The sky is already painted in orange and red so we decided to clean things up even though I have many things to I want to ask. Anastasia then rise from my lap despite my reluctance. So I decided to watch her while resting my head on my arms while the old man like always, has a scowl on his face while glaring daggers at me wanting to tear my face apart.

"You know, you don't have to be so angry, it's not like I'm gonna take her, " I whispered to the old man trying to ease him up. I can't have him hate me if I wanted to marry Anastasia. Instead of easing the scowl on face, his face suddenly sunk. I gulped nervously while sweat rolled down my forehead to my cheeks. Being a God doesn't help at all when it comes to my Father-in-law.

"You mean to say that you were only playing with her, hah," Lernean said in a hushed tone and with a growl at the end of his sentence while his voice suddenly turned demonic and deep. " Of course not, I'm serious about your daughter". I immediately said, thankfully salvaging the situation.

While Anastasia was tidying things up it seems that she was listening to our talk, right now as her pale and smooth cheeks up to her slightly pointed ears are tinged with pink. While I smiled in victory seeing that I got a reaction from the blonde beauty. But it seems that my father in law was not impressed as he looked at me with a deadpan expression.

"I'm not going let her marry you, she is still too young, " The old man said half-shoutedly after he abruptly stood up and walk away with a stomp. Leaving an awkward situation.

As Anastasia finished cleaning I quickly help and carry the basket and blanket leaving her with no things to carry. She looked at me silently while her mouth curved slightly. As we walk side by side slowly towards the castle with only the sound of breathing and our footsteps crunching the dry leaves and grass. Despite my confidence I showed before, I can't help but still feel nervous while trying to slowly reach her hand.

Anastasia felt his hands kept touching her, she looked towards the God (with a slime on his head) who unexpectedly a teaser. She thought that he was only playing with her but it seems he was serious as she heard their 'talk'. If it weren't him they would already be beaten to death by her. And it was the first time she experienced being flirted as her father often 'talk' to them. Waking up from her musing as she felt a warm and rough feeling enveloping her dainty soft hand. It wasn't bad at all, she thought while the man whom for the first time touched her heart breathed a sigh of relief and flash a bright smile towards her.

"You know if you weren't a God my father would have pummeled you down long ago," she said in a whisper while looking at the twitching mouth and the sweat rolling down the cheeks of Alfius. They continued holding their hands in silence while enjoying the company of each other.

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After we arrived in front of the mansion Lernean was there waiting with an annoyed expression beside him is a petite and beautiful lady wearing a bright red dress. Despite our reluctance, we decide to pull our hands away from each other lest the old man will be angry while I was still in a daze missing the feeling of her soft hand.

"You're late," the old man said while raising an eyebrow.

I immediately heard the exasperated voice of Lernean rousing me from my trance.

"It was a little dark so we have to walk slowly," Ignoring the irritated voice I replied while smiling brightly, I'm in a good mood right now as my relationship with Anastasia improved.

*cough* Nice to meet you Alfius-sama I'm Amelia wife of this grumbling old man," said the dainty lady with a flowing blonde hair reaching her waist and a curved horn atop her head beside Ladon while smiling lightly. I immediately greeted her with a bow despite my surprise how young she looked although Ladon wasn't really old looking but more like a handsome middle-aged man with strong features that girls fantasized about in novels.

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But her wife really looked like a teenager to me. After entering the mansion, while me and Ladon were at the back I give him a thumbs up while he looked at me with confusion and seeing my knowing smile while looking at his wife then he slowly widen his eyes as he immediately tried to punch me in an inhumane speed, of course, he couldn't land a hit and with a snort " It wasn't like what you're thinking" he whispered while a mana barrier erected in front of us most likely to prevent them from hearing our talk.

"I know, I know, everyone has their own preference, honestly I'm more attracted to Milf but of course I also like a serious type and then there is also a glasses...." as I continued my speech about my preference while Ladon only looked at me speechlessly probably thinking that it was the first time hearing someone openly talked about their sexual preference.

"You know you're a pervert......" after a long silence he seriously said. "But I liked that."

"I see you're a lolicon huh"

"I'm not"

"I know you don't have to be shy about it"

After our small talk, we finally arrived at the dining room, while being happy that I 'improved' my relationship with future Father-in-law. Now I only needed to convince my Mother-in-law, court Anastasia and make our relationship official.

As we sat down while maids and Anastasia prepare the food. I still didn't know why Anastasia is wearing a maid uniform must be a hobby, being long-lived is boring after all.

While eating the food cooked by her mother (surprisingly) which is delicious honestly unlike my foods back home where I can only eat fruits roasted boar. The slime was on my lap when we started eating while I was giving chicken bones, seems that he liked it.

After eating our fill Ladon immediately invite me to their veranda as he knew that I have a lot of questions he wanted to ask.

"What is a God really, " the thing that I wanted to ask ever since I came here. In my past life, the definition of God is someone omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. My power gives me an illusion that I can do everything but I But aside from my overwhelming strength I don't have the qualities to be a God.

"Um um I see I see you are lost, my child"

The old man nodded sagely, honestly, if it were the other Gods they would've slap this demi-god to death. With a look as if an elder teaching a young child about the mysteries of life. Well, he was indeed older than me I don't even know how many thousands of years this old man had lived but it was still irritating.

This old man clearly is enjoying it. Seeing that I was unhappy with his charade he immediately started speaking.

"Alfius-sama the first step to getting a divinity is to reach the peak stats your race can have and only then you can feel the divine energy. The energy that you will need to ascend. Everyone has the potential to ascend there is no higher and lower and the only difference is if you have the talent to unlock them.

If you can't feel the divine energy then it means that you still haven't unlocked all your potential because even if you didn't have enough talent and luck to absorb the divine energy, you can still feel it."

The old man paused while I was staring intently at him waiting for him to continue.

"And then absorb that divine energy to your body. Unlike the mana that is flowing inside your body, the divine energy slowly changes your very being. And only then you will become a Demi-god, the first step towards Godhood. Demi-gods can't be killed in a normal way even if their head and limbs severed it will just regenerate again. Divine energy will enhance your brain. Your thinking capacity and your senses increased to an unimaginable level and you will get the feeling of omnipotence and omniscience.

However that is a wrong notion, demi-gods can still be killed, their soul is still not immortal and their bodies can be prevented from healing by placing a curse or seal."

And lastly, Gods an entirely different league, the being who already evolved to a higher being. You are entirely a different being and common sense doesn't apply to you. Even if there is not a single drop of your blood remained you will still live and create a new body. You can exist just by your soul.

And the biggest change will be the 'Godhead'. ' Godhead' is like an innate ability that Gods will get when they ascend. Gods can gather the faith of their believers strengthening them further and in turn Gods will have to be their guardian.

'Godhead' can manifest in many ways. They can be a weapon, an armor, summon and the rarest of all is the skill type. The God slaying Poison of Lernean, the Immortal body of Zerathin, the Adaptation of Arthur. And the strongest of all I've seen is your Godhead, your majesty."

"A divinity that can cancel divinity itself "looking at me with a solemn expression he stated. I can already imagine the despair of the Gods when facing me a hundred thousand years ago. Their 'Godhead' and their suppose immortal body and immortal soul is useless when hit by my Godhead. Now I know why I can kill Gods even though I just ascended at that time. Compared to the old gods my prowess is still lacking even if my strength is above average.

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