Saintess? Not Anymore! I'd Rather be a Destroyer-Chapter 305 - 242: Paige’s backstory

Paige glanced around the room, noticing that everyone was showing an acceptable amount of respect. She smirked, ’Glad to see these humans are still in line. They won’t get a chance to worship this Saintess above me, not this time at least.’

She turned back to look down at Aurianna. She quickly fixed her expression, making sure her smile looked warm and friendly instead of smug and fiendish. Then, she lifted Aurianna’s face, kissing her forehead gently.

As if it were a signal, upon her doing this, all in the ballroom who had their faces lowered raised them, including the King.

[You have received a subclass Saintess from Goddess Paige]

Aurianna looked up at the screen with a poker face, before looking at Goddess Paige.

"Why did you make me the Saintess?" Aurianna asked, looking at Goddess Paige coldly.

"Because I’m fond of you, and only beautiful people like us are fit enough to save people," Paige said, trying not to choke on her own words.

’How can this child exude so much pressure? For a second, just with her gaze, I felt like I was in the presence of a goddess or god.’

"I see," Aurianna looked down toward the ground.

"Enclosed Reality," Aurianna mumbled as time seemed to stop, alerting Paige.

King Girsal and all in attendance were looking at Aurianna with expectant gazes. However, the strange thing was a fly that had been flying so quickly before, appeared to be frozen in place.

Paige, noticing the paused movement of the fly, looked around in confusion, thinking, ’This technique... Is the god of time here? No... that’s not possible, he wouldn’t leave the god realm so leisurely.’

Right as Paige’s confusion reached its peak, her surroundings distorted, and the ballroom she found herself in before was no more. She was trapped in a cube-like space now.

[Enclosed Reality is a spell that traps the user and target in a small space, while time in the outside world is frozen or, more accurately, moves so slowly that milliseconds pass every minute or so.]

"Eva, how long can you maintain Enclosed Reality?" Aurianna asked Eva through mind communication.

"In my current state, I can only maintain it for 40 minutes. Plus, since you’re borrowing my power, there would be side effects, and not good ones, so I’d suggest wrapping this up quickly," Eva responded.

"And what would the side effects be specifically?" Aurianna inquired.

"Your power would be reduced by 70% for 3 months," Eva said with a hint of worry in her voice.

"It’s still worth it, to beat the hell out of that hateful goddess. And I got the Void space so I’ll be fine," Aurianna’s eyes beamed as two shotguns appeared in her hand, and she also appeared in the Enclosed Reality.

She then shot it towards Paige’s head.

*Bam*

Paige felt a strange impact as she turned around to see Aurianna holding a strange device before her, squinting at her. Confusion filled her gaze. She had rarely seen such an item but once recalled seeing it with Azarath.

"Is she the one doing this....? But how’s that possible?!" Paige murmured, still unsure of what just happened.

"So I couldn’t even make her feel some pain huh?" Aurianna grunted in annoyance.

"Well, I’m not done yet!" Aurianna yelled as she dashed towards Paige with great speed and jumped into the air.

Aurianna directed her shotgun towards Paige, firing dark bullets that struck Paige’s face. However, there was only a slight sizzle on her skin.

"Guess with Eva amplifying my power, I would be able to do some damage to her," Aurianna bit her lip. She had wanted to draw blood or leave a scratch with that move, but she was pleased it at least seemed to burn her.

"You fucking braattt!!" Paige yelled as her whole body was engulfed in a bright pink color, a menacing aura clouding her eyes as she glared at Aurianna.

[Opponent is too strong, please run away!]

The system warned as Aurianna coughed up some blood.

As Paige was about to slash Aurianna with her nails, Aurianna’s white eyes changed into a pair of golden eyes, and a much more terrifying pressure surrounded the enclosed space, causing Paige to stop her attack.

"How can a child have that much power? No... they’re not the same, this Aura is different," Paige mumbled in shock from the pressure. She had been around the god of death numerous times, and still, she felt the aura this girl gave off was at least twice as terrifying.

Paige looked up at Aurianna, who now appeared as a teenager, looking at her with cold eyes.

"An insignificant goddess dares to mess with my master, you’re not worthy," Eva said as her hand glowed darkly, directed towards Paige.

"Eva, wait," Aurianna yelled before Eva slashed through Paige. Paige collapsed on the ground as she looked up and pursed her lips.

"Humans are always full of surprises," Paige laughed.

"What do you mean?" Eva asked, looking at Paige.

"I think it’s because I wanted to be loved. I was jealous of the compassion these humans had for each other. Selflessness and kindness. I wanted it all to myself."

Eva looked at Paige, confused by this sudden rambling. Was her life flashing before her eyes? 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

During this moment, Paige remembered her life before she became a goddess.

In a town filled with beautiful people and a place where beauty mattered the most to get a good life, the brothel island. A place where one could come and release their sexual desire by paying for it. But over there was one girl whom everyone despised.

Paige, the ugly duckling among a crowd of swans. Born from a very beautiful brothel lady, so naturally, everyone thought she would be beautiful as well. However, fate had another way to make things interesting. The beauty gave birth to one of the ugliest children anyone had ever laid eyes on. The baby’s skin was spotted, filled with rough bumps and lumps, her face disfigured, and her eyes wide apart from her face. Her hands too were not in harmony, as one was big and the other small.

Everything about her was ugly, and anyone who laid eyes on her was filled with disgust or displeasure. Even her own mother, the beauty, couldn’t stand looking at her, so she threw her away to die. Choosing to erase her existence from her life forever.

Luckily, an old lady found the child and raised her to be her own. She came to be known as Paige.