Chapter 201: State of Primostria
"But why did this happen to him?" Jibril bit her lips.
"Yeah, how did he trigger that whatever Monster God's law?" Yuna clenched her teeth as she looked at Chuthulos.
Azelis also looked at him, wanting the answers.
"I think it's because John left many signatures in this world," Chuthulos said with a wry smile. "Even I didn't expect that."
"Signatures?" Max tilted his head. "What does that mean?"
"Ah, I mean, he left signatures of the cosmic rune. Generally, it's not a problem, but this is a small world, and his presence was getting bigger and bigger, his anomalis leaving signatures, so when he crossed the Doom Veil, it triggered a kind of safety law to eliminate this potential variable, regarding him as an invader and enemy."
Chuthulos blinked and continued. "Monster Gods know that they are being invaded…so they are preparing more. They were clueless previously because they couldn't see through the demons who first came to this cosmoverse, which ended up with demons reaching God-rank here and establishing laws that suppressed Monsters."
"They are still at war now, and now people from different cosmoverses are invading since demons exposed this Primostria Cosmoverse, so naturally, they are going to be strict and tough in their approach towards potential threats."
"And John is one of the invaders that you sent…" Jibril looked at Chuthulos.
Chuthulos awkwardly smiled. "Well, yes. But our goal isn't to harm this cosmoverse. I selected John because of his views and understanding of a brutal world, because he knows what peace and survival of the fittest are in a world that has both of those ingrained deeply in complex layers."
"And our aim is to find a new home because my cosmoverse is getting destroyed. If John doesn't unleash the potential of the Rune of New Beginning and completely fuse with it, my Eldritch Cosmoverse will be destroyed eventually due to the instinctive will of our creator that remains there."
Although Azelis and others didn't understand everything fully, they understood the rough context of why John was here.
"Well, John wants to abolish the contract that demon gods created and create a better contract law where Monsters are treated as families by their Tamers," Azelis said with a smile. "If Monster Gods know that, they won't harm him."
Chuthulos dryly chuckled. "Well, he can't see them, let alone talk with them. He is beneath their notice as they have more important matters. John needs to ascend to the divine layer of this world."
"In this Primostria Cosmoverse that prioritizes survival of the fittest to the extreme, he needs to get much stronger."
"Can you tell us more about this?" Azelis asked. "We want to know more about this Primostria Cosmoverse."
Chuthulos nodded. "I have collected general information."
"So, there are three layers in a sense. We are in the first layer, the lowest layer, where Sovereign-rank is the limit of lifeforms."
"After that comes the second layer, where Calamity-rank is the limit of lifeform."
"Calamity-rank?!" Max blinked. "Sounds powerful."
"Legendary-rank, Mythical-rank, then Calamity-rank," Chuthulos said. "Calamity-rank is a turning point. That's where everyone starts their path to Godhood, but it's brutal."
"During the calamity rank, you cannot get strong using resources or anything. This rank represents the most brutal view of this Primostria Cosmoverse's path, where Monsters and Tamers alike must go through nine calamities and survive each one. Surviving each calamity increases the power, but after passing one, they need to train hard and become stronger in their various aspects to prepare for the next calamity."
"Most die at this stage. The survival rate is low. But those who pass all nine calamities can ascend to the final layer, the Realm of Gods."
Chuthulos smiled. "After passing nine calamities, one becomes a Demi-god and can wield the Absolute Concepts, with their Soul Gears evolving to a new realm. After Demi God comes True God, and then the peak of this Primostria Cosmoverse, Prime God."
"Only Prime Gods can alter and create the laws of this world. Right now, the Prime Gods of Monsters and Demons are in an eternal clash. However, Monster Gods are much stronger, though Demon Gods are becoming powerful because of the law of contract that binds Monsters as their Pet Monsters."
"Fuck," Max suddenly cursed. "If Demon Gods nurture Monster to Prime-God, then they can fucking win easily."
"That's where the advantage of Tamers ends." Chuthulos smiled. "No Tamers can ever nurture a Monster into Demi-God rank even if their Pet Monsters manage to pass all nine calamities."
Azelis and others were startled.
"Why?" Yuna asked.
"Because Monster Gods created laws to prevent Monsters with contracts from reaching the Demi God rank. That's why Monster Gods are still superior in terms of pure combat power, though demons are trying to break that law. Monster Gods are very strong, as this Primostria Cosmoverse is considered Top-Tier Cosmoverse with its vastness and richness of Cosmic Powers, and that's why Demons exposed this Primostria Cosmoverse completely to let in the hungry wolves of other Cosmoverse. They want to kill the Monster Gods responsible for those laws."
"Damn."
"So that's why…"
"There are Prime Gods of Humans, Elves, and other races here too, but they usually hide in their personal domains. Of course, the entire structure is more complex, and I can't explain it because I don't have that much information. John needs to ascend and broaden his horizons himself. The information I have is from outside, from other Gods who have their chosen ones in higher layers as we, who became Gods from other cosmoverse, cannot explore this cosmoverse openly."
