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Within the space above Seashore, inside a dark Divine Realm, a malicious divine entity began to tremble in fear, Xorkoch, the Demon God of Fervent Addiction, had clearly sensed the death of Borunidhan and then that of Vog'dromad.

"This is hopeless! In less than ten minutes two of us are gone! I have to escape…! B-But… all what I have built here…"

Xorkoch, the Demon God of Fervent Addiction governed the west area of Seashore.

He seemed to be a God that found pleasure in seeing others indulge in fervent addictions to certain things or acts.

However, the most famous and useful of them all were actual drugs, which he made his cult produce and sell to spread his "fervent addiction" to others, who would seek more of such drug made from parts of his monstrous body and slowly approach his cult to ask for more, becoming fervent addicted worshipers.

He was at fault for bringing drugs to Seashore, and the one who had provoked so many people to ruin their lives and fall into complete poverty due to them.

The malicious God took joy in bringing people's life to complete ruin and to see their damned faces become completely filled with addiction.

He took joy in making everyone addicted to his own body parts, which he made the drugs of.

The more addicted people he gathered, the more power and energy he would be able to make.

Through such things, he slowly spread his influence with his drugs… however, he was not a good fighter, if it wasn't obvious enough.

However, he had worked very hard for what he had now, and leaving it everything for these mere mortals who had such outstanding, ridiculous powers greatly infuriated this being.

"But I can't… leave my source of power… How will I… Agh! So frustrating… But there's nothing I can do, I have to escape now!" he thought.

Unlike the previous two Demon Gods who had died, Xorkoch had simply decided to abandon everything than risking his life fighting, he had no confidence in fighting against beings who had killed two Demon Gods who were stronger than him in just so little time.

He was an ageless being, he simply needed to go to sleep until all problems were to be resolved… and it was better this way, as he could save up energy too.

And so, he quickly ran away from his original position, traveling through the spatial layers with his Divine Realm, however, a few seconds afterward, the telepathic message of another Demon God came to him.

And this God was no one else than the other of the four Demon Gods, Ullmarauth, the Demon God of Mad Slaughter.

"Ullmarauth… You should be running for your life as well!" said Xorkoch, although he seemed intrigued about what this Demon God could have in mind to talk to him…

"Xorkoch! Are you really planning to run away?! After all the time we have spent making of this place our resource-producing factory?! All these years have been painstakingly trying to get more mortals to follow us, for years and years? Fight at my side! If we both join hands and use the Fragments we possess… There is a good chance of victory!" said Ullmarauth, trying to convince Xorkoch!

Ullmarauth, the Demon God of Mad Slaughter governed the east area of Seashore, he seemed to be a god who desired anything to indulge in a constant and mad slaughter.

Of course, if that were to happen most people would have noticed in Seashore… so he limited himself to form a cult of assassins and barbarian bandits, and often worked outside of Seashore, letting them invade nearby villages or towns for them to slaughter and violate the people inside, bringing him power through unleashing their truest maddening desires.

Sometimes he would also employ such organizations and cults to work as Adventurers and hunt monsters to make a living.

He was one of the less threatening Demon Gods because he mostly did not target Seashore itself, but his followers always originated from here… Of course, that he was the less threatening or not didn't matter to Ervas and Veronica, they would kill him regardless.

Xorkoch, however, didn't buy his act.

"I am not going to help you! Go die by yourself! We have never been friends or anything for me to trust you! Do you think I am stupid or something?!" roared Xorkoch, as he kept moving away.

Ullmarauth fell silent for a moment, as he suddenly began… to laugh!

"I see. So that's your position in the situation. I gave you a chance, Xorkoch, and you rejected it! Now, prepare for the consequences!" laughed Ullmarauth.

Xorkoch was suddenly weirded out by the strange words of Ullmarauth.

What was this idiot even planning?

CRACK… CRACK!

"Eh!?"

Suddenly, Xorkoch's Divine Realm began to crack and shatter open!

CRASH!

However, it was not Veronica or Ervas who greeted him… but Ullmarauth, who resembled a gigantic three-headed minotaur with a single crimson eye in each bullhead, muscular chest, and bull-like legs.

However, his entire body was being parasitized by Demon God-King Fragments, and his presence seemed completely different!

"W-What?! Ullmarauth?! How can you access my Divine Realm like that? You're not even a spatial god!" said Xorkoch, feeling shocked, as his body, which resembled a large Cannabis plant whose leaves were crimson-red and covered in eyes.

"Gahahaha! Xorkoch, I have been helped by a nice backer! A mysterious God that reallyyyy wants to deal with those two pesky mortals, if you don't cooperate, then I will make you do so!" laughed Ullmarauth, as he flashed towards Xorkoch, extending strange tendrils all over Xorkoch who tried to escape and fight back!

"Stop! STOOOP! GGRRYYYYYAAHHHH…!"

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Meanwhile, within a far away Divine Realm made of complete whiteness, an enormous bearded old man glanced at Seashore through the eyes of a Familiar Spirit he had modified, giving it the Cheat Ability of Clairvoyance he extracted from another Reincarnated Soul he had created alongside another group of beta testers of the Samsara System.

This group of reincarnated people were completely apart from Veronica's, and had been sent to another world different from Kritias… A group of them had died due to internal disputes, and instead of sending them against Veronica, he decided to convert them into puppet Familiar Spirits and use the Cheat Abilities he gave to them as tools.

He was not able to use these abilities on himself, but he had discovered that the Heroes he gave to if they were to be possessed by his soul, were able to form a bond with his senses, giving him the ability to use such Abilities.

Of course, for this to occur the souls needed to develop and live with the Cheat Abilities for many years, dozens of years for it to work properly and make the Cheat Ability "ripe".

Due to this, he was not able to simply create a ton of them and insert them into random souls…

"I still regret sending this first group of Reincarnated Souls, they're all going berserk in that world I sent them to… Well, at the very least, I can now use the Abilities I gave them and made them cultivate with their souls… My powers are limited to my divinity, but there are always some convenient turnarounds…" thought Hekaton.

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