Chapter 294: At Last, My Mond Divine Collective Stands Tall
Gulp... "I-I still have something to do, so... goodbye!"
Even though Lumine had lived for thousands of years and had strayed far down the path of mischief, witnessing a scene like this—especially with the Heavenly Principle and the ruler of Fontaine Divine Collective as the main figures—was simply too much.
Flustered, she turned to escape through the Space-Time Laws, only to realize that such laws did not exist here.
A hand grabbed her by the back of her collar.
Lumine froze instantly, her heart pounding wildly.
As a seasoned troublemaker, she knew all too well what could happen after walking in on something like this.
Sure, she’d occasionally had dreams featuring the Heavenly Principle as the lead, but that was all they ever were—dreams.
"No! I don’t want to end up giving myself away just like that!"
"This is coercion! This is immoral!"
Before she could react, her vision spun. She found herself in a princess carry, staring into that sly expression.
"Coercion? Look at your pounding heart and the flicker of expectation and thrill in your eyes—where’s the sign of me forcing you?"
"Morality? I didn’t expect you to still believe in such jokes."
"In my universe, everything is as I decree. Rules are set by the strongest."
Lumine’s lips twitched. As a traveler who had visited countless worlds, she was well aware of this most fundamental rule.
"So there’s no escaping today, huh."
"Of course. The fact that I’ve kept you until now should be enough for you to feel honored."
"Well, thank you kindly, then."
"No need to be polite with me."
Noah carried Lumine toward Furina’s bed, undoing the complex clasps of her garments along the way.
"Hey, hey! You’re starting already? At least give me some foreplay!"
"Relax. Every trick you know—I’ll use them all on you."
Furina exhaled in relief as Lumine arrived.
She had barely lasted through the earlier moments before being completely overwhelmed. If not for Lumine’s arrival, she would have fainted entirely.
The entirety of Furina’s quarters was sealed off—no interruptions were possible.
This time, Noah didn’t manipulate time.
Furina and Lumine weren’t ordinary goddesses, so there was no need to worry about whether they could endure it.
Furina was now at the cosmic-structure level and protected by the Pseudo Star Map Creation. Even if she fully unleashed herself, she could handle it.
Lumine, meanwhile, was special in her own right—holding the Origin Power of both the main universe and the Abyss universe, and having been gifted power by Paimon. Her body’s strength had already reached the cosmic-structure level.
Needless to say, Lumine’s figure ranked among the top even among goddesses. Furina... well, she only had her legs to boast about.
If Hu Tao and Furina were to stand together in front of Klee, the little girl would surely point at Hu Tao and say "Great Saint," and at Furina and say "Super Great Saint."
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While Furina and Lumine were missing, all divine systems within the Teyvat Universe that possessed Cosmologies were activating their Gift Games for Cosmology awakening.
Cosmic Truth, Cosmic Law, Cosmic Nexus, Pan-Human History...
All the foundational powers of the universe appeared, enveloping the divine systems holding their Gift Games.
Currently, there were only five great divine collectives holding Gift Games to construct their Cosmologies:
The Mond Divine Collective, the Snezhnaya Divine Collective, the Sumeru Divine Collective, the Greek Divine Collective, and the Solar King Collective.
In the Mond Divine Collective, participants included the central Mond divine system, the Celtic pantheon, and various smaller regional pantheons.
The only activated Cosmology here was Edda, born from poetry and song, constructed from countless verses.
Edda is the oldest poetry since the dawn of human civilization, celebrating the birth of intellect. Every subsequent civilization’s praise for heroes, gods, and worlds would add bricks to the foundation of this Cosmology.
The praises of countless civilizations for all the beauty in the world formed each brick and tile of this Cosmology.
Pseudo Star Map Creation – The Poem of the Firmament, Edda
This was a Cosmology entirely belonging to poets.
Though Venti was an Archon, he was also the oldest poet in the entire universe and the object of all offerings from poets across the cosmos.
The Snezhnaya Divine Collective’s participating pantheons included the Snezhnaya-Slavic pantheon, the Feghana pantheon, and several smaller pantheons.
