Records of the Weakest Emperor

Chapter 137: Commandments

"You're back? So I presume that you've indeed planned all of this all along?" The Goddess of Compassion and Light asked with a smirk. 

"Yes, sigh... Now that I think about it, that was so close! If it wasn't for my quick thinking, then I might've been captured by the Cavaliers and possibly summarily executed by the church!"

Calvin still felt nervous remembering that particular day. Back then, just as he killed that particular member of the Red Cloud, he felt the approaching presence of the Cavaliers.

Left with no time to waste, Calvin had no choice but to use one of the trump cards that he had made in the carriage on his journey from the Forest of Everlasting Light to Ashmelion.

He didn't even manage to choose which memories he could seal and as a result, although he had lost most of his memories as to who he was apart from his name and a fake identity created by the fake memories that he left before sealing his true memories...

Calvin's muscle memory remained.

It was the reason why he managed to kill each of those gangsters in a single blow. 

Even though what he had done was a success thus far, he still couldn't help but feel comfortable about it.

After all, no one would feel uncomfortable knowing that their cover could be blown at any moment and they might be immediately executed by the church.

What's more, the Calvin that Calvin created from sealing his own memories didn't have the mental strength and experiences that the original Calvin had.

His end would've surely been gruesome and pitiful if the worse came to worst. 

"What beverage do you prefer?" 

"Uhmm, do you have some Matcha Milktea? I really miss the bitterness of Matcha and if you add in the sweet and milky flavour of honey as well as evaporated milk, then it's heavenly..."

Calvin acted casually towards the Goddess who offered him to drink something. Calvin didn't even bother with pretences as he crossed his legs and sat right in front of the Goddess.

"Matcha Milktea?" Surprisingly, the Goddess of Compassion and Light also didn't seem to mind Calvin's laidback attitude, "Is that what the Earthlings often drink? I suppose it's your favourite drink from how you described it." 

"Yes, it is! Just try it and you'll thank me for it!" Calvin lightly chuckled. 

The Goddess of Compassion and Light stared at Calvin for a moment, "It seems that you also know that I can make anything that I want out of nothingness." 

"Of course..." Calvin scoffed, "If a god isn't omnipotent, then can he or she even be called a god or a goddess? Well, let's just say that there's a caveat to it like how a god or goddess's omnipotence only works in his or her heavenly abode..."

He swept his gaze across the dark space and continued, "Can you also change the scenery?"

"If we are going to talk and do some business, then at least let's not do it in such a dark place..."

"You sure have a lot of requests..." The Goddess of Compassion and Light found it hard to understand Calvin's mind.

She wanted to refuse his requests at first but she noticed that Calvin's words made sense.

Then, she eventually nodded her head and with a flick of her wrists... 

The scenery abruptly changed.

There was no prior warning.

The dark space and the kaleidoscope of colours disappeared so fast that calling it "instantly" would be an understatement. 

"Now this is the real deal... I sure missed this place..." 

"You say that as if you've come to this place already..." The Goddess of Compassion and Light said in a teasing tone of voice.

Calvin stared at her for a moment before smiling, "A floating island with stone clouds as stairs..."

"This place above the clouds, built on a foundation of the strongest and most wondrous material in the world. No one knows its name nor even if it existed, but the fact that this floating island exists serves as the greatest evidence of its previous legacy..."

"Sadly, the material has been lost since the great cataclysm... Hey, Grace... Can you tell me more about that material?" 

"And why should I do that?" The Goddess of Compassion and Light said, "And did you just utter my honourable name so casually?"

"Come on, don't be such a killjoy. Since you've voluntarily removed the seal on my memories then I am pretty sure that you've been paying me your attention for so long already. Let me guess?" 

"Since I came out of that damned asylum?" A smirk was plastered across Calvin's lips as he said all of these. 

