Chapter 204: The Title of Eternity

Chapter 204: Chapter 204: The Title of Eternity

After stepping through the door, the scenery did not change much.

The only difference was that, at the very end of the water mirror... there was a blurry silhouette.

An illusion?

Jeremy wanted to approach, but the water mirror suddenly rippled. Twin lotuses bloomed, transforming into a barrier wall of flowers and water that blocked him, preventing him from taking another step.

At the same time, a cold female voice rang out.

"The day we meet again came faster than I thought."

"Noan."

"..." Jeremy froze.

Meet again?

Although he couldn’t get close, from the blurry outline, the silhouette at the far end seemed to be just a child of about six or seven years old.

Yet this voice, hollow and cold, was clearly the voice of a mature woman.

The surrounding petals confused his line of sight, and the mist interweaving pale purple and red made his vision even blurrier.

Jeremy focused his mind, concentrating all his attention on the figure with indistinct features ahead.

But he discovered that floating behind the other party was something symbolizing a deity... A divine halo.

For some unknown reason, Jeremy felt an indescribably familiar sensation.

It was as if... he had seen this familiar sight many times before.

"As expected, you’ve forgotten..." A sigh, or perhaps just a casual remark, transmitted clearly.

Before Jeremy could proactively ask, the barrier wall blocking his path abruptly dissolved, and the figure with an unclear visage standing in the distance was walking toward him step by step.

She walked barefoot, the bell tied to her ankle swaying with each step, the sound ringing out exceptionally clear and cold.

When she was less than five steps away, she stopped.

Jeremy still couldn’t see the other party’s face clearly, but just the intimidating aura upon getting close, along with the endless pressure radiating from that divine halo making one uncontrollably want to kneel in submission, sparked a bold speculation in his heart.

Jeremy tentatively spoke up: "Could you be... the deity who protects and blesses Valmont?"

The other party seemed to have smiled.

"Perhaps? When you were little, you always called me directly by my name. Now acting so distant makes me a bit unaccustomed to it."

"?"

Jeremy was certain that during his childhood living on Earth, he had never met an existence with such a massive and exquisite divine halo floating behind them. Furthermore, ’perhaps’—what did this answer mean?

"...I’m sorry, I don’t have any memories related to you." Currently, the only thing Jeremy could do was observe the situation first.

"How cruel." The person in front of him... no, the deity in front of him gave a faint chuckle. "The time your soul returned to your original body’s consciousness space on the Sylvanor continent while you were in a coma on Earth. It was always me by your side experiencing it with you, yet after just a few short years, you’ve completely forgotten?"

"Then let me introduce myself again. I am the supreme god governing life and eternity, Lavmia."

Consciousness space... Lavmia...

Could she be...

This statement made Jeremy instantly scour his memories.

Back on Earth, he had fallen into a coma multiple times, but every time he woke up, he had no memories of the coma period.

Although later, before returning to his true body, he knew his comas on Earth were due to his soul returning to his original body’s consciousness space, he still couldn’t recall those memories.

Later, the only thing he remembered was that every time he was in the consciousness space, there was a beautiful little girl by his side, keeping him company through that endless, empty time.

Now, this existence bearing a divine halo before him... was actually the little girl who had always stayed in his consciousness space to keep him company back then?!

The name Lavmia... indeed brought an extremely familiar feeling.

At this moment, Jeremy didn’t know whether to be terrified, or rejoice that the mystery which had always bewildered him was now solved.

But between a deity and a human, could they communicate so frequently?

In the past, the deity representing Spirit Covenant 305 once said the communication was merely an unexpected accident, and after that, the deity never appeared again.

"In principle, it’s impossible. But if I didn’t intervene, the only thing awaiting you was death. You should know your own fate well, shouldn’t you."

Jeremy was stunned.

She could actually read other people’s inner thoughts.

However, since she was a deity, it seemed reasonable.

Jeremy didn’t ask nonsensical questions, but chose to ask: "If in principle it’s impossible, then why did you still intervene?" He had thought it was a stroke of luck that his fate, predestined to die young, hadn’t welcomed death yet, but looking at it now, it was the care of a deity...

