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Oggoth was in a state of disbelief.

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He, a Demon God, who had the power to trample over most mortals was outsmarted by a bunch of measly mortals who did not even have a quarter of his age…

"If it wasn't because I am sealed… if it wasn't because I am sealed… I would destroy them! I would crush them with my very own tentacles!"

Oggoth, a god who most of the time remained coolheaded and calculative, was losing his mind.

He had slowly raised an army to finally take over two tribes of demi-humans that he desired to grow strong through their fear and worship, he planned it all carefully, from the number of soldiers to how many Gazers he made.

He was even extra cautious, making sure that the Gazers were at least of Rank 6, and over a dozen were made so not even if those two and their tamed monsters appeared, they would either die or escape after an arduous battle…

But everything was completely different from Oggoth's expectations.

Ervas and Veronica, 'those two' on Oggoth's minds, had grown incredibly quickly since the last time he saw them through the thoughts of the Gazer they killed.

"How… could they get so strong in a single month?! It should have been impossible for beings such as them to defeat my Rank 6 Gazers and the whole army with such ease! And there were many of those Squirrels as well… even if they had trained their whole lives, without being able to change jobs, they shouldn't have power comparable to a single Gazer!" roared Oggoth, if he could, he would storm his entire shrine and destroy half the Devil Forest… but he was strongly sealed, and his true powers could not be exerted… even more, when he had spent most of the divine power he acquired through worships, sacrifices, and prayers into creating those over twenty Gazers, only for them to end up as experience points for his enemies and sweet blood for Ervas.

To make things worse, Oggoth felt incredibly disappointed in himself, as not only this happened, but the enemy somehow spotted his hideout, dig an enormous cave section underground below it, and used great information respecting the places where the captured demi-humans were to rescue them immediately.

"Those metallic spiders… they dig all the way to here from the Squirrel-kin tribe… how could I never detect them?! Even if they were undead… this is… it's frustrating!"

Oggoth did not know that those metallic spiders that he thought were tamed on large scale by Veronica and Ervas were in fact Veronica's clones. They were able to pass by undetected by him as they lacked vitality, the only energy that Oggoth could detect while being completely sealed, alongside mana if it were in high quantities.

But even then… if there would be so many of them, there would be certainly a large amount of mana concentrated underground… yet, he wasn't capable of sensing it, it was as if each spider creature was had somehow deflected his sensory powers.

This was due to Veronica's Abyssal Soul Skill, which reflected the effects of outside forces by a certain amount depending on the skill level and Veronica's own soul development… coupled with the inability to make themselves be seen clearly by lacking vitality, Oggoth wasn't capable of sensing them.

And about Ervas's plant-type monsters, they were monsters that shared the same 'scent' as the entire forest, Oggoth was incapable of sensing them in detail.

Oggoth not only had lost his powerful army but also lost the resources he used to produce more soldiers quickly, the demi-human he possessed captive within underground lairs.

Even when he tried to follow the beings that stole these 'goods' from him, the caves had already collapsed, and his consciousness could not expand more than a few hundred meters.

With only less than a hundred remaining soldiers, the Gazer King, and a few other weaker Gazers, Oggoth had hit a dead-end…

But he still had the Gazer King… a Rank 8 monster, perhaps, he still had some hope of turning things around.

But the question was… how?

"I need to dispose of that brat and the living armor… if I am capable of doing so, it should be possible for me to take over the Squirrel-kin and then the Raccoon-kin… at the end, those two are the ones that have strange powers and grow at an incredible pace while helping the others as well… as long as I dispose of them, their progression will be stagnant and I will be able to take these 'goods' for me! But for that… some time is needed… it is worrying, as they grow at an incredible pace, but I have to bet it on it! Or not, I will have to slumber for a few years and try again on another occasion when these mortals had already died or wondered somewhere else… but for now, it is better to try and do what I can, and if not… well, it is not like they can directly confront me, a god. At most, I will weaken and sleep…" muttered Oggoth, giving himself hope that even when everything he tried to do failed, he was an immortal god, his soul was powerful and couldn't be destroyed nor manipulated, at most, gods would slumber for thousands of years but never truly die…

Unless he were to fight someone capable of destroying souls.

