Gideon scanned with his divine sense and detected the evil god trying to summon more dungeons. He saw Earth's coordinates being opened and many others by this evil god.
There was no battle at all. Compared to the evil god that invaded the otherworld, this one was a tad bit too weak. Even with just the cultivation of a Monarch Realm, he would have been able to vanquish this particular evil god in front of him.
Gideon condensed cosmic energy and compressed it into the form of a dagger, shot it towards the evil god that had no idea he was there and it died without so much as a protest. Its entire being just disintegrated.
Anticlimactic as it was, this is how OP protagonists must be. Gideon had too much power on a single being.
After he vanquished the evil god, he began the return trip. In less than 10 years, he had returned to Earth and continued to develop his network between the few planets he'd connected to it. Through this, he was able to protect the group of planets effectively.
Gideon also reached a new realm of cultivation and gladly entered ascension when he found that his body had become perfect. This meant that his ascension did not require him to shed his flesh but instead welcomed it.
The expulsion that should have happened did not and this effectively made Gideon a literal god among men.
He was directly promoted to Supreme Divinity status and granted sovereignty over Earth. Even the Earth's consciousness finally reached out to him and formed a connection like never before.
When he returned, he was greeted by his family members warmly. His wife Rebecca, their daughter Alice, his sister Deborah, mother and father. Even Jane was there. And then there were Atreus and Dom who now had cultivation levels at the Monarch Realm. They sure weren't slacking off.
The first thing Gideon did was to lock Earth's Spatiotemporal coordinates while enhancing his protective means over it through the Divine Realm and his formations. Not to mention, his significantly improved Gideon's Law which further gave Earth the protection it needed.
However, this move of his closed the doors for Earth's people to be summoned by otherworld's or dimensions. This was a measure that Gideon knew he needed to implement if Earth was to stay peaceful and develop carefully.
Without the threat of the evil gods, Gideon took it upon himself to create Trial Grounds. These Trial Grounds were different from dungeons only in that they did not have creatures and monsters as opponents but illusion formations that test the inner strength and capacity of individuals and rewards them according to their achievements through a series of these tests.
The Age of Heroes was welcomed 10 years after Gideon returned to Earth. Heroes, people who had awakened but couldn't ascend.
After the Sacrosanctum Concillium Vasis Dei was closed after 20 years, the awakened and their patron god's contracts were nullified and their powers retracted. What's left of the lent divinity became catalysts for developing abilities. A million or so awakened became Heroes. However, even then, they were still too little compared to the growing billions.
Police work could never be replaced with heroes. And military responsibility can never be taken from them.
Heroes were given the task of working as superstars and the face of the workforce. In every field, there were heroes. Each field and even the sciences had positions that needed support from awakened. Society as a whole entered a new phase.
It was called the age of heroes because heroes were used by the central government under the rule of a shadow leader. Basically, it was Gideon. He used heroes to become crime fighters, scientists, industrial engineers, doctors, and economists. This way, crime rates decreased in cities where these heroes were assigned at.
Ten years was long, and when Gideon had returned a few years back, he worked hard to create a world where his daughter could live a normal everyday life even with her powers present. After all, Rebecca, Atreus, Dom, and their daughter Alice, all retained their powers because Gideon had ascended.
Atreus became the Grand Marshall of the Earth Military Command. Rebecca was given the responsibility to handle matters of budget and the economy worldwide through the World Bank that Gideon now solely owned. Dominic Calmer became Chancellor of the greatest Academy on Earth since its establishment 4 years prior, Johnsons Grand Academy. Its 390 branches worldwide has become the highest standard for all levels of education.
Alice had also turned 11 years old and was ready for High School. She was scheduled to attend academy in disguise because their name was too conspicuous to avoid being put in a pedestal and worshipped instead of learning and making friends.
Like this, Gideon's life and effort had paid off. However, in life, Gideon understood that without adversary, progresses is stunted. So, he never intervenes in matters that naturally develop in the world. Even his incarnations like 'Gideon' became satellites revolving around Earth 24/7, 365. They served as sentries for when attacks come or intruders enter. In a way, Gideon truly became Earth's guardian.
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Out in the vast void of space, evil gods were born and some died through the resistance of worlds like Earth with sufficient strength to counter evil gods and kill them instead.
One particular evil god was born out of the chaos that resulted in the destruction of a planet.
Shaa!
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In another world, crises happened as evil gods attacked as well. However, because Gideon had closed Earth's boundaries, they couldn't recruit heroes for themselves and suffered greatly. A great lesson to be learned from this was to never rely on others to resolve your crisis.
