Capítulo 1: The Star-King's Regret
Impotent.
Never before had I even fathomed that a day would come where I would be plunged into such a miserable predicament, that I would lament my actions to this degree.
I had given up my Omnipotence as well as Omniscience, with intentions I myself no longer have knowledge of, having abandoned that information as well. I no longer was the being that could do anything with a mere thought, that knew everything there was and was not.
Those are the only memories I have of myself in that state, for after having been incarnated as a Supreme Star-Spirit into a separate Space I quickly left to its solitude. Then all I was left with was my will, with no other sentient being to interact with.
That is, however, not to say that I was utterly alone. I had the 8 Grand Sprits, which later became known as the 8 Great Holy Sprits, but they had no wills.
The Great Holy Spirits, which I call Grand Spirits, are Archetypical concepts that serve as the foundation, the attributes, and the Laws governing the principles of the World. Beings like Elemental Spirits are merely off-shoots of these Great Spirits. They existed before the Creation of the World, and before my birth as the True Dragon as well.
Great Spirits are unobservable by anything, even if you understand their concept, you cannot perceive them. Each one of them serves as the source of Concepts and Information.
Great Spirit of Water which governs the concept of deceleration, fixation, flow, and motion.
Great Spirit of Fire which governs the concept of Fire, Flame, Explosion, Combustion, and Acceleration.
Great Spirit of Earth which governs the concept of Directional Axes which gives Space and everything a sense of direction, etc.
Great Spirit of Space which governs the concept of Isolation, Dimensions, the very Space-Time Continuum itself serves as a form of Isolation.
Great Spirit of Wind which governs the concept of Cutting Dimensions, Tearing of Space, etc.
Great Spirit of Light which governs the concept of Holy, Purification, Existence, Positivity, Purity, and Yang.
Great Spirit of Darkness which governs the concept of Demonic, Corrosion, Nonexistence, Negativity, and Yin.
Great Spirit of Time, which governs the concept of time existing throughout the Multiverse itself, including all its Dimensions, Worlds, and Timelines. It is unbounded by all previous Great Spirits and rules over them.
However, with them lacking any sort of sentience, I sated my eventual boredom by experimenting with them, which is how I came up with the idea of creating other wills which could interact with me.
However, I myself knew that doing so would not be a short or easy task, so to accompany me in this endeavor, I created 7 Spiritual Beings, the kind I termed 'Angels'. They had weak egos and followed my tasks like what those humans call 'machines' but that was a huge improvement from the Grand Spirits, who did not even possess a semblance of a soul.
After all, not only did they have potential to mature, but also possessed a watered down version of my ability, which was the Administrative Authority, which like myself, allowed them to interfere with the laws of the world and raised their existence to the Ultimate.
Creating Worlds was quite an entertaining task. Using the Grand Spirits as the source, I crafted a myriad of Distinctive Realms, each of them consisting of countless worlds. I was it's backbone, just as the other True Dragons that manifested after me, while the Grand Spirits were akin to the flesh that it comprised of. After all, their Energy was what gave rise to them.
However, as time passed, I realized that one of the powers in my arsenal, namely Nihility Energy, which I had separated into 『Imaginary Collapse』 after establishing the system of Skills, was not suited to be used in the worlds I had created.
It could be used to create things, just like "Stardust", though on a lower scale than the latter. However, it was also far too destructive. Even Surpassing "Stardust", so I named it to be the 'Ultimate Destructive Energy'. So, I just created a World with my 『Grand Space』 and created a world to contain it within myself, for I did not want to accidentally end up destroying my creations
This was not a problem before, there weren't any worlds, and I did not have to worry about destroying something accidentally, however, that was changing now. Another problem that I encountered was that the worlds I had created were far too weak, and most of them would be destroyed but by a small release of Aura.
I asked Dino, who was my trusted advisor at that time, if he knew a solution, but alas he couldn't. Not that I could blame him, even if he had the most matured ego of the Angels, his ego was still weak. So, after a bit of pondering, I decided to try a different approach, using the Grand Spirits of Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
It was a success.
Not only was the World, which the 'Words of the World' and myself had dubbed the Central World, capable of withstanding my Aura, even partially, it was a special world that was an enthralling stable balance of both materialistic and spiritual qualities, a stable yet chaotic world; a true 'Chaos' World.
However, by that time, the Nihility Energy that I had stored up had become too colossal to just control is case I accidentally let it loose. My control over it was virtually perfect, but not completely. Knowing that if I had kept it, it would go surely spiral out of control and destroy my carefully planned creations, I had no choice but to throw it away.
I could have possibly learned to control it but I, at that time, did not consider it necessary. After all, I was solely focused on curing my loneliness, nothing else mattered to me.
Needless to say, that was only the beginning of my plans. After all the time I had lived, I had grown quite proficient and creating new life, and the first of the ones I created in the Central World was Twilight Valentine. But just that much had left me disappointed since Twilight had no gender nor was he capable of reproduction.
