User blog:Mugen no Setsuna/Terminologies

Moving on from cosmology, this one will explain about the definitions as well as terms that used in Mondaiji and what they are.

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'''Some parts may contain spoiler from latest Last Embryo volumes. Proceed reading with caution'''

Gifts and Gift Games
The 2 basic and primary concepts that mostly used in Mondaiji verse. Gifts are basically the miracles or supernatural powers in which a specific invidual possessed, Gift Games are various trials or contests that the Gift users participated in, depends on the degrees that Gift Games can held dificulty to the point that required users have to use all of their strength and wisdom to resolve them

""Is this alright, you three? You want me to blabbing about the system? You want it? Okay! Let us start then! Welcome to the [World of Little Garden]! We summoned you three to this place to present you the right to take part in [Gift Games], in which only those with Gifts can participate.

"Gift Games?"

"Yes! That being said, you probably noticed that you aren't mere normal human! Those special power that you possess are Gifts you received from various gods, deities, devils, Star Spirits and the stars. And, Gift Games are games where you use these [Gifts] to compete with each other. Moreover, [World of Little Garden] is the stage that was created to entertain and please those with powerful Gifts.

Seeinng the way Kuro Usage spreads her arms and making propaganda about Little Garden, Asuka immediately put up her hand to ask question.

"Can I start with something simple? Just who is the "we" you mentioned again?"

"Yes! Those with Gifts that summoned from different worlds must become a part of the countless Communities on Little Garden if they wish to make a real living."

"I don't like this."

"You must join one! Better yet, the system for [Gift Games] is extremely easy to understand! And the winner? They can get a prize provided by the "Host"."

"......Who is the "Host"?"

"They can be all kinds of people you could imagine! There were games held by gods and deities with too much free time on the premise of testing humans, or a group organized games by themselves to show the superiority of their Communities. Going by unique traits, anyone can participate in the first type of games, but as expected from games held by gods and deities as the "Host", a large portion of them extremely brutal and difficult, which can easily put your life in danger! Obviously, along with all of that risk are luxurious rewards. Though it is entirely depending on the "Host", but receiving a new [Gift] isn't impossible either! As for the latter, you have to prepare your own bargains if you wish to participate. Worse, you have to accept the rule that if all participants are all defeated at once, you must present all of your bargains to Community of the "Host"."

"The latter is quite crude. What can be used as a Chip?"

"That also can be a great variety of things. Goods, land, rights, honor, people... And it is possible to bet the Gifts themselves. If you obtain a new talent from someone, it becomes feasible to take part in even higher level Gift Games. However naturally, if you lose a Gift Game with your Gift on the line you will also lose your ability."

There was a dark shadow underneath Kuro Usagi’s charming smile. Her smile could be taken as a provocation, so Asuka asked the next question in a similar tone.

"I see. Then is it alright if I ask one last question?"

"By all means, by all means♪"

"How can someone start the Game itself?"

"If we exclude the Games between Communities, then all you have to do is sign up before the registration deadline of each Gift Game. Shopping districts and shops organize small scale Gift Games, which you can participate in if you please."

Asuka raised an eyebrow after hearing Kuro Usagi’s words.

"Then is it correct to think of Gift Games as the law itself in this world?"

"Oh?" Thought the surprised Kuro Usagi.

"Fufun. You are fast to understand. But that is only 80% correct and 20% incorrect. In our world, theft and robbery are prohibited and bartering via goods does exist too. Crimes committed by use of Gifts!? Such outrageous bastards deserve severe punishment --- However, the nature of [Gift Games] is the opposite! It is a system where you can obtain everything as long as you are the winner. For instance, if you can clear the Games set by the shop, you can even directly take the goods on the storefront."

"I see. Quite barbaric there."

"I agree. However, but the "Host Master" has to take all responsibilities for the Games they host. In short, those afraid of having their possessions taken away shouldn't even participate in Games.""

~Volume 1, chapter 1~

The Gifts are the a part of certain user's soul, and it can not be enforced to take it out without the owner's allowance

""No......The Demon Lord only took away talented individuals from the Community and wasn't after the Gifts. Different from the Gifts that can materialize as weapons, what we call [Grace] is the miracle that has been given to various Gods, deities, Buddhas and Spirits. In other words, it is a part of the soul and is unable to be forcefully removed from the holder of the Gift without their consent.""

~Volume 1, chapter 5~

Shiroyasha explained the origin and true purpose of Gift Games and Gifts

"Gift Game is games of gods and demons that only those with power beyond common senses aka Gifts can participate. In Little Garden, this is an occupation on the same value as business, a prime example for Little Garden's cultural system --- This is only what is on the surface.

I'm sure that some of you have noticed, but this is simply pure lying. A type of convenient excuse.

Gift Games are trials of battles that gives form to inspections of history and phenomena of outer worlds, furthermore, its original form is proxy war. The history of outer worlds can be changed according to the outcome of these proxy wars.

In the first place, just as what Garol Gandack said in Volume 5, Gifts are powers that manifest in matching with the convergence point of eras aka "Paradigm Shift".

In other words, Gifts are a type of Balance System that the gods bestow for the history of mankind to move into the correct path. The reason why countless heroes, braves and historical prominent figures were summoned to Little Garden, is because the result of being summoned just like that during the retrieval of Gifts. All because leaving the Gifts at their original place would only bring trouble on future eras.

Rare as it may, there are also beings that were summoned from timelines that aren't convergence points. A large portion of them are humanoid, but there are also beings whose shape is completely out of Phylogenetic Tree. According to the records of the Divine Army, they called themselves the Cthulhu Pantheon (Cthulhu Mythos).

By testing countless worlds, histories and the pattern of phylogenetic tree, from the result of those retrievals, Little Garden created for itself its unique cultural system. In short, this is how the Gift Games become an occupation."

~Volume 9, Teach me! Shiroyasha-sensei chapter~

Spiritual Essence and Divinity
Spiritual Essence (Spirit Status) or Existence, is the main power source for most of beings in Mondaiji verse, be it gods, demons, star spirits, eudemons, special humans with Gifts...The more powerful one Spiritual Essence have, the stronger you are Here is explaination about Spiritual Essence and how to obtain it

""Years of ambition, you say......? I heard that even a mere animal like a cat, by living for enough time, can apparently rely on that alone to obtain the Spiritual Essence. Anyway, that is just an inferior and weak Spiritual Essence. Nevertheless, that goes the same for all wild beasts. By that alone, longevity beings can be regarded as Divinity. They will eventually create an explosive change on the ecosystem, that species will be promoted to 『Eudemon』.........But, your end won't be far if you sold the soul to devils. If you had maintain your cultivation as an adult and a beast, you would never fall into the level of a filthy being.""

~Volume 1, chapter 4~

"---"Spiritual Essence", a "Gift" that was granted by the world, and also the rank of lifeform.

Just how did Asuka, who was originally a mere human was able to obtain such high level Spiritual Essence?

