The Rampaging Wolf in the Dimensional Divine Realm

The Dimensional Mage God, who had slept deeply in his bed through the chaos of the Otherworld War, rose to his feet. Crack. Pop. He had no idea how long he’d been out, but the rest had clearly done him good. The strange sense of alienation in his body had faded, replaced by perfect unity. While he slept, he had reexamined and stabilized both his physical form and his authorities. He had also sorted through the mental clutter, organizing and clarifying every troublesome corner of his mind. Thanks to that thorough housekeeping, he now fully understood the automatic activation of the Authority of Black Flame—something he had only vaguely grasped before.

He reviewed the ability values he had etched into his mind and carefully refined over time.

At this level, the Origin of the Mage God won’t chew me out for personal reasons. After all, this body was built from the ground up with the Almighty Hwi and the Black Flame Absolute as the assumed opponents.

Now that the Authority of Black Flame was completely anchored to instinct, it no longer consumed any mental processing power. Of course, the fact that it couldn’t be deliberately triggered and reacted automatically was still a problem. But any threat serious enough to force the Authority of Black Flame into automatic activation would need to be at least a High-ranking Creator God. Such beings weren’t exactly common, and if one did show killing intent or fighting spirit toward him, smacking them once and running was a perfectly valid option.

Most ordinary battle gods would never survive an instinctive strike from the Black Flame. The fact that the Sage of Omniscience had endured it was only because she was an absolute-tier battle god who had mastered the Incomprehensible Eight Founders. An average battle god would have died without ever understanding what hit them.

By removing all the judgment steps between detection, targeting, and attack, the technique became a surprise lethal blow that exploited the enemy’s reaction time. It was not something that could be easily blocked.

Still, anyone above Intermediate Creator God should be able to deal with it. Since the Sage of Omniscience managed to block it, the Almighty Hwi should be able to as well. But I still have a chance of winning. The fact that my body can’t handle the delicate control that comes with ascending to Creator God is actually a blessing in disguise. I’ll just smash them to pieces.

He knew very well that the Sage of Omniscience and the Almighty Hwi—both pinnacles of the demon gods and main ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠gods—were equal as battle gods of the same Almighty God Tribe. For over ten thousand years they had clashed countless times in official matches, always ending in draws. Born from the same tribe, one specialized in defense and the other in pure offense, they had both reached heights where their respective authorities no longer decided the outcome.

This time, thanks to the Almighty Hwi’s lobbying, they finally broke the ten-thousand-year stalemate and became the Demon God King and Creator God respectively. That’s a good thing. If the Sage of Omniscience ever becomes my opponent in a Creator God ascension trial, it would be truly terrifying.

The Sage of Omniscience was a holy demon. To think one had to endure and defeat the combined assault of the highest-level demon god and main god alone was almost the same as saying it was impossible without an absolute authority on the level of the Incomprehensible Eight Founders. That was why many preliminary Creator Gods breathed sighs of relief when the strongest among the preliminary Demon God Kings ascended.

Although the Sage of Omniscience had learned many things about him, the one who had gained even more was the Dimensional Mage God himself.

In that ultra-high-speed close-quarters fight, the Sage of Omniscience couldn’t fully utilize the Demon God King’s body and authorities. When she pushed her reactions to the limit, her body and mind were still out of sync. That means the Almighty Hwi, who ascended at the same time, also can’t completely control his new Creator God body yet. That’s a perfect weakness to exploit. I really got lucky. If things go well, I might even secure all three of those absolute-grade Reality Denial revivals.

The reward he had received for this request was one life granted by Reality Denial that would allow him to regenerate without issue even after detonating every ounce of his innate divine power in a suicide attack. To someone who had promised the Truth that he must not die even once, it was an invaluable treasure.

Until I die three or more times, I no longer have any reason to act pathetic out of fear of death. He said two of them would probably be used during the request, but I intend to save all three no matter what.

That was why he had drastically revised his original plan.

I’ll just call it insurance. Three complete lives—! This is actually pretty great. Maybe next time I should collect life guarantees as mercenary pay? A contract that says the employer must revive me if I die on another job sounds pretty solid too.

With hopeful thoughts running through his mind, he lightly loosened his body and left the Dimensional Main God Temple. It seemed he had slept for roughly half a day. There was still plenty of time, but many variables had changed, so adjustments were necessary. There were also many things to prepare, but at least it was the kind of work where everything would be fine as long as he handled his own part. As for the God Realm’s affairs that never once considered his personal position, he had decided to stop caring as long as a civil war didn’t break out and the realm didn’t collapse. No matter how he looked at it, that seemed better for his mental health, so he had firmly resolved to let it go.

