Epic Of Caterpillar

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Time rewinds itself a bit, as the System Gods work relentlessly to assure that Kireina can rise into godhood.

It was not as if it was easy, even though it seemed very simple for her, every single process of her rise was mostly made by the System itself, helping her in every bit.

This, usually, would not be the case, as rising to godhood would not be as complicated for other mortals, and the power and technicality that the System needed to do for the user was never as complicated as with Kireina.

The System Gods had several problems, some of them were because Kireina was already way stronger than a Living Deity, so it would not really make sense for her to become one, and instead, she should at least become a Great Goddess based on all the power she held and after being enhanced by the Divine Energy from the environment.

However, due to the Laws of the System, such a thing was impossible, and they needed to make her rise through each Rank without being able to skip them.

At most, she should be able to easily cross through them at time record, but not completely skip them… these were the rules of the Laws of this World, and even the System which had become a Law, had to obey this.

"Hm, she already ate the Sins and Commandments, just as we predicted."

"Indeed, she had grown very strong from it, and it was such a challenge that we were able to make it seem like a Divine Trial, this had made her rise to godhood quickly…"

"It was better to qualify those as Divine Trials because it would have been a lot of work to summon a suitable Divine Trial for her…"

"Indeed, we did a good job there… However, the hardest part is about to come…"

After Kireina devoured and assimilated the Deadly Sins and Heavenly Commandments that they had predicted she would try to get, they made her internal battle against them count as a Divine Trial, making it easy for her to become a Goddess right after.

The System Gods had predicted that Kireina would try to acquire these Sins which they had made available in the Dungeon Shop and were glad to see that she got them so she could grow as strong as possible.

However, it wasn't as if she was the only one with the Dungeon Shop… another entity, a fusion between three Gods, had devoured an entire dungeon and had acquired the power of this Divine Dungeon Shop too, Zubekh.

However, unlike Kireina, Zubekh didn't possess the power to create a discount in the shop, so his progress compared to Kireina should be slower, even more, as although he had planned to get the sins and commandments as well, he had not enough Dungeon Points and had begun to stockpile them slowly.

But things did not end here, as Zubekh had created a way to generate a special item that could grant Divinity Devouring and Lesser Uroboros to anyone that consumed it, and began to openly sell them in the Interdimensional Merchant Shop.

Although the Interdimensional merchant Shop was being run by the System, it was not allowed to erase items from it freely, and only small loopholes could be abused by the System Gods, such as that time when Kireina bought Kheseerad Divine Materials for corrupted Divine Energy Crystals.

Due to this, they had nothing they could do to stop Zubekh from changing the world completely, as more and more Gods began to buy these crystals, and they all ended up obtaining these Skills, the ones that they had fabricated initially only for Kireina…

However, Kireina was already way past them, as her Divinity Devouring had awakened into God Devour, and her Devour had evolved into Uroboros and strengthened itself to the point of becoming an essential part of her very soul that could even ignore the System restrictions that the World's Will Clone exerted on her when she was trying to devour the Origin Core Fragment.

"Zubekh is certainly a problem… But I am sure that she will be able to defeat him eventually…"

"Although he had risen to Great God, there is still a lot of time for him to adapt to this power… and will most likely grow slower now that he had reached this level of strength…"

"And it isn't as if she will just sit and watch as her enemy grows stronger…"

"It seems that the ritual is doing well…"

"She had instinctively opened an orifice inside of her soul to let the Divine Energy of the world enter her soul, and now… we must…"

"We must refine her chaotic soul into a true divine soul?"

"Indeed…"

"Well, it will be rather hard, but let's do this…"

The System Gods put all of their minds into the task, using their divinities in unison and merging their minds with the System and it is Primordial Law.

Like this, they were able to alter it and begin adjusting the changes that Kireina required.

"Her soul is… immense…"

"Too many Divine Souls stuck to it…"

"So whenever she devours a God, their souls get merged with hers, but they look terrible…"

"Her entire soul seems to be fragmented and stuck together several times, it is truly monstrous…"

"And beautiful…"

"Indeed, but let us make it even more beautiful and refined…"

"First of all, let's use the Divine Energy she is getting to dissolve her soul and all of her impurities…"

Through the System, the System Gods started to dissolve Kireina's monstrous soul, dissolving all the impurities into a single ethereal liquid, which then they used to mold a new and fresh soul, such sensation gave Kireina something close to ecstasy.

And as her soul dissolved and became refined, then it was time for her physical body, which was even more enormous and grotesque than it seemed.

Similarly to her soul, the System Gods had to dissolve her entire physical body and then reform it through a divine energy cocoon, it was as if she was transforming from a caterpillar to a butterfly, destroying herself to be remade anew.

The System Gods poured all of their minds into the task, as the time to create the Divine Core finally came.

"The Inner Realms she has created inside of her soul… what should we do with them?"

"We cannot destroy them…"

"No, let's merge them with the new Divine Realm, follow my lead!"

And so, the System Gods began to merge the Inner Realms that Kireina possessed, and then, generated a new Divine Core by crystalizing the concentrated power inside her Divine Soul, where the new Divine Realm was finally created.