Several otherworld dimensions also suffered from this. Their reliance on Earth's 'free-for-all' summoning had turned into hate. They blamed Earth for their current situation and has instead diverted their power into trying to break Gideon's seal instead of resisting and taking care of their problem.
These otherworld dimensions should learn to let the sleeping dogs lie and focus on their own problems. Gideon sealing the Earth may seem to be cruel, but it was the only way to resolve the issue that started with his summoning as well.
When Gideon returned to Earth from vanquishing the evil god targeting it, he had yet again relinquished his cultivation and lived with Rebecca and Alice on the Flying Island. He took care of things in the shadows after he developed a new and improved ability that absorbed even his former Gideon's Law: Peak Supernatural Condition.
This was generated when Supreme Divinity and the Emperor Realm cultivation was sacrificed to enhance Gideon's Law.
All of Gideon's aspects reached the peak of supernatural beings. He was at the top. This was after the Ten Orders of Magnitude in Gains ability of his was applied.
This skill contained all his previous abilities and amplified them by ten orders of magnitude. However, as someone who had control over himself and his powers, Gideon could live a life as if a normal human being with his daughter and wife and his family.
That's why, Gideon had the leisure to just live a normal life and let his disciples handle all matters in the world.
At home, he would play with his daughter a lot. He would also help with her homework and train with her in order for her to control her powers properly.
"Papa, this problem is troublesome. Come look!"
"Yes, dear. My angel." Gideon trained his eyes towards the problem Alice pointed out and frowned.
This homework was not well thought out, Gideon concluded. "How could anyone identify this as ripe or raw when the print is in greyscale?!" Gideon complained and Alice also chuckled seeing him like this.
She felt the same confusion as her father and she enjoyed seeing him frustrated because of this.
"Papa, what should I answer with?"
"Leave it blank, my dear! Damn education bureau. They think they can cut corners when it comes to educating the next generation, do they?" Gideon stood up and dialed a number. Just as the call connected, "Bastard! Who did you put in charge of printing the homework of the children?! How could they learn properly when your people cut corners like this? Answer me!"
He was furiously shouting at the phone's speaker.
The other end of the phone was silent while he was spitting on the phone. When he calmed down, the other end spoke.
"Master, it's not my fault. This is the printing department's fault. I'll fire them right away so that in the future, the next employees know how to differentiate between bad and good prints."
"Dominic! You are in charge of education for the whole Earth! Do your job properly!"
"Yes, master. I will, master." Dominic couldn't help but simply admit to a mistake he clearly wasn't aware of. Now that he was made aware, it was most probably for the materials for students in the same age bracket as the little princess Alice.
He moved as if fire was lit under him. The only sleeping dog he wanted to avoid at all cost was his master's daughter. Any problem relating to her must either be immediately resolved or immediately ignored so that it can be avoided. The doting father was simply too much!
Dom ordered and the whole world moved. With but a single command, the education system was further refined and bad fruits were thrown away. The effects were simply amazing.
However, to Gideon who was the source of the bad fruits' troubles was right there acting cute for his 11 year old princess.
Alice had grown to become a beautiful child. She was a genius when she was little and she had become devilishly beautiful as she grew. She was simply the epitome of beauty and brains. Of course this was quintupled in Gideon's eyes.
"Papa, when will Mama and Papa give me a little brother? My teacher said that when both parents love each other they would naturally make more brothers and sisters for us. So, when are you going to make baby brother?"
This question had Gideon's mouth in the shape of an egg. He wanted to answer but did not know how. Out of all the problems in the galaxy, this should be the hardest question to answer for the mighty Gideon.
"Sweetie, it's like this. Currently, papa can't make baby brothers for you without endangering mama's life, so we can't. But that doesn't mean that we don't love each other anymore or you for that matter, okay?"
"But my teacher…"
"No, no. Child. Listen to papa. Mama and Papa are tryi g their best to give sweetie her brother or sister okay? Making brothers or aiaters takes time and effort you know?"
"Really?"
"Yes, really."
"Okay. I believe Papa!"
"That's a good girl!"
Of course, Alice wasn't someone to fall for Gideon's cutesy acting. She was intelligent enough to know that something waa wrong with her father's ability to produce siblings for her. So, Alice went to her room and right after casted illusion spells. She then teleported to her own secret lab.
"I have to continue my research." Alice, who was just acting cute with her father just now, had her facial expression changed to the ice cold beauty she was when her parents and loved ones weren't around.
Alice had been born a genius and she grasped concepts and customs at insane speeds. This included knowledge and techniques. She had already surpassed her mother Rebecca in terms of magic in her 6th year after birth. She was researching how to enhance the body through magic using magic technology. Her goal was to prevent her loved ones from dying of old age and leave her alone in the world.
