"Let’s start by broadening your horizons. A frog at the bottom of the well doesn’t understand how big the world truly is…" Victor pulled Albedo’s waist towards him, and in the next moment, they found themselves in the space between the Galaxies. The moment she stepped into this place, Albedo was immediately hooked by the sight of ’something’ on the horizon. Her eyes opened wide in shock, and seconds later, it changed to interest, and from interest, it went to extreme amusement as something clicked in her mind. Just by watching that ’thing’ eating Galaxies with its massive body, the frog at the bottom of the well realized how big her world really was. "… I see… I see… HAHAHAHAHAHA, I understand now, that’s why you’re so abnormal." "To think that you’re a creature from the dead Sectors." "Wrong, very wrong." Victor’s voice echoed. "You’re far from understanding, Albedo. I am not a measly existence from the Dead Sectors. I am something more, something that even the Primordials fear." "Then show me..." She looked at Victor with an even more obsessive gaze. "Break me, mold me, destroy my Reality with Forbidden Knowledge. I am very curious to know everything." "Don’t regret it." "Never." They disappeared again, and this time, Albedo found herself alone in the middle of a crimson darkness that changed to shades of violet at times but always maintained a dark tone. Suddenly, planet-sized eyes began to open on all sides of Albedo. The moment Albedo looked into those eyes, blood began to fall from her orifices, but her smile never weakened. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA~" While receiving knowledge just by watching, she laughed in amusement as more and more notions that she had taken for granted were shattered. Victor’s Eldritch Form housed all the knowledge Victor knew about Reality. What Albedo was receiving now was like a concentrated dose of information about that knowledge, but it wasn’t just the knowledge of this Reality. There were thoughts and knowledge about the Rules outside of this Universe, outside of this Cosmology, the void between Universes in which only Beings like Victor could survive. Albedo didn’t know how long she had stayed there, and she didn’t really care. She was utterly intoxicated by what she discovered, and before she could die because of understanding things she shouldn’t, Victor removed her from his Soul and took her to a more peaceful place. A place where she could wash herself on his planet. Waking up from her state, and still with a smile on her face, she looked at the water that was painted with her blood and then looked at her hands. ’An Eldritch God, a God that came from outside this Cosmos, a Being that came from a Universe with rules and structures totally different from how we know it. This is so fascinating! And horrible at the same time. I feel sorry for this man’s enemies. No wonder he’s so abnormal.’ ’While everyone else is playing the game with the same rules, this man is cheating and playing his own game himself. What fools they are!’ "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hearing her thoughts, Victor thought: ’Her mental breakdown was greater than I expected. Thank goodness I was there to heal her Soul from possible damage.’ Albedo was only okay with observing Victor’s True Form because he wanted it to be so. He protected her from breaking her mind completely. Seeking to further understand the abnormal amount of information that was forcefully stuffed into her Soul, Albedo continued to think, continued to reflect, even as that very action caused her body to shed even more blood. "I see... I see... No wonder Merlin always laughed at me when I used Magic as if it were something absolute. No wonder I couldn’t understand anything about The Empire. I was so short-sighted, my preconceived notions thwarted my growth." Ignoring her bloody appearance, Albedo looked at Victor, her gaze shining even brighter with pure desire and something else. It was no longer a desire to learn, it was a sexual desire. ’First step complete.’ Victor thought as he floated with his arms crossed. "What I’ve learned..." "Is just the tip of the iceberg." Victor raised his hand and spoke in a language that Albedo hadn’t understood before, but now, she could. The Language of The Universe, something that only those who understood existence could speak. When Albedo looked at the list in front of her, she understood what he was trying to tell her. "I’m not in the Top 10 for nothing." "…A frog at the bottom of the well, huh." She muttered. He was completely right about her. "Don’t get frustrated. A frog at the bottom of the well is unaware of its own limitations unless someone points it out to them. I was the same way." Victor’s ’Awakening’ was always when he encountered the Primordials. Each time they met, Victor’s horizons were broadened. You could say he was lucky since most of the time he encountered the Primordials, these Beings used their Powers to do something. After all, just meeting a Primordial wasn’t enough. If that were the case, Vlad should have known more about the Universe a long time ago, which he didn’t. Talent, effort, potential, all these things mattered. But above all, Luck was a big factor. A Being could have the first three factors and still not be able to progress because they lacked Luck. Understanding how Luck was crucial, when Victor conquered the Greeks, he wasted no time in investing all his efforts in the Goddess of Luck to make her completely loyal to him and have her grant her