The Emperor of Earth’s Journey throughout the World Tree~(Earth)

(Earth)

~This happened before the Chapter Family I, II~

Getting his orders from his father, Raul immediately left the Beast Continent for the Human Continent to begin his preparations for his mission. To be honest, even as a God, Raul was extremely laid back to the point of letting others take advantage of him, getting two of his seven continents, doing as they wish with them. Because of his laziness, after everything settles down, he only had the Human Continent as his territory, even though he 'rules' Earth. If he wanted to he could get his continents back, but why would he? If he took them back, the amount of paperwork he would have to do was ungodly!! So after seeing that no one did anything too drastic like killing off a race, he allows them to do as they please, the only catch was that they must obey him in times of crisis, which they swore on the Supreme Gods' name.

Swearing on the Supreme Gods' name is the last thing one wants to do, even as a joke, and then break it, since one would suffer divine punishment. While the punishment of swearing on the name of other gods, and breaking the oath, is less than the Supreme God, unless it's absolutely needed, it's recommended not to speak the name of the gods. Saying a god's name and then making a joke could make one life extremely miserable.

Flying over the massive ocean that divides his world into seven parts, Raul's mood was in the slums, as he was sad that his mother would not be remaining on Earth with him. He was happy that she was happy, but with her not around left a gap in his heart. It's not just his heart that a gap exists in, a gap appears on Earth. With a God gone, Earth will drop to the last of the five worlds in terms of power.

Earth is the most populated of the five worlds, however, that doesn't mean he could find a replacement for his mother. After all, no amount of mortals on Earth could amount to a strand of hair on a god's head.

An infinite amount of mortals would seem powerful to an ordinary person, however to a God, no amount of morals could harm them. That's because around a God at all times is a god's [Divine Protection], which can only be breach by Legends and up. (AN: In the Overlord light novel, one must reach at least level 60 to be able to hurt a max-level player like Ainz. It's the same here but has a different name.)

On Earth, there were many factions and forces which are powerful in their own right. Each of these factions control many resources, International and domestically; so it makes sense that they had enough power to protect their assets. However, although there are many factions inside the world, there are only two factions that can be call supreme and unstoppable, which are the Imperial Force of Earth and the Mother Goddess Religion.

The Imperial Forces of Earth is a powerful force that only obeys the order of the Emperor of Earth. Since Raul only had 'one' continent under his control, the Imperial Forces of Earth focus mainly on it, the Human Continent and occasionally spread all over the world looking for danger, etc.

The Imperial Forces of Earth consisted of twelve Ministers of Earth and a million-strong Imperial Army. Each of the twelve ministers we're equal to DemiGods and had enough power to battle a god for a short period, given Raul or Gaia time to react to the danger. These Minister of Earth are the first line of defense against enemies for this world, which is why these powerful beings are scattered at Important locations in the world. There are some on one of the seven continents, some at the depths of the ocean, some blending into the life of ordinary people, with them not being aware of this fact, etc.

While the idea of having the Ministers of Earth at key locations was good; because of the vast distance needed to be cross to get to him, Raul didn't summon them and instead went with his mother to the Beast Continent to seek the anomalies. Thankfully the anomalies were caused by his father, instead of invaders because if there were invaders, he along with his mother would have been wounded. This is one of the problems he will have to eliminate to create a better relay system between his subordinates. If they could use teleportation magic like him, he wouldn't be having this problem however since the only reason he could use teleportation magic inside his world was because he was one of the gods in charge of this world.

This might seem confusing since mortals are able to use teleportation magic freely on Earth and DemiGods couldn't. The reason for this was the rules set by the Supreme God for safety reasons. Mortals cannot cause damages that could alarm the gods, especially considering that a mortal cannot use a high-level spell-like [Teleportation]. So basically the Supreme God made it so mortals are not restricted in what magic they use, however considering that by the time they could use teleportation magic they would have already surpassed being a mortal and reach Hero at the very least, teleportation magic is impossible for them inside Earth. (AN: Basically, only the rulers of their worlds could freely teleport inside their worlds. The only way to teleport would be to use items, and that would be affected by how far they could teleport to.)

The reason he didn't teleport back to the Human Continent, was that he had plenty of time to reach the Golden Nation, after all, he had until noon and with the sun just rising, he had at least eight hours remaining.

