Chapter 265: About Beyond SSS-Grade ESPers and Gods
I already posted in P4TRE0N about it, but I have been recently busy with a new project recently, so sorry for the inconsistent releases. It willst one or two weeks more. Please bear with me until then.
Aidka :p
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Stare.
Look away.
Stare.
Look away.
Stare.
Look away.
Watching Aya staring at him from the corner of her eyes and then looking away as soon as she felt he was about to look at her, Bloed did not know whether tough or to cry.
He could understand her behavior, though. After all, she had just kissed him in front of the princess of the elves while thinking she was still inside her dream.
In other words, she had not only revealed her feelings to her crush in almost the worst way possible, but someonepletely unrted had witnessed everything.
Aya was so embarrassed that she wanted to dig a hole and jump inside.
In fact, Aya''s current behavior was a bit better than before. When she just realized she did kiss Bloed, she turned so red and flustered that Bloed could swear he saw smokeing out of her head.
Aya had frozen in shame, opening and closing her mouth repeatedly but unable toplete a single word. In the end, she covered her face with her hands and crouched down with a strange whimper.
Bloed felt incredibly awkward when he found himself faced with that situation.
Fortunately, Aya ''recovered'' before long. But even now, she was still unable to look at Bloed directly and her cheeks were dyed in a deep shade red.
The only reason she had the courage to look at him from the corner of her eyes was that she wanted to see Bloed''s reaction after the kiss.
As for Bloed, he was currently at a loss.
In the end, he was not a yboy incredibly experienced in courting girls. Moreover, he already had two girlfriends and he had not even considered getting another one.
He had to admit that he found the current Aya incredibly cute, though.
More than once, he was tempted to tease her.
Even so, he suppressed his impulses. He did not want to make the situation even more confusing.
Plus, he was not nning to feed the eyes of the smirking elf princess beside them.
Much less when Elwha was moving her gaze between them as though she found something extremely interesting.
''... At the very least, she stopped looking at me as though I was going to kill her at any minute.''
Sighing tiredly to himself, Bloed decided just to focus on finding the core for now.
As for Aya, he would decide what to do after he was done with this troublesomepetition.
"How far are we from the core?" In an attempt to stop thinking about the kiss, Bloed looked at Elwha and asked her about the situation.
Elwha stopped smirking immediately and put on a serious expression.
" We should be close already. The soul power here is much denser than before, so it means we are closer."
Bloed nodded. Certainly, he could feel that the psychic energy around him, what the inhabitants of this world called soul power, was bing denser and denser.
It probably was a sign that they were approaching the core of the soul world.
At that moment, Bloed decided to use this opportunity to ask something to Elwha.
Something he was curious about since a while ago.
"Miss Elwha, I understand why the elves want this treasure so badly, after all, creating a new great tree is of utmost importance for your race. But, why is the God of ughter interested in it too? He even went to such lengths of sending several demigods and even offending two powerful churches and three countries just for that purple crystal."
Elwha looked at Bloed and hesitated slightly. She could see that not only Bloed but also Aya was curious about the God of ughter''s motives.
In the end, Elwha sighed and opened her mouth.
"Mr. Bloed, how much you know about gods?"
"Gods?" Bloed furrowed his brows. He did not know much about them.
He knew that godhood was the level after the third level of demigods, Apotheosis, but that was all.
But although Bloed did not know much about gods, he knew about their equivalent in the Human Confederation.
Legendary ESPers. ESPers who had gone beyond SSS-Grade.
Even in the entire Human Confederation, with hundreds of billions of inhabitants, only a handful of people attained that level.
There was not a name for that realm, nor a known method to break beyond SSS-Grade. ording to the information in Cami''s spaceship, each Legendary ESPer surpassed SSS-Grade differently.
But there was something that was known about beyond SSS-Grade ESPers.
They were absurdly powerful.
The true trump cards of humanity.
There was not much information about beyond SSS-Grade ESPers even in Cami''s spaceship, however, Bloed remembered reading something about one of these ESPers.
In the war against the Devourers, a beyond SSS-Grade ESPer once infiltrated the Devourers territory alone, destroying five Devourerss, more than twenty-five fleets of spaceships, and then returning to the Human Confederation alive.
He then died a few dayster due to the injuries he received.
But even so, his battle record speaks of the power of that kind of being.
That was truly a power worthy of being considered divine.
Thus, Bloed did not dare to underestimate the power of gods, beings with power equivalent to beyond SSS-Grade ESPers.
After thinking for a moment, Bloed shook his head.
"I don''t know much about gods, to be honest. I only know that godhood is the level after demigods."
Elwha nodded. "That is true. However, attaining godhood is not so simple. To be a god, your understanding of a set ofws must gain the recognition of the world. After that, you assimte your body and soul with thew you that gained the recognition of the world and thatw bes into your godly position. However, all the otherws you haveprehended besides thatw are forgotten. In exchange, your proficiency in thew you used to be a god bes much greater."
Bloed frowned. Laws?
He remembered reading about something like that in a book when he was still a prince, but he did not know much about them.
In fact, there was no information aboutws in the spaceship''s information.
Was it something like the rules governing the universe?
He looked at Elwha and wanted to ask her about that, but Elwha continued with her exnation before he could.
"The problem is whates after that," Elwha said with a sigh.
"Problem?"
"Yes." Elwha nodded. "You see, to be a god, you need to assimte with thews of the world. But, how can the soul of a mortal endure the greatness of the world''sws? Due to that, after a being bes a god, he slowly starts to lose his sense of self, until finally bing nothing more than a part of thews themselves."
"... In other words, he dies." Bloed furrowed his brows.
"Yes," Elwha said with a serious expression. "Until now, no god has managed to avoid that fate. However, there are ways to dy it. For example, faith."
Realization shed upon Bloed''s mind.
"Do you mean, the reason churches exist is to harvest faith for the gods?"
Elwha nodded. "It is not something bad. Giving faith to a god doesn''t affect mortals. Plus, most gods usually reward their most devout followers and support the people that worship them in some ways. That way, it forms a mutually beneficial rtionship between gods and believers. But besides faith, there are other ways to dy the assimtion."
"For example, the purple crystal." Bloedpleted Elwha''s sentence.
"Yes." Elwha did not deny it. "Each Heart of the Forest possesses an enormous amount of pure soul power. Something like that is an incredible tonic for any god. If they get it, they can suppress the side-effects of assimting with thews for at least twenty or thirty years."
Bloed nodded in understanding. At the same time, he understood another pair of things.
The reason why elves did not like gods.
And the reason why the elves tried so hard to hide the existence of the purple crystal.
Because if Elwha''s exnation was true, once the existence of the purple crystal was made public, very few gods in the continent would be able to resist the temptation of going after it.
If the elves did not handle this situation carefully, it could even turn into the spark that started a giant war that enveloped the continent.