Book 3: Chapter 31: Usage


    Divine brilliance flooded the world, as though the goddess herself had descended.


    However, not even the most devout believer of the goddess would want to stay here longer than a second.


    Just the residual heat from those burning feathers was enough to set the wooden buildings in the surrounding area on fire. Even the stone bs on the ground were showing signs of melting.


    The me andva tinted their little world red. Rather than heaven filled with angels, this ce looked way more like hell where the demons run rampant.


    Lilith looked dumbfounded at the sky full of suns. They were dazzling enough to blind ordinary people and even low-level warriors. Thankfully, her powerful adjustable vision acted like invisible sunsses and could automatically filter out the light.


    Even so, this could only allow Lilith to see how dazzling Thea looked, floating and basking in the intense light, as her divinely white dress fluttered in the air while gently pping her wings. This wasn’t going to help her stop this attack.


    Lilith was surrounded by a thinyer of ck mes. They were constantly swallowing up the high temperature in her surroundings, so she couldn’t feel the obvious temperature change. Even so, the ck mes couldn’t resist this intense attack. The reason was simple. The devouring was a process itself. That meant therger the target, the longer it would take for the ck me to devour it. An intangible thing like the ck me would not be able to do much when ites to powerful AoE spells with high speed and uracy.


    This totally dampened Lilith’s mood. After all, she just bought a hack and wasn’t even given a chance to show it off before Thea pulled out something more awesome.


    Not only that, it was as annoying as a blinking full-screen ad that was asking ‘Hey wanna buy a hack?’


    She was crushed.


    Lilith wound the thin veil of ck mes tighter around her as she felt the world getting colder. Not even the sky full of fireballs could warm her heart of ss.


    She could only pray that she wouldn’t be blown into smithereens. At least that way, she still had a chance to repair her body.


    Or maybe she should pray that Thea would be too soft-hearted to unleash the attack, then they could shake hands and be friends again?


    At this moment in time, the chance of that happening was as low as identally stepping on a pile of dog crap in the Pope’s bedroom.


    However, Thea really hesitated. Although her facial expression couldn’t be seen, her emotions could be felt. Thea found herself unable to swing her hand down and unleash the attack. Her raised hand dropped a few times and each time, she would raise it back up again.


    Countless suns hovered in the sky, like thousands of spotlights.


    Was she really going to change her mind?


    For one moment, Lilith was still praying for Thea to stop. After seeing that scene, she raised her right hand to Thea who was surrounded by the flying suns in the sky…


    Then stuck that one finger up like a cute little green onion — her frigging middle finger.


    She roared at her, “COME AT ME, YOU COWARD!”


    Thea immediately stiffened her uncertain hand, then swung it down.


    The suns in the sky grewrger in Lilith’s eyes as they flew at her.


    “Why do I… just like asking for trouble?”


    Lilith muttered in her heart as she resigned herself to stand firmly on the spot. She didn’t evade because there was no ce to evade, so she could just wait for her death.


    It was at this moment, that the ck me started changing as though it had a mind of its own.


    It formed a sphere that entrapped Lilith, then froze like ice. The entire ck spherical me instantly solidified and turned into a ck crystal-like solid object.


    The surface of the ck crystal was as smooth as a mirror. It was as though the burning me from earlier was just Lilith’s imagination.


    “This thing is considered yours anyway. Just think about how to use it with your own body.”


    The voice of the Lilith in the mirror suddenly rang in her ears. Lilith recalled the conversation they had earlier, but she didn’t remember having heard anything of the sort.


    At the same time, the countless small suns were falling together.


    They fused into something akin to a hot turbidity current in the ocean that would burn everything it touched. Fragile materials were instantly vaporized without leaving a trace behind. The ce, that had pretty much turned into a garbage dump by the battle between Lilith and Thea earlier, was instantly cleaned up. At the same time, arge semicircr area was cleared out too.


    However, the ck crystal remained as intact as the coral reefs in the ocean. Not even a scratch was left on its crystal clear surface that was as smooth as a mirror.


    “With my own body…”


    Lilith, who hadn’t returned to her senses, touched the ck crystal in a daze. The ck crystal responded to her touch like it was alive. It softened into a liquid state, then slowly flowed upward along her finger.


    Every inch of her skin that was covered felt extremely hot. It was as though the ck liquid was slowly merging with her skin.


    The ck liquid gradually solidified. Red lines like blood vessels appeared on it, and seemed to be constantly flowing with blood.


    The liquid gradually settled and turned into a badass-looking armor that covered one of Lilith’s arms. It appeared to be an armored w, but looked a lot more terrifying than all the dragon ws that Lilith had seen.


    The armor spread upward along her right arm, then covered her spine and shoulder des. It continued spreading outward and formed a pair of ck bone wings in the end.


    The scales on the bone wings opened and closed like it was breathing, making terrible noises of metal rubbing together.


    Lilith stared at the sudden changes nkly, looking like she couldn’t ept everything.


    A momentter, her eyes lit up again with excitement.


    <em>Is… Isn’t this the romance that I’ve been chasing after in the first ce?</em>