Chapter 1008 Devil Empress
Sylvia slashed at the poison slimes and burned the shadow ghosts with her dark fire. However, all of his enemies weren't actually dead. Instead, they split themselves apart, even though she was sure they had destroyed their cores.
Based on Elysia's explanation, nature spirits deemed these monsters dangerous and harmful. Even so, the challenge this time was more tricky than she thought.
What Zera said earlier resounded in Sylvia's mind. She might die in this battle if she wasn't careful. Her power had been suppressed to Spirit level because she wished to ascend in rank soon.
Sylvia maneuvered and jumped high, avoiding the monsters surrounding her. She stood mid-air to check on Elysia's condition.
However, she could see nothing because Elysia had activated an unknown kaleidoscope dome-like domain. No one could see what was inside.
Sylvia scanned the battlefield. There were several Spirit-level poison slimes and shadow ghosts, but they could still be counted by hand. The Saint-level ones had been taken by Elysia in that domain.
'The requirement has been met, but I'm still stuck in a bottleneck. If battle experience is all I need, let's go all out with this suppressed power! I'm not a spoiled devil princess!' Sylvia used her ultimate burst mode and shot down toward those monsters.
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom!*
Sylvia burned down all the monsters that came at her and slashed them until none were left.
*Swoosh*
A giant shadow ghost charged through the black flames, knocking Sylvia back.
"Ack!" Sylvia did a back flip to stabilize herself, then incinerated her surroundings with blazing black flames.
Several evil-looking slimes spewed mouthfuls of poisonous black liquid at her. Sylvia tried to burn the liquid mid-air, but the speed was too slow. Thus, she immediately avoided those toxic liquids.
Unfortunately, she was already surrounded, and the enemy's barrage of attacks was beyond her ability to avoid.
*Pssh*
"Ugh!" Sylvia winced in pain as she received the fatal contamination from the poison.
The shadow ghost took that chance to beat up the poisoned devil princess.
Sylvia took a defensive stance to stabilize her energy and seal the poison contamination. She received the shadow ghost's relentless attacks and received continuous injuries.
"Don't underestimate me!" Sylvia shouted aloud and sent all enemies around her flying with a superheated shockwave.
She enveloped herself in black flames that formed like a cocoon. A pair of horns emerged on her head, similar to a dragon crown, black feathered wings spread wide on her back, her legs and arms turned into sharp claws, and a dragon's tail flicked behind her.
Sylvia used her demonic dragon transformation. Her predatory blood-red eyes looked at the enemies around her with thick, killing intent.
Sylvia's second-phase battle ensued. Zera and Ai watched everything from a safe distance.
"This devil princess may be able to ascend after this battle."
"Yeah, she will come out victorious for sure, but she will definitely suffer some pretty bad injuries due to her recklessness."
"Hum, yes. Ely and hundreds of other threatening monsters have trapped the strongest ones in her domain."
"Sigh, Master Ely warned her to fight long range, yet she uses her spear and fire for close and medium range combat. Now what? She enters full assault mode for close range."
Ai and Zera exchanged opinions while analyzing the entire battlefield. Unfortunately, they couldn't peek into Elysia's unknown domain because their law of space comprehension was lower than Elysia's.
In contrast to Sylvia's predicament, Elysia was relaxed in dealing with the enemies. Instead of calling it a battle, those poison slimes and shadow ghosts were reduced to poor things that couldn't do anything within the domain of domination.
Elysia hasn't killed anything there yet. They were sealed within an air bubble. She let them float in the empty space of a beautiful universe as she was too busy doing some experiments on living specimens.
"..." The monsters were amazed as they stared at the vast and colorful universe scenery. They had already surrendered their fate to this divine being's hands because they had no chance of winning.
They had no one to blame besides the nature spirits. If it weren't for those sky and earth spirits, this Goddess would not have come to eradicate them.
"Hmm-mm~ Now I can expand the domain to two hundred meters in diameter. There is no realm boundary too, and it feels like a real infinite universe." Elysia inspected her domain as if she was swimming underwater. She moved her lower half like a mermaid.
Once satisfied with her current achievement, she got to study her creation and divine destruction law.
Within her domain, she could almost achieve anything without any restrictions. Therefore, she tried something she had never tried before on the first try.
A little bubble filled with poison slime flew closer and stopped before Elysia. She stretched out her hand and stared at the pitiful slime with a smile of pity. "Forgive me, little slime. I will purify you. Your contribution to my creation and destruction magic is real. May you can become a good creature in your next life."
*Poof*
The little slime vanished like a burst bubble. Nothing remains as it disappeared in an instant. However, Elysia did not touch the slime's spirit because she would let it go into the afterlife once the domain was deactivated later.