complete Blessing. This effort remained to this day, even though she was not a Dragon Goddess. The Goddess of Luck Tyche is a High-Level Goddess of the Dragon Nest Pantheon. The only reason Victor did not turn her into a Dragon Goddess was that... Luck was a complex Divinity. It did not depend on a ’level’ of Power or anything like that but on the bearer’s own Affinity. It was like Russian roulette in which the Goddess Tyche always had the winning side. And everyone knew that carelessly messing with this roulette could bring bad odds the next time the roulette spun. Luck was inconsistent like that. Because of that, Victor only supported her so that she could have more and more followers so that the Power of Luck became even more ’dense’. With a gesture of his hand, the screen disappeared, and Victor waited... He waited to begin the second step. Albedo looked at her hands again and her bloody appearance, and then she took the water from the river and wet her face. Thoroughly washing the blood from her body and removing her clothes, becoming completely naked, she put her white hair back and looked at Victor seriously. Sexual desire and an obsessive desire that she had before, but above all, a genuine feeling of learning, of changing, of evolving beyond what she already was. She understood and comprehended that she could not reach the highest state alone. She was not as competent as the man in front of her. Therefore, she fiercely broke the pride that she had built up throughout her Life and humbly asked: "Teach me, please, Master." She bowed. A smile appeared on Victor’s face. ’Step two begins now.’ Only when she was genuinely willing to learn, only when she let go of her pride, could she be molded into a better version of herself. Victor wasn’t planning on changing her. She was already perfect as she was, and he didn’t like to do that unless it was absolutely necessary. He was just going to make her realize things she already had but hadn’t registered before, like familial Love and the genuine desire to care for someone. He attracted this change with something she deeply desired, which was knowledge. After all, who said a sociopath and psychopath couldn’t love? Science? Science is wrong! Everyone could love! Even a robot could love. Everything that had consciousness could love. As someone who had the very personification of Love as his Wife, Victor knew this very well. Therefore, he would teach her... He would teach the obsessive Witch the Knowledge of Love. Only then would she be able to enter his Family. After all, Victor didn’t need women who didn’t get along with the Family he built. He wouldn’t destroy the dynamics he had now. "Very well... Prepare yourself, My Disciple." Victor snapped his fingers, creating a dome of Space and Time. He snapped his fingers again, and a house was created beside the river. He snapped his fingers one more time, and food that would never go bad appeared. "I will teach you about the mysteries of the Universe. Try not to die in the process... Although, even if you die, I can bring you back, fufufufu~." "Destroy me with knowledge, Master. I’m ready." Albedo spoke with a completely serious and determined face. She wouldn’t let this chance pass her by. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚 "Let’s see if that’s true." Victor clapped his hands, and suddenly, they were in a space of pure darkness. At some point, Albedo was now wearing a simple black dress that completely covered her body, leaving only her cleavage visible, but without her Witch hat. "A great philosopher named René Descartes once said, I think, therefore I am." "But is that really true? In a world where Gods like me, Gods who can shape Reality to their liking, exist…" The dark space began to be filled with Life. Alien humanoid Races began to exist, began to live, began to prosper. "Reality is fragile to me. With my Powers to shape Reality and my Powers of Dreaming, I can bring anything I want into Reality. Combine these two Powers with the Power of Creation, and everything I bring into Reality will become completely permanent. Though the Primordials might not like that very much. They don’t like it when someone breaks the natural order of things that they dictate." "But that’s not the lesson I’m going to teach you." Victor snapped his fingers again, and everything he had built was destroyed, and soon they were in the dark space again. "To understand what I gave you, you need to look not at the Universe, but at yourself." "See this landscape as it really is, Albedo. This is your first lesson." "Landscape…? But it’s all dark." Albedo looked around, confused. "Is it really all dark?" Victor smiled and slowly began to dissolve into particles of light. "..." Albedo was silent, trying to understand what Victor was implying, and this association didn’t take long. She was an intelligent woman. ’He’s talking about the Eyes of Truth that Gods and Dragons have!’ Understanding what it was, she immediately used those eyes. After all, she was a Goddess too, but… It didn’t work. She still saw only darkness. "...Well, it wouldn’t be a lesson if it were easy." She didn’t get discouraged but rather became more excited to try to understand what Victor was teaching her. .... Edited By: DaV0 2138, IsUnavailable If you want to support me so that I can pay artists to illustrate the characters in my novel, visit my pa treon: Pa treon.com/VictorWeismann More characters images in: Like it? Add to library! Don’t forget to vote to support the book if you like it.