Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

For the first time, he felt angry. But instead of changing his expression, he only smiled. He smiled even more as he read the words of the system, subconsciously releasing all of his aura.

Let alone the Nether Elves, every being, be it living or non-living trembled for an instant, within the World Forest. They felt something, not physically, but on a deeper and more primal spiritual level.

They felt it through their consciousness!! Through their souls!! Through their entire being!! But it was only for an instant, so insignificant to the point where it could be ignored.

"I'll show you alright, I will do it, I swear. I'll reach the so-called Unreachable Realm, and encompass both my past and future, beginning and end, meaning and existence. And I'll unravel you inside out, even if I have to tear you apart, I'll absolutely, f*cken do it."

What made him this angry, was not the system, but himself. He probably did this to himself, so, the one to blame was his past self and his child self.

And because of that, he had a sudden urge.

One that was both stupid and irrational. If his past self and young self don't want to rise that badly, then he'll do just that. If they don't tell him what the consequences were, did they expect him to guess them?

Like, would the entirety of Creation and Existence fall apart just because he grew stronger?

"...."

The system had nothing to say that. It did not agree nor disagree. Neither did it agree or disagree to his decision.

• • • • •

Middle Realm, West Cardinal

Green Continent, World Forest Region

Within the World Forest Region, within one of the many areas of the Region, within a guest room, a young man sat down cross legged as he took in light breathes of air to calm himself down.

And accompanying him was a bundle mysteries even he barely knew anything about at the moment. The system that seems to make his life harder, yet seemed like the only thing that could be there for him at the time.

"Are you calm now?"

The system asked after a long time of silence. Enigma nodded, he had gone overboard for a moment there, and he did not like the feeling to be honest.

"So, I guess my personality was fiery back then, huh?" Enigma wondered to himself. It was not that his personality had changed, but he felt like this sudden change had something to do with his past life.

"I'd prefer to say you were a psychopath"

"...And I seem to have a grudge with my past life? Actually, what's hidden within my childhood memories that I'm not aware of?" He once again ignored the system as usual and wondered off once again.

At first, he was not interested, but now, he was. And the one person who could definitely give him answers was his fiancee, Louise. And most likely his older sister.

"Get stronger"

The system read his thoughts and corrected him. Louise was not the only way of finding out, just the easy way out. And asking her, might as well as putting her in a tough spot.

Getting stronger could also help him uncover everything as well.

"Why? Because I'm not strong enough to you?" But he still did not understand why getting stronger, had anything to do with his memories. It was just unreasonable.

"In a sense yes, logically no. To be honest, I don't want to alert either your past life ego or the coming apocalypse... Enough about this matter, the Nether Queen is waiting on you"

For once, the system said something useful. But like usual, it cut itself off as if it was something casual and moved on. Enigma was already used to it, and luckily, his personality did not flare up once again.

"Haiy~ Fine." He stood up and dusted himself, saw the shattered table and smiled bitterly. 'I hope she wont mind. Well, with how her personality seems like, I doubt she'd let me off easily though.'

And wrong he was.

"First of all, I would like to apologize because of my poor first impression. As a matriarchal goddess, I felt quiet disturbed to feel inferior before a man. I do sincerely apologize." The Nether Queen smiled amicably as she apologized.

Enigma couldn't help but choke on the amount of insincerity in her tone. This woman... was too goddamn prideful. But then again, he saw nothing wrong with that, it was how her personality was like. Yeah, that's right.

"...So, you don't feel disturbed any more?" Instead, he forced out a smile and tried to ease out the awkward atmosphere due to the silence. Truthfully, he did not want to know.

"I still do, but it's useless now considering that it was not just a feeling, but the truth." The Nether Queen shrugged off her shoulders as she responded. She then took another sip from her cup of golden tea.

It was a type of tea made with Elven honey. Apparently, something coming from their sacred trees. Unfortunately, they could only be found within the Empire.

And she only had a few herself.

"You think you're below me?" Enigma asked in confusion as he did not understand her words. Sure, he felt like victory was more than 100% if he fought her. But to think so highly of him.

"No need to be humble, I know that you can kill me instantly." She saw through his confusion and cleared it up by adding more onto her words. She truly felt that way, and was not lying at all.

Nor was she being humble. Someone like her, being humble would be going against her own character and being.

'I can?' Enigma was genuinely surprised. Honestly, even now, he has never had a "real" fight that could test his capabilities. Worse, his abilities keep piling up, among those that have not been mastered even yet.

So, personally, as a true god, he felt like his capabilities were only as far as a peak greater deity, maybe around toe to toe with her. That was also why he saw the system's mission as nigh-impossible.

"Yes"

" " " " Yes. " " " "

'....'

But the reply from the sysyem and three strangers living in his consciousness, shook him for a bit. But not enough to make him believe them, they used him afterall, that was what his experience told him. Like Kaguya.

" "...." "

"Anyway, I'm not here to make you feel inferior or anything. I was just passing by, and just so happened to get caught. If you don't mind, I would just take my leave." Enigma finally got out of his trance and tried to smile it off.

He then stood up and dusted his pants, despite sitting on a comfy looking small futon... He was about to leave, but the Nether Queen was not going to allow him to do that.

What kind of a stupid fool would see gold and diamonds, and still watch it leave like that? She was not stupid. Nor was she blind to opportunities.

"I actually do mind." She sipped on her coffee or tea, whatever it was, it's contents were suspicious for a cup of tea. Either way, Enigma expected this when he said the latter half of his sentence.

"...."

Thus he stood frozen on the spot and stared back at her with wonder, amazement and bitterness. He should... really normalize using force to make his point.

"You're quite strong, and kind. How about teaching my children for a while? Don't worry, I'll pay you for your meticulous work, I promise you won't hate it." Done teasing him, she went down to business, lest he really got pissed off and really killed her.

Her thoughts were simple, Enigma defeated not only four lesser deities, one fast, one crafty, one sneaky and one powerfully mighty, along with three peak half deities, he did it without much supernatural powers while being tied.

And don't forget to add on a greater deity to it. Of course, everyone was holding back, as they barely used much of their Skills and Spells. But niether was here.

And he was handicapped. Not only that, he was later crippled, and still wiped the floor with them. As for why did not ask much about his injuries, they were all gods.

The poison used was temporary, and the regeneration of gods were supernatural. So asking was useless.

Even for herself, a peak greater deity, she could not win against them with those said conditions. And most importantly, he did not even break a sweat at all. So, seeing such a talented young man, why should she not use him?

Well, it's not using him if he's getting paid well.

"...I see why not? As for the payment, mind including a map?" Enigma thought on the question for a moment then agreed. He really did not want to leave in the first place right now.

The system's mission was still there, plus, he was also confident of getting the Nether Elves as his believers, IF, and only if, he got to know them better and they got to know him as well.