Mr. Jonathan let the silence linger for a moment, allowing the weight of his previous words to sink into the students' hearts.
Then he spoke again.
"Alright. Let us return to the lesson," he said calmly.
"But before that… I would like to ask you a simple question."
His gaze swept across Class
"What is a god?"
Silence.
The students exchanged glances. Some hesitated, uncertain. Others straightened their backs, eager to prove themselves.
After a few seconds, a student raised his hand.
"A god is a being with endless power," he said confidently. "Someone who can create and destroy worlds at will."Mr. Jonathan nodded slightly.
"Not wrong," he said. "But incomplete."
Another student stood.
"A god is an immortal existence," she said. "One who transcends death and time."
Jonathan shook his head gently.
"Still incomplete."
A third voice followed.
"A god is the one rule over countless believers," a boy said. "An existence worshipped by billions of mortals ,immortal and god and who can become stronger by absorbing the power of faith."
This time, Mr. Jonathan smiled faintly.
"You are getting closer."
He turned and waved his hand.
The projection behind him changed
The image zoomed in.
"A god is one who has opened a Divine Domain."
"Within that domain," he continued, "the god is absolute omnipotent and omniscient.
Time accelerated in one region and slowed in another. Space folded and twisted. Life was born, evolved, and perished in endless cycles.
"They do not merely use laws," Jonathan said.
"They author them."
"Gravity exists because the god allows it."
"Causality functions because the god defines it."
"Life is born because the god permits it.
Then he paused.
"And outside their Divine Domain?"
With a gesture, the projection shattered like glass.
"Outside their domain," he continued, "a god is merely a powerful existence among countless others."
"…Really?" a student blurted out in disbelief.
Mr. Jonathan chuckled softly.
"I exaggerated a little," he admitted.
"What I mean is this: the vast majority of a god's authority, laws, and abilities can only be fully exercised within their own Divine Domain."
Some of them can still be used by the gods outside their own domain, but these abilities do not have the same power and even the gods dont have the same control as they do in their own world.
"Of course, this does not mean gods are weak outside their domains," he added.
"High-ranking gods can still perform feats that would seem miraculous to you—"
"and can even attain a degree of power and freedom comparable to what they possess within their own worlds."
He looked directly at the students.
"But such a realm are far beyond your current reach," he said calmly.
"So you should not trouble yourselves over that level of power."
"For now, focus on what lies before you."
"Because worrying about heights you cannot yet see…"
"…will only hinder your first steps."
"a corner of the classroom, Kael's gaze remained calm.
But inside, he was shocked. Not by the power of this world itself—after all, from a reader's perspective, the power systems in worlds like this are usually completely broken, far more than even the immortal systems, and the higher you go, the more absurdly overpowered they become.
What truly shocked him was something else. Earlier, while reviewing his memories to better adjust to this body, he realized that in his entire life on this planet, he had never encountered a true god. Everyone he had met from his birth to this day were demigods.
He had never even seen his own parents in person. Even the employees were just demigods, though their levels far exceeded his own.
"While Kael's was lost in his tought a student named Christian—one of the top students in the class and also one of Kael's closest friends—suddenly spoke up.
"Mr. Jonathan, why are there no divine beings in this planet
The question caused a subtle stir among the students. Some frowned in confusion, others straightened in anticipation.
Even Kael's calm expression tightened almost imperceptibly. This was exactly what had been troubling him.
Mr. Jonathan paused. His eyes swept across the room before finally settling on Christian.
A faint, knowing smile appeared on his face."That," he said slowly, "is because this planet was never created for god to live.
"This planet, like countless others within human civilization, is one of the many worlds deliberately created and specially designed to house demigods. Such planets are incapable of welcoming true gods, for their very presence would bring destruction."
Mr. Jonathan's voice was calm, yet each word struck the classroom like a hammer.
"A true god—even the weakest among them—does not need to act in order to kill you .
Their mere presence is enough to annihilate you and this entire planet.
This is because a god possesses absolute authority over all beings weaker than themselves.
That is also why a single aura, or even a casual glance from a god, can result in your assimilation into that god. A god is, after all, a perfect being
Mr. Jonathan let the words sink in before continuing.
"Perfection is not merely a matter of power," he said. "A god exists in complete harmony with the laws they embody.
To face such a being while remaining incomplete is to be overwritten—to have your existence corrected, erased, or absorbed."
The room had gone deathly silent.
Kael's fingers tightened slightly beneath his desk.
So this was it—a god was a being who had become one with a law, and because the laws themselves were perfect, the god who embodied them could only be perfect as well.
That perfection, however, was not born from emotion or will.It was inevitability.
A law did not hesitate. It did not doubt. It did not choose between right and wrong. Once a being fused with a law, their existence became absolute. To oppose them was to oppose the law itself.
That explained everything. Gods could not exist in the same realm as demigods, not out of arrogance or cruelty, but because the difference between them was absolute.
To a god, a demigod was unbearably fragile. Allowing them to share the same space was no different from placing an ant beneath the feet of a human.
Even without intent, even without malice, the human's mere presence—or the smallest, unconscious movement—would mean inevitable destruction for the ant.
The silence lingered long after Mr. Jonathan finished speaking.
No one dared to move.
The weight of the truth he had revealed pressed heavily on every student present. For many of them, this was the first time they truly understood just how vast—and how cruel—the gap between demigods and gods really was.
Mr. Jonathan glanced at the time.
"That will be all for today," he said. "Prepare yourselves. The Creation Trial will begin soon