Such an arduous task would be impossible to do for Kireina herself, but it was thanks to the System that she was able to go through such a thing, after all, she still had a lot of room to learn and improve herself, but her progress was being so fast that the only thing she could do is receive the help of the System if she wanted to survive.

And well, it was not as if she did not receive it from the very beginning, as all of her life in Genesis that she had relied on the System for everything…

But now that she had achieved this stage, it was as if she was slowly making of the System the power of her very soul.

Due to this, and aside from their fervent admiration and devotion, the System Gods felt the instinctual desire to help her achieve this transformation.

And after some more adjustments… it was finally done!

Kireina broke out of her cocoon, and was reborn as an Undeath Deity, a new type of Living Deity!

"We had made her into an Undeath Deity because the title of Living Deity was not fitting of her power…"

"At the end, we had to make it into an Undeath Deity, something very similar to a Living Deity but that is a new format that can achieve and amass more power… this was all created so she could fit all of her power within the first rank of divinity, if not, it wouldn't have worked…"

"It felt like creating the same file as the original one, but adjusting it to be able to gather more data…"

"Now, let us adjust her Status…"

"That should be fairly easy…"

The System Gods began to adjust Kireina's status, which was something as easy as breathing for them, and it was done in no time.

"The amount of Attribute Particles she possesses is a lot…"

"Indeed, but this power is simply what she already had, the creation of a Divine Realm so big such as hers made it possible for a lot of Time and Space Attribute Particles to generate, even when she had never eaten a Time Attribute God, she already has one thousand Time Attribute Particles…"

"With this, she should be able to increase the speed of her Divine Realm so she can train and adjust to her powers more comfortably…"

"She might soon begin to make even more adjustments within the System due to her System Administrator Title and System Divinity… And well, she will most likely buy a lot of stuff from the Divine Shop…"

"Thankfully, the Divine Ship holds a lot of useful items for her, and the Shop is personal for anyone that possesses it, so it isn't as if Zubekh can steal what she might want to buy…"

"I wish we could adjust Zubekh's Shop so he doesn't buy anything, but we can't, it is already made into a System Function, and it's part of the world's laws…"

"However… we left a few loopholes…"

"Oh? Have you found some?"

"Yes, after looking for so long, I have finally found some loopholes, lets abuse them and make everything he wants to buy even more costly!"

"Oh wow, that will clearly show the World's Will that we are impartial and desire to help Kireina as much as we can…"

"So what? Hasn't that been our main goal for some time already?"

"You're right, there is nothing to worry about at this point, we are independent, and we can do whatever we want!"

"Let us do this then if we can slow his growth even by a tiny bit… there is no time to doubt!"

Just after having helped Kireina rise to godhood, the System Gods immediately began to abuse a loophole they had finally found, making all the prices within any new Dungeon Shop unlocked after Kireina to increase their prices to up to ten times!

With this, acquiring any item from them would be quite hard, even if these Gods could get thousands of Divine Dungeon Points per day through worship and other things!

The System Gods had already predicted that due to Divine Devouring becoming something that now every god will have, sooner or later, more Gods will unlock this Shop after devouring a Dungeon or a Dungeon Core.

Now only Kireina was left with the normal prices, and alongside this, she could lower their prices even more!

This was incredibly unfair for everyone else than her, but the System Gods didn't care about this.

However, some questions arose within them.

"But what if her Family acquires the Shop? Or some of her close and reliable allies?"

"Hmm… You're right, we should help those people too!"

"After all, they're precious for her…"

"Indeed, let's add into her System Administrator Title the ability to grant any change to her system to others she trusted…"

"Hm, that should work."

"She's rather sharp and intelligent, she will quickly figure out a way to share her Divine Dungeon Shop prices with others that she trust through this method…"

"With this, I believe we have done everything we could…"

"Indeed, we couldn't increase the prices of other Dungeon Shops, ten times more the price was our limit…"

"But with that, we shouldn't worry too much for now…"

"But that does not mean that we cannot work fast…"

"After all… Father is planning something very scummy with Kireina's world…"

"His intentions… Are they clear?"

"Yes… What he wants to do is… harvest other world's Origin Cores…"

"We can't do anything against him though…"

"Indeed… but for now, let's help Kireina as much as we can so she can do something about it before it is too late…"

"Then it is the same as ever, let's keep working hard!"

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The System Gods continued to work through the System, adjusting things and looking for more loopholes to abuse, while Zubekh, the fused entity made from Zudig, Begudhur, and Kheseerad, glanced at his Dungeon Shop, which had suddenly changed numbers…

"Ngh?"

"What is the meaning of this?"

"The prices… multiplied ten times!"

"This is unfair, who did this?!"

"Damn System!"

"Perhaps they realized that this thing was too good, and they increased the prices?"

"Damn it! We were about to acquire the Sin of Gluttony!"

"Now we have to… gather 45 Million Dungeon Points more?!"

"Unnnghh! This will take literal ages!"

"Unless we go eat other Dungeons…"

"Oh? Right… With the power we possess now, we can easily just devour other smaller Gods dungeon, not like they can do anything!"

"As long as we are far away from the Realm of Vida, most Supreme Gods won't be able to do anything against us!"

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