The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss

Chapter 183: Essence of Creation and All Letters

”Okay Pandora, how about we start with you?” Aradia says, looking at me, which makes the focus of all the goddesses fall on me.

”...”

’What should I say in this situation?’ Elysia seems to find my discomfort amusing, I notice this from the little smirk on her face.

”I-I think everything is fine? My people are doing quite well and expanding,” I say somewhat nervously, not really understanding what I should say.

I wasn’t explained, I was hoping it would start with another goddess and then I could just learn and copy what they said, but in my own words.

”80% of the abyss is under the direct administration of individual rulers,” My mother speaks to Aradia about her part, so the focus shifts from me to her, which I am very grateful for, it is uncomfortable to be stared at by all the goddesses.

’Ah...that’s what I was supposed to say...’ My mother left all the work to someone else, so she doesn’t need to provide any information, and in sequence all the goddesses say practically the same thing.

It seems that all of them leave most of the work to someone else, keeping an administration of 10% to 20% which must be the territory where they live.

”Okay, following the schedule, how is the expansion of each territory going?” All react to this word, some negatively and others positively, the ones who reacted the most were my mother and Elysia.

”That bitch consumed 3% of the territory of heaven with that damn darkness!” Elysia says angrily, pointing at my mother, I don’t know why, but the topic seems to have exploded something in Elysia.

’3% doesn’t seem like a big deal...’ I wonder why all this rage, in my view 3% is relatively little considering they are goddesses and have an absurdly high age.

”Phss Pandora,” Delphina whispers to me to get my attention, ignoring Elysia’s complaints, the other goddesses also don’t seem interested in Elysia, so they just remain silent, ignoring her.

”What was it?” I hear and whisper to Delphina with doubt, after all I don’t know why she called me.

”3% is equivalent to...” She begins to cite a number to me, she probably wants to help me since she saw the confusion in my look.

’HOLY SHIT?’ She whispers a very low number, but this number is a complete absurdity.

’Is this number real for this scale? How the fuck can 3% be so big? When would 100% be?’ I even understand if this number was just a calculation, but we are talking about something real.

30 X of km³ of matter were covered by the abyss, I didn’t even know that X was a thing used in the complete measure, normally X is when there is no answer, but apparently the goddesses use a different calculation measure than mortals.

According to what Delphina said, 30 X of km³ is equivalent to 7.5 million observable universes covered by the abyss, which means that Heaven is millions of times larger than the entire universe I know from the books of the previous world.

’T-This is terrifying, what the fuck!! Am I really a goddess? I barely have the power to destroy a continent at once, how did things escalate so suddenly!!’ I feel so insignificant compared to them now.

I imagined they were powerful, after all they are goddesses, but this is ridiculous even for me and my older sister can stand up to it.

’A-And can I really have so much power in the future?...’ I can’t even imagine what to do with so much power, this makes me question whether I can really reach such power.

And if I do reach it, can I control this power? With the strength Delphina mentioned, without good control I would kill everything unintentionally, the Goddesses who can control all this power are incredible.

Of course, my mother is theoretically among the strongest goddesses or the strongest since, as far as I know, several goddesses had to join forces to fight my older sister, so my mother will also have as much power as that.

But even if she is the strongest, this is too much power for someone to have, and the Primordial Goddess will be infinitely stronger.

”Pandora, why do you think we hardly fight directly?” Delphina asks, seeing my look of shock.

”To give you an idea, negatively affecting heaven is difficult, but most goddesses do it with relative ease, a fight between us in the normal universe would result in its immediate destruction.”

”That’s why instead of fighting directly, the races end up doing it for us, so we reduce the direct damage caused,” Delphina explains something that makes sense.

I never questioned why the goddesses didn’t fight directly, like they could do it, but why don’t they? The answer becomes obvious with what Delphina said.

”Hey Delphina, can I get that strong?” I ask with some discouragement, it seems impossible to reach this power in my view.

”Yes, it’s possible, because of your race it would already be possible to reach this, but as a goddess this process becomes even easier since you would lose many of the system’s restrictions.”

While Delphina explains, Elysia and my mother seem ready to kill each other right here.

”How can I increase my power like that?” I want this, it seems insane to have so much power.

”...I think it will take a while for you to reach that...and I suggest not focusing too much on that now,” Delphina says with some apprehension, but I end up losing focus on her as something catches my attention, Elysia starts yelling something at my mother.

”You fucking bitch! How can you say that stealing 3% of my territory is nothing! Why don’t you just stay in that hellish hole you live in forever instead of going after others’ creations?”

”I CREATED HEAVEN, IT’S NOT FOR YOU TO BE STEALING FROM ME!” Elysia’s voice is pure hatred, while my mother has a mocking smile on her face that only incites more hatred from Elysia.

