"Ahem, my dear subordinates, it is time to renegade on the previous terms of the Universal assessment, how are your plans to hand over the leadership going..." He stood up to address them as He did not want to waste more time with them.
One after another, they stood up with what they had prepared. This was the only important moment they had been waiting for.
"My Lord, concerning resignation, some of us think we should change the terms of service this time and be allowed to choose whether to stay or resign..."
"Yes your Grace, Master Tarino has a point there but some of us are already impatient to go on. We would like for the competition to be brought near. A thousand years would do rather than the few million years we agreed on..."
"May you allow me to say this, as lord Luciana, I thought it was cool to rule but am tired, can we just summon the chosen ones and end our terms once and for all, am even willing to resign now, ruling those demons in my realm sucks, am tired..."
Everyone laughed after hearing this. Didn't you want it, why chicken out now? But no one ridiculed him, it was not an easy task to oversee all over their races.
"Well, we shall try to push it forward to near, I've decided to push it to..." He hesitated for a while as He looked to see how they would react.
All eyes were on Him the moment he paused.
'Say what you gotta say, Lord, why be so suspenseful aah...'
'Since when did the Lord learn to be this suspenseful, did the humans corrupt him again...'
Those were some of their thoughts.
"Ten years from now on, am done goodbye. See you ten years from now..."
He had already left even before they could react, and let them deal with it themselves, did they think He was that bored to deal with their matters?"What ten years, what the hell. I haven't even chosen my candidate yet..."
"Why would it be that near, even my successor is not yet born fuck this..."
"Lord Damiano, let's meet again am going to look for my successor..."
"Me too, let us go together, I don't even know where to get one, this sucks..."
They hurled strings of curses as they tried to come up with some solution.
Ten years, that was too sudden. Ten years could pass while they were in their sleep or having a meal with another god, how could that guy give them such a short period?"This was too sudden but I at least prepared him earlier, hope he doesn't disappoint me..."
She was aware of how bloody and cruel these assessments were. Many would perish during the competitions and the losers would be sent to a very cruel low realm and be stripped of the system they had before it could be given to another candidate.
The selected few would then receive education on the leadership of the universe before they were later inaugurated when the realm master, dimension master, or some god wanted to retire.
It was more of a game, a game to toy with them before they were initiated into the universe and its games.
This was the reason she gave him that core as she felt there might be some changes this time, she had already prepared for the worst.
Unlike most gods and dimension and realm masters who mostly inherited these positions from their families, she started from the bottom. As a human from a small place like Earth, she had to strive against all odds to make it all here with her strength and wits. She knew the human suffering and how hard it was to advance unlike them. She therefore had to at least take care of her own.
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Ye Chen was happily watching a movie in his virtual space with Xiao.
It was some kind of sci-fi universal-level movie involving mecha wars between a technology realm and the mages from the magic realm.
"Xiao, these tech guys are scary indeed, those weapons can easily wipe out a whole galaxy..." He was intrigued by this scenario. For him who was in the military before, he was in love with weapons but seeing how massive the mechs were, he did not even have anything else to say.
Before Xiao answered, he received an emergency call from Lady Jaya.
"Bother Ye, we have an emergency call from our boss!" She had never called before, even Xiao was not sure what it was.
"Emergence call, is she pranking us or something?" He was not sure why but a foreboding feeling was hanging around his mind the moment Xiao said he felt an ominous feeling. Maybe this could be related to what Xiao said.
They looked at each other before he received the call.
An interface flickered showing Lady Jaya who looked to be flying in the air probably.
"Hello kids, how is the going down there?" She smiled at them.
"Mm-hmm, we are okay. What is the matter this time, are you here to scum as again?"
"How can you say that? But there is a problem..." She said hesitantly.
"Spit it out. Why are you hesitating then?"
'What is wrong with this lady, can't she behave like a great being for once, ahh'
"Honestly," She began in a melancholic tone, "I did not expect it would be this soon. There will be an assessment in ten years. Be ready!"
She said that before hanging up.
"Hey, what is that?" She was already gone by the time he asked. He could only turn to look at his brother, Xiao for a solution.
"Xiao, what..." He immediately stopped after seeing how Xiao looked at him with pity.
The ominous feeling grew even more. "Hey, why that look?"
"Brother Ye, you don't know?" Xiao had a questioning look at this moment.
"Know what Xiao? Just tell me, okay!"
'What is wrong with these people today, can't they just be straight?'
"The assessment simply is the summoning of all beings bestowed with a system to be assessed. Those who lose are discarded while the winners are given a chance to rule the universe..."
Xiao did not hold back and told him everything he needed to know.