Immediately, Dante felt the calling of the divine space and traveled right away. He did not even spare a glance for the lust-filled legendary monsters who kept pinging him, be they dragons, phoenixes, or whatever else.

When they saw Dante leave, they wailed in agony. It was just like back in school when your crush was walking down the hallway, and you waved at her, trying to say hi, but she didn't give the loser that was you a single glance.

Within the divine space, Dante saw that nothing much had changed from his last visits. There were still just over 100 platforms, and more than half of them were already dim and empty, including where Levi had previously been.

The Truth Beast glanced at his former platform with complicated eyes. He was once a 'kid' that was part of the 'orphanage,' but now he had been 'adopted' and found a new home.

Meanwhile, Dante was looking at the largest one at the back that did not deem it worthy to deal with him yet. A hint of desire was in his eyes, but he knew when and how he would capture that arrogant and all-powerful beast.

The Divine Space began to buzz with activity as countless wills connected with Dante's soul tether. When they recognized it was him, there was endless shock and awe coming from the wills, and they even attracted the attention of other larger wills that did not deem it worthy to deal with Dante previously.

Now that they sensed his grown power, they were puzzled as to why it was such a big deal. However, when the other more active Divine Beasts relayed that Dante had only been here just under a month ago with less than half of his current prowess, they were naturally dumbfounded.

Jesus, what frightening growth speed!

One should know that Divine Beasts were the strongest but also the hardest to raise. What Divine Beasts considered the most was talent and growth speed because if they signed with you, they did not want to spend years fighting every day while being weak.

So naturally, a prospect like Dante who could accelerate their growth very fast was very attractive to them.

Dante, feeling the growing interest, easily guessed their various thoughts and decided to strike while the iron was hot. He released Levi within this space and allowed all the other dormant divine beasts to see their 'pal.'

"ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE!"

"HOW CAN THIS BE?"

"I DON'T BELIEVE IT!"

Naturally, the response was very strong. Even if some of these divine beasts did not know Dante from the previous time, they knew Levi, and since Dante had come here half a month ago, he naturally had to have contracted one of them, which should be Levi.

But what was this? The omnipresent rule of their world was that any monster that was contracted would have to start from the 1-star level and grind its way to the top. So no matter what mental gymnastics one went through, it was a simple fact that in less than a full calendar month, Levi had gone from 1 star to 4-star.

However, this was only really one aspect of it. The fact that Levi had grown so quickly under Dante's care alone was enough to make them shook, but the next fact they discovered made Dante's value soar greatly.

It was the fact that Dante himself was only at the 3-star rank!

In the cultivation of a summoner and his summoned beasts, the summoner was always ranked ahead because a majority of their power and progress came from the summoned beats during feedback, which propelled the summoner forward and gave him the capital to feed back to the summoned beats so that it could progress too.

But what was this? Dante was behind Levi, so it literally meant that Levi had been the one to benefit more from their connection, even as a Divine beast!

What the heck?

Was Dante the Divine Beast, or was it them? How could a human have a soul so powerful that even Divine beasts were able to benefit from it more than he did Divine Beasts? Had the laws of the world changed? Or was it a fluke?

The best representation was the change in some beasts' attitude towards Dante. Where they had been slightly interested and adopted a 'wait and see' approach, they were now pinging him with red eyes like that toxic random teammate who was calling for a rez after trying to solo a full team on his own.

The ones who had been disdainful and did not bother to even look at him were now sneakily sending messages while snorting majestically as if they weren't moved by the situation.

Previously, only 10 or so beasts out of the 48 available had sent their details to Dante when he first came, but including those same beasts, the new ones, and excluding the no longer present Levi, Dante now received around 24 applications.

The original 9 were the Timeless, Infinity, Silence, Law, Soul, Paradox, Balance, Oblivion, and Anti-matter. Along with these fellows were the Fate, Fortune, Power, World, Devourer, Wild, Ascension, Justice, War, Love, Wisdom, Hope, Despair, Faith, and Success.

Looking at their abilities, Dante consulted with Levi. They both used the elimination system to remove the various beasts until they narrowed down it to two choices that would be useful for Dante in the long run no matter what.

In the end, Dante did not waste time and made his choices.

He took the War and Faith Beasts.

The War Beast was a large brown bear with sleek fur and a slender build for its species. Its body was covered in armor, and its eyes were filled with deep battle intent yet also clear, able to see the full picture.

This was because its ability was not to fight directly, though like Levi, he could also engage in fisticuffs. The War Beast was basically a tactician-type beast, who granted its wielder the ability to easily see the entire battlefield control his deployed troops with ease.

