Chapter 535: Post-Battle

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CRACK

I hear the sound of bones cracking as I chew what’s left of Tsukiyo’s body. That dumb bitch messed everything up by killing herself. She really believed I would be defeated. How pathetically naive.

“Hehehe, how fun,” I murmur, realizing just how high the power of my true form is. I already knew I could survive with the bare minimum, but surviving with just an arm and a small piece of my torso showed me firsthand how it works.

It’s not how I expected. I still feel consciousness of everything, but fragmented, and with many of the body’s senses reduced. So it’s slightly painful, but it’s like being a fragile baby trying to walk again.

“Status.” I glance briefly at my Status, seeing that my level after killing that damn subordinate rose to 2 Billion. An impressive level.

Level = 2,000,000,000 / 100,000,000,000

Power = 1,999,996,250 / 1,999,996,250

Life = 1,999,996,250 / 1,999,996,250

Stamina = 1,999,996,250 / 1,999,996,250

Resistance = 1,999,996,250 / 1,999,996,250

Magic = 1,999,996,250 / 1,999,996,250

Total = 9,999,981,250 / 9,999,981,250

’Practically 10 billion in total power…’ I think what really matters is the sum of everything. In other words, the total power is what defines which enemies I can defeat.

“I think I can face and even defeat much stronger enemies now. But from what I remember, the power limit for Abyss monsters is between 5 to 10 billion, right?” I murmur, recalling this. Anything above 10 billion enters the realm of the goddesses or my older sister. Abyss monsters don’t reach above that threshold.

“Now… I think I should find my mother quickly…” One of her true servants has fallen, and considering their low number—less than 30—this will undoubtedly alert them all. Which is both good and bad. Good because they’ll all see that I can kill them. And bad because some might decide that making me disappear is better, since I’m a danger to their well-balanced ecosystem.

I begin to float, heading in the right direction. I’m still adjusting to using the speed my passive grants me, so I prefer to go slow first.

’Doom… I can apply that element to all the magic I have… but sacrificing my body is proving to be very bad… I need to find different things to sacrifice that don’t affect me as much.’ During the entire fight against Zhian’Thar, one of the things that dealt the most damage was me sacrificing my flesh to the Doom element. And, of course, the most damage was from that time she beat me up for several seconds.

“…” I hear some cracks. It’s very far away. Monsters are running from me. Now my aura has become even more blatant in the environment.

“H-Hahaha, I’m so nervous,” I laugh nervously, looking at my hands. They’re trembling. The [System]’s warning still scares me a bit. They’re watching me. At all times. So it creates anxiety about crossing the line.

’For now, I must be considered a variable that needs observation to determine if I’m acceptable or something to be eliminated…’ Forcibly taking a skill I would awaken in the future must have caused problems with the avatar that controls time, the avatar of causality, the avatar of entropy, among some other avatars linked to that.

Of course, I don’t know how many avatars of the Primordial Goddess exist, or what the limit is for affecting each one’s domain without punishment. But considering my conversation with the Primordial Goddess, I think there are thousands to millions of avatars, all dealing with complex and dangerous concepts that no one should have total access to.

’Probably the only avatars I’m sure exist are those of Death, Time, System, and Existence…’ Time is obvious. Death is also obvious because there are no normal means to revive people, and even I only managed to revive Velvet because her soul was connected to the Demon King title.

I believe the avatar of Existence also exists because the concept of existence isn’t “cataloged” in the universal laws. In fact, my knowledge of universal laws finds several gaps in certain concepts, as if there’s no exact explanation for what’s there.

“Curious…” They’re neither enemies nor allies, and the chance of me meeting them in the future is low. But oddly enough, the encounters would be relatively logical. Precisely because I am the Goddess of Apocalypse, since the apocalypse is also linked to all existing concepts.

“Wait… why is my goddess title so… abnormal?” I stop for a moment to think. All goddess titles have some logic behind them, but most represent things the goddesses created. Except for my mother’s, who is the Goddess of the Abyss, probably because she merged with the Abyss before truly having the title of Goddess of anything.

“Would it be a coincidence? No… I don’t believe in coincidence, considering the Primordial Goddess is omniscient… So why exactly this title? Does it have something to do with the old Goddess of Apocalypse?… WAIT!!?” I realize something I hadn’t noticed before.

’Why did a young goddess have the title of Goddess of Apocalypse?’ From the way the Primordial Goddess spoke, the Goddess of Apocalypse already had that title in her infancy, and even enjoyed the powers of being that type of goddess, while the other goddesses probably didn’t have titles yet in general and would awaken them in the future.