When she was first into Little Garden, Kuro Usagi once deduced this:

"In order to obtain Spiritual Essence, there are roughly two methods:

First, "to receive upon the influence, merit, compensation and value brought to the world."

Second, "to receive from a miracle that occurs in lifetime."

There are other causes for this, but the majority of occurrences fall on the two categories above. Those that related with the first example at birth, are mostly famous paranormal beings such as devils. The second example, are eternal beings who step on Immortal Dao (become an Immortal) or those used victims and sacrifices as devils and rakshasas to acquire Spiritual Essence. Still, human mostly fell into the second category."

"Then, did some sort of miracle occurred on me at birth......?"

"Yes! For example, that "Perseus" you fought on the other day, he is the son of the Chief God of the Greek Mythology. Naturally, a human and a Divine Spirit, who are different lifeforms cannot give birth to a child, but those born from the distortion of that absolute law are beings on a higher level than the original lifeform --- aka Higher Being (Hybrid), they are called Shinzoku (Divine Race), only stops at the fifth generation...... Well, that Perseus does have the feat where he defeated the Gorgon, though.

As for Asuka-san's high level Spiritual Essence, I think there must has been a special circumstance happened to you at birth, or there was someone of your ancestors is a paranormal being who is related to gods and deities."

"Th, then...... that special circumstance must be related to my origin......"

"No no, you don't have to take it that far. You only need to aware as far "inheritance" is equal to "merit" as the fundamental law."

Kuro Usagi concluded the problem with the example about the devotion of the "Moon Rabbit" who is willing to throw them into fire.

--- Incidentally, as an extra. The status that gods and deities grant to their followers and weapons are apparently called "Godhead". That power can increase followers and weapons to the highest level of their species or type, but Asuka hasn't heard about the detail yet."

~Volume 2, chapter 4~

Triggering a Paradigm Shift (Historical Transition Period) can also obtain a huge amount of Spirit Status

"(Well, there are books that emanated to the outside of Little Garden like Journey to the West, though. If anyone wishes to utilize "Historical Transition Period" to acquire an enormous Spiritual Essence, there isn't any method from stealing at least a seat among the gods. There aren't many irregular cases like that Black Death (Pest)——)"

~Volume 6, chapter 3~

The benefit for Spiritual Power after a long time existing in Little Garden

"In Little Garden, the longer the time you existed, the stronger your Spiritual Essence is. Rather than a Gift, this is the natural law that was established so that Little Garden can firmly exist across all timelines.

Although these chronologies are all exist at the same time, however if you want to trace them back on the systematic tree of civilizations, you can see that the origins of everyone has its own division of before and after.

If two different entities clashed with each other, if the older is completely annihilated, then the history of outer worlds will likely collapse from its origin.

The identity of the Gift "the longer a Spiritual Essence, the mightier it becomes" is meant as a safeguard measure to prevent such large-scale paradox which ignores both microcosm and macrocosm units.

Despite that law, even if the older being was eliminated, they can perform several expectional re-summoning --- that is, resurrection. Whether that is the original who was eliminated, or another being from a different possibility, it is all depending on the mood of the one performed re-summoning."

~Volume 10, chapter 1~

The density of Spiritual Essence can affect existence throughout multiverse

"There are two measurements to indicate the level of the which called [Spiritual Essence] in Little Garden.

1st, [Total Mass] in the Material World. The Star Spirits being counted as a Strongest Species is because they were a species stands at the top of this field. The Star Spirits, the perfect lifeforms which are amalgams of Material Physique (Material), Stellar Physique (Astral) and Imaginary Number Physique (Tachyon), are considered to be extremely powerful among the Three Great Strongest Species.

2nd, the [Density of Time]. The higher for existing time of a [Spiritual Essence] from its materialization to the present, its possibilities of manifestation and its density of existence in parallel universes, the mightier and brighter a [Spiritual Essence].

The Star Spirits might be powerful in this field, but royalties and demigods of mankind are also correspond to that.

The which "completely identical phenomena can be observed" in parallel universes can be said as the strongest [Spiritual Essence], which is impossible to observe unless the act of observation is executed simultaneously with the genesis of the universe even within the statistical law of cause and effect.

The [Clairvoyant] (Future Vision) in Little Garden is to denote the power to infer these two measurements.

The two measurements of the universe which were established from Alpha (the beginning).

When mankind gives a name on this -- They called that - [Fate]."

~Last Embryo volume 5, Prologue chapter~

Because Spiritual Essence bounded with the existence of user itself, hence if one got their own Spiritual Status eradicated, their existence would also be erased

Divinity (Godhead), unlike Spirit Status, is the power granted to other beings by being with higher Spirit Status such as Divine Spirits, unlike Spiritual Essence, Divinity is just a small part of its power. An example is Shirayuki received Divinity from Shiroyasha

"Shiroyasha laughed lightly and looked at the water tree sapling Kuro Usagi held. Shiroyasha was talking the Snake God that turns Tritonis Waterfall into its habitat.

"So, just what kind of game you started and won? A competition of knowledge? A trial of bravery?"

"No, no. That would be Izayoi came to this place first and took the reward after he beat the Snake God-sama into a pulp."

Kuro Usagi said it proudly while Shiroyasha expressed her shock.

"You mean they didn't solve a game but directly fist her into a pulp? Are you saying that child is a Godhead prodigy?"

"No, I don't think so. Otherwise, you would be able to tell right away if he was a Godhead."

"Mu, that's also true. However, to oppose Godhead, it must be either both sides possessing Godhead or the difference in the balance of power between two races is too extreme for that to happen. If we are going by power of two races, the difference between a snake and a human is that of an acorn."

Godhead doesn't mean a natural-born god, but the highest level type of Gifts that transform your physique.

If a snake was granted Godhead, it will become a gigantic snake god.

If a human was granted Godhead, that person will become a Arahitogami or a prodigy.

If an ogre was granted Godhead, it will become a Kijin who can shake Heaven and Earth.

Also, the possession of Godhead would increase the strength of other Gifts. There are numerous Communities within Little Garden set the obtaining of Godhead as their top priority for their own purpose and they make that into a part of their power to aim for the upper level."

~Volume 1, chapter 3

Strongest Species
Refered to the 3 strongest types in Little Garden: Divine Spirits, Star Spirits, and Pure Blooded Dragons. They are existences that held highest ranks among other species with vast amound of power

"Even on this World of Little Garden where gods and deities gathered, there are only three supremely powerful species that were respectfully acknowledged as the strongest.

—— 「Divine Spirit」, who are natural-born gods and deities

—— 「Star Spirit」, who are supreme class in races like demons, or fairies, ghosts and so on.

—— 「Purebred」, who are the apex of eudemons, dragons who do not exist on the evolution tree.

These three species who was known as the three strongest species of Little Garden, they are opponents that are far exceed the intelligence of mankind.

