Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

「Hm?」

He exclaimed in interest, seeing through the staff's small tricks. Bellum then suddenly shifted his posture, barely avoiding the staff head that pieced through the sky at high speed, with enough momentum to drill through the Space-Time itself, and speed that was greatly beyond that of even Su Han's.

But he still casually avoided it!!!

「What a nice toy」

He said as he smacked it down, changing its trajectory and causing it to piece through the earth instead, almost tilting the whole God Realm sideways.

BOOOOOM!!!!

The earth cracked up from where it crashed down, spreading out and sinking in, creating a continuous growing crater.

Su Xue, who was still running turned back in fright when she saw Su Han overpowered like he was nothing but an insignificant fly. But she had more things to worry about now than that.

She steeled her heart and increased her speed, but the destruction caught up to her. Luckily, with skillful maneuver and agile leaps, she flipped and jumped between the sinking rocks, which was still intact but cracked and shattered.

But even she could not keep this up. She grit her teeth even more, tightly held the bag of crystal and tried to leap very high. Unfortunately, she misstepped and slowly fell within the continuous spreading pit.

'Godfather...' She thought, as she closed her eyes, her heart in Tranquility for some reason. Maybe because she felt like dying with Su Han was not that bad of a sport.

As she closed her eyes, she saw a golden spark of light in the sky, inching closer towards her at rapid speed. When she finally closed her eyes, a man in blazing fire caught her, and hurriedly flew out.

"Goddammit, how could we be so unlucky to catch the ire of a perfected Transcendental God?!" Code, who was literally bathed in flames like the God of fire, Cursed lightly as he flew away at rapid speed.

「Hm, there was another one?」

The man's voice reached his ears, causing Code to throw Su Xue away, disregarding their safety, and turned back.

Su Xue nimbly landed and didn't look back, instead, with mixed feelings of guilt and gratitude, she ran away as fast as she could. While Code flew back towards Bellum to buy them time.

「Futile actions」

Bellum shook his head helplessly, waving his hand casually, causing an unprecedented force to push Code hundreds of miles back as effortlessly as wind blowing away a leaf within a storm.

Alongside with that motion, Code's transformation was deactivated and his powers were sealed. He could not even mobilize his own body to do his own bidding. 'What... what is the meaning of this?!' He exclaimed in shock and fear.

「Come out now, you're the Greatest Above The Heavens, right? Stand up and prove it to this junior. Prove it to me that you can truly step above the Heaven, old man」

Bellum provoked with confidence swimming in his eyes, a formless aura of battle intent condensed around him, bringing out malice that overshadowed that of Su Han, who could match hundreds of gods by himself.

"...."

Su Han stood up from the deep crater, trembling slightly as his still intact body in one piece almost gave up on him. His natural trait of being extremely and literally thick skinned, that almost rivaled Indestructibility, saved him from being a meat paste.

After all, the power that Bellum used at the beginning of this battle was enough to destabilize an entire Reality, which was countless of Universes!!!

But Su Han survived, and he did not say anything at all, but instead, gazed at Bellum with deep and boundless determination. As if he was not phased at all!!

「Oho, how fiesty... But regardless, you can never make it to the top, you are still not good enough, old man」

Bellum said such ruthless words that did not care about Su Han's feelings. And as if to make it clear, he appeared before the trembling Su Han, and casually flicked him countless light years into the sky.

Directly sending him to the Void of the Nine Worlds that was quite dangerous, with its Null properties that destroyed completely everything, including Supremes.

But Su Han survived, whilst his body was continuously ravished with the infinite Null Void. But even then, Bellum did not give him a chance, as his voice drifted to this very place, from Great Terra itself.

「There's about a million people with the same dream as yours, but all come to fail. Or what? You think you're different? Then you must be kidding yourself, you old fool」

His last word was uttered from right behind Su Han, as before the latter could even glimpse back, a force so strong, that it pushed apart the Null Void and did more wonders on his body than the Null Void itself, smashed onto him, sending back towards the God Realm at Instantaneous speed.

But even before he could reach the Greater World, Bellum's words arrived first, along with his omnipresent-like Speed...

「You think that you're going to succeed, and achieve your goal, but you don't get it. That's impossible, it's not even probable at all. You cannot overcome the Heavens, you cabt do it, it's just not for you」

The force once again smashed him back into the Null Void, destroying parts of his body. Doing something that even the Null Void itself, the absolute essence of destruction and erasure... failed to do!!

"...???"

And Su Han, was not angry, nor was he bothered much. What he found strange, was that he had actually been damaged. And not just your ordinary damage, but he was partially erased!!

His body was destroyed, which was a new feeling to him. He has never felt this much internal and external pain before. Which was why, he was more surprised than anything at the moment.

The battle, no, the one sided on-slaught of Su Han began, and it continued for three days. With nothing much happening, either than Su Han being thrown around like a rag doll... his Will completely scarred.

• • • • •

After that small session with Jade and the four leaders, Enigma and the others recieved a few basic rewards such as Divine grade herbs, minerals and scrolls.

The highest grade ones were the divine scroll, which could upgrade a skill by a whole rank, regardless of requirements for evolution. They got three such scrolls after Jade soloed the dungeon.

