"You've worked so hard... my child."
The Earth Goddess gazed kindly at the tiny figure in her palm, a smile playing on her lips that held a hint of something intriguing.
"I know the pain you've endured, and I know the confusion in your heart."
"But none of this is your fault, my child. You are just missing the love that should have been yours."
"...My...love?"
Celinedra wiped away her tears and sobbed.
"You love your sister, your comrades, your knights, and the students who depend on you..."
"You love this country, you love the world, you love everything you see..."
Even if you've been betrayed and put to death, what you're suffering from now is what you did wrong.
"You still love them, even when your heart is pierced by pain, even when you are pierced by a thousand arrows, your love has never diminished in the slightest..."
"That's what makes you so great, my child. The only problem is... who will love you?"
Celinedra's crying stopped abruptly, followed by a pause.
"You accept all the flaws of the world, their cowardice, malice, greed... but no one can accept your flaws."
"You are perfect, you must be perfect. This is the trust people place in you, but it is also the shackles you put on yourself."
"But precisely because of this, your fate is destined to be incomplete."
"I……"
Serendra watched helplessly as tears streamed down her face, slipping through the gaps between her hard gauntlets. The trails of water resembled the scar that Silvana had torn open on her stomach.
"But in this world... who else will love me..."
She seemed to be talking to herself, murmuring to herself.
A ray of warm light appeared above her head, like a small sun, slowly dispelling the shadow cast below her humble figure.
Seemingly realizing something, Serendra slowly raised her head, her empty and bewildered eyes reflecting the majestic figure of the Earth Goddess.
The goddess looked at Serendra's infatuated gaze and smiled with satisfaction.
"Yes, and me too, my dear child."
"I will love you like a mother loves her child, from this day forward until the end of time."
"Your weakness, your sorrow, your fear... I will accept everything about you."
Yes, if it's a goddess... then she can totally accept me.
In a daze, Celinedra felt as if the void in her heart was being filled by some kind of warm power.
There is no problem in revealing all my weakness and sorrow to the goddess.
Because no matter what, the goddess will love her.
“My favorite child, Celinedra.”
The Earth Goddess raised her other enormous hand, gently extended a finger, and placed it in front of Serendra.
"Now, return to my embrace, and I will give you salvation."
"Let me love everything about you, even your weaknesses, fears, and sorrows..."
"Feeling wronged, resentful, regretful..."
"Hatred, anger, malice..."
"You don't need to be perfect anymore, you just need to... be my child."
As the words were spoken, the "Earth Goddess's" smile was no longer as benevolent as it had been at the beginning; instead, it stretched to her ears and no longer resembled a human face.
The echoing buzz lingered in the space for a long time, but Celinedra's gaze was now empty.
She numbly stretched out her palm, about to touch the enormous fingertips of the "Earth Goddess," when a languid yet melodious laugh, like the tinkling of silver bells, suddenly rang out.
"Hehehe, I see. So that's what you've been up to all this time."
The soft yet abrupt sound was like a raindrop falling on her forehead, a sudden chill spreading through her, bringing Celinedra back to her senses.
At the same time, this startled the "Earth Goddess," who then frowned in disbelief, "Who is it?"
This is her temple located in the void, how could someone she doesn't know possibly break in?
"To be honest, this question always makes me think for a long time. After all, I have quite a few titles, so it's always a bit difficult to choose."
"Snapped"
A sound like shattering glass appeared, and cracked lines materialized out of thin air beside Celinedra.
As the spatial fragments dissipated, a beautiful girl with silver hair and red eyes, dressed in a snow-white dress, slowly walked out.
She lightly touched her lips with her finger, a charming and sly smile on her face, and licked her lips. "Hello, Earth Goddess, I accidentally discovered your house and came over for a visit. You won't be angry, will you?"
Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Must of Destruction
"The Holy Maiden of Light!??"
Ella's distinctive features were immediately recognized by the other party.