The Goddess of Compassion and Light replied, "I understand that you have to write secrets on that relic of a notebook, but why do you have to focus on me so much? If you know that much about me, then it wouldn't be strange for you to know a lot about the other gods? Why me?" 

"Say, Grace... Can you tell me about what your honourable title is?" Calvin asked.

"What does my honourable title have anything to do with this?" 

"Just say it to me..." 

"You think I can do that?"

"Oh, I understand... You must be embarrassed to call yourself with your own honourable title. I get it... Even I would be ashamed to call myself as the Unrivalled Super Hottie." Calvin chuckled.

"Then, why did you even bother on asking me?" 

"I was just trying to make you say it, but since you're too embarrassed to do it. Then, I will say it for you..."

"Your honourable title is the Goddess of Compassion and Light..."

"Can't you see it?"

"Compassion!"

"Oh, I get it... So are you trying to say that the reason why you focused on my secrets than the other gods is that I am compassionate?" The Goddess of Compassion and Light, Grace, lifted her arched eyebrows. This action, along with the frown on her face made her look incomparably terrifying to Calvin who immediately gave up.

"All right, all right, I understand... I apologize, okay? It's my fault... I was just desperate at that time and had no one to ask for help. Do you really expect me to ask for the help of that crooked old bastard Discord? Hell no!" Calvin coldly snorted.

Grace stared at him in amusement, "To think that you would dare to call the God of War and Infighting as a crooked old bastard..."

"You really are gutsy, eh? Even if we're in my heavenly abode if that crooked old ba ahem! God of War and Infighting caught a whiff of what you have said today, then you might as well never come out of my heavenly abode..."

"Hahaha..."

"It seems that you've also suffered under the anger of that short-fused old bastard..."

Calvin laughed out loud.

"There you go again calling him an old ba like that..."

Grace shook her head and continued, "Will you now tell me as to who you really are and why you are targeting me like this as well as why do you know so much about who am I?"

"Even though I may look like a woman who seems to be at the same age as you, I am still a being who has been living before everything came to, so I am a really old..."

"A really old grandma?"

"Hmmm?"

"Old sister! I meant old sister!"

Calvin hurriedly waved his hands in the air when he saw how the Goddess of Compassion and Light dangerously narrowed her eyes as she stared at him. Calvin might be acting so familiar with Grace, but she was still a goddess in the end.

Jokes were good and all, but Calvin knew that there was a boundary and he needed to find that and never go beyond it.

"Just tell me what your intentions are and who you really are..."

"Okay..."

"I came from the future of a previous timeline."

"The reason why I know so much about you and the other gods is that we've been allies for a hundred-long year due to that war involving those Sucklings..."

Calvin said these words so casually, yet when Grace heard what he had said...

She froze and didn't move for quite a long time.

When she finally returned to her senses, she let out a sigh and said, "Sigh... It seems that you are not lying. But seeing you hop onto this timeline from that timeline can only mean one thing..."

"Our future is inevitably bleak."

"In that case, why did you even choose to come to this timeline?"

"Do you want to change the fate of the world?"

"Yup!" 

"Are you serious?" 

"Nope, I'm not..." 

"Oh?"

"Then, tell me how you plan on changing the fate of the world?"

Grace raised her eyebrows, "If the world from the other timeline didn't manage to survive even with the strength of the other gods and goddesses, then just why do you think that a lone wolf like you can change the fate of the world?"

"Aren't you being too arrogant?" She criticized.

Calvin's smile still hung on his lips, "It's not entirely impossible and I also wouldn't be alone..."

"Simply put, you'll be my accomplice in saving my world."

"What?" 

"My dear Goddess of Compassion and Light, you still do not get it?" 

"Just tell me straight, stop beating around the bushes."

"Fine..." 

"The reason why I chose you is that I know that out of the Seven Gods and Goddesses, you possess the strongest commandment." 

"I want you to bestow upon that commandment to me and turn me into someone that can save the world..."

"Bestow upon me the strongest commandment..."

"The Emperor Commandment."