The compensation from the Main God of the Divine Realm’s divine power support alone was already more than enough. Other Master Universes only receive common support even if they belong to the God Realm. Normally, a god needs a full year of training just to increase their innate divine power by 100. That’s why most gods in other Master Universes need over ten million years of training to barely reach Main God rank. But the ability-first 499th Master Universe is different. Right now, half a day is enough.

Having become the Main God of the Divine Realm, he realized his innate divine power was rising at a terrifying rate compared to when he trained alone as a mercenary god. I have to maintain and raise this position no matter what.

In the 499th Master Universe, simply belonging to the God Realm doubled the base support, and each rank increase added another doubling. If a Lower God belonging to an ordinary Main God’s divine realm needed one year to raise their innate divine power by 100, an Intermediate God would need only six months. For High Gods it became three months, and for Highest Gods it was 1.5 months. At the Main God level, it halved again to roughly 22 days, and as the Main God of the Divine Realm it took only about 11 days. And that was merely the effect of an ordinary Main God Realm’s innate divine power support.

If gods from other Master Universes saw this, their jaws would drop and stay there.

This was the result of the Main God Star—which guaranteed over ten thousand times the size and fertility of an ordinary planet—and the upper echelons’ decisive judgment. But what would truly make their eyes roll back came next. When the God Realm itself rose in rank, a Mid-tier God Realm added another doubling. A High-tier God Realm doubled it again. For Main Gods, what once took 11 days in an ordinary God Realm would take 6 days in a Mid-tier one, and only 3 days in a High-tier one. Once it reached the Highest-tier God Realm that aimed for the Creation Realm, the situation changed completely once more.

Only Highest-tier God Realms and above had God Realm Management Main Gods. Even those Management Main Gods needed only 1.5 days. On top of that, the Highest God Realm Main God received four times the additional effect, bringing it down to roughly 9 hours. What other Master Universe gods could only obtain after a year of desperate effort could be gained here in just 9 hours.

Thanks to this, he no longer needed to worry about the slow growth of his innate divine power and could focus solely on developing his authorities. It was precisely because so many powerful Main Gods with self-developed transcendent authorities existed that the 499th Master Universe could perform the miracle of holding off the 500th Master Universe with only a fraction of its Main God Realm forces.

Of course, the more generous the support, the harsher the tasks and the more brutal the life-or-death certification battles against the Substitute Gods and Demon God Race. Still, this was exactly why the Main Gods clung desperately to their positions.

Once someone tasted such rapid growth, they could never return to the past. If the divine power increase that once took half a day now required a full year again, no one would be able to endure it. This was also why Main Gods who had abandoned their positions due to unbearable workloads and certification battles eventually returned after venturing into other Master Universes.

Having spent several months in the role of Main God of the Divine Realm, he now understood this fact clearly.

As long as I faithfully provide growth support as the Main God of the Divine Realm, it’s a profitable business. I just need to operate carefully to prevent any civil war. Even if I get angry, I’ll endure it. That way it won’t escalate into an extreme situation. If this selection goes according to plan, ascending to an official Creation God Realm won’t be a problem either.

The Dimensional Mage God no longer demanded loyalty. He simply wanted them to be satisfied with the present, do their jobs, and in return provided generous support in various ways. Of course, when he thought about his subordinates who ignored orders and caused incidents at every turn, his blood pressure rose—but all he had to do was close his eyes. Since most high-ranking gods in the God Realm shared similar tendencies, trying to change them now would truly destroy the realm.

If I just endure it, the God Realm will somehow keep running.

Because the development of the God Realm was directly tied to their own interests, they would work hard as long as they didn’t suffer losses. Only now did he begin to understand why the sly raccoon of a Main God had become such a slippery schemer.

So I’ll endure. As long as I endure and maintain the position of Main God of the Divine Realm, I ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠can raise my divine power more easily than magic power. Isn’t that enough? If I give up this place, I’ll have to train again with no support or bow and scrape during mercenary god contracts. So becoming the Main God of the Divine Realm was truly the right choice. A very good choice.

Since he had a ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠lot of work waiting for him at the Main God Temple, negative thoughts were forbidden. He deliberately shifted his mood with positive thinking and arrived at the main gate of the Dimensional Temple.

Yet the celestial who usually greeted him was nowhere to be seen.

Huh? Where did they go?

Feeling slightly puzzled, he told himself they might have stepped away for a moment and opened the door.

Creeeeak—!Thud!

“Hm?”

The door refused to open properly. It opened slightly before immediately catching on something. It was blocked.

Thud. Thud. Thump—!

