Beyond SSS-Rank After Getting The God System-Chapter 237 - 236: Judge

As they decided on a breakdown, they hit a delay. One that was the fault of none other than his creations.

Whilst they had no issue with the plan as a whole; Squidge, Levi, Omedra, Aldra, Equinox and the other householders’ pets, all wanted to go. An understandable sentiment, but Sis’ organisational, logical, parallel and logistical thinking were all unmatched and her absence easily made enough work to keep them occupied with evacuee processing.

Regardless of what needed doing though, neither he nor Klaire nor Kyubi could bring themselves to deny them what they wanted to do. In the end, he took Squidge aside then fed him a few divinity structures and warned him not to practice- anywhere he could destroy.

Initially it struck them as a spot of favouritism, but they were all aware that as Carl’s first creation, he was stunted in comparison to his siblings and fellow creations. He was made with no divinity infusion at a time he could only merge the traits of three beasts.

He had received a blessing, but other than that, he only bridged the gap through a relentless amount of effort that the others had looked to as a source of motivation.

Whilst they enjoyed their inborn strength and thanks to the system, growing strong enough to keep up without really doing much in the way of training; he had no choice but to choose between enjoying time with the family and working to make sure he could keep that family safe.

Ultimately, they couldn’t help but feel if any of his creations earned a helping hand, it was Squidge.

When Carl and Squidge rejoined the group, Carl made a decision about their involvement.

"Everyone else can manage the evacuees for a few minutes, so you have I’d say twenty minutes to join the fray..." Carl explained the last minute change to events, asking Alysse to bring up a full list of every exclusively military facility.

There were hundreds of worlds on that list, a little over four hundred and fifty. It made for a startling statistic, with the numbers pointing towards a horrifying percentage of the pureblood humans beings altered into soldiers.

If Carl had any reservations about the attack, they disappeared with that knowledge. The human race wasn’t being segregated because of hybrid prejudice, they were being harvested and sent off on settlement management programs to make them untraceable.

Leanna was visibly furious at the statistics as well, clearly fixating on how many thousands she sent off to create settlements and carve out a life for themselves, only for the committee to abduct and violate their very humanity.

Carl cleared his throat, then asked Alysse to divvy up the locations between them both evenly and randomly, not that she had any clue what he was planning but she divvied them up between the nine of Carl’s creations taking part.

It was then that Amaterasu’s commanders volunteered to take on the remainder and join the fray, so Alysse added them to the chart as a group and assigned the seven worlds left over to them.

With all the worlds spoken for, Carl explained their job. "...You guys will start the instant we engage the committee, work through your lists spending no more than two and a half minutes at each locale. You will arrive and depart via portals you make yourselves to make your rampages look like a wave of short-lived incursions."

Suzaku asked her mother for permission to rally troops to make it even more convincing, given permission immediately, she and the other two bowed and left to ready their troops.

With that they returned to organising the forces that would follow in the wake of Carl’s creations and decimate whatever was left, until the human military was just a bad memory, then join the extraction effort in smaller groups until the worlds had been fully inspected and made safe.

Lillim’s concern about Carl’s ego had gone, but in its wake, she found herself annoyed by how easily he was progressing through the planning. Having been sidestepping and trying to progress for a couple of days, seeing him completely outmatch her in terms of getting them to fall in line was humbling.

The decisions had been made, with the Elven forces split into five assault forces, Lillim’s daughters split into three and Majesty’s split into five. The overall plan was enough to make sure everyone knew what part to play, but vague enough that it could be adapted for new developments without reshuffling.

The most challenging task by far would be on the members of Carl’s faction who would be remaining behind and processing all the evacuees, which meant that before they could do anything, they had to make sure everything was prepared and they were all at full strength.

"Carl, how exactly are you going to house all these evacuees?" That was the question that left them all looking at her with no small amount of confusion before finally realising that it was weirder that they were used to it.

They went to one of the unused worlds and Carl took a deep breath, with it being the first time he had terraformed a world since he lost his system, he wasn’t even entirely sure he could.

Then he felt a connection to the realm, the bond between an immortal and their property and simply asked it to reflect his vision. The world changed around them leaving those who had accompanied them dumb and doubting their senses, then just as quickly as he changed the world it was decorated entirely with towers similar to the last he had made.

"See? Easy, but I won’t lie, that really took it out of me. I’ll make the freshwater world and the agriculture world, then the coffee world and then the hot springs world. People will have shelter, food, water, coffee and hot springs, that should be enough in case our fight takes a while.

After this we’re heading home to rest, I’ll be burning the system out of everyone coming with us tomorrow, but other than that we aren’t doing anything but prepare. We’ll start at midnight Earth time tomorrow."