These species, without saying are of the supreme class of all species, even the chance to see one of them directly on the outside world might not exist. If looking from another perspective, should a Community that has their attention considered that an honor to them? Even Leticia, who is a Demon King in the past, would try to keep her distance with these three species."

~Volume 2, Prologue chapter~

There also exist the 4th strongest species called Poets, however their power of course still below the other three. But they still can be considered as one of the most powerful beings in Mondaiji verse

Divine Spirits
Here's explaination why killing gods are not something can be done so easilly

""Perseus" is a knight that was described by Greek Mythology that was written on BCE. If that "Perseus" had his Spiritual Essence (Existence) deteriorated, there is a possibility that the influence of the Greek Mythology on the future generations is dropping rapidly. At worst, even there is a chance it being annihilated completely.

However, since the influence of the Greek mythology to the future worlds, becomes wedge on large-scale "Historical Transition Period" such as philosophy, sect, political,...... they will emerge on all time axes in one form or another regardless whether their stories and fables exist or nonexistent.

Therefore, superficial method isn't enough to kill beings ascended to Divine Spirits from belief. As mentioned before, since the Divine Spirits are lore of the stars, their Spiritual Essence can resurrect by the enforcing power which maintains their lore.

To kill a Divine Spirit, you must prepare for the method that defeats them by their lore —— or, a large-scale super destruction ability that can completely erase the history of mankind by a single hit, only these two methods are possible.

If Star Spirits are the Strongest Species that controls Spiritual Essences of mass and space.

Then Divine Spirits are the Strongest Species that dominates Spiritual Essences of era and concept."

~Volume 6, chapter 3~

Gods in Little Garden can interfere with all eras, not only the past, but also the present

""This Sun trademark.........It came to me when I looked at this symbolic logo of "Everything Company". You people or the gods of Little Garden, unless some kind of legend or an organization that has been bestowed a banner acts as intermediary, I think that you can't intervene with our world."

Moon Rabbit, Shirayuki-hime, Minotaur, Bull of Heaven.

Even though all of them are legends of outer world, they are accepted in Little Garden as if natural. This is a proof that Little Garden and the Outer World mutually interfere with each other, and also a proof that they interfered with the outer world's past.

"I should have noticed when I, who was living in the 21st Century was summoned here. The Gods of Little Garden are interfering with not just the past, but every era including the modern era from our point of view. No, rather, it's possible to interfere with the past, so there's no reason not to interfere with the present."

While he said so, honestly, it was a blind spot. But if you think about it, it was only natural.

Between the past and present, the only difference is whether it can be observed or not, and fundamentally they are the same.

Queen crossed her legs with a little interest and answered Homura's question.

"That's right. When we Divine Spirits interfere with the outer world, we make sure to do it through human organizations in some kind of form. Religious organizations are typical examples, but there are also deep relationships with the countries and organizations that lend the banners.""

~Last Embryo volume 2, chapter 5~

Why the true power of the gods is too dangerous for outer worlds to handle

"Twelve Devas───Also called, Juuniten, were a group of various gods who were feared as the strongest out the entire heavenly army that defended the world's peace.

The divine group was made up of various gods from the Middle East, Ancient India, and East Asia, most of its members being ancient war gods. Hence, it was considered to be a group of gods with one of the strongest war power. And as far as Izayoi was aware, more than half of them had descended to the outside world.

Among the ‘12 Devas’ led by Tokuteru Mikado, 7 of them have made an appearance, including himself.

War God, Indra (Taishakuten)

Mother Earth, Prithvi Mata (Jiten)

Sun God, Surya (Nitten)

God of Creation, Brahma (Bonten)

God of the Far East, Izanagi (Izanaten)

Iron-fan Princess, Rakshasa (Rasetsuten)

Guardian God of Wealth, Vaisravana (Bishamonten)

However, due to the sheer power they possess, it would be impossible for all of the 12 Devas to appear in the outside world at once, no matter how much they lower their spiritual power.

The number of gods a single world could naturally bear was three at best.

Once the number of gods exceeds that maximum number, just their existence itself could alter the laws of nature, make oceans go wild, open a fissure, and cause the sky to blaze up in deep red. Hence, if a god wanted to interfere with the outside world, they would usually send an organization which they shared their spiritual power with, or their own avatar down───yet, for some reason, this Mother Earth had manifested herself instead."

~Last Embryo volume 3, chapter 2~

Root of pantheons and what happen if a pantheon got destroyed

"She’s initially going to hear what’s going on the outside, but this situation is still a large event enough to go beyond her realm of imagination. The annihilation of a pantheon could cause unimaginable effect. A large event enough for the current timeline to be distorted.

That is because --- the Spiritual Essence of a pantheon is deeply connected with the history of mankind of the Outer Worlds.

A pantheon born when their Spiritual Essence was interwoven from the faith they received from mankind on numerous fields such as the personification of histories, the deification of rulers or ancestral worship, etc

Hence, the annihilation of a pantheon would mean the change of history of mankind.

Originally, a system which resummons a pantheon was allocated on the axis mundi to prevent that from happening, but if this system doesn’t work, then...... a portion of the Celtic Pantheon must had been erased from the history of mankind."

~Short Story: The Story Between the Vampire Maid and the Storyteller, part 2~

"Pantheon — The popular name of powerful Communities who attempt to coexist with the deployment of mankind from the World of Little Garden. As supporters of mankind’s deployment on all eras, it won’t be strange to view them as the history of mankind itself.

And, destroying a pantheon is the same as destroying the history of mankind itself.

In the World of Little Garden, a world of mutual observer, the destruction of a pantheon is also the destruction of a race, nations and existing concepts."

~Last Embryo Short Story: Dystopia Chapter - God King, Marches~

Divine Spirits are conceptual beings that can not be affected by laws of material world

"As one of the Three Strongest Species, [natural-born Divine Spirits] are naturally conceptual beings outside the influence of the material world. They are beings who were summoned from beyond the world by using deification of histories or personification of phenomena."

~Last Embryo Short Story: God King vs War God, chapter 6~

Star Spirits
The Celestial (Star) Spirits are species that control over celestial bodies

"The "Star Spirit", they are master spirits rule the celestial bodies on greater level than planets. They are the supreme species of concepts like goblins, demons, devils and so on, at the same time, they are also existences who can "grant" Gift upon the others."

~Volume 1, chapter 3~

Powerful Star Spirits like Shiroyasha or Queen Halloween can manipulate movement of the stars at will

""The disintegration of the land by time manipulation...... The only species capable of such large-scale destruction must be superior than the [Star Spirit] and even dominate the movement of the stars."

"If this is about a Star Spirit who controls the movement of the stars, it must a monstrous being equals to the likes of Shiroyasha, the strongest Floor Master...... Or even that [Queen Halloween], the Golden Demon King.""

~Volume 2, Prologue chapter~

A Star Spirit don't have true body

"“Hmph Hmph, a celestial class spirit has no actual body. It was just the side effect of having returned the Divinity and getting back my own spiritual power that caused me to become my larger self. If I want to, I can also transform myself into a baby, a beautiful girl or even a high school girl as well.”"