Although Celinedra had never seen Ella in person before, she had heard of her to some extent. Upon seeing the stunningly beautiful girl, she was naturally confused and couldn't understand the current situation.
Why is the Holy Maiden of Light here? Isn't this the temple of the Earth Goddess? And why do they all seem to harbor hostility towards each other? ...
You seem surprised.
Under the glare of the enormous goddess, Ella slowly walked forward and shielded Serendra behind her.
"A mere fake goddess dares to try and persuade someone else to be the true chosen one. How naive of her."
However, in the face of Ella's provocation, the Earth Goddess's expression gradually changed from gloomy to calm.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, she didn't need to be so nervous.
“Ayla Havil, you will pay the price for your blasphemous words.”
The Earth Goddess's voice was chilling: "This is my divine kingdom. Even you cannot escape your fate of death!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she clenched her fist, her huge five fingers pressing down on the two of them like a mountain.
But the irritating laughter didn't stop; it returned from above.
But Ella was floating in mid-air above the goddess's head, holding a bewildered Serendra by the collar, her face still bearing that annoying, mocking smile.
But then a look of astonishment appeared on her face, and dark green moss began to appear on her body, sprouting clusters of colorful flowers. She could feel her magic being frantically drained by these flowers.
In the boundless green space beneath your feet, countless enormous vines rise up, as if an endless forest is swallowing everything from the bottom up.
"Foolish one, in my divine realm, the omnipresent forces of nature will be your graveyard!"
The Earth Goddess looked at Ella's petite figure being submerged in flowers, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
But the next moment, the girl's melodious voice came from the flower cluster again, "Hmm, if your divine kingdom were embedded in the mortal world, I might really have no way to deal with it."
"But unfortunately, you always call me 'Havie,' 'Havie,' have you forgotten my other name?"
"Snapped"
As soon as he finished speaking, a crack suddenly appeared in the sky above.
A chilling aura flowed in, but even this single wisp sent a chill down the spine of the once proud and holy goddess.
She suddenly looked up, her eyes widened, and her face visibly stiffened, as if she had suddenly realized something.
The words that came out of those trembling lips were all stuttered.
"No, no, impossible... You...you're clearly just one of its offspring, how could you possibly summon its true form?! How is this possible?!?..."
Selenedra, held in Ella's hands, looked up curiously, wondering what could possibly frighten the Earth Goddess like this. Suddenly, something slippery covered her eyes, and the saintess's gentle whisper reached her ears, "Be good, you can't look at this."
"Snapped"
Another loud bang occurred, but this time it was different from the previous small cracks; the entire sky seemed to disintegrate like a shattered mirror.
The sunlight vanished, the sky shattered, and boundless darkness instantly enveloped everything overhead.
It was as if the deepest malice in the world, like ink seeping into white paper, seeped into that darkness, causing the space filled with the breath of nature to tremble, as if the entire temple was wailing.
Selenedra's eyes were covered, and although she couldn't see anything, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her hair stood on end.
Her limbs went weak, and for the first time in her life, she felt this deep-seated fear; her face turned as pale as snow.
The "Earth Goddess," her face filled with terror, immediately summoned a huge lotus flower beneath her feet, intending to envelop her body within it.
This wasn't her trying to resist anything; she simply wanted to abandon everything and run away.
But it was too late. Like a blood-red sun suddenly appearing in the darkness, a deep red pupil abruptly opened in a pitch-black void.
The pupil was so enormous that it resembled a star that filled the sky, making even the majestic figure of the Earth Goddess seem like a speck of dust beneath it.
Immediately afterwards, countless enormous tentacles pressed down like inverted mountains hanging from the sky, their tips slicing through and even crushing the unbearable space, and countless spiderweb-like cracks spread between heaven and earth.
The white lotus, which had not yet closed, was roughly torn open, revealing the goddess huddled inside, already in despair.
"Do not!!!"
