Chapter 420 - One

A strange state of being, becoming one with the world, not part of it, but truly being the world itself, that state of existence is mystical, to say the least, incomprehensible to mortal minds, and while Yunan was still trying to parse his new enlightening state of being, the prison planet turned upside down.

Chaos sprung out like a flood when every god on the planet felt the ascension of Yunan, some ran aimlessly, some slumped on the ground trembling with fear and most just knelt and begged whoever it was to spare their lives, even the creator was alarmed at the idea of someone so great he could project his aura to be everywhere.

The really strong ones took some time to understand that there was no maliciousness in the aura surrounding them, those who knew Yunan did not know what to do, while the rest just waited patiently, beings of this calibre had no interest of gods as lowly as they were, they were bound to leave once they satisfy their curiosity.

Meanwhile, Yunan slowly shifted his mind back to reality, and used the power of his divinity to create his body anew, although it would be made completely from faith, he still incorporated his bloodlines, he even had the audacity to take a bit from each of the forces that bowed down to him, he attached a bit of law to his fingertips, he splashed a drop from the Styx on his mana core and took a snippet of fate to meld into his sea of consciousness.

He took his mortal look, but still incorporated his bloodlines into his body, his skin was made of tiny imperceptible dragon scales, to replace the outer skin cells, he used the phoenix flames to make his body a spiritual one, allowing him all the advantages of intangible spirits.

As Yunan slowly withdrew himself into his new body, the chaos throughout the prison planet died down, by the time he fully contained himself, the rest of the gods had started looking for what that supreme entity thought so intriguing to pass by the planet and made itself known in such a fashion.

No one knew that event was a mere ascension, usually, when gods ascended, they would only cast their minds into their immediate surroundings, nothing as encompassing as what they felt no, it was usually a private matter, one would know about it when the event ended, usually through the faith, as a newborn god would greedily absorb as much of it as possible, causing other gods to find out.

As for Yunan, he had no need to absorb faith, his effort divinity had too much power stored in it, that he had no need to absorb faith to stabilise his new body and consciousness, the effort divinity supplied that power willingly, and thanks to the familiarity and mutual acceptance that Yunan had with his divinity, he immediately stabilised and got using his body as if it was just natural.

When Yunan returned to Dreamscape, he found five pissed off gods, one was wanting to know what in the bloody hells did Yunan do, the other four were angry at being interrupted while they were cultivating their power, it took them a few silent moments to realise the changes in Yunan, especially the absence of mortality, something that has been their way to remember that Yunan was mortal.

Stepping closer cautiously, they all took their time to ascertain that this person before them was truly Yunan, but when they finally confirmed that they grabbed Yunan and sat him down, demanding an explanation, why did he suddenly ascend, he could have said something before going about doing it, if he was attacked during his initial moments, he would have lost more than just his life and divinity.

"Well, I just felt like it was time to do so, that, and I was afraid of what would happen if I delayed any longer, my divinity is already beyond anything that is known about divinities, I feared it would be near impossible to ascend if I was overpowered by my divinity. Turns out I was right, the effort did resist me, it even tried to sway me from advancing, I still believe that if I waited any longer, I would have no chance to ascend using effort, if it let me ascend at all".

"A curious thing indeed, who would have that divinities grew conscious when they grew strong enough, well that matters not, can we still link ourselves back to it?"

"Linking back to effort is not the problem here, what if we link to it and find our divinities under its sway".

"Worse is, if it could influence us, we can become extensions of it, that would be worse than being dead, being trapped inside our bodies, watching as a foreign will takes over for us".

"No need for all the theories, yes, you can still link to the effort, and no, it is not dangerous by any means, you can be certain of that unless I will it, no one will be harmed by using the power of my effort"

Without wasting time, Yunan relinked his followers to his divinity, allowing them to resume their training and him to look deeper into the kind of connection that he formed with his divinity, even the creator wanted to analyse that connection, it was not every day that one could link to a divinity that can cause such phenomena.

The link that the effort divinity was very different from any other divinity. Yunan had shared the divinity of dreams before and neither Satan nor Shiva reported such an incredible and strange situation. With Yunan now being a deity, he understood the fundamental difference between the effort and the dream divinities, one was dependant on outside circumstances, the other depended on the user himself.