Lost in thought, the time came to the start of the ceremony of divine blessing.
The ceremony in itself does not have much content and all one needs to do is pray to whichever god you'd like to bless you.
If it were any grandeur, normal NPCs would not afford it.
Not to mention, it was rare enough to get a divine blessing. Any more than this and you'd risk public outrage.
Of course, those with the ability could give a little something and maybe get the priest to pray for you. But this hardly changed the results.
Different gods look at various things when they give their blessings.
Someone like the god of trade and contracts looks at your total assets and networks while the god of knowledge and wisdom looks at your education and skills.
This has resulted in children with noble lineages having merchant skills and blessings while children of merchants have prestigious and awe-inspiring skills and blessings.
Whether this is a good thing or not cannot be determined.
Anyway, in the long run, their descendants end up being merchants with noble backgrounds or nobles with vast resources at their disposal.
Of course, this effect is not so evident to normal people.
There are not that many people who can impress the gods.
Like right now, more than half of the teenagers gathered had already gone through the ceremony but no one had received any blessings.
Melissa and Xavier's turn came and they both went to the altar together.
Such a small church could only serve a few people at the same time.
Xavier did not even get a chance to pray when his consciousness was pulled into a mysterious white space full of divine aura.
The soft glittering light formed rainbow lights that made the place even more divine.
"You've finally come. Welcome."
Xavier heard a majestic voice behind him and turned only to find a wretched face full of wrinkles close to his.
This startled him almost scaring him to death.
"I say, you old thing, why must you come so close?"
The old man in front of him is one of the Creator Gods of the Infinite Frontier, Edarr, God of Creation and Destruction.
He is one of the few gods who know what is going on with him and Ophelia.
That said, he is still no match for her.
I mean, Ophelia can instantly learn and use all types of divinities and magics.
Her skills alone are enough to overpower everyone even without relying on the power of faith from believers.
Even those like Edarr who can fight with her cannot suppress her.
Forget about killing or sealing.
Gods cannot die but they can be destroyed.
As for sealing, Ophelia can do that too, and undo it.
Not to mention, her loner self does not cause trouble for others. Loving Xavier crazily is enough to solve most of her worries.
In the end, he is the only one who suffers.
"Hey, that's not how you greet an old friend? Rude."
"Friend? What kind of friend takes my dungeons? Those are worth several trillions of divine crystals."
"What are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Pretend. Just keep pretending.
The dungeons that Xavier had created in every retry end up ownerless once he gets reborn.
And this fellow keeps collecting them and using them to increase his powers and strengthen his planets.
Just one of those dungeons is enough to cater to several planets in the Infinite Frontier.
Yes, there are other planets in the Infinite Frontier.
With enough strength, gods can create planets limitlessly if they so wish.
This qualifies them as a creator god.
The more planets one has the stronger they are.
The more planets have life the more power of faith they can collect.
The more dungeons are opened on a planet, the stronger the planet, the stronger the resident creatures, and the more potent the power of faith.
You can imagine just how many benefits one dungeon created by Xavier can bring a creator god like Edarr.
This is why this old bastard can show him such a good face.
Of course, Xavier Adams would not lose out.
Ophelia would not allow it, and he would not tolerate it either. So, we have the scene in front of us.
"Argh, let's not play games. Call whoever was arranged this time around."
"This time that woman insisted that I give you my blessing. I don't know what she's thinking."
"Your blessing?!"
Xavier was surprised.
Gods too have their level differences and Creation Gods are considered the top if a Primordial God does not show up.
Someone like Edarr who lords over Creation and Destruction can even compare with Primordial Gods to some extent.
Xavier could hardly imagine what Ophelia offered to get Edarr to move.
"Yes, my blessing. You can also choose whomever you want and I can have them bless you."
"This deal is too good. Did something happen?"
"Noir's seal is loosening."
"…"
Noir, a Primordial Goddess of Nothingness and the Void.
Born as the opposite duality of Ophelia thus achieving a balance.
But this also meant that Noir hated Xavier as much as Ophelia loved him.
Such deep hatred made Xavier uneasy and afraid.
After all, that's a primordial goddess.
There was also her powers.
Ophelia can do anything and everything. Her divine abilities and powers are boundlessly endless.
Noir on the other hand had nothing.
Her very existence makes everything obsolete.
Even Ophelia is helpless against her.
That said, Noir has something that even Xavier cannot explain.
Her hatred for him.
A hatred so great that it materializes.
But what makes him afraid is not this. If all Noir did was go after his life, that would be a small matter.
What makes him afraid is that Noir always seeks to drag him into her nothingness.
Void of everything including emotion, logic, and reason.
If Xavier falls into her hands, he will become part of the nothingness.
But that alone is enough to turn him into something frightening. Something no god or man would want to deal with.
A wielder of everything and nothing.
A nemesis of all gods and creations.