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As she spoke, she winked playfully. The fiery gaze she cast at him, as well as her response just now, made Xia Yan feel even more uncomfortable. His face darkened slightly and he said:

"Terra Continent, Astrologer, Guard Operator... Have you read the memories of this possessed body?"

Even though he had made sufficient mental preparations, when the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered by the response from the human-machine Xingji, Xia Yan was finally able to fully confirm what had happened.

If it were another world, facing this kind of true divine being, he would definitely be as polite as possible. However, since the other party had actively "transformed" into an intelligent teammate NPC, and if nothing unexpected happened, he was currently in the lower realm after entering this "copy" world, he simply asked bluntly:

"So, how should I address you now, 'Goddess'?"

"Reading memories? No way~!"

Hearing this, the human-machine Xingji chuckled softly, and gracefully hung the long sword in his hand on the sword sheath on his belt. Then he raised his free right hand, lightly touched his pink lips, and continued in a gentle and elegant manner:

"I am Xingji, Xingji is me. I am not what you think, uh, the kind of person who occupies or is attached to someone else's body out of thin air."

She lowered her right hand, held the hem of her skirt again, lifted the skirt in front of Xia Yan, turned around gracefully, and stared into Xia Yan's eyes with affection.

"Asteria is my name. Oh, I almost forgot to add Ubica's last name at the end... Anyway, I am Asteria Ubica, and Asteria Ubica is me. The relationship between me and 'I' is an unchangeable truth on this earth."

"Don't speak hawkishly!"

"what?"

"I mean, simply tell me what's going on with you right now?"

Xia Yan said with a tense expression:

"Don't keep telling vague riddles."

"Hmm, let me think about this... Let's put it this way. In the eyes of a [Heavenly] god, the previous 'Star Pole-Astesia' was just a living, soulless shell. But the soul that this empty shell lacks has now been filled by me."

The human-machine star said excitedly:

"But like I said, I am Xingji, I am Asteria Ubica. I did not take over this body, but chose to become her completely."

"Has she completely become her?"

"That's right~!"

The human-machine Xingji nodded.

"This is so interesting. I never thought I'd encounter something like this one day... 'Me' living in another world, and there's Terra, Columbia, Victoria... In this world beyond the reach of the [Heavenly Realm], there's actually all this wonderful stuff..."

"So, after entering this body and coming into contact with 'my' memories, I chose to merge with it without hesitation. It was a complete fusion. It wasn't that I abolished 'me', but that I became 'me'..."

Human-machine Xingji, no, Asthesia said ecstatically with a passion that Xia Yan could not understand:

"...Of course, I can sense some unknown 'law' binding this body, a constraint even more severe than the constraints imposed on gods in the lower realms who are unable to use their divine power or else will be forcibly sent back to the [Heaven]... But I don't care."

"I would rather be 'Astecia Ubica' forever than return to the [Heaven] and live the boring life of the Meteor Goddess day after day, year after year, endlessly and unable to die."

"So, I am Xingji now, Asteria Ubica, not the meteor goddess who lived in the [Heaven] in the past."

Looking at Asthesia's excited expression, Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he recalled some settings of the gods in the [Heaven] in the Dicuo worldview.

As a hodgepodge of myths, the gods in the [heaven] in the Dicuo worldview are very different from their respective mythological originals, but some settings are quite consistent with a certain original myth.

That is the setting in the original Greek mythology that gods are immortal.

This kind of immortality is not simply immortality, but true immortality. Even the gods in [Heaven] cannot truly kill each other. Great gods such as Zeus, Odin, etc. cannot kill an ordinary god whose strength and status are far inferior to their own. At most, they can only make him enter the resurrection period, but as long as the fountain reading time passes for tens of thousands of years, he will be resurrected in [Heaven] again.

Therefore, in the worldview of Dicuo, the gods in the [heaven] are accustomed to seeking death. The plot mentioned that there were gods who did not go down to the mortal world. They were bored and looked for various ways to commit suicide for fun. Later, they collectively proclaimed their divine power on a large scale and went to the mortal world to form a clan to play cultivation, and even gave up their status to fall in love with mortals. In essence, this group of potential psychopaths were killing the long time that could be called an eternity for them.

By the way, if there really is a god who develops a deep and unforgettable love for a mortal in the lower world.

Then, this love is "eternal" to the god. He will hold on to love at all costs, just like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw. He probably won't mind his lover in the lower world looking for other partners besides himself, and will even support the other party in having a harem, but he will never allow himself to give the object of his love a soul and heart that does not belong to him.

