Urban Plundering: I Corrupted The System!
Chapter 472 - 472: The Severing

"Daddy," Nyxavere called out, her voice carrying that particular note that meant her omniscience had just shown her something deeply unpleasant.

Parker didn't even look up from his coffee. "I know, baby. I know."

The casual way he said it made everyone in the room go still. Zhang Ruoyun's perfectly composed expression shifted slightly, Maya's hand tightened around her mug, and even Annabelle stopped her dramatic posing to pay attention.

"Know what, daddy?" Seraphina asked, her childlike curiosity cutting through the tension.

"The gods," Nyxavere said, her usual streaming energy replaced by grim certainty. "All of them. Every pantheon is mobilizing. They're not sending champions this time."

Parker finally looked up, and his smile was sharp enough to cut dimensions. "Of course they are. Can't have humans getting uppity and thinking they don't need to worship cosmic assholes anymore."

He stood, rolling his shoulders like he was preparing for a workout rather than what was probably about to be the most significant display of power in cosmic history. "Well, time to fix that little problem."

"Fix it how?" Maya asked, though her expression showed she was already calculating the cosmic implications.

Parker's grin widened. "By making sure they can't reach Earth to throw their little tantrum. Although I will beat them black and blue anyway, I don't want to make my humans suffer anymore, Manhattan was enough"

He walked to the center of the room, and reality seemed to bend slightly around him, like space itself was making room for what was coming. "You know what the beautiful thing about being omnipotent is? When you decide something is going to happen, the universe doesn't get to argue."

Parker closed his eyes and extended his consciousness beyond the palace, beyond Earth, into the cosmic spaces between realms.

Somewhere called, The Threshold Space...

In the vast emptiness between mortal and divine realms, where concepts like distance and direction existed only as suggestions, Parker's will manifested as absolute law.

"VOID," he spoke, and his voice echoed across dimensions.

The space between Earth and every divine realm suddenly exploded outward. Not just distance—pure, absolute nothingness that consumed the pathways gods had used for millennia. Where once there had been cosmic bridges, dimensional highways, and spiritual connections, now there was only void so complete that even the concept of travel couldn't exist within it.

In Olympus, Zeus stood frozen as his golden pathways to Earth simply... vanished. The roads of light that had connected divine realm to mortal world since time immemorial were being devoured by emptiness that hurt to perceive.

"BALANCE," Zhang Ruoyun said, her voice carrying the authority of fundamental cosmic law. Her consciousness merged with Parker's across the threshold space, and the chaotic void he'd created suddenly stabilized into perfect, inviolable separation.

She wasn't struggling—she was working. This was what Balance itself looked like when it decided to permanently separate two aspects of reality. Her power flowed through the growing chasm like liquid starlight, making the severing not just physical but metaphysically absolute.

"SPACE," Parker continued, his omnipotent will rewriting the very coordinates of existence. Every dimensional map that led to Earth became encrypted with authority so absolute that accessing them would require his personal permission—which would never come.

The gods felt it immediately. Pathways they'd known for eons simply stopped existing in their perception.

When Odin tried to navigate the cosmic tree Yggdrasil toward Earth, he found branches that led... nowhere. When Amaterasu attempted to send her light to the mortal realm, it hit barriers that had always been there and always would be.

"TIME," and this word rewrote causality itself. The isolation wasn't just happening now—it became retroactive across all timelines. Past, present, and future, the separation had always existed. Gods trying to access Earth through temporal manipulation found themselves hitting walls that seemed to have been built at the moment of creation.

In the threshold space, time itself bent around Parker's will. The void he'd created wasn't just blocking current divine access—it was editing the history of divine-mortal interaction, making the separation a fundamental law of reality that had always been true.

"SOULS," Parker finished, and this was the most elegant part. Human spiritual connection to cosmic forces didn't disappear—it was filtered. A vast spiritual firewall materialized in the void, sorting beneficial universal energies from harmful divine manipulation with perfect omnipotent precision.

Back in the Palace...

Maya watched with the appreciation of someone who'd seen Parker reshape reality before, but never quite like this. "The scope is incredible," she murmured, her soul-deep connection letting her feel the magnitude without being overwhelmed by it. "You're not just blocking them—you're making their access to Earth cosmically illegal."

Nyxavere's omniscience was tracking the effects in real-time, showing her divine realms suddenly finding themselves in complete isolation.

"Dad, Zeus just tried to manifest on Earth and got bounced back so hard he crashed into his own throne. Odin's ravens can't even find Earth anymore—it just doesn't exist in their navigation."

Zhang Ruoyun's wings were fully manifested, stretching wide as she maintained the cosmic balance needed for such a fundamental separation.

"The equilibrium is perfect," she said with satisfaction. "Earth remains connected to beneficial cosmic forces while being completely isolated from divine interference."

Seraphina looked up at her father with the wide-eyed wonder only a child could maintain. "Daddy, does this mean the mean gods can't bother us anymore?"

Parker's expression softened as he looked at his daughter. "That's exactly what it means, sweetheart. No more gods playing games with people."

Around the room, the reactions varied. Bella stood transfixed, her life magic registering the fundamental shift in cosmic law. Elena maintained her battlemaid posture but her eyes showed deep respect for the tactical brilliance of the solution. Annabelle looked impressed despite herself.

But it was the weaker family members who truly felt the magnitude. Naomi gasped as the oppressive weight of divine attention that had pressed on humanity for millennia simply vanished. Cassidy blinked in confusion as forces she couldn't perceive shifted around her.

*

In the threshold space Parker had created, the void pulsed with absolute authority. Divine realms that had once been connected to Earth by bridges of faith, worship, and spiritual energy now found themselves completely isolated.

The separation wasn't violent—it was absolute. Like a cosmic surgeon had cleanly severed every connection with perfect precision, leaving no wound, no trauma, just... separation.

Gods who tried to force their way through found themselves facing not a barrier they could break, but a fundamental law of reality that simply made their access impossible. It wasn't that they were blocked—it was that the concept of reaching Earth no longer applied to them.

*

Parker opened his eyes and lowered his hands. The cosmic harmonics faded, but the effect was permanent.

"And that," he said with satisfaction, "is how you solve a divine tantrum. They wanted to prevent human evolution? Fine. They don't get to participate in human affairs anymore. At all."

Zhang Ruoyun folded her wings back into invisibility, the faintest smile playing at her lips. "Elegant. Absolute. And completely inviolable."

Maya nodded approvingly. "They can't even complain to the Cosmic Council about this—you didn't attack them or violate any cosmic laws. You just... opted out of divine oversight."

Nyxavere's grin was sharp as her father's. "This is going to be such great content. 'My Dad Just Made Gods Irrelevant: A Streaming Special.'"

And in divine realms across the cosmos, gods of every pantheon found themselves locked out of the realm they'd considered their personal playground, facing the reality that the Age of Gods was over.

The Awakening Era had truly begun with him protecting humans so they go through the awakening without having gods interference. It was cool to play hero in shadows without anyone knowing. Well, it was only for now, and he wasn't exactly a hero. Didn't want trouble to deal with gods, he had a mission from his mother after all. And he better do it well or he won't be able to cash in rewards from her.