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nDante did not know what awaited him on the other side of this achievement, but he was ready to find out. Interestingly, it wasn’t just him who was interested, but so was Etz Chaim, who woke up from her hibernation to come out and give him moral support.

nDante speechlessly watched her try to do some form of cheerleading dance but had to stop her due to how cringe it was.

nExtremely dissatisfied, Etz Chaim asked, “Huh? What’s the problem, don’t you know I’m cheering you on?”

nDante pursed his lips, holding back laughter. “I’m aware, but you don’t need to go so far. Besides, it’s distracting me.”

n“Huh? How is that possible, I’ve seen Myra do this for Luka when he was training his abilities back then too,” Etz Chaim exclaimed with disbelief.

nDante was speechless. He wondered how Luka must have felt at the time, but then his own mind wandered to an image of Beatrice wearing a cheerleading uniform to support him, jumping about with her massive assets bouncing freely…

n“Hello…? Soul Space to Dante? Helloo…?” Etz Chaim waved a hand before Dante, who was drooling slightly while fantasizing about evil things.

nEventually, he shook his head and came to, coughing lightly. “I was considering something important pertaining to the success of our mutual plan.”

n“Heng? Really?” Etz Chaim asked suspiciously, not entirely sure.

nDante folded his arms behind his back in a regal manner. “Hmph, have you seen me do anything but work and take care of my family?”

n“Hmm… true, I guess,” Etz Chaim acquiesced reluctantly.

n“So what exactly will happen once I complete this?” Dante inquired to be sure.

n“Well, I will hand over the entirety of the energy Luka left behind to control the universe, which will instantly make you a peak Eternal. I will also give you 99% of the authority to control the entire multiverse, so it’s quite a huge flow of power,” Etz Chaim responded casually.

n“If you didn’t become an Origin God, I would have fed it to you slowly after a few hundred years while keeping you in stasis. However, I can hand it over to you almost instantly without overwhelming you,” Etz Chaim added with a thoughtful expression, leaving Dante speechless again.

n“Right… and what happens to my Origin Core and Origin Power? Do they get overwritten?” Dante asked the thing that bothered him the most.

nEtz Chaim considered her words carefully – for once – before responding. “No, not overwritten, but more like… upgraded.”

n“Upgraded? Fine, I’ll accept that. Also, if the need ever comes, can it be taken away from me? These ‘upgrades,’ I mean?” Dante asked with piercing seriousness.

nEtz Chaim did not recognize the gravity of Dante’s words and answered casually. “Only the authority. Upgrading you to an Eternal cannot be taken back.”

nDante breathed a sigh of relief internally but still pressed. “How so?” .𝒎

nEtz Chaim sized Dante from head to toe before answering with a smirk. “If you feed a pig good that fattens it, can you unfatten it later? No. But you can stop feeding it the special food that made it fat.”

nDante: “…”

n“Right, so are you going to do this or not? I have things to do,” Etz Chaim said while yawning sleepily.

nDante sucked in a deep breath to control his temper and meditated carefully. The entire time he had been talking to Etz Chaim, he hadn’t been idle. He was converging a great amount of Origin Power and Origin Energy in the area around him, ready to unleash it all in one go.

nNow that he was done talking, he readied himself mentally for what came next and controlled the sheer amount of power he had accumulated to smash through the last barrier that prevented him from connecting with Etz Chaim properly.

nBANG!

nIt felt like using one’s shoulder to crash into a steel door, trying to break it down. Dante almost shouted out from how tough it was and the severity of the recoil with regards to being bounced back, but he kept it in.

nInstead, he gathered up even more energy and charged once more, smashing against the barrier with even more momentum. Higher momentum meant that he achieved much higher progress in breaking through, but also suffered much more pain.

nIn the real world, blood leaked from Dante’s nose, something which hadn’t happened in a long time. As he was meditating in seclusion, there was no one here to see it, or Beatrice and Antonia would have been frightened.

nMeanwhile, in Dante’s soul space, Etz Chaim was watching only expressionlessly, not seeming bothered by Dante’s suffering. In fact, she felt a hint of surprise and resentment because what Dante was going through was considered easy.

nAdvancing to an Eternal, and all you had to do was ram a barrier then suffer some mere pain? How many Origin Gods at the peak of their realm would give anything they had for a chance like this with a wide smile.

nDante seemed to realize this, not because he was aware of the status of higher-dimensional beings, but because he could easily reason how valuable his chance was given everything he had experienced so far.

nSo he continued to work, only resting and accumulating before striking again. No matter how hard a wall was, if it was hit with a strong force repeatedly over a period of time, it would begin to crack and eventually break.

nThe same held true for whatever ethereal barrier separated Dante and Etz Chaim’s largest root. It took more than a few days of constant work, since Dante would spend a whole day gathering energy as fast as he could, consolidate it for another day, and then smash as much as he could for another day till it dissipated.

nFinally, after 10 rounds, totaling around 30 days, Dante finally smashed the wall that prevented him from seeing the other side, and immediately, he felt a feeling of connection with Etz Chaim that was clearer than ever.

nHe could finally understand Etz Chaim’s state of being. She was not an Eternal like he thought, but something that was more like a half-step god. She possessed the power of Luka and Myra at a very diluted level, which was enough to put her above any Eternal in existence, which was why she was so powerful.

nDante could also vaguely glimpse the existences of Luka and Myra through her senses, but they were extremely far away. Myra he could tell was not even within their universe, being somewhere else entirely.

nLuka, he could sense, was in the middle of some form of intense crisis and did not even have the attention to check out his peeping through Etz Chaim’s eyes. It was no wonder Luka himself didn’t handle the matter with Lara; he was dealing with something more important.

n“Enough peeping, focus on yourself,” Etz Chaim chastised him with a roll of her eyes, her voice clearer to him than ever before.

nWithout warning, she began unleashing a torrent of energy that entered his soul space through the quantum gate that formed his superpower. The gate began to swirl and sucked everything within his soul space within, his Origin Core,Origin Power, central soul, and even the void in his soul space.

nEven his soul projection was not spared and was sucked in. Due to this, Dante’s connection with Beatrice was severed, causing the woman who was currently teaching Antonia how to manifest her power safely to falter.

nSeeing Beatrice’s sudden change, Antonia was surprised. “Mommy, what’s wrong?”

nBeatrice remembered that she was with her daughter and sucked in a deep breath before manifesting what she thought was a comforting smile but was actually extremely weak. “N-

nNothing dear, let’s continue…”

nAntonia glanced at Beatrice’s hands, which were suddenly shaking, and her pale complexion, which contrasted with her usual vibrant vitality. The young girl might be a little inexperienced, but she was not stupid.

nImmediately she stood up and held Beatrice’s hands gently. “Mommy… daddy will be okay, alright?”

nBeatrice was stunned. She had not told Antonia anything about Dante, but when she looked down at her little girl’s comforting look, Beatrice understood that she had long been seen through by her perceptive daughter. .𝒎

n“…Yes, daddy will be fine,” Beatrice murmured, her worry lessening greatly as she hugged her daughter gently.

nIn truth, Dante was fine… mostly. His main body slumped to the ground lifelessly, his life functions continuing despite his mind and soul being completely gone. All his clones also dissipated regardless of where they were or what they were doing, causing some minor problems universe-wide.

nDante did not have the consciousness to care about this. He was isolated within the space within the quantum gate, everything that formed his existence floating around him. Before he could even wonder what was happening, the familiar surge of energy rushed into this space and began compressing everything together from all sides, all at once!

nImmediately, Dante felt great pressure like never before!

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