"So, just now..."
"It was resolve!"
Though Future Chloe had always been by Damien's side, her shyness had kept her from taking the final step.
As a result, she could only watch as Alice, Shizu, and others joined Damien's inner circle one by one.
'This time!'
Chloe clenched her tiny fists, encouraging herself: 'I absolutely won't lose to Alice again!'
"..."
Good grief, Damien had thought Chloe left a mark in the timeline for some grand purpose.
Turns out it was just the vengeance of a defeated rival!
Unbelievable, girl!!
Beyond that, the gift also included the combat experience of Chloe at her peak, along with her mastery and application of abilities.
This was the true trump card that her future self had prepared for her present self!
"Eh?"
"What just happened?"
"Ah! Chloe! When did you turn into that?"
"It feels like I blacked out, and suddenly..."
As the time-stop effect fully dissipated, everyone except Alice came to their senses, noticing Chloe's position and her transformation.
"Time-based abilities are indeed fascinating."
Artoria had a strong resistance to time manipulation.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to instantly assist Chloe in tracing the power of Kronos.
Just moments ago, when Chloe's future phantom appeared, the power of Avalon had shielded Artoria, sparing her from the time-stop effect.
However, even with resistance to time-stop, fighting Chloe would still be incredibly difficult for Artoria.
The same applied to Alice.
As a Divine Spirit of the space concept, if Alice wanted to escape, almost no one could stop her.
Unless someone possessed a skill like Damien's Void World, capable of stripping away spatial laws at the creation level, Alice, like Chloe, was virtually invincible.
If they couldn't win, they could just flee... no one could catch them.
Such were the Goddess of the Void and the Goddess of Time in Damien's ranks: pure mechanism monsters.
"Next, it's your turn."
Damien entrusted the two girls to Shizu and began assessing the attributes of the three boys.
"Gale's compatible attribute is earth."
"Kenya's are light and fire," Damien said. "But since fire was already given to Shizu, you'll take light."
"Ryota's aptitude is quite good... both wind and water have high compatibility."
"In that case, no need to choose. I'll give you both."
The Divine Spirit transformations for Gale and Kenya went very smoothly.
After the transformations of the three girls, Damien's expertise in this process was unparalleled, easily resolving the issues for these two boys.
Ryota, however, posed a slight challenge.
"Limited capacity, huh?"
Damien's original plan was to give the boy two elemental souls, akin to holding both the Great Holy Spirit of Water and Great Holy Spirit of Wind simultaneously.
The problem was, Ryota's soul strength was limited.
Normally, an ordinary person's soul couldn't possibly bear the power of primordial elements.
They could only do so because a powerhouse like Damien was bending the rules for these kids.
But even Damien had operational limits.
"No choice, then."
Damien reluctantly separated the wind and water elements and created a new elemental power specifically for Ryota... ice!
Ice wasn't one of the six primordial elements.
As such, it was inferior in quality to light, earth, or fire, and couldn't compare to time or space.
However, as compensation, Damien granted Ryota additional powers: the Elemental Sea, derived from the Great Holy Spirit of Water, and the Elemental Cloud, born from the Great Holy Spirit of Wind.
Cloud, Sea, Ice... these were all top-tier elements just below the primordial ones.
With Ryota holding all three, if he could achieve awakening in the future, his accomplishments might not fall short of Kenya's pure light or Gale's earth.
"As for you two..."
Since Ryota couldn't handle two primordial powers, Damien entrusted them to Treyni to see if she could use her Celestial Spirit Queen authority to nurture new elementals.
A quick note here.
Though fire, light, earth, time, and space... these five elemental powers... had been granted to the five children, given enough time, Treyni could still create Elemental Lords corresponding to these attributes.
Primordial Daemons, Primordial Angels, Great Holy Spirits, Divine Spirits...
These beings were of the same rank in status.
[Kenya Misaki]
[Race: Divine Spirit - God of Light]
[Magicules: 1,200,000 EP]
[Unique Skills: Illuminator, Fearless, Primordial Light]
[Special Skills: Magicule Solidification, Eternal Shield, Divine Spirit Transformation]
Kenya's divine body came from the Norse mythology's god of light and sun, Lugh Mac Ethlenn.
It had to be said, for someone with a light attribute, inheriting Lugh's legacy was highly compatible.
[Gale Gibson]
[Race: Divine Spirit - God of Earth]
[Magicules: 1,000,000 EP]
[Unique Skills: Shatterer, Primordial Earth]
[Special Skills: None]
Gale's divine body came from Okuninushi, a god from Japan myth.
There wasn't much to say about this.
Unfortunately, Gale's aptitude truly couldn't compare to the other children's.
[Ryota Sekiguchi]
[Race: Divine Spirit - God of Cloud, Sea, and Ice]
[Magicules: 1,100,000 EP]
[Unique Skills: Cloud Weaver, Sea Overlord, Winter Hunter, Absolute Ice]
[Special Skills: None]
This child's divine body didn't come from a single deity but from three.
Namely, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades from Greek mythology.
Yes, those three good brothers.
Whether it was luck or fate, Ryota was far luckier than Gale.
Even Treyni could tell that this child's future achievements would not be inferior to Kenya's.
"Not bad stats."
The attributes of the three boys were laid out before Damien. "It's just that Gale's aptitude is indeed a bit lacking..."
Aside from Primordial Earth, the powerful unique skill Damien granted, Gale truly only had one unique skill of his own: Shatterer.
This showed that, in terms of soul quality, Gale was the least gifted among the five.
His future achievements were almost entirely predictable.
No way around it.
It wasn't that Damien looked down on him.
It was simply the law of the Cardinal World: the more skills one could awaken, the greater their potential.
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