Return Gift

"Thank you for your gift."

The Dark Lord's expression didn't change, as if he hadn't heard Ryan's hidden meaning. He paused for a moment, then reached out and took the speck of light from Ryan's hand.

Unlike the myths of later generations, when the Lord of Spirituality was born, no life could appear in this world without his permission. Because all who have souls must have spirituality, but those with spirituality do not necessarily have souls, so the soul is contained within spirituality.

In the original trajectory, even without the help of Iapetus, the Lord of Souls, natural spirits like Nymphs could still be born in the world. But now, without Ryan's permission, only the gods could be exceptions.

After all, gods are different. The structure of gods is very peculiar, and Ryan doesn't quite understand the mysteries within.

"What about mine?"

The Lady of the Night, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly spoke.

Ryan was a little surprised. He had thought that this couple had a close and unified relationship, after all, they had never had a tragedy like Gaia.

"Don't look at me like that," Nyx noticed Ryan's surprise, and she explained with some dissatisfaction, "He and I are not exactly husband and wife, those divine children are offspring conceived by our main bodies."

"I thought the 'Seer' knew everything—"

Now Ryan was truly a little surprised. Whether it was in the myths of later generations, or the history Ryan had witnessed in this world, the Lady of the Night rarely appeared in the world. His so-called understanding of Nyx was mostly speculation.

No wonder the Twin Gods of the Night didn't seem to care much about their children, and they had never received the treatment that the ancient god's own children should have received. It turned out that in their view, these so-called 'descendants' were just products of their main bodies being inspired by the world.

Ryan, who had personally witnessed the personification of the Primordial Gods, knew very well that for the ancient gods who already had self-awareness, the main body and themselves could not really be equated.

This is also why Ryan often mentioned Ananke, but he never really cared about her.

The trinity of the main body and the personified avatar cannot be equated. Nyx can indeed mobilize the power of fate, but she herself cannot see the complete destiny.

"I'm really sorry, this is my oversight." Without dwelling on Nyx's sarcasm, Ryan used the power of Spirituality to condense another thousand soul embryos.

He let these embryos float towards the Lady of the Night, but in addition to that, there was also a glowing little thing mixed in among them.

Through the ever-changing veil, Nyx seemed to twitch the corner of her mouth, but she still reached out and took it.

"Never forgetting to snatch from Khaos's hands," the Lady of the Night once again spoke sarcastically, not at all like a Primordial God: "You really are good at managing your household."

"I can't help it, if only the world respected the gods' sovereignty over their Divinity, I wouldn't resort to such measures."

Ryan didn't shy away from his purpose, he wanted to occupy part of the origin of the stars in front of a group of Star Gods.

It's just that this one is a bit special, so he hopes that the Lady of the Night can hang it up herself.

"The current Earth Mother, the Sea God, the future Sun God, and even the Divinity of [Moon] that I once controlled. Whenever I see them being torn apart by the power of the world in the future, I worry about escaping the control of the world."

"Fortunately, I succeeded."

Stars with substance will still be born, but their belonging to the concept of 'stars' will be erased, becoming luminous celestial bodies corresponding to Coeus, the God of Dark Celestial Bodies.

Now, starlight is not much different from pure light, but in the future, Ryan will personally give them a distinction.

"But I can hang it up later." The Lady of the Night was not polite: "As long as the corresponding god is born, your theft will not take effect."

"Yes, if you plan to do so, then please do."

Ryan spread his hands, not caring about it.

Khaos's 'unfixed fate' is completely in the Spirit World, not to mention the origin of fate absorbed during the birth process, the Spirit World and even Ryan himself are products that should not have appeared in fate.

So if Nyx wanted to wait for the corresponding god to be born, she probably wouldn't be able to wait even until the world was destroyed.

"Humph!"

Nyx was a little angry, and she didn't need to hide her emotions.

Beside her, the Lord of Darkness chuckled, but he still spoke to dissuade her, "Alright, Nyx, since you're still here, I think your thoughts should be the same as mine."

"Let's get to the point, Lord of the Spirit World. We want to know, how did you seize the Source Power from the world's hands?"

No god wants to be controlled, but before, they simply didn't know there was this option. But Ryan's success undoubtedly showed them the direction, which is why Nyx and Erebus were still here.

They also wanted to follow suit and become gods outside the world's control.

"It's very simple." Facing the Lord of Darkness's inquiry, Ryan didn't hide anything, "Possess an origin outside the world's control, use Space-Time and Fate to connect with it, and throw yourself in as the initial substance, and the world is born."

The void that carries the world, the substance and Spirituality that make up all things, plus Fate, these are the four pillars of the world.

The bodies of gods can replace Spirituality and substance to a certain extent, which is also why the Spirit World was successfully opened.

"The question is, how did you obtain the 'origin outside the world's control'?"

Nyx was very dissatisfied with Ryan's explanation. What he said was complete nonsense, like the 'three steps to put an elephant in the refrigerator'.

If she had such an origin, why would she come to ask him?

"Then I have no way, this is innate. I was born earlier than you, you know that."

Facing the Lady of the Night's questioning, Ryan shook his head with a smile, "Why do you think that as the earliest Primordial God, my power is so weak instead?"

"It can't be because the world doesn't like me, right? Then why would it give birth to me?"

Nyx was silent, she hadn't thought about this question before. But now she also realized that in Khaos, the powerful are not necessarily ancient, but the ancient are mostly powerful.

Erebus was also a little disappointed. If this was only related to the time of birth, then he really had no solution.

Just like the Primordial Gods all have a part of the world as their main body, they can freely choose the degree of personification, but later new gods can never do this.

So if Ryan's specialness was also because he was born early enough, then Erebus could only accept it.

"Then it seems we're going home empty-handed today."

Erebus sighed, he didn't intend to pester.

After all, when Ryan successfully opened the Spirit World, he was destined to become an existence equal to him. With Erebus's degree of personification, he exists mostly in the form of his main body, so he doesn't want to do anything to Ryan.

In the end, Ryan didn't steal the origin of darkness. Khaos belongs to everyone, his Erebus's belongs to himself. This matter has nothing to do with him.

Even before leaving, he planned to send a gift to ease his behavior of blocking the door.

"Ryan, I apologize for disturbing you today. To express my apology, I also have a gift to give you."

Erebus stretched out his hand, and a cloud of black mist appeared in his hand.

The black mist rolled and changed, but in the hands of the Lord of Darkness, it had no possibility of escaping control.

Ryan faintly felt that this seemed to be an extreme emotion.

"This is my nephew's negative emotions. They shook the origin of the world and caused me to give birth to many children because of it."

"I was just worrying about how to deal with them, and now, it's yours."

Taking the black mist, Ryan felt the most intense emotions before the God King's fall from grace.

This was more than just negative emotions; it was a father's hatred for his son, a monarch's murderous intent towards a rebel. Simple emotions were not frightening, but when they were born at the moment of the God King's change of hands, the originally extraordinary emotions became even more powerful.

This kind of emotional power was indeed useless to the Lord of the Dark, and perhaps his children could use it, but Erebus obviously didn't really treat them as his own children.

As for Ryan, when the Spirit World transformed these emotions, he could use them to forge an artifact, or derive a monster that could threaten a True God. When facing the Twelve Titans, they might have different effects.

"Thank you for your return gift." Ryan said with a smile, putting away the black mist, "This has truly been a pleasant meeting."

"Hmph!"

In response, the Lady of the Night gave a cold snort, while the Lord of the Dark responded with a smile. In any case, this conflict, which could have erupted, ended peacefully after all.