“Hasn’t it, Clark…?”

“What? That’s not my name… Who’s… Who are you…?” Damon called out, willing his system to appear, but… Nothing happened… Then, Damon tried to will himself to shift to another random dimension, or to create a divine field to protect him, but again, nothing happened. "Where am I?”

In the in between…

“What…? Where are you?” Damon was perturbed, utterly lost, as he merely floated around in the infinite nothingness around him. “Who… Who are you?”

I… I’m not sure… But you? You’re Clark Goldem… Chosen by another world’s gods and altered `in their name.

A brief moment of silence, before the voice returned.

Before you became Damon Steel, you were a normal man… In a realm far from your new home, you were a normal everyday person, and then you were whisked away, ripped from my sphere by some delinquent halfwits… And they really thought I wouldn’t notice.

“Wait… You’re… Are you the god of Earth?” Damon asked incredulously, but with everything he’d gone through, that would truly be the least surprising thing among them.

Bingo… Well, close… The Goddess, actually. About time you recognized me. Well… Let’s talk face to face, then.

And with that, the void shifted, to an infinite expanse of stars which started violently shooting about Damon’s form, as he was suddenly faced with a celestial body he was quite familiar with, at least at one point, as he came to a realization… ‘I’ve forgotten a lot since then…’

Yes… Yes you have.

And suddenly, from behind Damon, he heard the same voice, but from a singular source for once, as he turned around, finally seeing this Goddess with his own eyes, as the only thing that crossed his mind was revealed to her.

I am quite beautiful, aren’t I… Thank you for the kind, thoughtful words… But we have more pressing matters to concern ourselves with for now. Those who stole you from me, while not inherently vile or evil, they aren’t pinnacles of good, either.

“Well… Why am I here?” Damon was simply confused, and quite desiring to return to his women.

Yes, yes… You wish to go back to your countless polyamorous betrothed partners, so I shall make haste with my explanation, dear Clark. Or well, I guess you’d prefer Damon, for now… So, to begin, I was once a prominent being in my universe, before the countless blotting of the deity pool, so many, and then, boom. I was forgotten, and my influence waned… And all because I wouldn’t give those delinquents the fallen souls of my cycle…

“Again, why am I here? What can I do against any god, if even you can strip me of my powers?” Damon was nearly incensed, as he spat out somewhat seething words.

You fool… I haven’t stripped you of them… Not even those delinquents would be capable of truly disarming you of them, even IF they were the original source…

“Then why can’t I use them? I’ve tried countless times, but I can’t do a thing…”

Oh, you fool… Just open your eyes.

…

“Nhaehgh, wha… Where… Oh… Hello everyone.” Damon looked around, seeing his countless worried wives staring at him intensely, leaving him simply sitting in his throne, finally awake, as he looked over to a screen, unabashedly showing him the inability of the system he’d been granted to free him from that sleep.

And then, as he was sitting in the countless gazes of beauties, he heard a familiar voice ring out from behind his throne, “You fool, all you had to do was open your eyes… In a dream of my creation, anything I will, is simply true… But you always were capable of simply leaving it. You just didn’t know it…” She then walked around, revealing her beautiful form to the group, as the countless wives instantly prepped for an attack on the goddess.

“Oh, don’t worry, dears… I don’t mean to harm him, simply teach him a lesson early on… AND, to hop on the train while it’s still in town, if you catch my drift…” and after an awkward, though brief silence, she resumed an absurd sentence, “Oh silly, I plan to wed you. Ah, just think of it, a Goddess and a man, or I guess I shouldn’t say that anymore… Now you’re a Greater Demi-Dragon, aren't you? That’s all they gave you, wow, if we were still in my system you’d be at least a Primordial by now…” She spoke in a slightly offended tone, as she simply gazed at them.