Chapter 83 Becoming A God In Two Years!
Two years have passed since Keith McDowell used his First Order skill to launch a divine attack against Arcadia.
After he had attacked Arcadia and made Arcadia suffer countless irreparable losses, Keith used his First Order skill to shut off the dimensional gate. He did that to prevent Arcadia from retaliating as well as allowing Blue Star to become stronger than ever.
What Blue Star lacked the most was enough time to grow. After all, Arcadia's invasion was too abrupt. But Keith's action had allowed Blue Star to improve at an unprecedented rate during the past two years.
The strongest human aside from Keith and Sherry was now at Z-rank!
Keith was currently at ZZ-rank when it came to his elemental manipulation skill while Sherry was ZZZ-rank in her space manipulation skill.
But that wasn't the main improvement that Keith and Sherry had.
For Sherry, she had already achieved the End Note Third Stage!
With Keith's assistance as well as Sherry's knowledge of the future, both of them cooperated to take down all of the End Note users in Blue Star. To be exact, if not for the fact that Amelia had obtained 1 of the End Notes, Sherry might have already reached the End Note Final Stage!
In their current treasury, Sherry had two End Note Third Stage, two End Note Second Stage, and two End Note First Stage. Only one End Note First Stage was needed and if Sherry obtained that, she could combine all of the End Note to achieve its Final Stage and become the Universal God Of Insurmountable End!
At that time, Keith regretted using Amelia as a tool man since he didn't expect that she would seek refuge in Arcadia.
But Keith no longer cared about that problem since he had already consoled Sherry about it.
Although Sherry's space manipulation was at ZZZ-grade, her End Note Third Stage was at OOO-grade.
In other words, as long as Sherry used her End Note, she was at the power level of Transcendent Realm Peak Stage! In Sherry's case, ending a galaxy was as easy as writing it on her End Note!
Because of that, Sherry and Keith never placed their eyes on Amelia. They had already thought of her as an ant. Since Sherry wasn't that power-hungry and she preferred making love with Keith more than increasing her power, she didn't make a fuss about it and agreed with Keith to deal with Amelia until they were certain enough that they could take the End Note from Amelia.
As for Keith, he wasn't that weak as well!
Keith's status as a ZZ-rank was only applicable to his elemental manipulation skill which he barely invested his time on.
One should remember that Derick had the Baldy's Training Manual and training it for three years will allow anyone to unlock their physical limiters and obtain the body of a god.
Although three years haven't passed, with Derick's continuous usage of his Training Ground skill, the time was halved and it only took him a year and a half to finish his training of the Baldy's Training Manual. In just a year and a half, Derick unlocked his physical limiters and obtained the body of a god!
Because of that, Derick was now a mortal in a god's body. His power level rose to G-grade and his power was continuously increasing without him doing anything.
Of course, at the same, Keith also obtained Derick's power. It was all thanks to his System Creator's Privilege!
A year after Keith closed off the dimensional gate, Derick obtained a training manual that trained his soul. So not only did Derick manage to unlock his physical limiters, but his soul also wasn't something to be looked down upon.
After training his soul for a year and his body for half a year after his physical limiters were unlocked, Derick's power level in his body was now at GG-grade while his soul's power level was now at G-grade.
In other words, Derick was a god in both soul and body! He had achieved the strength that he had yearned for!
And since Keith also obtained what Derick obtained and including his own training, it wasn't far-fetched to claim that in both soul and body, Keith was at least several times stronger than Derick.
Keith's power level in his soul and body was both at GGG-grade!
And because of that, Keith fearlessly confronted Derick a month ago and informed Derick of his existence as not only the emperor of humanity but also the System Creator of the Training System!
At that time, Derick's expression was very priceless. But since Derick had already expected that he would become a slave of the system, he had already expected the worst that could happen to him.
To Derick's surprise, Keith didn't do anything to Derick and he only reminded Derick not to become an enemy of humanity or at least, not to make an enemy out of him. Keith had successfully managed to win Derick's loyalty when Keith mentioned that he had taken care of Derick's parents when Derick was spending a year and a half worth of time in his Training Ground.
After that, Keith no longer cared about Derick since he was pretty much lax when it came to his subordinates. As long as his subordinates didn't cause too much trouble and implicated him, then he would grant his subordinates freedom as long as they also weren't having any thoughts of betrayal.
After earning Derick's subordination, Keith shifted his attention to Julius Daemon, the Demon God Of Victory who became a manager at one of McDowell's branches in the past two years.
Needless to say, Julius Daemon became Keith's subordinate. Although Julius had recovered his strength back to his peak state, his power level was only at G-grade.
Julius was even worst than Derick but Keith didn't care much since the importance of making Julius his subordinate was to let Julius take over Fantasia after he was done with invading Arcadia.
When Keith revealed his identity as the god who descended on China before as well as his identity as McDowell's owner, Julius was very convinced and he immediately pledged his loyalty to Keith.
The main reason for that was because Keith promised Julius that he would give Fantasia to him and let the demon race and monster race prosper there. As long as that lifelong goal of his was fulfilled, Julius didn't mind becoming a subordinate of Keith McDowell. Instead, he was looking forward to beating up Filicia and making her his slave!
After Keith dealt with the hidden danger of Derick and Julius, his attention shifted to Gaia. But he didn't expect that the goddess had already run out and abandoned Blue Star!
At that time, Keith was dumbfounded and he began to doubt Gaia's identity and dignity as a goddess!
But Keith had to admit that Gaia's decision was a wise one albeit cowardly. After all, from what he had seen using his Eyes of Heaven, Gaia was only at GG-grade.
Even Derick alone could easily defeat Gaia in a one-on-one death battle. Not to mention, Sherry could easily write Gaia's name on her End Note and end Gaia's pitiful life.
Gaia was well aware of that and that was why she decisively abandoned Blue Star and fled to another world!
For Gaia, things such as her pride and dignity as a goddess weren't that important when compared to her life! Because of that, Gaia immediately retreated and left Blue Star!
And since Keith wasn't an unreasonable man who would make trouble out of nowhere, he turned a blind eye to Gaia's actions even if he could kill her at that time. At least, Gaia was still the guardian of Blue Star. So with her identity as the guardian goddess of Blue Star, Keith gave Gaia face and spared her life.
It could be considered as Keith's repayment for all of the things that Gaia had done in the past of protecting Blue Star. But even he didn't expect that Gaia would retreat immediately since Keith didn't plan on enslaving Gaia or anything like that.
There was no value in making Gaia his subordinate especially when Derick was powerful enough to usurp Gaia's position as the guardian of Blue Star. But since it was Gaia's choice to not receive his kindness, then Keith no longer cared about Gaia.
It wasn't farfetched to say that Keith had already completed almost all of the things that he could accomplish in Blue Star during the past two years.
Keith had even forgotten the system user of the Hero System since that guy didn't trigger any hero quests and so Keith no longer cared about him. It seemed that Keith's big brain plans regarding Simon Jordan, the system user of the Hero System, were put on hold since Simon wasn't that cooperative.
But Keith was already satisfied with Derick's performance so he planned to deal with Simon after he invaded Fantasia.
Currently, Keith was standing in front of the red phase dimensional gate with Sherry by his side.
The two of them already finished their preparations and they were ready to invade Arcadia and take the End Note from Amelia!
"Shall we?"