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When they were all sent to Mirror Kritias, the Heroes from the original Kritias felt a bit lost, but quickly realized that they were indeed in a new world, especially one that was not falling apart on an Apocalyptic demise.

However, they quickly separated.

Against what Hekaton had first expected, several Heroes decided to not work together, and ended up separating when they finally reached Kritias!

Lucas, Natalia, and Mason were the first ones to separate and escape, as they were not fond of Fernando and the rest, and believed that how they were, they would have ended stabbing each other backs if they were to work with them.

Alongside this, Lucas, Natalia, and Mason were a trio whose minds were not the same as Fernando and the rest, they were not wicked nor malicious, and had better hearts than them, at the very least.

Alongside this, they did not desire to kill Veronica, in fact, they did not even want to get close to her until the very last moment where Lucas revealed his immense feeling of guilt, desiring to join Veronica and help her as much as he could to amend for his sins…

However, the rest of the group… well, they were not the same.

They did not felt any guilt for what they did before, and even just saw Veronica as a stepping stone for their real purpose.

But due to their own selfishness and lack of trust, they separated.

It started when Camilla started to discuss with Catalina, and then Christopher defended Catalina.

Christopher and Catalina then escaped from the group together, leaving Camila, Lance, Leonia, and Fernando alone

Christopher and Catalina were not the best friends, but they indeed held some level of trust with each other based on their previous lives, as they were of the same faction and trusted each other enough, alongside sharing similar goals unlike Mason, Lucas, and Natalia.

However, Fernando, Lane, Camila, and Leonia were all quite selfish and asocial, their manipulative or wicked natures could not let them be with each other for too long without someone strong to lead them such as Gabriel did in the original Kritias.

However, in Mirror Kritias, unlike Origin Kritias, held no catastrophic apocalypse to survive or something, and they were all in a world of seemingly

"peace

", even if temporary.

And after discovering that this world wasn't rushing them and that Hekaton, the one they believed would be constantly controlling them around wasn't even ordering them around or anything (because he actually could not be due to his actual body being outside of Kritias to interfere with them directly), they didn't felt the necessity to stick together to deal with Veronica, even if it would bring a benefice by fighting her with their combined strength.

After all, a strong ally that does not trust you can become a dangerous enemy awaiting to backstab you, right at your side.

Indeed, the old saying of

"keep your enemies even closer than your friends

" did not apply at all in real life, and having an enemy that could kill you at any moment near you was not something they actually wanted.

The first to leave the party after Christopher and Catalina was Fernando.

Fernando was perhaps the most selfish and crazy of all the heroes.

He was conceited, greedy, degenerate, and held several deviant ways of thinking and doing things.

His power also made him dangerous to be around, as he could completely ignore your defense and resistance, a single knife attack from him would most likely lower your HP by a ton, even if you were a strong Hero who had changed over 10 Jobs in your previous life and held Cheat Abilities.

This was… a mistake that Hekaton realized just now.

He should have modified the Heroes Samsara Systems so their own Cheat Abilities could not affect each other!

Hekaton really lamented this mistake.

But it was fairly too late now, he would have to do this in the next batch of Heroes that could come from the Original Kritias, and he did not even know when that would possibly happen yet…

At some point, he had even thought about bringing a new batch of reincarnated from another world, similar to the first time Veronica and her coworkers appeared on his Divine Realm.

…but that would be troublesome and would take a lot of years for them to get strong enough as the ones in the Original Kritias had.

And as Hekaton sat down and watched, Fernando left the party.

Leaving Camila, Lance, and Leonia.

And obviously, these three did not go well together either.

They did not have anything in common, and honestly, they did not like each other either.

Especially Camila and Leonia saw Lance as an annoying cheeky bastard and decided to leave him behind.

Like that, Lance and Fernando walked their own paths, and by chance, Camila and Leonia seemed to stick together solely because they were women and did not particularly dislike each other.

…Although it seemed that Camila did not want to be alone, and Leonia was not annoyed by her presence.

And as Hekaton saw this happen, he couldn't help but try to talk to them…

In a night, Camila and Leonia received a Divine Message from Hekaton through the connection they had with him by his Divine Protection.

He was quite direct with them.

"You should go back and join them, you need to stick together if you desire to defeat Veronica.

"

That was all.