"Rather than destruction, it's more like data deletion? What about the devour then?" Elysia performed another experiment on a ghost.
At that moment, the shadow ghosts could see the true terror over the terrifying thing pulled out from this Goddess. She clearly possessed holy power, but the magic she used was beyond dark darkness itself.
The dark elemental shadow ghost reduced nothingness as it was devoured by the darkness.
Elysia was shocked at that realization. She checked the other shadow ghosts and couldn't see any spirit inside them. "Hm? Why does the ghost have no spirit? You are not living things that have a chance to go to the afterlife? So, you can be considered evil spirits?"
That said, Elysia had no remorse when using the shadow ghost as an experimental object.
The terror lasted for thirty minutes. Luckily, no one witnessed Elysia's actions, or they would have been terrified to see the ever-kind girl who was always shrouded in a pleasant aura of joy and generosity become someone who resembled a demoness of hell.
She was grateful for their contribution to advancing her divine destruction law.
The last thing she tried was to take the life of a creature and bring it back to life. She ripped the spirit out of the slime's body, then put it back.
"Hmm, you're still alive." Elysia raised the little slime high.
The slime tried to escape from this scary Goddess but to no avail.
"Fret not. I've thoroughly studied my destruction divine law. Next time, I want to test the divine creation law on living entities." Elysia cast a purifying magic to remove the poison and contamination. The corruption was eliminated, and the corrupted poison slime returned to regular slime.
"A water slime?" Elysia tilted her head when she saw the blue color slime. It was jet black just a moment ago.
*Blob*
The water slime had no idea what was going on, but it felt reborn under the power of the Almighty Goddess.
Elysia erased the evil-related memories from the water slime, and this one was as good as a brand-new slime. She conducted other experiments on other slimes, but not all were as lucky as the water slime.
Once her training and experimentation were over, she deactivated her domain.
*Shatter*
The domain space shattered like broken glass, and the surrounding returned to how it was before.
The gloomy black barren land with jet-black grass was still the same as what Elysia had seen. The slimes' spirits flew up to the sky. They would become good spirits in heaven or get a chance to become good creatures in their next life.
After that, she released the water slime onto the ground. "Go and become the next demon king in the future."
*Blob*
The water slime glanced at the Almighty Goddess once, then sank into the ground.
"Phew..." Elysia wiped her nonexistent sweat and scanned her surroundings.
The other poison slimes and shadow ghosts have been eliminated, and nothing remains.
However, she was suddenly shocked to find Sylvia was seriously injured. Nell was tending to Sylvia's wounds.
"My lifespan, my precious lifespan..." Sylvia muttered incoherently as the Goddess of Blessings gave her first aid using healing magic.
She feared accelerated recovery because she knew the deepest secret of healing magic.
"Hi, you are in a rather unfortunate state, Sylvi. But congrats on reaching the Empress level!" Elysia came closer with mixed feelings.
It should be a happy moment worth celebrating because Sylvia achieved her goal... if only she wasn't in a miserable condition.
"Hee-hee, I did it, Ely. Why did the dark power holder have to go through a near-death situation before being able to ascend to the Empress level? Zera, you are a scammer." Sylvia smiled weakly and threw the blame at Zera.
"Where did I go wrong? You ignored Master Ely's advice and engaged in close combat. We accumulated dark desire and boosted it into a predicament. It doesn't always have to be a near-death experience, fool." Zera snorted sarcastically.
"What? You are silly, Sylvi. You brought this upon yourself then." Elysia pinched Sylvia's cheek.
"Oh, I was wrong." Sylvia held Elysia's hand. She put on a pitiful expression even though that pinch was not painful.
"Thank you for coming here, Goddess Helen." Elysia appreciates Nell's help.
"Ely, your version of healing magic can heal devils without any problems, right? I can only treat her external wounds because my holy magic will bring more harm than good to devils. Instead of recovering, I'm afraid she will be purified and ascend to heaven." Nell felt a bit troubled because she didn't dare to touch Sylvia's internal wounds any more than that.
It was enough to keep Sylvia alive, just like in the previous incident. Elysia immediately put a finishing touch on healing Sylvia.
"My ten years of lifespan was cut short after I ascended to the Empress level..." Sylvia muttered sadly as she looked up at the sky.
"Don't be silly. Ely already sacrificed her life force to relieve most of the healing magic burden on your side. You can recover life energy later. Get up now, and don't whine." Ai slapped the pitiful-looking Sylvia on the back.
"What? Ely, I, I'm sorry, but thank you! We will recover our lost life force together. We already have a vitality herbs garden, yes?" Sylvia immediately jumped up and hugged Elysia.
"Haha, alright, I've accepted your feeling." Elysia staggered a step backward. Sylvia rubbed their cheeks together.
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