I.. Am God?

"How foolish of you all for going against a god's will." The face bellowed.

"And how foolish of you to barge under the land I govern." The face suddenly rose its look and saw a humanoid of brilliant white light. The humanoid had its hands clasped behind its back, with thousands of layers of halos resting behind it. The humanoid stood still, with his body facing the storm clouds.

"What's the point of disguising as an Emperor if you can become its Godking yourself?" The face asked with his deep, genderless voice.

"What's the point of knowing the goal of a being whose power you cannot fathom?" The being of light, Matthias, sneered.

"You're too full of yourself, that is your mistake." The face, which was provoked, stated with boundless anger. "And your mistake is that you barged into the domain of another god whose strengths you do not even know." Matthias then waved his hand.

Hundreds of shackles of golden light suddenly burst out from the ground, zooming towards the storm face god. "You!" The god growled in anger, with his storm cloud form dissipating, revealing an ethereally handsome teen whose eyes were glaring at Matthias hatefully.

As the chains grew near, the god's power erupted and countered Matthias' shackles. But, what shocked the god was, his counter-attack wasn't even the least bit effective!

"What is this?! I can't use my power!" He yelled frantically, and immediately zoomed skyward. Unfortunately for him, the shackles were a tad bit faster, successfully catching his body.

"No, no! This is impossible?! Who are you!" He struggled crazily while looking at Matthias as if he was something worse than a monster. The shackles slowly, but surely, dragged him down, while Matthias watched indifferently.

"I am a magnanimous person." Matthias stated, "But, belittling and threatening my people would result in you facing a fate worse than death." As soon as he he finished talking, the chains suddenly released spikes, puncturing the god's body, causing him to let out an agonizing scream.

Matthias slowly floated towards the god's body. He lifted up his hand and placed it on the god's temple, "Suffer." Matthias then hardened his grip, siphonic the power out from the anguished god.

At the same time, the god's mind was filled with terrifying and cursed experiences and images throughout his life and of those he killed.

Passing that torment, the god's soul disintegrated into gold dust and his wilted body was dragged down to the depths of the earth.

In all that, Matthias had no expression on his face. After seeing the wilted body get swallowed by the ground, and the enemy soldiers fainting due to his terror, he then turned his gaze towards the foreign domains, "If that god had the audacity to use his godly powers upon mortals, then I might as well step forward and do the same." Matthias then raised his hand, and awaited the fall of his enemies.

All around the continent, portals of light shone, and from there, angels descended and proclaimed Matthias' sovereignty over the entire continent. As he had expected, all of them did not agree to such a request. Therefore, the rulers were purged by the angels.

In other sects, the same event happened as hundreds of angels stormed the palaces of those who denied his sovereignty. The Azure Heaven Faction that was kicked out by Matthias and turned into hiding in the midst of a foreign empire was also not spared and was annihilated.

In mere hours, the continent was united under his rule, which was unprecedented, even for the gods of the past who were freed from their shackles.

After that, came a series of events that gradually made him the de facto ruler of the entire continent.

After the day of the purge, Matthias visited the domains of the Beast Kings of the forest, aiming for a peaceful coexistence between the two races. But, as they are sentient beings who have their own wills and desires, some Beast Kings denied his claim of authority and took advantage of the chaos by sending their subordinates to terrorize the bordering territories.

Not having the patience to deal with such rampantly wild beasts, Matthias wiped them from existence entirely, subjecting fear and worship to those who survived.

On the second day, Matthias manifested upon the grounds and terrains of the continent paths between territories and transportation portals for easy transportation. Of course, the existence of portals also cost a very hefty amount of money, so their existence still could not eliminate the need for manual transportation.

On the third day, Creator beings from other continents heard that only one godly being now stands on top of the Human Continent and wanted to take a share from the pie. Of course, being the new Master of the Continent, Matthias' Field of Authority has already expanded throughout his dominion.

As soon as those greedy Creators entered the continent, they were immediately shut down by Matthias, with their powers siphoned by him, just like that other god.

There were also some who wanted nothing but to teach, so Matthias gave them permission to, in exchange for protecting the Empire.

On the fourth day, when Matthias saw the chaos in the foreign territories that he had just taken, he established the merging policies for the entire continent, with citizenship being none other than that of Divine Heaven, and the currency slowly transitioning into one monetary system based on metal and spirit stones.

On the fifth day, Matthias stood below the Mountain of Ionad at the center of the continent. He knows that, due to the unification, there would be dissatisfaction with the royalty staying far south sooner or later, leaving the people from the north to not be able to know their ruler more than just from the talks of the bards in taverns.

To prevent that, Matthias visited the Beast King Aealos, the Guardian Beast of the Ionad Mountains. "What is it that you seek here, Divine Emperor?" Inside a grandiose cave, a humongous white lion laid on the ground calmly, and asked Matthias directly through his mind.

The lion's silky white main ruffled as it shook its head, waiting for Matthias' response.

"I am planning on moving the ruling palace in the center of the continent so that it isn't unfair for the people of Divine Heaven to have no knowledge about their ruler. I want to establish the royal palace of Divine Heaven at the very core of the Empire." Matthias responded. Aealos remained his beastly gaze at Matthias, as if judging him.

"Hmm." The Beast King Aealos finally got up in all fours and walked slowly towards Matthias, "I have been waiting for you for the past four days."

"What?" Matthias tilted his head confusedly. Suddenly, the aura and presence surrounding Aealos suddenly changed, becoming so heavy that even Matthias could already feel the power of the Beast King's pressure.

Slowly, the pressure became so powerful that Matthias even had to switch over to his Godly Form to resist the gravity of the White Lion's aura. The White Lion suddenly spoke with indifference while looking at him, "What are you standing there? Can't you counter?" Aealos asked.

Matthias then sat cross-legged on the ground and started to also exert pressure. Although Matthias could be seen calm and composed, he was already being greatly overpowered by the White Lion's.

Their surroundings were also affected down to the atomical level, with its structure becoming even more compact and compressed due to the immense pressure. Some rocks around them also disintegrated and even the entire mountain was affected.

If people were to feel the parts of the mountain, they would find that just a tiny piece of rock that was around the place is harder than an Immortal Diamond.

Before Matthias and Aealos exerted their spiritual pressure, there were some people that wanted to fly up the mountain to hunt spirit beasts. As there were agreements between the Beast Kind and Humanity, humans were allowed to hunt for beasts as long as they did not enter the restricted zones to garner the attention of the Beast King.

While hunting, those people suddenly felt the suffocating pressure coming from the top of the mountain. Although they thought it was dangerous to continue their hunt, they stuck with their belief that risks come with rewards. They would soon regret that when the pressure suddenly increased manifold.

Trees were blasted out, some plunged into the ground, beasts became blood mush, stronger beasts were thrown out, huge rocks turned to dust, and some rocks turned into diamonds.

As for those people, although they were just halfway up the mountain, and were kilometers away from the focal point, their orifices exploded with blood, and even though they have a considerably strong mental prowess, facing against spiritual pressure from god-like beings, their unconscious bodies rolled down the mountain, blessing them with a chance to live again.