At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

Only those who awaken their Holy Mark can graduate from university. If they fail to awaken their Holy Mark and advance to the second tier before graduating, they will be expelled.

If a student awakens their Stigmata within ten years of being expelled from school, they will be issued a replacement graduation certificate.

Most people can advance to the second tier in their twenties or thirties, and have a chance to advance to the third tier in their fifties or sixties, but the proportion of people who advance to the third tier is very small.

Students graduating from top universities will generally advance to the third tier around the age of thirty, with a very small probability of advancing to the fourth tier in their fifties or sixties.

"This kind of life is wonderful." Solomon smiled, put down his pen, and looked out the office window at the blue sky and white clouds.

These decades have been a life he never dared to imagine, living like an ordinary person, going to work, teaching and educating people, eating and drinking coffee when he was tired, watching his students enter the campus full of hope, and then reluctantly saying goodbye to his teachers when they graduate.

Watching them grow step by step under the guidance of their teachers, highlighting their unique personalities, sharing their dreams with each other, and envisioning an unknown ideal future.

Only in recent decades has Solomon felt that he is living a vibrant life and that he can make his own decisions about his own destiny.

At that moment, Solomon felt a chill run down his spine.

"Hiss—what's going on? Why do I feel like I'm about to be in big trouble?" Solomon took a deep breath, his face changed drastically, and he quickly activated his 'clairvoyance' to check the past and future, but he saw nothing.

His clairvoyance can see into the future, but only the next ten years; the future ten years from now is shrouded in mystery.

This world's future is full of infinite possibilities. What happens now will determine the future. Moreover, even the next ten years he sees have countless possibilities and are not fixed.

"Huh? I can't see my own future!" Solomon exclaimed in shock. What was going on?

Am I going to disappear from this world at any moment?

That can't be! I'm even stronger now than I was in the previous world. I've already risen to the position of a mid-level God-King, and with another few decades or centuries of hard work, I could potentially advance to a high-level God-King.

What power in this world, besides God, could make him disappear without a trace in an instant? Even 'law and reason' couldn't do that.

Just as Solomon was lost in thought, two figures came into view.

Los Saint and Alyssa were already sitting in the office chairs opposite him without him noticing.

"Lord!" Solomon cried out in surprise, falling off his office chair with a thud and immediately kneeling on one knee. "My lord, you, you've come!"

"Oh, Solomon, what are you saying? Am I not allowed to be here?" Los Saint said with amusement as he looked at the panicked Solomon.

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant, my lord. You are everywhere, and it is beyond my ability to guess where you appear." Solomon hurriedly explained, his forehead covered in sweat, his heart already pounding with anxiety.

The Lord appeared before him. What does this mean?

Could it be...? Hiss—

Solomon thought of a possibility and felt as if the sky was falling.

“That’s exactly what you mean, Solomon,” Los Saint said with a smile.

"I said I would give you a complete, ordinary life with the freedom to choose, but an ordinary life only lasts a few decades, and it's almost over."

"..." Solomon was immediately distraught, his face contorted with grief: "My lord, the life of an ordinary person that you are referring to is really just a little longer than that of an ordinary person."

"How long do you want? Tell me," Luo Sheng said with a smile.

Solomon fell silent.

"I told you to tell me, so just tell me. You think you can hide your little thoughts from me?" Luo Sheng said with amusement.

"As I understand it, when you say an ordinary person's life is considered in this world, even a fourth-tier superhuman would be considered an ordinary person..." Solomon chuckled.

In his view, the fourth-tier is indeed an ordinary person, only one who has reached the limit that an ordinary person can achieve.

A lifespan of around 150 years is the limit for ordinary humans; their life level has not undergone a transformation.

“Unfortunately, I calculated it according to the standards of ordinary people in the Type-Moon world,” Los Saint said mercilessly.

"Okay..." Solomon lowered his head dejectedly. It's over, it's over. My good days are over. I thought I had 150 years of free life.

"Why are you so dejected? It's not like I'm taking away your freedom. I'm just asking you to participate in the maintenance and operation of the world." Luo Sheng tapped his fingers on the table, making a tapping sound.

