Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

Within The Void Island

City of Athens, Athens Palace

Athena sat on the highest throne within the Throne room. And before her, were six other thrones, three on each side, as in between, was a red carpet and a rectangular table.

The table was silver-white. The white coming from Pure Divine Stones that could be formed within a few areas on the Five God Council's Continent.

And the Silver was Silver Adamantine, a metal compatible with Divine Stones, despite its lower quality. As when used with Divine Stones, it could increase the sturdiness of the final product.

As for the thrones, they were fused with Gold, which was melted with Divine materials of different kinds, which Athena used quite the hefty price to obtain.

A total of thirty-six ordinary Divine materials, sixteen rare Divine materials, and three superior Divine materials, which could be considered Grade 9 materials.

Worthy for even Supreme Divinities to Praise.

Of course, obtaining all of this was expensive, and the ones who gave it to her, did not like her, so the price was even more monstrous.

But she didn't mind.

The final products were thrones powerful enough to bring the envy of even Gods. Lesser and Greater Divinities alike.

But that was not important. Today, Athena was thinking about what had happened the past few days, along with how she used that to her advantage.

"...."

Some might call her twisted, or ruthless, but she was a Goddess, what else did they expect from her? Emotions and Feelings were a choice, unless they were affected by a Divinity.

Just like herself.

Thus, most Gods, normally had close to 0% pity for mortals. It's like how humans would treat ants, most of the time. Or all other insects of the same size.

Even if a group of ants were found eating one's food, most normal people would just throw away the food, and not be affected, compared to when another person ate the food.

A fight might break out.

Anyway, Athena was a Goddess. And the suffering of Living beings had nothing to do with her. It was all according to the flow of Fate and Destiny, as Tribulations are necessary for development.

Especially in her case, where a part of her Divinities, were related to Pride. The chances of her sympathizing with even Gods was low, let alone within the more insignificant Mortals and Deities.

And more so, if it was within her interest. She could watch the world burn, as long as it was to her favor. Even if she had the power to nerf the flames, she would not do so.

Thus, to summarize, her taking advantage of Enigma's actions, and the coming Second Cataclysm to row the World towards a direction she liked... was within her character.

"All for the sake of a new Era..."

She subconsciously let out such words as she thought about what happened after Enigma's actions. She might not have the help of Fate and Destiny, but she did have Time on herself.

Being all knowing, towards the past, present and future, meant that she was very compatible with Time. And, to add on, the True God with the highest favor of Time... was on her side.

It was very easy for her to herd the World to a better place... for herself. And she did so with no remorse. Even at the cost of multiple lives, Mortals and Deities alike.

First, was the problem of the Sword Fiends, which she took multiple actions in response. Just as the problem arrived, she steered the Plane towards areas without the influence of these beings.

Thus, she watched everything as a bystander.

As for helping? Why would she, when these guys could weaken the powers of the Five God Councils for her? Her only worry, was whether her good sister would join one of them.

Knowing Cheryl, she was compassionate and nosy. She would help, even if she did not have the power to do so. A characteristic opposite to herself and Louise.

Of course, Athena knew she had such power, at her current level. But if Cheryl joined one of these Councils, Athena would have to think of a way to deal with yet another sister who dislikes her.

She wouldn't stop her plans because of other people. Even her own blood sister knew that.

Thus, as the problem escalated, and the Sword Fiends reduced, the Five God Councils were greatly affected, let alone the other Continents without Ancient Deities and Demigods.

It was only a Slaughter fest.

And Athena kept watching. Watching, and waiting for an opportunity to act. And she knew, that such an opportunity would come... from her one and only benefactor.

But before that, was something that occurred, which slightly intrigued her. The Slaughter fest triggered a Rain of Bloodshed, that affected the World greatly.

And along with the Rain of Providence from the higher Realms, these two forces fused, and triggered a unique resonance, where everyone got stronger faster.

One could absorb more Mana through killing, or through doing good. It thus created a scenery of Bloodshed and heroism. A Duality among the Mortals and Deities.

