As the doors opened, four individuals, each different from the other, walked in and arrive below the two thrones, kneeling. They didn't seem too surprised to see their mother sitting next to their father.

"I, Lucifer End Chaos, pledge my undying fidelity to Lain End Chaos, the Supreme God and Emperor of the World Tree. I also pledge my fidelity to Gaia End Chaos, the Mother Goddess, the Queen of the World Tree as well as my mother."

Lucifer was a handsome man, whose handsomeness borderline onto the feminine side, making him sometimes confuse with being a woman. His skin was pale, with a more rustic hue, maybe because of adjusting to the heat of Hell.

He had a head full of long crimson hair that reaches down his back. The edges of the hair, we're blue, making his head seem to be on flames of different temperatures. Like his mother, from his hair, two large horns reside on his head. The horns begin at his temples before curving backward over and over again, creating ram-like horns on his head. His eyes brows we're long and crimson like his hair, with the end of it curing. He had a smirk on his face that seems to have been plaster on, the moment of his 'birth'. On his back, we're two large bats like wings that sat in a perch way, along with a tail peeking out from the bottom of the robe, with fire burning at its tip.

Lucifer was wearing a long red robe that matches his hair perfectly, making him look like the Lord of Fire, which is true in the sense he was the Devil of the World Tree and everyone knows the Devil was a master of Fire Magic. Around the neck portion of the red robe, we're marks of the Star of David.

Lucifer had his head raised high, as he stares straight ahead, directly at his parents. From his observations, he could see the joy in his mother's eyes, as she looks at him, making his dark heart have a glimpse of light after many years. On his father's front, he was lost as he doesn't seem to be able to read him, which he secretly frown at, as this never happened before. He was about to retract his gaze, however, he noticed something as he saw his father's eyes lit up, which shone with pride when he gazed at him. Lucifer was momentarily startled, as he never thought his father would be proud of him. After all, his job was literally torturing souls, which is evil but it is required. He has been worried his father would discriminate against him because of what he does and represents, however seeing his father's gaze, his worries fade away.

"I, Yama End Chaos pledge fidelity to Lain End Chaos, the Supreme God and Emperor of the World Tree. I also pledge fidelity to Gaia End Chaos, the Mother Goddess and Queen of the World Tree, as well as my mother."

Yama was a mystery to anyone that knew him, as no has ever seen his true form and live. Yama wore on his person, a black robe that covers his entire body, except for his eyes, which has a ghostly hue. The robe was like a cloud of darkness, as it wiggles and changes shape.

Yama was a powerful individual that was given the title of King of Death inside the tree, collecting and judging the souls of the dead.

Unlike his older brother, Lucifer, Yama had no need to worry about unnecessary things. His mother loved him and that's all that mattered, he could care less if his father loves him as well, he would be happy but that's about it. His father assigned him a job and he will simply do that, his job, nothing more and nothing less.

"I, Raul End Chaos pledge my fidelity to Lain End Chaos, the Supreme God and Emperor of the World Tree. I also pledge fidelity to Gaia End Chaos, the Mother Goddess and Queen of the World Tree, as well as my mother."

Raul was still dressed in his emperor get up, not changing clothing from before.

Raul was please again seeing his mother and father together, especially seeing her sitting on a throne beside him. Although he will miss her not watching over Earth with him, from the get-go, he knew this would happen, after all, their titles say all; he was the Emperor of the Earth and she was the Mother Goddess of all worlds. Her place is not on Earth, it's with his father in the Golden Nation.

"I, Raina End Chaos pledge my fidelity to Lain End Chaos, the Supreme God and Emperor of the World Tree. I also pledge fidelity to Gaia End Chaos, the Mother Goddess and Queen of the World Tree, as well as my mother."

The last person, Raina was a beautiful woman of around 18 years old, who had delicate features, which would cause people to want to protect her. She had a head full of long black hair, which had strands of blue in some places. This was as if it was telling the world, it was a sign of her 'birth right', being the daughter of Lain and Gaia. Above her head was a golden halo, that brightens her face and cast a holy aura around her. Her eyebrows where a mixture of black and blue, making her beauty further enhance. Her eyes were golden like two beams of holy flames. Her lips we pale pink, making her look natural and fresh, as wells as cute. On her back, we're six large white open wings, which seem to chime with heavenly music as feathers fall to the ground and then evaporated, before repeating.

Riana was wearing a golden robe adorned by many feathers. The robe was unlike the ones worn by her brothers, as hers sat snuggly on her body, showing off her curvy figure, which made one's mind wondered. Because of her large bust, which was even bigger than her mother's, two large mountains could be seen on her chest portion of the robe.

Like all her family members, Raina had a title and a unique status inside the tree. On Earth and the other worlds, except the Golden Nation, she was called the Divine Goddess of Heaven. Her duty was to manage Heaven and lead her angels in guiding the good souls given to her by her brother big brother Yama.

