Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 138 Becoming a God Under the Apple Tree: The Prelude to the War of the Gods
Lilith has finally figured things out in the last few days.

She was like a fool, repeatedly thrust into the public eye in previous eras.

Goliath, the apprentice she herself had discovered, had been secretly manipulating her.

“Damn it! Let me see your saintly body then,” Lilith said.

"of course can."

But what Goliath displayed next terrified Lilith.

"First and foremost, it's my own strength."

Goliath unabashedly displayed the magical power born from the fusion of Libra and Shadow.

"Now I am the Demon King, and I will also be the God of Magic, having forcibly connected with all the demonic creatures of hell."

A profound light flashed in his eyes, as if he were the most learned scholar in the world.
Everything in the world is interconnected in some mysterious way: apples fall, flowers wither, mountains collapse, and rivers burst their banks.

"It's like a series of fine threads of cause and effect, converging on me, and the pattern of the entire hellish creatures refusing to help provide power will no longer occur."

"I will forcibly extract their power!"

A cold glint appeared in Goliath's eyes. "I am the Demon God of All Nature, and I wield the strongest power in the world."

As soon as he finished speaking, the messy organs at his feet seemed to appear connected by the causal lines he had mentioned.

Golden threads intertwine, converging to form the body of a saint.

However, there are golden cracks on it, resembling those caused by molten lava, like the cracks on a tortoise shell.

Lilith was utterly shocked: "You, how did you manage to fuse them together? This Holy Body was clearly in separate pieces! It shouldn't have fused together!"

Goliath said, "Why can't the organs of saints be fused? It's because they don't fit together. My power is special; it provides the energy conversion between the organs of saints."

“I act as a bridge for energy conversion between organs, so they merge.”

"This is the nature of magic, which allows even an incomplete sacred body to be forcibly perfected."

"This body has no shadow, because the shadow has been filled into the gaps between the organs."

His eyes revealed intense anticipation and longing.
"Magic is the greatest pantheon of the future!"

"It will surpass the mystical pantheon of God!"

Having said that, Goliath's soul shadow floated out and donned this demon king's body, which rivaled that of God.

"This feels great!"

He stretched his limbs, and colorful, flowing energy emanated from between his body parts, creating an unimaginable sense of oppression.

Goliath looked up at the moon:

“I could have faked my death and lived in peace with God, but I had to go this far.”

"This time, we have gathered the power of many gods and are completely united, while God is merely a mysterious force. I wonder who is more powerful?"

"You're too strong! The pressure you exert is no less than that of the previous Holy Body of God!" came Lilith's excited voice from the side.

"All life must die. Even though we only control the life of divine beings, neither I, you, nor God can escape the fate of death."

"God will die."

"Unless one day, a divine object representing death descends from above, and a true god of death appears who controls death."

Goliath's expression was extremely calm. Through Lilith's "spreading," he seemed to have transformed into an all-knowing and all-powerful god across the entire earth.

At that moment, as the God of Magic, countless pieces of information flashed through his mind in an instant.

He connected the energy conversion lines in various regions.

He saw apples falling from trees on the grassland, and he stole some of their potential energy.

A child catches the apple, and in doing so, he also steals some of the potential energy from the apple in his hand.

If an apple falls, he will steal its energy twice.

The apple fell because of this.

Being caught by the boy was the consequence.

He stole a portion of the power from this process of cause and effect.
In this sense, isn't he also stealing cause and effect?
"And now."

He gently extended his hand, shook it in the air, and a carefree smile curled at the corner of his lips: "Let's play a little game."

"Another apple has fallen!" On the distant plain, the little boy quickly reached out to catch the falling apple.

But to the boy's astonishment, the falling apple seemed to have its energy consumption formula reversed, with a mysterious energy intervening in the apple's descent.

An apple falls due to the acceleration caused by gravity.

The apple suddenly floated in mid-air.

The apple floated upwards rapidly due to gravity!
Gravity begins to reverse.

The boy looked shocked. "How is that possible! An apple falls when it leaves the branch, isn't that the law of nature? How could an apple float into the sky after leaving the branch?"

"Where does this upward-rising energy come from?"

Magic City.

Lilith, upon hearing the video Goliath transmitted, was utterly shocked and filled with disbelief: "You, how did you do that!?"

Goliath smiled slightly: "I can secretly extract the energy from the transformation, and naturally I can also inject energy into this transformation process. You understand this principle, right?"

“I can.” Lilith wasn’t stupid.

But Goliath's next words instilled fear in Lilith, even though she understood them.

Goliath said:
"As a god who steals energy, the energy that the earth steals from me every moment has long since overflowed. I can't use that much. My body is too weak. Absorbing too much energy will burst me."

"So tell me, where should I use my excess energy?"

"Why not spend it on something else?"

A smug smile crept across Goliath's lips:
"Let's do a small experiment. I'll put the energy that overflows from the entire cycle into the apple."

He paused, his voice suddenly filled with unbelievable majesty and divine radiance.
I said that for the next three days, the apples that detach from the branches will not fall to the ground, but will rise into the sky.

God, speak!
And so it was done.

On the earth, an unprecedented, massive-scale miracle began to erupt!
Throughout the land, in forests, in orchards, in countless places, people witnessed a scene that terrified them and haunted them for life.