Back on Earth however, things were far more intense.

As they stepped through a portal and arrived at the land where Kon’s family had resided before they left to join the faction, Sis, Nergal, Rhea and Gaia looked at the little fox child who they had somehow ended up deferring to.

She was confident, but not the normal ball of energy they had known her to be. She was determined and they could tell she was being weighed down by something, but they didn’t want to shatter her self-confidence by asking if she was okay.

Kitsunoko started walking, toward the sanctuary, but what the others didn’t know is that she wasn’t alone. Grateful that her parent’s didn’t spy on their children’s systems, since there was no way she would have gotten permission to do what she wanted otherwise.

"Do we need to do anything yet little fox?"

Kitsunoko shook her head, walking without pause, barely acknowledging the world she was navigating as she pushed forward. For a second it looked like nothing could stop her from doing whatever it was that she was doing, but then Sis picked her up by the head and asked why she was acting like she didn’t really want to do it.

"It’s not that I don’t, it’s just I really don’t know if this is going to work, I’m trying to figure it out on the way there."

It was a tragic thing to hear a slither of doubt, but it perfectly illustrated the scale of whatever she had asked them to assist with and why it might require two of the strongest elder gods alive and Sis who was essentially a human incarnation of the system.

Following the lead of such a controlled, restrained. Kitsunoko was awkward and so nerve racking it made Gaia and Nergal chuckle awkwardly inside.

When they eventually made it to the sanctuary, Kitsunoko walked the halls as though she had grown up there her entire life, until they eventually came to a massive garden. The sight of it was repugnant to both the Elder-gods.

"Is this?..." Nergal started, before Kitsunoko confirmed that it was what he suspected. It was the mass grave where Kyubi had buried the remains of all the slaughter fox-spirits, covered in a miasma of residual divinity that churned with centuries of vengeful malice.

Kitsunoko suddenly asked Gaia to create a resonance between Earth and all the worlds controlled by the committee without them noticing, a task that the child had given her so casually it would have crippled her pride to explain how difficult that would be.

She got to work, reconnecting with the lingering divinity of hers that resided in all of the worlds that filled the cosmos. She then began eliminating all the worlds not under committee control from the circuit, then Kitsunoko placed a hand on her and mentally directed her to eliminate a few hundred more.

By the time the little fox was satisfied, the resonating worlds seemed to have no discernible link. They were scattered, sharing no common topography or environment, she couldn’t discern who or what resided at locations but the values varied between two or three up to several thousand.

Before she could ask what made those worlds special, Kitsunoko jumped into the tide of hateful divinity and enacted the first stage of her plan. "I know you’re angry. I know who hurt you. Now they want to hurt my mums and dad and siblings and all our friends and family. So go and follow the path Gaia has opened, fulfil your hateful desires and find rest when you’re satisfied."

The others watched in horror as the divinity accumulated into the form of thousands of wrathful fox-spirits before seeping into the earth and following the path Gaia had created, Kitsunoko then told Gaia to sever Earth from from the connection when they had left in case they got carried away.

Nergal placed a hand on the little fox’s head and asked exactly what she had done.

She explained it was a mix, using the laws of Soul, Mind, Infinity, Life and Death to reconstitute the divinity to a certain extent. In doing so, she was able to help them recover their memories and remind them who slaughtered them, before letting them loose.

It was extraordinary, the fact they were a jack-of-all-trades race meant that they should only be able to use them at a basic level. It was obvious that Kitsunoko wasn’t such an example, she wasn’t using the laws to supplement her own abilities, she was acting as a bridge so they could enact their own wills with her as a guiding force.

It was clear in that moment, that despite her carefree mentality and as powerful as her siblings obviously were, Kitsunoko likely had the greatest potential of all of them. With all the laws at her disposal, she could do almost anything she wished.

Despite that, Nergal was concerned about her to no small degree and asked her what exactly she hoped they achieved. She explained that she didn’t really expect them to achieve anything more than being a distraction until the battle started and ultimately burn through whatever residuals they left behind.

"I’m still very angry about how they treated mum back then, I won’t let them hang around, but it would have been a waste to rip them apart and scatter them instead. It also would have set a bad example for my little brother and made my sister cry, so they get off easy as long as they make themselves useful."

It was then they all made a mental note that mistaking the peaceful, fun-loving fox for a harmless one would be the death of anyone. She might lean toward the mischievous playful nature of her kind, but she most definitely got the vengeful wrath her kind were prone to as well.

She then pushed them all back out of the garden area and into the adjoining hall, then started dancing on the grave that struck them as more than a little macabre. As they prepared to tell her off for it though, she stopped and cursed, before starting from the beginning.

