The Plan Starts

World of Gods, Unnamed Location, Unknown Time.

[Beep. The host's body is beginning to absorb Divinity. A.I. Chip upgrading…]

The A.I. Chip's robotic voice sounded, and what followed was silence.

After an unknown period of time, the A.I. Chip's voice sounded once more.

[Beep! The auxiliary system successfully upgraded. Detected large changes to the host body's stats. Recalculating…]

Afterward, numerous prompts shot out.

[Beep! The host's has successfully absorbed the Divinity of massacres. Has been changed as a life form, transitioning into a divine being.]

[Beep! The host's has absorbed Divinity. All stats +3.]

[Beep! The host's spirit has advanced, Arcanist's ranking increased. Currently Rank 23.]

[Beep! Analysis of level 7 Weave at 100%. Host has unlocked all rank 7 spell models and will no longer forget spells. No materials are needed to cast rank 7 spells.]

[Beep! The host has obtained divine body feat: Epic Adaptability.]

[Epic Adaptability. Divine beings have a great tolerance for various extreme environments. All divine beings can survive in lava and frost, be suffocated, or starve. Note: This feat overlaps with Intermediate Perfect Body and is now encompassed under it.]

Leylin also found that his stats were refreshed again.

[Leylin Faulen. Race: Human (Divine Being), Rank 23 Arcanist (Legendary). Strength: 16. Agility: 16. Vitality: 16. Spirit: 22. Arcane Energy: 220 Status: Healthy. Feats: Legendary Sturdiness, Scholarly, Intermediate Perfect Body, Dreamscape Vision. Specialties: Origin Force Detection, Origin Force Amplification, Illusions.]

[Analysis of Weave: Level 0 100%, Level 1 100%, Level 2 100%, Level 3 100%, Level 4 100%, Level 5 100%, Level 6 100%, Level 7 100%, Level 8 87.56%, Level 9 57.72%.]

[Spell Slots: Rank 9 (4), Rank 8 (6), Rank 7 (???), Rank 6 (???), Rank 5(???), Rank 4 (???), Rank 3 (???), Rank 2 (???), Rank 1 (???), Rank 0 (???)]

"Divine Being? A change to my state?"

Leylin looked at his hands.

Golden veins appeared under them and then died down. He was already familiar with the concept of being a Divine Being as he already reached the level of Demigod with the Godhood Method in his true body.

For Leylin, cultivating Divinity was rather an easy feat, mainly thanks to the success of Godhood with his True Body and information he obtained from the Father of All Devils about the Gods and various God Paths.

The moment he ascended as God, he would advance by leaps and bounds, mainly due to the success of the Church that was slowly spreading in the World of Gods.

Surprisingly or not, the Church of Heavenly Serpent was gaining popularity in the past days and had enough followers to sustain one or two peak Lesser Gods.

Unfortunately, for now, he didn't wish to touch that Faith too much and rather advance naturally, slowly and only then would he touch the Faith collected by the Church of the Heavenly Serpent fully at a later date.

"The progress of analysis has increased as well. With the analysis of level 7 complete, I've met the minimum requirements to cast the legendary rank 12 arcane spells, Calcas' Avatar…"

Leylin recalled the powerful model that Distorted Shadow had given to him.

It was a terrifying arcane spell that would release all the consciences of the Ancient Magi and could steal all of Mystra's strength in an instant and cause her to fall.

"Besides, after grasping a thread of Divinity and becoming a Divine Being, I'm officially on the way to ascending to becoming a God. I can now sense prayers from followers well and respond to them. While I can't bestow divine spells, this is already quite good…"

Leylin closed his eyes.

It was pretty much similar to the Demigod rank of his true body, though, with his overwhelming power of the True Body combined with the Path of Laws, he could do more than the average Demigod.

"I need to speed up ascendance to the Godhood with this Power System; I wonder what I can then incorporate from this Path to my true body. Though... now that I am already at this stage, I think I need to really hasten the things..."

Leylin was already scheming that he should assimilate his clone into his True Body, hopefully, to retain all capabilities of the Clone into his True Body.

***

In the Northern parts of the World of Gods, within the Viscount Territory of Tiff Serian, Secret Room within Viscount's Mansion.

Tiff, who was doing his daily prayers, suddenly heard a voice from within his mind.

"Dear follower, I am here. I exist within you!"

Through his spiritual force senses, Tiff felt his prayers connect with a very familiar existence. That feeling immediately caused him to kneel, with tears streaming down his face.

"Master, Heavenly Serpent God Nāgarāja, the God of Devouring and Bloodlines, you are finally awake…"

This scene occurred in the minds of many followers of Nāgarāja.

They all began to pray, the power of Faith constantly transmitted to Leylin through the Weave and absorbed by his massacre divinity.

"Next is to spread the Faith and nurture my Divinity before attempting to ignite my Godfire…"

A fire seemed to blaze in Leylin's eyes.

"The feeling of accepting Faith is similar to the power of Domains… Is this the Massacre Domain?"

His True Body didn't have a Domain because according to the Godhood Method he practiced, one would obtain Domain only when ascended as God.

"A.I. Chip!"

Leylin commanded.

[Beep! Mission established. Host has obtained partial information on the massacre domain. Beginning simulations.]

Leylin stroked his chin, eyes flashing as he pondered.

Domains were Gods' true assets. Only through them could Gods connect with the Faith of their followers and then transform that strength for their use.

"The Gods? The North? No matter what plots you have, what can you do to me if I leave?"

Sitting in the control area, Leylin sneered.

The reason he had come to the north was to obtain Malar's Divinity.

Since his goal was met and he sensed the situation in the north, when was a better time to leave than now?

Making a decision when it was time to was one of the reasons that Leylin could survive to this day. He was always a very decisive person, mainly because he looked at things logically...