Chapter 29: Chaos Divine Authority, Unraveling the Mystery of Chaos
Chapter 29: Chaos Divine Authority, Unraveling the Mystery of Chaos
When the God of Chaos's Godhead reached 100% completeness, both the first and third pages of the Book of Creation underwent new changes.
Tartarus glanced quickly.
Book of Creation: Page One—
[God of Hell and Abyss]
[God of Hell and Abyss Godhead]
[Head of the Abyss]
Page Three—
[God of Chaos]
[God of Chaos Godhead]
[Head of Chaos]
"When divine power doesn't manifest similarly to the Devouring God, I need to adapt before it manifests."
The text didn't change much, but it was now significantly different from the original.
Originally, his God of Hell and Abyss Godhead was incomplete, but now it was complete.
Tartarus had achieved the status of God of Chaos.
He instantly sensed that he had gained three abilities. One is the divine authority to control chaos.
One is the deification of the God of Chaos.
The third, and what Tartarus has longed to achieve since his birth, is the deification of the God of Hell and the Abyss.
"The God of Chaos, deified. The Abyss itself, deified."
Tartarus's divine power circulated, his mind controlling it.
In the Abyss, a vast amount of Chaos Origin converged, forming a large black egg.
God of Chaos, Divine Body!
Under Tartarus's control, the Abyss Origin converged, forming an even larger black egg streaked with white lines.
God of the Abyss, Divine Body!
After millennia of perception and analysis, Tartarus determined that the Abyss was not born from the Chaos Origin, nor was it composed of Chaos Origin.
The Abyss Origin is not the same as the Chaos Origin, just as the earth contains over 90% of the life source, but the earth's origin is not the same as the life source. Having sensed the bodies of other gods, Tartarus sensed that they also possessed certain essences similar to those of the Abyss.
Also, through communication with other gods, Tartarus determined that the structure of the Abyss was very similar to that of the Earth, but the proportions of the essences were reversed.
The Earth was 90% Life Essence and 10% Chaos Essence, while the Abyss was 10% Life Essence and 90% Chaos Essence.
After millennia of exploration, Tartarus had also learned some details about the essences.
The Chaos Essence was an unstable negative essence.
However, unstable negative essences were not chaos essences; they included chaos essences and other essences.
The Abyss was 90% chaos essence, but 99% unstable negative essences.
This was because some essences were only slightly unstable and still belonged to the life essence. Unlike all chaos essences, which were completely violent and unstable.
As for whether the Earth was 99% positive essence, he was unsure.
After mastering chaos, Tartarus's sensitivity to the myriad sources of chaos grew stronger, and his understanding of the world also improved.
The Abyss itself observed this world, sensing the Chaos world. As he pondered, a bold idea suddenly occurred to Tartarus.
"The trajectory of the Greek mythological world is that Chaos first gave birth to the earth, the abyss, darkness, night, and lust."
"Then the earth gave birth to the sky, the ocean, and the mountains. Later, the earth and sky gave birth to the twelve Titans, and from the twelve Titans, gods like Zeus were born."
"Other primordial gods gave birth to gods like day and death. In other words, the divine authority and origin of all the gods in Greek mythology all originated from Chaos."
"Suppose, by inferring this in reverse, the origins of all gods converged in reverse, would they eventually merge into the origin of Chaos?"
"Most gods originate from the earth, while a few originate from darkness, night, the abyss, and lust. So, if the origins of the five primordial gods converged in reverse, would they merge into the origin of Chaos?"
"Let's assume, further, that my Abyss-like self is composed of 99% negative origin and a trace of positive origin, and that the earth is 99% positive origin and a trace of negative origin."
"What if Chaos follows the laws of positive and negative, yin and yang. So, if the Abyss and the Earth merge, conforming to the principle of positive and negative becoming one, and yin and yang harmonizing, could they fuse to create the Origin of Chaos?
"That's not right. The Earth has given birth to gods twice in a row, and the Chaos world has endowed them with Origin and divine authority. Future gods born should also, to a greater or lesser extent, receive Origin and divine authority from Chaos."
"Perhaps, during these periods of endowment, new Origins will emerge. My second hypothesis is currently untenable."
"The first hypothesis requires a period when Chaos no longer bestows Origin upon new gods. But that's too long."
"I can't analyze this further. If I continue to analyze it with my past life's knowledge, I might trigger some unfortunate situation. Contemplating Chaos with my current strength is inherently dangerous."
Tartarus proactively dispersed his divine consciousness, allowing the thought to quickly fade.
"Can't even take shape instantly?" At this moment, Tartarus noticed that the two large eggs still lay quietly in the abyss.
At this moment, Tartarus's divine consciousness could not enter the large egg, and his divine body had not yet formed, leaving him slightly puzzled.
When he achieved the Devouring God, his Devouring God Body formed instantly, but now it required a process similar to incubation.
After careful observation, Tartarus roughly understood the reason.
The Chaos God Body was more powerful than the Devouring God Body and required time to slowly form.
The Abyss God Body was far more powerful than the Devouring God Body and required even more time to form than the Chaos God Body.
"Other gods are born with their original bodies already deified. Their divine bodies were most likely granted directly by the Chaos World."
"I might have been born a being that the Chaos World didn't want to be born, but was forced to. If Chaos disliked me and didn't grant me the ability to become a god from the beginning, then naturally, I can only wield my divine power now."
Being born without deification, Tartarus now had to accept Chaos's partiality, even if he didn't want to.
Anyway, the outcome was good. As the Abyss's true self, he was about to achieve true deification.
"Continue to devour the remaining Chaos Essence! Chaos Essence strengthens the Abyss itself. It's what I need, past, present, and future."
The Chaos Essence sphere gathered by Ocean God Pontus was enormous, nearly half the size of the black sphere Tartarus had snatched.
Just now, Tartarus had only devoured and fused a portion, reaching full strength. Now, 90% remained.
After Tartarus achieved his God of Chaos and possessed Chaos Divine Authority, the next time he sensed the Chaos Essence sphere, it felt significantly different.
He felt an instinctive affinity for these Chaos Essences.
The various violent and unstable Chaos Essences now seemed to him like delicious food emitting a rich aroma.
Tartarus wanted to devour them quickly.
"Devour!"
After truly devouring them, he felt something different again.
Initially, the Abyss absorbed and fused the Chaos Essence very slowly, requiring time to slowly channel its divine power to absorb and fuse it.
After possessing the Devouring Divine Power, Tartarus could devour it with unbridled abandon, and the fusion speed increased dramatically.
Now, with the Chaos Divine Power, not only did his absorption of Chaos Essence become even faster, but his fusion speed was also significantly faster.
At first, it felt like he was gnawing on an unpalatable stone, then like drinking mud that was difficult to swallow, and now, like drinking sweet spring water.
After consuming it, it was quickly absorbed by his body and merged into his being.
"The feeling of controlling chaos is wonderful, and absorbing the Chaos Essence feels even more wonderful. It accelerates fusion..."
Tartarus was unaware that the changes in the Abyss had been sensed by the other gods.
Uranus, the Sky God, descended to the earth: "Mother Goddess, you have been deceived. Do you sense it?"
[This concludes the first chapter of this book.
After this, the story will enter the Age of the Twelve Titans.] This is my first time writing a novel about Greek mythology, so I'm a bit unfamiliar with it.
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