"Once you've fulfilled your duty of maintaining the world's order, it's your freedom to live whatever life you want. I won't interfere with the lives of the gods."

"One must bear responsibilities commensurate with one's power."

"Then, my lord, please take back the power you have bestowed upon me. Please allow me to live as an ordinary person, to grow old, get sick, and die, and to be reborn..." Solomon said weakly in a low voice, but when he felt the sudden sharpness in Solomon's eyes, he swallowed the rest of his words. What a terrible thing to do.

"Don't act like your father just died," Luo Sheng said with amusement.

'But my father is really dead.' Solomon couldn't help but think to himself, only now he's a Heroic Spirit. (At this moment, David, who was leisurely drinking milk tea in Jerusalem on the western shore of the Mediterranean, suddenly sneezed, muttering: I'm already a sixth-rank hero, how can I still sneeze?)

“I’ll allow you to be absent from this council of gods, but if you’re absent next time, I’ll break one of your legs,” Luo Sheng said, looking at Solomon, who was inwardly cursing his father.

“I will obey the divine decree, my lord,” Solomon said hastily. He knew about the world order designated by his lord, even though his lord would not interfere in the private lives of the gods and was mostly not within the scope of his duties.

But the days when he was treated like a tool gave him PTSD.

"Director, Director, has the plan for the Extraordinary Competition of Top Universities in Seven Continents been completed yet? The principal is in a hurry to use it." At this moment, a fourth-level teacher called out while knocking on the door.

Solomon was about to say something when he realized that his lord and the goddess of the underworld had disappeared. He quickly straightened his wrinkled clothes and stood up: "Come in, Sugita-sensei."

His position at the school was that of a teacher at the peak of the fourth rank who was expected to advance to the fifth rank, while the principal was an old man at the early stage of the fifth rank named Katagiri Tamaki.

They are said to be the first heroes of the new era after our Lord destroyed the world with a great flood.

He stayed in this world because it had been destroyed by a great flood, and to prevent such a thing from happening again, he chose to become a teacher and educate the new generation.

……

Saint Emperor Residence, the heart of Sakura City

The Holy Emperor advanced to the early stage of the sixth rank when he was about two hundred years old ten years ago.

A year ago, Sima Miori and Tendo Kisara followed closely behind in advancing to the sixth rank. The two seemed to be competing with each other, as the time difference between advancing to the fifth and sixth ranks was less than a year.

Besides, quite a few others have advanced to the fifth rank. Fifty years ago, Tina Sprun, Aihara Enju, Fuse Midori, Katagiri Yuzuki, and Senju Natsuyo all advanced to the fifth rank.

After advancing to the fifth rank, they finally began to grow up, having maintained their loli appearance due to Ishtar's pranks. However, even as they began to grow up, it was very slow, since they had already become immortal beings.

It will take at least two hundred years for them to truly grow into the size of a young girl.

Even so, seeing hope brought tears to their eyes. It had been 160 years; they were finally starting to grow again.

At this moment, the Holy Emperor, Sima Weizhi, and Tiantong Musang were having afternoon tea with Rungominiad in the garden of the Holy Emperor's residence.

Aihara Enju and Chizu Natsume also spread out a tablecloth on the nearby grass and quietly enjoyed their food, gossiping about various interesting things about the country.

"My Goddess, how is today's rose cake? It was specially made by a fifth-tier chef, using unopened flowers from a fifth-tier rose tree and nectar from a fourth-tier lily bee. It's a pity that the other ingredients aren't fourth-tier, otherwise it would be considered a top-grade fifth-tier pastry."

The Holy Emperor, his fingers clad in white silk gloves, gracefully picked up a rose cake from the pastry box and savored it, a blissful expression spreading across his exquisite face.

"Our world is still far behind the main world. Tier 6 ingredients are extremely rare. Our Thousand Islands Kingdom only has one tier 6 cherry blossom tree, and the cherry blossoms we can harvest each year are very limited."

“It is indeed delicious.” A hint of happiness appeared on Lungominiad’s face. “I am grateful that a god like me, who has made mistakes and been demoted, can be treated like this by you.”

