Chapter 99: A Confusing Episode

Inside a dimensional space, there exists a large celestial palace that only serves one goddess.

Deagaia, a servant of the olden gods. She was once a powerful goddess, capable of destroying galaxies with a snap of her fingers. But since the fall of the olden gods, she was reduced into nothing. It was only a million years ago when she managed to gather most of her broken soul and combine them together once again.

But at that time, she was in her most vulnerable state. But servants of olden gods are hunted down by the other gods and she was about to be found by the gods, if it was not for this singular planet. This planet seemed normal at first, but it was actually a sentient planet! A newborn at that!

Sentient planets have huge amounts of mana since they are born, and that was what she needed to recover. Since the sentient planet was nothing but a newborn and hasn't completely formed their consciousness, she seized the opportunity and imprisoned the sentient planet in a barrier that she made with the last of her powers. Then, she absorbed the mana inside the sentient planet. She was so sure that she would be able to recover 1/100 of her original power, when she was suddenly blocked by the planet itself from absorbing any more mana!

She only managed to recover 1/1000 of her power, but that was enough to strengthen the barrier that's imprisoning the sentient planet. So, for a million years, she tried to find a way to access the planet's mana reserves, even going as far as breaking time and space itself. But no matter how much she thought of an idea, it was always blocked by this sentient planet.

The planet would've completely formed its consciousness if it wasn't for her barrier blocking all the energy and nutrients needed for the planet to grow even more. This sentient planet hasn't figured out how to use its power even after a million years, and it made things easier for her.

But that is until this planet actually created lifeforms! Beings that had no intelligence, and beings that are intelligent. The planet made all of them, and she knew that this is its way of fighting back. If the planet gets the help of the creatures it made, then it will have the chance to fight back.

But, unfortunately, the goddess took advantage of this and made contact with the intelligent beings first. She manipulated them and brought all of them into her side.

Now, the planet is all alone with the goddess always trying to suck out its energy. It had no way of fighting back and could only stare at its own body as it got slowly destroyed by the beings it created to protect it.

The lonely planet could only cry, like a child weeping for help.

(Scene Break)

In a large white room, Hikaru faced 10 Manus.

They all had a stare down before they all disappeared in a burst of speed. All 10 of them appeared on top of Hikaru as they smashed their large hands upon him, but then, they were all suddenly cut into pieces. He held a long black spear in his hand as they slowly fell apart.

[Congratulations for winning against Stage-10 Manus, you won 1,000,000,000 souls along with 99 humanities, the Dark Staff of Manus, Twin Battle Axe made of Manus' Horns, 10 Manus' Souls, and the armor set of Manus]

He only read the writings on the transparent screen in front of him boredly. He's had this reward for thousands upon thousands of times, and he's getting bored of it. He's grown too powerful, and even wearing his powerful armor set and his sharpest blades is overkill.

He's been grinding so much that he has gotten too used to Manus' fighting style. He can probably copy it but it would look barbaric on him.

He then started disappearing and he was back to the real world. He entered using his physical body, not through his mind now.

He appeared inside his royal bedroom, and saw Shio sleeping in his bed again. He let Shio live in the castle, since she's officially a princess of the Kingdom now. But she would always choose to sleep in his bed, even when he brought her into a wonderful room that was once the room of the previous First Princess.

Now that he thought about it, how is the previous royal family living in the underground dungeon? They must be crying and shitting themselves because they're not used to that kind of living environment.

As he was about to leave the room, he felt a sudden struck of dizziness. He walked wobbly back to his bed and fell right beside the sleeping Shio.

'This is impossible, an undead like me can't feel something like dizziness! Something, or someone, must be affecting me with some kind of magic!' Hikaru said inside his mind as he fell into unconsciousness.

(Inside his Dreamworld)

He woke up in a wide grassland that seems to expand endlessly. He sat up and looked around to see if there's anyone in here. Though, as he looked around, he only saw endless grass and wide varieties of flowers throughout the wide plains. There was nothing here except for this land.

He just laid down on the patch of grass as he just enjoyed the feeling of peacefulness and the fragrance of the flowers right beside him. The grass didn't bother him and just ignored what's going on.

He has already figured that he can get out of this dream world with ease, he's just trying to enjoy a sense of peace after all the dark stuff he's seen and done in the Kingdom.

