1 Little Girl in Danger

"Let's see... what's going on there."

Walking while holding his friend's sword, the god named Apta headed for his room accompanied by one of his subordinates.

"Lord Apta, what are you going to do for now? In the world of the void, they are currently going crazy. You should take care of that instead of looking at the state of that world. It doesn't matter to you."

Hearing the voice of his subordinates, who were behind him, Apta slowly turned his head back.

"I'm already too empty, so what's the harm in seeking peace for now? If I keep going with that, demons who can't even respect me, my heart will continue to be empty."

"I understand that, but..."

"But that's more important than what I'm going to do, right?"

"Yes, it is true."

"To hell with that. After all, there's still another god who can take care of that, right?"

"Yes but..."

"That's enough. You just come with me, we'll see the state of the world."

Apta walked away after discussing with his subordinates.

The gods are in charge of keeping the peace, Apta knows that. But for now, in the world of the void is not what Apta wants to do. There were only demons trying to break through to heaven. They've been doing that for thousands of years, and even today they still do it. They don't give up, that's why Apta doesn't want to go there to take care of them.

Apta knows the most important thing right now is observing the humans who live in that world. Apta believes that what he should pay attention to the most in the world, not the world of void. He also believes that the most dangerous creatures in the universe are "humans".

"By the way, Lord Apta..."

"Umm?"

They both stopped before Apta opened the door to his private room. His subordinate named Janu stopped him.

"That sword..."

Janu looked straight at the sword that Apta was holding, and Apta turned around to tell him that it wasn't his sword.

"Oh, this is the God of War's sword. You know, he has a lot of weapons in his arsenal. So, there's no harm in taking one, right?"

"But... he'll get mad later. He hates the most when someone takes his item, you should know that."

"I know it. Don't worry, I already asked permission."

"To the God of War?"

"No, but to this sword."

"..."

The sword can't talk, it's not a living thing, but Apta states that he has asked the sword for permission. It made Janu unable to say a single word because he really couldn't respond to that.

"Never mind, let's just go inside! You don't have to think about this sword, you'll get old quickly because you think about this and that."

"O-Okay..."

They went inside, the atmosphere turned empty.

It was a private room that was always used by Apta. He created the room with his powers to be able to pay attention to the living creatures in that world, Earth. And because the room was made of his strength, the atmosphere of the room felt cold, empty, empty, and filled with a purplish-blue aura everywhere.

"Well, let's get started!"

Standing right on the wall, Apta begins to release his power, his vision of the world.

He managed to open a portal of vision between the room and the world. Having put his powers in several places, Apta was able to see them with his flaming eyes.

"I feel something here. I'll move this here."

Apta threw his power at the wall, thus splitting his vision. It made Janu also able to see what Apta had just seen. The wall became a place for them to see the situation in that world.

"Not here. Not here. I felt something for a while, but it suddenly disappeared."

Apta changed his eyes several times to see the situation, looks like you changed the channel. He was looking for something he had felt earlier.

"I feel a bad aura here. Some people want to do bad things," Apta said in his mind with his eyes still burning.

North, south, west, and east, that's what Apta sees. Every corner of the world is within reach thanks to the power it has put there. Even so, what he saw did not match what he was feeling right now. He sensed that some people had bad desires, but he couldn't see what was happening. That's why he keeps changing his eyes every place in the world.

And just as he shifted his sight to the east of that world, within a 4-kilometer radius of his power, he saw a little girl running in the forest.

"I feel it here, but it seems the little girl won't do anything bad. She just wants to play in the woods."

What he saw was a little girl running, looking like she was running away from something, and what he thought was that the little girl was running just to play. But strangely, Apta managed to catch a bad desire in that place.

"I'm going to move this as far as I can."

Due to his limitation of strength, which can only cover a radius of 4 kilometers, Apta forced himself to exceed his strength, and it worked. Apta managed to exceed the limit of his strength in just a matter of seconds. He had expanded his point of view in that place from 4 kilometers to 4.8 kilometers.

