God of Fear

Before Charles.

This divine spark of fear had successfully condensed.

This was the first time Charles had seen a divine spark—especially one he had condensed himself.

It was a dazzling radiance.

This was the first step toward becoming a god, and a tremendously important one.

For other beings who wished to become gods, reaching this step was merely the beginning.

After condensing a divine spark, they still had to gather the power of faith and kindle their divine fire.

They then had to continue gathering the power of faith to condense a divine core.

Yet for Charles, all of this was a trivial matter, utterly insignificant.

Over the past dozen or twenty years, Charles had long since accumulated an unknown quantity of faith power.

Across the entire world, there might have been over a billion Ratmen—perhaps even more.

The current system was already the strongest system Charles could implement in the Abyss World.

But even so, it was impossible to determine the final population count.

That did not matter. What mattered was that these Ratmen, along with a vast number of demons, were all Charles's believers.

During this time, they had continuously amassed faith power.

Before the divine spark of fear condensed, Charles had gathered all that faith power.

Now, at last, it was time to use it.

Charles drew the divine spark of fear into his body. Along with it came the fear contained within the Fear Radiance.

At that moment, the light of the divine spark of fear became even more dazzling.

Under Charles's control, the power of faith surged toward the divine spark of fear like a tsunami.

The next instant, that faith power condensed to an extreme degree, and a brilliant flame was ultimately born atop the divine spark of fear.

The moment the flame appeared,