Chapter 705: Demonic Dragon's Breath.
Victor was sitting a few inches off the ground; he was floating in the air while a woman with long golden hair was sitting on his lap with an embarrassed red face.
"So? What did you find out?" Victor looked at the group standing before him, specifically Aphrodite and Rhea.
"It's like Jeanne deduced, this whole place is one big field of experiment." Aphrodite sighed.
"Through various testimonies from the citizens we questioned, the 'monsters' appear occasionally, kill some people, and then are defeated by the 'God' they believe in. Seeing the marks of struggle around, we can conclude that those responsible for this place are 'endangering' the population and saving them by 'unknown means' so that fear, insecurity and, consequently, the Faith of the citizens increase."
"They are replicating the 'coincidences' of the past, only this time on purpose in an attempt to create a God."
"Hmm," Victor nodded as he stroked Jeanne's head, who, despite being embarrassed, was really enjoying it.
"That's horrible; there's that point. They're just Faith generators, a battery that can be replaced at any time." Jeanne spoke.
And nobody refuted what she said because that's really what they were now, just a generator to create the Energy called 'Faith'.
"Honestly, yes. You're not wrong, Jeanne." Rhea replied.
"But looking at it from a cold, analytical point of view, this is a brilliant plan. It's time-consuming, complicated, and uncertain but still brilliant." Rhea commented, "The conditions for a powerful God to be born naturally depends a lot on the circumstances involved and the time when it happens, and they're managing to do that in such an isolated location through manipulation."
Rhea took a bag from her pocket, unfolded it, and put her hand inside it. Then she removed the symbol of the altar that was in that village.
"This isn't just some God's symbol on some random altar. This here is a Divine Item that was created specifically to gather 'Faith' as 'efficiently' as possible."
"...Faith can be stored?"
"Of course, is Faith a type of Energy too, much freer and almost impossible to contain properly? Yes, but it is still an Energy that can be stored under the right conditions."
Victor looked at the symbol in Rhea's hand with his eyes and saw a small gold and white liquid in the item's core.
He wouldn't have noticed it if he hadn't focused his eyes; it was so small it was almost invisible.
"Do you know about Athens?" Rhea asked around.
"That bitch Athena's town, right?." Morgana spoke.
"... Correct. In the past, the city also had a place where all the 'Faith' of the city was stored; that place was The Temple of Athena itself."
"The principle is the same here, only with one difference. Unlike in the past when the whole process of collecting Faith' was more natural and inefficient,"
"Here, the 'Temple' was specifically made to capture the Energy and redirect it into this object."
"Thanks to this method, even though this place has not been created for a long time, the amount of Faith in this symbol is ridiculous."
Victor narrowed his eyes. 'Is that a 'ridiculous' amount?" His ability to measure the normal was so broken that he no longer understood common sense. For Victor, this amount was nothing more than insufficient...
"...Oh, the point here is that this place hasn't been around for long, and it already has so much Faith like that, huh."
"What do we do?" Rhea asked as she looked at Victor.
"Before making a decision," Victor looked at two individuals: "Oda, Morgana, your reports."
"Just as Lord Victor predicted, this entire place was abandoned. On this island, there are laboratories and even an underground tunnel used as an alternative means of escape."
Morgana added: "And it was this tunnel that I found. The whole island has several alternatives to escape; this place is practically a fortress."
"Here, Lord Victor, I found the blueprint of the island." Oda handed a large scroll to Victor.
Victor took the parchment and opened it.
"Hmm." Victor nodded as several ideas raced through his head, his eyes narrowed a little, and he tossed the parchment to Aphrodite.
The Goddess took the parchment and opened it. The moment she looked at the drawing, her eyes opened wide.
Apparently, the Goddess and Victor came to the same realization.
"This place is a created Dimension, that is, some God created it. Who was it?"
"Probably a God of Space," Aphrodite spoke.
"Why a God of Space specifically?"
"They are the only ones who can naturally create Dimensions like this."
"That's a pretty bold statement; Witches can't do that?"
"... Honestly, probably yes, their Magic somewhat has effects similar to Deities, but the Energy cost would be ridiculous. Unlike Arcane, which is just a huge protected land with lots of complex Magic, this place is a Dimension created from scratch."