But for Oggoth, that was something unlikely, these mortals were strong, yes, but nothing as strong to be capable of breaking souls… it was completely out of his mind that someone like these beings could do something that required such amount of power and control over souls and the death attribute.

In Oggoth's mind, there were only two gods capable of this, one of them was a 'true' god, part of the Dark God's faction that barely participated in the Ragnarök, Qadall, The God of Death and Souls and the second god that he remembers was capable of doing such a thing, the Demon God that he served in the long past when the Ragnarök between god factions was still in motion.

This god intimidated the Demon Gods with his strength and powers and made them all obey him, creating a third faction that went against the Bright and the Dark Gods, striving for even more chaos and havoc around.

This god created so much fear in the souls of all Demon Gods, such tyranny and power over them ended up giving him the title of 'Demon God-King'. And such title was quickly heard by many other gods and their mortal followers, there was not only the conflict between two factions occurring, but a third menace had appeared in that time.

Oggoth was both thankful and also frightened over the 'death' of the 'Demon God-King'.

It was his greatest benefactor and protector, but also a tyrant that used him as a mere pawn… he was thankful for being free of his grasp, but not of being left alone without anyone to support him or a faction to belong in.

Oggoth has been sealed thousands of years ago, but still remembers the day when the terrifying Demon God-King was killed… or better said, split apart and sealed multiple times, each piece sealed elsewhere.

Not even Qadall was capable of destroying the Demon God King completely but decided to cooperate on its sealing, gathering many of its pieces.

The origin of this Demon God-King was unclear, but his powers were immensely similar to the Bright and Dark Gods, and some suspected that he could have been a lost 'brother' of them, born way later than them by the leftover corpse fragments of Anir and Kelsus, but that held greater power.

These fragments held various names due to their wonders and also due to the origins of the Demon God-King, some calling them 'Anir's Fragments' and others calling them 'Kelsus Fragments', after the names of the two Great Gods that created the world.

However, many of the gods that survived after such a battle, quickly discovered that the Demon God King's Soul Fragments held immense power, and used them as weapons for their benefit, they became weapons used by the two surviving factions to fight each other, but the Dark Gods quickly realized their danger, as the more one used such fragments, the more the mind of the users would be eroded and assimilated by the main will of the Demon God-King.

Their danger was proven multiple times through mortal wielders, who ended up becoming monstrous and berserk beasts by having their bodies parasitized by the fragments.

Oggoth was one of the lucky gods that managed to keep one of such fragments… but the fragment was tightly sealed just as himself… but if he had a bit more power, he could trigger it and use it for a few moments, but it was too dangerous, he decided to never use such item… unless his life depended on it.

The Bright Gods used these fragments indiscriminately, but after some time, they sealed them back due to their dangerousness…

Some even wondered if it could be possible that the strange changes of behaviors of the God of Light and Righteousness were those of these fragments. But Razdall would confirm that Bestellen was crazy to even before these fragments came into existence.

Razdall himself would speculate that Bestellen had somehow acquired an Anir's Fragment way before the Demon God King appeared. Due to this, perhaps, the whole existence of the Demon God-King was a conglomeration of such fragments that came into existence… meaning that these fragments existed somewhere before the appearance of the Demon God-King and that somehow Bestellen found one that infested his mind, making him develop great hate against those that had greater descendancy from Kelsus, such as Demons and Beastmen.

Or perhaps the first gods were always Anir and Kelsus fragments?

Oggoth, a god born as a monster that raised to godhood could not relate to these gods.

Oggoth was mostly unclear about such things, but he wanted to find out eventually…he wanted to gather the fragments and use them to his own benefit, acquire the power of the Demon God King and devour the first gods, assimilate their authorities and take a hold of the world.

But these were dreams for the far future… for now, Oggoth could only wait patiently and gather power.

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