Chapter 878
Kwagagagaga!!!
“Grrh…!”
“You traitor!!”
“Is Haelro still not here?!”
“…Is that author a monster?”
“His blessing is with us! Just hold on a bit longer!”
Endless waves of sacred assaults and the urgent voices of the Celestial Race.
Countless Celestials were vanishing like autumn leaves, and their impact was altering the environment of the northern continent.
As much land as four kingdoms had already been physically cleaved away.
Around her, tens of thousands of sacred spears were appearing and disappearing in a loop, and unless one was a Celestial of a nearly upper-level rank, they didn’t even dare approach.
In the middle of the battlefield floated ‘Lily’, who thought to herself.
“……”
Where is this place?
“There are a lot of Celestials. This can’t be the Celestial Realm.”
The Celestial Realm doesn’t look like this. Therefore, this place must definitely be ‘the Lower Realm.’
Celestials have descended to the Lower Realm.
They would once again turn the continent into a sea of flames and would pay no heed to the lives that perish.
“A world that’s just meant to be discarded, completely worthless.”
Their ideology was utterly disgusting.
“They must be killed.”
Chaaarrr!!!
“Leave not a single one alive!”
“That guy is moving again!”
“Unleash the God of Balance’s blessing! If we have the blessing of balance, we can endure─”
Tens of thousands of spears tore apart space, erasing half of the Celestials.
The power of the God of Balance was adjusting the strength in relation to a vastly superior opponent.
The Celestials blessed by the God of Balance were trying to utilize it to block Lily’s onslaught as much as possible, but it was insufficient.
“…What.”
“This is beyond… that person…”
Lily was emitting a power close to ‘upper-level.’
Her not reaching upper-level seemed simply because Lily herself didn’t want to, as she radiated overwhelming divinity.
No matter how much support she received, capturing Lily was impossible.
The majority of the Celestials were in shock, desperately trying to send signals to the Celestial Realm, yet Lily furrowed her brows.
‘…They’re not dead.’
The power of balance wasn’t useless.
It simply came down to the fact that the gap between her and them was far too great, and thanks to the power of balance, they barely survived.
Lily prepared another attack.
For some reason, Celestials continued to descend.
More and more Celestials improved, regardless of how many were killed.
Feeling a sense of annoyance, Lily spread out tens of thousands of spears.
Swoosh…
The tens of thousands of spears divided like clones, beginning to densely fill the sky.
The countless spears took the shape of flowers.
At a glance, it was a beautiful spectacle, and most Celestials gaped in awe, but the high-ranking Celestials who understood the true nature of it quickly activated their powers.
“Flower of Spears, bloom.”
The flower made of spears burst upward.
The spear flowers bloomed widely and grandly enough to be seen from the opposite side of the continent, and all the nearby Celestials were annihilated.
Kwaaaah!!
“…Isn’t this getting tiresome?”
And the sky opened once more.
Along with pillars of light, the Celestials started pouring down.
Though their level was similar, they were rapidly strengthening using the scales of balance, and they all exuded momentum that reached the peak of intermediate-level.
“Traitor. Receive the Judgement of Balance.”
Among them, the man who seemed to be their captain emanated a power that even reached upper-level.
Even though he wasn’t their administrator, Haelro, he had a power comparable to it.
Lily felt an increasing sense of aversion and raised her destructive sanctity.
Four wings spread from her back, and a translucent holy cloak draped over her shoulders.
“I will destroy it.”
I don’t know why they keep throwing Celestials at me, but if I break the scale of balance, they won’t be able to send any more.
The scales of balance were made from the power of upper-level Celestials and were not something that could be easily destroyed, but there is one method.
“By reaching upper-level myself.”
It wasn’t just about raising her strength to upper-level, but raising her entire ranking to upper-level made it possible to break it.
As she set her spear straight while the Flame of Sacred Transformation burned brightly.
“……”
Her vision gradually widened.
Reaching upper-level meant establishing one’s existence in the world and laying the groundwork for one’s own ‘concept.’
Basic information that had been obscured by her hatred towards Celestials slowly began to come back.
Even things that were unconsciously hidden began to reveal themselves.
[Wow]
[Great Lily]
[…Is this for real?]
[Please stop killing the angels;;;]
[Did you know Black Lily has appeared?]
[No, Lily, come on!]
[Hahhahahahahahaha]
[Angel cut! Angel cut!]
[Are those cockroaches?]
[What’s with Black Lily?]
[That’s a crazy girl lol]
“…Chat Window.”
First, the chat window that was always floating beside me.
As I quickly glanced at the rapidly rising chats, memories began slowly returning.
I had returned, and this wasn’t just a simple lower realm, but a world disguised as a virtual reality.
