I'm currently in the endless space of blackness. The rock-headed knight isn't here anymore. Well, not like I miss him, but the idea of him currently inside me is just... urghh.

At first I thought the idea of heaven inside me was just some fanatic's speculation. But Vitae (as the Life governor calls herself), pointed out that they actually get to be 'one with the world'.

Currently, Vitae is once again filling my head with useless information. Her voice is in my head. She can't get to the 'black space', I guess.

She keep telling me about the concept of Space in this world. She said she didn't understand that topic much but those Inheritors of Space keep asking her to tell me about it and relay back what I'd say.

"Manifold... You lot are better than I thought." I pretend to nod. "Could't create Perpetual Energy but yet they could fold Space to create multiple planes on top of each other." I say in a sarcastic tone.

["They won't like your tone..."]

"Hmm, if their pride is that high, why did they ask for my opinion?"

["It's something they.. um.. we.. don't want to accept."]

"Figured." I say with a shrug. When I define "Deity", I subconsciously used the definition of those lofty figures who only respect Power... Wait, something isn't right. "Why do you so gentle and calm toward me?"

["I knew you'd ask that. In your memory, I saw your True Name..."]

"Can we change the topic?" I immediately interrupt her. She touches my sensitive problem, again.

["I know you don't like it when people saw it."]

"Blah blah blah..."

["Sorry. Then what do you want to talk about?"]

"Nothing, just get me out of here... And not in the middle of when I say something dangerous."

["Oh right, I was telling you about Space. Let me continue."]

"Argg..."

["You are currently in the Origin Realm..."]

"That's not a creative name."

["We can rename it to Origo's Realm if you want..."]

"So this is my own Realm? How nice of you." Again, I say in sarcastic tone.

["In fact, you are at the exact same spot when you came to this world..."]

"Wait.. so the place where I woke up..."

["We twelve were born here from the fragments of your consciousness."]

"Too much information, get to the main part!"

["After the Space Inheritors learn how to fold Space, they created the Deities' Realm and we moved there. As we construct the World, more realms, or 'planes' as you call it, were created."]

"Stop ignoring me! I don't care where you live!!"

["The realm you woke up in is the Material Realm where physical bodies exist. Those bodies are controlled by their Soul in the Soul Realm. To protect your Soul, we left it in this realm."]

"Oh, okay... Another piece useless information forcibly gets into my head..."

["Well, you asked it."]

"Can you tell something useful? If not, let me out of here and stop intruding my Realm whenever I sleep."

["Ah right, you can use any elemental magic without worrying about your aptitude."]

"I don't like using magic because yelling the magic name is embarrassing. I only used those because I had no choice." I pause and think for a moment. "However Redemption looks like a good way to commit suicide."

"We won't let you do that." The high priest says.

"Wow, she did that again!" I exclaim audibly as I open my eyes. "I'm sure she did that on purpose."

Currently I'm back in my cage, laying on my belly. The morning scene is slowly moving pass my view. The knights seem to continue the journey when I was asleep. The high priest's voice was on my left side, but I don't want to bother looking for him. Judging by how the scene moving from left to right, the priest is probably walking in front of the cage.

As I lift my body up to sit, a semi-transparent brown figure floats into my vision.

["I thought you were dead."] He barks in my mind, still impudent as ever. Toothpick silently float beside him. I still regret giving him that pole.

"I hope I was." I say then glance at his Status above his head. "I can see you ground some level when I was sleeping." Then I glance at my Status Window, expecting some raises in SPI and DEX... However, it's not as I expected...

["I will pass you soon."] The wolf smirks, or at least the equivalent of smirk with a feral wolf's face.

"Wait! Why did you gain 4 levels but I'm still Level 6?"

I have a few explanations for that... Nothing is wrong with the servant setup. There isn't even a choice to turn off getting Exp...

Looking at me try to find out the reason through various UI panels, Glutton has an amused face. He really wants to annoy me, huh?

"Hey, I'm asking you!" I shout at him. The knights around glance up at us but don't say anything. "What did you do?"

["Breathing."] He bluntly answers.

"I'm not messing around with you!"

["Neither am I."] His face is as annoying as ever. I hope he won't get human form, or I am going to have anger-problem from his expression alone.

"Before I resort to extreme solution, explain." The Obedience Meter's last option - 'Absolute', is already grayed out, but I'm sure I can get him to talk with 'Extreme'. Still, I actually don't want to do that.

The wolf growls... He isn't going to attack me, is he? I'm pretty confident in fending off a Lv5 wolf though.

["I am a Spirit. I take in Mana around me to power myself. And you..."] Glutton purposely stops and stares at me with his gluttonous eyes... Is that my imagination that he is drooling? Scary!