Yet, he surprised me when he created sentient lifeforms himself with the aid of his research. The results were Vampires and High Humans.
But the High Humans, though having high possibilities of becoming saints and eventually achieving divinity, were too destructive. Their greed and maliciousness even surprised me, though not all of them were like that, the majority of them were. They were eventually drawn to their near-extinction by the Red Primordial Rouge--who had named himself Guy—which gave me a momentary disappointment.
Vampires on the other hand, were immortal. At first, I was overjoyed when I heard about them from Twilight, I had thought I finally had found sentient companions even, but that quickly dwindled when he mentioned their weakness of sun that few could overcome, not to mention their reliance on blood, which left me disappointed.
However, the humans that later sprung from the High Humans were far more peaceful compared to their predecessors, and though not immortal, were interesting enough. I tasked my Angels to spread them across all the material Worlds I had created, that way their civilization would not stagnate nor would the divergence of cultures be prohibited.
This was far after the time when Ramiris had manifested, as the lacking consciousness of the Grand Spirits, capable to manipulating any Spirit and Elemental, even the Grand Elementals, though her control over the latter was quite limited due to her lacking power.
However, one of the things that had caught my attention, was that she had inherited a part of my ability, as her intrinsic Skill 『Small World』 which was the lesser version of my ability, 『Grand Space』, which allowed me to create Separate Dimensions in an instant, unlike 『Small World』 which required an hour to create one, but the energy consumption of mine was exponentially higher, and one other setback that I need not mention.
However, her having all 8 attributes did make up for her title as the "Spirit Queen".
Before the meeting, I had divided my Authority over my creation into 7 parts, which manifested as 7 Ultimate Skills representing 7 virtues. Though I had lost the flexibility a bit of power by the process, it had not only become easier to use, but I could give them off to others or release them into the cycle of Reincarnation, which I did, and the ones receiving them would not die just because of the burden it put on your soul.
Not to mention, that was the beginning of the concept of Skills.
I gave one of the 7 Virtues to my sisters, Velzard and Velgrynd each, namely 『Gabirel: Lord of Patience』 and 『Raguel: Lord of Charity』 both of which complemented their concepts. They were the manifestations of the World, but were of a race nigh-identical to mine.
I was a Star-Spirit, who could control nuclear forces in addition to the other 2 fundamental forces but not bound to a concept, while they were Chaos Spirits, manifestations of the World. But the difference was trivial, which was that I could not observe the world during the time, between my death and reincarnation unlike my 'siblings' for I was not bound to a concept I could use to peer into the world with, but it was not worth noting.
Then, Veldora manifested. He was the manifestation of Chaos, which made him quite restless. I knew that time was the only thing that could calm him down and accustom himself to this peaceful world, so I just let him be, a sentiment not shared by my other siblings.
Velgrynd had an impulsive personality and while she would spoil him any chance she got, she would sometimes beat him up, pretty badly must I say so. But this was nothing compared to what Velzard had in mind. Her method was outright killing him, something I did not approve of, and stopped her ever since I found out that her way to disciplining him was killing him and hoping that his impulsiveness would be lost in his next incarnation.
Veldora, seeing this act, started looking up to me, and at many times, trying to be like myself. And as I had done almost everything to sate my boredom, it had a sort of negative effect on him, something I was frustrated and a bit joyful about. Now, he didn't rampage whenever he felt a sense of great restlessness but whenever he was bored, though I left him alone since Velgrynd did stop him before he did too much damage, not that he was at the level of destroyed the Central World yet, though he could be.
After some centuries, Velgrynd was captivated was human Prince of a kingdom named Nasca. After a while, I gave her a visit, along with the human, which I had found quite intriguing. The human, Rudra Nasca, was a naïve yet intelligent man, at least in human standard, cautious yet reckless, something his 'sister' used to worry quite a bit about.
Bored of the weak-ego'ed Angels, I decided to move to the kingdom of Nasca just as my youngest sister had done. By that time, she, along with her, 'fiancé', as he called him had already conquered the surrounding nations, renaming their domain as the Nasca Namrium Ulmeria United Eastern Empire, with the aid of my dear sister.
When I descended, I noticed Veldora there, who was approached by Velgrynd, urging him to join them. Veldora refused without batting an eye, which was expected but still amused me, contrast to Velgrynd's annoyance, and instead challenged her to a fight.
It was over quickly, Veldora's energy may have been greater than twice his sister's, but his control was that of a novice's at best. His attacks were quickly dodged and countered, again and again. After the battle, if it could even be called one, he ran away the way humans called, 'cowardly retreat'.
During the entire fight, I was protected by a familiar barrier, which I quickly deduced to be a sub-skill of 『Uriel: Lord of Vows』, another of my 7 virtues. Rudra, my supposed 'protector' for the match, was later taken aback when my sister revealed my identity as a True Dragon, as we were now called.
Seeing that he had one of my Virtues along with the potential he had, I took him as my student. It was quite an interesting experience, teaching him may not be as quick as I had with my Angels, but the responsiveness he showed was far more welcoming.