”Hey Delphina, what did she mean by creating heaven?” Heaven seems to have an absurd size, so Elysia having created it is something that makes her much stronger than she seems.

”...Elysia has a skill called [Essence of Creation] with which she created Heaven as a way to aggrandize herself, yes it’s an impressive feat, but it was only possible thanks to this skill.”

”Without this skill, she would never have been able to create Heaven, after all she alone does not have enough power to create something of that magnitude,” Delphina diminishes Elysia’s strength in my eyes.

”She has an average strength compared to the goddesses, but since she has this extremely overpowered skill, she can do things that make her seem more powerful than she really is.”

’In other words, she’s not really that strong...’

”But in a 1-on-1 combat between her and Echidna, Elysia would lose.”

’...Wait... Essence of Creation isn’t the same skill I have?’ I barely used this skill, it seems good, but it’s a bit complicated, so at most I created swords with it.

”H-Hey Delphina, could you explain better?” While the two argue, the other goddesses seem disinterested in this, so I can focus my attention on Delphina.

”The Primordial Goddess has two names, the name we use to refer to her and her divine name,” Delphina begins to explain better, she is so helpful that I think I’ll reward her later.

”The divine name of hers has so much power that mortals would die just by pronouncing it, the name of hers carries so much power that each letter represents a skill. The letter [E] represents the Essence of Creation.”

”In other words, it’s a skill of the Primordial Goddess, which is why it’s so powerful.”

”The name of the Primordial Goddess that we use is Oriane Ilithya, however her divine name is different, her divine name is in the divine language and means [All Creation].”

”The skills that come with this name are...” She begins to cite the skills of each letter.

Letter E - Essence of Creation - Essence of creation Allows the user to shape pure energy to create things from nothing.

Letter S = Salvation - Any created ability is automatically added to the system for use.

Letter R = Remodel - Ability to remodel anything existing into something different.

Letter V = Vision 0 - Ability to see the past, present and future.

Letter P = Piety - Ability that allows the user to dodge death, after use the ability is destroyed and a new identical one is acquired.

Letter A = Astral - Full analysis ability, allowing the user to know everything about those they observe.

Letter A = Amalgam = Ability that allows to know about everything that happens in creation in all places.

Letter O - Obstacle = Ability that allows the user to remove anything from beings below him, from abilities, parts to the soul or memories.

Letter H = Hope = Ability that allows the user to control the life and death of any being below him, weaving their destiny from birth to the day of their death.

”Each letter has an extremely powerful ability, in rare occasions someone is born able to have one of them, of course mortals who are born with them die for not being able to bear it, but when a goddess has it, she obviously has the advantage.”

”After all, everything that has a little divinity in it is able to carry at least one of the letters of the Primordial Goddess, so the divine name forms something incredible and grants great things.”

”The correct combination of the letters forms this name here...” Delphina begins to scratch the table with her nail instead of pronouncing the name.

On the table it is written [Vasphorea].

’This means that I have one of the abilities of the Primordial Goddess...if Elysia created something much larger than the Universe...maybe I can too?’ This really encourages me, I urgently need to train with this skill.

It’s really good to know this, because it means that I, who also have this skill, can accomplish feats far beyond what I’m capable of at the moment.

”Pandora, why did you seem so interested in this skill? Honestly, I hate how Elysia keeps bragging about this skill.”

”Unfortunately, there’s no way to counter her, the skill is undoubtedly incredible,” Delphina says with some anger.

”Y-Yes, it’s incredible...” I shouldn’t tell them I have this skill, Elysia would certainly make me an instant and immediate target since I’m an unpleasant competitor.

Soon Aradia intervenes when Elysia seems about to attack my mother.

”Stop arguing now or I’ll note this as an error,” Aradia speaks in an authoritative tone.

”Tsk...” Elysia clicks her tongue and sits back in her place, while my mother has a victorious smile.

’I discovered very useful things...’ I only come out ahead in this meeting, I discovered great things and saw my mother, if this meeting ended soon I would leave satisfied with what I discovered.

”Okay, the subject got out of hand, so we’re going to wrap up this issue here and move on to a brief break, I’ll serve food and drink, wait a bit.”

Aradia says and leaves, entering a space rift and leaving us alone.

’I probably won’t have all that power before I take revenge on the heroes...but I should already have enough power to get my revenge’ I think calmly about this, taking advantage of the slight silence at the table.

The most obvious thing with all this is that after my revenge, many things will happen, my biggest enemy is not the heroes but the goddesses, and after the heroes I will need to gain enough power to kill the enemy goddesses.