~Volume 8, the Off-topic Gossip, part 2~

Bare minimum to kill a random Star Spirit is to destroy infinite worlds

"If you want to put it in rank, the Star Spirits is at the top of three races, the two other races are equal to each other. This is not a problem of fighting prowess, but because the Star Spirits and the origin of humanity are completely unrelated, thus their birth is inevitable. The above are just unknown worlds. Hence, to completely kill a Star Spirit, unless you have a secret technique that can bring total annihilation on infinite worlds, or it would be impossible otherwise."

~Volume 9, Teach Me! Shiroyasha-sensei, part 1~

Star Spirits can easilly tear dimensions and boundary of worlds with a singer finger. Even further, they are not allowed to exist or desmontrate their power in Little Garden unless they have Sun Authority

"Star Spirit --- One of the Three Strongest Species stands on the apex of Little Garden.

The supreme beings who tear dimensions and crush the boundary of worlds with a single fingertip.

Most of them are forbade to exist and rendered incapable of demonstrating power on Little Garden unless they have the medium that is [Star Sovereignty]."

~Last Embryo volume 5, chapter 1~

Pure-blooded Dragons
Eudemons that doesn't exist in the Phylogenetic Tree and formed from a large potion of power, in other way, they are Lifeform which born from Nothingness. They have the gigantic body to the extent that some of them, their existences are equivalent with worldview and contained mythical cosmologies

""Pureblood of a dragon type huh.......not bad, I've always been interested in the topic of the purebloods of the dragons. For it's much different from gods and Celestial beings, a completely mysterious race of its own that I can't quite put a finger on."

"Really?"

"Yes. From the information I got, they are "Eudemon that does not exist on the Phylogenetic Tree", but that it should be a contradiction. Aren't the Eudemon a species that was born only when there was an elevation of Spiritual Essence and an explosive change on the Phylogenetic Tree? If that being does not exist on the Phylogenetic Tree, won't that be [Lifeform born from nothingness]?"

"Isn't that a normal thing?"

Leticia tiles her head, as if trying to say "Isn't that clear as a sunny day?"

Izayoi couldn't even speak up a word.

"--...... Oh? So, to put that in short?"

"Just as you said......... The Pureblooded Dragon aren't "born" but "occurred". A species took their shape when enormous power gathers, without anything to warn beforehand. They are Pureblooded Dragon. In latter generations, pureblooded are only when they are born from a singular reproduction, while those born from mating with other species are sub-dragon."

"Ah...... so if they were born from a singular production, won't their body be small?"

"No, it isn't that kind of thing. It is said that any pure-blooded Dragon, be it any of them has a gigantic body of the size of beyond any imagination. Especially the Dragon that created the Vampire race, it was so huge that their legends stated that it is "the dragon that carried the World"."

Ah? Izayoi, in all of a sudden, was suddenly fell into silent.

That is because he knew existences that have a very similar description.

——The so-called "the dragon that carried the World", is a part of the World Creation as talked by mythologies. Beside, its existence is also the equivalent of the Cosmologies by the narration. Sometimes, religions cosmologies referred them as incarnation of the Supreme God by mythologies.

For example, in the cosmology of the ancient Egyptian myth, there is this content "The Earth is a goddess whose body is covered in plants and lying the ground, the goddess of the sky whose arched body is supported by the god of air".

Similarly, there are many religious cosmologies that considered "World equivalent to God". But according to Leticia's words, these kinds of living beings which possessed mythological cosmologies are indeed existed."

~Volume 3, chapter 3~

From Tarou-sensei's Twitter, Pure-blooded Dragons are Self-Contained Universes and have infinite evolution

"Leticia: "First, the Pureblood Dragon's nature is "manifest without a prior warning". Even if you try to survey the entire Little Garden, this can be said as the unique nature that only the Dragons are correspond to."

Kouryuu: "Since they don't need merits, convergence points and even mutual observers are meaningless for them. Since they were isolated and separated from the cause and effect of the world as lifeforms, hence, the assumption was that the Pureblood Dragon to be either the possessers or themselves to be the unique cosmology that is [Self-Observation Universe] (Personal Universe)."

Usagi: "Oh!!? Was it alright to give out a terminology that has yet to appear in the main series.......!?"

Kouryuu: "It's fine. Even the main books that came out recently also has short explanation on the script too."

Leticia: "All that left is...... I know. There was a large gap in appearance among the Dragons too. I heard that Dragon Kings and Dragon Queens whose elegant figures are the most beatiful and fragrant, are known as to integrate with the blood vessel of the primordial lifeforms on the continent. And on the opposite, the most ugly dragons were approved by the Evil Gods and sealed in Outer Universes by the [Divine Host]'s intervention."

Kouryuu: "They could be even secretly giving out explanations somewhere in this corner without our awareness."

Usagi: "I see! That must has been the reason why Leticia-sama and every Vampire were so beautiful!"

Leticia: "Haha, you're flattering me."

Kouryuu: "Though the Dragons are of a distant world beyond our comprehension, there's a chance they would appear as a powerful enemies. If they are ever manifest on the Outer Worlds, we must harden our resolution to fight with everything we have."

Leticia: "Despite the Dragons have infinite maturation, rarely are any of them were born as perfect constitution. We should have plenty of chance to win against a Dragon still in its infancy stage. As long as we fight with guts, victory would never leave our hands.”"

~Ninth Offstage Survey~

The Pure-blooded Dragons can expand infinitely outside the realm of Little Garden and continue to exist eternally, transcended from cause and effect of the world

"“The mutual observation between mankind and gods...... Origin Candidate...... “Grim God of Black Death (Black Percher)”, Demon King of “Absolute Evil” and Gift Game, huh? In addition are the Three Strongest Species of Star Spirit, Divine Spirit and Dragon Species. Is Tokuteru also a [Natural Divine Spirit] of the Strongest Species too?”

“Yes. Fufun, were you surprise being observed from afar by a real Divine Spirit?”

“More importantly, is the Pureblood Dragon of the Strongest Species being “suddenly occurs without a prior warning” real?”

“Fufu, your ignoring skill had improved much.”

Tokuteru made a distant look for a second, but then replied upon sighing.

“Pureblood Dragon...... Right. They are a species that suddenly appears on the world without anyone’s knowledge, that recognition is certainly not wrong.”

---In fact, Izayoi also obtained this information from before.

It was something he got when entering the bath with Leticia and fox girl Lily from the previous night when he’s heading to [Underwood].

“Then only the Dragons are the Strongest Species exists outside the laws of Little Garden? And the Origin Candidate has something to do with the relationship of both sides on this Ouroboros?”

Homura was summarizing the information with a face similar to a kid trying to solve a puzzle.

It wasn’t one imagination seeing he was having a little fun with that.

