Chapter 23: Demon God Shin Akira, Leaping into the Sky in a Single Bound!
"Haaah—"
Half-conscious, Akira's awareness slowly returned. Bit by bit, he reclaimed his sanity and memories.
Then, the memories that had once been sealed began to resurface, and Akira "remembered" everything that had happened.
He had found Tiamat and had willingly tried to communicate with her.
But then he was given a direct "Gift to the Face." After that, his consciousness fell into chaos, and from that moment onward, he knew nothing—until now.
"Where… is this place?"
Staring at the surroundings filled with dense "darkness," Akira was instantly overwhelmed with confusion and uncertainty.
"Crack—"
A fracture appeared on the pitch-black cocoon, and the crack continued to spread.
Finally, with a shattering sound, Akira once again saw the outside world.
At that exact moment, Akira sharply realized that within his body now flowed an utterly extraordinary power—an absurd, boundless strength that felt as though it had no limits at all.
And at that very moment, the system's voice followed.
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[Ding]
[Detected that the Host's consciousness has recovered…]
[Ding]
[Obtained 1% template inheritance rate!]
[Ding]
[Obtained 1% template inheritance rate!]
[Ding]
[Obtained 1% template inheritance rate!]
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[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Skill – Demon Mark (Berserk)!]
[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Secret Treasure – Lostvayne!]
[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Magic Power – True Magic Form!]
[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Skill – Demon Mark (Unsealed Demon Mark)!]
[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Skill – Assault Mode!]
[Ding]
[Congratulations to the Host, obtained: Commandment: Demon King – Ten Commandments!]
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A torrent of system notifications flooded into Shin Akira's mind all at once, like a massive wave crashing over him.
[Name: Shin Akira]
[Identity: Visitor from Another World]
[Template Inheritance: Meliodas (80%)]
[Talent: Immortality (Curse)]
[Magic: Darkness]
[Commandment: Demon King · Ten Commandments]
[Skills: Demon Mark (Unsealed), Assault Mode, Full Counter, Counter Vanish, Secret Technique – Revenge Counter, Enchantment – Hell Blaze, Divine Thousand Slash]
[Equipment: Secret Treasure · Lostvayne]
[Item: Phoenix's Tears ×1]
Dark magical power flowed throughout his body.
Not just the darkness inherited from [Meliodas].
The power of shadows from the [King of the Shadowkhan].
The Demon God power from [Meliodas].
And the black mud power from the [Chaos Tide].
Inside Tiamat's womb, Akira had been "conceived" once more.
All of those powers had now completely fused together.
Akira, at this moment, had become a "Demon God" in the truest sense.
He no longer merely carried Demon God blood inherited from [Meliodas].
Instead, he was a true "child" personally born by the Mother of Creation, after seven days of direct nurturing and care.
Right now, in essence, Akira was an existence on the level of a Chief God.
He stood on the same tier as the Chief Gods within Mesopotamia's divine hierarchy.
And that wasn't all.
The shadow power from the [King of the Shadowkhan] template had been completely "devoured."
The former "Shadow Realm" had now evolved into a true World of Darkness.
Within it flowed the Chaos Tide—endless black mud stretching without limit.
More than that, the shadow army that once existed had now been filled with "divine mud," transforming into war machines born from "Divine Soil."
Their strength had now surpassed the previous shadow army by an unknown number of times.
Beyond all of that, the relationship between Akira and Tiamat had also truly become one of mother and child.
As her "child," Shin Akira could connect with Tiamat directly through consciousness.
[Child—]
As the saying goes, speak of someone and they appear.
At that moment, Tiamat's voice echoed within Akira's mind.
"Mother…"
That call of "Mother" came sincerely from the depths of his heart.
After all, everything Tiamat had done for him was unconditional sacrifice and causeless love that had deeply moved him.
Just because of a single call of "Mother," he had received such tremendous blessings.
Placed within the "womb," nurtured by the omnipotent power of primordial chaos—Tiamat had even spent an enormous amount of magical energy to help rebuild his very foundation.
Indirectly, this had also propelled his template inheritance rate to soar like a rocket.
All of this was the selfless sacrifice and unconditional love of a mother.
Anyone who experienced it personally would undoubtedly be moved.
[Good child, protect yourself… do not let yourself be harmed—]
The concerned voice sounded faint and intermittent.
Tiamat was still within her "dream."
However, as the Goddess of Creation, how could she truly be deceived by the illusion of a nightmare?
What truly kept Tiamat asleep was her own will.
Indeed, the foundation of Tiamat's current existence was no longer merely that of the "Mother of Creation."
She was now a Beast bearing the Principle of "Regression," one of the Seven Evils of Humanity—Beast II.
Yet the "evils of humanity" were, in essence, manifestations of humanity's own "love."
And as a mother, Tiamat never wished to harm any of her children.
More than that, she wanted to search for her children within her "dream."
The clearest proof of this was that among Tiamat's many authorities and innate abilities, there existed a passive skill called [Self-Sealing], ranked at C+++.
The root of this ability lay in Beast II's wish—rooted in the concept of "Mother"—to become a protector of humanity.
"Self-Sealing" was the concrete manifestation of that wish.
Beast II would often seal herself.
Just as depicted in the original tale, the form shown by the Daughter of Fate was one with both hands and feet bound.
"Mother, I will protect myself. When you return to this world, I will come to bring you back. When that time comes, we'll always be together… forever."
[Good child—]
Within this communication between "mother and child," the mother's happiness shone without the slightest concealment.
As a mother who had once been betrayed, abandoned, even discarded by all of her children, even though she never hated them, that pain and sorrow had never truly faded.
What she desired most was only one thing.
A child who could always stay by her side.
That alone was enough.
The World of Darkness that had once been known as the Shadow Realm was the "home" Akira had prepared for Tiamat.
As an "Evil of Humanity," Tiamat's existence in this world was like a cancer erupting within the human body.
She would never be permitted by this world.
She was an existence that would always be rejected.
If this world would not allow her to remain, then bringing her to his own world would be enough.
That way, he could take with him a "mother" on the level of a Goddess of Creation wherever he went.
An unmatched, ultimate pillar of support.
And beyond that, this relationship with his "Mother" could still be "developed" even further.
Like a proverb that appeared from nowhere in his mind—
I call you Mother, and you call me Husband.
It truly felt… perfect.
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