Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

Within the Trials where a certain old queen of gods, Rani, was experiencing heats at excruciating temperatures over a million degrees celcius, the flames did nothing but continously climb up.

And as Rani's consciousness was about to be swallowed completely by the flames, she felt a warm light invade her primal soul spark. Causing her to feel extremely comfortable and at bliss.

And when she thought she was entering heaven, she heard an ethereal voice, one so Earthly it felt surreal and out of this world. "Congragulations for— the first— completely clear— trials of Summer.

"The— officially be opened— all mortals— this place. There will be rewards for those who succeed in walking through a layer. As the first to— to walk through all the layers, I ask you...

"Is there anything you desire?" Resounded throughout her consciousness, giving her peace ad tranquility she never thought could be attained by Deity Kings.

But Rani only managed to hear the latter half of the ethereal being's words. And because of her dilemma and hallucinations, she could only see a sun that she always saw in her dreams speaking to her.

"...Su...n..." She murmured lightly before falling unconscious as nothing but a primal soul spark was all that was left of her entire existence. But she was recovering... slowly.

"Sun? You want to become a Sun? That might be a bit hard, but I can at least awaken your dormant bloodline and reform your body. It'll take quite the number of units of faith power... which I don't have.

"But it is my job to fulfill the mission of the trial and reward the trial takers. I'll fulfill your wish as long as I gain a billion faith points okay? Just a couple of thousand years I guess.

"Now, I hope you spread more words about the "Summer Trials". They'll open once I play... the Flute? She fainted? Oh well, I guess she was tired from all the walking."

Joyce sighed and ignored the unconscious Rani. She seemed quite fine without her sister. She was not as dependent of her twin sister as she first seemed.

Unlike other true gods, Joyce and her sister were trial types. Their strength weren't that great but their importance wasn't any lesser than the others.

Not only did they recieve a 50% discount when using faith points or power, their monthly allowance was also multipled by their potential. Seven being the case for the two sisters. Only after their first promotion that is.

Without believers, they originally earned almost 150 points, but thank to their special traits as living trials, they could earn about 1050 per month.

"As the first to succeed amongst the Trials of Summer, you shall recieve both the [Summer Blessings] and my personal blessing. Though I can only give you a Third grade blessing." Joyce thought to herself, as she used the fire to heal Rani's wounded soul.

She wasn't the only one who succeeded in officially opening up her trial grounds though. Her fellow sister within the opposite hemisphere did as well.

• • • • •

Middle North

Blue Continent, Green Land

A man in bear skin knelt down before the ethereal beauty who looked down at him with an impassive expression. His posture firm and his muscles thick, his hair white and pupils blue.

"There you have it, as long as you can live for a thousand years, I can make you the strongest individual of this world. That... is the reward you so dearly wish for, isn't it?"

The ethereal beauty with golden hair, golden-white attire and golden eyes looked down at the man once again, snd inquired, her expression still null.

"Yes ma'am." The man responded regally and respectfully, his head lowered. He was like Rani, a man chosen to represent the Green Land into talking with Joy, the cause of extreme Winters.

One with the blessing of Joy, as well as the [Winter Blessings].

Though he was not a Deity King, he was the strongest Deity within the only pantheon of the Green Land. Which was why he 'didn't' freeze to death throughout the journey.

"Okay then, your only mission now is to spread the word around. The Trials of Winter have been opened. Once a week, mortals and deities alike shall be tested and their rewards will be determined by their progress." Joy looked straight at the man and added.

"Yes." The man agreed, bowed once again and stood up to fulfill his part of the mission.

Thorium, the strongest warrior within the Green Land, would one day be known as one of the strongest of the Middle Realm. Then to the whole of Terra.

The man who, in the near future, dared to go against a Main God just for his Goddess. A man whose fear was frozen like ice, for he could not feel such an emotion.

That is... when that man's descendents weren't included within the ratio at all.

But for now, he was still but the strongest Deity of the Greenland Continent, acknowledged even by the current Greenland God King.

He left the trial grounds, and as he was successful once, his journey back was not as life threatening as it was. Even as brave as he was, he was not willing to go through that.

Thorium walked back to his home, where his family was located. There, he found his wife, who was a former valkyrie, a warrior and messenger of the gods.

And his eldest son who was at home as always, chopping down the gigantic trees located far behind their home. Both were powerful gods as well.

"I am back." He said lightly, as his wife turned to look at him, pausing her actions of cutting apart the freshly caught bear that her eldest son brought on his way home.

"Welcome back, stud. I am glad you're alive." She smiled as she moved to give him a bear hug. Thorium also did not shy away from her, as even with the blood on her hands, he still gave her a nice descent hug.

They both hugged, and kept the posture like that for a while. One was worried that she might lose her husband for good, as the mission this time was too dangerous.

While the other was comforting his woman, of the fear and discomfort she still had within her heart even now.

But there was one person amongst them, that did not want to read the mood, or rather, could not read the mood at all. "Why don't y'all just get a room and f*ck like rabbits already."

"....."

"Shut the f*ck up, and make yerself useful bastard." She let go of her husband as she turned around and clicked her tongue playfully at her son, her accent changing.

Meanwhile, Thorium did not say anything, he just helplessly shook his head. As long as he was still alive to witness the relationship of his wife and sons, then he was happy.

Everything else did not matter to him.

"Hey old man, forgot to let ya know, but 'parently, the Vietnas Dragon has been woken up. That big guy 'parently gave the God King a beating of the century." He said as he stopped bickering with his mother.

"The Vietnas Dragon? The ancient dragon that is said to be the death of consecutive god kings in a row?" Thorium paused from whatever he was doing as he asked back curiously.

He was a large man with blonde hair, and a long blonde beard kneaded into neat braids reaching down to his collar bone. Even his hair was braided neatly on his back.

All the way to his hip. He was tall, at most over two meters large, naturally at that. With muscles so large, he resembled a bear when he stood, and his physique was bulky.

"Yeah, that one." His eldest son nodded in response, as he twirled his axe, while staring deep into the woods, seemingly not bothered about the dragon.

"So what?" His mother scoffed, and went back to chop up the bear corpse she left. Her words not stopping, "What do you want your father to do about it, huh?"

"...You ought to keep quiet and not mind the business of men, mother. Go do the dishes." He responded moments later as he turned back to look at his mother.

"....."

Thorium did not mind them and moved into the house to mind his own business. Meanwhile, his wife silently stood up and tied her platinum hair into a bun, with her bloody hands.

Her small 1,8 meters height, seeming very small compared to his 2 meters tall frame. But even then, the moment she did move, he was already entering the forest humming a tone.

There was a reason she was his mother, and could marry the strongest god. She was definitely not weak, and as for him? He was just but a small god for now.

He was not suicidal. And he would never be... at least, if it's not for his family.