Naruto saw the pattern, emitting a faint golden light, flying towards him and reached out his right hand to grab it.
The pattern immediately merged into his palm and disappeared.
Immediately after.
Countless pieces of information surged into Naruto's mind like a river.
"Is this the authority of an Awakened God?"
"I feel like I can bestow wisdom upon the creatures of the Goblin Slayer World, enlighten them, and even break through the barriers of their species rank. I can perceive the prayers of any believer who worships me (the Awakened God), and I can freely grant believers the use of the miracles I control, and specify the number of times they can use these miracles."
"Could this be what it feels like to become a god?"
Naruto raised his right hand, looking at the golden eye pattern representing the Awakened God on the back of his hand. With a thought, he could hear the complex and numerous prayers coming from the Goblin Slayer Continent.
He casually swiped his hand through the air in front of him, and a giant golden tree, lush with leaves, appeared before his eyes.
The leaves growing from the giant tree seemed to represent his believers, the priests who could use the miracles of the Awakened God.
With just a thought, Naruto could grant or remove their Awakened God miracles.
In addition to this.
Naruto discovered that he also had the authority to roll dice and play games with other players (gods). However, this dice was prepared by the game itself for players and was not an item exchanged in the Underground City shop, so it could not be taken out of the Goblin Slayer World.
Player notices and game manual pop-ups appeared before Naruto.
"Each player can have one slot for a Race Card and one slot for a Character Card."
"The Awakened God's Race Card slot used the original Goblin, and the Character Card slot was inserted with Planet Godzilla, originally trapped on Dragon Island."
Naruto's gaze swept over the player notice pop-up in front of him. He rubbed his chin and fell into thought.
"I never expected that I, an anime character similar to an NPC, could actually become a player."
"Now Planet Godzilla is also under my control!"
With a thought, Naruto could indeed sense the existence of Planet Godzilla across the vast void.
Planet Godzilla would unconditionally obey any command, without the slightest resistance.
"If I duel with more 'players,' wouldn't I be able to obtain more Race Cards and Character Cards?"
Naruto's gaze grew even more fervent.
In comparison, the authority over the Goblin Slayer World was secondary.
After all, it was just a relatively low-magic fantasy world. The Character Cards and Race Cards owned by the players were far more valuable.
"I wonder which player has the [Kakarot] Character Card inserted."
"If I could get the [Kakarot] Character Card, let alone a Silver Rank Underground City, I could probably walk sideways in a Gold-Grade Underground City."
Naruto retrieved the dice of the gods and rolled it again.
"Grrrrr."
The twelve-sided dice of the gods rolled in the void, emitting a dull sound. But this time there was no response; instead, a red pop-up appeared before Naruto:
[Item effect on cooldown, unable to establish a new gamble!]
"Item effect on cooldown."
Naruto glanced at the cooldown time—24 hours—and found it acceptable.
"It seems I can't make a new gamble with the players of the Goblin Slayer World for now."
Naruto waved his hand, putting the giant twelve-sided dice of the gods into his item bar, then turned and activated a Flying Thunder God mark, teleporting away and returning to the deck of the Ghost Ship.
As for Kakarot, who was originally halfway through descending, his descent was terminated due to the gamble, and his Character Card should have been pulled out by his owner.
"Let's go to Dragon Island."
Naruto stood at the bow of the ship and, with a command, the dark Ghost Ship transformed into a sharp, mystical light, breaking through the sea of clouds and speeding away.
Before long.
Outside Dragon Island, the Ghost Ship suddenly stopped.
Ahead was the incredibly magnificent Absolute Cube, thousands of meters in length, width, and height, perfectly square, trapping a section of sky, an island, and the ocean.
It also trapped the mighty and fierce giant beast within—Planet Godzilla!
The Absolute Cube, with sides thousands of meters long, presented a flawless, perfectly smooth, dark, somber hue, as if it had swallowed all light. Its very existence was like a bug in the world, an anomaly forcibly embedded in reality.
The surface of the cube had no seams, no patterns, only a sense of "absolute" that froze the soul—absolutely hard, absolutely isolated, absolutely still.
Even time itself seemed to become viscous and slow around it.
But Naruto could feel it—through that absolutely isolated barrier, he could sense a massive, unimaginably terrifying life form sleeping within!
That life aura was like a suppressed stellar core, containing destructive energy capable of tearing continents apart and evaporating oceans, carrying the most primitive and tyrannical planetary wrath.
Just the faint radiation it unconsciously emitted had turned this land into a "dead zone."
"Planet Godzilla—" Naruto murmured. Although Planet Godzilla had fallen into slumber because it couldn't break through the Absolute Cube, Naruto still felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.
The "magnitude" of this sealed monster's existence far surpassed the demons in the outer regions of the Red Moon Underworld!
If allowed to grow, surpassing the Ten-Tails would be an easy feat.
"I never thought I could become the master of Planet Godzilla."
Naruto stood at the bow of the Ghost Ship, a faint smile on his face, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Snap!"
A crisp sound, like shattering glass or space itself tearing apart, echoed across the entire Dragon Island.
The indestructible, perfectly smooth surface of the cube suddenly showed countless fine golden cracks!
The cracks spread rapidly, instantly covering the entire cube.
The next moment, the entire Absolute Cube, like shattered glass, collapsed with a roar, turning into countless perfectly smooth fragments that, in the process of scattering, dissipated into fundamental light particles, completely vanishing.
"Planet Godzilla, awaken."
Naruto looked down at Planet Godzilla, curled up in the shattered Dragon Island, and a majestic, supreme voice rang out.
"Boom! Rumblle! —"
It was as if an ancient god, dormant for eons, had awakened.
An indescribable, savage, and tyrannical aura shot into the sky, instantly stirring the clouds above Dragon Island, forming a giant Uzumaki.
Terrifying high-heat radiation and shockwaves spread out like a tsunami, easily flattening and vaporizing distant black stone peaks as if they were sandcastles.
Amidst the chaos of dust and energy, a colossal figure, like a mountain range, slowly rose!
Planet Godzilla!!
Its skin was like cooled lava, covered with rough and hard thorns and dorsal fins, each towering like a watchtower.
Its body was so massive that it obscured the sky; just standing up brought a sense of overwhelming pressure, as if the sky itself were falling.
Its immensely thick legs seemed to be pillars supporting the earth, and a casual sweep of its long tail carved bottomless canyons behind it.