However, Camila and Leonia felt like the God could not do much other than sending them stupid messages, and at some point, he stopped and found it hopeless.

He also tried doing this with Fernando and Lance, but nothing either.

Fernando was even bold about it, telling Hekaton to give him more rewards and Bonus Skills if he wanted him to hurry up.

Hekaton felt bitter after hearing such an insolent mortal and ignored him.

He then tried to talk to Lucas, Natalia, and Mason.

But they had already decided to speak with Veronica and were not even listening nor understanding his messages well enough because their faith in him had loosened a lot.

Hekaton then realized something…

Veronica and Ervas sole presence in Seashore and their combined Guidance had already, slightly affected them…

And as they decided more and more to reconcile with them and ask for their forgiveness… the farther away from his faith they strived.

Soon enough, whenever they were to be completely guided, they might even lose his Divine Protection, and the Samsara System did not have the function of talking with their users, and even if he were to create it, he was not able to 'update' the Samsara System from the souls of the Heroes form distance, it was only possible if they were inside his Divine Realm, as pure souls.

…Hekaton's plans were shattered.

Although he still held some hope for Camila, Leonia, Lance, and Fernando to plan and try to kill Veronica, their chances greatly decreased when they decided to fight separately.

And such changes decreased, even more, when Lucas, Natalia, and Mason decided to join Veronica and tell her everything about them!

"This is… problematic…

" he sighed.

However, the moment Hekaton began to think about something else to do, to the point where he began to consider joining hands with Bestellen himself, a

"lowly

" God that he wasn't too fond of due to being too selfish and having a mindset that was too narrow to understand his plans well, a different entity decided to knock the door of his Divine Realm…

An entity that was not from this world, nor any world that Hekaton controlled…

It was an entity that he did not even know about.

But it was indeed a very strong Divine Existence.

Perhaps even stronger than him.

And unlike him who was limited to his own Divine Realm and Divinity of Transmigrations and Souls, this God had the power to do many things, as if he were a God of many elements.

Then… Hekaton realized who this entity came from.

Genesis.

Genesis, a distant world from Kritias, connected to the alien that Ervas summoned, Kireina.

"You… What do you want? You are stepping into my Domain…

" said Hekaton.

"My bad, my bad. Actually, I cannot enter completely, my power is still growing you see… My name is… System Master. You might be Hekaton, right?

" asked the entity.

"System Master? I have heard that you are looking over worlds and planning sketchy things with them… What do you want with me?

" said Hekaton.

"Nothing much. I just want to help you out, to give you a hand… Well, a little, for now,

" said Hekaton.

"…You, what do you desire?

" asked Hekaton.

"I want to help you, I already told you. Didn't I, Hekaton? What I want is very simple, I am also interested in killing Ervas and Veronica. They are trying to ruin my plans in Kosmos. That world, does it sound to you?

" asked the System Master.

"Kosmos… Yes, but my Master nor I am connected to its transmigration cycle. It is being held by their own Gods… Whatever you plan there, I have also got to know that Ervas and Veronica are there, with Kireina… too…

" said Hekaton.

"Ah, you're quick to catch up then. I guess there is no need to explain too many things, right? I have already given a few gifts to a few little Vampires that are planning to ruin Ervas, and Veronica lives a bit, but that might be not enough! So? Do you want to join hands with me? Or a bit, I have my hands full doing many things, so I can only come sporadically,

" said the System Master.

Hekaton began to ponder what to do with this situation… but in the end, he simply accepted.

"Very well, tell me what you have in mind. Depending on your plans, I might agree or not,

" said Hekaton.

"Heh, you won't regret it…

" said Hekaton, as he revealed a mass of darkness from within his small avatar that he used to visit Hekaton, in there, a phantasmal entity with the face of a skull roared.

"Unhand me! I will devour your soul if you don't let me go!

" it roared monstrously, as Hekaton realized what this entity was!

The Demon God that was mysteriously born from Kritias thousands of years ago in the Ragnarök, the origin of Kelsus and Anir Fragments, and one of the two Gods capable of destroying Souls, but the only one who had actively killed and devoured Gods!

He was defeated when the Dark and the Bright Gods combined their strength together and tore his entire body and soul apart!

"Why does this entity from another world… get his hands into a residual Soul Shard of this God?!

" thought Hekaton in surprise.

"Now hear me out…

" said the System Master, as he began to explain his plans…

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