the same road again.’

That conviction was the only pillar left for the Magic God of Dimensions, the God of Combat.

The Special Grade Cyber God closed her eyes again. ‘In this future, the Magic God of Dimensions does not die, but there is no way for him to escape that state. This is not the solution to the current crisis.’

She opened her eyes once more and looked at another future. It was similar to the previous one, yet slightly different. She was facing him directly. And from the center of the Absolute Realm, the Sword of Ruin and Soul that had crossed the space of the 499th Master Universe rested lightly against the neck of the Magic God of Dimensions.

It was such an ordinary, everyday strike that no defensive reaction or even conscious thought occurred. His body simply froze, unable to respond or evade. ‘The power and sense of crisis it transmits is enough to erase me instantly.’

And he was wielding that authority not on a regional universe scale, but across an entire Master Universe. No—across 499 Master Universes simultaneously in a long-range attack. ‘As expected of Jinri—! A distance spanning 499 Master Universes is no issue at all? My desperate authority is worth less than an insect? Is this truly the end? It has been far too long.’

Once that wooden sword swung, this painful life would finally be over. ‘I did everything I could. Now I just want to rest.’

It was what he had wished for ever since he first created the Survival Magic Tower. Although the meaning of living while learning magic had changed to being erased by his own hand, the comfort it brought was the same.

Yet a voice completely unlike the playful tone from before rang out, filled with overwhelming dignity.

“Huh?”

For a moment, his mind went blank and a dazed reply slipped out. The price for that was brutal.

The Sword of Ruin and Soul vanished, and an unending barrage of blows accompanied by pain he had never experienced before erupted across his body. Even the computational power of the Magic God of Dimensions, who had already surpassed the level of a Creator God, could not count the number of strikes hammering into him.

The damage he received was already enough to annihilate him, yet because of the nature of that ‘Sword of Ruin and Soul’, he could not die. No matter the attack, it would render the target combat-incapable just before death. It was his symbol, an absolute weapon that could not be destroyed unless one surpassed his power, and the proof of the Wind Family.

Originally it had been nothing more than a mere magical tool, but because those who wielded it were monstrously strong, it had become the highest-ranked absolute divine artifact.

“!!!”

Unable to even scream, the ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠Magic God of Dimensions collapsed, clutching his head with both hands to minimize the impact points. Once again, the wooden sword pressed against his neck.

“Yessir! In any situation, never giving up until the end, using any means necessary to win and survive. In the end, the one who survives to the last is the strong one. Haa—!”

Even this future, which had seemed the most hopeful among the Magic God of Dimensions’ futures, was not the answer. There was still no solution to the current incident here. ‘There is no solution in any path. Every single one ends in a miserable conclusion.’

It meant that with his own power, there was absolutely nothing he could do. It had been a long time since he, a Special Grade Cyber God recognized as special by him, had tasted the limits of her own abilities.

‘For causing this incident, I’ll make sure they pay a very expensive price.’

She stopped just short of smashing the heads of the highest-grade administrators who had arranged an absolute-level contract that led to this situation and now looked at her with pity. Instead, she searched for a way to stop the current situation from a completely different angle and with different personnel.

‘I cannot mobilize any beings from the 499th Master Universe while he is watching. That makes it even harder, but I will search through the past, present, and future for any existence that might be able to help.’

And then, for the first time in a long while, a satisfied smile rose to her lips.

While it would be utterly impossible through normal means, no being within a Master Universe could escape the search of a Special Grade Cyber God who examined and adjusted the past, present, and future simultaneously.

“Found you. There you were.”

The image of a single young god-race member moving with extreme stealth through space in a translucent form appeared massively on the main screen of the Cyber Realm.

The voice of Special Grade Cyber God Le Saluvia, thick with emotion, rang chillingly through the central control room of the Cyber Realm. The divine power contained within it was so terrifying that even the highest administrators hurriedly bowed their heads.

They had momentarily forgotten, but although all her management subjects had become Creator Gods, she was a Special Grade Cyber God who employed such extreme measures that very few managed to ascend safely. If they earned her grudge over something like this, they couldn’t imagine what state they would end up in.