"My Goddess, you're here again. Don't keep saying sorry." Sima Weizhi said, pretending to be angry. "Although you made a mistake, it was essentially out of good intentions. It's just that you did something wrong with good intentions."

“Yes, although the goddess’s ideas were indeed too self-centered before, the goddess now is not the same goddess as before.” Kisara Tendo nodded.

They had heard the goddess's story countless times over the decades.

“Is it different from before?” Rungomminiad looked at the half-eaten pastry in his hand and shook his head with a smile: “If you made a mistake, you made a mistake. There’s no difference. What you did won’t disappear just because you admitted it and changed it.”

For decades, as a sealed god with no power, I lived among humans and came to understand human life, the happiness, strength, fearlessness, kindness, and sacrifice that humans yearn for...

At the same time, she was also wondering, who exactly am I?

King Arthur, Artoria? The Holy Lance, Rungomminiad?

In fact, she is neither of those; she is simply another personality that gained divinity based on Artoria, a completely new individual.

“Goddess is much gentler now. At first, she was terrifyingly cold, and no one dared to approach her,” Lan Yuan Yanzhu said with a grin as she leaned closer.

"Yeah, yeah, they were so cold back then, and their eyes seemed to treat us like objects, as if getting close would hurt us," Chizu Natsuyo nodded in agreement.

"But the goddess now is so gentle, she just wants to protect everyone."

"I will protect all humanity if you wish," Rungomminiad said gently.

“I believe you, after all, you are a true god, and gods will definitely protect us.” Tina yawned sleepily and rubbed her eyes with her fingers: “Hmm~ Even though I’m already at the fifth level, I still haven’t gotten rid of my bad habit of always dozing off during the day. When I became stronger, the owl’s genes also became stronger.”

“But Tina’s abilities increase by 50% at night,” Fuse said enviously. “My cat’s genes only increased its speed and reaction speed by 30%.”

"My abilities are so-so, I'd rather grow up." Katagiri Yuzuki pouted.

“Every time I go back to the old mansion and see those old men and their descendants calling me ‘Little Great-Grandma,’ my mood plummets to the bottom.”

"My stupid older brother is really prolific; in just 160 years, the Katagiri family has over 500 descendants."

"Sigh..." All the lolis sighed upon hearing this.

The goddess told them the reason why they couldn't grow up a long time ago.

It was a prank played on them by a god who controlled the power of time; the traces of time on their bodies only lessened after they advanced to the fifth rank.

Only by advancing to the sixth rank can the traces of time be completely eliminated.

Although the fifth-tier beings can grow up, they are estimated to reach the age of fifteen by the time their lifespan reaches its limit.

"If the seal on my body can be lifted, I will remove the effects on you," Rungominiad said gently, patting Katagiri Yumizuki's head to comfort her.

"I just don't know when 'that god' will remove the seal on me."

"Perhaps it's because I haven't truly understood humanity yet, and I don't know what humanity truly wants."

When the omniscient and omnipotent ruler sealed her, he stated the conditions for lifting the seal: understanding humanity, understanding human nature, and understanding what humanity needs.

【You understand now, Rungominiad.】

Just then, a strange, gentle voice rang out, and everyone was stunned.

They suddenly noticed a strikingly handsome man with black hair and golden eyes standing next to them, and an equally stunningly beautiful young woman.

They seem to have always been there, but the women simply ignored them.

"How has it been for ordinary people these past few decades?" Luo Shengshou asked, picking up a rose cake from the pastry box and putting it in his mouth.

"You, no, you, you, you are..." The Holy Emperor opened his mouth.

The others opened their mouths, but couldn't say anything.

Because the two people in front of me are gods, even if I don't know them, as long as I see a god, I will know that he is a god, just like when I first met the goddess Rungomminiad.

Even if the goddess loses her power and looks like an ordinary person, her subconscious tells her that she is a god.

“You have arrived, Omniscient and Omnipotent Lord.” Rungomminiad was slightly surprised, then calmed down and looked at Ereshkigal: “And the Lord of the Underworld, Ereshkigal.”

"All-knowing and all-powerful Lord..." The girls stared wide-eyed, covered their lips with their hands, utterly shocked, their minds blank.