552 Fated Encounters: Nyzzets Labyrinth Conquest 14/?: Nyzzets Pas (2/2)

”What a pain… but okay, I will try,” said Nyzzet. In that time he had just reached Rank 7 as a Living Deity, he needed two more ranks to reach Demigod Rank, and then another nine ranks were needed as a Demigod to reach the Rank of a God, which was the 'safest' rank in terms of strength.

Most of the god's population were demigods, so becoming a god would make you stronger than most of the population, meaning that you would be safer and fewer gods would seek to mess with you… or at least that's how Tiamat thought about it.

Nyzzet understood Tiamat's purpose in saying such words, and decided to accept his mother's help in cultivating his Divine Realm so he could slowly reach Rank 9, become a Demigod, and then a God.

Due to Tiamat being a Great Goddess with many family members, territory, and strength, her resources were vast, and she easily granted them to her son so he could cultivate faster by nourishing his Divine Realm quality.

Gods were able to raise through the ranks by not simply 'cultivating' but by nourishing, improving, and taking care of their Divine Realms. The more materials, the more animals and monsters, and the more fauna were added, the richer the Divine Realm quality would become, and the quicker the god would raise through Ranks.

Of course, Nyzzet also had to fight against a Divine Trial every Rank he reached, but with the help of Tiamat or his siblings, it was as easy as a walk in the park.

He didn't go through many real-life challenges, and his nature as a lazy dragon fermented even more through this lack of experience.

When Tiamat finally left Vida to deal with some troubles stirring in other Realms due to some of her children, Nyzzet had just reached the God Rank at the lower Rank level of 1.

His Divine Realm had grown a lot since back then, as it was immensely large and extensive, with many flora and fauna of the Thunder Attribute that he had acquired through trades or as gifts from his older siblings or mother. The Divine Realm became his new home after Tiamat left with her Divine Realm elsewhere, and he made sure to slack off a lot in it, slumbering for many years through many generations.

Because he had become so strong, despite not having much experience, most of the gods didn't want to mess with Nyzzet, and because he was so silent and secretive, no one could ever find a good reason to start looking for a fight with him.

After a few years, the World's Will come with the order that forced most gods to create their own Dungeons and Children to nourish the world and foment growth.

Nyzzet was rather pained about this but managed to create children by finding a female partner which he only met a few years before both went their own ways. There was not anything romantic about their relationships and both just wanted to fulfill the tasks given by the World's Will.

However, Nyzzet slowly changed as he took care of more and more of his children, the Thunder Dragonoid. His heart slowly melted the icy coverture it had, and he became a rather lovable parent, despite not showing many emotions to his children.

He used his resources and abilities to foment their growth while also giving them a dungeon for them to grow strong.

After many years and many generations of Thunder Dragonoid, some of them managed to reach godhood, becoming Living Deities that accompanied his father on his Divine Realm.

Nyzzet slowly started to build a larger family of those near his level of power… and had even considered creating his own pantheon, as he had long ago left the pantheon made by his siblings, not because of a dispute, but because he wanted to be alone.

This desire of 'wanting to be alone' perhaps saved him a lot of troubles throughout his life, such as the events where his siblings betrayed each other, killed each other, and many other things… he could have been one of such victims as he was rather weak even as a God, but his personality allows him to live through many years despite his weakness.

However, for some reason, Demon Gods became more active as time went on, especially those that were Lone Gods who actively looked for weaker gods to prey on and grow strong… the laws that bid gods through the World's Will were weakening due to the World's Will becoming less strict, and the System slowly merged itself with the world, making things more chaotic and giving countless opportunities to anyone to grow stronger.

Due to seeing such cases of Demon Gods capturing mortal tribes and asking for bribes from their parent gods, Nyzzet decided to prevent this from the beginning, moving all of his children inside his Divine Realm.

The dungeon was left mostly abandoned, until tribes of humans around the Vast Plains began to use it for their resources, and even created their own town around the dungeon to always extract resources from it. Through this cycle, Nyzzet gained Divine Energy passively despite leaving his dungeon abandoned.

Many years went by like this, but things slowly became even worst, as news and events about groups of Demon Gods led by mysterious Demon Gods that we're able to break through Divine Realms an invade unsuspected gods while they were peacefully resting inside their Realms came to Nyzzet's ears.

He slowly became paranoiac as he wondered when it would be his turn… until he got to know about something even more frightening, Kireina… but at the same time, it was perhaps the opportunity he needed.

After finally being able to join Kireina's pantheon, Nyzzet was now quite relaxed about his future, as Kireina amassed more and more power, alongside many gods as allies.

He also found out some of his former siblings in such pantheon, but he was glad that they didn't hold any grudges against him because he left their pantheon before all the chaos were to happen and didn't help them when they needed help the most.

And now, as Nyzzet relaxedly saw how Kireina cleared his dungeon, he felt the presence of something eerie for a split second.

Glancing at the last twenty floors, he could have sworn that he saw a strange and shadowy figure lurking around.

”What…? Could it be a new monster mutation? Perhaps it was my imagination” thought Nyzzet.

Nyzzet checked the floors only to find many monsters fighting against each other as always, and a strangely strong dragon winning.

”Oh, perhaps a youngling with talent has appeared? Their territory will be stolen, it seems” said Nyzzet, who found amusement in glancing the monsters inside his dungeon fight for territory from time to time…

But what he did not know is that this 'youngling' dragon… was more than just a new monster born in the dungeon, but because Nyzzet was far away from his dungeon, he could not discern things as detailed as before…

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