Chuthulos' eyes turned to John. "So John needs to become a God. Not as a human, not as a demon. But as an Eldritch Tamer to make himself and the Monsters superior using the original power of my cosmoverse."
"And I believe, he will be the first one to have Monster Gods as his pets, his family, in his words." Chuthulos smiled. "I have tried my best to shape this Rune of New Beginning for that goal, but for him to truly meet with Monster Gods, he needs to prove his superiority in power, as that's the main thing in this world, and then choose his side, which we all know is in favor of Monsters."
"Brother John," Chuthulos said as he looked at scattered lights in the abyssal darkness that was John. "Your will is burning brightly still, I can feel it. Tap into the potential, completely become one with the Rune of New Beginning, and achieve your goal."
"You can do it."
Everyone looked at John, holding a firm belief in his survival and emergence.
…
Fortunately, John had created the device that allowed people to go out and re-enter Monster Paradise.
A month passed by, which meant sixty days went by with John still in his unique state.
But Chuthulos had observed him every day and could feel that John was coming back.
During this period, the Sovereign-rank Tamers who ascended came back twice. Not all of them, of course. The top ten leaders who had superior attributes and pet monsters had already broken through Legendary-rank, so they couldn't come.
Their Pet Monsters that ranked up to Legendary-rank were far superior to Legendary-rank Monsters of others, so their influence was also strong.
They had formed a collective organization instead of returning to their respective organization, becoming the voice of Mr. Sirius, and the people of other organizations and families didn't need to go deep to understand why.
They could see that those ten were far superior compared to other Tamers.
The conflict between the forces had lessened quite a lot, and the demons who usually didn't bother with the territories of humans were also interested since Sovitra was one of the ten, but the situation of the demons was a bit tough.
Because Sovitra had destroyed her Beast Pouch ability.
And Demons saw monsters as tools.
Humans at least had Tamers who cared for their Pet Monsters because they had at least a few who nurtured their Pets since lower-rank to higher-rank, but most of them couldn't evolve and rank-up, so human Tamers were also used to see their Pet Monsters as tools and when finding a new, better one in their rank, they abandon their existing one to tame new ones.
But this Mr. Sirius, who had the ultimate power of evolving Monsters to heights they couldn't even imagine in terms of raw potential, was something all of them wanted.
Such a kind of monster with exotic attributes and perfect evolution was super rare.
Normally, they were only found in the God Layer, where Monster Gods personally nurtured bloodlines of superior monsters, which was one of the reasons why Monster Gods were superior compared to demons and others in terms of pure combat power.
And people above knew because they had seen those Monsters. The exotic monsters of Mythical and Calamity-rank descend from God Layers to wreak havoc.
Nobody was their match in the same rank. Their skills were way superior, their talents and attributes powerful, with high mastery.
But those ten Tamers, four demons and six humans, had Pet Monsters with a similar level of potential.
It was big news.
All of them eagerly awaited Mr. Sirius.
For cooperation?
To capture him?
To use him by any means?
Naturally, the allies of John didn't know what was in the minds of those leaders who were at Calamity-rank.
And they didn't care.
Because they knew, they had faith, that John Wicked wasn't going to get trapped by them.
He was only going to get stronger and stronger, unmatched, and unparalleled.
So they just did their job as told by John.
"It's been a month, and Master John is still in that state."
"Don't worry. He will be fine." Sovitra firmly looked at the others in the meeting hall of their pocket dimension created by Volkia. The people who went down recently told me that it is only a matter of time, and it is soon now."
There was an eleventh person at the table, who was now the leader of this group.
Azelis swept her glance at everyone. "He is coming back soon. Stronger than ever. With a new path for Monsters and Tamers alike."
Azelis had seen the power of the Eldritch attribute. And once John becomes Eldritch Tamer according to Chuthulos, he will have the power to give the Eldritch Attribute to other Monsters.
Not to mention, there was still Abyss Labyrinth and Eldritch Gears, which would be a superior version of Soul Gears.
The other Eldritch Gods were working hard to make the Abyss Labyrinth according to Chuthulos' vision.
Chuthulos had really prepared extensively to make a place in this Primostria, with the ambition of making John the ultimate strongest being as a Tamer in this Primostria Cosmos.
And John didn't plan to disappoint Chuthulos or himself.
In Monster Paradise, at a place where the abyssal darkness with scattered lights was present, which looked more colorful and different than before, pulsed strongly and brightly.
The sky of the Monster Paradise flickered, turning into a beautiful yet harrowing, dreamy yet nightmarish, exotic and colorful scenery as exotic and colorful scenery shifted constantly.
Everyone was shocked and scared.
The ten billion people in the Kingdom of the Island felt the world was ending.
But then, everything calmed down.
And shortly, a voice spread in every corner of the Monster Paradise, igniting a burst of jubilation.
"I am back!"