Freedom

-Some time passed while Rione and Eron grew closer and closer. Eron's goal to get them on their side was successful and the human kingdom strengthened their ranks.

"Master Eron... do you have a minute?" When I looked at her, she was kneeling in front of me with her head down.

"Keep it short, Rione."

We already have so much mana united in one place... Isn't it enough for our master to rise again?"

"Rione. We can't sacrifice all the mana of our forces because we need them to conquer the realms. You should already know that."

What do I expect from a woman anyway... and then the woman of that Musashi.

"But... what do we do next, master?" she looked at me in search of help.

I approached her, and put my hand to her chin to draw her gaze to me.

Patience. With today's eclipse, the Lord will need your powers to break his bonds."

"I may... free our Lord?" her eyes lit up as she rose.

"This task is sacred and left only to you, Rione." I put my hands on her hips and pulled her closer to me.

"Your blade can do more than you think, little one. It will break the bonds imposed on him by the other gods. And once you free him, he will give you the power that each of us seeks. The power of a god."

"And what about you?"

"My fate is none of the business of a woman like you."

The scriptures do not say what would be granted to me... yet I believe that the Lord will make me the most powerful of His forces.

I pushed this disgusting woman away from me and went to the statue of our Lord.

"O, Lord. The time is near to give us the paradise you have always longed for."

The sun was getting closer and closer to its highest point. It is time.

I went to our balcony and looked down on our newly built kingdom. Within a very short time, a wasteland had become a new kingdom. Buildings towering higher than ever before.

I used magic to amplify my flick so that the entire realm could hear it. It was the signal I give the people to gather.

In no time, all my subjects made their way to the square in front of our castle.

Today is the day when our Lord will rise again! We will subdue and receive him with our entire people!"

These maggots cheered as if the Lord even cared about them.

"Behold the heavens! Look how the eclipse will usher in a new era! May the Lord lead us to his paradise!"

You could see how the moon slowly moved in front of the sun and covered it. A spectacle, which will now herald a new era of peace and perfection.

-The earth shook as the eclipse began and the human kingdom was holding its breath.-

"The time has come!" I said, calling the key to me.

"Rione do it."

"Yes, master," she replied.

She summoned her world blade, which was now bigger than our lock.

"Point it at the moon and open a new age Rione!"

She fired her blade and cleaved the moon. At the moment when the halves of the moon revealed the sun again, a silhouette was seen in front of the sun.

"Our Lord is free!"

The people cheered and some of them began to cry as well. Now the time has come for our Lord to give us paradise.

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I saw the light of this world again. After thousands of years, I can move. I am free.

That idiot of Eron actually managed to break my bonds.

I approached the people below me and my realm. The wind passes through my hair and also welcomed me with open arms. Soon those bastards will regret having imprisoned me.

You have freed me and now it is time to keep my promise to you humans.

Eron and the rest knelt before me while I hovered over them.

"My lord, I have managed to free you," Eron said to me.

"You did."

What reward will I get?" you could hear his disdainful grin.

He always disgusted me with his obsession with power.

"Your reward will be salvation from this world."

Paradise?" he asked me, looking at me hopefully.

"No, your death."

With a wave of my hand, I tore his body apart and separated his upper body from his lower body. His blood splattered all over the people and Rione was also covered with the blood of this maggot.

The people looked up at me in shock. Instead of being afraid, the people rejoiced.

It was clear from my puppets that they are perfected.

Rione, however, could suffer definite psychological damage.

I looked at her covered in guts and blood.

"Wh-what did you do..."

"I redeemed him as he always wanted to be redeemed."

"He expects paradise and served you."

"And now he is waiting in the realm of the dead for his own kind."

"But that's not right..."

I used gravitational magic to grab her by the neck and pull her to me.

Know your place." I tightened my grip on her neck and choked her harder and harder.

Gasping for air, she begged me to stop.

"Do you need your mark? Do you need it to be obedient, woman?"

"No...no...no."

I threw her through the lock and she flew several hundred meters away.

She tried to get up in agony.

"How dare you defy my punishment?"

I was already behind her and used gravity to push her back to the ground.

,, Swear your allegiance to me."

,,I...I...swear..."

Then it's time for your mark," I said, looking down at a desperate girl pressed into the ground below.

"I...obey...without..."

"Oh, you do? I don't care." I also burned my third eye on her forehead and turned her into my puppet.

"Your humanity should be extinguished."

I gave her a fraction of my divinity, making her a lower Deity. A god of war among my ranks should be useful.

-Rione's body rose and flew slowly into the air as a crown formed on her head, her eyes turned ice blue, and her hair turned to silver.-.

Good, then we already have one," I said, a little relieved.

I still had to teach her obedience, but perhaps that would be remedied after a while.

With a wave of my hand, I let nature blossom again and my castle was repaired from the fractures caused by this inferior body.

I teleported back to the people and used Celestia's gaze to analyze the cores of the people below me.

One is weaker than the other...although there are some cores among them I could try...

Let's see how it looks with him.

"Rise... release yourself from the earthly bonds and come to me," I spoke as a young man floating in front of me.

I put my hand on his forehead and also gave him the status of a lower Deity. This process can only work on a body that, after reopening its mana veins, could gather enough mana in its core to stand.

His hair turned silver with a turquoise sheen. On his forehead, a symbol formed that resembled an eye with branches that stretched across his forehead.

Under his eyes, turquoise edges also formed, while his eyes shone a brilliant green.

"The seer, then," I observed.

His characteristic is his eyes and with them his ability to see everything that is happening at the moment. I will use it for surveillance.

"Your new name is Argrona".

"Yes, master."

My lower Deity, upon their rebirth, will become directly obedient which will make the process much easier.

I will create a group of gods who will gather under me and lead the realm in my name.

Why should I do all the work when my subjects could as well?

A woman under me should work... though her Core doesn't exactly shine, it should suffice.

"Rise."

I started the process again but her face deformed disgustingly. Her eyes melted and ran down her face as she screamed in agony. Her arms shortened, her legs became hooves and her hair began to burn.

Oh, a failure... what a pity for you. You were so close to breaking your human chains. Let me free you from your suffering."

I compressed her body and crushed all the bones and limbs on her body. After that, I burned her in the fire of Hel and nothing remained of this freak.

"Next."

-The process of gathering a group of lesser gods continued, while the Heavenly Realm was aware of what was happening.-