Fictional Plains

"Still a game of maneuvering?"

After the war ended, Atata looked at the shadows that had been put away, no longer as agitated as before.

The Holy Son had previously injected a great deal of shadow into the Shadow Plane.

When those shadow creatures had appeared for no apparent reason, the surprise and astonishment had given way to the feeling that they might have been an investment by the Holy Son, which had its own internal logic.

But that was underestimating Atata too much.

Even without those shadow creatures as test subjects, he had his own plan to construct the rules of shadow perfectly, step by step.

Moreover, part of the shadow rules constructed by Demon Lords was fictional.

That was the nature of Demons, so what they needed to do was not perfectly imitate things that already existed in reality.

Because even a one-hundred-percent imitation would be useless. The ultimate "power" of those authorities—Divinity—was basically held only by gods.

Without Divinity, even comprehending one of this world's rules to its utmost limit would be of no use, at least as far as the Will of the Abyss was concerned.

Therefore, more than half of a Demon Lord's fictional Divinity had to be built through fiction, and could only be built through fiction.

Otherwise, the Will of the Abyss would not acknowledge it, and as he cultivated, he himself might gradually become a god's plaything.

At any moment, he might be directly slain by a god.

An existence possessing Divinity held unquestionable dominion over individuals who built themselves upon the rules of that Divinity.

Shadow creatures only meant that they were naturally close to the rules of shadow. If the Shadow God obtained these creatures that had accidentally merged completely with shadow, he might transform them into divine beasts similar