Here’s the start of a new arc : The Goddess, The Dragon, and The Harbringer of Death!

A/N : I'm going to apologize first and thanks everyone who had read and voted in this chapter. after reading all of your comments, i couldn't help but felt happy, as it had shown that you had actually cared about this story. much to my dismay, romance was always hard for me to understand. yet, by reading your advices, i had come to understand that it couldn't be forced. as such, i would delete the vote and in the future, let the story develops by itself. thanks for your understanding.

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I don’t know how much time has passed since I passed out after I jumped inside that entrance-to-abyss-like hole. When I opened my eyes, I saw that currently, my body was enveloped by a round shaped translucent barrier. The barrier was so complicated that even I had to acknowledge it as a masterpiece. It was far better than the best barrier the current me could have created. As I’ve thought about it, Lucia’s gentle voice could be heard within my mind.

‘I am sorry, I kind of forgot that a mortal would have actually died when they were exposed to the energy of this chaotic space.’

“Eh, what did you say?” I shuddered at her words. What the heck, our adventure had just barely begun and I already had a near death experience…

‘Don’t worry, I had immediately realized my mistake the moment you had lost your unconsciousness, and instantly deployed this barrier to protect you.’

I couldn’t help but rolled my eyes at her explanation. Well, as long as I didn’t die, it was OK for me. But still…

‘Oh, there’s another thing that you should know.’ Her voice once again could be heard within my mind.

“What is it?”

‘You don’t need to speak out with your mouth to communicate with me. Since I am one with your soul, and could’ve read your thought just fine.’

I opened my mouth to protest, but then I stopped halfway. Instead, I tried to think of something to test whether Lucia actually had a mind reading ability or not.

“…Then, do tell me what I had on my mind right now.”

‘This… I don’t know what to say about this…’ Lucia answered with an unsure tone.

“Ha! So you’re unable to read my mind!” I exclaimed in a happy tone.

I let out a sigh of relief. I originally thought that from now on, I won’t be able to have a private moment anymore, but it seemed that my fear was groundless after all—

‘Um… You’re thinking about how soft it was when you touched—‘

Okay, stop. I believe in you, but please stop. I don’t want to hear anything about it anymore.

‘Lily? Lily, are you okay? Why are you crying? It’s okay, everything would be alright. I will always be there for you.’

You know, that’s the thing that made me cry in the first place…

'???'

Okay, take a deep breath. One, two, haaaaaaaaa, fuuuuuuuh. Yes, Lucia’s right. Our adventure had just begun, and I shouldn’t be feeling like this. I should’ve cheered up more. Yep.

As I thought of that, I began to observe my surrounding. It was no longer as dark as when I peered out from outside of the entrance hole. I could see some small source of light in the far distance, and also some kind of thread, connecting one source of light to another.

‘Those source of lights are the different worlds that existed within this universe, and those threads connecting them are the pathway. By utilizing the pathway, you could’ve teleported from one world to another world.’

Thanks for the explanation, Lucia. However, I believe you still haven’t explained to me as to why we are wandering in this chaotic space in the first place?

‘Hmm, we are going to travel from one world to another, with the intention of absorbing the divine power of the God or Goddess that reside within the worlds we visited. By doing that, my power would be gradually recovered, and in turn, your power would have also increased. But of course, they won’t be so kind to give us their divine power willingly.’

Anyway, how do you ‘absorb’ it?

‘By killing them, of course.’ She said matter-of-factly.

Ah, that’s an excellent way to obtain what we want indeed. Glad to know that there’s actually someone who had the same mindset. Do you already have a certain target, by the way?

‘Yes, it won’t be long before we reached the world I had in mind.’

And so, we flew for a few hours or so, until we have reached one of the small… wait, those source of light actually wasn’t small at all! It only looked small because I watched it from afar. The size was so big that I couldn’t see the end of it. Well, it’s a world, after all.

Then Lucia, how do we get inside?

‘That’s easy, just search for a weak spot in this world’s surface. From there, it would’ve looked like as if the space is distorted.’

Distorted, hmm? I tried to look around, but was unable to find something that fit the description. When I thought of asking Lucia once again, I discovered that in a place that wasn’t so far away from my current position, there was a small crack. That’s the clue, I guess?

I moved closer to that small crack, and suddenly, I could feel such a strong suction force pulling my body inside. As I got pulled closer, I could hear Lucia’s shout inside of my mind: ‘Lily, watch out, it’s a summoning formation!’

Before I got the chance to react, a blinding light covered my vision, and I could feel that my consciousness was fading. Lucia damnit, how many time must I fell unconscious!?

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Hundreds of people were currently surrounding a glowing magical formation. Most of them wore a weird shaped white robe and mask. If Lily were to see these group of people, she would’ve immediately thought of the Ku Klux Klan. Behind those mask, almost everyone had an excited expression, and some of them were even panting.

One of the white robed man stepped forward. His right hand was tightly gripping a fully ornamented magic staff, while a thick black grimoire was floating above his left hand. His mouth, unceasingly moved as he chanted the spell for the summoning ritual. All of a sudden, a huge amount of magical energy surged out from the magical formation.

“O Great Goddess of Light, Soluna, please hear our prayer and help us in this perilous era!”

The white robed man who held a staff raised his hand and shouted out loud. And then…

“BOOM!”

All of the people in the surrounding gasped. The center of the magical formation suddenly exploded!

Cloud of dusts hindered their vision, but they could still see two blurry figures standing motionless in the center of the formation. The white robed man who had previously chanted the summoning spell narrowed his eyes. As far as he knows, the summoning spell, together with the summoning magic formation, could only enable him to summon one emissary of the Goddess Soluna.

Then, who was the other person…?

As the dusts settled off, the two figures could be clearly seen. One of them was a white haired middle aged man. He wore a plain white robe, yet the aura he emanates was anything but ordinary. On his waist was an ornamented long sword that looked imposing. His sharp gazes made the heart of all of the people present trembled in fright.

As for the other figure, it was actually a teenage girl, seemingly no older than 15 years old. Long black hair fluttering on her head, with some part of it covered her cute and adorable face. Her skin looked so smooth and pale, yet it only amplified her beautiful looks. At a glance, she seemed like a frail and harmless girl. Gradually, her closed eyes opened, showing a crimson glow, and she coldly watched the people in her surrounding.

The young girl was none other than Anastasia Lily, the Goddess of Death from ‘Earth’.