Primrose slowly released her hands and crouched in front of her mom. A few crystal tears hung at the corners of her crescent-shaped eyes. She forced a smile, desperately holding back the tears.
One day in heaven, thirty days on earth. Thirty times the time flow rate difference. And five days had passed since she became a god, which meant one hundred fifty days, five months on earth.
Her own body that died suddenly had probably been properly dealt with.
In other words, her mom had already experienced the pain of losing a child.
Lin Naiyue reacted, regardless of the consequences, and wrapped her arms over Primrose’s shoulders, hugging her tightly.
“Mom missed you so much… wuwuwu…”
Lin Naiyue’s childish voice was choked with sobs.
But suddenly, the mood changed.
“By the way…”
“Became… a god?”
“What does that mean?”
Lin Naiyue let go, tilted her head slightly, and her eyes turned into black circles with a tiny eyelash on top.
***
Primrose fell silent.
Her mom had never played modern games. Her understanding of games went back to the pixel tank battle she used to play on TV. She had also never seen any isekai or fantasy-themed anime or novels.
‘How should she explain this?’
After racking her brains for a while.
“In short, it’s like this.”
Her mom often brought a fruit plate to her room and watched her play games. It always made her uncomfortable, and occasionally she would complain and express annoyance. But thanks to that, her mom had at least some understanding of the online games she played.
Primrose tried her best to explain in a way her mom could understand—about how she became the character she created and leveled up in the game, and how she was recruited by the Unified Divine Realm. She just hoped that when they got to the other world, her mom wouldn’t get killed by a goblin’s club or have her clothes dissolved by a slime. That would be a relief.
“Mm… I’ll take you to the Unified Divine Realm first to reshape a new body and set some skills and talents. Otherwise, you won’t be able to function normally in the other world.”
“Anywhere is fine~ Primrose, Mom is just happy to see you again.”
“Mm.” Primrose responded quietly. As she was about to open an otherworld teleportation portal, a red warning box popped up in front of her.
[Help Request: The border town of the Kingdom of Aezera in the other world is under surprise attack by the Demon King’s vanguard. The kingdom’s first saint, Cecilia, is in the royal capital, kneeling before your divine statue and praying, begging for a god to descend!]
Primrose frowned.
‘We haven’t even left the starting village, and we’re already facing the Demon King’s vanguard attacking the city?’
‘This difficulty… it really is Triple-S God-Destroying Level!’
She glanced at Lin Naiyue, who was looking at her expectantly.
‘No, I can’t screw up my first job.’
‘Ignore this request and take mom to the starting village to level up first.’
‘Even though it’s a bit cruel to the natives suffering right now, it’s definitely the most sensible choice at the moment.’
Primrose waved her hand, and a white divine light enveloped them.
Back in the Unified Divine Realm, she reshaped a new body for her mom.
She was now an Apprentice God, with only ten points to customize talents for the Hero.
The talent grades, from low to high, are: White Grade (E), Green Grade (D), Yellow Grade (C), Purple Grade (B), Crimson Grade (A), Miracle Grade (S), Mythological Grade (SS), Primordial Grade (SSS).
Apprentice Gods can only bless White Grade and Green Grade.
Each White Grade requires 2 skill points, and each Green Grade requires 4 skill points.
[Green Grade·Earthly Bedrock] Increases defense. Immunizes against one instance of damage. Cooldown: one day.
[Green Grade·Instant Teleportation] Can teleport to a place you have visited before. Cooldown: one day.
[White Grade·Wind’s Blessing] Increases movement speed.
Primrose looked them over and finally blessed her mom with three defensive-type talents.
Since she could buff her mom anyway, she chose talents that could protect her life at critical moments.
Lin Naiyue adapted to her new body.
“Let’s go. Time to head to the target world.”
“Oh~!”
Primrose opened the teleportation portal.
Lin Naiyue eagerly followed. She had always wanted to play games with her son, but he had been resistant. He always said she wouldn’t understand and that playing was a waste of time. Every time, she could only sit sulking beside him, eating fruit and watching. Now she finally had a chance.
The weightlessness of spatial teleportation left Lin Naiyue dizzy.
By the time she came to her senses, she found herself standing on a towering city wall.