"They might be good, but the feat of creating a Dimension in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, and within that Dimension creating an entire island... Only a group of Gods can do that."
"What? Was this island created from scratch?" Rhea asked, shocked.
"Look." Aphrodite handed the parchment to Rhea.
"...this..."
"Isn't it very well planned? As if an architect had done all the planning for the island?" Aphrodite added.
"Yes..."
"Tsk, that's a shame," Victor spoke with annoyance.
"Why is it a shame?" Jeanne asked curiously.
"I was planning to use the island, steal the worshipers of this False God, and give them to Aphrodite."
"...You were planning to deliver me faithful...?" Aphrodite said in amusement.
"Rather than an average-looking man who looks like a hooligan, everyone, including women, would prefer a beautiful, motherly, kind Goddess who actually exists. A Goddess who is willing to 'lead' the lost lambs."
"..."
They tried to say something, but they just kept silent because after thinking about it for a while, they realized he was correct.
Aphrodite couldn't help but smile in amusement at Victor.
Rhea raised an eyebrow at Victor:
"Why Aphrodite? Can't it be me? I am a Mother Goddess, you know?"
"She is my Wife." He said it like it was obvious.
"..." She had no way of refuting that.
"She's prettier than you."
"..." A vein bulged on Rhea's head, and Rhea's gentle smile nearly broke in annoyance.
Aphrodite had her hand over her mouth to avoid laughing at the 'Mother' Goddess's expression.
"But don't worry, your motherly aura is greater than Aphrodite's; you are the perfect MILF."
"... Victor... Don't give me derogatory adjectives coming out of a porn video!" Bulging veins were visible all over Rhea's face.
Victor blinked twice, and a kind and understanding smile appeared on his face:
"So you know about it."
Rhea froze.
"W-Wait- "
"I understand, don't worry. This is completely normal. Even for a woman with so many children, it's normal that she still has desires, not to mention..."
"You're Greek, right?" He spoke as if that explained everything; in fact, it kind of did.
Hot air rushed from Rhea's nostrils; she was hyperventilating with several complex feelings, the biggest one being embarrassment.
"Darling! Don't tease my sister! Even if she's very horny because she hasn't had a mate for thousands of years due to her children's fear of the Gods, you shouldn't point it out!"
"Shut up, Aphrodite!" If looks could kill, Aphrodite would have died a hundred times over from Rhea's gaze.
"Fufufu-~."
Morgana shook her head, "Even though the teasing of a horny Goddess is interesting to watch-."
"Oyy!"
"We still need to sort out the problem here, Vic."
"I know, and I already have the solution."
"Oh? What solution?"
"Nuke."
"... Excuse me?"
"If this can't be mine, then it can't be anyone else's. So therefore, we will remove the citizens from here, erase their memories of the 'brainwashing' they suffered, and take them to the Human side of the New City in the Snow Clan, after which I will destroy this Dimension."
"..."" Everyone was speechless by what they just heard.
"Haah... What a waste. I wanted to use the Dimension, but since it was made by a God, that God can come here and even spy on what I'm doing; thus, it doesn't make me feel very safe."
Victor gently kissed Jeanne's cheek and let the woman off his lap.
Victor stood up: "Though I'm curious," He looked at Rhea.
"What?" Rhea replied in a grumpy way. She wasn't too happy with the 'teasing' from before.
"You've been in Nightingale for a long time. Why didn't you try to reunite Faith with the citizens of the New City?"
Rhea looked at him with a blank expression.
"... You're kidding, right?"
"About...?" Victor spoke, confused.
"Do you really not know that practically the entire population in the New City looks up to you as if you were a God?"
"...Huh?"
"Unbelievable, you really don't know..." Now it was Rhea's turn to look at Victor in shock.
Victor narrowed his eyes and looked at Aphrodite, and the Goddess just turned her face away and started whistling.
Sensing his Wife's feelings, Victor narrowed his eyes even more and looked at Morgana, Jeanne, and Scathach.
Morgana reacted similarly to Aphrodite, turning her face to look at the trees like they were fascinating.
Jeanne didn't want to meet Victor's eyes and just avoided them.
Scathach was the only one who seemed confused by it all.
Oda was still as expressionless as ever.
"Okay, your reactions state the obvious; explain." Victor looked at Aphrodite.
"Huuu... Well, Me, Morgana, Jeanne, Kaguya, and the Maids, may or may not have spread our cult's influence into the New City and may or may not have made carvings of you and distributed them to all women of all Races of the New City."
"..."" Victor opened his eyes in shock.
"See? How will we spread our influence if everyone practically already adores you?" Rhea snorted. She also hid the fact that she'd also taken some sculptures and pictures for her... needs.
"Not to mention that Faith is useless to us right now, and won't add anything to the overall situation, so it's best that all fanaticism be focused on you so that you have political power."
Victor still couldn't believe what he was hearing. 'I mean, I know they had a cult led by Kaguya and the Maids or something; I haven't minded the details in the past, but is the cult that big already? Holy fuck.'
"Speaking of worship, when is the new Bible coming out?" Morgana asked curiously.
"Hmm, as you know, we haven't really had much time since Victor came back, but I was planning on writing Volume 7 next month."
"Hold a sec... You have a Bible on Victor?" Scathach asked.
"Yeah, currently, we have a whole six volumes. We are documenting all of Victor's principles and gospels and writing them down. Then, volume 7 will discuss his Ascension as the God of the New World." Aphrodite answered in a professional tone.
"The entire collection of books will only be seven volumes, and our job is just to add more content over the years until everything is perfect."
"Oh, the one who came up with the idea about the new volume's name was Ruby."
"..." Scathach and Victor's feelings at this current moment were so indescribable with what they were hearing that they didn't even know how to react.
They only thought, 'Did we focus so much on our training that we didn't notice this?"
"...No wonder Vlad is so irritated with Victor..." Scathach could understand Vlad's frustrations with Victor now; it turned out they weren't unwarranted!
"Haah, somehow, you would get along very well with my Generals."
"Oh? Why do you think that?"
"They did something similar in Hell."
"... Heh, I'll have to talk with them later." Aphrodite nodded.
'With this, we can spread the Gospel to Hell too!'
"Tust don't overdo it."
"... Eh? You're not gonna stop us?" Morgana asked.
"Why should I?" Victor asked, confused.
"I mean, we thought you wouldn't like it..." Jeanne spoke.
"I don't particularly dislike or like it, I see the usefulness of it, and I just think it's something you guys like to do, so isn't that okay?"
"..." Jeanne, Morgana, and Aphrodite smiled gently.
Rhea and Scathach just shook their heads.
"You spoil them too much, Vic," Scathach spoke.
"So what?" Victor snorted, "They deserve it."
"Hehehe~"
"...." Scathach rolled her eyes when she saw the smiling expressions of Aphrodite, Jeanne, and Morgana.
"I pity your children when they are born," Rhea commented.
"Why?"
"I mean, they will grow up spoiled..."
Victor and the girls just looked at Rhea with amused eyes.
"Do you think this will happen to my kids? Especially when me and Scathach, Jeanne, Haruna, Ruby, and Kaguya are here?"
"..." Rhea opened her mouth to speak but stopped when she realized he was correct. The people mentioned were very disciplined; they wouldn't allow that to happen.
"I can spoil them, but I won't overdo it. I know very well the result of this action; I don't want my children to be incompetent."
"Somehow, I feel like I'm being attacked..." Morgana grumbled.
"Hey, it's not your fault that Lilith is incompetent; it's Vlad's."
"Ugh, at least she's stronger than before now that I'm supervising her ."
"Anyway, Scathach, call Alexios. Let's finish this job."
"Yes."
Victor started to float in the sky towards the village. "It's been a while since I used my Vampyric Charm; let's see if it still works."
Victor opened his mouth, and a powerful, heavy voice resounded around:
"Sleep ."
Everyone who heard that voice suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to sleep and fell to the ground.
"..."
"Was that a Statement? But he is not a God!"
"Rhea, that was just the Power of his Vampyric Charm, a Basic Skill of a Noble Vampire ."
"... Huh? But I've never seen anything like it."
"Since when was Victor normal? You should know that by now."
"He doesn't need to look into someone's eyes to Charm them, Rhea ."
"His voice alone is enough to bring several Mortals under his dominion...." Aphrodite thought momentarily and added, "He can also do that to Supernatural Beings as well. I guess those of strong minds and wills won't be affected, but everything else will."
"... He's like a male version of you," Rhea spoke.
"Yeah."
Alexios appeared through a portal.
"Alexios, take all these Humans and put them in the Snow Clan training yard; that place is big enough to fit them all. Can you do that?"
"Easy." Alexios opened his eyes, and then he snapped his fingers.
Soon hundreds of small portals appeared beneath each of the Humans, and soon they all disappeared.
'Fuck, I really want this Power of Space and Time; it's so useful,' Victor thought with a deadpan expression.
30 minutes later.
After collecting everything of value from the Humans and sending them to Nightingale, the group stepped through Alexios' portal and reappeared outside the Dimension.
"Then, who will do the honors?"
Morgana pointed her hand up.
"Me, Me! I want to try!"
"Go on-."
"Wait." Jeanne interrupted.
The group looked at Jeanne.
"I don't think it's a good idea for Morgana to do this."
"Why!"
"You will contaminate the entire ocean with radiation!"
"..."
"Come to think of it, Morgana is literally a walking atomic bomb, huh," Scathach spoke.
" Victor, the two Goddesses, or I must do it." Jeanne pointed.
"Hey, I don't have that much destructive power, you know? I am a Goddess of Fertility." Rhea spoke.
"Me neither, I can mold my Divine Energy, but I don't have that much destructive power," Aphrodite spoke.
"So that leaves Victor and me."
"Why can't I do this?"
"Ice isn't exactly Scathach's destructive property ."
"Humpf, I can freeze the entire island and make the island disappear by shattering it!"
"But you won't be able to destroy the entire dimension with one blow unless, of course, you transformed into your Vampire Count Form, but that would draw the attention of every Supernatural Being on the planet."
"...." Scathach grumbled but didn't deny it.
'I can pierce the dimension with my Spear, but the Space would soon recover, and it wouldn't be destroyed."
"Victor, can you destroy everything?"
"Of course, I have several weapons at my disposal. I can use my Fire, my Lightning, my Miasma, a blast of Negative Energy; they all have the option to go nuclear; which one do you choose?"
"...."! Now that they thought about it, this man had an entire arsenal of Powers at his disposal, huh... Wasn't that too broken!?
"Bloody freak, I've never seen a Progenitor with that much Power at his disposal," Rhea grumbled.
"Indeed, he is breaking the rules." Morgana added: "And you know what's worse? He didn't even talk about the other Powers. I bet he could flood the entire island with the Power of Water if he wanted to."
"Humph, my two daughters can do that too." Scathach pointed.
"They are not here, Scathach ." Morgana rolled her eyes.
'Yeah, they're resting in that bedroom after a year-long orgy!! So jealous!' Rhea groaned internally.
Ignoring the three, Jeanne said, "How about the Fire? Everything would turn to ashes, and the surrounding water would replace what was lost."
"Okay." Victor looked at the Dimension.
"..."" They waited a bit, but nothing was happening. 'Why isn't he doing anything?' They wondered.
"Back off a little."
"Oh."
The group flew back a little further and observed that Victor began to change. Dark violet scales began to appear from his neck to his cheeks, his teeth became sharper, his lips disappeared, his face became sharper, and his eyes began to glow a bright violet.
"...Wait...this is." Jeanne broke out in a cold sweat.
"That doesn't look good...." Alexios commented.
His body began to be covered in violet flames, then he took a deep breath, and all the violet flames began rushing towards his mouth.
"Don't tell me his Fire mutated too because of Zaladrac!?" Jeanne exclaimed in panic and quickly added:
"Victor, stop! STOP! Dragon Flames have very destructive properties-."
"ROAAAAAAAAR!" A deafening Draconic roar was heard.
And a gigantic beam of Fire erupted from Victor's mouth towards the island.
The Fire devoured the Dimension Space as quickly as if it were made of paper and crashed into the island.
In the next moment. all that followed was silence before a deafening explosion rocked the surrounding area, followed by a violet glow in the sky.
Edited By: DaVo 2138, IsUnavailable
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