278 Side Chapter; The God of Sand and Earth; Omgramids Origins and Fall (1/2)
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The day the mortal named by the System Master as Kireina, conquered the [Forgotten Labyrinths of the Unspoken Dunes Dungeon] after defeating the last boss the Ancient Dragon Athos and then stealing the ownership of the dungeon by using the Skill [Dungeon Snatch] over the Dungeon's Core, the God of Sand and Earth, felt trapped in a horrendous situation that he had never expected through his entire life.
Since he became a Demi-God, this god laid down, hiding on his Divine Realm while growing stronger slowly, he gathered Divine Energy through [Scripted Events] and after working very hard by himself, he created a Dungeon in the Realm of Vida.
With a Dungeon, he finally obtained a stable source of Divine Energy, due to this, he grew lazy and relaxed. The life of a god was simple and easy for him, as he was a loner, he didn't need to obey any other god, neither he had many responsibilities, he only slumbered and gathered Divine Energy, while slowly increasing his power.
And that's how this god thought that he would live for the rest of eternity, after countless years, he would go through divine trials, increase his powers and become a great god, and even later on, a supreme god… Or well, those were his plans.
However, everything turned into a strange direction after his dungeon, which he barely maintained or inspected every once in a thousand years, started to have problems, internal problems.
A Dungeon Boss, the Ancient Light Spirit Nefertiti, freed herself from her room and began to change everything around to her liking, afterwards she even settled down in a Kingdom of her own!
The god was flabbergasted. ”How dare this inferior and pitiful Spirit to go against me?” he said. He did everything he could to kill Nefertiti and send her back to her room after she respawned, however, Nefertiti was intelligent and after gathering enough energy, created powerful barriers that no simple monsters could breakthrough…
”Oh well… I guess that's how it is, it's just a little thing, it's not like she can escape, she will someday die and respawn in the Boss Room…” Thought the god. His lazy and relaxed nature made him give up on the subject incredibly quickly.
However, as if the heavens punished him for his lack of diligence, another problem surged after another… Wild monsters started to enter the dungeon and reproduced inside thanks to the Dungeon's Skills and special traits that increased reproduction and breeding efficiency. The Dungeon was now a mess, the first half seemed to be normal, but as one went down, Undead would begin to appear, and even lower, fire monsters that came from the Lower Realm were happily inhabiting the dungeon as their new home.
As if the problems would never cease, some thousands of years later, the dungeon boss Zakon, the Sand Wyvern, started to act strange, and suddenly figured a way to absorb the Dungeon's Divine Energy. With this ability, it quickly developed and nourished itself through a long period where the Dungeon was completely buried by a mountain and forgotten by the civilizations. As the years passed, Zakon grew stronger and obtained various Skills, gaining more and more authority over his area of the Dungeon, and with the Skill [Dungeon Area Assimilation], it absorbed in the Dungeon's Divine Energy directly from the god himself.
The God was still slumbering as all of this happened, and when he woke up, he felt a big part of his energy completely gone!
Hurrying it up, he tried to get rid of the pest, but never managed to kill it, Zakon was incredibly strong. If compared to the final Boss, Athos, he would be almost as strong, capable of even endangering the life of an Ancient Dragon. No Monster stood any chance against it, and even when the god tried to move him to somewhere or completely kill him with his Divine Intent, it was impossible, as such things went against the rules imposed over Divine Existences by the System.
However, as if the heavens answered his call for help, a mysterious individual entered the dungeon, successfully defeated the first bosses, and then slaughtered Zakon with its group. This was the first time that this god has seen Kireina, who would then become his most hateful enemy.
Thanking Kireina for what she had done, he gifted her plenty of things and treasures. He did not mind as such treasures were meaningless for gods, mere toys that mortal adored for whatever reason.
The god, whose name is Omgromid, was never interested in mortals as much as other gods, and usually did not understand their feelings as much. His origins were different than most, fleshy gods.