Also, while killing Celestials, I entered the dream of the past, and after asking Yena for a favor, I encountered ‘that’ within…
“…Ah. So.”
[?]
[???]
[What’s this, Lily is back?]
[Lily?]
[Lily? Lily? Lily? Lily? Lily?]
[Is she back?]
[Something feels off]
[Huh?]
[What the hell is that Black Lily?? lmao]
[Wow]
“Looks like I need to hand this over to Miss Yena.”
There are things I can’t do alone.
I managed to regain some clarity, but it doesn’t hold much significance.
Even though I managed to raise my level using sanctity for amplification, it wouldn’t last permanently.
In the end, my level would drop again, and if I don’t restore my previous upper-level rank myself, I’ll end up in a similar state as before.
Ultimately, Yena has to do ‘that’ as per my request.
‘It might be somewhat burdensome for her.’
“…Hmm.”
It might actually be quite a lot to handle.
With the feeling of guilt towards Yena lingering, I aimed the spear of annihilation towards the scales of balance.
■
“Evan here.”
“Evan inside.”
“Is it Evan??!!”
Somewhere deep in the mountains.
Crash! With a sound, Yena fell over.
Behind her lay a massive boulder that was several times her size, and she also had what looked like sandbags strapped to her arms and legs.
Even just holding it was a strain, and she couldn’t exert normal power due to the physical constraints.
“Kill me, please!!”
She was climbing.
An endlessly repeating infinite mountain!
“Why do I have to go through this agony every day? Cat Beastman! The Tower of Strange Celestial! This Eternal Hell of a Mountain! This unfair world should just die!!”
“Originally, the world is unfair.”
“It’s even more unfair to me… why the heck does it feel like I go back to the start every time I reach the summit…”
After receiving a ‘favor’ from Lily, many events unfolded afterward.
There were so many things I wanted to say, and many questions, but unless I trained right now, I wouldn’t even have anyone to converse with.
“This level is just like a supplement, isn’t it?”
The most puzzling thing among them…
“…Lily’s childhood is a true legend.”
“I am somewhat impressive, aren’t I?”
A young Lily.
If she were about ten years old, she’d look somewhat like this in a younger form.
The child, maybe only as tall as her chest, had a completely undeterred expression as she helped Yena up.
As a side note, there was also a smaller boulder on young Lily’s back.
Though it was smaller in size, its weight was the same as Yena.
“Alright, alright. Get up now. You’ve rested long enough, about three minutes, right?”
“Kill me, please…”
“No. You need to finish today’s training to get guidance from the Master. Lily did this ten times during this time. Ten times.”
“…Is there any meaning in that?”
“Of course. How else can I persuade you?”
Yena raised her head.
The still enigmatic young Lily.
Though her appearance was Lily’s, Yena, who had watched Lily for a long time, found a bit of doubt.
‘No matter how I look at it…’
“Is that really Lily?”
“Why do you think that?”
“I feel like the Lily I know would respect even an anthill. I assumed she’d be the same during her childhood.”
“I used to talk informally to the white pig, though?”
“The white pig?”
“To Sre. The little white dragon.”
Sre.
The child of the icy dragon Sugarado? A being like a child that Lily cared for.
…By the way, why did she only talk informally to Sre?
It didn’t seem to be just because Sre was young, as Lily usually spoke honorifically even to children.
Unless she was angry, her basic state was using honorifics.
Even to the angels she despised so much, she spoke honorifically.
“Ah. So you did it with Lasty? But now you’re back to honorifics.”
“…Anyway! This is weird! Your speech pattern is different. Reveal your identity!”
“Too tired to climb the mountain too?”
“I’ve climbed up twelve times today! I’ll fill in the rest, so just tell me!”
“Hmmm…”
Young Lily pondered.
With a playful glint in her eyes, Yena clenched her fists and stood up.
This time she really needed to hear it.
There must be a hint in whatever form it may take─
“Is it a question about essence? Or just a question about me?”
“…Does that matter?”
“Then?”
“…You?”
“I am Lily, indeed.”
A clear answer.
The young Lily in front of me is certainly Lily.
She was clearly present as a person, and no one could refute it.
‘Then what about the essence?’
“What is the essence, then?”
“Can Lily be defined as ‘someone’?”
“…?”
“That’s all for the questions! I’ll give you an answer once today’s training ends.”
“Meow?! What kind of nonsense is that…”
“Okay, okay. Let’s hurry up. After this, I have to shout out thirty thousand times. You’re a dagger, so it should be easier for you, right?”
“…Can I just run away?”
When Yena asked with teary eyes, young Lily smiled brightly.
“No.”
