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This time, Ryo waited out all twenty-eight days of the Campione world's cycle.
He spent those last days giving Athena more time to merge her Authorities while quietly meditating on the essence of his Cosmo. And just like that, the final day arrived.
Three hours before the deadline, Ryo sat atop a mountain gazing into the fiery sunset.
"So, it's finally time, huh."
He smiled faintly, then steadied his mind.
Closing his eyes, he focused his awareness between his brows, sinking deep into his soul until his consciousness stood before his spirit core—a black, diamond-shaped crystal spinning slowly in the void.
Sitting cross-legged before it, his soul murmured softly: "Let's begin."
Without hesitation, he plunged his consciousness into the crystal, connecting to the residual power of the Little Garden's core.
In an instant, his vision expanded beyond his body.
He saw Athena and Alice drinking tea inside the little mountain shrine.
Liliana and Hikari were sparring halfway down the slope, with Erica and Lancelot watching from the side.
Behind the mountain, Leviathan was washing up in the pool while Luo Hao practiced her martial arts nearby.
Then the view widened—past the mountain forest, past the sky.
And soon, he was looking down at the planet itself.
A beam of light suddenly tore through the void. A pillar stretching from sky to earth pierced the entire world, and countless parallel realities appeared in its wake.
He glimpsed one world after another—each containing a different King of End. Some worlds had no gods or myths at all. In one, he even spotted Aisha being chased frantically by divine beasts.
"So that's where you ran off to, huh?" Ryo thought wryly, watching as the light pillar pierced through the endless worlds, merging them into one unified system.
Then, on the right side of his spirit vision, the familiar Dimensional Forum popped up again, messages chiming rapidly:
〚Observation of World No.002 initiated...〛
〚Absorbing divine faith energy… absorption complete!〛
〚To maintain stability with the Little Garden's core system, distribution ratio set at 9.5 to 0.5〛
〚 Allocation in progress...〛
Ryo stared blankly at the numbers.
"...You raised the cut again? You really are robbing the poor Little Garden blind."
Last time he remembered, the split was 9 to 1. And now it was 9.5 to 0.5? So it could change, huh?
Amazing. Capitalism at its purest form—the Forum was basically the god of corporate greed.
Before he could grumble more, another message appeared:
〚Prompt: Would you like to obscure your influence in this world to prevent tracking by higher beings?〛
"Oh? A new feature?"
Apparently, the Forum had learned its lesson. Knowing he might be tracked by double-digit entities, it was now offering privacy protection.
Without hesitation, Ryo hit Confirm.
〚Identity now being obscured according to World No.002 parameters. 'King of End' authority locked. Initiating True Name concealment.〛
Ryo raised an eyebrow.
"So the concealment is based on my current identity as the King of End, huh?"
This time, no double-digit beings interfered, and he successfully witnessed the end of the observation.
At the very end, the Little Garden's core system appeared once more in the form of a massive column of light, releasing a single ray that shot straight into Ryo's spirit core.
His vision shifted—
—and suddenly, he was back on the sofa inside [No Name]'s base.
A beat later, the Little Garden's system issued its judgment:
〚Title: King Who Manifests at the World's End〛
〚Title: The Human who slays Gods and claims divine powers.〛
As those two judgments sank in, Ryo felt his spirit core expand again.
But it wasn't the same as last time, when he observed the Demon Slayer world.
That time, it felt like jumping from one to a hundred. This time, it was from a hundred to three hundred.
A bigger leap—but not a true evolution.
Thinking that, Ryo opened the Forum and typed: "What's my current spirit rank?"
〚Answer: Rank—Five-Digit, (Freak).〛
"No change?" he muttered.
Then another message popped up:
〚Little Garden core's request: Would you like to fuse your authorities into your Spirit Rank to reach Four-Digit rank?〛
"Ah, I see. My spirit has grown massively, but since I haven't integrated any divine Authority, the core system still doesn't recognize me as Four-Digit."
He smiled faintly, eyes narrowing in amusement.
"But I refuse. I have another idea."
〚Dimensional Forum rejected Little Garden core's request to elevate user's rank.〛
Then came another message:
〚Allow the Little Garden core to include Cosmo in its rank evaluation system?〛
"Oh, so now the core really wants me to level up?" Ryo grinned wider, the smile turning cocky.
"Decline that too. The Little Garden doesn't even have Cosmo. Completely Another Cosmology."
〚Reject Little Garden core's request.〛
Ryo couldn't help but chuckle, though it came out half-crazed. "All right, Forum—how many points do I have now?"
〚World 'Campione' successfully integrated into Little Garden observation.〛
〚 Reward: 150,000 points, 6,000,000 Spirit Merit.〛
"Whoa, that much? No wonder my spirit just ballooned."
He blinked, genuinely surprised. "I didn't even do anything that outrageous this time."
Aside from claiming the King of End's title and leaving Athena as the only god, he behaved pretty decently in the Campione world.
No meddling in world wars, no large-scale chaos.
Then again, that world was a ticking time bomb on its own.
When Ryo arrived there, Athena was already the trinity Queen of the Gods. The world wars never happened—Luo Hao had crushed them early.
The Renaissance? Triggered by Voban's repeated massacres of the Crusaders.
And the Americas stayed quiet thanks to the six Campiones holding the world in check.
So yeah, those points were a pleasant surprise.
Just then, another notification appeared:
〚Detected a large number of divine weapons. Allow observation?〛
"Divine weapons… theDivine Sword of Salvation, huh? Sure, go ahead."
He hit Allowwithout hesitation.
Then he glanced again at his point total, lips curling.
"If I remember right, a set of Saint Cloth materials costs around seventy thousand… looks like I've got more than double that now."
But when he checked the cost of "Athena's Saint Awakening"—two hundred thousand points—his smile immediately froze.
"…Still broke."
He sighed deeply, then sent another query:
"Forum, how do I bring Athena, Luo Hao, and Lancelot to the Little Garden?"
As for Liliana, Erica, and Alice, he figured it was better to wait until [No Name] stabilized a bit more. Same as people from Demon Slayer.
The community desperately needed more heavy hitters—but people like Salvatore Doni and Alec, while strong, weren't close enough to him yet. That would come later.
〚Answer: User may spend 1,000 points to purchase an invitation token. The token can summon any individual the user has previously interacted with.〛
"Three people, three thousand points? Fine, spend it."
With his newfound wealth, Ryo waved his hand generously, sending out three invitations at once.
〚Invitations sent. Please wait for response…〛
While he waited for Athena and the others to arrive—
—down in the lower layers of the Little Garden—
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Outer Gate 1224 – Mount Olympus.
A colossal, cloud-crowned mountain, its peaks piercing the heavens.
Suddenly, the sky above Olympus turned pitch-black.
Thunder roared, winds howled, and darkness swallowed the land.
A blazing sun fell from the sky, transforming into a divine bird that spread its wings above the mountain.
Then—six overwhelming wills descended from the upper Three-Digit realm, flooding the Mount.
The Six Great Gods of Olympus had gathered.
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