The God of Spirituality

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

"The earth was formless and empty; darkness covered the deep; and the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters."

"God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."

"God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness."

"God called the light day, and the darkness night. There was evening, and there was morning—the first day."

—"Genesis"

······"Another year."

On the empty, barren earth, Ryan awoke from his slumber.

As far as the eye could see, the familiar yet strange land remained just as it had always been, as though it had never changed.

He had been in this world for many years, but Ryan still had not grown accustomed to its emptiness and desolation.

Unlike the creation of God recorded in the "Bible," Khaos had evolved from chaos. He had witnessed this with his own eyes.

Therefore, it had not become complete in a mere seven days. Instead, it still appeared desolate and decrepit to this day.

But today was different. As Ryan awakened, he could clearly feel that new gods were about to be born.

"The Twelve Titans. I've finally waited for this day."

Feeling the rhythm of the laws and the waves of the Source Sea, Ryan raised his eyes and looked into the distance.

Across the distant horizon, gorgeous bands of color danced in the sky, while the tremors of the laws grew increasingly violent.

It was a sign that new gods were being born.

This was not the first time. In the nascent Khaos world, Ryan had witnessed the births of many gods in succession. The last time had been seven hundred years ago.

Of course, in this newly opened heaven and earth, "year" was an inappropriate term. There was no sun or moon, no change of the Four Seasons, and naturally no concept of a "year."

But Ryan liked to call it that, so chaotic Khaos acquired its second word for measuring time: "year."

It was worth mentioning that the first word, "day," had also been created by Ryan after he witnessed the birth of Nyx, the mistress of night and the primordial god who existed as one entity in three forms.

Thus, he gained the authority of Time Sequence.

Unfortunately, authority was not a Divine Office. It was merely the embryonic form of one, so Ryan remained only the God of Spirituality.

"Cronus and Rhea. The true masters of time are about to be born."

With a long sigh, Ryan leaned against the cave he had dug out and gazed at the wondrous sights transforming between heaven and earth.

Even with a god's senses, and despite the boundless earth stretching beyond all measure between them, he could not sense where the source of everything lay.

But Ryan did not need to "see," because heaven and earth were coming together.

No matter where in the world it was—in the hills or beneath the sea—the aura of desire was rising, and new life was being conceived.

Over the course of thousands of years, Ryan had observed that the newborn Khaos differed considerably from the myths of later ages. Yet when it came to the birth of gods, it was basically the same.

The source of all things began in the dark void, while the vast earth was born alongside Earth Mother Gaia.

Before the sky existed, the Lady of Night occupied the endless emptiness. As for chaotic Tartarus, he appeared in slumber beneath everything.

As the first self-aware existence in the world, Ryan had personally witnessed the birth of the Primordial Gods. Thus, chaotic Khaos welcomed its first batch of living beings.

Later, under the Earth Mother's gestation after receiving the world's Summoning, the sky, sea, and mountains appeared one after another. Uranus, Pontus, and Ouranos were born as a result, and Khaos drew ever closer to becoming a complete world.

Now, thirteen hundred years after Ryan had begun measuring time in "years," Earth Mother Gaia's Firstborn, Sky Father Uranus, had become husband and wife with the one who had given birth to him. The Twelve Titans were about to come into this world.

Of course, there were no "Titans" yet at this time.

They were great Innate Gods, supreme beings conceived by the Sky Father and Earth Mother, ancient gods who possessed powerful forces from the moment of their birth.

The laws of the world would be perfected with their birth, and the God King's Throne would be crowned upon the head of the Lord of the Sky as Paternal Authority manifested.

Apart from Eros, whose existence Ryan did not even know for certain and who seemed to have died instantly after his birth, he would be the first God King.

"But none of this has anything to do with me."

Ryan shook his head. Beneath his divine eyes, the laws of the world leaped and grew whole.

The desolate Khaos was gaining color from the birth of the new gods, becoming increasingly vibrant.

But the excitement belonged to them. Ryan had nothing.

As a weak transmigrator and the God of Spirituality, his power was not even equal to a single hair of the Sky Dominator.

Thousands of years ago, when he had first arrived here at the dawn of heaven and earth, Ryan had been utterly bewildered.

Whether other transmigrators were reincarnated, possessed another body, returned to life through a corpse, or fused souls, at least they had a body to work with.

But when Ryan arrived, Khaos had only just been opened, and the Primordial Gods were still being conceived. He did not even have a suitable target to possess.

Fortunately, as the first existence of this age, Ryan's original soul transformed into the source of spirituality and a feeble trace of temporal and spatial divinity.

With this, Ryan shaped a god's body and avoided the fate of having his soul scattered.

Later, his authority over Time Sequence also relied greatly on this—not just anyone could create a new concept and gain authority over it.

The existence of temporal and spatial divinity gave Ryan an opportunity to cheat. He barely managed to make the world acknowledge the existence of "year" and "day," obtaining the weakest trace of Time Sequence.

But authority was not a Divine Office. The latter was the essence of a Divine Office, while the former was merely an extension of a domain.

If he wanted to elevate authority into a Divine Office and obtain the identity of the God of Time Sequence, he still had to follow one of two paths.

The direct method was to carve the concept into the world through overwhelming power. Or he could act as an agent of the laws, gain recognition from enough gods for his identity as the "creator," and gradually obtain this Divine Office over a long period of time.

Unfortunately, Ryan could accomplish neither.

He had neither the overwhelming power needed to shake the world nor the ability to win the recognition of the gods.

Thus, Ryan could only wait quietly for an appropriate opportunity.

For example, when this God King was about to be born.

"Vmmm—"

A humming sound suddenly rang out. It had no source, yet seemed to come from everywhere. The sound was clear but not piercing—that was the agitation of the laws.

The next moment, endless light and boundless water formed in the void.

In the newborn Khaos world, the land occupied the center, while the ocean surrounded it from all sides. But at this moment, in places the sea could not reach, on the earth and in the sky, new water appeared out of thin air and gradually gave birth to flowing currents.

Okeanos, also called Oceanus, the eldest of the Twelve Titans, the Lord of the Ocean, the World-Encircling River, had finally been born into the Khaos world.

At that moment, Ryan could clearly feel the Divine Office that had originally belonged to the Primordial Sea God Pontus split in two. One portion shot straight toward the ocean currents encircling the world.

The world was cutting apart his power.

The overall force of the ocean and water rose, but Pontus instead suffered a grievous loss of strength.

He still held the Divine Offices of the seabed, coastal waters, and saltwater, but the symbols of freshwater and ocean currents had been taken over by the newly born god.

In Ryan's perception, the powerful aura that had originally filled the ocean instantly weakened by a considerable amount.

To put it more precisely, he had probably fallen from Great Divine Power to Intermediate Divine Power.