Global Gods : Skill-Resonance Awakened

Chapter 325: Ch 325 : Bottomless Pit

The Throne Room, City of Gods.

The heavy doors of the hall were sealed. Everyone was dismissed, no Gods, no clones, no demigod.

Sunny sat on his throne, alone in the hall, the cold metal pressing against his back. He didn’t meditate to comprehend the laws. He didn’t review the logistics of the coming war against Belial. He didn’t check the status of the Tower of Eternity.

He simply let go of everything.

He closed his eyes, his breathing slowing to a rhythmic, shallow tide. He commanded his nerves to untangle, his heartbeat to decelerate, and his senses to dim.

Within a single second, the Emperor of the Cosmos fell asleep.

It wasn’t a necessity for a God to sleep; his body was capable of living for eternity without any hunger or sleep.

He could have remained awake for the next thousands or millions of years without a yawn.

But sleep was the gateway. It was the key to the only place in the multiverse where he wasn’t an Emperor, but a man.

[Entering the Dream World.]

His consciousness was gently pulled from the physical plane. It wasn’t a violent tear like entering the River of Time; it was soft, like sinking into a warm bath.

The Dream Domain.

Sunny opened his eyes.

The golden walls of the Throne Room were gone. The pressure of the City of Gods had vanished.

He was floating in an endless, dark void. It was a darkness that didn’t feel threatening; it felt intimate. And at the same time slightly nostalgic.

Floating before him, suspended in the silent vacuum, was a blue planet. It was almost completely engulfed in water, with only small mountains dotting the surface.

Sunny stared at it, a profound feeling settling in his chest.

"Veridia..." Sunny whispered. "How nostalgic."

To the other Gods in his pantheon, the memories of the first view of their innate planets were fresh.

But for Sunny?

For Sunny, looking at this blue marble felt like looking at a childhood photograph from a thousand years ago.

Time, for a God, was a paradoxical concept. It was a river that flowed at different speeds depending on where you stood. And Sunny had been standing in the rapids for too long.

He began to count the reasons for his weary soul.

First, there was The Burden of Observation. Since the moment he became a God, and found his first planet, Veridia, he had been watching.

He watched every storm, every war, every birth. He had lived the lives of billions of mortals vicariously through his omnipresence. He carried the weight of their history in his mind.

Second, there were the Clones.

Sunny possessed sixteen Soul Clones. Each one was an extension of his consciousness. When a clone spent a year training, Sunny gained a year of memory.

If ten clones spent ten years in a time-accelerated zones, Sunny gained a century of experience in a single afternoon, this alone made him more than thousand years old.

He was living multiple lifetimes simultaneously, his mind a kaleidoscope of divergent timelines.

Third, there was the God Maker Realm.

Inside that realm, time compressed. A century inside was a mere eight hours outside.

Sunny’s clones had spent millennia there, honing their skills, reading libraries, and practicing magic. All those eons of solitude were uploaded directly to Sunny’s main consciousness.

And finally, the River of Time.

He had traveled to the past. He had witnessed the birth of many multiverses. He had seen the rise and fall of civilizations that history had forgotten.

Physically, he was a young man from Endor.

Spiritually, he was an ancient entity encrusted with the dust of eternity.

"I feel old," Sunny muttered to the void. "Too old for a delivery boy."

But then, the atmosphere shifted.

The darkness rippled. The cold void warmed up, smelling faintly of night-blooming jasmine and stardust.

"Nyx," Sunny smiled, the melancholy lifting instantly. "What kind of game are we playing this time? Roleplay?"

He knew her tastes. The Goddess of Night loved to weave narratives.

"Welcome to the Multiverse of Love, my dear."

The voice was melodious, vibrating not in his ears, but in the very core of his being.

Sunny turned around.

There she was.

Nyx. The Goddess of Night. The Mistress of Dreams.