Their cosmic understanding revolved entirely around the concept of the world-encircling ring—interpreted in many ways.
The most famous was Jörmungandr, the Ouroboros, the World Serpent.
Indeed, this was a Cosmology born under the influence of the Truth of the Ouroboros.
It’s no exaggeration to say that many Cosmologies bore the mark of the Ouroboros, with it standing at the very peak of Cosmologies, like the sun.
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Orochi, the World Serpent
The Snezhnaya Divine Collective had only this one Pseudo Star Map Creation, but even among Cosmologies, it ranked among the very top.
As for the Sumeru Divine Collective, Noah had already informed Buer of their Pseudo Star Maps:
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Askr Yggdrasil, the World Tree
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Asgard
The Sumeru Divine Collective consisted of top-ranking pantheons: the Norse pantheon, the Egyptian pantheon, and the Sumeru pantheon.
The Greek Divine Collective needed little explanation, possessing only Athena’s Pseudo Star Map Creation: Zodiac.
In truth, the Greek Divine Collective could produce three Pseudo Star Maps:
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Nec Plus Ultra, the Cosmology of non-humanoid monsters. However, since monster races currently formed only a very minor faction in the universe—almost negligible—this Cosmology was incomplete and could not manifest a Pseudo Star Map Creation.
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Chaos, a Cosmology rooted in the entirety of Greek mythos. This was the strongest of the Greek Divine Collective’s Pseudo Star Map Creations, but due to the lack of a god holding the Authority of Chaos, it too was incomplete.
In Little Garden, this Cosmology’s holder was Zeus.
The most interesting case was the Solar King Collective.
Formed by the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons, this Divine Collective had high potential, and their Cosmologies were multiple in number. However, with their current structure, they could only activate them, not control them fully.
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Three Thousand Worlds
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Brahmastra
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Avatar Reincarnation
If these Pseudo Star Maps appeared and all the trial challengers failed, allowing them to fall into outsiders’ hands—it would be utterly laughable.
They would become the laughingstock of the entire universe.
The Buddhist and Hindu pantheons were the largest two outside of the Original Seven pantheons and the Olympian pantheon.
However, their strategic outlook fell far short of the Olympians’. Rather than striving for achievements beyond the world like other pantheons, they preferred to stay within the world, competing for slices of the internal "pie."
As a result, they often clashed with other pantheons, though the intensity of these conflicts was generally low.
On the surface, it appeared as though the middle and lower ranks of these pantheons were the culprits—acting improperly, and each time trouble arose, their leaders would step forward to apologize with a submissive air.
But if the upper echelons didn’t allow it, how could the lower ranks dare take such risks?
This display might fool mid-tier pantheons. In their eyes, for a pantheon’s supreme deity to apologize showed great sincerity—surely it was just subordinates acting out of line.
Yet to the leadership of the great pantheons, it was shameless and hypocritical.
Not all members of these two pantheons behaved this way, but the majority did, tarnishing the reputation of the entire pantheon.
Many members left, including honorable gods and buddhas such as the Great Sage Heaven’s Equal and Guanyin Bodhisattva, who directly departed to join the Liyue Divine Collective.
Initially, this even prompted Shakyamuni and Vishnu to confront the Liyue Divine Collective for an explanation.
Liyue’s leaders found the matter tricky to handle, until Azhdaha directly initiated a Gift Game, leaving the opposing leadership battered and humiliated, much to the amusement of other pantheons.
The others mocked the two pantheon leaders for overestimating themselves—how dare they challenge a Supreme God head-on.
As for their behavior, Noah simply turned a blind eye.
After all, wherever there are people, there are rivalries; where there is light, there is darkness—it cannot be eliminated.
Without evil, how would goodness appear precious? Without shameless gods, how would the magnanimity of other gods stand out?
Besides, every grievance was being recorded in detail. At each million-year Divine Assembly, Phanes never went easy.
Because of such judgments by the Human Principle, the more clear-minded gods had long planned to escape.