Homura, who had summarized the whole thing, hit the nib of his pen on the entry [Origin Candidate], showing his interesting on the matter.

“[Is the chicken (god) first or the egg (man) first?], we both ask that question while establishing the relationship where man and gods are mutual observer. In all senses, the present state is a quantum monism, but since the existence of the Origin Candidate was established on human side, this became a dualism. Then, the “observation” of this case, would be assumed as not energy but a unit of energy, don’t you think?”

Homura spent a minute to arrange a vast array of numerical formulas on the parchment.

“If that’s the case, what we need to concern is the [Pureblood Dragon]. They do not establish their existence through mass like the Star Spirit, neither they have mutual observers like the Divine Spirit. In addition, if you can observe timelines from a Third Person View and exist on the World of Little Garden as an individual lifeform....... Indeed. Eternal beings with some sort of self-observation ability are the identity of the [Pureblood Dragon], correct?”

Ooh~, Tokuteru clapped his hands.

If he examines carefully the fact they are “lifeform (energy) that occurs without prior warning”, they would be lifeforms who autonomically born from nonexistence to existence, and so are they don’t need an observers, which means perfect isolation from cause and effect of the world. If they can establish their existence by self-observation, they can exist eternally without a loss of power and so are capable of continuing to expand for eternity.

Truly worthy to be called the Strongest Species. If there is something they are inferior to the Star Spirits, that would unlike the Star Spirits who were born as perfect beings the biggest difference for the [Pureblood Dragon] is that they have to grow from a young state."

~Last Embryo volume 6, chapter 4~

Poets
Fourth strongest species with their unique Gift called Game Maker. They can alter history of outer worlds with ease

"—— Little Garden "Poet", is not a word refer to the bards.

But rather the term for mankind eudemon races next to "Giants", "Magica". Although they are never powerful races, but their Poets were feared because of the special power of the Fourth Strongest Species. That is the remaking of the Game Rules of "Host Master" —— Game Remaker, an unique Gift.

Since the ancient times, the songs of the Poets convey history to the people. Sometimes a song, sometimes a book, through countless forms, they wrote world achievements that existed and gave a corporeal form to history.

Depend on eras, a Poet might even have a stronger influence than a king of a country.

The strong influence of the Poet sometime even allowing their fabrication of false achievements to spread out a king's notoriety, also making it possible for them to use their singing to distort true histories.

In Little Garden, which exists in all time axes, that's not only their advantage. Poets of Little Garden can easily even alter history itself.

It is possible for Poets with enormous influence to create even their own pantheon of gods.

"On that generalization, the Saints who created scriptures are belonged to the Poet. In Little Garden, they can use their talent to interfere with "Historical Transition Period" of wars or politics of outer worlds, thus expanding the scale of their pantheons. —— But, Canaria. You made exchanges of your own Spiritual Essence, to give rise to Historical Transition Period in outer worlds, right?""

~Volume 8, Prologue chapter~

Just by singing, Poets can corrode outer universes. They can also convenge and change infinite different worlds

"The poets of Little Garden saw the fall of the Vampire King as a great material for their literary works and used their songs and poems to propagate the Demon Lord’s birth to the entire world.

—-They sang of the Vampires as man-eating monsters.

— They sang of the immortality of the Vampires which never grew old or die.

— And they sang of the Vampires to be demon lords who crucifies others with stakes.

The poems woven by the Poets instantly propagated and eroded to even outer universes (different worlds). In the world, there were even many types of fanatical records of the primordial age that was handed down from generations where Vampires are a man-eating race, monsters who devoured even human corpses."

"This was all due to the poets who did not bother to clarify the truth as they spun their tales to their listeners.

"All were the truth" are the songs they sang. They who converge and change the different worlds which expand to infinity without even the fact they altered history exist since the first place, are the fourth Strongest Species."

~Short Story: The Story between the Vampire maid and the Storyteller, part 3~

Host Master Authority and existence of Demon Kings
Demon Kings (Maou) are refered to disasters that causing havoc in Little Garden. They are powerful beings possessed an Authority called "Host Master Authority", which forced anyone have to participate in their own Gift Games. If you are challenged by a Demon King with Host Master Authority, you have to fight with them no matter what. Because of that, the Host Master Authority currently is the most powerful Authority in Little Garden

Here's Kuro Usagi explaining about Demon Kings and Host Master Authority

""De...Demon Lord!?"

His eyes sparkled like a child who just noticed a new toy in the display window.

"Demon Lord! What the hell, how cool is that!? There is someone in Little Garden who's called by that wonderful name?"

"We-Well ... Yes. But it's probably a little different from Izayoi-san's imagination."

"Really? But if he calls himself Demon Lord, then he must be powerful, diabolical, tough as hell scoundrel that no-one minds if I crush with all I have."

"We-Well ... if you defeat one, you will probably receive a lot of gratitude from a lot of places. Depending on the conditions it may be possible to make one your subordinate after you defeated it."

"Hoo"

"The Demon Lords are certain war deities that belong to a special privileged class in Little Garden who have the authority called [Host Master]. If someone is challenged by them to a Gift Game, it's over, no one can refuse. We were challenged to a Game by a Demon Lord with Host Master authority, forced to participate, and our Community ... was robbed of everything it needs to function as a proper Community.""

~Volume 1, chapter 2~

Demon Kings are powerful existences that some of them can materialize worlds

""I truly mean it when I said 『How to avoid facing Demon King in a battle』. Only the strongest of the strongest with the ultimate mean can allow you to directly oppose a Demon King. In the first place, the majority of famous Demon Kings are Strongest Species —— and genuine gods and deities who can also materialize entire special worlds. After all, even those on level of a Great Demon or Divine Spirit can be seen everywhere within lower class and middle class Demon Kings. Only real fools or rookies would try to have a direct confrontation against them."

"......Oh."

Yō seemed a little deflated as she nodded her head.

---It was just as Garol had said. To win in a direct confrontation with a Demon Lord is outright absurd. Since Demon Kings tend to possess numerous highest level Gifts and beings on the side of endowing Gifts to others.

Average Gifts are far too insufficient to even shatter their immensely powerful Spiritual Essence (existence)."

~Volume 4, Interlude 3~

Originally, the Host Master Authority is the tool created by gods in order to counter Ancient Demon Kings

""It is the opposite, actually. Demon Kings are trials by themselves, with a shape. In the first place, the [Host Master] was a mystery that was created to release the Inner Universe and take the Most Ancient Demon Kings into their own Spiritual Essence. Its abuse was a story of after the Most Ancient Demon Kings were exterminated and stability was brought into the World of Little Garden.""

""To defeat the Most Ancient Demon Kings, who are trials by themselves, was physically impossible. Going by that fact, a mystery of gods and demons, which releases and turns their Spiritual Essence into trials, was later created as a mean to oppose the Most Ancient Demon Kings -- [Host Master]. That is, the original form of Gift Games."

This is the true reason why Gift Games was called the games of gods and demons.