After a few apparent failures, Nergal and Gaia decided to ask Sis what she was doing, not that she had been made privy to any more information than they had. Regardless, Sis gave it some thought as she watched her niece continue to dance.

"I think she’s doing a priestess dance, but the movements aren’t any I recognise, so I have no idea what she’s trying to accomplish or invoke. I don’t sense any kind of ambient energy fluctuations."

With that, Kitsunoko went on a little rant about how it was because she hadn’t properly started yet, then got tired and took a nap on Sis’ lap as the others chuckled at her.

She woke up an hour later and got right back to it, failing only twice more before taking a victory lap. To everyone’s surprise she then asked Gaia to channel all the divinity she had into the ground, specifically stating that she meant every last drop she could.

While that was happening, she dragged Nergal through the corridors until they came to one of the old classrooms and sat him down like a student before writing the entirety of the chant needed to open the true gate.

Nergal groaned when he saw it. "After keeping it secret for eons, a child memorised it after hearing it rushed through a single time."

Kitsunoko then cut it into sections and made some alterations to the chant, before turning back to him. "Death says, "Time for you to make me pointless". Not sure what it means, but honestly they all annoy me, so feel free to ignore."

Negal had tensed when she mentioned Death, grew confused with the message, but couldn’t help but agree and laugh at her summary of the laws. His laughter came to an abrupt halt when Kitsunoko slammed her hand on the board she had written on though.

She then told him to memorise the new chant and left, returning to the others to give Sis her orders, though it was more a riddle along the lines of "Tell us when it happens, you’ll know, trust me".

She then spent hours continuing to perfect her dance down to her breathing, when Nergal returned, they watched in awe as it reached the twelfth hour and she was still going.

Then she stopped and called the others over, telling Gaia to bathe her in her divinity while she slept and Sis to tell Nergal to start chanting when the time came and finally to wake her up when he was done.

They didn’t see the point in questioning her and she was too tired to give them a chance to do so anyway, laying down and falling asleep on the ground before anyone knew it, withdrawing a blanket from her inventory and drifting off.

"That would be really cute..."

"...If she wasn’t sleeping on the mass grave of the fox-spirits..."

"...Who she just sent to war so they could save her the trouble of erasing them."

Their thoughts successfully managed to revive the macabre atmosphere, but when she started twitching like a dreaming puppy, she thoroughly buried it again.

When she had been asleep for about six hours, Sis felt something. It was a vibration moving through the air and ground alike, but both Nergal and Gaia seemed unable to perceive it.

As she wondered whether she was just sensing something nonexistent as a result of her own anticipation, everything began to twist as though looking through an intense heathaze.

Suddenly a pain shot through her head, brief but what followed was the sense of something being deconstructed piece by piece, ready to be put back together in due time.

"Nergal, start! The system is being temporarily disabled!"

Nergal had a million questions, but no time to ask them, so he put them on hold to start the chant. The differences in the ritual were immediately noticeable, for starters the doors burst forth all at once rather than one at a time, then a cylindrical veil of Nothingness a rose up from the ground and as it reached the top of the gates, six of them rose into the air so their bases aligned with the top of the one that remained on the ground.

One by one a gate would remain at while the others ascended, but after the fourth the cylinder changed from one of Nothingness to one of infinity and the gates seemed to reach beyond the edge of reality.

When the time finally came for the last to ascend however, it did so only to take on a circular shape and fall to seal the top of the cylinder before the rest followed suit in descending order.

Finally they woke up Kitsunoko, who immediately stood and after gathering them where she slept and telling them not to move an inch, began her dance.

This time, as she danced her body left glowing lines drawn by the tip of he right foot and it took no time at all for Nergal to enforce her sentiment. "If any of us move an inch, we all die, the little fox was practicing for a reason."

"What do you mean we all die?"

"She’s carving Mesopotamian symbols into the ground, they don’t like being interrupted, no wonder she didn’t tell anyone."

The more she danced, the more their perceptions were warped and twisted. Time became a numb sensation, all of them unable to tell whether seconds or hours were passing. Space distorted, the diameter of the space becoming greater with every movement she made.

The pattern she was drawing seemed to be circular layers and with the completion of each layer, one of the gates slid open, steadily forming a tunnel to somewhere else.

Finally, as the last gate slid open, she walked back to the others. "I hereby judge Death wrong."

The words she spoke marked the end, Nergal quickly tried to read the glyphs she had drawn, but before he could a light slammed down from the tunnel that smothered them all and as he tried to peer through it figures started to appear.

"Thank you little judge, but more importantly, I would give anything to capture that stupid look on your face little brother..."