Courting Death System-Chapter 64: Playing God

"You’re finally awake. Unfortunately, you missed out on something magical but you’re to blame."

Lucius slowly opened his eyes and found himself in completely different surroundings.

{Who are you and where am I?}

"I’m Lumen, you don’t know me but you’re about to. As for where you are, it used to be called the Gold Realm or Cities, now I call it the God Domain."

As far as Lucius could see, countless bubbles floated around, above and below him. Some of these bubbles were as small as orchid seeds while the biggest bubbles were the same size as Lucius.

Inside these bubbles were dots. Some of these dots were singular while in others there were numerous. The bubbles with at least a hundred million dots created a spiral shape and some bubbles had dozens, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions and even trillions of these spirals.

Once the spirals reached the threshold of two trillion or more, a bigger and brighter spiral would form. The biggest bubbles had thousands of these bigger spirals.

"What’s the God Domain?"

"Where you are. You see, after my latest strength boost, I realised that I had to clean up after myself, make this place more... neat and organised so this is the result of my efforts to organise everything. The smallest bubbles contain singular planets and the biggest bubbles contain universes. I call them the Matter Bubbles."

{And what am I doing here?}

"To play, to explore, to comprehend, whatever you want to call it. You’ve reached the God Realm but you haven’t done anything godly. This place is where you get to experience how it feels like to be a God. You can play with the planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies and universes inside the bubbles however you want. Whether to reverse, forward or stop time, you can do it. Whether to erase a universe from existence, you can do that too. Whether to play with the mortals inside the bubbles, change their destinies, toy with their fate, you can do that too."

{Are you serious? Can I really do all that?}

"If you want to. In return, I want you to give me ten thousand Lesser Gods who are very powerful. Anything that’s not forged in fire tends to be weak so forge for me the strongest army. That army will then face off against another God’s army and if your army is victorious, I’ll give you back your Ability to die."

{What do you mean my Ability to die?}

"Lucius Lothra, I know all about you and your abnormal ability to constantly come back to life twice as strong as the person who killed you. I know that you’re Marked and I know that you love being killed and I’m here to tell you that you can’t die anymore. At least, no one in the God Domain can kill you."

{What did you do to me?}

"I placed a restriction on you. Only those at the ●●● can give you True Death. Those on your level can’t do anything except injure you, they can never Truly kill you."

{Why would you do such a thing?}

"Because there’s nothing I have that will interest you enough to work for me. So I came with an alternative method and volla, it worked like a charm. What do you say, create a powerful army for me and I’ll remove the restriction I placed on you."

{How can I trust your words?}

"You just have to, what other choice do you have?"

{I see. I just have to create an army of gods strong enough to win against the other gods and you’ll remove my destruction.}

’Wait, does this mean that while I play god with these bubbles, I’m also in someone’s bubble?’ thought Lucius.

"I know what you’re thinking and have already prepared a solution for that. You and a few others don’t have to worry about being toys of those stronger than you. There’s no one governing or watching over you, you’re all on your own bubbles."

{What about when I want to see my wives?}

"Your wives can ask for leave to come and visit you. I assure you that nothing untoward will happen to them, take my word for it. Now choose how you want to play god, with one big bubble or many smaller bubbles?"

{Can I choose the theme for my army and can I have more than one theme?}

"Yes, I’ve prepared all kinds of themes, Cultivation, Magic, Superpowers, Labyrinths, Dungeons, Apocalypse, Skills, Transmigration, Systems, et cetera. You just have to choose the one you want to use.

{Then give me nine hundred and nine Matter Bubbles, each carrying eleven universes inside it.}

"Great, I like diligent people."

Many bubbles disappeared, leaving only the nine hundred and nine that Lucius had requested.

{I choose themes of Apocalypse, Labyrinths, Dungeons, Towers, Invasion, Regression, Treasure, Cultivation, Magic, Superpowers and Beast Tamers.} said Lucius. He then snapped his fingers and all universes were destroyed and formed anew. What he didn’t expect was to almost drain all the energy he had.

"Don’t forget, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine universes are your limit so it’s normal to deplete your energy after destroying and recreating that number of universes." said Lumen.

Lucius ignored her and allocated each theme to each universe. In some universes, some themes in some bubbles got to work immensely while the others like Apocalypse, Invasion, Dungeons, Towers and Labyrinths remained ineffective. Lucius then took a break to replenish his energy. He created a comfy throne with his Poison Law and sat down.

The floor he was standing on resembled space in a liquid state because every step he took created ripples. Both the floor and the sky was see-through but all he could see outside his bubble was darkness.

After his energy was replenished, he accelerated time for other universes while others weren’t affected by Time Acceleration. The Time Acceleration was in the billions of years so life was born, grew and evolved at a fast pace. It was like watching the creation of planet Earth then accelerate its time from billions of years ago to the 21st century. Lucius was truly playing God.

Unbeknownst to him, trillions or more beings were also playing God just like him. Each, modelling their own universes in ways they thought would give birth to strong, talented and full of potential warriors for them. Lumen watched every one of them as they did their own thing. Some had destroyed their universes many times over and energy was forcefully taken from them to create new universes.

The Gods Of War Event was slowly unfolding itself, each God had high hopes for the race they were creating because Lumen had promised different rewards for winning the event.

==Volume 1 end==