Hikaru thought, 'It's weird, I can actually feel sleepy in here. Maybe it's because it's my dream world? I feel like a human again. How many years has it been since I felt like this. Maybe it was the time when Azumi and I were just normal brats that were going around, making a mess everywhere. It was peaceful back then, but now…'

Everything is just so dark and gloomy nowadays. It was nothing when he was a child, ignorant of everything. It is just as they said; there is bliss in ignorance.

He doesn't even know now why he's pursuing power. Is it for Azumi? Or for himself?

"I am powerful enough", that's what he wants to say but from what he learned from that disembodied voice, he is nothing but a speck of dust in front of all the powerful beings in the multiverse. He can't even be considered as an ant in front of those beings.

But if he pursues power any longer, he'll have to leave Azumi all alone for years. One of the rules of travelling to another universe is to never bring a person from this universe to another universe.

But he will ignore all the things the system did for him. Without the system, all of the things he has right now will be gone.

"Ahh, screw it. I'll just leave all this thinking to the future me!" Hikaru yelled loudly, quite annoyed.

After ignoring all of his current problems, he finally felt relieved. He'll just accept his responsibilities and duties that he was given; the extermination of the olden gods. Maybe, just maybe, once he's defeated all of them will he be able to spend an eternity with Azumi and Hinata.

He spread his limbs wide open as he closed his eyes, but then…

"Boo!" A child-like voice suddenly spoke.

He opened his eyes widely to look at his invader.

"Who!?"

He stood up and looked around before he felt a tug on his hand. He looked down and saw a child who wore a gothic dress. She had white eyes, snowy eye-lashes and eyebrows, pure white long hair, and a smooth white and reddish skin. Her age seems to be around 12 years old, or so.

She smiled at him with her teeth showing and said, "Ne ne ne, Onii-san, what were you doing?"

"Huh, what's a kid like you doing in my dream world? Wait, are you the one who pulled me in here?" Hikaru asked quite curiously.

"If you catch me, I'll answer your question, hahahaha!" She then laughed as she ran around the grassland.

"Hey, I'm not here to play yo-

*Smack*

He was suddenly hit by a snowball. He rubbed it off his face and when he opened his eyes again, the weather in the grassland changed and it's now snowing!

The strange child was laughing at him as she continued throwing snowballs at him, and he's just blocking them with his hands. He realized earlier on that he had no power in this dream world, he's just like a regular mortal with an adult's strength.

Well, since he had nothing to do anyways, he decided to humor the strange child.

"Hahahaha, onii-san's finally ready to play!" The strange child said as she saw Hikaru chasing her. She threw snowballs at him and he just dodged them.

Before long, he found himself having fun himself. And without him realizing, he turned into his younger self as the both of them played around.

"I finally caught you." He said as he held her right hand.

And finally, he caught her on a small hill.

But then, she pulled him over and they both started rolling towards the ground. She never seized laughing happily, it was like this is the first she's played with anyone.

"Uwaaah!"

"Hahahaha!"

When they finally stopped rolling, he rubbed his face to get rid of the snow. When he opened his eyes again, they were back on the grassland. There was no snow, only the bright sky and the shining sun.

Under him was the strange white haired girl. And only then did he notice that his body actually got smaller and is now a child!

"Eh…? What happened? Why am I a child?" He asked himself. All of this is quite confusing for him, like, who is this child?

Then, he realized that he'd already caught the girl. Now, he can finally ask her what's happening.

He pinned her down on the ground and asked, "Who are you? How did you get into my mind?"

She only smiled at him and said teasingly, "Hmm? Didn't you use a part of me back then? I'm sure you already know who I am, or what I am. After all, we did a lot of things together." At the end of her sentence, she was blushing.

"Uh…" He suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he looked behind his back if anyone heard what she said. Even though he was inside his dream world, he still felt like doing that.

"I don't get what you mean, I have never met you in my entire life. What do you mean I used a part of you?" Hikaru asked her.

"Hmm, if you don't remember, then it's a shame. But…" She suddenly hugged him with both arms and closed her face with his face, then she kissed him. Not just any ordinary kiss, a french kiss.

She tied her tongue with his tongue, and sloppily kissed him.

He pushed her away and rubbed his lips with his wrist and he yelled, "Why the hell would you do that!?"

But she only blushed and banished him from his dream world with a single wave of her hand.

She licked her lips, then touched her lips.

"So that's what a kiss feels like... it felt so… magical."