Raina looks at her mother smiling, which her mother did in return. She and her mother got along really well, maybe because she was her only daughter? Riana turns her gaze and look at her father, and was quite surprised as he was more handsome than she imagines. When she looked at him, she saw him look at her, with a gentle gaze and fondness which made her happy but confused. This doesn't seem to be the rumored cold and distant Supreme God at all. She could tell he was different from the description given to him, just by hearing his words to his guards, although she did sense some hidden meaning in his words. Overall, she was pleased by what she saw.

(AN: The hidden meaning should be clear, the moment Lain was telling the guards that their jobs we're the hallways, not the throne room. Of course, no one got this point and only assume Lain was pleased with the guards)

(AN: All of them said their pledge at the same time. I wrote it this way for better imagery. Did I succeed in creating good imagery?)

Watching his children, Lain was, even more, please than earlier as he was actually seeing them in person. He somewhat regrets making his family base on royalty as he didn't like seeing them kneel before him. True he wanted to have his authority unchallenged but not at the cost of his relationship with his family. However, he understands his status to them was exalted thus he didn't tell them to stand up immediately.

Lain stood from his throne, retracting as much as his aura as possible, while spreading his hands apart in a grand gesture of command, "Looking at all of you, made me realize I am probably the happiest father in the universe. I want all of you to know I'm proud to call you all the sons and daughters of I, Lain End Chaos. As the Guardians of your respective worlds, I know you are all busy and have important tasks at hand, so I shall make this meeting short and to the point."

All of them have a smile on their faces, as his words sank in. He was proud of them? These words made them held there heads high with pride showing on their faces.

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Everyone was smiling including Yama, but since you cannot see his face, body language is what is used to determine Yama's mood, which was currently happy.

However, even though they were happy at their father's words, they still spoke, " Father, nothing is more important than responding to the orders of our Creator. No matter what we do, we shall stop ir, to bask in the presence of greatness."

"I'm pleased to hear your words, however, we can not have a decent conversation with you all kneeling before me. From this day forth, unless I say otherwise or the situation prompts it, don't kneel before me." Lain said seriously as he walked towards them, before stopping, looking them over. "I may be the Emperor or even the Supreme God, however before all else, I'm your father. Have you ever seen a mortal force their children to kneel before them? They don't because there is no need." A powerful aura rose from his body, forcing everyone to their feet. After doing that, Lain nodded and walk past them before stopping a couple of steps behind them.

Gaia had long since left her throne and was standing next to Lain. She was amazed at how he changes from a man deep in love with her to a ruler with an overbearing aura to a father with kindness and gentleness in his eyes and voice.

Lain turned and look at the frozen individuals standing in place, and beckoned them to his side. With them at his side, Lain waved his hand causing a massive amount of mana to gather and transformed into a huge black table.

The table was just an ordinary table other than the fact it was massive.

Lain looked at them and spoke, "There are two reasons for you all to be here. I shall begin with the first reason." Lain pointed at the black table, "The surface of this table represents the universe, which we are currently in." Opening his hand, a golden tree the size of a palm emerges, "This tree is our home, the World Tree, and over here is the first problem, this world." Another item emerges from his palm, looking like the world that was shown on the mirror earlier.

Raina asks a question that's been on her mind since she saw the table, "Father if that table represents the universe, where are the nine worlds of Yggdrasil? Also, how can this be considered a problem for you?"

The others nodded, except Gaia who only smile and said nothing, wanting to see how her children will go about the problem.

"You ask very good questions, my daughter. That is exactly the problem, there are no longer nine worlds of Yggdrasil, no, there is no longer any Yggdrasil. As the Supreme God, I have an innate connection to the tree and have been trying to find it, however, it seems it truly had been destroyed. What that means is that we are in an all-new universe, so while I'm happy you trust me so much, I have to tell you that I'm uncertain about the future, mainly because of the first sign of natives we saw." Lain said as he pointed to a globe that represents the discovered world. "That world has many figures equal to gods of the World Tree, and much stronger than them as well, some even approaching my level of Grand Creator."

The news sent a shockwave into the heart of not only Raina but the others as they cannot believe that Yggdrasil, the eternal tree had fallen. This was like hearing that God had died. Not only that, they learn they have an extremely powerful force in their vicinity, which is dangerous.

At this point, Gaia spoke as well, "Not only that, From the surface glance at this world, we have concluded that we are not their opponent, they are hundreds if not thousand times stronger than us."

"Thank you, Gaia, just as your mother had said, we have no chance against them, unless we plan to conquer one of the exterior worlds, and slowly eat away at their strength," Lain said as he adds dots around the globe that represents the main world.

