I woke up after what felt like a long dream, I saw myself surrounded by darkness with no form of light anywhere. I tried to remember who I was and what I was doing here. I am Kairos, an orphan who was talented enough to get funded by the government to study in some of the top schools in the world. I had plenty of patrons in my name by the age of 18, I was supposed to be on my way back to my country of origin and assume a government position to repay my country.
But then, I found myself in this eternal dark void still in the same suit I used to wear before. I looked around and tried to find someone or something to explain my current predicament, then a giant blue screen appeared in front of me. I felt strange, even though there was a giant blue screen I was not feeling anything, no surprise nor anxiety just pure emotionlessness.
"Are you the one who brought us here?" I asked it for there to be no response but then a booming voice erupted from it as it began to speak what it came for.
[ I am the universal laws, formed to govern the universe but as I am just laws and have no consciousness of my own I need a master to whom I can serve. Thus, I have made this system where I can select my master. Atheism in the earth world has over 50% of its population thus all the gods of the old times were wiped out of existence and all of humanity has ascended into godhood.
You are all now planetary gods which means you will be fighting with others of your race to attain complete control of your planet, then you will be promoted to system god where you will compete with other system gods to attain complete control of a galaxy and attain galactic god again you will compete with other galactic gods to finally conquer the entire universe and become my master.
As gods, you will be given domains, the rank of the domain will determine its rarity and power. Domains can range from FFF - SSS, S rank, and above domains are personal domains which means that only you possess this domain in this universe. Furthermore, after gaining a domain you may be able to increase its power in 3 ways. 1st way is to use faith points which are points you gain when people believe in you, the purer the belief the more faith points you gain. These points are also used to enter the normal world and interact with your believers to enhance their belief in you.
The 2nd way is for cultivation, you can only do this when you are in your environment which will happen in one of your realms randomly. For example, you may have a thunderstorm one day spawn in your realm although it would not damage anything of yours it will also not benefit you if your domain is not related to it. And by chance, if you are lucky enough for it to spawn in your realm you just have to sit on your ass for a long time and boom, you have been promoted a grade up.
The 3rd and final way is to kill other gods, when you defeat a god in a divine war you have 2 choices. First is to let him live where he will surrender his realm to you and he will become part of your kingdom, you can tax his faith and cultivation so it will be more difficult to cultivate for him but remember he can rebel against your rule and there is an amount you can take before you can't take any more of his cultivation. This is called the pantheon way, where you can create an entire kingdom of gods called a pantheon. The second is to basically kill him and then you can take his cultivation, domain,n and finally his believer (basically abuse them until they agree to accept you) and add it to your own.
Finally, I will explain to you the guide you will be given. This guide will have 3 tabs, one is called status it will show you, your status including the amount of faith points and other such things. The second is called social which will allow you to not only talk with other humans but also declare a divine war against each other, remember there is no alliance only surrender where you put your realm in the winning hand. The third will show you where your belief has spread and also allows you to view your believer's daily lives, by using faith points you can alter their territory but the higher the alteration the higher the cost.
Thank you for your time, and best of luck.]
After saying this, the giant screen disappeared and I was left to my thoughts. What the fuck just happened? I was an atheist myself and I found myself not only knowing that the gods existed but I was also partly to blame for their deaths. The thought alone disgusted me, yes although most of them were questionable it still makes me nauseous knowing that I may have been the reason for their death.
I forced those thoughts out of my mind, right now I need to concentrate on the bigger issue that I am stuck in a fucking hunger game with other 8 billion people for no fucking reason. I never wanted to be a god, for one immortality sucked and it is quite brutal to live like one and the next thing is I don't need that much power. Now, I won't refuse to be extraordinary as you can probably guess by my genius but I also don't need to be so extraordinary that everyone else is an insect that will make a person lose himself.
I don't think that is possible anymore since I am already immortal and now without an extraordinary power, I might lose my life. "Status" I called out, and a blue screen this time much smaller came into view.
[
Name: Leonis Kairos
Domain: Roll
Faith points: 100,000
]
I looked through the details provided, I don't know the last name of Leonis since I was an orphan but I did not wish to know either. I have nothing to gain from finding them since I am already too old for my mother's care and my father to teach me to walk, I am fine by myself and don't need anyone else in this life. As for the roll button, I clicked it immediately after I saw it waiting or praying…I can't even pray since I am already a god so I am praying to myself to give me luck doesn't make sense.
[ Domain: SSS-RANK {Ethereal and Otherworldly Energies} ]
I rubbed my eyes before seeing the screen again to confirm that what I was seeing was true. I got an SSS-Rank, I was content with a S-Rank but got a SSS-Rank instead. Sign, at this point, I am already shocked from all this happening and this just added to the existing shock and somehow they multiplied and canceled each other out. I don't care anymore, I will give my best and hopefully, I will win. I then got all the information regarding the skill into my mind, I can manipulate ethereal and otherworldly energy from various planes of existence. Ether is the element behind all forms of creation and destruction, a synthesis of both, or the wide system revolving around both Aether and Nether within the Cosmos. Ether is conceived as the middle of both the orderly and chaotic forces of existence, permeating and nourishing planes of existence.
"Status" I called out again to see the window pop up again.
[
Domain: Ethereal and Otherworldly Energies {1st Planet A}
]
That was the only change that occurred before the level and their difference appeared in my mind. Since I am a planetary god my power is maintained in the levels of planets and there are nine planets in our solar system so there are 9 levels to my cultivation, each planet is also then divided into Alphabets from A-Z although with a strong enough power one can easily cross these alphabets and fight stronger gods. After planet, there is star level which I have no information about since I can't reach that state without killing 8-9 billion people first.
I removed all these negative thoughts from my head and focused on the faith points, the law gave us enough faith points to do 2 things only. One is to customize our realm and the other is to write the first scriptures and spread it among people. I got to it, but I did not focus on the social tab for now since people are likely flooding the messages with either help messages or propaganda, there is likely to be absolute chaos and with how delicate my mind is right now I don't want to deal with that.