Cain sat on the couch, facing Dolrig as the man's wife took the child upstairs, crying.
"How you've been?" Cain asked.
"It's been...A lot to say the least." Dolrig smiled, "I don't know how you did it, but I can't believe you brought my child back to life." He was about to start crying.
"Don't worry about it. I have enough power to do that now, but not a lot as it might cause some damage." Cain looked at Dolrig with a smile. "Don't cry, you're a good man."
"I'm not..." Dolrig's face shook for a moment, "It's just... you bastard are too much... to handle..." He started crying.
Cain stood. "It was a short stay, but I'll leave you with your wife and child now." He approached Dolring and patted his shoulder. "See you later."
Engulfed in a hazy silver mist, Cain disappeared leaving Dolrig sitting alone on the couch.
Cain appeared again in the middle of the sky, flying right beneath the clouds and looking at the ground. His head started throbbing, "This hurts." He growled, holding his head with one hand.
^{You okay?}^ Lilia asked inside his head.
"Yeah. It's just that...I'm not used to this." His eyes emitted a faint blue light as he looked around, seeing everything happening around the world. This omnipotent he got wasn't easy to handle.
"I never knew, that knowing everything could be this annoying. Even with the brain's collective consciousness, I can't process everything at once." He sighed, his mind running at 100% of its power and barely holding together.
^{You need more brains to make this work. Send work to the abyss.}^
"You're right." He pulled his staff, "For now. Let's only look at the current world I'm in, now it's the mortal realm." He sighed, "Good, this dropped the usage a lot," He smiled, feeling much better.
^{Let's head back home, you need to rest for a while.}^
"You're right," Cain teleported right back into his heaven, landing right outside the capital city. He looked at the massive gate ahead of him.
The angels in heaven immediately felt a heavy pressure fall onto them, the air became denser and the divine magic flowing through it got stronger. The guards at the walls instantly looked down, seeing Cain standing outside and the blood drained from their faces.
"OPEN THE GATE NOW!" The guard on the wall shouted at the top of his lungs, "THE OVERGOD IS OUTSIDE!"
The angels carrying the palanquin smiled. They've been a little worried about how he saw the newly built heaven, but it seems their efforts didn't disappoint him. Even though the gods build nature, like the ground they walk upon and the sun in the sky, the angels and devils have laid each brick that builds the whole city, kept it clean and well managed under the direction of the archons.
Soon enough, they reached the main church of the heavens. Marina awaited them outside, "It's been a while, Cain." She said with a smile.
For the moment, the angels felt terrified. Not that many people could dare to look at the overgod, let alone call him by his name. Unlike the other gods, Marina wasn't a divine, but instead Cain's high priestess. But, they knew better. For a mortal, she's been with him since the start, and none of them dare to think of her words as insulting to the overgod.
Cain jumped from the throne and landed in front of her, "It's been a while. How you've been?"
"You talk as if you don't know." She smiled, "Exhausted as I've been teaching the new women the ropes around here." She turned to walk inside, and Cain followed her after signaling to the angels that they could return to their posts.
As they walked inside, Cain saw the woman from before cleaning between the statues of the gods. The moment she turned and saw him, her face paled. Before, she almost didn't believe his claims to be a god. But after coming here. She found out that he wasn't even a normal god, but the overgod, the god of the gods, the embodiment of the word GOD, God Of Divines.
Just as Cain appeared outside the city, Marina informed her that he had arrived and that he had gotten even stronger. She as the high priestess, immediately knew when Cain became omnipotent in the world.
The woman froze in place, unable to speak or move, stuck thinking each word several times. But unable to utter them.
"No need to stress around me. Not that me saying that would help, Lucia." Cain already knew her name. Nothing in this world could hide from his eyes.
"I..." Lucia gasped, unable to figure out what her next words were.
"Marina, she's unable to withstand speaking with me. A normal reaction for a human soul that knows of me. Let her rest for a while. I'll talk with her after she calmed down." Cain said, and Marina called several nuns to escort Lucia back to her room.
"To think you really became omnipotent," Marina said with Cain in the middle of the church, "What did it take?"
"Not much at this stage. I crossed the gate and found AO outside the boundaries of the world. His approval was all I needed to reach this stage, of course, with her help as well." As he said that, Lilia walked out of him and hopped onto the chair. "Of course. He still can't withstand the forbidden knowledge without my help. He needs time to adjust."
"So, he isn't completely omnipotent?"
"No, he is." Lilia replied, "There isn't a single thing in this world that he can't do. That's his authority."
"So what about the forbidden knowledge?"
"I've already linked myself to him. My existence is linked to his and he can always use me as a buffer for the knowledge, he can't do it without me, but still can access everything and no one can stop him." Lilia smiled, "It's just an inconvenience at this moment."