Yama who had to remain silent, ask his father a question, " Father, I mean no disrespect, but how can you be sure that they are stronger than us, without physical evidence? There have been cases of people having high levels but low stats, so who is to say, it's not the same?"

Lain pause for a moment, and then nodded, "You are correct my son, however, you must understand just because we have evidence of levels and stats not being equal doesn't mean it will always be the case. I rather believe that everyone is as strong as Gods of the World Tree and be proven wrong than believe they are weak and if turn out they are even more powerful than our assumption."

Lucifer spoke up at this point, " Father, this world, from what you are saying, you plan to conquer it? Can I ask what is going to be the plan afterward?"

"That's simple, I plan to either make it a new world of the tree or merging it into a current world, strengthening that world further. As long as we conquer more worlds the tree will become stronger than Yggdrasil, and we will no longer need to fear anything." He had not tried the evolution function of the guild yet since it needed a new world to activate. He was curious about how this function would work in this universe.

"If that the case, I wonder if father can allow me to have nine of the smaller worlds to create the Nine Tier Abyss?" Lucifer said as his eyes glow with desire. If he could get these world, he would be one step closer to his dream.

Lain pause and look deeply at Lucifer, before saying, "It depends on if we actually conquer these worlds, however, if we do, I shall give nine to you. However Lucifer, you should now that the Nine Tier Abyss has never been created before, so even I'm not sure if it's possible. The one in Yggdrasil was created by accident by my friends, and we couldn't create another one after many years of research."

"Father, it might be ironic to say this as the Devil, however since I can remember, having an unlimited amount of demons at my command had always been a dream of mine. It was only when I heard that the Nine Tier Abyss could accomplish all of this that my dream change to include it."

"I see. Does anyone have anything to add? " At Lain's words, they shook their heads, making him sign silently, saying, " Okay then, I already have the skeleton of a plan in mind, so no problem there. Okay now, let's focus on the second reason for asking you to come here; have anything change inside your worlds?" As Lain spoke, the table disappears, as he looked at them.

Raina shooked her head, " No, everything has been working normally on my end. All good souls that big brother Yama judges are transported to the lower levels of the Tower of Heaven. All the Celestials and Archangels have been helping me along the way."

Raul, Yama, and Lucifer shook their heads saying everything is normal on their fronts.

Lain nodded, it's to be expected that the NPCs wouldn't notice anything as to them, everything had been the same from their views. However even though he didn't get the answers he was looking for, he was amazed that the concept of souls was so freely used in Raina dialogue.

" That was it for the meeting. We have gone over everything I wanted to talk about. You can decide what to do, you can stay here for a while and explore, I will be taking Gaia to Earth on a date." Lain held hand as he smiles at his children and steps into the teleportation gate, arriving once again on the Beast Continent.

With their parents gone, they release a sigh of relief. They had been under intense pressure with their father's gaze on them. It was like nothing could escape his gaze, and if he looks at them for a long moment, they would die.

Raul turns around, looking at his siblings, "So what did I tell you? He is too powerful, that is the reason for his absence for the last ten thousand years."

Raina nodded, " If I didn't see it, I wouldn't have believed you. How could he be so powerful? Now that I think about it, do anyone of you know which race he belongs to?"

At this moment, the all silent Yama spoke, " I believe I heard he was something called a Chaos Titan, a member of the most powerful race. They are more powerful than the gods of the Norse Mythology, I learn this inside the Bohi Immortal Room."

Lucifer lips twitch, " Haven't you been with us the entire time, so how could you have been there?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out, however, big brother, I recommend you talk to the Bohi Tree, it has a vast repertoire of knowledge, so maybe it could help with your dream. Anyway, it's time for me to return to my duties. Farewell Raina and my brothers, may we meet again." Yama bow slightly before walking to the teleportation gate, vanishing on the spot.

Lucifer shook his head, " That brat is still so cold and sneaky, however, I agree with him, I will visit the Bohi Tree before returning home, farewell my lovely sister and little brother." And just like that, only Riana and Raul remained in the room.

"Little sister, what do you want to do? I plan to visit the Divine Continent and see what's so great about it. Who knows I might get inspired and transformed one of the four barren continents into something amazing." Raul said looking at his sister who was too beautiful for no reason. Every time he saw her, he gets worried about her future. It's inevitable that she would marry someone in the future, however, it's his job to kill everyone she fancy and delay this process. No, it's more correct to say all her brothers were in on it, leaving her in the dark. They will not allow her to fall into the sinister hands of man.

With a single glance, Riana was able read her brother's mind, she knew her siblings love her greatly and would hinder anyone she fancied, unfortunately, she wouldn't fall in love with anyone lesser than a true God so their worries are unfounded.

"I will follow along, I still have time before I'm needed back home."

TO BE CONTINUE ⏩