133. Leave It to Me
Aurora had not changed much from what Reina remembered.
Her body was slender and full.
After hearing Reina’s words, Aurora rubbed her eyes and sneered.
“Is that so? What’s there to talk about?”
Her voice was a little hoarse. Her attitude towards Reina hadn’t changed, but it was clearly more hoarse than before.
Last time, she was a god who could fight against Calysia.
Seeing Aurora like this, Reina actually became a little interested.
She closed her eyes.
“For example, how beautiful the Purple Flame Mountains are, for example, how beautiful the elven race is, and how beautiful this world is, and so on.”
“…”
Aurora was silent, and didn’t even look up at the other.
“You couldn’t even find my house to keep the promise. Aurora, you’re so stupid.”
“…”
“Aurora, tell me why you didn’t devour my soul core. Don’t you want to become a real god?”
Hearing these words, Aurora seemed to be a little impatient. She looked up:
“You’ve seen those pictures, right? No wonder, I’ve almost forgotten about them.”
“I remember you still had a lot of power last time. What happened this time?”
Reina’s voice was casual.
Aurora couldn’t tell if the other was mocking her or concerned about her.
“It was Elena. She destroyed all the souls in the world. Before I completely died, this part of the memory that was stored was also discovered by you.”
Aurora wasn’t lying. Elena was indeed responsible for eliminating [forbidden magic].
However, it was really surprising. I had originally hoped that it would be over within a hundred years.
But was it going to succeed in just under ten years?
“Our meeting was just a coincidence and a misunderstanding. Just like in the past, no one cared, neither before nor now.”
“…”
“You’re very afraid of death,” Reina said with a smile. “Not long ago, you still had some power to resist me. Why didn’t you continue to resist?”
Aurora was unmoved: “Just as you said, it’s just that my personal ability is insufficient.”
There was nothing to talk about.
Reina understood how naive her words just now were.
Had her authority never existed all along?
No, compared to directly absorbing it, Aurora was actually cultivating herself with this soul core.
Although she had authority, all her power came from Reina’s soul core. How absurd was that?
It was as if she were trying her best to protect this soul core.
And just as she had said, if she got the soul core, everything would be over.
And those energy cannons were just the [self-protection] function of her own soul core.
But the story shouldn’t just end like this.
“Aurora, tell me what happened next.”
“Wouldn’t you know if you took the soul core yourself?”
“I still want to hear you say it in person.”
“Enjoying the fruits of victory? What a perverted taste.”
Aurora nodded. She just wanted to have a period of peace and quiet alone before she died.
“The story after that is also very simple. I also cultivated into a god using your soul core.”
As expected, although she was different from a god in the generally understood sense, Aurora’s [divinity] was still there… This was also the reason why she had believed in it so strongly.
“After that, I obtained the ability of prophecy. I prophesied what the world would be like without you. I discovered that without you, this world would only have the human race. I wanted to tell you about the success of protecting the world, but I couldn’t find you anymore.”
“I’m just an elf who has been betrayed twice.”
“The first time was by the elven race, and the second time was by you,” Aurora’s emotions were clearly fluctuating.
After a long time, she took a deep breath and said:
“It’s over, Guang, no, I should call you Reina now.”
“Just like you, I have no complaints about what happened between us. Fighting you was for myself, and hindering Calysia was also for myself.”
“Please don’t bother me again, Miss Goddess of Light.”
“Kill me, or if you don’t want to get your own hands dirty, you can choose to just leave.”
After saying the rest, Reina knew that Aurora would no longer answer her questions.
But after hearing it, Reina’s mind was only filled with that unforgettable sentence.
—Aurora was a god who had been betrayed twice.
“…”
Vengeance for vengeance, resentment for resentment, it was only natural.
“In the world, there is no real mutual understanding. Just as you don’t know that I almost jumped off a cliff in the Purple Flame Mountains, I also don’t know that you hated the elven race so much… You’re right, it’s over.”
Reina extended her hand to Aurora and began to release her pressure and hatred.
Aurora closed her eyes again.
She had been waiting for this moment for a long time…
Her body became heavier and heavier, and something was gnawing at her soul…
In a daze, she saw the azure-haired girl who had run around with her in school, with dark circles under her eyes, saying something unbelievable in a serious tone, which made her laugh. If her ending was to be killed by her, it could be considered a worthy death.
But soon, she felt that something was not right?
“I hate you to the bone, the thing that hindered my master,” Reina said coldly. “No matter what the reason, you are my master’s enemy.”
“I will eat all your power and authority, offer it to my master, and become a part of her endless power.”
“You…!” Aurora wanted to say something, but Reina’s giant magic power directly dispersed her desire to speak. She could only watch as the authority of [Time and Space] and the light magic gradually weakened, and even threatened to tear this space apart.
Letting a god go, and bearing the risk that she might make a comeback, was not worth the loss. It would be better to just swallow her.
—Could it be that she didn’t know that after [forbidden magic] completely disappeared, I, who had lost my soul core, would completely [die]?
Reina’s tone changed a little.
It sounded as if she were going to eat Aurora alive, but there was still a hint of incongruity.
The next second, as Aurora’s limp and delicate body was caught by a purple light tentacle, and then her entire body was covered, as if she had been swallowed by a purple, invisible monster.
At this point, her power, memory, body, and everything else were devoured.
To be devoured in this way was the greatest humiliation for a loser.
The disappearance of her power was a testament to this fact.
“You’ve been storing this memory all this time, just so I wouldn’t remember. As expected, those who don’t keep their promises must be punished by me.”
But…
Why was it so warm?
Like soaking in a hot spring, taking a hot bath, and then diving into a quilt, falling into a peaceful sleep, waiting for that gentle voice to wake her up again.
Like a mother.
As Aurora’s body disappeared into the “light,” before her beautiful eyes closed, a single tear fell into Reina’s palm.
“From now on, just leave it to me…”
Reina touched her belly and raised a satisfied smile.