A bloodcurdling scream echoed across the sky. The supreme goddess who controlled the power of the earth was helpless as her divine body was gripped by the tentacles filled with destructive energy, which twisted and tore her sacred limbs apart.
The jade-like, smooth organs, the slender hands and feet wrapped in dark green gauze, the cheeks still bearing the marks of despair... were all ultimately chewed up into a swarm of green-smelling dregs by the ferocious mouthparts that split open on the tentacles.
Lydia, that black sun, Ella's third body adrift in the void.
This thing is not good at interfering with the real world, but once it goes into the void, Ella can't think of anything that can come into contact with it.
The void is a chaotic region without the concepts of time and space, an infinitely large space, like a multi-dimensional space with infinite dimensions.
Therefore, even if Lydia knew that some gods might be hiding somewhere in the void, as long as they did not reveal their specific coordinates, even she had no way to search through all dimensions.
So most of the time, this behemoth is asleep, unless it discovers another world in the void.
The Earth Goddess's kingdom was like this; when it was finally seen, it looked like a colorful bubble floating on the surface of the real world.
As for how it was discovered, actually, after the assassination attempt began, Ye Xiao had Greta help keep an eye on the situation above.
Knowing that Illyas was a member of the Dark Cult, Greta's attention was mainly focused on that group and Favina, whom they might be trying to assassinate.
Unexpectedly, it was Selindra who ended up getting infected.
When Greta sensed something was wrong and secretly rushed over, she saw Serendra fall off the cliff. She was about to go to her rescue when she discovered that several demons had appeared at the bottom of the cliff and carried her and the seriously injured Femihill to a cave hidden in the bushes at the bottom of the cliff.
She then casually killed the few demons and discovered that Serendra's soul was being pulled from her body into the void. She quickly notified Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao looked at it, fed a tentacle into his body, and let a trace of Ella's divine power mix into Serendra's soul. Unexpectedly, following the clues, he encountered a big fish causing trouble, which led to the current situation.
Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Great Escape
Although the scene appeared incredibly oppressive within the Earth God's Kingdom, from Lydia's perspective, she merely used a tentacle to poke a small hole in the bubble, sending a wisp of her consciousness inside to subtly manipulate it in order to capture the Earth Goddess.
The reason for all this meticulous work is twofold: first, to preserve this small divine kingdom; and second, to see if they can capture the Earth Goddess alive.
The concept of a divine kingdom is still quite valuable in the mortal realm. Ella gained such a significant boost from the dilapidated divine kingdom of a vampire queen. If she could absorb this as well, her strength in the mortal realm might increase even further.
Unfortunately, poking a hole seemed a bit too harsh for a world as incomplete as the divine kingdom. With a whoosh, the crystalline surface of the bubble dissolved along with the edge of the hole.
Therefore, Lydia could only watch helplessly as the entire divine kingdom slowly melted away at the tips of its tentacles, like a child watching the ice cream they brought home melt in their palm, their huge eyes revealing regret.
As for the Earth Goddess, Lydia didn't expect that when she entangled her, the divine power seeping from her tentacles would directly corrupt her and drive her mad.
It feels like a child who can't control their strength, finally manages to catch an ant and tries to put it in a jar, but ends up squeezing it to death with the slightest bit of force.
In the end, in order not to waste it, Lydia had no choice but to eat it.
Inside, Ella hurriedly wandered around for a while, hoping to find something of considerable value before the entire space collapsed.
Those magnificent sights were creations of the divine kingdom, which vanished along with the kingdom's destruction. Fortunately, there were some flowers and gems that floated around when space was annihilated. Ella didn't care what they were and just stuffed them into the portal like a bandit.
The Serendra in her hand couldn't see anything, but she heard the earth goddess's miserable scream before she was swallowed up, and she was still trembling all over.
Ella noticed this, so she gently patted the girl's head and said softly.
"Okay, okay, don't be afraid. Just think of it as a bad nightmare. Let's go back."
The melodious whispers, like those of a lark, reached her ears again, and Serendra's fear subsided slightly.
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