They all call me an Outer God.

"go home?"

Ria looked up, and her gaze fell upon a constellation of stars.

Unlike the stars that would become dim after being polluted by smog in the future, the night sky was incredibly pure, as pure as a translucent veil, and the stars were like incredibly mysterious and precious gems adorning it.

Why... would you call that place home?

Ria's tone was somewhat unusual; he had a vague feeling that he was about to come into contact with something important, something that the people around him had always tried to keep from him—

the truth.

"Home...is...home."

"At home... there are family members... and a bed."

"My family is trying to put me to sleep... Waaah! I don't want to sleep! Who wants to sleep!"

"Smash the alarm clock! Smash it!"

The monster seemed agitated, as if he were experiencing some great pain. His tentacles thrashed about as he desperately asked Ria, "Why don't you go home?"

Are you asking about divinity?

"No...it's...I...it's you." The other person's words were fragmented and seemed incomplete.

"Why not... return to the stars!?"

"!"

These words struck Ria like a heavy blow, and his brain throbbed with pain once again. This time, the pain was more unbearable than ever before. He couldn't understand, he wanted to know, but he couldn't comprehend it!

Amidst these conflicting emotions, Ria's head throbbed with pain, his vision blurred, and the monster drew ever closer.

His words became even more incoherent and inhuman, but this time Ria could understand them.

Your brain, burdened by too much karma, is incapable of understanding my words and has been rendered unusable... If you don't mind, I'll give you my thinking organs.

Remember our destiny: we belong nowhere, to no one, and we will one day return home.

For this purpose, I hope you can become my anchor.

After that, Ria couldn't remember anything. He seemed to be in a daze, always feeling as if his body was in a place without gravity.

If I had to describe it, it would be like floating in outer space.

My head started hurting again, as if it were being cut open.

My head doesn't hurt anymore; it's like I'm dead.

My head hurts again, as if something new was stuffed in and then stitched up.

I have a terrible headache.

very painful! ! !
In the void, a man dressed in black and wearing a white mask stood there silently, without making a sound, like a perfect sculpture.

A moment later, the sculpture suddenly moved, and the man slowly stretched out his hand, holding two black and white chess pieces.

[I thought it would be something difficult... Putting the souls of a mythical creature and a human together, and then letting them merge upon contact, it couldn't be simpler, right? Who says these two can't be compatible? Why can't they be compatible?]

There are still many souls that meet the criteria. I can keep searching and eventually put them all in one place. Maybe then I can get the best result.

[Hehe, they probably won't mind me doing this. I'm doing it for their own good. Besides, I find it very interesting. Anyone who dares to interfere with my fun will be killed.]

【By the way, make a mark in case we can't find the person in the future, that would be troublesome…】 Fuxing Chaos said, while leaving a projection of his gaze on the object he was observing below. Then he planned to tear through space and time and leave, but before leaving, he seemed to notice someone making some small moves.

[Recreate this timeline as a memory for my experimental target? Sure, that sounds interesting. Go ahead and do it if you like, but you'd better think carefully about the consequences.]

By the way, don't record me in the video.

……

Ria woke up and knew what had happened these past few days.

The monster's father, his sponsor, actually performed a brain transplant on him, a crazy act that shouldn't have succeeded at all.

However, the truth was that Ria survived, the surgical scars disappeared, but the monster died mysteriously, and the monster's father was sent to prison because his crimes had been exposed.

From that day on, after learning about this, Ria's parents left their original house. They would rather go back to their hometown than accept the gift from this beast. Now, thinking about his previous behavior, it's disgusting.

No one noticed that Ria had undergone a brain transplant. Ria's thinking was normal, as if no surgery had ever happened, nor had any sponsors or his monster son appeared.

However, returning to the starting point was not a bad thing. Ria stayed at her rural home and cleaned everything up.

"We can always start over. Isn't it always said that education changes destiny?"

"Study hard, and gold will shine wherever it is."

At this point, Ria's life returned to normal. During this time, he traveled to many places that had never appeared in his dreams.

If the city in the dream was a ferocious beast forged from a cage woven from gray fog, then the rest of this area is now a free-roaming wild bird.

Ria was growing up little by little, but he had already discovered a huge problem—

The city of my dreams doesn't exist here.

Everything seemed to be heading down the worst possible path.

Neither maps nor navigation provided any trace of the city's existence. Ria knew very well that it had a long history and couldn't have appeared out of thin air later.

The area on the map that belongs to that city is a lake.

It is obvious that someone forcibly removed the city from all of time and space.

It represents countless times and spaces, and naturally, countless endings will occur under Ria's actions, and it will also be restored after waking up from the dream and entering the dream again and again.

"That might not be a dream."

Ria's heart sank heavily, and he repeatedly confirmed, "That's not a dream."

Not fake.

So why would the slumbering deity here lead me through these illusions, openly and unabashedly revealing its purpose from the very beginning? What makes it think that I would develop a sense of belonging here because of a memory of an illusion?

"I see... Hahahaha, I see."

Ria's eyes suddenly widened, her blue pupils quickly filling with a golden hue.
"You're truly amazing! A god is indeed a god; even your methods are utterly admirable. That move was absolutely brilliant!!!"

Ria couldn't help but burst into laughter and cheer for them, and at that moment, the illusion shattered completely, yet not entirely.

The cities and buildings before Ria decayed at a visible speed, turning into ruins. They were swallowed by the sea, where seaweed grew rampantly, using it as the perfect breeding ground, and schools of fish swam freely among them.

And the people here have all become—remnants of the past.

(End of this chapter)