Chapter:52 The Man Beyond Mortality - Is it wrong for a Godslayer to Have a harem goddesses

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"And we confirmed them yesterday," Loki reported.

"While I was passed out," Godou guessed.

"While you were passed out," Finn confirmed.

"So? What did you find out?" he asked. If anything, he would like this conversation to be as frank and candid as possible.

"No Falna," Aiz said, staring at him intently. "You have no Falna."

"No, I don't," Godou agreed, fidgeting slightly. The girl's eyes looked so devoid of emotions that he found them almost intimidating.

"Which means you were born with your abilities," Riveria said.

"No," he disagreed. "I acquired them afterwards. I was born a regular human."

Finn made a noise. "I find that hard to believe. But I will believe it for now."

"But you're not human anymore, are you, lad?" Gareth asked, almost uncertainly.

Godou hesitated. "No, not completely," he admitted.

"Divinity," Loki suddenly interjected. "You have divinity within you."

Ah. Finally, the bombshell was dropped. His mind considered a myriad of possibilities in a flurry. Lying was always an option, but it wouldn't sit well with him. He had always been an honest person, and he'd only tell a lie in order to protect someone else. But that didn't include himself. Half-truths and evading the question, on the other hand, were always on the table.

"How did you know?"

"It'd be pretty hard not to notice after spending a whole night sleeping next to you," Loki said. "But it was faint," she added softly, "it felt buried, or perhaps diluted. I would even go so far to say it felt tainted. I just never noticed it until now. But I've always suspected since the others told me about the Black Goliath."

Was that how Gods felt towards Campiones? His Authorities had never belonged to him in the first place, so it was only natural that their essences would be slightly altered in his possession. It always seemed that Heretic Gods knew just where to find him despite his efforts to remain hidden. So this was how.

"Divinity..." Riveria repeated in disbelief. "What does that even mean? How can a mortal have divinity within them?"

"They can't," Loki said, shaking her head. "Otherwise, we can't consider them as mortals."

"Kusanagi Godou." Finn used one hand to support his head, which was now hanging dangerously low. "How old are you?"

"About five centuries. Give or take a few decades." Honestly, he'd stopped counting a long time ago.

Their surprise was audible.

"Does that mean..." Gareth stoked his beard, sounding rather uncertain of himself. "That you're a God?"

"No."

Both Loki and Godou had said it simultaneously, and the end result had them both looking at each other. Loki looked as serious as Godou had ever seen her, and the troubled look on her face caused a knot of worry to form in his gut. Things were never going to be the same again now, were they?

Coughing into her fist, Loki cleared her throat. "He's not a God. There's no mistake about that. But as for what he actually is, I can't say. It's not something that should exist in this world, is it now?"

Godou recalled the conversation he had had with Loki what seemed like an eternity ago, where she'd revealed her knowledge that he'd actually come from another world. Briefly, he wondered if she'd ever shared that knowledge with the others. Well, if she hadn't, then Godou wasn't going to do it for her.

"No, it's not," he agreed. "I suppose you can call me an anomaly of sorts."

Finn looked as if he'd suddenly remembered something important. "Campione. That's what the monster tamer called you back then."

Godou flinched. "I have been called that in the past."

"And what does it actually mean?" Riveria asked.

"It translates into the word Champion," he informed them.

Only the goddess had a visible reaction to that word.

"I have heard rumors," Loki recalled worryingly, "a long time ago. Back when monsters weren't chained to the Dungeon and roamed the land in hordes, razing civilizations and decimating whole continents. When mortals were not yet given Falnas and had to rely on their own strength to defend themselves. They were not strong enough to turn the tide, not even with the aid of the spirits. This was a time when sentient life as a whole was on the brink of extinction and the Gods were desperate to do anything protect them."

"There was a time like that?" Aiz interrupted, completely taken aback.

Godou was surprised as well. This world didn't seem to have such a dark backstory.

Loki nodded. "Far beyond mortal memory. I recall being brought into existence during those tumultuous times, and I was so overburdened with my new responsibilities that I cannot remember much. But I remember hearing whispers of Gods performing the forbidden."

"Using your Arcana in the mortal world?" Gareth ventured.

"Worse," Loki said. "Forbidden soul magic that involved cleaving away a part of their essences and imparting it to mortals."

"That's dangerous!" Riveria immediately sputtered out. "Divine energy is too potent and volatile to be properly contained in a mortal vessel. They'll die!"

"Precisely why it was forbidden," Loki agreed. "But we Gods were desperate. Mortal-kind wasn't strong enough. You do not understand the magnitude of the foe they faced. Dragons, in the thousands, would darken the sky, and their combined breath could turn a rainforest into glassland in mere minutes. Herds of monsters would surround the last bastions of mortal civilization, suffocating them before snuffing the life out of them. And the sea? It was a death trap. The

re were leviathans that could encircle whole countries that ruled the oceans."