Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

As Su Han left, Su Xue removed her tears and wrapped herself with her hands, warily looking at Bellum. Acting all defensive, as if he was going to do something unspeakable to her.

Bellum didn't know whether to laugh or get angry, but she ignored his expressions and warily asked, "What... what do you want with me, you crazy person?"

If you're thinking the bet was Su Xue, then you got it right. Mid way their fight, Bellum realized that Su Han highly protected Su Xue more than the two royal princesses.

He thus came up with this twisted bet to separate them. If Su Han could survive one full powered strike from him, then he would win. But if he couldn't, then Su Han lost.

And Su Han couldn't stop the attack. In fact, he lost the bet, his arms and the lives of an entire city full of millions of beings.

"Tch, you're really stupid, aren't you? I knew that idiocy was Inherited from him, there's no way we could've Inherited it from mother, goddammit!!" He flared up, but not at her.

In fact, his tone was a bit too gentle towards her, without all the coldness from before.

"What do you mean? Mother?" Su Xue didn't understand any of the things he said. Bellum calmed down and looked up at the skies, watching the river of stars, "Don't worry, if I wanted to do something to you, I would've done so a long time ago."

"Oh." Su Xue suddenly realized that fact and calmed down. That was true, so maybe, she was overreacting? "Then why—"

"Plus—" Bellum cut her words midway and turned to look at her with a disgusted expression, "I'm not interested in incest." He left the room with those words, leaving behind a completely flabbergasted Su Xue.

"...."

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Within the vast stars, a few days after Su Han left Su Xue and Bellum, a few stars were suddenly severed by an invisible blade wave, that spread through space before dissipating into Nothingness.

The invisible blade wave had caused ripples to appear within the boundless space for a moment, but vanished a second later. It also only managed to cut through three stars, which were protected by the abstract power of Nothingness

A power that was born to erase Concepts and Meta-Concepts of any kind. A power that was a mere variation of the Chaotic Void, with the capability of instantaneously rubbing off Realities out of the plot of Existence.

Such a power, was partially denied by the blade wave, that gave out the impression of being able to absolutely cut through anything.

"Haah~" A young man in his late teens sighed in dejection as he saw such a display from his own performance. Seemingly disappointed at himself even.

He had long black and navy blue hair, reaching down to his waist. His hair was slick and smooth, reflecting the infinite space and the blue stars perfectly.

His handsome face that was enough to woo any beauty even within the God realm, Transcendent Gods and above Cosmic Gods included, had a gentle frown.

His eyes were black and his complexion was pale and smooth, as if the gentlest of touches would blemish his skin. His body was covered by a Haori and his legs by a Hakama, an orienten traditional outfit.

"You're almost getting there, your sword is close to breaching to the nigh-absolute realm. It has reached the peak of the supernatural level, and can cut down gods." A middle-aged man wearing a mask, and sitting cross-legged upon a small star, said from not far away.

If Enigma was here, he would clearly tell who the middle-aged man looked like. Indeed, the person who once tried to ambush him and claimed to have absolute realm swordsmanship.

"You know, wouldn't it be better to take off that mask like usual?" Takashi, yes, Takashi relaxed his blade over his shoulder as he frowned at the young man.

He didn't know why, but not long ago, this guy suddenly left and said something about testing the strength of his predecessor's enemy.

Mind you, he said the same thing when Takashi met him. They fought for a while, and of course Takashi lost, but the guy didn't seem disappointed, and seemed happy instead.

Anyway, he left that time, and when he came back, he suddenly had a mask above his face, and he seemed despondent. It made Takashi wonder what kind of predecessor did he meet.

At first he thought that the so called predecessors were true gods, and he was right, but it didn't seem like this guy referred to all true gods as his predecessors. Cause he only mentioned that the predecessor related to him were only sixteen.

He also didn't seem to know what true gods were. To him, the beings called true gods were those above the Ancient Deity realm, since they could literally do almost anything.

Anyway, back to the topic.

"Look, little ancestor, despite how much connection we have, I can't do that." He said. Though he seemed casual, his tone was still a bit respectful towards Takashi.

