My Goddess is Good at Pretending-Chapter 763: No Cure for Curiosity
Beneath the broken starlight of a half-ruined dark universe, a silence as vast as eternity stretched between two godly beings.
Elysia clothed in a radiance of divine serenity hovered lightly amid the drifting remnants of shattered stars. The magnificent and unfathomable Seraph of the End floated opposite her, a colossal celestial entity, a planet-sized eye wreathed in twelve blazing heavenly wings.
The aftermath of their 'friendly battle' was catastrophic. Half a quadrant of the universe lay devastated, nebulae ripped apart, star systems unrooted, and black holes howled into the void, making the already dim universe even darker than ever.
"..." Elysia gazed upon her hand.
She was recently revived, but she could no longer feel her sisters' consciousness within her soul. Her pantheon members were forced to hibernate in the Elysian Realm to protect them from backlash and Sera's reach. She exerted far too much divine power to counter Seraph of the End, and her God Mode Fusion was also in hibernate mode, still in cooldown until an undetermined time.
Weeks prior, she had fulfilled her promise to this strange celestial being who had gazed upon her divinity with infinite curiosity.
Sera issued a battle right after they met due to an unknown anger. As a result, she was killed thrice, but she managed to kill Sera twice. It took weeks for Sera to calm down and listen to her for a break. If not, Sera would surely push her into another round of battle that would never end until their divine power and life force dried up.
However, she knew it... Sera still didn't feel satisfied yet. This temporary break was just to honor her request. After she recovered, Sera would surely drag her into an insane battle once again.
"Sera, why are you so fond of fighting me? Can't we just make peace and be friends? I can't show you something more interesting than a battle of might if you're like this..." Elysia asked in a weak tone as she felt really exhausted.
She rejected Sera's healing spell and slowed down her recovery so Sera wouldn't drag her to another round of battle that soon. At this moment, she didn't even have time to think about the escaped Sovereign of Abyss. Helfheim was obviously still wandering in an unknown corner of this Boundless Realm, watching from afar.
"You remind me of something, and I'm trying to figure out your boundaries and origins." Sera replied nonchalantly as if it didn't mean much, but deep within her, she really wanted to discover something out of Elysia.
"I won't run away, so you can figure it out slowly after you get to know me better. You killed me, and I can no longer continue."
"Didn't I revive you as many times as I killed you? I even fixed you to your prime condition."
"Yeah, but my spirit is exhausted. By your standard, I'm still a lesser god, or maybe a little mortal. Please go easy with me."
"No lesser god or mortal can kill me twice in one battle. You've grown more attractive since the last time we met."
"Thank you. I've grown stronger. If you keep bullying me, someday, I'll bite you and you'll regret it."
"I'll look forward to that day, heh."
"..."
Elysia just closed her eyes as Sera's massive eye glazed at her entire body.
Seeing Elysia become unresponsive and reject her instant recovery, Sera turned her attention to something else as she knew Elysia couldn't accompany her for another round of 'friendly match' temporarily. "What did you want to do with those filthy creatures to begin with? You brought them here, but you just threw them away to those shadow beasts."
"That's your fault. There's something wrong with the Sovereign of Abyss. I wanted to show you that, but that thing escaped and hid itself completely." Elysia tried to locate the Sovereign of Abyss through the imprinted mark she placed when she killed the Sovereign of Abyss spiritually previously, but the target seemed to have disappeared, hiding nobody knows where.
"That thing is not worth mentioning. Didn't it perish with just a glance of mine?"
"..."
Elysia was silent for a few seconds. The moment after she brought the Sovereign of Abyss and the entire Nirvana Abyssal Demon's legion, Sera simply glanced at them, and everything perished in the gamma-ray burst.
However, she could sense the Sovereign of Abyss managed to escape. Unfortunately, Sera peered into her Primogem, got blasted but unwounded, and then attacked her in irritation right after. She has no time for anything else because of it.
"I don't know anymore. I'm dead tired, so you better take good care of me. I won't accompany you for a while. Don't wake me up before I wake up on my own. Don't disturb me, or I will be angry." Elysia took out a futon set and flew to Sera's top.
She lay there like a sleeping beauty right after, believing Sera wouldn't harm her while she was asleep, but she still took some precautions just in case.
Sera's planetary celestial body was just like a mini planet or a bright star, and she used it as her base.
Before she drifted into sleep, she wondered how strong Sera really was. It was just her guess, but her previous eye ability during her Vrelenia's episode showed a different status than after she cultivated in Quadtria.
