[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-bloodline-system":3,"chapter-the-bloodline-system-the-bloodline-system-chapter-1675":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Bloodline System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1077007,1391,"Chapter 1675: I Will Be Merciful","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1675",1675,"\u003Cp>The ritual Angy performed hadn’t just revived Gustav... it had brought him back in full.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hundred percent Outworldly strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level of power so absolute, so oppressive, so ancient that entire civilizations had been erased from history for merely attempting to study it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just his presence alone began healing the cosmos. Dimensional fractures began repairing themselves, dying stars stabilized, lost energies realigned into harmony. His existence was a natural state of universal order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with calm, unblinking eyes, Gustav turned toward the trembling deities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice echoed not through air, but directly into existence itself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am aware of all you did in my absence...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there will be consequences.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silence thicker than any vacuum in space, reigned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silence so heavy it felt like the universe forgot how to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"ENOUGH!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer’s roar shattered the oppressive reverence like a hammer smashing brittle glass. His divine aura exploded around him, forming a spherical cocoon of blinding gray energy. The cocoon expanded outward, washing over the kneeling deities like a wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it passed them, the suffocating weight of Gustav’s presence lifted. It only lifted sightly, but it was enough for them to gasp for breath and snap out of their enforced bowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They staggered upright, panting with shame burning in their immortal eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer glared at them with fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You fools! Do not let your knees bend so easily! You know what he is! You know what he was designed to be!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice shook with both anger and fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deities exchanged looks, still trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was created to supersede us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To rule over us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To keep us in check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His very existence overrides ours!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He jabbed a finger toward Gustav, who merely stood still, watching silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now that he has returned in full, he wields abilities that have been sealed—locked away—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces paled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they knew he was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even at 10% of his strength, Gustav had once wiped out a deity with a casual gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he was at 100%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gap was beyond astronomical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freed from the reverent paralysis, the deities’ fear slowly morphed into resistance—fueled by pride, anger, and the Overseer’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gustav had spoken of consequences, their bodies had trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now their eyes narrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their fists clenched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their auras flared in defiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer, sensing their renewed determination, pressed on:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you forgotten his punishments? Should I remind you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pointed at the Deity of Flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You—once a divine inferno unmatched across ten thousand star clusters—he reduced you to ordinary fire, scattered across a barren planet like a campfire waiting to be extinguished by wind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pointed next at the Deity of Oceans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you—he stripped your divinity until you became nothing but stagnant water in a forgotten wasteland.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, he reminded them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of their humiliations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of their demotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of how Gustav had once erased their sentience, dissolved their consciousness, and redistributed their essence across the cosmos as punishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memories were not merely painful—they were degrading on a cosmic scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer’s words reignited old hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deity after deity clenched their teeth, their eyes blazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nocturnis snarled as shadows rippled around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You do not need to remind me, Overseer. Because of him, I was locked in the Dark Dimension for hundred thousand years—stripped of contact, stripped of power, stripped of sight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A low murmur spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear, resentment, defiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t want to return to that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wouldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav’s patience was enormous, but not infinite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes which glowed with swirling depths of cosmic law, swept over them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My warning is simple,\" he said calmly. \"Those who step forward willingly to accept their consequences will be spared harsh punishment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few deities flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will be... merciful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tone softened, but only slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But those who resist...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...will face the full weight of their past deeds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of uneasy contemplation passed through the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he truly be merciful?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he changed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Angy’s sacrifice softened him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were the questions flickering in their immortal minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some looked hopeful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some looked doubtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All looked afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"DO NOT BE DECEIVED!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer roared again, drowning their hesitations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He speaks of mercy, but he has never shown it! The only way out of this is to fight. Fight! And destroy him again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deities’ eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destroy him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav exhaled slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My destruction is temporary,\" he said coldly. \"You forget who I am.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what happens, I will always return.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Overseer snarled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we simply delay your return for as long as possible. Thousands of years, if we’re lucky. And this time, once you fall—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes gleamed viciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"—I will make sure your friends perish as well, so no ritual will bring you back early.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav’s eyes narrowed as a brief silence returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, his voice thundered with primordial authority:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You forget who you speak to, Overseer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could finish, a desperate deity appeared behind Gustav, launching a sneak attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blade of condensed dark matter, sharp enough to cleave a small universe, slashed toward Gustav’s spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gustav...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...simply breathed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soft, effortless exhalation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attack which was capable of annihilating galaxies, was immediately snuffed out, evaporating like smoke meeting a gust of wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deity froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gustav simply clenched his fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deity’s body convulsed, collapsing inward on itself, compressing violently—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—atoms crushed together—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—divine essence imploded—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—sentience flickered—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he disintegrated entirely, wiped from existence with casual indifference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Overseer flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pointed at the dissipating particles of the destroyed deity and shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"YOU SEE?! That is the fate that awaits all of us if we do not destroy him now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice cracked with desperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deities’ eyes burned with a terrifying mixture of fear and rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the stage was set.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because whether they wanted it or not...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A war was about to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A war against the Outworldly.\u003C\u002Fp>",1011,"2026-06-03T10:34:21.839Z",1,"novelbin.me","21debf7cbb1f2393e677939e1ed9c3057684eaa33c2d19ab316b232328915b03","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1676","the-bloodline-system-chapter-1674",1688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-bloodline-system-cover.jpg"]