Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1258

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After breakfast we had a break while drinking tea, in there, all the girls began to discuss about the things that had transpired recently with me. I liked these times with my family because they were the times, we connected the most, especially with my lovers.

My children were currently playing games not so far from us, in the large TV I had installed in our room some time ago, a few new fighting games had come out, which included the "Supreme Gods Roster" that included Flora, Aura, Rimuru, and I as Supreme Gods…

They even managed to get voice lines from the Supreme Gods. I don't know how they even managed to do this, but perhaps Flora and Aura still feel indebted to me after I gifted them so many Dao Fragments, including the Summoning Dao… so they did it for my citizens.

"So Astraea, you're telling me you're a Supreme Goddess, right, dear?" asked Agatheina, with interest in her crimson-red eyes. Much like the rest here, she was already a Pseudo Supreme Goddess, and was slowly getting to the requirements to become one. She might become a Supreme Goddess of Blood… maybe. Although there is also Alice… I don't know who will get it.

"It appears that's the case… We had not predicted this outcome when we decided to unify ourselves as a single unit. But it appears that the total Primordial Essence we had accumulated was enough after permanently fusing as one to become a Supreme God-level entity… We suppressed the message so we wouldn't get any person to know this, it is better to keep my existence a secret from my grandmother." Said Astraea.

"I guess you're right. If the World's Will learns about your existence, she might grow desperate or manipulate the Laws bounds to you to do something bad to you… I have heard that she created you alongside your father, so you two are the two Supreme Gods of the System now, aren't you?" asked Agatheina.

"I would guess they are I don't think there is another System God around, right? Aside from Quin and Andromeda," said Zehe.

"My sister and I are very lesser compared to mother and grandfather… I am also part of the System itself, so calling me a "goddess of the system" would be too much of an overstatement…" said Andromeda.

"You're very talented, Andromeda. I believe you got a greater potential than me or my father… And answering your question, Agatheina, there is indeed another entity." Said Astraea.

"Huh? There's another?" I asked.

"I didn't knew that… I thought that there was only the System Master, you System Gods, and then the new ones, Quin and Andromeda, but there's another?" asked Nesiphae.

"Yes, the existence of this entity is kept a secret, despite this entity being the foundation and the root of the system itself. She's the daughter of the World's Will, and technically, my father is the grandchild of the World's Will, not her son… He's the son of this entity, a child of the World's Will very much similar to the Ancient Spirits." Said Astraea.

"Ancient Spirits?" I asked.

"The Ancient Spirits from the world previous to the Ragnarök?" asked Brontes.

"Yes, those." Said Astraea.

"So you're telling the me System itself has a root… and it is an Ancient Spirit?!" asked Agatheina.

Agatheina had seen these entities in the past, they used to eb the pillars of the world's elements before the planet destroyed and the surviving gods were forced to become pillars themselves.

"But how?" I asked.

Astraea ate a small cookie with chocolate and then sipped some tea.

"The System itself is part of this entity, although it is also part of the world's laws, the true identity of the System is the body of this being… this being is its true personification, father and I are merely administrators… This entity does not have a name other than System, and she… or he, is the System itself. The root of it all, I guess we could call her or him "the Ancient Spirit of the System"," said Astraea.

Everyone fell silent after this revelation…

So there was another one behind the System itself, and it could be said to be the System's Spirit, in a way!

Then why was the System master created?

"My father was made by her… She was made without emotions and is… like a computer. She made my father because she wanted someone with emotions, a version of herself that would develop emotions and a personality, and well, he had the power to control the system and administrate… after that, he created us to assess certain and basic functions while he was off… Even now we are still assessing them, but now that we gained such power, we can do it mostly all automatically." Said Astraea.

"So that's how it was… I see… So what we knew wasn't completely the truth? But why would the World's Will fabricate such a big lie? For what purpose?" wondered Agatheina.

"Unlike my father and I, our grandmother wouldn't be able to defend herself properly if she were attacked, she might be a strong pillar, but a pillar at the end of the day cannot defend itself, it requires someone to defend the pillars, even if it is sturdy, it might fall if hit enough times." Said Astraea.

"So mostly out of protection, I see… What's with her then? How's she doing? Is she an enemy?" I wondered.

"I wouldn't call her an enemy; it is only the World's Will's tool. She doesn't have emotions and barely any personality, so she doesn't do anything that is not ordered to her by the World's Will…" she said.

"I see, that's such a pity… oh well, for now we should really try to assess what we can do for now." I said.

"Indeed, I had thought that we might spare her in the ultimate case of finding her…" said Astraea.

"I don't see why not, as long as she doesn't try to kill us." I said.

"Rest assured, she won't." said Astraea.

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