The Imperial Army, on the other hand, was a force worth twelve more Ministers of Earth, as they were an army conspired of a million Hero ranks beings. A million Hero rank beings probably don't sound like much, but it was. If this army was to arrive in any world, although they might not conquer it, they would still be a force to be feared and never underestimated.

This was frightening since a million men Army consisting of Hero rank beings is enough to slaughter even DemiGods like ants and challenge a newly ascended True God.

After all, even an army of million of ants could kill a full-grown elephant, much less beings thousand of times stronger than ants killing a God.

The Mother Goddess Religion is different from the Imperial Forces of Earth, not only because of its greater amount of DemiGods but also because of the amount of acceptance it receives from all three habitable continents. With acceptance being a form of power, the gap between the two could be explained. More people we're inclined to welcome a priestess of the Mother Goddess than a official of the Emperor of Earth who was also a True God. This was because the religion preaches about freedom and coexistence with other beings, especially nature; while the emperor demands complete authority in his domain. Once he speaks, only his voice should be heard, no one else.

From this, one could see the difference in their Divine Authorities.

A Divine Authority is born when a being reaches a True God level. A Divine Authority is what a True God had control over. For example, the Mother Goddess of Life, Nature and the World Tree, Gaia, has three Divine Authorities. She had control over Life, Nature and the World Tree. As a result of her control over Life, she has twelve Priestesses of Life who were DemiGods, who are in the process of starting their own religions to 'ascend' to become True God themselves.

When a DemiGod spread their faiths, If people accept them, they would become empowered, becoming stronger than a regular DemiGod. This was also one of the ways to become True Gods, by spread their faiths, and become empowered to that level. The other way was simply reaching that stage with one's own power, not fearing having your power striped from you when your followers stop believing in you. (AN: picture the empowerment as a weaker version of the Floor Guardian Assistant Function. This is what makes floors guardian or in this case gods stronger inside their own domains than fellows of the same power level.)

As a result of having a Divine Authority of Nature, Gaia had three Beast Lords, who were the DemiGods who rule over the most dangerous continent of Earth. The Beast Lords were different than the Priestesses of Life as even beings of the same level couldn't win against them. If the three Beast Lords work together, their power would approach the level of a Beast Emperor, a True Beast God.

Maybe because the Supreme God had foreseen godly battles happening on Earth if more divine beings emerge, of the many rules governing the World Tree, one of them states divine beings who emerge on Earth or lesser worlds must ascend to the Golden Continent in the Golden nation and walk upon the Divine Mountain in the Divine Continent.(AN: Earth is the only lesser world of the World Tree. All the other worlds since they had a vital role and could kill even Mythical Beings without trying, they are consider Higher Worlds.) However since all the current DemiGods are members of a vital force of Earth they are excluded from this rule. if not the only divine beings on Earth would be him and ihis mother.

As for the Divine Authority of the World Tree, no one had seen her use it, so people believe it was far too powerful, even for a True God to use recklessly. This was further support by the fact the real ruler of the World Tree was the Supreme God who none can hold a candle to.

Raul, the Emperor of Earth had a Divine Authority, although he only had one in comparison to his mother, it was extremely powerful. His Divine Authority was Earth, not the element of Earth but the world Earth. He can change and reorganization the Earth as he sees fit, however, he was unable to control Nature like his mother thus making him control the skeleton of Earth, not the flesh and blood.

He controls the Earth, and Gaia controls everything else.

As Raul flew faster and faster to the Human Continent, he wonder why doesn't he get a mount? It doesn't seem right to have to teleport or fly everywhere, as it would lower his status. An Emperor without a royal carriage pull by at the very least a Beast Lord was not Emperor, much less a True God like him.

He couldn't capture one of the Beast Lords to be his mount, as they were his mother's subordinates, plus none of them catch his fancy. As an Emperor and as a True God, only beings such as Dragons and Phoenixes would be acceptable to pull his carriage, not a turtle, a dog, or a stupid cat.

Raul ponder if he should ask his mother or father for a summoning scroll, to summon a powerful beast? Raul shook his head as it wasn't a concern currently, because even if the got a carriage, he wouldn't have anywhere to go, as none of the nobles from the Alliance Continent dare to make him go to them. Making a God angry was the last thing on their minds, after all; it was already a miracle that he wasn't angry with them for 'stealing' a continent away from him.