She glowed against the backdrop of the void, her skin luminous like the surface of the moon. Her eyes held galaxies within their irises, sparkling with the light of a trillion distant stars. Her hair wasn’t hair; it was a flowing river of the Milky Way, drifting around her in zero gravity.

She wore a gown woven from shadows and twilight, leaving her shoulders bare.

Inside his mask, Sunny’s face flushed. He had seen her a thousand times, yet she still took his breath away. He wanted to compliment her, to compose a poem on the spot, but his eloquence failed him.

"Why are you silent?" Nyx teased, drifting closer to him. Her movement was liquid grace. "Do you have any idea how much I missed you? Time flows differently here, Sunny. For me, it has been an eternity."

"Ah... I don’t know, Nyx..." Sunny stammered, floating toward her, drawn by her gravity. "I missed you too."

Nyx stopped right in front of him. She reached out with her slender, cool hands.

She didn’t touch his chest or his shoulders. She reached for his face.

Click.

She unhooked the Cosmic Mask, the symbol of his authority, the artifact that terrified the Gods and demon Gods similarly.

She pulled it off and let it drift away into the endless dark space of the dream world.

"I already told you," Nyx whispered, her tone slightly annoyed but mostly affectionate. "Do not wear that thing in front of me. I don’t want the Emperor. I want Sunny."

She cupped his face, her thumbs tracing his cheekbones.

Then, she closed the distance.

Her body pressed against his. There was no space left between them. The God that brought the light in the life of every other God and the Goddess of Night fused in the void.

"I missed you," Nyx murmured against his lips. "Just one time. But that one time lasted for all the time you were gone."

Sunny didn’t answer with words. He didn’t need to.

He wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her flush against him, and kissed her.

It wasn’t a polite greeting. It was a desperate, hungry kiss. It was the collision of two lonely bodies finding their match.

"I missed you every second," Sunny’s voice projected directly into her mind, bypassing the clumsiness of language. "Every time I took a beeath, every time I fought a demon God, I thought of this."

’Why talk when we can talk with telepathy?’ Sunny thought, deepening the kiss.

For a moment, or perhaps a millennium, they floated there.

In this space, the Demon Lord Belial did not exist. The impending genocide of the 2,000 Demon Gods didn’t matter. The crushing responsibility of merging the multiverses faded into background noise.

Here, he wasn’t the Ark. He was just a lover.

Eventually, they broke apart, breathless, though neither needed air. They remained embraced, floating like driftwood in the cosmic ocean.

"So," Sunny asked, resting his forehead against hers. "What is the plan, my Goddess? I am at your mercy."

Nyx giggled, a sound like wind chimes.

"Look there," she said, raising a graceful finger to point behind him.

Sunny turned in her arms.

The blue planet, Veridia rippled. It changed. The water receded, continents formed, and civilizations rose in fast-forward.

But with another flick It transformed back into a perfect replica of Veridia from centuries ago, the same blue planet that Sunny saw when he first became a God.

"Veridia," Sunny noted. "Last time, we spent a lifetime on Endor as mortals. Are we going to spend time in Veridia this time?"

He was open to anything. If she wanted to live as farmers, he would plow the fields. If she wanted to be pirates, he would sail the seas.

"Not exactly," Nyx whispered, biting his earlobe playfully.

"This time, we will not be wandering the mud like mortals. We have done that. It is time to embrace what we are."

She spun him around so they were both looking at the planet.

"We will be the God and Goddess of this world," Nyx declared, her eyes shining with mischief.

"We will create races. We will bless heroes. We will guide civilizations to war and peace. We will conquer the multiverses of this dream simulation."

"We will play a game of strategy, my love. Just you and me, against the multiverse."

Sunny laughed. It was ironic. He was exhausted from being a God in reality, so she decided the best way to relax was to play a God in a dream.

But with her? It sounded like paradise.

"You know..." Sunny said, tightening his grip on her waist, pulling her back into him. "My heart is a bottomless pit, Nyx. It may never be content with just this game."

"Then I will just have to fill it," Nyx replied with a wink.

"Let the game begin."