In other words, a super yandere... especially a goddess, as long as they have true love, will do everything they can to prolong this love to the 'eternal' stage. Even if their lover dies, they will wait for the other's soul to reincarnate and continue their previous relationship with them... This is because the gods are in the lower world and cannot interfere with the soul's return to heaven to wash away past memories and reincarnate. If the gods are in the [heaven], they can directly block the soul from reincarnation and stay with it until the end of eternity.

When it comes to love, people can be crazy to the extreme.

Let alone now.

"madman."

Xia Yan made such an evaluation.

Because they shared the same 'name', after learning about the situation of the human-machine Xingji, he came over without thinking, and when he came into contact with the human-machine Xingji, he learned the memories of the original body, learned that there was a world outside of Terra and the world, and guessed that he was not from this world. Directly for fun and personal interest, he turned himself into the real Astesia Ubica forever... This is simply the late stage of late stage mental illness.

In response, Asthesia just smiled slightly. She was neither angry nor refuted, but looked at Xia Yan affectionately.

"The look in your eyes gives me a bad feeling."

"Is it?"

"You, this, I... Oh, forget it."

Xia Yan sighed.

The gods in this "copy" world are essentially bored and crazy psychopaths. No matter what he said, it would be impossible to change Asthesia's determination. Moreover, she not only completely became an intelligent NPC teammate Xingji, but also noticed the limitations of the system.

It was really like she took the initiative to tie herself to him.

And I will definitely not regret it.

As for the look Asteria gave him...

It's really too weird to throw yourself at someone right after meeting them.

The more Xia Yan thought about it, the more abstract it seemed.

But he obviously underestimated the neurotic nature of the gods in this 'copy' world [Heaven] due to the endless boredom caused by the long time.

Since it was confirmed that the friendly fire immunity mechanism was still effective, Xia Yan was no longer on guard against Asthesia, and the distance between the two was very close at this moment.

So, just when Xia Yan's attention was scattered and he showed obvious distraction, Asthesia, who had always maintained the elegance of a lady, lit up her eyes slightly.

"Okay, Asthesia."

"I'm here."

"Just as you wish, there are some things I will make clear to you, and I will tell you, but not outside..."

Xia Yan felt that in order to prevent any more unexpected changes, he should not stay outside. Although Asthesia was just the result of a series of accidents, he did not want any more accidents to happen. He simply took back the two magic weapons, the flying sword and the dragon of time, and took out the [Great Holy Grail] and threw it out.

Then, the [Great Holy Grail] transformed into a nine-story stone tower and fell heavily to the ground.

Then, a door of light opened on the surface of the stone tower.

"...We'll explain it in detail after we get inside, hmm."

Just as Xia Yan was greeting Astesia and preparing to enter the inner space of the [Great Holy Grail], before he could finish his words, he felt a fragrant breeze coming towards him - while he was distracted taking out the [Great Holy Grail], Astesia quietly closed the distance between them, and at this moment took the initiative to steal a breath, like a young girl in love, with her cheeks slightly flushed, she tiptoed and gave him a sweet kiss.

The soft lips, which tasted completely different from Irena's but equally sweet, interrupted his unfinished words.

At the same time, a human figure slowly emerged from the light gate that opened on the surface of the Holy Grail.

"Xia Yan, you..."

Then, Irena poked her head out from the light gate. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Asthesia giving her a kiss. Her eyes suddenly widened and she subconsciously let out a cry of surprise.

“…Eh—!?”

Fourth copy: 106. Upgrade and Essence (4k+)

“It’s White Album season again.”

Xia Yan sighed with emotion - thinking back to the past, he was also one of the many people who were watching the memes of White Album 2 while enjoying the popular Shura field plots of some anime and leaving comments. He never thought that with the passage of time, he would go from being a badger in the melon field to a melon in the melon field. Although there were no onlookers, the scene still made him want to recite a poem.

"Eastern Ma mistress, Setsuna bitch..."

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

“It’s just something that comes to mind.”

Xia Yan looked at Irena on his right, who was staring at him with a complicated expression, and then looked at Asthesia on his left, who had been looking around curiously since entering the interior space of the [Holy Grail] which was now divided into thirty-six levels... Well, she didn't have the mentality of the male protagonist in some popular anime plots.

On the contrary, he began to think seriously about the sudden kiss he had received from Asthesia.

Although he had indeed lowered his guard and caution towards Astesia because he discovered the existence of the friendly fire immunity mechanism, and was distracted by taking out the [Greater Holy Grail], there was always an inexplicable and strange feeling in Astesia's ability to successfully absorb the energy.

With his current reaction speed, at such a close distance, there was no reason why Asthesia would succeed even if he was distracted.