And that was not all, as the fusion of Continents was slightly sped up, as they moved closer and closer a bit faster than usual. This was what surprised her, as at that moment, more plans and schemes flew through her mind at an overdrive.

Within the years, powerful beings appeared, the number of Epics, Legends, Saints and Half-Deities increased greatly. Even people with no potential could grow stronger.

Ad as everything occurred, the Continents within a Cardinal all gathered towards the center, waiting to fuse and increase in size to become something even greater.

And once fused, it would trigger the Second Calamity. Unfortunately, even at that point, it would take years before the Continents truly fused into Cardinal Continents.

And at that point, the Mortal Worlds, would no longer be considered just Mortal Worlds. Lesser and possibly, Greater Divinities would descend.

Beings such as Transcendental Gods would be able to descend. Even if temporary. Whilst Demigods and Origin Gods, as well as Vessel Gods, would arrive in bulks.

Now, this is where she challenged the Wills of Beings that were probably beyond her comprehension.

She used the power of Heaven and Earth of the twins, Joy and Joyce, to Spawn multiple Continents within each Cardinal. Such an action was hard, and almost impossible. But with faith, a power of Greater Miracles, it was made possible.

All she had to do was burn off huge amounts of Faith Essence, enough to cultivate all three of them to the peak of the Main God Realm, and even establish themselves.

All of that, was directly burned and sacrificed to birth millions of Continents within each Cardinal. Of course, she garnered the dislike of the World Will, and Realm Will of the Mortal Worlds.

But she didn't care.

And the World Will was powerful enough to understand why she did so, which was why it did not make things hard for her, and agreed to the creation of so many Continents.

As for her reasons? It was to increase the required time of Fusion, as the more Continents there are, the less surface area needed, to swim through to reach the center.

Like pouring cereal within a bowl of milk. The more cereal there is, the higher the chances there would be for each individual cereal, to touch the next.

The Contintents were also like that. The more they were, the faster they would make contact, and the faster they would reach the center, and become one grand Continents.

Which would result into the arrival of the already prematurely arriving Second Cataclysm. Foiling the grand plans of the three Lords hidden behind the scenes.

And the plans of the Gods above.

This also affected the area of the future Cardinal Continent, as it would be vastly larger than what it's intended size was supposed to be.

But... Athena being Athena, wanted to challenge them even more. As from targeting the Continents, she went on to target the Cardinals before they even fused!!

Through various promises and double-timing, as well as manipulating, she managed to convince the World Will to do something very terrifying, and out of this world.

She convinced the World Will to burn out the Originity it had, the little bit it had, to duplicate the current number of Continents, creating something similar to Parallel Worlds.

And not only once, but after duplicating the first batch, she convinced it to duplicate the next batch, which was the thousands of Continents and their duplicates.

And then again.

Of course, this was a dangerous move. But it was only dangerous when done by anyone else either than the World Will, the highest order above anyone within the World.

After all, there was no problem when the owner of the Company themselves, did a few renovations. Compared to when a manager did so, without permission.

Now, the number of Cardinals were tens of thousands, while the number of Continents within each Cardinal, were millions.

Once fused into Cardinal Continents, then from Cardinal Continents, to the next Continental level, how vast would they be? And what would be the limit of Mortal World's Might?

To what extent would Gods be able to influence the world? Athena was looking forward to such an answer, as it was mostly why she even did what she did.

To create a platform.

A platform where even Illusory Existences would be able to play on. A platform where even Ancient Gods would be able to affect, without destroying everything.

The perfect playground of Existence~

An endless Sky.

An endless Sea.

So, why not an Endless Land?

These were some of the thoughts Athena used to dupe, and convince the World Will into doing what she wanted it to do.

It was a factual point.

The world already had an endless Sky, and an endless Sea, yet the land was far from even being considered even endless. It was not even large enough to be considered a Universe of its own in size.

Yet the two former aspects, where large enough to contain countless Realities, if not countless Verses, or as Maddog would say, countless Chaos.

Why were the three Aspects not in Equilibrium?