What Kaito obtained, or rather what was inside Pandora's Box, was far more abundant than all the rewards combined from every god he had slain previously.
The first reward: a broken Divine Core, already repaired by Pandora. Although it was an empty core, once injected into Kaito's body, from that moment onward, he too would become a true deity.
He would eternally enjoy ageless immortality! And as faith in him accumulated, his strength could continuously increase.
Just like a Heroic Spirit's Divine Core—the more humans believe in you and imagine you as powerful based on the tales passed down to later generations, the stronger you can become.
Of course, this immortality refers to age. Although there is also a form of true immortality, that only means if he dies in battle, he will automatically dissipate and be reborn in a place where believers worship him.
If he is killed again, he will dissipate again and go to another place of worship, and will need to sleep slowly to recover his strength before awakening. Premature awakening is possible, but it would leave him as weak as an ordinary person with depleted magical power.
That is the so-called immortality.
The second reward: the Netherworld!
The Netherworld, shattered by Kaito, had all its fragments gathered by Pandora and simply reshaped. Although it was now empty inside, the mountains, rivers, and such were essentially there. Kaito would just need to slowly repair it, and life would eventually be reborn.
After a long evolution within that world, life would appear, and humans would eventually emerge, beginning to have faith in him.
Kaito could also be resurrected within this world.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for anyone to find it; one would need a series of special methods to enter that Netherworld.
However, the aforementioned Netherworld could also be called a small world.
Just like in cultivation novels, one creates their own small world, injects laws into the empty realm, and becomes a god—commanding light, water, fire, and so on.
The Netherworld Kaito received had been reshaped, but it also skipped many steps; at least he didn't need to carve the mountains, rivers, or celestial layers himself. He just needed to wait for life to reappear, and he could even accelerate the process.
As for its size, the original was at least half the size of Asia; now it was only half of that.
Well, half that size was still sufficient.
The third reward: Authority of All Creation (Broken)
This ability allows one to command all things, enabling Kaito, like a creator god, to manipulate every object except living beings.
Naturally, he could also create things.
As long as his mind worked fast enough and he was very familiar with an item, he could create a smartphone out of thin air—similar to the ability of Reality Marble, just slightly weaker.
Especially since this was a broken Authority, he could only casually create water, earth, fire, and such.
It was like the abilities of the Geo Archon Rex Lapis, generating rock with elemental power, except this could generate many different elements.
Again, due to the broken Authority, its power was naturally limited. After Kaito integrated it into his body, he sensed that all abilities derived from it were roughly at A-class.
For example, he could create flames with A-class power to attack enemies.
The fourth reward: Authority of the Sky
Wind, rain, lightning, water—anything related to the sky, Kaito could now unleash with powerful effects.
Subsequently, this ability merged with the Authority of the Sky he had obtained from Melqart, becoming an even more powerful Authority, with the power of lightning significantly enhanced!
Combined with the Authority of All Creation, it was like gaining a buff that increased its power by severalfold.
The final reward: Authority of the Thunder God
This Authority is the strongest [Lightning] Authority among all the gods!
After all, Zeus was renowned as the Thunder God, and his strongest combat ability was lightning.
Compared to him, so-called thunder gods from Norse mythology were nothing but weaklings.
Therefore, after Kaito obtained Zeus's Authority of the Thunder God, it immediately became the strongest ability among all of Kaito's powers!!
Under the SS-class tier system, it reached at least the level of 8 or 9, just two classes shy of reaching the SSS-class level!
From this, one can see how powerful Zeus's Authority of the Thunder God was!
And he could now use blue lightning spears, purple lightning spears, golden lightning spears, and so on!
Unfortunately...
He couldn't elementalize...
Nor could he transform into lightning for travel...
He could only manipulate lightning for combat...
These were the contents obtained from Pandora's Box, the results of Pandora's selection.
As for rewards like Zeus's vast magical power or a direct boost to Kaito's strength, those were absent, since Zeus himself was gone.
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Ten hours later...
With Pandora's help, Kaito integrated the Divine Core, transforming it into his own exclusive Divine Core. Kaito had now become a god and possessed Divinity.
Things like the Chains of Heaven could now restrain him as well.
Well, although this was indeed a drawback, becoming a god brought the benefit of further enhancing his strength. Even if the increase was limited, this kind of strengthening could continuously rise based on accumulated faith.
As for the Netherworld, with Pandora's help in accelerating it, in just half a year, this reshaped world would begin to see the birth of humans.
Starting from primitive humans, they would gradually come to believe in him.
They would create statues of him, passing the faith down from generation to generation.
"Alright, I've helped you with everything I could. The rest is up to you."
"Thanks, Pandora. Without you, I wouldn't have known what to do."
Yeah, even if he had obtained the rewards mentioned above, he still needed Pandora's help. Otherwise, Kaito really wouldn't have known how to proceed.
"Hehehe, no problem~ You helped me by eliminating an enemy too."
After all, they were from opposing factions. With Zeus dead, of course she was happy, and this time he was dead for good. If another great war broke out in the future, Zeus wouldn't be appearing again~
"Now, you should head back. I need to rest for a while too. Helping you this time really tired me out."
"Alright, don't say anything more. My daughter Aisha has been worried about you outside~"
"Bye-bye~ Don't kill other gods too quickly, okay? Also, if you're going to kill, please try to kill more male gods!"
"..."
...
Kaito, unable to say anything more, returned to the present world.
When he awoke and opened his eyes, what he saw was...
A pair of soft mounds and, just beyond them, a pair of eyes filled with worry staring at him.
'Well, looks like I was lying on her lap.'
'Ah, this... it was quite comfortable, actually!'