Raul could see his home a few miles away, so he flew at a faster rate, burning through his already small amount of mana.

He wasn't a mage, but a warrior, so it would be okay to call him Battle God Raul or something like that. It was a miracle that he could use magic as he was created to be a pure warrior, the archenemy of all casters. He could kill a caster faster than they could blink or faster than them casting a spell, making him a force to be reckoned with. However, his weakness was also obvious which was long-range attacks. If a caster kept him at a distance and constantly attach him, he would die as his forte was close combat.

Arriving above the Human Continent, Raul descended to the ground, startling the mortals around. Everyone on the street after seeing who it was, immediately drop to their knees not daring to stare at God too long, less they combust. In all the churches of Earth, in all of their divine books, one of the rules was not to look at God. If one does they would be profane the gods, which was a horrible crime that could cause problems in the Nether World judgment process when they die.

While this continent was called the Human Continent, it doesn't mean it was a place of only humans. The only reason it was called that, was because the ruler of the place was an Immortal Human.

That means of the people kneeling, there were Dwarfs, Elves, Trolls and such. That's even after most of the non-humans left the continent, to start their own, the Alliance Continent.

Raul sign as he was never one to like people worshiping him, however as a God it will happen even if he doesn't want it to. Walking through the streets, he soon arrives at his place, Earth's Royal Palace, which means he was in the sole city of the continent, Earth Capital City.

He never understands why no one wanted to create new cities and rule them, becoming City Lords, however since Earth Capital City was able to house everyone, he could care less of their choices. However, he knew he would have to create more cities eventually as the population seems to be experiencing rapid growth. At most, ten years later, he will have to create a new city, which will make the continent lively, but make his brother Yama angry.

Raul chuckles thinking of his big brother's face when he saw millions of souls appearing in front of him. However, considering his big brother was a workaholic unlike him, he would not be mad, just surprise.

Earth's Royal Palace was an extremely large white marble building that extended into the distance. White pillar props the roof up, with black rocks beings, use as stairs. The clash of colors made the magnificence of the palace to pop and be the food of the eyes.

As Raul approaches the palace, the streets became spares as no ordinary people live close to the palace. The area around the palace was were nobles of Human Continent live, so this place has more class than where he descended at.

Before Raul reach the huge black palace doors, they opened automatically, not stopping his regal strides.

On the other side of the doors, where many guards dress in white armor, with spears as their weapons of choice. As the guards say their Lord, they saluted, by slamming the butt of the spears on the ground.

There were also servants, from maids to butlers who bow deeply and watch as their master walk pass them.

Raul didn't say anything, as he knew that would cause them to worried, thus he walked pass them.

As he continued walking, just as he was about to reach his destination, he hears a rushing footstep approach him. He didn't have to look to know who it was, but since he knew who it was, he signs with despair on his face before turning around with a smile on his face, looking 'pleasant' at the person, "Prime Minster Leyna, what can I help you with?"

In front of Raul was the Prime Minister of the Human Continent and its actual ruler, Leyna Mallya of the Mallya Clan. Since Raul was lazy and couldn't be bothered to rule the world, he appointed a random mortal from amongst the elves in a moment of boredom, getting a truly intelligent Prime Minister in the process. To be honest he likes the Prime Minister as she was the only mortal that didn't see him as a God and but an incompetent emperor. She tried anything in her power to make him change and do his job, which was the only problem he had with her.

Prime Minister Leyna was a tall elf of two meters with a glistening complexion that seems divine. She had long blonde hair that was braid at both sides of her head, leaving the center normal. Her eyes were big and green, showing she was from a Wood Elf Clan. Her lips were naturally red making her look like a divine beauty, which she was since she was an award the title of, Miss Earth, every single time since no divine entities participated.

She was wearing a similar get-up as Raul, however, instead of a robe, she was wearing a white dress with golden stars all over it. The dress only came down to her knees leaving the bottom portion of her legs exposed, making her look very attractive. She was wearing black high heels that made her even taller than Raul by a bit but in aura, Raul still appeared like he was taller.