The vestiges of the proxy wars between the gods and demon kings went through countless years and became the form as it is today.

"So...... that is why someone abused the [Host Master] was called a "Demon King"?"

"Yes. Because it changes your own Spiritual Essence into a trial itself. So it is essentially the same.""

~Volume 8, chapter 2~

The Demon Kings can change nations or even entire eras

""YES! Demon Lord isn't a title bestowed upon an individual, but a general term for the greatest calamities that are running rampant in Little Garden! They individually hold powerful Gifts, and are beings that hold abilities that can at times change whole countries, or even whole eras!""

~Last Embryo volume 2, chapter 4~

Last Embryo
The destroyers of everything in existence. Last Embryo - Last Trials of Humanity, are the Ancient Demon Kings that rampaged since the dawn of all creation. They are real natural disasters that can bring destruction to the gods, Little Garden and humanity themselves. Because it's impossible to fight them head-on no matter how much number one can bring, the gods have to create Host Master Authority, as explained above so that they can make Ancient Demon Kings join their own trials - the Gift Games

Each Last Embryo served a different purpose, hence the method to defeat them are also different. But their raw power are comparable to each other

Currently there are 3 Last Embryo branded by Little Garden as "undefeatable": From volume 8, Almathea explained what is a Last Embryo
 * "Absolute Evil" - Azi Dahaka
 * "Wind of Decadence" - End Emptiness
 * "Locked-off World" - Dystopia

""True Demon King are trials of an entirely different thing. And worse, they weren't ordinary trials either. They are manifestations of ultimate trials that can eradicate the history of mankind -- We call them, the [Last Trials of Humanity] (Last Embryo)."

"[Last Embryo]......"

"You haven't heard it before? That Demon Kings are "natural disasters"? There is certain meaning behind that word. An astmospheric disaster like thunderstorms. An earthquake by the movements of the crust. The proliferation of a plague. A large number of the gods being the anthropomorphication of these disasters is the proof us, Divine Spirits relentlessly created crisis on the existence of humanity...... Though we have exceptions like the laws of celestial bodies among us."

"Fumu", the two nodded, then looked at Pest on the side.

The large spreading of the Black Death (Pest) was one of the best example.

The victory over the worst plague of history which killed one-third of the world's population, was popularly considered as among the greatest trials on the prosperity of mankind."

~Volume 8, chapter 2~

A prime example is Azi Dahaka, when he and other Ancient Demon Kings got power-up, they can easilly wipe out millions of pantheons of gods

""So, that three-headed dragon must has been a Demon King brought upon some sort of natural disasters, chronologies or laws of celestial bodies?"

"......I'm afraid so. In the past, Azi Dahaka wasn't such an immensely powerful Demon King. Being such as the Juniten or "Great Sage Equals to Heaven" of Orient Pantheons, the Goddess of War or the King of Death of Occident Pantheons were his equals. But, came a certain day --- several Demon Kings under the command of Azi Dahaka, suddenly had their Spritual Essence expanded. Each of them, was strong enough to repel millions of pantheons alone."

"Millions of pantheons, you say!?"

Asuka and Yo expressed their disbelief loudly, forgetting the situation. If that was true, then it won't be a matter of whether he is strong or not. He is literally a threat of an incomparable degree.

Even the dejected Kuro Usagi clenched her fist and confirmed that statement.

"......It's real. Not a metaphor at all. This World of Little Garden once had much more pantheons than it was currently. Unfortunately, most of them were exterminated by the Most Ancient Demon Kings."

"To defeat the Most Ancient Demon Kings, who are trials by themselves, was physically impossible. Going by that fact, a mystery of gods and demons, which releases and turns their Spiritual Essence into trials, was later created as a mean to oppose the Most Ancient Demon Kings -- [Host Master]. That is, the original form of Gift Games.""

~Volume 8, chapter 2~

Explaination of Shiroyasha about Last Embryo

"The popular term for Most Ancient Demon Kings.

They are the original of unique cultural system on Little Garden such as Demon Kings and Gift Game..

Natural disasters that suddenly appeared at the dawn of creation when the gods fought with the history of mankind as the center. Unlike the gods' proxy war which initiated with the continuation of history of mankind as their premise, the Last Embryo are highest level trials that encompasses possibilities such as "a being that is impossible for mankind to overcome" or "the loopholes of the world". To make it easier to understand, you can they are the personification of "Host Authority (Host Master)" itself.

One of their terrifying part, is that they can forever host Games without needing concepts such as Geass Roll. Thus, to defeat them, you must have enormous knowledge, evolutionary perception and invincible resolution."

~Volume 9, Teach Me! Shiroyasha-sensei, part 1~

Last Embryo are the embodiment of Eschatology, like Ragnarok in Norse myths or Kali Yuga in Hinduism. They are the force to trigger the end of all things

"“……Humans and gods are mutual observers. And that is to say, in the occasion that one side were to be wiped out, this relationship would be torn. It would then mean that the truth behind the 「Last Trial of Humanity」 would be ---“

--- 「Factor α which will destroy the human race」.

This was the last trial given to humanity.

Hearing the demystification of the problem from Izayoi, Croix gave an evil grin and nodded his head.

“That’s right. In the Nordic lands, it is Ragnarok, in India, it is Kali Yuga. Ever since the ancient civilizations from long ago, the end point (Omega) X has always been the alarm that had continuously been rung for the gods to take note of. And that is also the name that the gods have given to it. The end of the world--- or, “eschatology”.”

That would be the real face behind those who were called the Last Trials of Humanity. The truth of the “time limit” was then the cause for Izayoi’s expression that took on an unprecedented look of seriousness.

(Then, as I thought, the Last Trial’s time limit is the remaining time left till the Outer world’s humanity is to be destroyed. If this is true……!)

It was a bad premonition and there seemed to be a certainty to the omen.

Although it was clearly easy enough to ask Croix to confirm his thoughts, Izayoi’s own essence was what rendered him unable to speak those words. The possibility of the impending destruction might not be in this world of Little Garden but the world that he had forsaken."

~Volume 11, chapter 1~

Ancient Demon Kings can eradicate countless of pantheons

"“The question is when Aži Dakāha came out from the cave of seal. He only discovered that he became unbelievably strong after another fight. The 「Heaven」 members back then was routed by just a single Demon Lord, that was such a shocking event.”

“...That is indeed impressive. Totally deviating from common sense.”

“That’s right. And Yamata no Orochi, Death Eye of Balor, Fenrir, Heavenly Ox, End of Maya, King of Ending Century also returned following that tide, we who thought ‘That won’t do, what happened here’ went to investigate, we discovered that if there was no humans who could solve the 「Eschatology」mystery of their spirit status, even the Almighty Floor (Little Garden three digit) could not win. God Pantheons annihilated by that rule breaking power were countless.”"

The difference between 2 types God Slayers, as the Last Embryo are the strongest

"Since there are only two types of True “God Slayer”, a big premise is always behind each type.

