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A beautiful planet rested over the vast cosmos.

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It is surface was mostly a crystalline and beautiful blue ocean, with large green continents resting over such oceans, the planet slowly rotated around a yellow star, and a beautiful gray moon rotated around this planet.

Large cumulus of clouds floated over the blue skies, it was a beautiful day for Earth.

Two figures, entities that had the power to cross the walls of the universes hovered above this world, glaring at it.

"It will soon emerge… the gates…" said one of them, it resembled a humanoid figure, whose entire body was filled with stars and seemed to not have any facial expressions.

"It does seem so… But this world is beyond me, Samsara wants to protect it instead, we cannot harvest the Origin Core from it," sighed another figure, resembling a man but made entirely out of bright white light.

"What a pity. Well, the other Earth… the one from the one you named Kireina, seems to be almost ready for it, you're using your System for it?" asked the entity made of stars.

"Indeed… Oh, it seems that Kosmos is doing pretty good, the Origin Core is growing fat- Eh?" muttered the figure made of bright white light, as it was suddenly startled.

"…What?" asked the figure made of stars.

"Tch… To think that those guys would come to ruin it… No, no, no, I cannot let them take Kosmos, it has the most delectable of Origin Cores… What a dilemma…" sighed the figure made of white light.

"Hm? Who?" asked the figure made of stars.

"Damn you're really slow at catching up with stuff! And you call yourself the King of Hell?" asked the figure made of bright light.

"…"

"Anyways, it's those two… What are their names? Well, it does not matter, those two that used to be one, the errors of the idiot of Hekaton. They are messing up big time now, somehow their System, the one they received from Hekaton, merged with their souls, and now is giving them world-traveling powers sporadically whenever one of those two evolves… Long story short, they somehow learned how to split their souls and left clones in Kosmos, and yes, they can even duplicate the system, so every clone has it and can grow strong from it… What a pain- And Kireina is there too, to boot," sighed the figure made of bright white light.

"Kireina is already in Kritias, now she's on Kosmos too?" asked the entity made of stars.

"Yes. But her main body is still in Genesis… These clones are separated from her and are not as strong, so I do not have to worry about her that much… but these two are problematic, especially because… they are allied with the Gods of Kosmos… Hmm… Maybe I should just kill them?" wondered the figure made of bright light.

"Can you?" asked the figure made of stars.

"Mmmh… Not directly. But it would be nice to get rid of the problem from the root. Although I might as well put some effort to exterminate their clones… Ah, I am not the only one that wants to get rid of them. Perhaps I should offer my help to them. Especially because I cannot simply go there and crush their Origin, it would take too much energy to go there when we are there already. And it would make all the Gods there go insane, so it is better to simply assist them from the shadow's… like the good trickster I am," laughed the figure made of bright light.

"So you're a Trickster now? If you simply want to get rid of them it is not really that trickster-like…" said the figure made of stars.

"Says the one that likes to tempt human souls to become sinners and fall into their plane…" sighed the figure made of bright light.

"Oi, don't be like that with me now," sighed the figure made of stars.

"Hekaton seems to be working into something to get rid of them… But will that idiot even get it right? There are two Kritias after all, the one in the future is a chaotic mess that's about to end, and the Heroes he sent there are constantly dying, killing each other like fools… He plans to send those fools to kill these two… But I got some better plans," said the figure made of bright light.

"Hm?" asked the figure made of stars.

"There's… a certain guy there. I think he should do it. He has been lying low sometime now, growing a bit stronger every time… He has some potential, we should bring him in Kosmos too and mix things up a bit. Oh yeah, I am definitely doing that, sounds like fun," laughed the figure made of bright light.

"What are the two currently doing?" asked the figure made of stars.

"I can't really tell exactly what they're doing… but they are staying in this Seashore Town… oh, Hekaton is sending the reincarnated people there…" said the bright figure.

"Are you going to 'mix things up' a bit?" asked the figure made of stars.

"Yes, let's give them some challenges worth their time, shall we? If they fail, they might as well end up killed for good…" said the figure made of bright light.

"You've really gotten quite bolder this time," said the figure made of stars.

"What? Their bugged system makes them grow exceedingly fast, new measurements are needed to take them out, right?" asked the figure made of bright white light.

"I agree, but don't interfere too much… After all, the Overseers might see us…" said the figure made of stars.

"It's because of those pains in the ass that I want to grow stronger, the only way at this point is eating Origin Cores from other worlds…" said the figure made of bright light.

"You could also try to eat Gods and Supreme Gods, but you fear the World's Will, don't you? You're not like Kireina…" said the figure made of bright stars.

"Sheesh, you're such a pain too, you know, Lucifer?" asked the bright figure.

"You call yourself the System Master but you're more like the scheming master…" said the figure made of stars.

"I will take that as a compliment," said the figure made of bright light.

"…"

"Heh… These two might seem special or be with one of Kireina's Clones, but really, anyone that gets into my path will not seem me as nice anymore…" said the figure made of bright light, as a grin emerged from its faceless face.

Meanwhile, within Future Kritias, a battle between Heroes unfolded.

After the death of Daniel, the Titan, the best friend of Eustace, the Hero of Light, and also his Shield, by the hands of Gabriel, large conflicts unfolded.

The Heroes quickly began to separate into groups, feeling like Eustace was not someone worth following, and Gabriel started to encroach many of them to join his side.

Eventually, two factions remained within this chaotic and apocalyptic world, the faction of Eustace and the faction of Gabriel.

The death of Daniel, however, had made Eustace feel even more depressed as if he had begun to doubt what he was fighting for.

The world was crumbling, the Gods that remained were doing everything they could to make this world keep itself together… but not much time was left…

Except if Gabriel could accomplish his goals, the ones he wanted to do to save this world!

However, for that, he had to ally with the Demon Gods, and kill those unwilling to obey him!

There was no time, he had to do everything he could, even as someone with a powerful Cheat Ability that gave him an amazing power over the control of Time, he still was not powerful enough to accomplish his goal.

Defeat Bestellen!

Bestellen was, after all, the main cause of why the world was coming to an end, as he had gobbled up all the divinities from the other Gods and wanted to govern this world with his will, this amount of divinities made him incredibly powerful, but also had made him gone mad!

Gabriel's plan was as simple as defeating Bestellen and releasing the Divinities, giving them back to the original Gods that possessed them, and save the world.

But Eustace didn't think that the best outcome was to kill Bestellen, as the greatest pillar that maintained Kritias was him, if they were to kill him, Kritias on its totality would end!

There should be another way!

Or so, Eustace always thought.

But was there even another way now?

The entire world was crumbling, cracks and rifts in space emerged, as monsters started to roam freely, something was clearly going wrong here!

Weren't Gabriel's intentions justified?

Was Eustace simply being a fool by stopping him?

Indeed, both factions had their own thoughts and beliefs and knew that there were dangers within their actions and what they wanted to do.

Gabriel, however, had grown unyielding and drunk on his own power, and wanted to not simply give back the divinities to the gods that originally owned them, but make them his servants, and rule this world!

This was the main issue that Eustace had with him, even though killing Bestellen had already gone through his head more than once…

But to even kill such a strong being as Bestellen, all the Heroes would need to combine their strength alongside most of the Demon Gods left and other Subordinate Gods…

But such a thing was but a delusion, as Eustace and Gabriel would never cooperate after what Gabriel did, the death of Daniel by his hands only made Eustace resent him to death after all…

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