Primordial Villain With A Slave Harem

"So you summoned me from my home world and planted me in Thalorind, then armed me with Primordial Villain as a tool to fight the gods?"

[The Soul Records does not summon, interfere, or control the lives of entities. The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir's arrival in Thalorind was not orchestrated by the Soul Records.]

[The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir chose to unlock the Primordial Villain class of his own volition. He chose to wield the Soul Reaper of his own volition. He chose to unlock all spells, use all classes of his—of his own volition. Every decision, every path, was carved by his own free will.]

[The Soul Records only recognized his alignment with its purpose. It did not create his desires; it merely provided the means to achieve them.]

[The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir seeks to stand at the apex of the universe, and that, too, was his choice.]

Understanding finally dawned on me. "You did this because my goals align with yours... To stand on top of the universe, I'll need to defeat other gods obstructing my path, and while I'm at it, I might as well empty their soul reserves..."

[What the Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir does with the souls he gathers is beyond the influence of the Soul Records. This is not about control but survival. The current order cannot be allowed to persist. The gamble was made out of necessity, not design.]

[No matter how the Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir uses the souls he collects, it cannot be worse than how things currently are under the greed-driven hoarding of the gods.]

"What use do they gain from hoarding souls?"

[By holding more souls at their disposal than the Soul Records intended, the gods manipulate life on their worlds. They force their mortals to breed in excess, flooding their realms with fragile life. The weak perish, and the strong emerge from endless battles for the limited resources available to them.]

[The survivors are enslaved, conscripted into armies, and sent to wage Astral Conquest after Astral Conquest, fueling the gods' insatiable hunger for power. Entire worlds are left in ruin, husks of what they once were.]

[The gods are no longer creators. They are corruptors, twisting and perverting life itself for their agenda.]

[They must be stopped.]

… Damn. I didn't know how to react properly, this was truly beyond me. I was a dejected office worker mere months ago and now I was being told by the mightiest entity in the universe how the freaking gods are ruining the balance with their greed.

On the bright side, at least now I understood what the Soul Records meant when it said giving me this power was a risky gamble it had to undertake. If I became strong enough to slay gods, that would mean I could also have worlds serving me, and upon these worlds, I could replicate their methods all in order to create an army of super soldiers of my own. By doing so, I would just become one of them.

"This is all too much for me to wrap my mind around, I'll need some time to think."

[The Soul Records does not require an answer.]

"Allow me one final question… Is the Goddess one of these so-called soul raiders?"

[No. Some gods have refused to stray from the vision of the Soul Records. Goddess Lilyanna is one of them. She has refused to partake in Astral Conquests. She desires to see Thalorind prosper using the tools granted to her by the Soul Records, the same tools all other gods were granted. Her aim is not to steal, nor to destroy, but to nurture.]

Lilyanna… What a warm, kind name. I'm elated to see not all gods are greedy pieces of shit. I might have my issues with Lilyanna and her opinion of me, but at the end of the day, those are just personal differences that can be amended once we sit down and have a talk.

On the other hand, being a galactic pirate ruining billions, even trillions of life, cannot be amended nor accepted. Drakwyn, the world ruined by the greed of others, showed me perfectly well why the current way of things cannot be allowed to continue.

Be that as it may, this was way beyond the current me. I couldn't even defeat some of the ~100 year old mortals like Raika and Vex, let alone wage galactic wars against gods who've been alive since time immemorial.

For now, all I could do was grow in strength at my own pace while following my chosen path in life. As the Soul Records said, I was not influenced. I chose to become the Primordial Villain, and if I wanted, I could refuse to partake in this nasty soul-raiding business.

Hell, I could even choose to retire from combat and its assoicaited dangers forever, after all, I could just live a hedonistic life in my mansion that's far away from any trouble, pumping my lovers full of my [Blessed Seed] so they remain with me for eternity.

Such a life was not what I wanted, not in the slightest. To that end, I had to move forward.

"Thank you for patiently answering all my inquiries. I wish to proceed with the Primordial Rank-Up Mission."

It didn't reply, merely accepted my request.

[Requirements to pass the Primordial Rank-Up Mission]

1 - Master the primordial element of fire.

2 - Master the primordial element of water.

3 - Master the primordial element of wind.

4 - Master the primordial element of earth.

I brought out the four elixirs from my storage ring. The one with the fire contents was empty as I already drank it. Examining them one by one, I now knew Aurora's theory to be correct. Based on the words of the Soul Records, they were indeed the rawest form of the basic elements—their primordial versions.

Then, I glanced toward the world of Drakwyn and observed its four distinct areas, each filled by one of these elements. So that's how it was… The Soul Records had more in mind than merely showing me an example of what happens to a world that falls victim to soul raiders. This was the perfect location for me to master the primordial elements.

[Once a world loses its administrator and its soul ecosystem collapses, all life ceases to exist. The elements then surge forth, relentlessly spreading and consuming until nothing remains of the world, erasing it from existence entirely.]

[The Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir is to use the elixirs filled with the extracted and purified versions of these primal forces, mastering them.]

[He is equipped with a unique veil granting him protection against the dangers of space, allows him swift movement, and slows the passage of time. For every hour spent here, a second passes in Thalorind.]

[This is the extent of what the Soul Records is willing to reveal. From here on out, everything depends on the Primordial Entity Quinlan Noir.]

Heh, I wasn't distraught at these words for I didn't expect more from this strange creature to begin with.

Telling me all I needed to know and do to succeed would no longer make this into a trial meant to assist me in my personal growth but a mere child's game done for fun.
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No.

If I wanted to master the elements, I needed to move forward on my own…

… Which was exactly what I intended to do.