Lavmia: "For nearly tens of thousands of years, besides you, the only divine seed that hasn’t been established a contract with a step ahead by those fools, is only you. I broke the rules for you once, so what?"

"Won’t you suffer the backlash of the rules?"

Jeremy had once heard that even deities had to obey the law of conservation of rules.

Lavmia burst into laughter: "A tiny bit of rule backlash, what can it do to me?"

Just as she finished speaking, a few lines of fiery red text appeared before her.

[It’s nothing more than her divine power being sealed nine layers deep by the God-Lock, her body consequently suffering a backlash turning into a child’s form, and being mocked by her mortal enemies, that’s all.]

"Damned wretch..."

The moment the text appeared, the air pressure around Lavmia plummeted like an ice cellar, pressing down so hard it almost suffocated a person.

The blood in Jeremy’s body boiled. Noticing his anomaly, Lavmia restrained her anger slightly, raising her hand to dispel the text appearing before her, and said: "You must have heard what a divine seed is, right?"

Regarding the anomaly just now, Jeremy tactfully chose to pretend he didn’t see it, answering: "I know."

A divine seed, just as the name implied, possessed the qualification to become a deity.

Although a divine seed appeared once every few tens of thousands of years, for millions of years, the Sylvanor continent had never seen a new deity emerge.

But Lavmia said he was a divine seed?

Jeremy naturally wouldn’t be foolish enough to think the person in front of him misjudged, he merely had a feeling of disbelief that fate was finally favoring him.

"Then do you know, if you choose to accept my inheritance, in the future if you want to become a god, your only path is to defeat and replace me?"

Jeremy had never heard of this point before, but now he knew. "Do you not hope for this to happen?"

"No, I naturally hope for it very much. But, I need to remind you," Lavmia seemed to be confirming his sincerity, yet also seemingly advising him to retreat. "Deities in the Divine Realm of the God Realm also have high and low divisions. Aside from the 305 deities you humans know of, there are also five supreme gods standing above all, along with two existences transcending the rules. And I am exactly one of those five supreme gods. The price you must pay to become a god will be thousands, tens of thousands of times harder than other divine seeds. Even so, do you still decide to accept my inheritance?"

Aside from the 305 deities, there were actually seven existences at a higher tier than them?

This was the first time Jeremy got to understand deities so intuitively, but if his memory served him right... The name of the patron god of the Valmont family was not Lavmia, but Vasitius.

If he didn’t guess wrong... Lavmia didn’t seem to be the patron god of the Valmont family.

"The power Vasitius can give you at most won’t exceed a Rank Five Holy Covenant. Compared to me, do you wish to accept his inheritance more?"

His inner thoughts were seen through again. Jeremy tactfully said: "No."

This answer made Lavmia slightly more satisfied.

"No need to worry. Whether it’s the second Mark awakening or the inheritance, I will give you the best things."

After Jeremy politely said his thanks, he asked: "Oh Deity, may I ask a question unrelated to the inheritance trial?"

"You want to ask how to help Sylas awaken early?" Lavmia didn’t hide the fact that she had the ability to read minds.

Jeremy wasn’t the least bit offended by the intrusion. "That’s right." Not just this matter, but regarding the Dead Land and Lucius suffering the backlash, he also wanted an answer.

In Lavmia’s hand appeared a twin lotus flower. Pondering for a moment, she finally said: "Regarding the things you want to ask, I cannot answer you directly."

"What I can tell you is, Vasitius will guide that lost little lotus back. After all, losing an heir like you, he has no choice but to exert his efforts toward your younger brother and your cousin. You also don’t need to think too much. Before the day you successfully challenge me arrives, I will use the Title of Eternity to bless you. As for those related to you, as long as you smoothly pass the trial, they will also receive a blessing."

That was enough...

At this moment, the pent-up gloominess in Jeremy’s heart loosened slightly, bringing an unprecedented feeling of relief.

Lavmia looked at him, asking in a flat tone: "Therefore, the inheritance trial under the Title of Eternity, are you willing to accept it?"

Jeremy inherently didn’t trust anything besides himself.

But this time, he chose to trust a deity.

"I am willing."