During one of our sessions, he revealed that he wanted to unite the world under his flag, and create a peaceful Empire. I found his utopian ideals naïve, yet remarkable, and took him in as my student. As a gift, I exchanged my 『Michael: Lord of Justice』 with his 『Uriel』.
I guided him, taught him how to control 『Michael』, directed him to become a "True Hero".
As I spent my days in the castle, I many-a-times found myself in the company of Rudra's sister, Lucia. It started out as some respectful greeting and bows from her when she first met, which slowly turned to her addressing me as "Sir Veldanava", instead of "Lord", a title which I honestly was irritated of, having been hearing that ever since I created the angels.
Then, we began spending evenings together, every week, then every two days, then every single day. And before I knew it, I began staying with her almost all the time. It felt comfortable, blissful even.
By the time I had realized what was happening, I had already fallen into the same pit my sisters had. I fell in love, something that astonishes me even now, but I do not regret it.
Seeing Rudra grumpy for a while was… entertaining if I say so myself. It occasionally brought a grin on my face when I saw look at me like I had stolen something precious from him, which I would not deny, but then remain silent knowing the strength I had back then.
Those times grew even more blissful when I married Lucia, feeling more happiness than I had ever before. In a few years, as my 'wife' wished, we were going to have a child. I knew the consequences of the action, but I couldn't bring myself to deny her yearning, and maybe… I had that wish as well.
Rudra had become a True Hero, courtesy of Ramiris, and I felt him powerful enough to protect us, had my power withered to an even greater extent than what I had guessed.
As the time passed, nine months to be exact, my wife bore our newborn daughter, something even Veldora was calmly looking forward to.
As our daughter, Milim, was birthed, I felt a large portion of my power draining, but I did not resist, knowing where its destination was. When I saw Milim, I had felt an urge I had never felt this intensely for any of my creations, the urge to protect.
I knew I no longer possessed the power to protect them. Not only did my energy destabilize to such an extent that I had to take on a human form which just as weak as any other human, my soul couldn't hold the burden of 『Uriel』 which forced me to release it into the cycle of reincarnation was well.
Milim's birth had weakened me, in ways even I myself felt flabbergasted, and was left with strength I knew I could not regain lest I reincarnated, something I knew would take at least a year from the unusual destabilization I had undergone. However, these thoughts were drowned by the confidence I had in my student who was now my brother-in-law, and the happy days I spent with my wife and child.
But just as that one saying of the humans, 'all goods things will come to an end.'
In a while that Rudra had gone to play his game with the Red Primordial, an army of humans invaded the country. I could not use any of my abilities, for my body would disintegrate before I would be able to. As a common man, I could offer little support to my wife who was valiantly fighting off the invaders, however, she too was eventually overwhelmed.
Knowing both of us to be powerless against the human forces, I did the only thing I knew would be the best. If I chose reincarnation, it would take over a year which was a gamble I was keen to take. So I did the only thing I knew I could have done at that time. I poured all my remaining power to form a replica of a dragon, one which would protect her and ensure that she would not be lonely in our, her parents' absence.
Then, I felt a burning sensation in my back in my effort to shield my wife and daughter from the assailant's sword, after which my vision blacked out, I… had died.
That was the last memory I had of her. I do not know the time I would take to reincarnate, it could be a decade or perhaps even some millennia, something I truly wished not, from the bottom of my heart.
I just hope I'm not too late, Milim, Lucia.
Those were the last of my thoughts, as I felt myself returning the Central World, and with that, the Land of the Living.
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"I miss Ranga", my voice came out as a frustrated sigh.
Practically everyone was busy now, preparing for Lord Rimuru's arrival from the Walpurgis, as Diablo, his new secretary had told us.
"Why am I even told to patrol the village? I am weak as hell, and aren't Souei's clones all around the borders?"
Aaahhhh, It's so unfair.
I complained as I remembered Diablo with a serious looks saying, "Gobta, patrol the Area". I mean, he just arrived not even a month ago and he already started ordering me around. Damn him, if he wasn't that strong, I would have really beat him up.
RUMBLE.
I jumped to my side, turning to the back where I just heard a quiet but noticeable acute tremor. I clenched my short sword, preparing to hold off the person, if he was hostile until backup arrived, surely someone would have sensed the quake right.
"Ugh", I covered my right eyes with my hand, as a blinding bright light shone before my eyes, dying out just as fast as it came.
My narrowed eyes focused at the dust clearing to give way to a humanoid silhouette. The dust cleared bit by bit, allowing me to scan the 'human' with my eyes.
It was a man with long black hair, which seems to have white specks all over, reminding me of the night sky. He also had 2 horns, which made my thoughts about him being a human vanish, and found myself strangely at peace in his presence, even if he was dressed in weird clothes I've never seen before.
His dimly gleaming blue eyes fell upon me, before his mouth let out a single sentence that surprisingly didn't unnerve me.
"Hmm. A hobgoblin?"
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