Her eye ability got upgraded, and she could peer into something greater, but apparently, she still couldn't gauge Sera's true power. Well, the stats of the godly beings were just meaningless because they could rise and fall as one pleased.
[Elysia (FV: Error) | Supreme Goddess of Mysterious Origin | 20th Rank]
[Talent: N/A | Unknown]
[Sera (FV: Error) | Seraph of the End | 20th Rank]
[Favorability: 80%]
[Talent: N/A | Unknown]
Elysia checked her status screen and compared it to Sera's. Sera's rank was different from the last time she saw it, and it should be what Sera was allowed to see. As for Sera's true might, she still couldn't measure it properly.
Thinking that, she drifted off to deep slumber. Sera's favorability was pretty high, and considering their current relationship, she believed Sera wouldn't harm her, not even trying, at least until she woke up later. Regardless, she had to check her pantheon members' conditions ASAP.
"Alright, alright..." Sera felt a bit dissatisfied, but she did nothing because she felt Elysia deserved that much.
There was no being that could push her to the edge repeatedly, and Elysia could do it despite being much weaker than her.
The previous match ended with 3:2 as her victory, but actually, it should have been 3:3, ending in a draw, she just didn't want to count the first one because it was a mistake.
It was just a spike of curiosity about a weird four-pointed star hovering on Elysia's head. She peered into it, and an extreme counterattack exploded her body, killing her at once in a supernova explosion.
She was careless, and it was her first death in this encounter, but she didn't want to count it! Luckily, Elysia didn't realize that attack killed her once. That unexpected ambush was the reason why she got upset and pushed the battle right after Elysia arrived. She just felt so irritated!
"..."
Seeing Elysia was sleeping soundly on her body, Sera pondered about the dark-type, ugly creatures that Elysia brought here.
The so-called Sovereign of Abyss and the Nirvana Abyssal Demons were the 'gift' Elysia presented to her, the troves of living enigmas born from the Corrupted God Emperor's creation.
"Drifted off so soon? You're not worried I'll try something on you, huh..." Sera mumbled as she observed Elysia closely through her divine sense.
After a few moments of silence, she just sighed it off and let Elysia rest for a bit. After Elysia woke up, they would continue where they left off.
"I know you are more than you seem. Someone related to that entity cannot be weak. I wonder who you really are and why you possess the gate that belonged to that entity. Are you related to her, or perhaps her reincarnation?" Sera asked in wonder, but none would answer her.
Even Elysia was clueless about it when she brought it up previously. Elysia had no memory of it, so she had to personally discover Elysia's origin and secrets.
Sensing Elysia would take a while to rest, she wrapped her planetary celestial body with her twelve heavenly wings, re-forming a bright star before wrapping herself in a cosmic layer to disguise her brilliance. Her disappearance caused the Boundless Realm to become much darker, illuminated only by the dim stars that had long since lost their splendor and glory.
"I should check upon those filthy creatures..." Sera manifested her clone, forming the body of a female humanoid god.
She could tell Elysia was fond of mature beauty, so she manifested a clone with the appearance of peerless divine beauty, bigger and taller than any ladies Elysia had ever encountered.
"..." Sera observed Elysia's features and decided to copy several aspects of her clone's appearance, for example, Elysia's flowing silver hair color, tinted with purplish nebulae color at the tip.
Since she had nothing better to do and she had regained her serenity, then she wished to see it by herself. Elysia was intrigued by those things, so she had to see the secrets behind them.
*Zap*
Sera's clone vanished from the scene. She went in search of the Nirvana Abyssal Demon, especially the Sovereign of Abyss, the self-proclaimed strongest God Emperor who ruled over abyss and corruption.
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Far from the solar system where Sera resided, Helfheim hid deep within the dark depths of the void.
The White Goddess, the one who came with the name Elysia, was already terrifying, and there came the even stronger entity that could obliterate him with a mere glance.
That twelve-winged gigantic eye was so terrifying, but strangely, this celestial entity fought with the White Goddess right after they met. The devastating impact of their battle devastated the galaxies, and he almost perished several times just because of the impact of their clashes.
At that moment, he realized that the White Goddess was holding back a lot when fighting himself previously.
"Apparently, they are not allies. I might be able to take advantage of this situation, keke~ should I make that twelve-winged gigantic eye an ally, I can cooperate with it to exterminate the White Goddess."
With that in mind, Helfheim began to devise a plan and scenario on how he could make contact with the celestial entity to cooperate with him to exterminate the White Goddess.
