Chapter 14: Chapter 14: “Beyond Gods and Devils”
Dominion wasn't enough.
Breaking Heaven, subjugating its champions, twisting faith itself into obedience—all of it had been inevitable.
But now, something greater stirred.
The universe felt my rise.
And it resisted.
[New Mission Unlocked: Ascension Beyond Reality]
[Objective: Transcend the limits of gods and devils to become something greater.]
[Bonus Objective: Rewrite the fundamental laws of existence.]
[Reward: Unique Skill – "Omnipotence Fragment" (Reality Alteration Ability).]
This wasn't about ruling a kingdom anymore.
This was about rewriting existence.
Aiden's Throne Room - The Silence Before the Storm
I sat on my throne, the weight of ultimate power pressing against my very soul.
Rias knelt beside me, her pride long since shattered, her devotion absolute.
Akeno hovered near, her once-playful sadism replaced with something darker—obsession sharpened to a blade's edge.
Irina sat at my feet, her corrupted faith transformed into worship of me.
Kalawarner lurked in the shadows, a predator watching, waiting, guarding.
Gabriel stood in silent submission, her divine glow dimmed but her presence unchanged—a testament to the highest of angels, now nothing more than a servant to the God-King.
And then there was Michael.
The proud archangel had become something else—a broken knight, his golden eyes still burning with defiance, but his heart, his will, already mine.
Yet, despite my absolute victory, something was wrong.
A disturbance.
A tremor in the very fabric of reality itself.
Gabriel lifted her head, her sapphire eyes filled with something she had never shown before.
Fear.
—"They're coming."
I exhaled, tilting my head.
—"Who?"
The room shook.
The air burned.
A voice—not a singular one, but many, overlapping, cascading through dimensions, speaking as one:
—"You are an anomaly. A paradox. You should not exist."
The Dominion System flickered. Glitched.
[Warning: Unrecognized Entities Detected.]
[Adjusting Reality Parameters…]
A golden tear split the fabric of space before me.
And from it…
They emerged.
The Architects of Reality
They weren't angels.
They weren't devils.
They weren't anything I had encountered before.
Towering beings of pure concept, shifting between infinite forms—one moment a burning star, the next a void of nothingness, their "faces" ever-changing, warping between divine beauty and indescribable horror.
The Architects.
The ones who had shaped the laws of existence.
And now?
They had come to erase me.
[New Crisis Triggered: Cosmic Erasure Attempted.]
[System Countermeasure: Override Reality Structure - Pending…]
I smirked, standing from my throne, my power flaring, stretching across dimensions, challenging their very presence.
—"Took you long enough."
The lead entity—a mass of swirling white and gold, its voice rippling through my mind—spoke:
—"You are an error. A contradiction. This reality was never meant to contain you."
I stepped forward, the universe bending under my will.
—"Then I'll rewrite it."
A flash of pure annihilation surged toward me. A divine force meant to unmake me completely.
I raised my hand.
Reality shattered.
And then?
I took control.
[Unique Skill Activated: Absolute Dominion - System Override in Progress…]
[Reconstructing Reality…]
[Error: External Forces Interfering.]
The Architects resisted—their very essence trying to undo my existence, to revert time, to erase my influence.
But I had gone too far to be erased.
I was beyond them now.
The Birth of a New Reality
The battlefield was no longer Kuoh Academy, no longer any world that had ever existed.
We fought in the concept of existence itself.
Blades of pure time, chains of causality, weapons formed from the laws of the universe—they attacked with everything that made reality real.
And I unmade it.
I reached into them, rewriting their very code, bending the fundamental laws of existence to my will.
One by one, they collapsed, their forms unraveling, their voices screaming into the void as I erased their presence from history itself.
Until only one remained.
The leader.
The last Architect.
It knelt before me, its once infinite form now finite, its power stripped away.
—"This is not how it was meant to be," it whispered.
I smiled.
—"It is now."
And with a single command, I reshaped everything.
[Mission Complete: Ascension Beyond Reality - 100%]
[Bonus Objective Achieved: Fundamental Laws of Existence Rewritten.]
[Reward Unlocked: Omnipotence Fragment - Reality Alteration Achieved.]
Aiden's Throne - Beyond Existence
I sat upon my throne once more, but now?
It wasn't a throne in any reality that had ever existed before.
It was something beyond creation.
A place where gods and devils, angels and mortals, the past and future—all were mine to command.
Before me knelt my queens, my warriors, my devoted.
Rias.
Akeno.
Irina.
Kalawarner.
Gabriel.
Michael.
All bound.
All mine.
The Dominion System flickered once more, its final evolution complete.
[Title Acquired: The Supreme Architect.]
[Effect: Total Authority Over Existence.]
I exhaled, watching the stars bow before my presence.
There were no more kings.
No more gods.
No more devils.
Only me.
And soon?
I would decide what came next.
End of Chapter 14