Yes, she is now an intelligent NPC Xingji, but she is still a god in the [Heaven] in the Dicuo worldview. Logically speaking, after declaring her own divine power and descending to the mortal world, the physical fitness of the gods in this "copy" world will become that of ordinary humans, even inferior to LV1 adventurers.

As a Liberian, Asthesia Ubica's physical fitness naturally belongs to the ranks of super Terrans. In the operator information settings in his impression, it is also clearly mentioned that Xingji has obviously practiced and knows swordsmanship.

So, while Asteshia Ubica might not be able to compare to fellow Colombian THE Sai in terms of physical fitness, she's certainly not weaker than those Bolivarian minions from the second phase of the Color 6 collaboration...

...After all, the Ubica family, according to the background setting, immigrated from Gaul to Colombia. They were originally former Gallic nobles. On the land of Terra, there really were different kinds of kings, princes, and generals. The differences in race, bloodline, education, and magic levels could undoubtedly divide the super Terrans into different classes.

To put it in perspective, a super Terran like Xingji, who has a good background, a long family inheritance, and has received elite education and Originium skills training, has a physical strength of at least LV2 adventurer in this 'copy' world.

But Xia Yan didn't think that the LV2 adventurer from the Dicuo world could make him unable to react at such a close distance.

So……

Xia Yan seemed to have thought of something and gave Irena a look. The latter pouted and let go of the previous entanglement about "committing a crime in front of his wife".

After all, their relationship was not that of a serious couple or husband and wife, and they all knew it privately. Xia Yan admitted that he was indeed greedy for Irena's body, and he would not give up the teammate he had abducted, not to mention that Irena was a professional technician.

Irena's situation is even more complicated. She knows that she is not the real Grey Witch, and she also knows that she is a former intelligent NPC teammate who was abducted out of the "copy" by Xia Yan. In the end, it was thanks to the spiritual base of Ms. Avalon that Xia Yan integrated into her body, combined with the incomplete third-law soul materialization of "human-machine Irena" and the memory information of female Merlin in the spiritual base, that she formed a new self based on the memories of both the Grey Witch and Ms. Avalon.

Later, she asked Xia Yan to take responsibility, not only because they had a relationship reluctantly, but also because she wanted to give her new self an "anchor point" for existence.

In short, the relationship between the two is very complicated, but they have actually been together for more than three years now, so they still have the tacit understanding they should have.

So, after rolling her eyes, Irena and Xia Yan turned their gazes to Asthesia.

Noticing their gazes, Asthesia maintained her ladylike demeanor and demeanor, returned an elegant smile, and said:

"Do you two have any questions?"

"Yes, there are still many."

"I understand."

Asthesia nodded, then looked at Irena first, put on a serious expression, and said solemnly:

"It's fine to be together, I have no objection. Whether it's three of us rolling in bed, or more sisters joining in the future, as long as I can stay by my dear's side, I won't object~!"

"Pfft."

Irena choked, her cheeks flushed crimson, and she screamed frantically:

"Is this the time to talk about this?!"

"Hmm? My sister wants to be a legitimate wife?"

Asthesia smiled and said:

"It's okay, I don't mind being a concubine."

"Okay, don't change the subject."

Xia Yan stared into Xingji's eyes and said:

"You should know what I want to ask?"

"uh-huh."

Asthesia said:

"Let me put it this way, my dear—at that moment, our kiss was the inevitable outcome that was destined to happen."

"Of course, I didn't influence your cognition, nor did I interfere with your consciousness, nor did I exert any control over the situation on you. But as you are thinking now, I did use a little bit of 'divine power'."

"But you weren't forcibly sent back to [Heaven]!?"

"Yes, I wasn't forcibly sent back to the [Heaven]... Although I could only use a tiny amount of divine power, I certainly didn't trigger the rules of the underworld established by the gods. I was even able to successfully display my own divine qualities in the underworld."

"Trait? Could it be your priesthood?"

Irena frowned.

"Astesia, the Meteor Goddess... From what I remember, your ministry doesn't seem to involve 'fate'. Why do you say it's an inevitable outcome that's destined to happen?"

"My dear, what do you think of divine qualities? Oh, in the secular world, what defines a god's existence and responsibilities—what is the so-called priesthood?"

Asthesia did not directly answer Irena's doubts, but cast her beautiful eyes towards Xia Yan, her eyes full of expectation.

"Or, in other words, do you think that the priesthood of the Meteor Goddess, the "myth" circulating in the underworld, that is, the past "me," is really "Meteor"?"

"……gravity."

After a moment of silence, Xia Yan recalled the responsibilities of the Meteor Goddess in the original mythology, as well as Asthesia's meaningful words about the inevitable outcome that was destined to happen. Then, he said hesitantly: