Epic of Caterpillar

505 Invitation to the Divine Realm of Maeralya

Seeing the gods talk about Divine Beast, I was curious about the differences they had between gods.

"I have seen you talking a lot about Divine Beasts, what are they exactly on how they are different from Titans, Dragons, Beasts, and Demon Gods?" I asked.

"An amazing question, Kireina-sama! Divine Beasts are simply put, monsters that spontaneously were born in areas with large densities of Divine Energy. They are usually born naturally from Divine Realms and Higher Realms. Seeing one roaming a mortal realm like Vida is extremely rare. They can raise in strength by devouring more Divine Beasts and almost reach the same strength as us Gods, but they do not possess advanced intelligence nor the ability to use Divine Techniques. They possess natural Divine Skills though, but the repertory is usually limited to their species… we hunt them down for their corpses, which are valuable materials to craft artifacts, Divine Technique Scrolls, and many other things. We also capture their younglings to raise them inside our Divine Realms so they can strengthen our foundation and the quality of the Divine Realm"

"The difference between Divine Beasts and Gods such as Merveim, Morpheus, Megusan, Geggoron, and many others is that these gods developed intelligence. With intelligence came the understanding of the laws of this world, of the inner understanding of the attributes we govern… and naturally, through his knowledge and inner perception of self, Divine Realms were born inside our Divine Soul\'s Divine Cores and they became essentially different than Divine Beasts. There are rare cases such as myself, as I used to be a human and then became the first Vampire through my blood cultivation technique, a species of new Demi-Humans. My \'physical\' body is pseudo ethereal, but I can make it as physically strong as gods such as Merveim by using my transformation Divine Technique," Said Agatheina.

"About Geggoron, he was a unique existence due to the strange species that he used to be as a mortal. He was able to split himself into many pieces without suffering any damage and was able to parasitize mortal souls easily as well… his \'physical body\' was not physical but gaseous. I suspect that he should be capable of descending without much trouble, but because he was not good at fighting, he preferred to stay on his Divine Realm" said Hodhyl.

"I see… I think we have asked enough questions, for now, let us resume our daily activities before we end up losing ourselves in this conversation" I said.

After this long conversation, everyone resumed their activities. The gods began to teach my family about Divine Energy understanding and Divine Techniques, while I used some of my Clones to multitask and do other things around the Empire.

I felt as if her soul became slightly stronger… and I wondered if she had a Divine Realm.

"Divine Realm? Yes… Well, I had one, my father stole it and added it to his own Divine Realm… without a Divine Realm, I cannot raise my strength neither produce Divine Energy… but when I bonded with Kireina-sama, I felt as if I was slowly becoming stronger" she said.

"I see… well, it might be because your skill leveled up…"

"Me? A Skill?!"

"Hm… how do I explain it?"

I had to explain to Blaze that she was also a skill in my status window, she was a bit shocked at first, but then kind of understood that it made sense seeing how she \'bonded\' with me and became my power as well.

[The Levels of the \'Technique-Related Skills\', \'Eye-Related Skills\', [Passionate Divine Fire Soul Djinn Daughter of Hephaestus: Palikoi Blaze; Level 1], [Ambrosia\'s Divine Heaven\'s Fruit Creation; Level 2], [Demon Overlord\'s Parallel Mind Processing and Brain Share; Level 8], Skills have increased!]

[Day 242]

[Kireina] gained +112 Skill Points and Subclass Skill Points due to the prayers of your believers!] (Added!)

[Kireina] gained 1.879.633.250.016 EXP due to the prayers of your believers!] (and gathered EXP from her split bodies hunting in the dungeon and her Aura Clones exploring the Dream Attribute Dungeon inside her Inner Realm)

[LEVEL 095/250] [EXP 13.824.505.245.014/14.640.000.000.000]

Today I woke up with Blaze sleeping over me. Despite her hair being fire and her butterfly wings being blazing in color and heat, they did not burn anything. It seems that such fire was just a representation of her soul.

I discovered that she was slowly transforming this split body I gave to her, and now it was becoming less like me and more like… well, whatever her humanoid appearance is.

In another thing to note, I found that my Skill Points and Experience Points gained today increased vastly from yesterday. Could this be related to me acquiring the worship that Apollo had, until yesterday, Megusan and Geggoron barely had worshipers so I did not gain anything from them… but Apollo seems to have a few churches in the central continent. The people worshiping him most likely is giving me their faith unknowingly.

Oh, what is this? I can kind of see… images and fragments?

It seems that the people worshiping Apollo in the central continent give me a brief image of them.

There are various churches in the middle of giant cities whose buildings are entirely made out of white stone. Oh, it also seems that these Kingdoms are rather technologically advanced compared to the border continent one.

Well, not as much as my own Empire, but the cities are well paved, the streets are clean and beautiful, and there are even automated carriages that use magic cores to function.

There are also flying ships that soar through the clouds… and many other things, such as lamps using magic cores, the people also use various gadgets for their daily lives, and many golems constructed with alchemy protect several shops and guard the houses of prestigious aristocrats.

The central continents seem like a completely different world than the border continent, it is as if the border continent was just wilderness when compared to the metropolis of the central continents.