The first are “God Slayers” by historical view of the world.

They are “personifications or Demi-Star Spirit of primary factors which ends the world” regardless to the deployment of mankind. The majority of them are aorta of the planet —— An example would be caldera-class active volcanoes that interrupted the progress of mankind’s history. When a “God Slayer” corresponds to this emerges as a Demon King, although that one is extremely powerful, it can be sealed by a Divine Spirit for a long period of time. And, despite their classification is “God Slayer”, their current status are monsters who killed humans more than Divine Spirits. Yet, there was never an example where the extinction of human is their purpose. Or rather, that might not even their goal. However, their awakening alone can threaten the existence of humanity, hence, there isn’t a reason for they and Divine Spirits to collude.

The second are “God Slayers” by historical view of mankind.

They are genuine and indisputably strongest Demon Kings —— “Last Trials of Humanity” (Last Embryo).

These “God Slayers” appear only when “the destruction of mankind is absolute at the end of mankind’s history!”. Only an extremely few among all Demon Kings are this type. At the present time, there are only three.

Unlike the former, they have a clear goal to extinguish both mankind and Divine Spirits out of existence. They are conscious that they must fight for eternity until either them or enemy perished.

They are Demon Kings with the power to annihilate humanity, slaughter Divine Spirits and destroy the existing World of Little Garden.

This is the organization carries the Flag of “Birdcage” —— The Demon King of “Closed World”.

No one knows how to defeat them. The only Divine Spirits capable of deploying a hypothesis for that are the God King and a small number of Chief Gods.

Above all else, for Divine Spirits, these Great Demon Kings who mercilessly wield the “God Slayer” to annihilate everything, it would be impossible for their natural enemy – a Divine Spirit to share the same flag."

~Last Embryo Short Story: God King vs War God, chapter 1~

Paradigm Shift
The turning points of history of every universe, where a slight shift in those important time would result even infinite more branching points where parallel universes and possibilities correspond to them will be vastly different from the original universe and the original history. And there are many scales of Paradigm Shifts, some are "large", some are "small" depend on various factors in those universes.

For example, "the retreat of Oda Nobunaga from history", if he is alive and didn't give up his ambition, then parallel worlds which correspond to these changes will be born and its history will be vastly different from the problem children trio's timelines. However, universes of far distant future which had overcame end-time of their world or otherworldly universes like where the Cthulhu Mythos pantheon exist are outside the timeline of these Paradigm Shifts.

Basically, anyone who can cause Paradigm Shift will change the events on multiversal scale. However, due to the factor of how much impact one Paradigm Shift can affect to the whole multiverse, it is forbidden by the gods to do it freely.

Maxwell and Pest are main examples of Demon Kings that can cause Paradigm Shift in order to raise their Spirit Status.

Common definition of Paradigm Shift

""—— "Historical Transition Period", a term not only limited to mankind, but also the milestones of eras that were observed via the small unit that is a single lifeform. If you wanted an example —— a large-scale war, or a large natural disaster changes the ecosystem. The periods where they occurred are "Historical Transition Period". They are generally where eras stations on, and because these periods promote the convergence of histories that Gitfs manifest on countless forms. Hence, when tracing the root of a Community, one often finds characters of heritages, legends and on actual histories.""

~Volume 5, chapter 6~

The large scale of Paradigm Shift and how it affect to different timelines

"Although this is but her speculation, that "Maxwell Demon King" is likely the demon that was born from the thought experiments of physics and thermodynamics —— "Maxwell's Demon", this should be his official name.

A fictional demon was born on the age of 1860s, a product of the 19th century.

However, the accepted truth within Little Garden is, the golden age for the occurrences of "Historical Transition Period" large enough to affect the upper level was before and after the 17th century.

The history from that moment, especially after the nineteenth century, is where countless possibilities divide over the span of numerous divergences and where countless possibilities are hardly to converge. Since even on the 2000s era, Convergence Points that can give birth to Divine Spirits and Devils are almost nonexistence. It would be at most on the scale of an urban legend even if there is one. "Historical Transition Period" that grants numerous Gifts and Spiritual Essences are already being monopolized and converted by powerful pantheons, that is the current situation of the world.

—— Let's take an example.

"Perseus" is a knight that was described by Greek Mythology that was written on BCE. If that "Perseus" had his Spiritual Essence (Existence) deteriorated, there is a possibility that the influence of the Greek Mythology on the future generations is dropping rapidly. At worst, even there is a chance it being annihilated completely.

However, since the influence of the Greek mythology to the future worlds, becomes wedge on large-scale "Historical Transition Period" such as philosophy, sect, political,...... they will emerge on all time axes in one form or another regardless whether their stories and fables exist or nonexistent."

~Volume 6, chapter 3~

The three main types of Paradigm Shift

"Human history’s convergent point —— known as 「Paradigm Shift」, has three types. ①Convergence from discovery of supernatural phenomenon, concept. ②Convergence from country, religion etc. organization movement. ③Convergence from the ability, judgement of a single person.

In these convergences, the closer to the front the bigger the scale, the closer to the back the smaller the scale. Considering the impact to human who weaved the history, this was a matter of course. The reason humans began to walk on twos was also deduced as an influence from a major earthquake from somewhere.

Country, religion needless to say, the higher the quantity would mean the bigger the influence in the History. The king or the leader of the organization should also be counted in it. The condition for the trial (Game) to promote to divine beings was to collect ‘a certain amount of faith’, was because it would bring about a huge influence in history.

Compared to the first two, a single person’s ability, judgement would only influence much less. The strange tale of 「Jack the Ripper」 was only spreaded to the extent of documentary."

To understand more about Paradigm Shift using Nobunaga as example, you can read here

Another Cosmology
As seen in the cosmology's explaination blog, Another Cosmology or also known as Pseudo Star Map Creation, is the tool used by gods to construct their own worlds - universes, which are also alternate cosmologies and higher dimensions where the gods resided. So aside from this, what is another function of this?

The Another Cosmology originally, is a power used to destroy target's cosmology

"The power of 「Another Cosmology」 was originally used to destroy its target 「Cosmology」, possessing ability that could even exceed Almighty Floor (Little Garden three digit)."

~Volume 12, Interlude chapter~

Another Cosmology can nullify Gift's effect, and it's just an extra of its power

"Nullifying the effects of Gift, that could still be understood. That was not a rare Gift. In some 「Another Cosmology」, it was an additional ability added as a side effect."

~Volume 12, chaper 9~

Sun Authorities
One of the most strongest and powerful Authority in Little Garden, only below the Host Master Authority. Depends on each Sun Authorities or how some of them can be used, they have many Gifts and abilities, such as: Due to enomous power of Sun Authorities, on some specific occasion, the gods held the Sun Authority War in order to find the victor who can obtain Sun Authorities, there are total 24 of them.
 * Manipulate constellations and celestial bodies
 * Summon strongest species like Pure-blooded Dragons, Star Spirits into Litttle Garden
 * Immune to all kinds of weapons (bladed-like, this is the power from Leo Sun Authority, primary owner is Hercules and Izayoi)
 * Change the Akashic Records

Currently Shiroyasha held half of Sun Authority and she is the victor of first Sun Authority War.

