Chapter 1 -1-Becoming a God Is a Scam
Burning.
The sky of Holy City was burning.
"Look! His Eminence's robe has turned into starlight!"
In the third row of the audience seats, the chief apprentice suddenly grabbed their companion's sleeve, their youthful face illuminated by the divine radiance falling from the firmament.
The twelve floating magic towers resounded with the Celestial Harmony, their music woven with the Milky Way formed by condensed moonlight as strings and the golden morning glow of the Solar Crow as the score.
At the center of the altar, the young man in white robes, Owen, smiled with his eyes closed. The divine sigil on his forehead flowed like liquid gold.
He had long ascended to Supreme Magus, and decades of accumulation had forged this grand feast.
Today, he would step into the supreme realm—the realm of legend—the realm of Gods!
As the ninth holy light dissipated, he heard a crisp shattering sound within—
The legendary shackles that had bound mages for seven hundred years had broken!
This was... the moment of ascension!