Mostly humans exist in here though, and demi-humans are only seen as slaves… well, there are a few elves and dwarves as well, but human supremacy seems to be prioritized.

Anyway, moving back my consciousness back home, I found myself having breakfast with my family. I was using my multiple minds to do the tasks while I inspected the fragments of information.

It sometimes feels as if I am inside a robot that moves automatically.

Nirah was entangled around my waist with her long tail and was currently eating a pile of raspberries that she had found delicious.

Meanwhile, Belle was eating a sandwich and an Ambrosia juice with pulp.

The seven harpy chicks were all sitting in their respective little chairs while eating by themselves. Just like Belle, they seemed to develop their intellect very fast, and immediately figured out how to use spoons, and even how to serve themselves with juice and all…

They had been born a few days ago and they were showing impressive growth. Their composite soul seemed to be slowly strengthening, and they began to show some Divine Energy as well.

As I glanced at my children, there was Amiphossia with her Evan… Aarae with Ervin and… Asure had been invited here, accompanying Valentia… and lastly, there was Arasa, the Wind Lord girl that had been invited to have breakfast with us by Ryo.

Hmm… it seems that everyone is well paired now… haah, it feels as if they were all big now… I do not want them to grow yet, this is too fast.

Demi-humans grow way too fast, it is unfair…

Well, I still got my babies Vudia, Ailine, Nirah, Belle, and the seven harpies to comfort me.

Whenever your child grows up and begins making its own life, it slowly becomes less close with you… it is understandable and all, but still, I kind of want to hug and spoil them sometimes!

I do not want to trouble them in front of the people they have a romantic interest in, some even are already in a formal relationship like Amiphossia and Aarae, so I better calm myself…

Perhaps a family bath could deepen our bonds some more? I wonder…

As I was thinking about planning a big family bath with my children, but I was interrupted by Cathin and his group. Acathea, a young Sphinx girl that I saved back in Morpheus Dungeon was with him as well.

It seems that Vudia and Ailine, who were her friends, had paired her up with Cathin simply because they were both cats… but they seemed to go well together and Cathin was slowly developing feelings for Acathea.

Perhaps Acathea could become the new princess of Moonfang\'s vassal nation?

All of Moonfang and Sunclaw were destroyed, and all the citizens are currently living here, so it will be hard for them to regain a vassal nation… though I am currently converting the debris and castles of both Kingdoms into golems and reconstructing them with a team of Slime Clones commanded by one of my split bodies sharing my mind, it should be ready in a few days…

"Kireina-sama, good morning… I-I have come to ask you for a favor… that Mohini-sama, Moiti-sama, Maeralya-sama and many of her children desire…" said Cathin in a timid tone, he was surprised that my gigantic family were still having breakfast, and was perhaps intimidated by the various gazes.

"Hm? What do you mean? If they wanted something, they should ask me for it…" I said.

"Well, the thing is that they seem to be too shy to ask for it directly because it is more like an act of selfishness of us…" said Cathin.

"Ah, Acathea-chan, Cathin-san!" said Vudia and Ailine, realizing who these two tiny cat children were and rushing towards them, after all, they were their dear friends.

"Oh, Vudia-chan, Ailine-chan," said Acathea, greeting my daughters.

Vudia and Ailine then saw down in the large lower body\'s back of a sphinx as Acathea ran around playing with them as if she were a horse.

"I see… oh?"

Just as I was going to address the situation, two people appeared behind Cathin aside from his servants, the two surviving heroes of the Sunclaw Kingdom, the \'Sun Blade Werefox Samurai\', Haruko, and the \'Eclipse Blade Werewolf Paladin\', Eifert. They had recovered a bit from the mental damage that I inflicted on them when I extracted information from them a few days ago.

"K-Kireina-sama… Marnet-sama and all of his children as well…" said Eifert.

"Please, Master Kireina, we know that it is an act of selfishness… but…" said Haruko.

"I get it, I get it. You want the royal families of Moonfang and Sunclaw to reincarnate, right?" I asked.

Both heroes and the prince nodded in agreement, seeing as I got what they meant.

"Yes, please!"

"That will be… a very hard thing to do," I said.

The ghost of Habitis, the scarlet lioness princess of Moonfang, and the eldest sister of Cathin appeared within the artifact I gave to him where she was stored.

"But how? I am perfectly okay… well, a few of my memories might be gone… but nothing much" she said.

"It must have been because unlike you, Habitis, the rest of the royal families had their souls too merged with Geggoron\'s split souls. When I ate the split souls of Geggoron, the souls of the royal family members were left \'incomplete\', filled with large holes all around, their memories were fragmented, and their personalities disrupted… even after recovering back in my Soul World… they naturally seek to fill in the void of their souls… which, well, ended doing something very strange. It would be better if you all saw it by yourselves… Marnet and Maeralya must be seeing this through your eyes as well, I assume…" I said, as I opened a portal to my Inner Realm: Soul World.

There… streams of souls floated aimlessly all around. Using the Sin of Lust, I called upon the souls of both royal families.

Their appearances were… disturbing for their eyes.

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