The Conquerors Path

Chapter 1008: Chapter 1006-See If You Can Get Me.

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Booting Divine Profile Database...

Access: [Restricted Archive – Deity Class: Supreme]

Code Reference: DEATH_0001_GENESIS

NAME: Nyxara Thanatos, the Silent Monarch

AGE: ∞ (Eternally Relevant, Chronologically Undefined)

[System Remark: ”Yeah, no one keeps count after the first apocalypse.”]

GENDER: Female

DOMAIN: Absolute Death | Entropy | End of All Songs, Dreams, and Second Chances

AFFECTION LEVEL: 1.3%

[System Note: ”Honestly? You’re lucky it’s above zero.”]

TEMPERAMENT: Detached | Ironic | Darkly Amused

[System Remark: ”Imagine a goth who’s too tired to be goth.”]

CURRENT MOOD: Vaguely entertained

LIKES:

Balance between existence and nothingness

Clever People

Experiments with emotion, she doesn’t admit to feeling

The silence before creation ends

DISLIKES:

Excess sentimentality

Mention of ”hope”

Being compared to other gods (”Especially Life. Ew.”)

Interruptions mid-reading

SYSTEM ADVISORY:

[Warning: Engaging further may result in existential erasure or sudden emotional whiplash. Proceed at your own risk — but hey, that’s half the fun, right?]

SYSTEM REMARK:

”Well... congratulations. You’ve caught Death’s attention.

Don’t let that heady sense of accomplishment fool you — corpses get that too.”

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’That’s a new level of display’

[Hey, Supreme ones that don’t love you in first sight come with certain restrictions as you try to snoop]

”Cough...hello?”

I called out, to which once again the eyes that were on the book came back to me, as a sweet yet very disinterested voice called out.

”What?”

”Umm... I just wanted to ask if I can mess around a bit with the trial that links to a certain forgotten power of death lying around.”

”No.”

The answer came directly, stumping me for a second. Guess now I am indeed really feeling the effect of not being lucky at all.

[Indeed, the first supreme Goddess you met was the first match that instantly took to you, the second one was the same but in a different manner, but that luck has run out, which means just meeting someone doesn’t mean it will go your way, especially against Death, who just doesn’t care much about anything at all.]

It’s a good thing I came prepared, then.

Replying to the system, I focused on the girl still lounging away at the big throne, my eyes scooping more of the puppy eyes as I spoke.

”Cough... um... is there any kind of deal made here that can be helpful to you, to me? Like, just some kind of transaction for turning a blind eye and maybe not getting pissed?”

My words this time made the girl smirk a bit as she still kept her eyes on the book and replied.

”Maybe. What you got? And unlike the rest of those mindless gods, who would do anything for just a moment of love that they can, I am not like that. I don’t give a shit about that and you, so it must be something good and entertaining.”

Her words only made my lips twitch as I held back the curse from the back of my throat. Before I headed in, I had bought information from the system. When it comes to the gods, and such, information about them isn’t easy to get, meaning many of my systems can’t get it, and even more, the cost is very, very steep.

I had to pay close to 25% of all of my current affection points earned just to get to know this girl’s interests, likes and dislikes.

You see, from this whole interaction, I was able to grasp something. She wasn’t completely uninterested in me. In fact, she is indeed interested. Otherwise, why go through all this elaborate stuff to get me here? It means to her right now I am quite an enjoyable show to see, so she brought me here.

The second part being that, unlike the rest of the Gods I met till now, this one doesn’t seem to bend or break much to the things I bring to the table, like the motions she can feel from me, and that’s her biggest flaw right there. Just because she doesn’t care about it doesn’t mean the effects won’t take place at all.

You see, for those who don’t understand it and never got to know about it, when it flows into you, and when you finally feel it, the effects will be far greater than you can imagine. It’s why such effects came with Razellia, Orpheus and even Lala, since the first time isn’t making much effect, then the best solution next is going old school.

Seduce her.