“……”

No matter how hard he pushed, the door wouldn’t budge.

Some massive object is blocking the door so it can’t open!

An ominous thought flashed through his mind. No matter how lightly he was regarded as a human-born mercenary god with no faction, he was still the Main God of the Divine Realm. Although he was a management god, he was a battle god and mage god from a mercenary background. He was also one of the greatest among Main Gods—so powerful that he had challenged the Almighty Hwi for the Main God Battle Scripture. Moreover, the Dimensional Temple was his personal temple. There shouldn’t be a single god in the entire God Realm insane enough to commit what amounted to a declaration of war by daring to seal its gates.

They didn’t attack me directly, so it’s not treason, but it’s definitely meant as a blockade.

Still, he couldn’t understand it. In his own divine realm, there was no Main God with an independent, powerful enough faction to pull off something like this alone. The female Main Gods with superior factions and the original Main God of the Divine Realm’s faction were on the verge of civil war, which was why he had drawn in the Elemental Main Gods to prevent either side from moving recklessly.

Of course, that balance would break if the original Main God’s faction joined forces with the Elemental Main Gods. However, even if they could defeat the female Main Gods through such an alliance, those women were not the type to be quietly suppressed. On top of that, nearly all the goddesses of the God Realm followed them. They would resist even if it meant turning the God Realm into scorched earth, and both the primordial battle gods and Gaiana knew full well that doing so would lead directly to the realm’s destruction.

The best option is to soothe them and keep them in line.

His thoughts turned to the Sage of Omniscience. Such complicated political situations were incomprehensible to a demon god whose philosophy was that power solved everything. Since Gaiana, a female Main God of the Almighty God Tribe, was acting as his representative, there was no way she would sit still after seeing this mess of a divine realm. She would certainly have offered all sorts of advice and tried to help. There was no way she could have predicted that normal measures would produce results so far beyond his common sense.

The female Main Gods and the goddesses under them possessed personalities so strong they could never be subdued by force. Their united power was so overwhelming that even the previous Main God of the Divine Realm—who had been incomparably strong as a High Lord—had avoided direct confrontation. What was even funnier was that most goddesses were included among the female Main Gods, and even the male gods had come to accept the situation to some degree. The result was the creation of the monstrous organization known as the Goddess Department, which had reached the point where male gods could not even walk the main roads or approach the front gates.

He had inherited this twisted, knotted situation that not even a Creator God could handle. On top of that, he had the Elemental Main Gods for the sake of faction diversification and ascending to a Highest-tier God Realm. They were vengeful, grinding their teeth over past defeats and training furiously to repay old grudges—true fanatics. Trying to resolve these conflicts with force would immediately trigger a civil war.

Even the Sage of Omniscience could not suppress them all in an instant; the realm was overflowing with powerhouses. If the other Main Gods united to resist the coercion of the Sage of Omniscience and Gaiana, the entire God Realm would truly be annihilated.

“Goddammit—! I forgot that clumsy goodwill can sometimes be worse than indifference.”

Booooom!

Kwaaaaaang—!

In his rage, the Dimensional Mage God swung his fist and blew the entire door away. For a brief moment he thought it was rather unlike a mage god to throw a punch before using magic, but he had been that impatient. The door and surrounding walls shattered by his fist could not withstand the shock, turning into powder that scattered in the wind. The object that had been blocking the entrance was also sent flying into the distance.

Unexpectedly, what had been blocking the door was debris from the building itself. He urgently stepped out of the Dimensional Temple’s main gate and looked around. A hollow laugh escaped him.

“Ahahaha—! It’s almost completely destroyed. Totally ruined.”

The God Realm that had been perfectly fine before he slept was gone. All that remained were shattered ruins. From somewhere in the distance came occasional roars and explosions—evidence that battles were still taking place. Many temples had been reduced to complete powder, as if some enormous being had rampaged through them. There was no need to search for the culprit.

And far away, he saw it: a giant wolf of tremendous size, covered head to toe in blood, rampaging like a mad beast.

I need to locate the Sage of Omniscience immediately, but the urgent priority right now is that wolf.

Because of its massive body, every movement caused the God Realm to shatter at an exponentially increasing rate. On top of that, the Otherworld Elemental Gods riding it were providing support in such a way that even the primordial battle gods could not handle it. The God Realm he had to protect no matter what—for the sake of the divine power growth support—was turning into a wasteland. The realm he had first received was being torn to pieces by that rampage.

For a moment, he felt his reason snap.

“Stop! You son of a bitch—! Everyone, stop right now—!”

The Dimensional Mage God’s furious roar echoed throughout the Dimensional Divine Realm.