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"Hey hey..." I subconsciously lean back. My wings touch the other side, there isn't much space in the cage for me.

Suddenly, he breaks his scary looking with a low cackle.

["I just need to idle around you to gain Exp..."]

"That's cheating!" I exclaim. Then suddenly, I remember something from earlier.. "Lofty deity who respects power... The Laws of nature... Taking in Mana in the air to power up..." I mumble then glance at the knights around the cage. They notice my glance then smile back at me. "Average human is Level 20 to 30. But these people are Level 60..."

["What's wrong?"] The wolf asks with a concerned tone. Is he concerning about me? I don't have time to think about that now, because...

"This is a 'Cultivation' world!!" I exclaim, my claws cup the side of my muzzle like The Scream painting.

"What did you say?" A curious voice travels from my left side, the direction the cage is heading. Glancing over, the high priest has already climbed onto the cage.

"How did you lot get to Level 60?" I ignore his question and abruptly ask to confirm my doubt, I probably wouldn't be surprised by the answer anyway...

I was so wrong. And I hope I didn't ask.

"We served you, so we all receive Blessing from..." He abruptly stops, his face filled with realization as he glances at the wolf spirit floating beside the cage. "So this is the reward of being your Servant..."

Ignoring the religious remark (Blessing) that I don't want to hear, I ask him again.

"I've never seen anyone else reach Level 40. How did you reach 60?"

"The monsters above level 30 are rare and really hard to deal with, while lower level monsters give close to nothing."

"I know that. 20% bonus or penalty per level difference."

"Yes, but the Blessing gives us 20 level-differences bonus Exp. Also, I receive a lot of Exp by casting Protection spells on you. Though as we reached Level 60, that bonus stopped. There seems to be a..."

"Bottleneck?" I blurt out.

"...limit. Huh, what are you saying?"

"No, don't mind me." I really don't want to drive the world to that way.

"So it was called Bottleneck."

"NO! Ignore me! Don't rename that!"

"It's a blasphemy to ignore your words. After all, you named Mana, Rawn and Deity; while the Gods made this world from your instruction."

"Then why do you keep ignoring me sometime?"

"Anyway, your wolf will probably get to Level 60 too, maybe even higher." He ignores me. His face is too small for me to see clearly, but I'm sure he is smirking!

["Good. I won't have to worry about this stupid dragon by then."] Glutton barks happily. I stare at him as he flies in circle in front of me. Toothpick follows him around dangerously.

"This is going to be a long journey..." I say and let out a sigh.

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Manifold. Deities' Realm. Neutral Domain. Meeting Hall.

"How did you level up?!" The question is aimed at Vitae.

"I guess all of us have the same theory..." Vitae answers with a sigh. "Origo."

""The Origin Dragon."" A few other deities say at the same time. "Huh?"

"Oh right, his name is Origo now."

"That's much easier to say than Origin Dragon."

"Now, to the main problem..."

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Around eleven thousands years ago.

The only realm in this World, now called Origin Realm.

All the Rawn had converged and became Twelve Deities, leaving nothing else but an endless space of blackness. They floated around a black figure - their Creator's shell.

"How much time do we have left?" A deity nervously asked.

"We wasted one tenth of the time." 'Time' answered.

After they read their Creator's mind and learned the reason why they were created, they had been in a rush to create a World. This Being was currently sleeping, but they feared what He might do if He wake up to an incomplete world. However, they had a big problem.

"With our current Processing Power, we need more than twelve Deity to run a world!"

"That would create Chaos..."

"I know! Why didn't He give us more Processing Power?"

"I have an idea..." A deity said then 'pointed' at one piece of His memory. "We would use Him as the Server, have Him run the World while we make ourselves Administrators, taking control of everything to prevent Him from finding out."

"Then we.. and the whole world would have to depend on him."

"Do you have a better idea? It's his fault for creating us like this!"

"Yeah.." "I agree..."

And thus, they used their Creator as both Power Source and Processing Unit.

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The deities had decided the Level limit for mortal is 99. Only those who Transcended can level up pass that limit. However, they aren't limitless. As they reached Level 125, they found themselves unable to request more power from Origo.

However, right now, above Vitae's head is [Lv126 Primal Deity].

The atmosphere in the room becomes more tense than ever. Before, their power are around the same, Level 125, so their words weighted the same. Right now, the chance of getting more powerful opens right in front of them. The power balance becomes more fragile than ever. But no one dares to openly break that balance yet. They don't know how much more powerful they can get. This might end up with twelve peaceful Lv126, or in the worst case scenario: The Second Deity War.