Everywhere around her was thick smoke and flames. The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.
Below the wall, a dense army of monsters was frantically ramming the city gate.
At the very back of the monster army stood a horse-faced demon general, at least five or six meters tall. It held a huge black battle axe, and each swing gouged a large pit in the ground.
Primrose, standing next to Lin Naiyue, was stunned.
‘We teleported to the wrong place?’
‘Impossible?’
‘Could it be…’
“Hahaha, Goddess, Hero! You fell for it!”
“The Demon King’s Forced Reversal can only be used once every hundred years, and it’s specifically designed to limit the Goddess’s teleportation portal!”
“Moreover, this space has been sealed. No spatial magic can be activated!”
The horse-faced demon general saw the golden pillar of light descending from the sky, and its mocking voice carried across the distance.
“Look!”
“It’s the Goddess and the Hero…!”
“So what? In three hundred years, three gods and three heroes have come, and in the end, they all met a miserable fate!”
The native soldiers on and below the walls saw the warm-colored pillar of light and cast hopeful glances. But soon someone spoke discouragingly.
Three gods and three heroes in three hundred years?
They met a miserable fate?
Primrose heard the discouraging words, and though she was puzzled, there was a bigger problem now!
‘Damn, this Unified Divine Realm teleportation portal is too unreliable!’
‘I should have used my own teleportation portal; maybe I could have avoided the Demon King’s trap.’
‘But now the trap is triggered, space is sealed, so I have no choice but to accept it and think of a solution!’
Primrose used [Divine Inspection] to look down at the horse-faced demon general outside the wall. That should be the boss of this battle.
[Level: 60]
[Class: One of the Twelve Demon Generals]
[HP: 5,1298,7129]
[Attack Power (comprehensive evaluation including magic and physical): 9780,5412]
[Defense Power (comprehensive evaluation including magic and physical): 891,2374]
[Skills (Magic & Combat Skills, irrelevant ones automatically filtered): [Abyssal Darkness Lv.max] Instant Death Magic. Death upon touch. Immunizes against Instant Death Immunity.]
Ding-ding-dong!
Instant Death Magic!
Twelve Demon Generals, Four Heavenly Kings, Final Demon King. This was the ranking hierarchy of the Demon Race.
‘An ordinary demon general actually has Instant Death Magic?’
‘And it can even immunize against Instant Death Immunity?’
This brings up [Instant Death Immunity], which can immunize all skills with instant death effects. And immunizing against Instant Death Immunity is designed specifically to counter Instant Death Immunity.
Right. Now anyone can understand why Fantasy Divine Domain is such a trash game.
Primrose then looked down at Lin Naiyue’s status panel.
[Level: 1]
[Class: Hero]
[HP: 100]
[Strength (Physical Attack): 3]
[Intelligence (Magic Attack & Mana): 3]
[Agility (Speed & Evasion): 2]
[Constitution (Defense & HP): 5]
[Skills (Magic & Combat Skills): None]
Talents:
[Green Grade·Earthly Bedrock] Increases defense. Immunizes against one instance of damage. Cooldown: one day.
[Green Grade·Instant Teleportation] Can teleport to a place you have visited before. Cooldown: one day.
[White Grade·Wind’s Blessing] Increases movement speed.
This status was frailer than a piece of paper.
Originally, they were supposed to start leveling from the starting village slimes, adapt to combat, and let her hear about some common knowledge of the fantasy other world. But the current situation…
Any of the lowest-level monsters down there could kill her mom instantly.
There was no time for that.
Looking around, the native soldiers on and below the walls were already more than half dead or wounded, and the rest were steadily retreating.
“Don’t be afraid. Mom will protect you.”
Lin Naiyue’s voice was quiet. She silently picked up an iron sword dropped by a soldier on the ground. The always-smiling face became serious for the first time. She took a step sideways, directly blocking in front of Primrose, aiming at the monsters that could swarm the wall at any moment.
Primrose watched the small, trembling, yet infinitely motherly radiant back standing in front of her.
As a god, she was seeing materialized motherly radiance for the first time. It was a light as noble as the divine light emanating from gods.
But objectively speaking, a level 1 rookie wielding a broken iron sword to block the Demon King’s army?
There was absolutely no way to go but doom.