The Path To Perfection

Chapter 31: Gods In Action

"I suggest we come in contact with the Divera family branch as soon as possible and be discreet about it. We might be able to gain a fortune from this discovery alone Hehe," The leader laughed in joy.

The others' eyes brightened. Yes, they might not get to use the machine to live long but they could use the money to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

As for how to use the machine in the first place, that was now the Divera family business.

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Meanwhile, inside Al'ravee's mind.

Al'ravee was shocked at the sight before him. Surrounding him from all sides were numerous gigantic humanoid heads all gazing straight at him with different emotions written on their faces... and all of them were screaming.

The sound he was hearing was already giving him a terrible headache. None of the faces was smaller than a house and the mixture of both male and female loud voices was uncomfortable.

The scene changed.

Al'ravee, in his invisible formless state, observed like he was watching a movie. A white-haired woman shot through the starry space like a comet, leaving a colorful glowing trail behind her. In front of her was a heavily damaged humongous spaceship.

From the looks of it, this spaceship could contain hundreds of thousands of people. But right now, it was fleeing from the white-haired woman in a sorry state.

As both figures moved nearly at the speed of light, the stars around them passed by as brilliant white lines. Al'ravee gaped at the next thing that happened.

Suddenly, the white-haired woman viciously waved her hand from one side to the other, like it was a knife trying to cut through something.

The space in front of her tore open like it was just a piece of cloth, revealing a different part of the starry void. Rushing in, a second spatial tear appeared in the direction that the ship was moving in.

The woman burst out valiantly from the second spatial tear and without any hesitation, threw her small dainty fist at the hem of the incoming spaceship.

*BOOM!*

The resulting explosion was so violent that shockwaves spread out even though there was no medium for it to supposedly pass through.

The woman flew away from the wreckage with a satisfied smile on her face.

As Al'ravee was looking on in shock at such a display of power, the area warped around him and the scene changed again.

This time Al'ravee found himself above the clouds of a planet. On this planet, hundreds of large humanoids were kneeling on the ground, their limbs bound by heavy chains attached to the ground.

Al'ravee remembered that these creatures were called Giants as he recalled the dream-like state he had many years ago.

The giant back then was bigger than these ones and had red skin and white hair. Among these giants, some were red-skinned but their variety wasn't limited to that. Blue-skinned, green-skinned, black-skinned, yellow-skinned, one-horned, two-horned, long-haired, three-eyed, four-eyed, six-eyed, fat, seductive, slim, muscular... There were different kinds of majestic giants chained to the ground with hurt expressions on their faces, a testament to the pain passing through their bodies.

Sitting in the center of all this was an old man in a cross-legged position. compared to the massive giants, he was like a small rat but whenever the giants caught sight of his calm face, they could not help but shiver in fear.

The old man just sat there calmly. Whatever he was meditating on was obviously more important than the bound creatures surrounding him.

Al'ravee's consciousness was sucked into another vision again.

Right now in front of Al'ravee was a pillar, a gray large pillar that would take ten full-grown men to wrap around it holding hands. The top or the bottom of the pillar couldn't be seen as it was just too long.

On the side of this pillar, a sword was stabbed through the body of a little boy and into the pillar. Although the boy looked to be around eight or nine years old, his facial expression did not match at all. His eyes were narrowed, exposing a calculative heart, and his eyebrows were scrunched together in annoyance.

"You bastard. When I get out of here, I'll make sure to crush your soul slowly and painfully, while I screw every goddess you're related to. Just you wait. I won't rest until you are wiped out, you hear me? I won't rest."

The boy shouted out with frustration as he tried to pull the sword out but couldn't.

Due to his anger, his eyes and hair caught fire and spread everywhere.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!" He screamed with vengeance burning within his lit-up eyes.

...

Another scene was before Al'ravee again. This scene showed a large gathering with thousands of people all kneeling. They all faced a distant tall black altar.

Standing on this altar was the most majestic entity Al'ravee had ever seen.

It was a man standing as straight as a spear, his entire body was a deep crystal-like green. Ten arms, five on each side, assembled and formed different hand signs. Some hands faced the sky or the sides while the main two were in a prayer-like hand form.

His eyes were currently closed and behind him was a green divine halo shaped like a disk with multiple strange symbols on it.

'This guy looks like a typical deity described in those books'. Al'ravee thought

to himself.

...

Different scenes of different gods and goddesses in action played through Al'ravee's mind. For now, he didn't know what he was supposed to do with all these images.

Al'ravee paid attention to one scene in particular because it was a scene with two very familiar people in it.

Right before him, Al'ravee saw Krene and Jurdelious.

Krene was standing behind Jurdelious, backing him as they both faced the opposite direction.

They looked a bit different though, Al'ravee noticed. Jurdelious for one was just huge. He was seven feet normally but now, he was five meters tall, almost as tall as a flyover bridge. His eyes were pure black with glowing purple pupils. His mohawk and beard stood on end while the black full body spiky armor he was wearing gleamed with danger. In his hand was a great sword just as big as him with a wide body and blunt edge. No doubt, that sword was meant for smashing.

Krene who stood behind him was also five meters tall but instead of armor, she wore a white robe with a golden lining. Floating beside her was a paintbrush which also glowed with a golden hue.

Surrounding these two were gods like them. They numbered in hundreds, all of them having earth-shaking auras around them.

Then Al'ravee witnessed the most shocking battle he had ever seen. The fight with those martial arts experts would be considered an ant fight compared to this.

*BAM BOOM BOOM BAM!*

The rate at which Jurdelious alone was sending these gods flying was amazing. One hit and they would disappear into the horizon with a sonic boom, probably shooting off into space.

Krene was more elegant, she stood in place as her paintbrush waved about, painting different weapons into existence to combat against the gods.

*BAM CRASH!*

Jurdelious had just slammed his heavy sword on one unlucky guy. The force of the hit caused a large and wide fissure to appear on the desert ground. Al'ravee even suspected that Jurdelious had already shattered the entire planet seeing as he was able to see stars through the fissure.

Al'ravee did not have time to enjoy the sight of his parents beating other gods and goddesses to stupor. The scenes continued changing again. Most of the techniques that he saw, he did not understand.

At most, he understood which law they were using and how they were using their law but some actions were so intricate that it was almost unbelievable. There was still so much to learn.

After countless scenes, it all went blank and quiet.

his head to confirm their numbers, his focus was broken by a very annoying sound.

*SHIIIIIIIIING!*

Like someone was scraping metal against another metal. Al'ravee was forced to open his eyes and he wasn't even surprised at what he saw.

[Current Age: 550 years]