194. Loss of Meaning
Behind Reina, the ritual was proceeding steadily. The crimson pillar of light wasn’t affected at all by Light’s “defeat.”
Light clenched her small hands.
“The goddess being my mother is so embarrassing.”
“I have never trusted anyone so much. You are an indispensable girl in my long life, my most trusted subordinate, and also my daughter.”
“I’m sorry, Light. I’m only saying these things to you now. I hope you can forgive me.”
Reina stood up, supporting her body, and proactively walked to Light’s side, patting her small head.
“Sob, sob…”
Light didn’t dare to look directly at Reina. She quickly placed her hands on the wound on Reina’s belly.
“[Rewind]”
Suddenly, Reina’s wound healed as if time were reversing.
This was authority.
But compared to the authority of a real goddess, the power she could exert was only thirty percent.
But it was enough.
“Why… are you still so good to me? I clearly hurt you…”
“Because I can use you. I saw your heart. I know what you’re thinking,” Reina said half-jokingly.
“Sob, sob…” Light blushed.
Reina saying this, she didn’t believe it at all.
The moment she was held,
She understood the goddess’s feelings for her.
She tried to nuzzle against Reina’s arms, but the latter didn’t begrudge her her gentleness.
Agnes looked at the two with jealousy and softly broke the silence:
“Is it about time now?”
“Yes.”
Reina said seriously:
“Light, what is the ritual for?”
Light was a little embarrassed.
“To collect the demonic energy from humans, and then give it all to me… ah, and then to the Goddess. I have nothing…”
She was a little hesitant, not knowing how the Goddess would view her.
However, Reina’s tone reminded her of the past.
In the past, they had also been like this.
The Goddess would gently give orders, and she, as a servant, would do her best to complete them, or answer her questions.
It was as if everything had returned to the past.
“Light, can you stop the ritual now?”
“I should be able to. I can also end this battle… The people revived by [Time] won’t die again, but I can directly kill those people.”
Saying that, she teleported in front of the ritual, extended her hands, and her entire body erupted with crimson energy. The pillar of light of the ritual was like a gradually extinguishing pillar of light.
But just then, a look of embarrassment appeared on her beautiful face, which quickly turned to shock.
“Goddess… I can’t stop it!”
She discovered that when she stopped the ritual, her hands couldn’t shake the progress of the entire ritual at all.
The bloody tears flowing from the two female statues seemed to be mocking her, revealing a strange and ferocious smile.
The pillar of light even became wider.
“[Space Isolation]”
Light tried to isolate the space on both sides of the pillar of light and then reverse its operation, but it was all in vain. With a flash of light, the spatial barrier actually shattered.
“Why? Can’t even the power of a god stop it?”
Light squatted down and held her head: “I’m sorry… it wasn’t me. I don’t know, I thought…”
Reina stood behind Light and Agnes, patting both of their heads.
“Now, even if Calysia came, she probably couldn’t stop it. Unless we find the [instigator].”
…
A while ago.
Reina had gone to the [Hundred-Layer Purgatory] alone, to Fred’s room, and opened the seal on his upper body.
Seeing Reina arrive, Fred laughed maniacally:
“It’s really good to see you, Miss Goddess. I hope you’ve found the truth. Hehehe… I knew you would come looking for me.”
“How is White Miry?”
Reina said with a smile, “She’s fine now, with Liya. She’s liberated a lot of her power.”
“That’s good…”
“I’m not here to reminisce or play house.”
“Your counter-ritual has a problem.”
“What?”
Fred couldn’t believe his ears. He knew Reina might seek help, but this was the first time he had heard of a problem with the anti-ritual tower.
“Your anti-ritual tower should have enough power to suppress the ritual. Even the leader of the Shadow of God doesn’t know this.”
“That’s right, that bandaged girl definitely doesn’t know! What exactly happened?”
“It’s been completely suppressed. I even built two anti-ritual towers.”
“Damn it…”
Fred gritted his teeth, his voice echoing in the empty space.
“Impossible! If you really did as I said, there shouldn’t be a problem with the anti-ritual tower! If the Shadow of God doesn’t break through all the anti-ritual towers, they have no chance of winning!”
“But that’s the truth.”
“Could it be that that bandaged girl has summoned some other demons?!”
“You should ask yourself,” Reina said with a smile. “Actually, I have an unwritten guess.”
“…”
“You know about the [Gate of the Celestial Realm], right?”
“Of course I know… wait, are you concerned about that?!” Fred’s eyes widened, and he instantly reacted!
“Among the powers of a god, [Time and Space] happen to be the most domineering abilities. This is also the reason why Reina could maintain balance alone for tens of thousands of years. This kind of authority, which involves the essence of the world, can even be considered the pinnacle among all gods.”
And a super powerhouse of the goddess’s level was actually summoned by some living beings. In just a few hundred or a thousand years, she was turned into a pitiful prisoner. They hated the Goddess of Light to the bone, full of obsession and hatred.
But from a historical perspective, it was unknown how many people had once hated the goddess to the bone.
The success of the Four Realms’ demons and the near success of the Necrolord were both related to a single magic.
[Forbidden Magic]
Involving this term, everything, absolutely everything, would become bizarre and fantastical.
It was as if the order of a thousand years ago had been denied. After meticulous calculation, the goddess should not have been harmed by such low-level beings, and even fallen into an endless illusion.
The goddess had once tried to study forbidden magic, but for hundreds of years, she had linked it with the “soul,” completely classifying it as an [unsolvable] part, like a bottomless abyss.
And forbidden magic actually had no so-called “source.”
In any history book, there was no “first user of forbidden magic” or “first forbidden magic.” It was as if its birth had been forgotten by everyone. Was it the Primordial Era, or an even more ancient era…
“Fred, I went to see Tris last time. Guess what she became?”
“…What?”
“Even with amnesia and a damaged soul, she can’t forget the first Elven King. It’s as if…”
“As if this memory has been imprinted in her brain!” A hint of excitement appeared on Fred’s wrinkled face.
“Damn it, as a researcher of the gods, how could I not have thought of that? Hahahaha…”
Fred laughed maniacally, and also a little helplessly: “Goddess, it seems we lost long ago. Our history… the so-called [Era of Light] is meaningless!”