After the apples detached from the branches, they began to float slowly upwards, like tiny balloons flying into the sky.

"what happened?"

"This world has gone mad!"

"My God, how can an apple fly up into the sky?"

Everyone was stunned. A scholar who was studying gravity under an apple tree suddenly stared blankly at the sky:
Physics no longer exists.

"Goliath, you! You!!"

"God's words are law, and his word is law. How can you do that too?"

"No, you are not the same type! Your 'God says' is of a different type. Is this the power of God? Is this the true use of divine objects?"

"We've been using it wrong all along?"

The three separate divine powers of [spreading], [shadow], and [transformation] have converged into an incomprehensible new divine power, which may have already involved the concept of the unseen, causing an uncontrollable fear in Lilith's heart.

As stated.

Fear stems from the unknown.

Lilith is now filled with unknown fear of Goliath.

She suddenly realized that she might never have truly understood the apprentice she had personally discovered and nurtured.

"Humph!"

Lilith, fiercely proud, snorted coldly:
"It was thanks to my efforts in spreading your divine power throughout Hell that you were able to achieve this. Quickly thank me, Lilith! I am your master!"

"I should thank you."

Goliath understood that through spreading his power, he could become a true demon god who would steal everything on earth.

He possessed the power of attribute transformation, which, combined with propagation, created a terrifying effect where 1+1 is greater than 10.

This allowed him to switch attributes throughout the entire hell.

At this moment, Lilith also suddenly came to her senses and became interested:
I said, the force that made the apples in that area of ​​Green Shade rise instantly vanished.

God, speak!
And that's how it was done.

In the Green Shade Territory, the people saw the floating apples suddenly fall down like an apple rain.

In the entire hell, only in Green Shade will the miracle of apples rising never occur!
Seeing this, Goliath was speechless: "You shut down the [spread] in that area of ​​Greenfield Territory, preventing my divine power from spreading there."

The other party, this internet god, suddenly cut off his internet connection, so he couldn't get through.

Lilith laughed heartily:

"I'm so happy! I know how to use my power! Although my [spreading] cannot change any place, when I spread your divine power, your divine power becomes my divine power!"

"Whatever divine power you use, I can interfere and block it. The power you wield is in my hands!"

Goliath remained silent.

But they were both filled with excitement at discovering new things.

This power is incredible!
Under the influence of this power, he suddenly lost his awe of the mystery of God.

Because he knows just how powerful he truly is right now!
My strength is on a completely different level compared to before.

Although the difference between each realm is comparable to that between heaven and earth.

But now, even if a fifth-order mortal hero appears, I, a fourth-order god, can mobilize the causal power of heaven and earth and kill him with a single slap, right?
and.

This demon king's body still has flaws.

Using his magical energy to convert divine power, he forcibly and temporarily forged the organs into a single unit.

If he were to use fear to completely ignite this body and complete this magnificent work of hell, his combat power would then surge dramatically.

A look of realization gradually flashed across his eyes.

"I am the demon god who steals cause and effect across the entire earth."

"My power is invincible in this era."

"Let his game begin. God has no idea what he's going to fight."

He lowered his eyes and chuckled softly, his gaze cold and sharp.

"My body was born out of fear of God, and in the future, I will return that fear to God."

Time flies, and three days have passed.

Above the sky, a vast band of light stretches across the starry expanse, the Milky Way, radiating brilliant starlight.

Above the starlight, there is a full moon.

A pattern of a laurel tree seemed to float on the full moon, but beneath the tree, on a throne, sat a brown shadow that seemed to dominate the world.

"Time is up."

"The month-long punishment of disaster is over; it's time to go and destroy hell."

The man slowly stood up, his arms seemingly supporting the entire moon, as if he were flying step by step from the moon, the closest satellite.

He is falling into hell.

Magic City.

In the suburbs, a bar exactly like the one in Greenfield was built, and Goliath sat at the same table as before.

"Here, it's as if we're meeting for the first time. That's what makes it feel ceremonial. The first meeting is the beginning of the epic story, and also the end of the epic."

Goliath, however, had been waiting there for quite some time.

This will be the third time in his life that he has encountered God.

For the first time, they talked inside the Green Bar, amidst fear, about the meaning of hell's existence.

The second time, I tested the waters with full confidence, fought, and finally, in fear, ran away like a dog.

The third time was right before his eyes, but his face was no longer filled with joy or sorrow. He had truly mastered nature, and even he himself didn't know how strong he had become.

“Every time I encountered God before, my heart was filled with fear.”

"And now, it's time to break this fear with our own hands."

Goliath sat down in the bar, a table in front of him, and looked at a dusty, cloaked passerby who had appeared at the bar's entrance.
"God, have a drink, because after this, I probably won't see you again."

He paused, looked at the guest, his expression calm, and said, "Because you are about to die."

"In the distant future after your death, perhaps I will recall that bright afternoon when I awakened to godhood under the apple tree."
Then I will pick an apple under the tree and think of you: you are the most respected rival of my life, a lasting memory in my long life.

He gently closed his eyes and poured wine into the glass opposite him:

"When I see an apple, I think of you."

“I think that in the days to come, even when I encounter more revered and powerful opponents, I will still remember the era of God that belongs to you.”

(End of this chapter)