Chapter 17: The Four Elements, Creating a New World? 7
As the Abyss devoured and fused the Source of Chaos, Tartarus began to focus on the Book of Creation.
Originally, the Book of Creation had five pages of text, but now it had expanded to ten, a significant increase of five pages.
At the same time, new changes occurred on the first five pages.
[Book of Creation]
[Page 1 Remains Unchanged.]
[Page 2 - God of Deception - Godhead (Incomplete - 45%)]
After deceiving Gaia, the Earth Mother, for the first time, Tartarus activated the God of Deception - Godhead, and thus possessed fragments of the Godhead.
This time, his goal was to seize the Source of Chaos, but he pretended to be helping others, leading the three gods to believe him. His deception successfully brought his Godhead to 45% complete.
"The first time you successfully deceive a deity, you'll gain the highest percentage of completeness. Successfully deceiving the same deity again will result in a smaller percentage increase. Of this 15% increase, perhaps 10% came from successfully deceiving the Sky God."
"However, I suspect the Sky God's deception may not have been completely successful. But it's certain that successfully deceiving Gaia, the Earth Mother, and Nyx, the Night Goddess, will yield less and less."
"From now on, I'll try not to deceive these two female deities. As they grow and gain experience, they'll be easily exposed. Gaia trusts me, and Nyx treats me well. It would be bad to deceive them again." ."2
Tartarus pondered as he flipped to the third page of the Book of Creation—
[Page 3—God of Chaos·Godhead (Incomplete·80%)]5
"I've devoured quite a bit of Chaos Origin, but it's less than one-tenth of the Chaos Origin Black Ball. It's normal that it hasn't increased yet. I hope it can reach 100% this time, which would be perfect."
Tartarus continued to flip to the fourth page—
[God of Devouring]
[God of Devouring·Godhead]
[Power: Devouring]
[Divine Power: Devour Black Hole, Devour Space, Devour Divine Chain. "More details about divine power. The Devouring Black Hole is the vortex black hole behind me, capable of large-scale devouring. The Devouring Space should be the small space temporarily preserved by the black sphere of Chaos Origin I just devoured."
"This Devouring Divine Chain must be something I learned from devouring the dazzling divine chain of Uranus, the Sky God."
"This Devouring Avatar has great potential. By devouring the essence and divine power of certain gods, it may be possible to learn how to use that power accordingly."
"Look for opportunities in the future to battle other gods and increase your ability to utilize various divine powers. Although it's only at the early stages of intermediate divine power, its potential is unlimited, so focus on strengthening it."
Then, Tartarus flipped to the fifth page of the Book of Creation—
[God of Prophecy]
[God of Prophecy - Godhead (Incomplete - 10%)] 2
[Method to achieve completeness: Successfully predict multiple times. "The birth of darkness and night was my first successful prophecy, activating the God of Prophecy's divinity. Then, the birth of the God of the Sky was my second successful prophecy, bringing my chances to 10%."
"Not bad. I've already predicted the birth of the oceans, mountains, sun, and moon, and they will all come true. The twelve Titans will be born one after another. I guess I need to find an opportunity to continue predicting."
"In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus, the god of foresight, made several predictions, and most of them came true. It seems this world has some kind of established rule: whatever is predicted will come true."
"Knowing your future, even if you make corrections along the way, ultimately only slows down the prophecy's fulfillment, or perhaps your predetermined fate remains reality in some other way. Ultimately, no one can change it."
"So, now that I've arrived in this world, the future is likely to change. Some aspects of what I knew in my previous life will undergo new changes. If I truly activate the God of Prophecy's divine authority, can I predict my unknown future?"
Unsure about this, and not quite understanding it, Tartarus stopped thinking.
He flipped through the next five pages, which also appeared.
Page 6—
[Water God]
[Water God·Godhead (Incomplete·1%)]
[Method to achieve completeness: Dwell close to the element of water, comprehend the laws of water, and absorb the essence of water.]
Page 7—
[Fire God]
[Fire God·Godhead (Incomplete·1%)]
[Method to achieve completeness: Dwell close to the element of fire, comprehend the laws of fire, and absorb the essence of fire.]
Page 8—
[Earth God]
[Earth God·Godhead (Incomplete·1%)]
[Method to achieve completeness: Dwell close to the element of earth, comprehend the laws of earth, and absorb the essence of earth. ]
Page 9—
[God of Wind]
[God of Wind·Godhead (Incomplete·1%)]
[Method to achieve completeness: Become close to the element of wind, comprehend the laws of wind, and absorb the essence of wind.]
Page 10—
[God of Elements]
[God of Elements·Godhead (Incomplete·1%)]
[Method to achieve completeness: Acquire the God of Water, the God of Fire, the God of Earth, and the God of Wind.]
Looking at the last five pages, Tartarus was stunned.
"In my previous life, the ancient Greek world I knew, explained in terms of matter, seemed to be composed of the four elements, whether it was the earth, the sky, the ocean, the celestial bodies, and so on."
"That's not entirely certain. Greek mythology doesn't describe the world's composition in detail. But I can be sure that I've gained a lot this time."
Tartarus was very happy now, thinking of the powerful and dazzling divine power chain from earlier.
"The godheads of the four elemental gods were likely activated by consuming the essence and divine power that fell from the sky, obtaining fragments of the godheads of water, fire, earth, and wind."
"Furthermore, with the four elemental godheads complete, one can become an elemental god, which is definitely more powerful than possessing any one of them."
"We made the right move to seize the Chaos Origin. If the Sky God hadn't stopped us and we had simply devoured it, our gains would have been far less."
"Sky God Uranus is truly a generous deity. He's not only the biological son of Mother Earth, Gaia, but also the biological son of the Chaos World. His essence and divine power wield many miraculous powers."
"I've only devoured a small amount, and I've already activated so many godhead fragments. What if I devoured more?"
"Generous Son of the World, praise you, my dear nephew! If you hadn't come, I would have personally invited you to visit the Abyss."
Tartarus now eagerly awaited the visit of the future King of the Gods, or even better, a permanent residence.
By completely devouring the divine body that suppressed the sky, perhaps the four elemental godheads would be complete.
At the same time, a question occurred to him: "I currently don't understand the structure of Chaos's world, but assuming the four elements are the foundation of the world's formation, then all the origins are needed for the world's growth."
"Origin can be roughly divided into stable and beautiful positive origins and violent and unstable negative origins. The earth almost represents the positive origin, and the abyss almost represents the negative origin."
"If I become the god of the elements, I will be the abyss itself, possessing 99% negative origins. If I devour and integrate all the beautiful and stable positive origins, then..."
After a brief pause, Tartarus suddenly had an extremely bold idea.
"Then... could I use the abyss as a foundation to create a new world?"