Janu was also amazed by it before he told what he saw on the wall.

"Lord Apta, look over there! There are so many people running and entering the forest as well."

They were within a 4.7-kilometer radius of Apta's power and 700 meters from that little girl.

"Oh, you're right. I feel bad for them."

Apta finally found what he had been feeling for a long time. Those within a 4.7-kilometer radius of its power were people filled with desires from ill will. Apta managed to find it thanks to his strength which he managed to surpass.

"What's wrong with them? They have bad intentions and also carry a lot of weapons. Are they going to war, or are they just trying to get rid of monsters?" Apta asked.

"They..."

Janu gaped and seemed to know something.

"What's the matter, Janu? Do you know anything?"

"Take a look at that little girl again, Lord Apta!"

"Hmph? All right."

Apta obeys what Janu says. He zoomed in on the little girl who was running. He saw a pool of blood strewn at every step of the girl.

"She is hurt," Apta said.

The more he enlarged his vision, the more the wound on the little girl's stomach became.

"They're after the girl," Janu said.

"Oh, I see. So that's the reason why they have bad intentions in their hearts. They're going to do something to the little girl."

Apta sits down after knowing that. He and Janu could only watch the little girl being chased by the people. They know they can't do anything about it, so paying attention is the best they can do.

And soon...

A little girl was caught after fighting with her wounds and exhaustion. She was taken by them to a cave not far from the forest, where there was already one person who was a shaman.

They and the shaman prepared something there. That, between their feet, was a symbol for a summoning ritual. They put the little girl there, right in the middle of the ritual symbol.

After that, the shaman began to cast his magic and made the symbol light up, as if the ritual had begun. And then… the little girl screamed in pain, screamed like she couldn't stand the agony, and her body was filled with lingering curses.

She kept shouting as the ritual went on. She was watched by people who put on satisfied faces. The girl, who had silver hair, couldn't do anything, just waited for her death to come and screamed in pain.

"What are they doing there? Is it a summoning ritual? Who are they going to summon?" Apta wondered.

"Judging by the symbol, they seem to want to summon a god. They sacrificed the little girl's life to summon a god."

"God? Us...?"

"Yeah, a god-like you, Lord Apta."

"I just found out about it. I just found out that humans can summon a god."

"They often do that to ask for a wish. But on average, they fail. They sacrifice children who are still pure, have no sin, never harmed a living being, just to summon a god to grant their wish."

"Has anyone ever managed to do that?"

"So far... nothing. I've already said, on average what they're doing is failing. And the repercussions of that..."

"What?"

"They will open another world portal to their world."

Apta was silent when he knew that. Then, Janu continued:

"Even so, they could never reach the heavens."

"Even so... that other world you mean..." Apta couldn't continue his sentence.

"Yeah, it could be the world of the void, Hell, the place where the demons are."

After Janu said that, while Apta was silent with his thoughts, an explosion occurred in the cave. The ritualized symbol exploded and took out so many demons there.

"It's happening again..." Janu said, looking as if he'd seen that many times.

"Has happened again? What do you mean? You mean, it's happened so many times?" Apta asked.

"Well, that's true. Due to their actions, stupid humans, the demons who were in Hell managed to get into that world. They came out of Hell and lived there, enslaving all living things. It was all because of the stupidity of humans."

"If you knew all that, why didn't you ever tell me? Why did you just sit there, watching what was happening in that world?"

"Because... it's none of my business. It doesn't matter to me at all. What happens there, isn't my job. As your subordinate, who must control Hell, I don't want to have anything to do with that world."

"But..."

"Even if they're from Hell, who managed to get out of there and live in that world, I don't care. That's not my job."

"Even if the world is destroyed because of the demons?"

"Yes, even if the world is destroyed."

"Seriously!?"

Even a god, who was even so empty, could be anxious about what was happening to that world. Apta became restless due to the demons that came out there.

"Damn..." Apta snarled in his mind.