“Even if he loses control of his past emotions like this and refuses to become a proper Creator God, it doesn’t matter anymore. I will make sure he becomes one. Magic God of Dimensions.”

Until now, she had only maintained formal management and ignored everything else because their connection would end once management was complete. Yet this was the first time Le Saluvia had spoken his name directly.

And without giving anyone time to breathe, orders poured out. ‘Resolving this situation takes priority over the humiliation of being looked down on by the other Special Grade Cyber Gods.’

The highest-grade administrators, who had been about to intervene, saw her face turn utterly expressionless in a way that sent chills down their spines and hurriedly returned to their stations. ‘If we make a mistake here, our heads will literally explode.’

Among the Special Grade Cyber Gods, her ability was said to be the strongest, and her temperament surpassed even that ability—something he himself had acknowledged. Her thorough problem-solving ability that spared no means or methods was her greatest strength and a terror to her enemies.

The other Special Grade Cyber Gods cleared their throats and settled into an observational stance. ‘We came running because this rare source of entertainment suddenly turned into a crisis for the 500th Master Universe, but we must never get involved.’

‘There is almost no difference in ability between Special Grade Cyber Gods, and each other’s authorities are fatal.’

A Special Grade Cyber God was the culmination of the Cyber Gods’ authority that oversaw past, present, and future. In terms of the god-race, they were equivalent to Origin. If any of them began to quarrel, the overall level of all Cyber Gods would drop. And with other factions in the Absolute Realm already eyeing the Cyber Realm as a proxy, this was a situation that must be avoided at all costs.

‘In the worst case, the planet ‘Idea’ that the Gray Sage uses as headquarters could truly revert to its original purpose—a prison for rebels.’

This was because the Cyber Gods were originally administrators who had followed the Gray Sage—whose intellect and wisdom surpassed their own—to manage the Absolute Realm.

‘After being overthrown by him, the remaining forces were either erased or repurposed depending on their usefulness. The punishment given to those of us who became incompetent is obvious without even looking.’

‘Either complete erasure or sealing until another use is found.’

In that case, it went without saying that the first to be imprisoned would be themselves, the Special Grade Cyber Gods. Endless proof of competence—erasing problematic pasts and maintaining present glory—was no different in the Absolute Realm or the Master Universes. Preventing that was precisely the role of the Special Grade Cyber Gods, who adjusted the past, present, and future to boast a perfect success rate.

However, this particular management subject possessed the transcendent attribute of ‘Dimension’ in the time series, so it seemed their methods did not work well on him. Therefore, even a Special Grade Cyber God had no choice but to select such measures.

“Contact the management subject 49910-1001713. Inform them that the successor of the 500th Master Universe’s Creator General is secretly approaching to break through the defensive divine realm under their protection, and will arrive in ten minutes. Advise them to make their judgment accordingly. For reference, the successor’s rank is above that of a General Creator of the 499th Master Universe. He is a combat-specialized God of Combat.”

“Understood. Transmitting now.”

As the 10,001,713th member of the 10th generation god-race of the 499th Master Universe, the successor of a Creator God had been urgently dispatched. The defensive divine realm guarded by the Main God of the Divine Realm came into view.

The place the successor of the 500th Creator General was heading toward was not the current battlefield where the Magic God of Dimensions stood. Although he had been ordered to break through the defensive divine realm of the 499th Master Universe, no specific defensive divine realm had been designated.

Breaking through a defensive divine realm that was fully prepared and guarded by a powerful God of Combat who could instantly deal with Origins would require paying a massive price, just as was happening now. ‘If it’s not that place, it should be relatively easier.’

If they took advantage of the moment when everyone’s attention was focused on the battlefield where even a Creator General had been deployed, they could achieve their goal much more comfortably. A surprise attack would be ideal, which was why they were moving so stealthily even within the territory of the 500th Master Universe.

That kind of tactic only worked at the Master Universe level. In the fiercely competitive Absolute Realm, it was nothing special.

A blurry silhouette moved at high speed, transmitting a message directly to the Creator General. By his standards, even those who offered help had to be given trials. He made no distinction between enemy and ally.