Chapter 37: Strength Increases, the Battle for Ocean Divinity Begins
In my previous life, fifty years seemed like a long time.
In the Chaos world, especially now, there was no sun or moon, no day or night on Earth.
The Abyss was even more shrouded in endless darkness.
Tartarus had only been keeping track of time symbolically out of habit in his previous life, and he had no real sense of decades.
Especially since nothing major had happened in the past fifty years, they had passed in the blink of an eye.
As the great egg ruptured, the deified body of the Abyss floated, naturally emitting a black divine light tinged with white.
At this moment, the Chaos Divine Body, the Devouring Divine Body, and the Water Divine Body began to fade, transforming into three rays of divine light that flew into the Abyss body.
Tartarus opened his eyes, looked at his hands, then glanced around.
"A different feeling, a stronger divine perception, a more sensitive sense of the world—this is the true power of the Abyss."
Tartarus clenched his fist. He felt the true strength of the Abyss at the early stage of peak divine power, a powerful force far exceeding that of other divine bodies.
Also, after his deification, he sensed some of the special abilities of the Abyss divine power.
Then, Tartarus sensed his entire body.
The Abyss's deified form, a young man, dressed in black robes, was even more handsome than the Devouring Divine Body. A streak of white hair graced his long black hair, and his physique was tall and muscular.
His eyes were as black as ink, but with each blink, they emanated a different divine light, revealing a different feeling.
One blink, and a flicker of black and white divine light shone, revealing the depth, mystery, and soul-shattering terror of the God of the Abyss.
Another blink, and a brilliant, multicolored divine light shone, revealing the chaos, violence, and devastation of the God of Chaos.
Blinking again, pure black divine light flickered, revealing the God of Devouring, intent on devouring everything before him.
Blinking again, a sea-blue divine light flickered, revealing the God of Water, imbued with boundless vitality and the softness of water.
Tartarus carefully sensed the divine bodies.
After a moment, he understood.
The three divine bodies of the God of Devouring, the God of Chaos, and the God of Water had not completely vanished; they were merely temporarily within the Abyss.
If Tartarus wished, he could summon the other divine bodies at any time.
The divine light in his eyes was due to his lack of control, causing the four divine powers of the Abyss, Chaos, Devouring, and Water to alternate.
Controlling with his divine mind, Tartarus's eyes ceased to radiate divine light.
He was still unaccustomed to the feeling of his eyes constantly glowing.
Originally, the divine bodies existed separately, and Tartarus felt that the power granted to him by the Book of Creation was somewhat redundant. Each divine body was weak, and in a real battle, he would be no match for the current god. But now he realized the benefits of having more divine bodies.
After the Abyss Godhead transformed into its own divine body, three divine bodies entered the Abyss' divine body, adding three more divine powers to the Abyss, instantly increasing its strength.
At the same time, the Abyss's main body now possessed not only the Abyss's divine authority, but also the Chaos Divine Authority, the Devouring Divine Authority, and the Water Divine Authority.
"This is the true use of a divine body!" Tartarus was pleased with the change, thinking, "Three bodies have greatly increased my strength."
"According to normal growth, I would have needed at least a thousand years to increase the combined power of these three divine powers. But now with three more divine bodies, my divine power has been directly increased."
"If the Sky God doesn't ascend to the middle stage of peak divine power, without the amplification of the Abyss and Sky's main bodies, defeating him in a battle between pure divine bodies would be easy. This is a very good result."
Tartarus was the Abyss's main body, controlling the Abyss's divine authority. The divine body of the Abyss's deification was the most familiar and comfortable.
Stretching his body, Tartarus vanished.
In the blink of an eye, Tartarus appeared on the surface of the abyss.
The figure of Nyx, the goddess of night, appeared.
After decades, she had reached a powerful late stage of divine power.
Although the night was incorporeal, her true form possessed a vast range, and wherever it existed, she controlled it.
To this day, Nyx, the goddess of night, had not yet reached the limit of her power and continued to grow rapidly.
"Brother Tartarus, you have become a god!" Nyx's figure appeared in a flash before Tartarus.
She looked up at Tartarus, her eyes filled with surprise. She sensed that the Tartarus before her was significantly different from before.
Tartarus's Devouring Divine Body was weak, and his Devouring Divine Power exuded an eerie aura that devoured everything around it, unlike the abyss itself.
And now, the Tartarus Nyx sensed was the aura of the Abyss she was most familiar with. The oppressive feeling of this powerful divine force was also familiar.
"Yes, completely deified." Tartarus smiled.
He reached out and drew Nyx's delicate body into his arms, feeling the soft and graceful touch through the veil of night.
He said, "The future world will undergo great changes. Only by deifying the Abyss can we better cope with the future. My beautiful sister, you have become even more beautiful."
"You have become even more handsome." Nyx lowered her head, her uncontrollable body weakening slightly, her cheeks turning pink with shyness.
The Abyss is dangerous, terrifying, mysterious, and violent.
When the Night Self merged with the Abyss Self, she felt all of this vividly.
But because of this, the Night Self even more loved the feeling of being controlled and surrounded by the Abyss Self: it was dangerous and thrilling.
At the same time, the Abyss was immensely powerful, and being oppressed by it gave Night an instinctive sense of security.
Now, with the Abyss's true embrace, Nyx felt most deeply the sense of security afforded by that overwhelming divine might.
A variety of delightful images flashed through her mind.
They hadn't enjoyed pleasure since their last encounter. It wasn't that she didn't want to.
But after hearing the words of Eros, the god of love and lust, she feared the weakening of their relationship after childbirth.
Until she found a solution, she endured.
But feeling that broad chest, her patience reached its limit.
At this moment, Tartarus said, "I haven't been to Earth in all these years. Has anything changed there?"
The confused mind of Nyx, the goddess of Night, cleared slightly.
She said, "Not much has changed. The power of Ocean God Pontus has increased considerably. The ocean floor occasionally connects to the abyss; you can sense it."
"Uranus, the Sky God, and Gaia, the Earth Goddess, live on Mount Othrys, Earth's highest peak."
"The sky has been frequently descending, pressing down on the Earth. They've combined. This has caused many mountain ranges to collapse, and that's not easy for Mountain God Uriah."
"The sky is pressing down on the Earth... The Twelve Titans are coming," Tartarus muttered to himself, looking upward.
"Twelve Titans? Are twelve gods called Titans about to be born?" Nyx wondered.
"Yes, they're also called Titans," Tartarus nodded.
At that moment, the earth shook slightly.
The ocean surrounding the Earth surged with raging waves, turning the once calm sea into a raging rage.
"Gaia, the Earth Goddess, is about to give birth to a new god," said Nyx, the Night Goddess. She sensed it. "Yes, the battle for the divine right of the sea has begun," Tartarus said, his lips curled slightly.
The plan I discussed with Pontus some time ago can be put into action today...