Gideon had been too good at hiding his own strength. Whenever je spent time with Alice, he was always just at Body Tempering Realm just enough to not be suspected as a normal person and a powerful awakened.
Rebecca however, couldn't control her natural energy emission and couldn't hide her strength properly.
She could only suppress her level of strength to the Seven Circle. In truth, Rebecca's level was beyond Circles already. She had transcended normal magic levels and incorporated formations and arrays in her arsenal as well.
And Alice had already stepped into the Nine Circle level at age 10. With her achievements and her discovery of the wonders of magic's effect on the body, she hoped to extend her parents' life for her selfishness.
So, she acted cute in front of his 'weak' father and acted good in front of her not so weak mother.
"Don't worry, papa. I'll make sure to give you a way to live longer. You can't leave your little angel alone in this world after all. The same goes for mama. Even grandma and grandpa. Aunt Debbie is strong on her own, so she can at least keep up with me."
Alice arrived at her laboratory and continued her research on magic and how to allow it to settle inside the body merging with the blood stream to have a continuous enhancing effect. Of course, she had to experiment on little mice, so there were plenty of mice here that had their bodies deformed or mutated. She kept them alive because of their research value.
"You guys, you're not in pain are you? Eat well and stay strong. When this is all over I'll find a way to ease your suffering, I promise."
Inside their house on the Flying Island, Gideon said something after he took a sip of tea. "Spoken like a true villain in training, my little angel."
He chuckled. He always knee that his daughter was a genius and that him hiding his strength had pushed her to this stage, but seeing as it only did good for her growth, he allowed it to continue.
She was slowly growing out to fill the villain template, but of course, Gideon wouldn't allow her to turn into one.
"My little angel will have to face high school soon. She needs competition. She needs stimulation so that she can make friends in school."
Gideon released an incarnation and set it up to live on the surface. Changed its appearance to the a year older than Alice and enrolled himself to the school through proper means. That meant, scholarships and exams, intensive exams.
After arranging this, Gideon was ready to stimulate Alice's growth and her debut to society.
A month passed and the new school year had arrived. Alice was to go to school. To have a seemingly normal family background, Gideon had Rebecca build a teleportation array in their old mansion and from there, Alice would commute to school like normal children. Although she was accelerated because of her genius, she was not the only one. An 11-year-old genius wasn't rare in this day and age. And many of them attended the same school as Alice.
Alice felt that she should be able to go to school without an escort so Rebecca let her go. She assigned familiars to monitor her at all times just in case. It wasn't for her protection but for the poor soul that tries to bully her.
As she was commuting to school she encountered a young girl sitting on a bus with some men surrounding her and pestering her. She was the same age as Alice yet 'real' high school boys kept pestering her.
Alice's sense of righteousness kicked up and she said towards the boys, "Excuse me, can you buzz off? I want to sit next to my friend." The little girl surrounded by them was surprised and she looked as if she was telling Alice to go away to avoid being implicated.
The genius she was understood this expression and she chuckled in her mind, "What a good girl." She felt that the 'little girl' was worth befriending.
Seeing as the boys just stood still and staring at her, "What? You don't understand simple language? Would you instead like to get beaten up in public while cameras are all over the place?"
Alice succeeded in pushing the hooligans away and she sat next to the little girl.
"Hello, what's your name? I'm Alice. Let's be friends." It was almost in monotone but Alice did as practiced.
"Eh? Ah, my name is Selene. Nice to meet you, Alice. Let's be friends. Ah, and thank you for your help. I'm sorry for involving you."
"No problem! We're friends now after all."
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The boys that were shooed by Alice were whispering to themselves. "That little girl is too meddlesome. Should we teach her a lesson?"
"Lesson? What lesson? We're delinquents we don't even attend class. And you speak of lessons?"
"Aihya! This dumb fuck! I meant to rough them up for them to learn not to be meddlesome!"
"Ah, that's what you meant? Be clear dammit!"
"Sigh. We're too dumb for school. Anyhow, what do you guys think?"
"Yeah, I guess scaring them a little wouldn't hurt."
"Let's just scare them and not touch them okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. It's not like we wanted to approach that little girl earlier. You were the one who wanted to get her number you pedo."
"Who're you calling pedo?!" His voice escaped their circle and everyone in the commuter heard him.
The look in the other passenger's eyes pierced the boys.
"Dammit! This bastard just had to scream 'pedo' and now they're looking at us like pedophiles!"
"Just you wait, we'll teach you a lesson ourselves later!"
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