Epic of Caterpillar - Chapter 2661

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The Colorful Reef Archipelago, a special area near the Paradise Island built by Gaia and the other Titan Soul Fragments, a place that Jeremias, Amphitrite's husband had visited briefly before, and that he wanted to visit again with us while fishing there for extravagant fish, he also said there was some tasty seaweed in there, so we were up for it.

The Archipelago in total is large though, although Gaia and the other Titans created Paradise Island, which is as big as… well, what can I compare it to? Hm, well, let's use Earth terms now that I'm living in a parallel Super Earth. Comparable to Hawaii in size, yep, pretty damn huge right?

Anyway, this Archipelago expanded due to the divine essence of the titans, their souls mixing with my divine realm, and everything else just rising from the ground, land that was under the sea quickly raised, creating more islands, some that weren't even protected by Gaia at all, or even made by her.

However, now they all connect around Paradise Island, forming a spiral-shaped archipelago, each island has changed over the years inside of my divine realm, their land, shape, and what they have inside has changed due to the divine essence and the elemental particles being assimilated by these islands.

And because of the protective veil created by Gaia and the Titans, which extends pretty far, this entire area of the ocean became much calmer compared to the rest. Throughout the years many other tribes moved to live on these various islands as a result, and these islands interact constantly as well, sharing and trading their own unique resources.

However, Paradise Island is seen as a "Holy Land" by the other islanders, apparently, and it is only visited by other people once every year in an event that Hydros called "The Titan Gods Festival" where all the islanders of the different islands gather to thank the Titan Gods for everything they've provided and created for them.

My daughter Amphitrite is also a "Priestess of Paradise Island" chosen by the Titans and given their combined blessings, making her something like a Saintess actually, a very unique one. Because she's my daughter she also has a lot of powers and has helped islanders in need, healing them, helping them when they face problems, and such.

Hydros is the chief, and also another guardian deity and titan they worship, although her presence is rather mundane, and she doesn't just watch from afar like the other Titans, so the islanders have grown used to her presence a lot more… and don't see her as too special, even though she's the ancestor to all the Paradise Island people, they refer to her as the "Great Ancestor of Paradise" and "Mother of the Great Priestess of Paradise".

Anyway, I got really invested in all of this culture that was formed here, it felt almost like its own separate world, and size wise, its kind of was, this entire area of the sea was almost as big as half of Earth's oceans, yeah. My divine realm is gigantic.

As I had mentioned earlier, it has become so massive that not even I can accurately see everything 100%, and honestly, it's a headache I rather not spend my full mindpower into doing anymore…

I guess this is how the powerful Cosmic Gods feel, huh? Overseeing countless worlds and such. I would rather be like Japan's Kami and just watch over a little country, honestly.

Huh, thinking about that, I wonder how we'll deal with them, I would rather befriend them than anything, but a war might break at the end, also that Divinity I ate from Medea's wound has been completely digested by now…

Yep.

Ding!

[You have fully digested the High Cosmic Divinity Fragment of {The Great Swordsman Of Thunder and Sea: Susanoo}!]

[The rich High Cosmic Divinity Essence has been assimilated by your Body and Soul fully.]

[You have begun to understand and comprehend the Dao of the Blade and the Dao of the Sword.]

[Your Body and Soul have become stronger as a result of assimilating this power.]

[All of your Physical Stats have increased by +7.000.000!]

[Your Soul Ether Stat has increased by +8.000.000!]

[Your Cosmic Power Stat has increased by +10.000.000!]

[You have attained the [Developing Dao of the Sword (Rank 1)]!]

[You have attained the [Developing Dao of Blades (Rank 1)]!]

[You have attained the [Developing Divine Authority of Heavenly Sword (Rank 1)]!]

[You acquired the Title Skill: [Devourer Of Divine Kami: Lv1]!]

[You learned the Skill: [Heavenly Sword God Myriad Soul Blade Arts: Shinra Yaoyorozu: Lv1/30]!]

Okay what the hell is this?! I gained so much from a tiny fragment of his divinity left behind within a damned wound?

Well, the divinity was shaped like a white and gray katana… so I guess he left one of his weapons inside of Medea's soul to remind her of the pain forever?

He sure is a wicked fella, but I like that.

Now that I've devoured his power and copied one of his abilities, I kind of want to face him, although I'm sure he'll beat my ass in a pure swordsmanship battle.

I'll have to train this one skill a lot to get the hang of it as well, as it seems to be a fairly complicated style for a novice like me.

But well, that it became a Skill helps a lot already either way, even more with that one Title about becoming the Devourer of Divine Kami, heh.

That one is a bit funny though, will the Kami just start fearing me out of nowhere from now on? I wonder how that works.

The two Daos and the Divine Authority also seem rather nice and appealing, so I'm rather happy, I didn't expect to get so many gains out of something I did casually.

Maybe I should thank Frank instead? It was thanks to him that the entire thing with Medea happened, although I would've wished it didn't happen to begin with.

Well, whatever the case, it seemed like we were getting closer.

"I think we're about get there! The Colorful Reefs! Or as some others call them, the Iridescent Coral Reefs." Jeremias said.

And to the distance, I could see it, finally… and I could also understand why they wanted me to see this so badly.

Indeed, it was beautiful.

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