For the first time since he arrived here, Jack could sense something other than his own existence, and the two mortals in the world below him who he was supporting.

He quickly tried to scan around him, only to realise that he was not in an empty void, but in a cage. A cage formed from some immeasurably strong force. And beyond the cage was an empty void, just like what is inside the enormous cage spanning miles in every direction.

Outside the cage, he found one oddity. It was a being made of pure energy. Looking closer, it was made up of the same stiff that CP, exp, and himself.

As soon as Jack noticed the being, the being seemed to become aware of the ginormous cage which was invisible suddenly appearing.

The creature of energy, which looked like a sword with hands and legs, shuddered as it felt an enormous pressure descend upon it. Instinctively, it decided to stop moving, not saying a word.

Jack noticed this, and understood somehow that ‘that man’ had put him in the cage, and the cage had ‘that man’s’ power within. Since ‘that man’ was a being beyond comprehension of an ascended being such as himself, Jack understood why the creature was shuddering in fear.

As soon as he realised the strength coming from the cage, even Jack felt like shuddering. However, he could not, since he was not even a being of energy, but simply some loose clumps of energy held together using ‘that man’s’ power.

A long time passed, and the creature had still yet to recover from his instinctive fear towards the cage.

Jack decided to speak first.

“Who are you?”

Although Jack spoke in a normal voice, to the sword creature, it was as though someone had exploded a nuclear bomb in his ear, as one fear overtook another.

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His initial fear of the power of the cage was still there, but was now overpowered with another fear.

‘The power of the cage. It is definitely enough to destroy my divinity, along with the divinity of all of Ares’ sub-deities a million times over. Then what about the being inside? Just how strong would it be to need so much strength to seal it?’

This though covered the sword’s mind when he was pulled out of his stupor by Jack once again.

“I will only ask once more, who are you?”

Jack was slightly irritated by the sword who was staring off into the distance after hearing his question. However, to the sword, it sounded like the low rumbling that comes before the eruption of a volcano.

Quickly rushing to answer, the sword said,

“Mighty being, I am the sword god Sparta, a sub-deity of the mighty god of war, Ares. Humble apologies for disturbing your presence. If you will allow me to leave, I will be gone fore-”

However, Jack interrupted as he finally understood the situation.

“So, Ares sent you? Is it because of the little one I helped?”

The Sword god, Sparta, was clearly startled at the question, but quickly recovered and stated hurriedly.

“Yes, mighty being! I was sent over to investigate.”

“Alright”

Jack absent-mindedly spoke as his mind wandered off to a different place.

‘Gods? Ares the god of war? Sparta the god of swords? Since when was I used to referring to gods on a first name basis? But wait, Sparta is made up of the same substance as me? Then am I a god too? Jack the god? But what would I be the god of?’

At this very moment, the same ethereal voice Jack had been speaking casually with a few times before spoke. However, both Jack and Sparta felt the enormous pressure that came with it.

Before the voice actually even spoke, Sparta had already created a ground in the void using some of the divinity he was made up of and was prostrating himself onto it.

Sparta had already realised that this being was one of the Quaternity of creation. Only such an existence could have this much pressure on other gods; who were basically the owners of the mortal planes.

And he was sure from the voice, that it was not one of the two angels, but one of the two overlords! And the male one at that, the strongest existence in all of creation!

[You are Jack, God of the system]

This was not a message to Jack like before, but a declaration which reverberated throughout all of creation within the myriad planes.

All creatures, be it bacteria or gods were witness to the birth of a new god from the powers of the strongest existence, it was the birth of Jack, as the god of the system.