As Omgromid was born from the amalgamation of the earth itself in the grand Continent of Vida of the Ancient Genesis, in a region called the Ancient Peaks, where high amounts of Mana flowed freely through the earth, a place where Rockmen are born, an ancient, now extinct, species of demi-humans made of rock and flesh.
Omgromid had been born from an unnatural amount of concentrated Mana, which was Divine Energy caused by the corpse of an Ancient Spirit that had died there long ago. The Mana and the natural Earth Attribute that filled the Ancient Peaks gave birth to a strange Rockmen, the strongest one ever registered in Genesis records, a Divine Species born from the earth itself, Omgromid.
Rockmen were naturally lazy individuals, due to their composition, they slept for very long years, and when they died down, their corpses would nourish the earth and create new Rockmen, this was the strange cycle of their lives. Omgromid was different, due to his abnormal amount of magic energy, although he slumbered for hundreds of years, he never died and never fell into pieces, giving birth to new Rockmen.
Due to his abnormal lifespan, he grew stronger by nourishing his body with the natural Mana in the earth, which he absorbed by directly touching it with his rocky hands. As he broke through Life Walls, he suddenly evolved into a Living Deity Species with incredible ease. Some mortals, special humans, would envy this being if they were to know his story.
Due to the tradition and natural laziness of Rockmen, although Omgromid was the chief of the Rockmen, he never saw them as equals, and when the humans and other demi-humans got to know about Rockmen amazing Mana and Life Energy deeply engraved on their Magic Cores, they were hunted down to extinction.
Omgramid did not care about this, as he hid and kept cultivating, reaching godhood a few thousand years later. Since then, he gathered Divine Energy, got to know more Gods, and then secluded himself on his Divine Realm. He didn't even spectate the destruction of Genesis.
Because of his life story, Omgramid had never gone through hardships, he had an easy, carefree life, that many other gods would envy, as they had gone through countless hardships to reach godhood, while Omgramid only needed to sleep and absorb the energy of Genesis through his special abilities, he was truly a gifted individual.
Omgramid never cared about mortals, and never loved anyone but himself. He saw mortals as mere tools to gather Divine Energy, Kireina was one. He saw her as a tool, a new, little insect that was helpful enough to get rid of this issue for him. Due to the courtesy he had learned from other gods, who taught him to reward the measly mortals when they did something they thought ”commendable”, he gifted Kireina some liquor alongside artifacts and items that the dungeon could easily produce.
”Hopefully she can come again, so I can gather more Divine Energy… It would be nice if some of her party died too, or her as well, that would give nice Divine Energy too… Oh well, I'll leave that to fate…” Thought Omgramid as he went to slumber once again…
However, not even a month passed, and he was suddenly awoken. Kireina came back to the dungeon, and although this would be good news, they wouldn't be enough to wake up a god from his slumber. There was another reason for Omgramid's surprise.
Kireina had somehow managed to refine one of his Dungeon Bosses and enslaved it, the Girtablilu Empress, Nixephine.
”What is the meaning of this? How can a mortal do such a thing!?” He yelled.
Indeed, a mortal would never be able to accomplish such a feat in their entire lives. Only Gods could refine Dungeon Bosses and steal them, but that was impossible because of the System Rules and Restrictions. No one would ever bother Omgramid due to this, and because of this way of thinking, he had never imagined on his entire life, that something like this would happen.
Omgramid, after so many years, felt anger. True anger.
After carefully inspecting Kireina, he discovered terrible things. This ant possessed the [Dungeon Snatch] Skill, who was somehow gifted to her after accomplishing certain conditions. With this Skill, even a Mortal could steal a Dungeon. And because she was always talking with her group that she would do so, Omgramid believed her and became even more terrified.
Omgramid contacted some other gods, who secluded himself similar to him. Each one had a similar personality than him, as they all were lazy gods, with easy-going lifestyles.
”Just kill it!” Said one, who seemed to be made entirely of steel, resembling a talking gray mountain.
”How about you set some traps? Said another, who was made out of countless sea plants, resembling an amalgamation of seaweeds.
”Yeah, yeah… Just do that!” Said the stupidest one, who seemed to be made out of a pile of mud.