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[No way, is this right???]

Author: Angel 5406

(Upon logging in, an explosion of light erupts as user memes rain down)

I was happily completing quests after signing a contract with an angel, but suddenly, I’m dead;;

I died with some light bursting, and then this weird message popped up: ‘The Balance Adjustment has been made slightly.’

I was confused, so I checked the gallery and everyone was going crazy, damn it, LOL.

I went back in to see what was happening, and it blew up again; now my resurrection wait time is nearly two days, damn it.

Aren’t angels supposed to be nice guys? Seriously, what the hell is happening?

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─ LOL!

─ This is truly hell on earth. There are corpses everywhere in the kingdom.

└ Angels are backstabbing us…

└ I was watching the Dual Lily boss fight and got killed. I was in a safe zone!

└ I also lost experience points. I can’t log into the game now!

└ I shouldn’t have trusted the angels.

└ So that’s what Lily meant…

└ Was that really the Great Lily…?

─ It’s total chaos!!!

└ The demon boss wasn’t the problem, LOL!

└ Ah…

└ You angel bastards, seriously.

└ Yeah, I didn’t sign a contract with an angel~ LOL!

└ Maybe the winners are those who didn’t sign with the angels?

─ Lily’s always right.

[Those who insulted Lily, come out you bastards, LOL!]

Author: Lily Lily

(Black and white picture of Lily looking up)

What? Lily’s a betrayer? Is she crazy? LOL!

I told you, Lily has her reasons for doing that.

She’s supported us in every way—feeding us, raising us, helping us; what’s the point if we just sit around cursing her? LOL!

While angels are planning to stab us in the back, everyone just sits there, happy with their little holy fragments, cursing Lily.

Lily warned us constantly that angels are dangerous, but no one listened, and now we’re in this mess.

If Lily had cut contracts with half the users, it would have been a real disaster.

Get your head in the game!

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─ I repent…

─ Great Lily! Great Lily! Great Lily! Great Lily! Great Lily! Great Lily! Great Lily!

└ Lily is a god!

└ I’m sorry for insulting Lily… I didn’t think it would be like this…

└ Holy Lily!

└ Was Lily really right?

─ Sign it! The gallery!

└ The gallery recognizes Lily’s absolute defeat…

└ Surrender, more surrender…

└ From today, the gallery is Lily’s gallery!

└ I agree!

└ I agree!

└ I agree with this.

└ I was originally a Lily fan anyway?

└ LOL!

─ Come on, let’s all say ‘Lily, I’m sorry’ once. How upset must she be?

└ Lily, I’m sorry.

└ Lily, I’m sorry.

└ So sorry, so sorry.

└ Lily-chan, gomen ne.

└ Lily, you freak… you were the one who got us all killed first!!

└ LOL!

└ Info) After returning, Lily massacred about 5,000 users.

└ Whoa.

└ You killed us first and said not to hold hands…

└ For real, LOL!

└ That’s all part of Lily’s grand plan. She killed us to wake us up; it’s users’ fault for not listening.

─ It’s a big mess!

[Puff! Puff! Pop!! Pop! Puff!!]

The Explosion of Light occurs throughout the world beyond the Demon Realm.

I hurried back to the Deoen continent and saw countless users exploding left and right.

All of them were users empowered by angels.

I had cut contracts with about half, but it seemed that oddly enough, there were more contracts than when we raided the God of the Dead.

‘Maybe around 70%?’

Wherever I went, more than two out of three users had contracts with angels.

“It’s really wild, isn’t it?”

[Wow, damn!]

[This is a real mess.]

[What the hell is this fireworks display? LOL!]

[Insane.]

[I knew the angels would do this, tsk tsk.]

[Lily!!! I doubted you! Forgive me!!]

[I worship Lily…]

[Holy Lily! Holy Lily! Holy Lily! Holy Lily!]

[From today, I declare that the only god in this domain is Lily!]

[Wow, viewers are insane, LOL!]

[I agree!]

[How high will it go?]

[Great Lily.]

“…I told you so.”

I shook my head as I stared at the viewer count skyrocketing rapidly.

What good does it do to mention the angels’ danger until I’m spitting up blood?

They didn’t believe my warnings and kept going on with angels, and this is where we ended up.

In the end, the users practically walked into the angels’ mouths by themselves.

I sighed and began to take stock of the situation.

