"Praise you, Lord Almighty."
Nova's voice carried genuine reverence. She had been conceived as a Holy Spirit as a peak Lower True Goddess. Everything she'd gotten, eighteen wings and ascension to the Supreme God Tier, was Haru's doing. His focused nurturing, time and again, had elevated her to heights almost impossible for native creatures.
For native beings, breaking through to Lord God took hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. For Castle Faction creatures like Nova, it took mere days if someone like Haru invested everything he had.
"Good." Haru said, "Now that you've ascended, you can build God Level Angel Reincarnation Pools. From today onwards, that will be your daily work alongside Caelith."
(T/N: Caelith is the Angel of Fate in case someone forgot.)
"As you command, my Lord."
Only Angels of Creation could build the pools. Angels of Fate merely granted souls to the Angel Hearts. In the illusory Angel Realm, this had always been the division of labor—the reason countless Angel Reincarnation Pools existed there.
Nova departed to her duties. Haru turned his attention to another area behind the palace. Celestia was still in seclusion, still climbing towards the peak. Once she reclaimed her lost God Monarch Tier Law, she would become a Pseudo God Queen again.
Her strength would rival the Demon Emperor himself and with Celestia at that level, no force would dare provoke the Great Aetherium, not even the Titan or Dragon Pantheons.
'And if the Titan Lord Varkath actually comes…' Haru's expression darkened. The Lich Lord Zakaria and the Goddess of Darkness Mordra had reasons to join the Evil Pantheon's battle. Old friendships, ancient hatred, but Varkath had simply been bought with a few artifacts, too arrogant to take his empire seriously, treating them as a soft target.
That miscalculation would cost him, and probably the entire Titan Pantheon dearly.
…
Haru completed the process to begin the recruitment of adult Angels and invested Divine Crystals, clearing tens of days of the timer. The pool erupted with Holy Light, bright spheres rising from its depths. He moved to the second pool, then the third, following the same steps.
All seven pools churned. Seven thousand spheres filled the sky. Haru assessed the timers. It was average luck, most would be eight-winged or ten-winged. There wouldn't be any Sixteen-Winged Angels in this batch, no Divine Punisher Angels, no Eighteen-Winged Angels either.
'Doesn't matter. Once the new pools are ready, God Tier Angels would be plentiful. Eventually, Supreme God Tier Angels would appear.'
The spheres shattered in unison. Seven thousand adult Angels descended, a little more than six hundred God Tier Angels.
"Train hard." Haru commanded, "Celestia will distribute bloodline evolution blueprints to help you improve your growth potential."
"As you command, Lord Almighty. May the Holy Light shine bright, and may you reign forever."
They bowed and departed. Haru continued recruitment. The Elves, Dragons, Golden Beamons, Troops of Light. Another 14,000 top-tier troops, all at the initial level, all requiring war to grow.
…
At the Myriad Starfall Tower, Estelle reported hundreds of Divine Kingdoms mapped in the void, including those with and without owners. Haru left those with owners alone. Attacking them risked exposing his secrets. Gods weren't fools, and patterns would emerge. But ownerless kingdoms? Their masters have fallen. He could claim those without consequence, and the void held more than he could occupy in a lifetime. There was no need to provoke suspicion. Not yet.
…
He summoned Mary and handed her dozens of Castle Blueprints—spoils from cleaning out the Endless Prairies, Andes Highlands, and Death Swamp. Over a hundred in total, all stored for this purpose.
"Go to the wilderness and build cities. It's time to prepare for the Radiance Empire campaign."
She took the blueprints and teleportation arrays, bowed, and left. Once the cities rose, they could be used to accommodate the Castle Lords who would join the campaign against the Light Empire.
…
With his daily work complete, Haru returned to the Imperial Palace. Free time meant meditation. He needed to comprehend the Divine Laws within his Godhead to strengthen his foundation for his eventual promotion to the Pseudo God Monarch Tier, or even beyond.
Nearly 200 sources of Divine Laws of different attributes and factions. Unimaginable for other Gods, but still far short of his goal: mastery over all laws.
For now, he was working toward something else, the Law of Creation itself. He'd mastered it from Nova, but once he mastered it properly, he would become the true Creator God of the Angel Race.
He sank his consciousness into his Godhead and something told him that once he mastered all laws, nothing in the universe would rival him. Not even a God Monarch.
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