424 Meeting with Gods (1/2)

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That Belle was capable of using Divine Energy right away was to be expected by seeing that my other children had gained the ability to do so, but I did not expect to see it so soon.

The more milk she drank, the more her Divine Energy flourished… I was tempted to ask for a sample of Adelle's milk.

But I suppose that such power does not come from the milk itself, but because the milk is finally activating Belle's stomach and her metabolism.

Her Divine Energy seemed to combine both light and darkness, creating strange mirages.

It is quite interesting that my children are still capable of leveling up while producing vast quantities of Divine Energy.

According to the Gods, this should not even be possible. The only mortals capable of manipulating Divine Energy and producing it are Divine Species which my children do not seem to be due to their race titles.

And even if they were, Divine Species are not capable of producing Divine Energy to the extent that my children are capable of, barely being able to use it to enhance their physique or normal magic a bit.

The most strange thing of all is that their mothers neither I am capable of producing Divine Energy… but I am capable of doing something similar with my soul, which had gained a demi-divinity and such power had increased more as I've eaten Divine Soul fragments from the gods.

However, to finally begin producing it, I think I would need to evolve… But for now, I can teach my children how to use it through God's instructions.

Glancing at my precious Belle peacefully drinking the milk of the sleeping Adelle, I could not move away from my position.

However, I decided to create a second body to do the activities I had planned for today, alongside having breakfast with everyone.

I stayed with my first body with Adelle and Belle, while I left with my second body with Amiphossia and the rest of my family towards the Dining Room, where we had a nice breakfast and later on took a relaxing bath.

Having two bodies is something amazing, I feel like I have four eyes, and two of them are in a different area glancing at something else.

Well, I think that is not a good description.

Belle had been just born and she was now sleeping, I couldn't do much than to take care of her and her mother with my first body, while I moved by the second body with the rest of my children towards Morpheus's Dungeon.

I decided to go to the beautiful third biome, where long and vast plains covered in large lakes rest.

The artificial sun was especially strong today, and it was the perfect day to take a dip in the lakes as if it were summer.

But I came with them for something else, as I wanted to teach them 'Divinity Devouring' while helping them in manipulating their Divine Energy.

”Mommy, but I already learned that Skill!” said Vudia.

”Okaay…”

I expanded my Soul vastly around, since I devoured the Soul of Megusan, it had become something completely different than before, I could expand it almost endlessly if I wanted, and cover the entire biome.

I shaped my Soul around as if it were an ethereal slime, six tentacles were released, which I easily cut off with the Soul Attribute Magic Spell 'Soul Division'.

”Hmm… mother, is it really okay to eat this? I feel like it may give us indigestion…” muttered Ryo.

”I won't let you leave if you don't learn Divinity Devouring!” I said.

”Okay…”

Ryo grabbed on the piece of soul, which resembled a formless mass of darkness, and other colors such as crimson, purple, and pink.

”D-Do I just eat it with my mouth?” he asked.

”Big brother, are you afraid of something? Nom, nom… Mommy, can I have some more? It was delicious!” said Ailine, who had already eaten the piece of the soul like an obedient young princess, and even asked for seconds.

”Of course! Here, have some more, it is almost endless anyways” I said, giving Ailine some more.

”Y-You already ate it?!” Ryo said, bewildered.

”Common brother! Don't be such a bummer!” said Valentia, munching on the soul piece.

”It has… a fishy taste?” analyzed Aarae, tasting a piece of my soul.

”It tasted very sweet to me! Can I have some more? I think I can get the Skill with another piece!” said Amiphossia.

”A-Alright, I will eat it… I guess there was not any need to worry… Nom. Hm?! W-What is this taste?! It's like freshly grilled dragon meat! D-Delicious!” shouted Ryo.

”Oh my, I'm so honored that my beloved little son likes his mother's soul!” I said while sharing more of my Soul around.

Each time I cut off pieces, they would quickly regenerate by using Soul Energy. But to regain Soul Energy, I needed to either rest for very long times or eat souls.

While feeding my children with a nourishing meal, I opened my Item Box and took my 'Nether Sword of Undying Pain', which was my main tool to store Souls. From there, I began to devour the thousands of souls I had saved in there.

Sometimes I do not even need to hunt by myself to gather them, as I can easily catch them whenever someone kills a monster in the Grand Forest with one of my Phantom Bat Slime Clones specialized in catching souls.

Of course, they cannot catch particularly strong souls, but those of monsters, who are usually weak, are not a problem.

Feeding in them made me quickly recover Soul Energy, and I was able to generate more soul pieces for feeding them.

As the degustation continued, everyone pointed out that each Soul piece would taste different, some would taste sweet like candies, and others greasy and salty like meat.

After a few hours, everyone had successfully learned the 'Divinity Devouring' Skill at level 1, and Vudia leveled it to level 2.

I considered the idea of feeding them more until they hit the level cap… but it could be detrimental to me for now, so I moved that idea for another occasion.

”Aside from the Skill, I got some titles and a fragment of Demi-Divinity named 'Chaotic Venomous Chimeras',” said Amiphossia.

”I did as well…” said Ryo.

”Me too!” said Vudia.

”Is mommy divinity about Chimeras?” asked Ailine.

”Yeah, I wonder if it would give us something?” asked Aarae.

”Perhaps we can create Chimeras? Or become one!” said Valentia.

”Well, I wouldn't like to suddenly mutate into a Chimera, hopefully, it's nothing much” muttered Amiphossia.

”Hm, if all of you obtained a fragment of my demi-divinity, it means that your own divinity had strengthened due to that, try out releasing your Divine Energy again…” I said.

Everyone began to generate a sphere of Divine Energy, each sphere seemed richer and stronger than the one I recall from before.

”I see… it was indeed strengthened. Anyways, according to the information I took from the Gods, all of you already have enough Divine Energy to be considered Demigods, which means that you will begin learning special Divine Techniques! Something that not even I can learn yet, lucky you!” I said.

”R-Really?” wondered Ryo.

”Are we considered Demigods? This is rather flustering…” muttered Amiphossia.

”So I'm a Goddess now! Hehe!” laughed Vudia.

”N-No, Vudia, I don't think it works like that…” said Aarae.

”Can we bless people now? I want to bless Acathea!” said Ailine.

”Oh? If we can bless people, I'm going to bless my whole party!” said Valentia.