Basic definition of Sun Authority

"——The Sovereignties of the Sun that orbits the Little Garden.

In this Little Garden where countless gods and deities roam, each star has its right to possession aka its Sovereignty. "Perseus", who possesses the Demon Star Algol is an example. Simply with the Sovereignty of a star, you can summon and abide an overwhelmingly strong Star Spirit or Divine Spirit.

As for the Sovereignty of the Sun where the largest number of gods and deities dwell on, it is divided into twenty-four part and disturbed into twenty-four constellations.

The twelve constellations in [The Twelve Equatorial Zodiac] - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

The twelve Chén [The Twelve Equatorial Chén]: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

The twenty-four Sun Sovereignties were created by using these two astronomical (celestial bodies) divisions."

~Volume 4, Interlude 2~

With half of Sun Authorities, they can restart entire history and make a new Little Garden

"“In order to make a new Little Garden………… to restart history, the Authorities of half the suns are needed. The people of the upper realms are searching recklessly for you to take it back.”"

~Volume 10, Interlude 1~

Owner of Sun Authority can manipulate galaxies in Little Garden

"The fall of the Twelve Zodiac Constellations of the Equator is not a normal event. Also, to the galaxies of Little Garden, unless you are a the holder of Authority, otherwise even beings of Almighty Domain would be unable to manipulate them even for a slightest."

~Short Story: The Story between the Vampire Maid and the Storyteller, part 3~

Sun Authority can change Akashic Records

"However he didn't understand the reason. True, the Sun Authorities had various Gifts.

If several of the twenty four Sun Authorities that held enough power by themselves to even interfere with the human history were to be gathered, it would be possible to even modify the Akashic Records."

~Last Embryo 2, chapter 7~

The scale of Sun Authority War was set to create new laws and order for the world

"Originally, the Sun Sovereignty War was one among the largest wars where supreme Divine Spirits, Star Spirits and Dragon Species clash against each other to prove their supremacy. The old Sovereignty Wars were said to destroy the stars, decide the volume of the Material World and bring upon harmony and order on the world as the conclusion. Since the concept of “Gift Game” didn’t exist back then, the scale of such war were both fastest and largest.

If a war on such scale was to be initiated again, the stable world will be thrown into chaos."

~Last Embryo volume 4, chapter  3~

Astral Gates
The Gates used in Little Garden to travel across different worlds with dimensional teleportation. Anyone stepped thorugh the Gates will be separated from Material World and turned into Astral form, crossing worlds like starlight

Beings that can manipulate Astral Gates can freely moving through multiverse as well, with each Astral Gate from 4-Digit layer or higher connect with independent universe.

Willa, Maxwell, Baron La Croix and Queen Halloween are the main users of Astral Gates but have different types (Willa is the boundary between Life and Death, Maxwell is Heat and Cold, Croix is eternal crossroad, Queen is boundary between the stars).

Here is how Shiroyasha explained about Astral Gates

"Shiro: "Everyone will step into separate worlds once they pass the gate! It is also one of a few convenient Gifts in Little Garden. That is the Boundary Gate (Astral Gate) which allows spatial teleportation!"

Sun: "The Astral Gate is the reason why we can maintain business within this absurdly vast Little Garden."

Shiro: "[Astral] is the word refers to the stars. Once you stepped through this gate, you will be separated from the Material World and turned into an Astral Body and can travel across worlds like the starlight."

Sun: "In Theosophy, Astral Body was treated as the unknown energy emanated from the soul and the mind.""

~Volume 10, Teach Me! Shiroyasha-sensei, part 2~

With the Astral Gates, one can jump into outer worlds with different timelines

"The most powerful movement technique is feasible by unlocking the "Astral Gate" and leap to time axes on the same level from Outer Worlds in different flows of time —— Popularly known as the ability of "Teleportation""

~Volume 7, chapter 3~

4-Digit Astral Gates or higher connect with parallel universes, user of Astral Gates can also manipulate time itself

"Although the 4-Digit or higher Gates on Little Garden are visually parallel to each other, but the truth is, each of them is connected to an independent universe. Consequently, the rulers of the Gates are free to decide the definition of Time, hence, the concept of “Proper Time” didn’t exist, but now they can’t do anything but to be bound if it is necessary for the conclusion of the Sun Sovereignty War."

~Last Embryo Short Story: Dystopia Chapter - The Crown Stone 1~

Candidate of Origin
The representatives chosen to defeat Last Embryo and most importantly, solve the myserious paradox called "Boostrap Paradox" that trapped gods and humanity in an endless cycle: Chicken and Egg, which one is actually came first?

Prime Candidates of Origin are Sakamaki Izayoi (Humanity) and His Highness (Gods).

However, Demi-Star Spirits such as Sun Wukong can also chosen to be another Candiate of Origin so that they can evolve into true Star Spirits.

The true nature of Origin Candidate is explained in volume 11

""「Candidate of Origin」............you say? I didn't get the joke, but with that talk, I finally made sense of one thing"

"Hou? Does that mean that, Izayoi-kun already understands who are the [Candidates of Origin]?"

"Well, roughly. In short, It's that right? The representatives in order to inquire "which is the true origin" in the birth circle of Humans and Gods. That's the destiny of the people like that Hakuhatsuki and me, right?"

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

Sakamaki Izayoi concluded that they - the "Candidates of Origin" were candidates tasked to reveal the final conclusion to the paradox game that hasn’t been solved up to this point.

"Those guys, calling themselves 「Ouroboros」demonstrated the current relationship between the gods and humans. This is just a hunch, but that Hakuhatsuki called “His Highness” is probably the origin candidate of the gods. That means that I'm the candidate of the humans right?"

".............Yes. It's roughly correct"

"Then, the reason that the candidates must defeat the Last Trials also lies there. Even if the starting point is determined, if won't be inconsistent even if the ending is not decided. It could be said that, we both are the prepared pawns to fight on the board known as Little Garden. ................Really, the games of gods and demons, didn't even consider the trouble they cause other people.""

~Volume 11, chapter 3~

As in Last Embryo 6, they are upgraded to have even more broken abilities, such as this

"“Then...... An Origin Candidate will have several essential abilities.”

“What are they?”

“1st, a 100% probability of existence.

2nd, the power to interfere with the past, the present and the future from outside a timeline.

3rd, influence on the world is extremely high in one form or another.

---Well, I can only think of three. 1st and 3rd are essential, but I will leave the 2nd out since there is a chance that ability is unnecessary...... Good good. If this is correct, there isn’t only way to save the world alone. We will need to consider that mean.”"

~Last Embryo volume 6, chapter 4~