Chapter 204: The Secret of the Ninth Sense, Hatching Tiamut! (Part 1) (Patreon)

Leaving the Bleach world, Alex returned to the Reincarnation Space. He did not immediately return to the Saint Seiya world.

With the resurrection of the Titan Gods, the Olympian gods were bound to reunite.

As a human caught in the middle, if he played his cards right, he could benefit from both sides. However, he harbored too many secrets—especially the existence of the Reincarnation Space. If those gods found out, they would inevitably try every possible means to achieve transcendence through him.

Therefore, his most pressing priority was to awaken the Ninth Sense as soon as possible, ignite his divine fire, and obtain a godhood of his own.

The so-called Ninth Sense was also known as the Amala-vijnana, or the True Thusness Mind, representing the ultimate comprehension that transcends life and death. In the Saint Seiya world, awakening the Ninth Sense also signified stepping into the realm of the gods.

However, Alex lacked a clear idea of exactly how to awaken the Ninth Sense.

The method to awaken the Ninth Sense was only circulated among the gods.

Yet, Alex had a vague guess. He currently possessed a massive amount of divinity, but lacked the corresponding godhood to match it.

If he became a god, the Ninth Sense should be easily within his grasp.

Regarding his questions about godhood and gods, Alex happened to have a god right by his side, or rather, an infant god.

He took out Tiamut's ball of light from his inventory space. When he left the Marvel Universe, this ball of light had automatically followed him. Inside it, a platinum-gold Celestial infant was sleeping soundly.

It was exactly the Tiamut that Arishem the Judge had spoken of!

Tiamut's state was highly peculiar. In the item information of the Reincarnation Space, it only displayed two very simple lines of text:

[God?]

[Divine Artifact?]

For a Celestial like Tiamut to be stored in an inventory space, Alex could only sigh in amazement that the universe truly held all kinds of wonders.

He attempted to awaken Tiamut with his divine sense. The Celestial infant in the ball of light stretched, and a childlike voice entered Alex's mind.

"Father, have you still not found a suitable planet to hatch me? I've already taken a nap."

Alex's expression turned peculiar. "What did you call me?"

Tiamut replied matter-of-factly. " Father! You granted me a second life. Arishem told me everything. According to the original trajectory, even if you hadn't appeared, I would have died in the womb."

"In that universe, there was no trajectory for my destiny; my fall was inevitable..."

Finding speaking too slow, Tiamut directly projected sequences of images into Alex's mind using his divine sense.

Alex instantly came to a sudden realization.

If things had progressed normally, Sersi of the Eternals, having lived on Earth for thousands of years and gradually acquired human emotions, would have used her abilities to completely petrify Tiamut during his Emergence, preventing his birth, even if Alex hadn't intervened.

Even without the interference of the Eternals, there would have been other factors causing Tiamut to fail to be born. This was his destiny, a foregone conclusion in the Marvel Universe.

Later, when Arishem appeared, he instantly foresaw all of this. That was why he had so easily handed over the Soul Stone in exchange for a chance at survival for Tiamut.

Tiamut viewed Alex even more as the father who had bestowed upon him a second life, which was why he called him Father.

Knowing all this and feeling Tiamut's admiration and yearning towards him, Alex felt a slight stir in his heart. A Celestial infant, if nurtured well, would be a powerful asset in the future, capable of surpassing the Olympian gods.

It seemed he truly needed to carefully find a habitable planet for him to be born smoothly.

Before that, however, Alex first needed to understand everything about gods.

With a slight shift in his thoughts, before he could even speak, Tiamut projected everything regarding gods into Alex's mind.

Alex accepted the massive stream of information. A moment later, a golden light flashed in his eyes. He had already gained a rough understanding of the relationship between gods, godhood, and divinity.

A being possessing both divinity and a godhood could be called a true god once they ignited their divine fire.