The Cursed Gamer, Book 3

419: The God-King Returns

Chapter 419: The God-King Returns

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Neji had no control over where the portal would lead to in the underworld. When he and the Satans stepped in and walked out, they were in a desolate flowerland right outside some city's walls.

A moment later, Grayfia came out of a different portal. Neji didn't notice her before, looks like she was the only person other than the Satans who kept their consciousness after the second entity appeared. Since she was awake, the many Gates of Babylon that appeared under the devils couldn't deposit her. Luckily she managed to find her way back right behind them.

She rushed over to them and joined them, but nobody spoke. A thick silence lingered over them; Neji simply stood with Tiamat in his arms, until Sirzechs broke it.

"It's near Asmodeus' Territory, it should be safe here. Are you alright, Grayfia?"

While Grayfia nodded and the two of them shared a moment of concern, Neji took in his words. Falbium Asmodeus, the last of the current four Satans. Neji suddenly wore an odd frown on his face. Countless thoughts and decisions went through his head, that if the Satans knew they'd kill him right here.

"Just what happened back there?" Serafall asked next, directing the question to nobody in particular though she did look at Neji.

Grayfia added, "Same question. Being the weakest in the area, I could barely perceive things since everything happened at such an incredible speed. But even I could tell that the first being was stronger than Great Red, but I couldn't even sense anything from the second one."

It wasn't Neji who answered her inquiries, but Satan Ajuka. "We have always known that life existed beyond this world. There were other beings of great power. However, the fact that they were never able to contact us just as we were unable to, meant that they weren't strong enough to cross paths with Great Red. So it's a thing to wonder where such strong beings came from. Because certainly, they weren't here from the beginning."

That hit too close home for Neji. Neither of those beings were locals of this world. They were outsiders... and given his situation, it's not hard to guess which "outside" they were from.

The Primordial God and his wife were the ones who sent the horned creature, along with the thousands of others he could sense earlier. Neji expected this of course, Mistress Death hinted something like this before.

The issue wasn't them, though. The issue was the entity that saved Neji from the horned alien. "Father" was what he said.

"Who was that guy?" Neji asked aloud, all three of the Satans looked at him, but the question wasn't to them. "Death, I know you can hear me."

There was a silence, half a minute long. Serafall opened her mouth to ask him what he was doing, but Neji raised a hand to signal her to stop as a system notification prompted in front of his eyes.

[Lady Death says, "That is a Golem, though my Sister likes to call him her son, she had him with First Gamer."]

That entity was the son of the First Gamer and Abstract Entity Life? Then why did he call Neji...

[Death adds, "It mistook you for its Father, due to the Gamer system, though I can also see a lot of other factors. From what I know, you have Light and Darkness powers just like the First Gamer did, even though the sources are different. Also, you have CHA Stat right? That's why you look similar, as that Stat makes you two look similar since gives your face a numeric value aiming for the Golden Ratio. So it's not unusual for a soulless doll to mistake you two. I am more surprised it realized its mistake."]