“First… I originally planned to take down the God of the Dead in preparation for this situation. I didn’t expect we’d throw everything to balance.”

I turned my head.

Up there in the sky, far away in some dimension, I could see the faint figure of the God of Balance.

Normally, it wouldn’t look this close, but since I was actively using my power here, I was able to faintly see its shape.

The body of that being had long been half-dead.

As the weight of the great ‘darkness’ known as the God of the Dead decreased, the ‘light’ also had to reduce its weight.

That’s why the God of Balance was destroying about half of its own body to set the balance right.

“Since it’s like this, the God of Balance itself won’t be very strong right now. It had to cut its own power for the balance.”

[Oh…?]

[Then let’s just kill it right away.]

[Huh? So didn’t it just commit suicide?]

[Great Lily, worship her!]

[Whoa!]

[Then doesn’t that make it easier?]

“The problem is ‘balance’.”

By killing off a large number of ‘lights’ remaining in the user and Deoen world, and cutting down both its Celestial subordinates and itself, it maintained the balance.

Crunch…

Behind it, a gigantic scale was almost horizontal.

“Even if we kill its body, if the balance becomes perfect, everything ends. It’s similar to the ‘end’ that happens when crossing the dead line.”

In the worst case, even if we killed the God of Balance, it’s possible that only the power of ‘balance’ remains, and it could arbitrarily change the world.

The system might block it, but stopping ‘balance’ is something for the users to deal with, and a quest.

I wondered if the system would adjust things for failing the quest.

[Whoa!]

[This is why you can’t trust angels.]

[Lily…]

[Is there a way?]

[But is it even possible to have a world-scale area attack? That’s way too strong.]

[For real.]

[Angels really went crazy.]

[The God of the Dead wasn’t this strong.]

“It’s not an attack.”

[?]

[Huh?]

I clicked my tongue, looking at the light swirling around users as they burst immediately after logging in.

That’s not an attack.

Even if they’re the highest-ranking Celestials, they’re still bound by the system.

If they had the power to attack the whole world at once, they would have adjusted the balance and changed the world long ago.

“This is a type of ‘buff’. It grants them more power than they can endure and shatters their bodies and souls.”

It’s a method similar to what the Empire’s Saintess, Nea, used in the past.

The God of Balance was pouring down ‘rewards’ called holy energy upon users who made contracts with it.

But those who received too much reward burst out without being able to endure it.

‘Excessive holy power is essentially a deadly poison.’

“Normally, living beings tend to accept what’s beneficial and refuse what’s harmful. Regardless, the God of Balance’s ‘reward’ belongs to the beneficial side, so there’s no chance to resist it.”

Normally, a person’s soul should have been shattered and extinguished, but the souls of the users are protected by the system.

While the body can be touched, the ‘soul’ itself cannot be interfered with.

But even so, they keep dying, and the situation doesn’t change.

“There are two ways to resist. One is to cut the contracts and stop receiving ‘rewards’, or to acquire a ‘vessel’ worthy enough to withstand the rewards.”

[Vessel?]

[The angel boss is really sinister.]

[How am I supposed to cut contracts when I die the moment I log in…]

[Whoa!]

[What’s a vessel?]

“The vessel of the soul. It means the total amount of power one can hold.”

In other words, it means they need to build up a ‘rank’ sufficient to endure excessive holy power.

Those with high ranks might survive even after receiving the rewards and gain even greater power than before.

But enhancing the vessel of the soul is never an easy task for users.

Originally, the vessel of the soul grows through accepting powers that are unbearable and getting hammered down, but the system actively protects the souls of users from being attacked.

As long as the system is around, the vessel of the soul won’t grow.

To grow, they would have to take damage strong enough to breach the system’s defense or achieve awakening by reaching ‘above’, but such users are quite rare.

‘At most, maybe Yena?’

Including Yena, could there be even five users who could withstand the rewards?

“The God of Balance is only releasing enough power not to touch the system. Under these conditions, there’s practically no way to escape.”

[So what do we do?]

[Whoa.]

[Let’s just kill all the angels.]

[Now it’s really time to kill them for sure, LOL!]

[They really got weak.]

“…I guess we have to find it.”

We can’t just sit back and let it be, even if its death causes problems.

But since the Black Lily is controlling the demon realm where its master has disappeared, it won’t be easy to achieve a perfect balance.

I quickly moved towards the door to the Heavenly Realm.

 

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