"Are you sure about your decision?"
Tina asked Kanzen her tone serious looking straight to his majestic golden eyes, as she continuously taps the wooden table beside her, clear unease can be recognized from both her behavior and expression.
"Yes, I'm certain about my decision, there's no use holding back anymore. I already have something that I must protect, continuing in playing around isn't good anymore."
He replied, clenching his fist tight, a determined look on his face.
"*Sigh* I guess the sooner, the better. You might have something to protect now, like most people, then the only thing left unknown is your final goal.
But that can wait for the future, now let's get this going."
Tina really do agree to his action, the reason she's even asking him is to make things clear early on.
She could only hope that things would turn out just fine, and even if not, they could just find a way to solve any problems that might arise.
"Ok, it's time, now's the time for you to shine, idiot goddess of wisdom."
Tina said, motioning for goddess Brigid to come over.
"… We need your blessing!"
"Eh, do you even need my blessing?"
She couldn't help asking, after what she had witnessed in his life recollection back in the trial of acceptance, she finds the notion of giving her blessing to Kanzen a laughable manner.
"You are really an idiot, are you?"
"Can you stop calling me an idiot at least once, please!"
Goddess Brigid asked back in a force sincere tone, her expression as red as a tomato due to the embarrassment she felt doing something she is unfamiliar with and out of her character.
"I will stop if you stop behaving as such.
For real, did you not notice Kanzen had reincarnated in this world anew.
You're supposed to be a goddess aren't you!
You should be able to tell that much.
He is not as strong as before unlike what you saw in that recollection, he might be strong right, but that's only due to his vast battle experience and extremely develop mastery over various skills that he inherited from his previous life.
His current power can only take him up to SSS grade Level 5 at most if he goes all out, while such power isn't to be trifold with this world is full of dangers, a mere level 5 powerhouse is nothing but a big fish inside a small pond."
Understanding what Tina is trying to convey, Brigid could only nod, it ain't like blessing takes a toll on her, she's just apprehensive to the fact that she must treat her lover as her own child the moment she blessed him.
She hoped another goddess appear and take her place, she did not care if that goddess also falls for him, so long as her status as a patron goddess of Kanzen is revoked it did not matter to her.
This is also one of Tina's schemes, she had anticipated this reaction from Brigid, that's why she tried doing everything to push the matter in hand into fruition.
She did not want for Kanzen to develop a strange behavior like becoming addicted to sex or sort, she wanted for him to live a carefree life and not a life restricted by his own develop desire that might turn into addiction.
Likewise, she plan to punish both Monica and Nero about what had happened to them, while she's curios on what had they become after the evolution, properly lecturing them comes first in her schedule.
…
"It's done!"
Goddess Brigid said, she dismounted from Kanzen's back, freeing him from her weight.
"I have already expected something insane, but isn't this just too much."
Brigid said with a sigh, recalling Tina's claim that Kanzen possessed the prowess of an SSS grade level 5 if serious.
She found the topic of a level 0 fighting a veteran level 5 and losing a chilling matter.
She could only console herself by reminding again and again inwardly that Kanzen once possessed power rivaling or even surpassing Primordial God's in his past incarnation.
Treating him based on the common sense she knew isn't healthy.
Tina rudely grabbed the paper from the goddess's hand that contained Kanzen's status.
Kanzen Starlight Valentine
Level 0
Statistics:
Strength: SSS – 8,102 Defense: SSR – 10,890 Dexterity: SSS – 9,940 Agility: SSS – 9,954 Magic: SSR – 45,890
Special:
Luck: SS Charm: EX. Charisma: SS
Skill:
Primal Instinct: F Void Traveler: F Prime Predator: F Origin Tongue: D Telekinesis: D True Arcane Mage: ?? Sovereign's Domain: ?? Zenith Weapon Mastery: ??
Title:
- Hero Of Salvation (Heroic)
- Friend Of Spirits (Unique)
- Kin Of Nature (Unique)
"Some of your skills turned into titles!... wait a minute, titles! I don't remember titles being a norm of this world."
Tina muttered confused, if her memories serve her right, there's no such things as titles in a status of blessed children.
"Your too outdated…! Ever since that strange pillar of light exactly 101 years ago descended, the mortal world entirely change, it is not as fragile as before."
"If before the gods are restricted from using their Arcanum due to a contract between gods, now however things are different.
The very laws of the mortal world forcibly restricted gods from using their Arcanum, or to be precise, gods couldn't really use it."
Hearing goddess Brigid's claim, both Tina and Kanzen had their eyes widen in utter shock.
Tina grabbed goddess Brigid in the shoulder as she asked.
"You say a hundred years ago a pillar of light descended upon the mortal world?"
"Um, yes. Hey, you're scaring me Tina, what's the matter?"
Brigid felt helpless and fearful of Tina's sudden action.
"Ouch, you're hurting me."
"Big sis, Tina, let her go you are hurting her."
Kanzen even though just as surprised as Tina herself manage to reign over his mind, grabbing Tina on the wrist trying to calm her down slowly.
"Um, I am deeply sorry about that, I did not mean it."
Finding Tina suddenly apologizing to her after being separated made Brigid regain her bearing.
She found both of their reactions strange and suspicious, so she asked.
"So, what's going on to make both of you this flustered?"
Tina and Kanzen just look at goddess Brigid in eyes, ignoring her completely, before shifting their focus onto each other.
Goddess Brigid finds this action of them more and more questionable.
"Do you think my status as an oblivion is the reason for these changes in this reality! Big sis, Tina!"
"I suspect as much, but it happened 101 years ago before we even arrived here, so the possibility of you being the caused is most likely not true.
And the reasoning that this world is not the one we knew isn't that applicable.
The changes are just too wide apart that it made no sense.
Something this major should have been written or documented."
"Right, the date doesn't match up, the course of the world change completely."
Kanzen murmured now in deep contemplation trying to figure out what had caused the sudden shift in the course of history.
"I couldn't understand what you two are getting at but if you're that curious about what had happened 101 years ago I don't mind doing a story telling."
Saying so, goddess Brigid began narrating the events that concluded 101 years ago.