Vita's doubts made Sosa shake her head indifferently.
Quite the opposite. Humanity would only become the shackles binding a god. A god ought to be the arbiter who sustained the world.
So-called humanity only held meaning on an individual level. More often than not, it stood opposed to the interests of the collective.
A god had the duty to determine whether a world lived or died, so she could not be constrained by humanity or allow human nature to shake her principles. She had to follow effective truth, not imagined morality—my homeland, Florsha, was the finest example.
If one were constrained by humanity, abandoning what had to be done for what ought to be done, then Florsha would have turned into dust drifting through space when the first Abyss arrived.
I would transcend the predicament brought by humanity and the intellect obscured by virtue, embracing absolute freedom with omniscience and omnipotence, because I... was the rule.
Sosa's words made Vita shake her head in confusion. She did not agree with Sosa's beliefs.
"Even if that means you would no longer be yourself?"
"If your consciousness sank into the sea, unable to move, then who was truly trapped?"
"I don't understand. Why do you have to go this far?"
Vita's baffled words made Sosa look at her indifferently.
I had to do this. I was the sole remaining citizen of Florsha, the last trace of the Second Planetary Civilization. So long as I existed here, my homeland and my civilization had not disappeared.
As long as I continued drawing in power and expanding without end, one day, my 1.2 billion compatriots would see the light of day again. The civilization would continue, and bit by bit, a civilization belonging to Florsha would be established on distant planets.
This was what I