Why did these two pantheons act this way? Primarily to test the limits of other pantheons, steadily extracting benefits from them.
While all pantheons engaged in such behavior to some degree, most took care to "eat gracefully." The Buddhist and Hindu pantheons, however, didn’t care about appearances at all.
To this, Noah could only be speechless—their very foundation was like this in every world they existed in.
When competition was absent, they stood righteously for all living beings. Once competition arose, those same beings were set aside, and crushing competitors became the priority.
In Little Garden, the Buddhist pantheon secretly raised demon kings, waiting until those demon kings nearly destroyed their rivals before stepping in to play the righteous savior.
Utter hypocrisy.
With such a lack of vision, Noah would sooner see ghosts than grant them a Pseudo Star Map Creation.
As for the Solar King Collective’s three Pseudo Star Map Creations, he would carefully choose three inheritors himself.
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In the Supreme Divine Domain at the center of the universe, time flowed differently from ordinary realms. There was no absolute day or night here.
Rather, it was eternally daytime—"night" only arrived when a True God with the Authority over it chose to bring it.
While Noah enjoyed himself in Furina’s quarters, in ordinary Earth time, a year and a half had already passed.
In that span, the five great pantheons holding Gift Games for Cosmology activation had gradually completed them, returning from their endless journeys of civilization.
Mondstadt.
The powers of Truth, Cosmic Law, Cosmic Nexus, and Pan-Human History gradually faded, marking the official establishment of the Mond Divine Collective.
The Church of Favonius, now serving as the central seat of power for the Mond Divine Collective and the gathering place of gods, had grown several times larger than even the Palais Mermonia.
Venti opened his eyes upon the highest divine seat, his pale turquoise gaze glowing faintly.
The supreme Wind of Hope emerged from his divine form, spreading across all the galaxies, timelines, and planes under the Mond Divine Collective’s rule.
At the same time, a power from another universe flowed forth—accompanied by songs of praise for civilization, for heroes, for gods, for beauty, and for the world—resonating throughout all of Teyvat.
This was a dimension that only gods at the Primordial God level and above could perceive.
Another primordial universe was born, like a thin membrane overlaying the main universe.
"So this is how it feels... Even after hearing the descriptions from the old man and Focalors, only by experiencing it myself can I truly grasp the greatness of this trial of civilization."
"A journey of civilization... counting them, I’ve experienced the rise and fall, even the extinction, of over ten million civilizations, witnessing countless endings brought about by civilizations straying from their path."
"And yet, all of it has been passed down in human song."
"Civilization, life, humanity—you are as radiant as a song, and as bittersweet as one."
Awakening from the journey of civilization, Venti smiled even as tears rolled down his cheeks.
In his hands, he slowly cradled an armillary sphere.
Pseudo Star Map Creation – Edda, also known as The Poem of the Firmament.
From the dawn of human awareness, poetry had recorded civilization, all the way to its end.
This was the record of the rise, fall, and extinction of countless civilizations, captured in countless poems.
"Ah, ah!" Venti patted his cheeks and returned to his familiar tipsy demeanor. "No wonder the old man and Focalors suddenly gained such elevated perspective. After all I’ve experienced, I’ve reached that same height."
He looked toward the gods who were now gradually awakening, their expressions varied—some bursting into sobs, others crying with joy, still others caught in deep melancholy.
After all, the journey of civilization blurred the line between reality and illusion.
But as the holder of this Pseudo Star Map Creation, he knew.
None of it was false—it was all real, simply events that had not yet occurred.
They were but a fragment of the endless possibilities for civilizations within the primordial universe of the Mond Divine Collective’s Cosmology.
Jean Gunnhildr slowly opened her eyes, her slender fingers brushing away the moisture at her lashes as she looked at her sister Barbara and her friends.
Her aura visibly swelled, and with a sharp crack, she broke through from Primary God to God-King.
Nearly everyone he knew had ascended by at least one major rank.
Venti smiled with deep satisfaction. "Everyone, this is the moment we’ve truly grown to the height we were meant to reach."
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