"...Whatever, at least tell me more about this Ancestor thing. Am I really your ancestor?" He changed topics and inquired, as he knew to what extent the stubbornness of this fellow could reach.

"Next time." The masked young man dodged the question once again, and even Takashi, someone who was kind and polite had his limits. He was humane, unlike Enigma, who was unaffected by external emotions.

"Next time this, next time that, you know what, let's end it here. I don't want to hear about it anymore." He clicked his tongue in annoyance and went back to cutting down stars... well, trying to.

"Come on, little Ancestor, don't be like that." The masked young man realized that Takashi was really annoyed at him this time around. But still, he didn't recieve a respond.

"...."

"I don't have a choice." He tried to explain himself more, but still got the same zero attention as before.

"...."

"...little ancestor, this is not like you." He didn't want to give up, his tone was even getting a bit desperate now. But unfortunately, Takashi still kept his silence.

"...."

It wasn't that Takashi didn't understand, he did, and he didn't mind staying in the dark when considering a few things. But then, anything he inquiries about, he can't be told?

That's bullshit.

He was tired of taking the passive stand and letting others ride along his life as if he was ignorant. He might not he that talented, but he was still a true god nonetheless.

At least, if he did not want to tell him about it, he shouldn't give out mixed signals or the tiniest detail at all. Keep it all to yourself. He thought and continued ignoring the masked man.

He wasn't angry though, just annoyed... and disappointed.

"...little ancestor... fine, I'll tell—"

"...by the way, where are those little lasses?" Takashi suddenly stopped his motion of cutting down with his sword, and turned around to ask an important question, at the perfect moment.

He purposely changed the topic because he truly wasn't interested anymore. He didn't want to hear about any of the rubbish the young man had in his brain.

'Since you have no choice, that's fine, keep it to yourself... I survived fine before, I'll do so even now, even without knowing anything.' Though he said that, he was slightly interested, but not to the point of it influencing him anymore.

"...I'm not sure." The young man sighed and responded. He realized that the tone that Takashi used was a bit detached from him now, which really negatively affected him.

"...."

Takashi realized this too, but didn't soften up one bit. He was also suffering inside by being kept at the hook of the blade everyday. Let him taste some of his own medicine then.

"Ichi..?" He continued to ignore the young man and silently called out.

A moment later, a large golden scaled dragon head, with lightning covering its scales, appeared from above him, enough to twirl around the small star he stood on.

Following it, another one appeared, followed by another, then another, until there a total of eight of them. Which was not right. "Wait... where is your sister Kyuto?"

He suddenly realized that one was missing, and he couldn't help but frown.

These were of course the snakes that grew attached to him the past thirty plus years. From tying him down, to feeding off him, to then relying on him, and now they were obediently following him.

They were like his children, since they evolved under the constant nourishment of his laws, yes, laws not elements anymore. As well as his bloodline and Blessing.

They were full-fledged Ancient Deities now, with enough might to fight Demigods individually at that. They could also swallow small stars with an area of around 30 million miles.

Together, once fused, yup, they can fuse, did you expect that? No? Then they can, and their strength increased by more than a league, being able to swallow even entire Galaxies with but a single gulp.

"Rawr~"

A cute, childish cry sounded not far away as a large golden scaled, lightning wrapped sea Serpent floated towards them with a bulging stomach.

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From the oldest, Ichito, to the youngest, Kyuto. These little guys, yes, big but little, were females and each had their own specific personality.

But one thing they had in common was eating and scrambling for his attention, or nourishment to be precise, from time to time. They were actually spoiled.

Kyuto was even more extreme as she usually acted more spoiled around him. Worst of all, this guy behind him also spoiled these big serpents rotten, as if they were his own little sisters.

"Little Kyuto looks as cute as always." The masked young man commented with a smile, receiving looks of exhaustion from Takashi, who didn't know what to say anymore.

"You girls can go and continue playing around." He said in exasperation and continued practicing his swordsmanship. He was still angry with the young man!!!

And was being a parent was this hard? He didn't know that it would be so tiring. He now sympathized with his parents back home...