That was the next option, good old-fashioned stuff I do, but this time leaning more towards the Goddess of Death, who controls all forms of death that happen in the realms.

Easy peasy....

[And death-quesy]

Get lost.

Throwing away the system, jumping in, it didn’t.

[Just wanted to say to be careful. Your thought process is right, but unlike the craziness of Razellia locked away in punishment, or the protective love that guides Orpheus, this one, when she goes crazy, the reactions might be catastrophic in many ways. Lala stays in her land cause she fears the Goddess of Life, so she will never do anything beyond some obsession, but this one directly opposes life, so you can imagine what will come your way. Just a reminder to be careful.]

Noted.

[Which means a shit show is coming.]

Cutting off the system, I focused back on the girl right in front of me, a smile fusing through my face, a gentle, light-filled one, the crown on my head sparkling as I forced my will on this world. The action immediately raised an eyebrow from her, but she let me be as I constructed quite the well-looking chair, as I took a seat on it, of course keeping it lower than her in the vast throne room.

Relaxing myself with one leg over the other, I established a bit of my own domination here as I spoke.

”If you aren’t interested in me, you wouldn’t have let me in here, which just goes against what you just said. You might not be interested much towards the motions of love, but it doesn’t mean that you aren’t curious about it. After all, everyone is curious about love, especially you, Death, who has seen how much love is tied to death itself, just as much as it affects life.”

As I seriously spoke this, the girl finally closed the book she was reading, the book in itself just melting away into particles of light as she finally sat straight on the throne, the movements of her body still being quite gothically hot as I kept my eyes on her, which finally fell correctly face to face with me.

”Go on....”

She muttered with a smile.

”I can give you the feeling no one else in the cosmos can. You can take it as more of a research value. After all, aren’t you a smart God? You would definitely want to experiment and feel how it feels, the love you have seen the mortals thrive in....”

”Orpheus told you something, it seems. Even then, this is just acceptable but not enough.”

She added, to which my smile only got a bit wider.

”Then we can add the next part of it. How about trying to steal away the most precious and treasured child from Life itself? Won’t that be something....”

These words finally hit the point as I saw a wide, deadly smile come to the face of the girl. In fact, that smile was so disturbing that it split her face, though she quickly recovered and the atmosphere that was almost crackling calmed down.

”Good, that sounds like fun, but something tells me there is more?”

I nodded my head at her words, agreeing as I continued.

”The extra added touch is to feel the life that death can never feel. Life envies death because it can end, for there is no need for life, but death envies life, for it always gets to live, while death is the end. I can give you a moment that feels like life. The most inspiring part of living with a life is being able to love. What could be greater than that?”

My question leaves a certain suspense in the air, though by now I can already say that she is in. In comparison, death is more like a curious scientist. She wishes to feel upon certain stuff, intelligence speaks to her in a way, so does dominance, but what truly gets her motor running is being able to one-up Life.

”Sounds like good terms, but I want to add some more to it.”

Nodding my head in agreement, I spoke.

”Go ahead.”

”If I manage to strip your love fully from that big-boobed bitch, then you become the Prince of Death. You throw away Life, and you embrace the prize of mine, only mine. Deal?”

Oh.... this is interesting.

I didn’t directly answer that. I just kept thinking for a moment, acting it out, surfing through it all in a way, after which I spoke, shaking my head.

”No deal. Orpheus gave me a lot. I am indebted to her and take her as my mother, my family, and I won’t throw it away for anything. What I give is the intrigue of stealing my love, making my love for you higher than that for my mother, a different type. You even get to play and tease a mother-in-law as a daughter-in-law, that’s how far I will go.”

The denial definitely didn’t sit right as the moment I finished speaking, I felt the atmosphere return black, the screaming of the demands resounding all over my head, pressing at me harder and harder. Heck, the chair I had built has disappeared as I am right now being forced to stand still while a humongous pressure is reigning down on me.

”Oh? You think Life is better than me?”

The cold embrace of death slowly started to surge around me, choking me. The situation had turned bad.