If something happened, there is bound to be a cause for it.
If someone dies, they must have been alive at some point. If someone is born, then they must have not been alive until then.
A farmer comes back to his home after a long day at the farm, tired and thirsty. He needs water to quench his thirst, however, when he reaches his home, he finds his entire hut caught on fire.
His farm animals are brutally cut down, killed by not the fangs of monsters but by the blades of his own kind.
Inside the burnt house, he finds his loving wife, her body charred beyond recognition. The eyes that somehow survived the fire contained the look of utter agony that shatters the farmer's heart and soul.
His child, not even a year old, now lay in his crib without the life he did not even get to live…
Something breaks inside of the poor farmer… a spark, a fire… rage overtakes the human body, turning the producer of life into a monster in human skin.
Now he is the one that kills, the one who burns the world in search of those who took his entire world away from him.
He walks the path of revenge, he walks the path of hatred, and the moment he archives his goal, the moment he burns down the ones who took away his world, he looks back…
Bloodstained hands, clothes that are the cleanest in the room… in his wake till that point, he has left the same agony, despair, and rage in the hearts of those who were not at fault.
It is now he who would be chased… It is now he who will be the object of revenge for a child, for a father, for a mother… for a wife.
[Ding!]
One cannot know the cause of most of the things that happen in this world and the reason behind the existence of the original cause to something that was the result of something else.
Causality, thus, is a [Law] that governs the world and is [Maintained] by the system.
To interfere with a law was the same as felony. And all the felons were punished under the same [Laws] that they tried to trick, or break.
[Under the request of ID: KiRA, with the support of the Authority of [Goddess of Light and Purity], Causality defiance was detected.]
[System has concluded that the offender, with two past offences for a similar case, had deliberately not only tried to manipulate the assigned meeting time, but also tried to alter the will of ID: KiRA that THEY requested an official audience with.]
[As the punishment for the third offence, a third of the [Divine power] of the offender will be restricted.]
[A third of the Authority of the offender will be revoked.]
[A portion of the total resources allotted to the [Goddess of Light and Purity] will be withdrawn.]
[For the offence of manipulating a being with no [Significance] an additional penalty will be imposed on the offender.]
[According to the Laws of Causality, the offender will be restricted from making any contact with the Native world of the Victim.]
[Any future attempt to make contact with the Victim will result in the loss of [Divine Status] as well as further punishment.]
There was nothing like a world without laws, rules, and restrictions. There are always guidelines, there will always be limitations that become the cornerstone for the Future.
In the eyes of the goddess, this young mortal was nothing more than a pawn. She believed she could easily overtake him and then his world through the same means she had used countless times on countless other worlds.
However, KiRA used her own authority and the unique nature of their meeting against her, ultimately coming back to the empty room where he had vanished from with a perfectly fine body.
"Haaa…"
Those few minutes he spent before the goddess seemed as long as a few days to him. He almost felt like he had been in a different world altogether… but, he was back now.
[Ding!]
⟪ Causality has been justified. ⟫
And his work here was almost done as well.
[Ding!]
The only thing left for him in this dungeon, obviously, were the rewards for his great labour.
[System has detected a
The system voice echoed throughout the small empty room once again. Though this time, it seemed a little softer than it usually is.
[An achievement of higher order has been earned by ID: KiRA for helping the System catch a Sinner.]
[An achievement of higher order has been earned by ID: KiRA for degrading a being with significant divine presence.]
[Ding!]
[ID: KiRA has coined a unique achievement that has never been created!]
⟪ ID: KiRA will be recorded as the first achiever of the achievement: The mortals' judgement against a Sinner God, within the Akashic records. ⟫
[Calculating appropriate reward for the Player…]
"Thanks, Uni." KiRA sat down exhausted, and thanked Unity while looking at the time remaining for the dungeon's closure.
"Vivi~!" (It was nothing, master~!)
While she could not help him directly where he was, she had helped him a lot to get to this point. And for that, he could not thank her enough.
He was surely going to thank her properly, but for now, he needed to get the hell out of this place or else he would die meaninglessly.
'Three minutes… haaa. That should be enough.'
[Ding!]
⟪ System has found no appropriate rewards for the cumulative achievements. Turning to to seek guidance from the [Laws]. ⟫
"Quick, man. Do it quickly." The time was ticking and he needed to get out. Unexpectedly, he was now getting nervous.
[Time left until the dungeon closes: 00:02:04.]
He still needed to get the last item from outside of the dungeon. This wasn't looking good… thankfully though, the verdict came just in time.
[Ding!]
[According to the suggestion of the Laws of Causality, with the approval of Twelve Principles ID: KiRA will be rewarded with an Authority!]
A golden system window appeared before him after the blue one disappeared. And, as soon as it did, with a smile of relief on his face, he got up and started walking out of the room.
[Ding!]
[Authority: Causal Access will be granted to ID: KiRA.]
[As an additional reward for the great achievements, 1,000,000 IX will be granted to ID: KiRA.]
[As a Causal reward ID: KiRA will become the master of the Unique Skill: Halo of Pure Light.]
"Huh? What?"
[As a Causal reward ID: KiRA will be granted Unique Stat: Holy Power.]
"Wait…!"
[As a Causal reward ID: KiRA will be granted Item:
"Ah, that's something good–, no! Why is it being so unnecessarily generous!?"
[As a Causal reward ID: KiRA will receive the Blessing: Resentment of the Light, Blessing: Resentment of Divine purity, and Blessing: Divine Malice.]
"And there goes my perfect plan for the initial floors…"
He didn't know what this just happened, why he received 'Causal rewards' when he hadn't even done anything to deserve them.
[Ding!]
⟪ Your achievements will be highlighted in the [Akashic records]. ⟫
⟪ May the fortune be on your side. ⟫
Three debuffs. Three of the worst debuffs along with a stat that he did not want, as well as the burden of a skill that will cause him more problems than helping him with his work.
"I should have expected this much…" He believed everything would go well and as he wanted when this wasn't even the game he was so familiar with.
He knew there were going to be differences, but he could not foresee this outcome.
"At least we got what we needed."
He had his main Authority now.
Which meant he could go ahead and start planning for how he would conquer the tower and take down unexpected challenges like this incident.
'Let's get out of here for now.'
Thanks to the unexpected generosity of the Causality, he would now have to change his plans.
Though, before he started with something like that, he should better meet up with his family that must have arrived at their base by now.
'Aunty is going to be pretty angry…'
Well, he knew how to take care of that much from his years of experiences at least.