And of course, she took one for herself, gave one to Enigma, and generously gave the last one to the four leaders. Enigma felt awkward as he had plenty of Skill Evolution chances, and Jade had no use of divine skills much at her age.

But the four men seemed relatively happy about it. They even thanked her so much it seemed like they would kneel down and praise her might right there and then, surprising him slightly.

From then on, Enigma created a clone, which would go with the leaders and a few promising individuals to train them and overseer their progress.

The clone was named "Teach", and was more of a blank template with nothing at all. His aim was to help them go through the dungeon while supervising them.

He was taught by Nia that one had to manage one's people carefully. If done well, they could even gain praise and worship easily, and if the believers are familiar with their God, they could gain even Fanatics.

But he also did it because he was experimenting on a few things as well, but the people didn't know about that, they only knew that their god was trying hard to nurture them, and they would not disappoint him.

Did you know, they already have temples built for them. Enigma didn't mind and let them do as they pleased, Nia also told him that the more mysterious a Lord was, the more high and might they would seem.

Indeed, he was practicing how to become a god through these guys, in case he returned to Nia and the others when he was a main god. But he also genuinely treated them as his believers and not tools.

"I wonder which Skill should I upgrade now." He thought as he opened up his Template, focusing on the Unique and Extra Skills. He also saw a message from the system, that alerted him of his actions these past month.

"You have cultivated 17 True Laws, and sacrificed the following Divine Skills for "Skill Evolution: Divine" chances;"

""Stella Magic", "Aether Light", "Sound Manipulation", "Shockwave Manipulation", "Imagination Projection", "Ability Creation", "False Divinity", "Combat Specialist", "Combat Mode", "Personal Size Alteration", "Giant Manipulation", "Biological Manipulation", "Disgust Inducement", "Anti-Empowerment", "Judges Decree""

"You have gained 15 "Skill Evolution: Divine" chances"

"You have chosen to sacrifice Sixty varying Unique Skills for 15 "Skill Evolution: Divine" chances"

"You have chosen to sacrifice One-hundred and Ninety-two varying Extra Skills for 12 "Skill Evolution: Divine" chances"

"You have obtained Thirty-six Divine Skills, Forty Unique Skills and Twelve Extra Skills"

"Your Divine++ Skill Tree "GOD OF MANIPULATIONS" has assimilated the following Divine Skills, "Hierachy Manipulation", "Probability Manipulation" and "Concept Manipulation""

"Your Divine Skill Tree "Omni-Combat Lord" has assimilated the following Divine Skills, "Concussive Force", "Combat Evolution" and "Transcendent Force""

"Your Divine Skill Tree "Omni-Combat Lord" has evolved to a Divine+ Skill Tree"

"Your Unique+ Skill Tree "Impossible Beauty Physiology" has assimilated the following Unique Skills, "Submission", "Love Inducement", "Hate Inducement", "Subliminal Messaging" and "Worship Inducement""

"Your Unique+ Skill Skill Tree "Impossible Beauty Physiology" has evolved to a Divine Skill Tree"

"Your Divine Skill Tree "Impossible Beauty Physiology" has assimilated the following Divine Skills, "True Love Visage", "Charm Derivation" and "Absolute Domination""

"Your Divine Skill Tree "Impossible Beauty Physiology" has evolved to a Divine+ Skill Tree"

The process temporarily stopped, and Enigma could only sigh helplessly. Now, he was forced to manage his Skill Template, to reduce the large number of Unique Skills... again.

But that was manageable, and he could do it sometime later. Or let part of his mind do it for him, while another portion, which was the main consciousness, do the rest.

After gaining the hidden info about the future, Enigma knew that troubled times were coming. And even then, running away from reality and avoiding managing himself, would bite back at him big time.

He was like this because he overexerted himself against the Colossal bird. And even then, he had plenty of Skills but still lost. Whose to say he would not lose even with so many Divine Skills?

And most importantly, "I am still just a genuine True God. Since my physical prowess and energy quantity are still low, I'll have to rely on Skills to go forward. The more... the merrier."

He felt kind of bitter saying this, after spending almost three yirs (thirty years) telling himself that he would not proactively learn more skills, he was about to do the opposite.

He felt like he sounded more like a hypocrite, but he had to steal himself up. He could not allow his own daughter to outshine him, at least, not yet, not in this final Age, and lot within the prominence of the next Era.

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SKILL TEMPLATE

Extra Skills(40): Karmic Seal, Wind-Dependent Immortality, Shield Negation, Soul Reading, Illusionary Magic, Shapeshifting, Event Denial, Event Recreation, Reality Condition(×1), Reality Modding(Soul Stage), Knowledge Anchoring, Butterfly Effect, Simultaneous Interaction, Instant Effect, Reiki Infinitum, Fictional Travel, Power Cloaking, Schrodinger's Teleportation, Absolute Wish, Intangibility Extension, Water Purification, Supernova, Portal Creation, Space-Time Death, Eternal Day, Photosynthetic Light, Eternal Night... Undetermined Existence, Self-Supremacy, Encyclopedic Knowledge, Death Negation, Fictional Transcendence, Perspective Manipulation, Talecrafting, Uncertainty Manipulation, Self-Balance, Dark-Self, Light-Self, Neutral-Self