“Dammit, my head hurts from trying so hard to find answers for this… omniscience is really a bitch!!” How can I even find an answer to the plans of an omniscient being!! I bet she knew I wouldn’t know the answer.

“Forget it!! My grandmother is too brilliant for me right now. Whether me being the Goddess of Apocalypse is a coincidence or not doesn’t matter. I’ll ask my mother later how exactly each goddess title works!!” I say to myself, starting to speed up to find my mother.

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“Urgh…” I groan in pain as Lycoris applies medicine to my arm to clean the dirt from the wounds.

“Sister Aqua, are you okay?” Lycoris asks worriedly. She’s not healing me with her power because I have dirt inside the cuts, and she’s not sure if her healing cleans and disinfects like general healing spells do, so she decided to clean first before healing me.

“I’m fine… I just can’t believe I lost!!” I lost the duel to Eclipsya, and it was so humiliating. She beat me up in front of everyone, and I barely hit her! She has too many spells at her disposal to attack!! That egocentric brat!

“Oh, and congratulations, Lycoris. You beat Azazel.” Their fight was much more frenetic. Lycoris’s pure explosive power caused so much damage to Azazel that she often had to rely on her regeneration to avoid losing. And although she managed to wound Lycoris, she was at a total disadvantage because Lycoris never stopped attacking and ended up losing by giving up because the damage was exceeding the safe limit of a friendly fight.

“Hehehe, you promised that if I won, we’d do ’that thing,’ remember?!” she says with a smile while gathering saliva and starts dripping it onto my wounds, using her healing ability now that the cuts are clean.

The academy has healers, but Professor Akari said that small, non-serious wounds wouldn’t be healed because we can’t become dependent on readily available healing. So we’d have to find our own ways to heal.

“Yes, I remember. Unfortunately, I lost, but since you won, we can do that thing… Lycoris, how do you think Mama Pandora is doing?” I ask curiously. I miss her. I was one of those who spent the least time with her and wanted to see her a bit more.

“Ah… I miss Mama Pandora a lot… and… Mama Zephyra also seems to miss Mama Pandora because I see her looking at mementos…”

“I see, I totally understand her… Mama Pandora is someone you can’t help but remember…” I murmur, curious about her life.

“Do you think Azazel’s mother would tell us where Mama is and how she’s doing?” I know that woman sees the future. Maybe she could tell us.

“Maybe… want to try?” Lycoris asks curiously.

“Yes! It would be really cool, and even if she doesn’t say anything, it’s not like it costs to try… By the way, I’m also very curious about that so-called great alchemist of the demons!! He’s coming to the kingdom, and apparently, Azazel likes that person a lot!”

“Uhum! Uhum!! I’m also curious!” Lycoris says with a smile, wagging her tail.

“There are so many interesting people in the castle!! There’s Freya, Kaelith, Calypso, Aokitsu, Amiya, Evangeline who is still human!! those dragon maid sisters, and there are all our mothers and…”

“Wait!” I stop Lycoris for a moment.

“Is something wrong, Aqua?”

“…All of them… they’re all women… Tsk!! Perverted Mama!!” I say with this mix of pride, anger, and interest.

“Oh, that’s right… most are girls, aside from that Mikael guy who appears out of nowhere and disappears out of nowhere!” Lycoris says without really understanding what I’m talking about.

’Mama is so perverted! Surrounding herself with girls… well, I guess it’s okay…’

“I wonder what sex with other girls is like…” I murmur without thinking much about it, but then I look at Lycoris, who has tears in her eyes.

“W-What? Why are you crying!!”

“Hic!! Y-You mean I’m not enough? You don’t like me anymore, Sister Aqua?” She starts crying desperately, leaving me frozen in place.

“O-Of course I like you!! I just said I wonder what sex with another girl is like!!”

“WAAAHHHHH” She sits on the floor crying loudly, her wings curled up as she looks genuinely sad.

’W-What the hell do I do!!?’

“L-Lycoris, don’t worry! You’re always my number one!! There’s no girl better than you!!! Even if one day I have another girl, she won’t come close to you! You’re the best of the best!!”

“R-Really?” she asks, looking at me with those cute little eyes.

“Really, truly!! Mama Pandora also has several partners… ah, but Mama Pandora’s partners don’t have other partners. So Lycoris, understand that I can have other girls, but you can’t have anyone but me!! Because we love each other!” I want Lycoris all to myself.

“O-Okay, Sister Aqua!” She smiles, wiping away her tears. Emergency resolved successfully!! But she immediately jumps on me.

“S-So, shall we do it now!?” she asks, her hips rubbing against me forcefully.

“S-Sure…” I say, blushing with embarrassment but excited about it.

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