Even better, the War Beasts provided many active buffs depending on its rank to the army, be they organic or non-organic, so even robots would be buffed by its abilities.lightsnovel

As for how it was useful to Dante over the others, it should not need to be said.

Then there was the Faith Beast, which was basically a pristine white dove that glowed with a holy light. Just being around it made one's spirit feel cleansed and uplifted, and its personality was very soft and feminine.

Its ability was something Dante wanted to experiment with, which was basically the ability to gather faith energy for its master's use. Unfortunately, this divine Beast was not strong enough to enshrine Dante, granting him a Divine Altar with a lit Divine Fire, forming his godhood.

It just gathered faith energy directly at him and stored it. It could not even purify the faith energy into Divine Energy that Gods of the western fantasy pantheons used, so its utility was far lower.

However, that didn't matter. Putting aside the fact that Dante disdained the faith/divine power system since it relied on external power to sustain itself, faith energy had many uses, even though it was impure and slightly dangerous for mortals to wield.

Because Dante had a thought. Given what we know about faith energy from the affiliated fictional materials and even from the Summoner's World itself, faith energy was the condensation of the belief, thoughts, and wishes of one's believers.

However, shockingly, Faith Energy existed in science too!

Looking at that description, wasn't Faith Energy basically Psion Energy? The energy of thoughts and beliefs?historical

The Eternal Universe had mastered Psion Energy ages ago and moved onto the higher-level ones, but it was also the one energy that they had spent the least time on and used the least universe-wide due to how dangerous it was.

The theory of "Faith=Psion" was not discovered by Dante, as he was not the only one with a brain and a creative imagination. However, that research hit a dead end because it was not possible to achieve anything without actually having faith energy in its truest form to compare.

Dante had now achieved that, and if he could resurrect this research, he could cut costs by using Psion Energy to raise his own Gods.

lightsnοvεl Rather than a Divine Spark, he would create Psion Sparks.

Rather than a Divine Altar, he would create Psionic Altar, or a better name would be the Psy Platform.

Rather than a Godhood, he would create the Psy Soul.

Just thinking about it filled him with excitement for the future. As such, he collected Levi and the two new beasts and was expelled from the summoning realm. The other Divine Beasts that applied but were not chosen looked depressed, but slapped their cheeks and knew that with this monster's growth rate, they would be seeing him again soon.

As for Dante, he finished the ritual as the War and Faith Beasts appeared in the summoning circle, releasing their pressure wantonly, causing all the elders and their summoned beasts to quiver.

"Two Divine Beasts! My God!"

"The Saint Child is mighty! The Saint Child is mighty!"

"Hahaha! My Holy Saint Summoners Faction shall dominate the world for 10,000 years!"

All of them were giddy, and their aged faces became ruddy as if they were young boys being told that they were going to be given a PS5. They seemed to be able to envision a future where their faction ruled the world using Dante's power as a springboard.

As for Dante, he was amused. He simply informed them that he planned to go back into seclusion, and the elders nodded like chickens pecking rice. They spoke to Dante in kind and loving tones, like grandfathers and grandmothers who doted on their grandchildren.

After securing his avatar, Dante left the world. In reality, he opened his eyes in his residence and released his three summoned beasts. Levi was fine, but the War Beast and the Faith Beast were frozen as they were forcibly 'updated' by the universe in collaboration with the Cosmic Tree.

Dante and Levi watched silently until they were done. The War Beast and the Faith Beast had complicated and shocked expressions as they realized what they had been and how great it had been to be brought out of that quantum world by Dante.

"Before anything, what are your names?" Dante asked the two.

"Hmmm, I think I like the name Bernard." The War Beast said in a very masculine voice that was even deeper and more powerful than Levi.

"I think I will go by Dorothy." The Faith Beast chirped by the side, her mature and elegant female voice causing Levi to stir slightly.

Welcome to the team Bernard and Dorothy. This is your predecessor, Levi, and we've worked together for a short while now. He can guide you on the details of my plans and how to work best together.

Levi nodded to the two in greeting, and they greeted him back. Dante then collected them into his Soul Space and stood up, glancing at the still sleeping Beatrice as a soft smile appeared on his face.

He left and headed toward his corporation's giant building in the center of the city, specifically to the back portion which held his forces. After all, Dante possessed both a corporation for business and a legally recognized military force.

After dealing with the 'light' and money side, it was naturally time to deal with the 'dark' and bloody side.

When he arrived at the location, he was updated by some of the AIs managing the base that everything was going according to his instructions. The 28 students from the Year One of the Unique Batch who were ruined by their peers had long arrived and been undergoing basic propaganda brainwashing as well as basic preparation.