223 Retaliation (2/2)

”I have to thank Apophis, his introduction to the power of faith is certainly handy, and thanks to all of you, I can now do this”. Yunan used his infinite mental strength to go over his memories, spells and skills, and everything he learned, he took this chance to practice as much as he could, one of the things that resulted from such high-speed learning and development was his better understanding of the power of faith. The power to ascend into godhood was something that leaves its traces in the world, it would leave an imprint with each action the ascended took, this can be seen most visibly by the example of Fortuna, if she bought from a shop it would become lucky for a time and gain new customers, if she watches a play someone with high standing will take a liking to the troop and buy the place to help them become famous. Such things are random acts of luck that can only be attributed to the brand of faith power each ascended has, the god of death would cause deaths, the god of healing would cause the sick to heal by crossing paths, the goddess of truth would make secrets come to light around her.

If we take that as an example then anyone watching this dream world has a bit of their consciousness and power imprinted on the world, and if Yunan had enough mental power he could ”will” them all to join him, trapping them with him in the dream while he becomes the god in this world, changing it so that no one can exercise their power or will in this place, as soon as he did that, he was now watching as the deities scrambled for a way to exit this plane that literally turned them mortal, if Yunan willed it they could die as their consciousness has been fully dragged into this place.

However Yunan did this as a form of warning to them ” now that you know how strong my will is, I propose that you stay away from me and my own, I have no reason to threaten you, but just keep in mind that I could do this with your own power, and I can do it again, so, you can be sure that the next time you try to use me for fun is not going to end as peacefully as this one”.

Yunan broke the dream world and sent everyone back to their bodies, although he did something naughty to the gods, in retaliation, he took a tiny bit of divinity from each god and added them to himself, although most were minor deities the power they had was of the same origin, and therefore had the same effect. He hid all that power deeply inside himself to be locked and used only if he decided to ascend or if he was in trouble with a god.

Upon waking up Yunan found himself still on the bosom of Venus with the rest of the group looking at them as they slept, he first shook himself away from her and went on hugging and kissing his loved ones, he had spent a month without them even if they thought it was merely a few minutes of sleep, he chose not to care about Venus, simply because she was not worth the time he should be spending with his beloved ones.

Special note.

Hello there dear readers, I was taken aback about how bad was the reception of the start of the new arc, that I decided to just remove it and end it early. Although it might be wrong to do that, I do not hesitate to do so because this novel is meant to be enjoyed and not provoke such negative feelings.

Well to be honest I was planning on a test/examination arc, where Yunan is trapped in a dream world with a different identity every time he solves the previous dream, the plan was to have Yunan be part of many kinds of novels, and had basically prepared a full 50 chapters worth of all the possible tropes, from the top of my head I had things like reincarnation, system novel, VR games, gender bender, cultivation, reincarnation into a monster or animal or a plant, living inside an established anime/novel, I even was in negotiation with a fellow writer, I was really looking forward to this.

I used the fact that nothing happened to Venus in return for her trap as an indication there was no harmful intent nor there was a threat to Yunan or his safety, otherwise the luck he had would have got him out of it, I have painstakingly established that getting beaten without harmful intent would not trigger the luck retaliation, but it seems I have done this the wrong way and I apologize for my blunder, I hope in the future that I can reintroduce this project and let you all enjoy my silly writing style in all types of different genres.

The true goal of this arc was to answer the question what if this was [enter genre here] novel, and I also wanted a change of pace, this arc may have not been overshadowed but ad it has been established with Hermes that a god can just pop up out of nowhere and demand to be entertained, unfortunately I seem to have to re-establish those ideas through more chapters and very long winded explanations like this one, which I know no one wants to read, well since it was a failed project let's not dwell on it too much and continue with the novel onwards.

As you might know I seriously answer most comments that have something to say and like all comments, even neutral ones, so if you were interested in the project but did not say so, then please, comment of not just upvote the comments that shares the same opinion, I know that there are hundreds who read daily and give me their power stones because they love the novel, however, I can not read minds and therefore I beg you, please make your thoughts heard in the comments even by a simple upvote that way I can strive to make this novel into the best it could without losing the interest of my readers.

Thanks for reading this huge mess of a note and please consider its contents, also you can leave your impressions in the discord channel, if you want more I can even make a Facebook page for it, anyway, I want to hear your opinions and ideas about anything and everything, it doesn't matter if you think its stupid or what not, just share it, I am blessed by a good and well-behaved readers.

Thank you, sincerely Yasser.