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Noah had just summoned three Kingdoms inside of his Divine Realm, using an insane amount of divine energy in the process of doing so. The moment right after, he felt incredibly tired out of the sudden, having used almost 100% of his Divine Energy, he was still far from being able to summon such enormous areas with ease, even more three at the same time!

However the flows of energy across his divine realm quickly began to refill his divine energy, the faith of his people also provided a passive amount of divine energy, and he even used System Points and brought a Divine Energy Recovery Grand Elixir, which cost almost a million points, but it was necessary as of now.

Drinking it completely, Noah felt his Divine Energy finally rushing back to full… sitting over his throne, he saw everything outside going on incredibly slowly, his friends were around him, Iris seemed to have a worried expression.

“Noah, what’s happening right now?” asked Iris.

“Iris… It appears we had been played as absolute fools, we were never invading this place, we were, in fact, playing in the palm of the hands of a bastard named Lucifer…” said Noah.

“Eh? What do you mean?” asked Arthur.

Noah sighed, facepalming as he gritted his teeth, he wished he could stay in this world a bit more, there was so much left for him to benefit from, but it was not all being taken away from him so abruptly… It felt really frustrating.

He thought he would be the one dominating this world at the end, but things never went his way at the end… At the very least, he had taken down and acquired the powers of White and Thunderous, but the other four Great Dragon Gods had turned their tails and even abandoned the Kingdoms they were protecting. It was rather ironic that Noah was the one that ended rescuing them.

“It appears that in this world, a Chaos-attribute Dragon named Lucifer raised to Supreme Godhood through… Noah’s indirect intervention.” Sighed Gaia.

“You helped him?” asked Jon.

“Not exactly… I didn’t even knew about this… My very presence seems to distort the Laws of Fate of this world, which was what Lucifer required to become a Supreme Dragon God… He used this to become this strong by my mere presence…” said Noah.

“T-That’s… your very presence?!” asked Timassa.

“This is ridiculous… But how could you have even predicted this?” sighed Iris.

“There was no way for me to even predict it…” said Noah.

“And the things don’t end there, this monster, Lucifer… He appears to be some sort of Warlock, he had created a connection with dimensions outside of our Universe, and he’s using the Miasma produced by his own divinity to distort space and time and open Rifts leading to these Dimensions…” said Gaia.

“T-That’s… Ridiculous… So he can create Rifts at will?!” asked Clementina. The Icy Vampiress felt utterly surprised by this knowledge.

“Pretty much. And he can keep making them indefinitely, he’s drawing power from these other dimensions through the Rifts… the more he makes, the stronger he grows… the powerful forces of the entire world of Vedas are preparing for a full-on war, but the possibilities of them winning are incredibly dim.” Said the Blood Progenitor.

“So what’s his endgame?” wondered Adamantine. She had developed a lot since the old days, and was intelligent enough to participate in the conversations by now.

“Most likely the conquest of this world. After that he’ll open a gate to the outside Universe and continue a Universal Invasion using these monsters… At the very least, the power of the aberrations is limited to his own Realm, well, a Realm below, I think… So the strongest Outer Gods cannot easily show up unless they’re summoned by him using special magic.” Said Gaia.

Everyone seemed to have fallen silent, what they could do or not was now limited. The best thing they could do was actually traveling to another world for the moment…

“Noah, I suggest you move over to another world as fast as possible.” Said the Blood Progenitor.

“You’re right… Ungh?!” muttered Noah.

Suddenly, outside of the divine realm, the Manor that connected to his Divine Realm and served as the anchor of his powers in this world began to be attacked by a swarm of aberrations, who had surged there through Rifts that suddenly showed up in that place!

“Damn it! They’re already there?!” muttered Noah, as his clones reached the area through being summoned by small flying bats that were hiding from the aberrations.

They began to quickly massacre the aberrations they found before them, mercilessly taking them away from the path they were having as they continued to fight against them.

The powerful beasts unleashed deadly corrosive miasma breath attacks, and also had enormous strength, but Noah’s powerful spear techniques and his Heavenly Thunder of Judgement proved to be a great combination, many of them died in the spot, dropping cores which Noah hurriedly stored into his divine realm, while defending his Manor.

If they were to break into it, they would end up infiltering his divine realm, and things would turn very difficult from that time on! If they were to actually just invade his divine realm, he would surely be a goner.

Noah gritted his teeth, deciding to pull back and go elsewhere for now.

However!

TRUUUUUMMM…!

CLAAAASH!

A massive beam of dark chaotic energy fell over one of Noah’s clones, completely disintegrating it!

BOOOMMM!!!

“Unnggh?!”

Noah groaned in agony, looking upwards to find out a gigantic dragon of titanic proportions whose very presence distorted space and time itself…

His eyes glowed with bright crimson-red light, and his entire form was glorious and tyrannical.

The dragon looked down at Noah as if he were looking at a mere ant.

This monstrous being… this terrifying entity with a power above Noah was Lucifer, the Supreme Dragon God of Chaos, and the culprit behind this entire Rift Apocalypse that had quickly spread all around the world of Vedas!

“Ah, Noah, it is good to meet you.”

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