Prime Minister Leyna props her glasses up while holding documents in her other hand. She has a sneer on her face as she heard Raul's words. "YOU HAVE SOME NERVE LEAVING WITHOUT TELLING ME AND YOU ARE ASKING 'WHAT CAN I HELP YOU WITH?'" Her chest heaved up and down, which would have been a good sight to see, however since was flatter than the width of a paper, she just seems crazy instead.

Raul's mouth twitches and back up with his hands spread open, trying to defuse the situation. Thankfully the servants and guards disappear so he didn't have to lose face in front of them.

What Raul didn't know was that the servants and guards knew this happens every time they meet. They would argue like love birds, not realizing their feelings for one another which was obvious.

"Calm down Leyna, I have a perfectly good reason for leaving!" Raul back away until his back was to the wall of the hallways, making him a bit nervous as Prime Minister Leyna was approaching him with a fierce look in her eyes.

Boom!

Prime Minister Leyna slam her hand an inch away from Rauls's face, hitting the walls, causing the palace to trembled. A palm print of her slender hand was in the walls, but was slowly recovering before disappearing. Her head approaches his face, looking deeply into his eyes, causing him to look away, " My name is Prime Minister Leyna, don't forget my title! So tell me 'Oh glorious Emperor of Earth', what so important that you left your duties unattended?"

Raul was scared out of his mind as no matter how he saw it, she was definitely not a normal an Elf. What Elf do you know that could damage a Divine Class Item like Earth's Royal Palace, even if slightly? Even he couldn't do it and he was a god. This was the reason even though he didn't like her wanting him to work, he doesn't dare say it to her face, less he be the first god to fall in one of the craziest ways possible, kill by their 'loyal' servant.

Raul swallow his saliva and timidly spoke, "Forgive me, Le....Prime Minister Leyna, I was called by my father, getting orders, and I'm getting ready to leave." Raul quickly change his way of addressing Leyna seeing her ball her fists up, before telling her everything except the cause of the anomalies and placement of his mother.

Prime Minister Leyna's face pale as she stared into Rauls eyes, not seeing any sign of deciet. "If it's an order from the Supreme God, I suppose you are not in the wrong. You can go, I will hold down the fort here." Prime Minister Leyna mood seems to change to calm and reasonable after hearing of the Supreme God name.

Raul didn't hesitate to leave immediately, as she was extremely dangerous for his liking. If she snaps and killed him, he will have no place for tears later on. However, while he was scared of the woman, he was even more aware of how important his father's status was. Just mentioning his name was able to 'save' his life.

Watching Raul running for his life, Prime Minister Leyna wondered what had alarm the Supreme God? It must be something important, If it was not important, Raul wouldn't be acting that way, she concluded from analyzing his behavioral pattern for over ten thousand years.

Prime Minister Leyna eyes flash as she debated if she should meet her father or continuing hiding? After weighing the pros and cons of her actions, she shook her head, as the Supreme God probably already solve the problem, so there is no need to risk her current identity because of her curiosity. Her plan was simply to make Raul fall for her and become his wife, which will make her the Empress of Earth. If she played her cards right, her Mallya Clan could become the sole Divine Clan with a God in the universe. (AN: Her use of the word universe only means the World Tree. For the NPC's since all they knew was the World Tree and not the bigger world outside of it, their universe is limited. )

Escaping from the beast of a woman call Prime Minister Leyna, Raul heaves a sigh of relief, as he enters his private chambers. Raul began his preparations as he fell asleep on his massive god bed.

A leopard doesn't change its spots, and neither will he change his ways. He was lazy by nature, and he will rather die than become one of those productive individuals. Plus it's not like he was lazing around, he was conserving his strength for his mission later on; he has plenty of time until the deadline after all.

Snoring could be heard inside a massive dimly lit room as a god slept, which shake the very room itself. After who knows how long, an alarm went off inside the room, awakening the god from his slumber.

The god stopped the alarm and yawn loudly, as he looks at the clock seeing he had three hours before noon, thus he cleans himself up and went to the teleportation gate inside his throne room, after making sure his enemy was not there. Walking up to the teleportation gate, Raul step in the middle of it, before setting the destination to Hell. The reason he chose Hell as his first destination was that it was faster and would save more time, instead of going up and then down and up again.

TO BE CONTINUE ⏩