Chapter 448 [Bonus ]Cognizance Begets Suspicions



Situation Room

Unnamed Planet?

Domain of goddess Artemisia

June ?

Year 1053?

"The Angel Race population on mid-level world Bryria 13N is currently decreasing below the acceptable limit.

You over there, go forcefully introduce more of them into that world."

The voice of the goddess of Evolution rang out as she gave an order to one of her subordinate gods.

The space they were in resembled a large shared office, with partitioned work desks arranged all around a circular platform, elevated five steps above the ground.

Dozens of gods of various ranks could be seen, some seated at the desks, sorting through things on the floating screens in front of them while a few others busily moved about, entering data into their floating tablets.

The room was circular in shape, with the ceiling, walls and floor all painted with pure white colour.

Right behind each row of desks, were spatial gates of different shapes, and looking inside, one could see the space within twisting and turning every second.

"Where are those in charge of the solar aspect?"

The moment Artemisia's questioning voice rang out, three gods appeared in front of her and dropped down on one knee.

"We are here, Lady Artemisia."

"Good.

The stars of star system Dryke XQP8 have reached their limits. If they burn up for a few more years then life on the sixteen planets relying on those three stars would start dying out.

Replace them with your solar authorities."

The three gods nodded in response before teleporting out of the room.

Artemisia slid her hand across one of the floating screens in front of her and changed it to the next tab, only for a frown to appear on her face as she called out.

"Why are the inhabitants of star system Mion 54 still so primitive?! It has been centuries!

Who was this star system delegated to?!"

"It is I, Lady Artemisia."

The goddess turned her golden eyes in the direction of the replying voice and glared at the god who hurriedly dropped to one knee.

The entirety of the domain trembled in response to her annoyance and all the inhabitants within it all had one single thought.

'Ah, Lady Artemisia's pissed.'

The thoughts of the deity-level existences who were seeing the reason for her annoyance went even further than that.

'And of all things to piss off the goddess of Evolution with, a world stuck being primitive because of someone's negligence.'

|Authority of Evolution|

The essence of the universal law swirled in Artemisia's open palm, condensing into a golden crystal brimming with divinity.

She then tossed to the god and spoke.

|That has a charge of my authority, use it.

This is your last warning. |

After hurriedly thanking her, the god teleported right out of the domain and streaked across the void of space, heading for the star system in question.

As for Artemisia, she had already moved on to something else, addressing a few other important matters before finally dismissing her subordinates.

"That wraps up all the important matters for this session.

Complete your assigned duties and then you can take your leave and do whatever you want."

"Yes, Lady Artemisia."

All the other gods and goddesses in the room echoed those three words in reply before returning to their duties, while Artemisia continued sliding across the floating screens in front of her.

"Tsk…"

Hearing their superior suddenly clicking her tongue, all the other gods in the room suddenly stopped in their tracks, their expressions changing as they all thought:

'What?! Did someone piss her off again?!'

Not knowing her subordinates' thoughts, Artemisia only stared at the video of a version of Evan with more than one mystic eye skill, sighing softly before grabbing the floating screen and shattering it into shards of light.

She then took a deep breath and dismissed all the other screens, ignoring the confused looks the other gods were giving her before snapping her fingers as she walked off the platform.

The clothes she had on changed instantly, and she now donned a pair of black suit trousers and a white casual shirt and tie, over black heels.

Draped across her shoulders was a long white jacket that reached below her knees, and she retied her black hair into a ponytail before walking into one of the spatial gates and disappearing.

After confirming that the goddess had indeed left the domain, the other gods left behind began talking among themselves.

"This is very random but it's been on my mind for a while now. Has anyone here actually stopped for a moment to think about the fact that Lady Artemisia is pretty hot?

OW!!"

"Stop ogling your superior and get back to work, you fool."

One of the goddesses nearby flicked a bolt of energy towards his head as she chided the god who spoke. He turned around to see who it was and was met with the face of a very familiar emerald-green-eyed goddess.

"Well…that's my cue to leave."

Understanding that it was futile to even say anything, he hurriedly gathered his stuff and ran off into one of the spatial gates nearby.

While others were chuckling at this little scene, the green-eyed goddess, Aphine, sighed softly before rounding up her own piece of work.

Just before she could teleport away, someone suddenly called her name.

"Aphine."

"Huh? Lady Artemisia?!"

Seeing the goddess whom she believed had left the domain suddenly reappear behind her left Aphine startled slightly, even the other gods who were well versed in controlling space didn't even notice when she warped back into the room.

"I'd be going to another Territory. I'm delegating my duties to you, handle everything when I'm away."

Artemisia ignored their surprise and casually declared that Aphine temporarily take up her position, leaving the goddess of life dumbfounded.

'Another territ-ANOTHER TERRITORY?!'

It took her a moment to finally understand exactly what Artemisia was implying, and she most definitely wasn't happy about it.

"Wait! Lady Artemisia, whose territory?!"

"Don't worry too much. It's not far from here. Besides, it's related to someone I'm quite familiar with."

Artemisia replied as she gathered spatial power on her fingertip and traced a line across the space beside her, drawing coordinates for the spatial crack that opened up right after.

She then entered the crack and disappeared into the void, leaving the crack open for a few seconds so Aphine could read the coordinates with her own spatial authority.

'I recognize those coordinates. That's the area where one of this universe's decoy Earths is in.

Which one was it again, Earth II or III? Ah...it's Earth V!'

As if sensing that she had deduced its location, the spatial crack closed up leaving behind the goddess who was wondering just what Artemisia was looking for there.

"Lady, Aphine. There's a slight issue with this world tree over here."

"Hmm? Let me see."

Aphine decided to handle this more pressing issue for now, deciding to rationalize Artemisia's actions after she was done with it.

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Meanwhile, the goddess Artemisia reappeared in the void of space, right above a solar system that had nine planets orbiting one star in the middle.

She infused divinity into her eyes and scanned everything within the nearest few lightyears but she did not see nor sense what she was looking for.

'There's no deity-level existence in this area…then how did that authority come from here?'

Artemisia sighed softly, before turning her gaze towards the planets slowly orbiting the star that served as their sun.

"Well, let's find out."

With those words, she turned into a streak of light that shot down towards the third planet in the system.