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With this mysterious woman's appearance, Yumo was shocked to discover that everything around them seed frozen in ti - whether it was the frantically fleeing crowds, the murderous infected, or the two massive Abyssal Demons, their movents were completely suspended as if soone had hit a pause button.
Even Satoru, whose belt she was still holding and who had just been desperately asking for help, stood motionless with his anxious expression frozen on his face. Even her Level 8 children in the distance were caught in the sa state.
The world seed enveloped in an ice-blue frost, everything frozen by this power - not even ti and space could escape.
This person is very powerful, Yumo quickly judged in her heart, her gaze at the blue-haired woman before her becoming unprecedentedly serious.
Though she was an Abyss Lord like Eos, this person's pressure far exceeded Eos's even without releasing her shadow power. Her whole being exuded an unfathomable aura.
And that na, Lena? Wasn't this the ancient Abyss Lord that Momo had ntioned before?
Taking a deep breath, Yumo asked coldly, "Miss Lena, what do you want with ?"
Yumo's tone was full of wariness. Considering the violent nature of Abyss Lords, she dared not relax. As she spoke, countless bloody butterflies danced in the air, crimson shadow power suppressed within Yumo's body on the verge of erupting.
To this, Lena smiled calmly and shook her head without hostility: "No need to be so cold, aren't we companions?"
"..."
"My, what a serious expression." Lena smiled helplessly.
Just as the atmosphere between them was quite tense, a familiar presence suddenly approached rapidly!
"Hm?!"
The next instant, under Yumo's slightly startled gaze, amid white ethereal light, Eos happily burst into their 'confrontational' space. She gleefully hugged Lena's arm, affectionately and contentedly leaning against her shoulder.
Faced with Eos's clinginess, Lena showed an indulgent yet helpless smile, raising her hand to pat her head.
Seeing this scene, Yumo's eyes narrowed slightly as she spoke seriously: "So you're Eos's real contract master?"
Not Tania, not Asar - but the one who controlled that hero, that child of destiny, and the demon goddess, hiding behind the scenes like the Guiding Saint.
"Yes, I am her master," Lena directly admitted.
"Eos's master..." After getting her confirmation, Yumo's gaze beca even sharper.
"So this ti, are you here on Guiding Saint's orders to force to do sothing?"
"Orders?" Hearing this, Lena showed a slightly surprised expression, then as if hearing sothing very amusing, she couldn't help covering her mouth and giggling, "Hehe, miss Yumo, you're overthinking. I ca to find you purely of my own will, it has nothing to do with that woman. Besides, the Guiding Saint? She was just my previous cooperation partner, she can't order around."
"Cooperation partner?"
"Yes, Yumo, your previous experiences in the trial space - many were scripts I deliberately created using Eos to help Maya. Like the 'Five Holy Wars', 'Demon Goddess Awakening' and such? How were they, fun?"
Lena's eyes sparkled, seemingly expecting Yumo to give an approving response.
"..."
Narrowing her eyes slightly, Yumo fell into brief silence.
At the sa ti, doubts that had long lurked in Yumo's heart seed to find answers in this mont. After learning that Eos's true form was just a cat-loving airhead girl, Yumo had been very confused.
Who had been using the goddess statues over the past hundreds of years on the Ancita continent, constantly guiding Kael and deceiving the first Apostle Tania?
Now it seed this person had been controlling Eos, using her disguise ability to guide successive Asumos Church bishops including Kael, and working with Maya to manipulate Tania and Asar to force out her Saint powers.
Gradually, a strong sense of displeasure spread in Yumo's heart.
However, considering the other's unfathomable strength, Yumo didn't dare act rashly. After all, even Momo, who was always eager to fight in the consciousness space, had strangely fallen silent upon seeing Lena, clearly wary of her.
"Fun? Do you think it's fun being played with like a chess piece?"
"Emmm, you have a point."
"So what 'script' have you cooked up this ti?"
"Script? Don't worry about that, Miss Yumo. There are no more so-called 'scripts' now - my cooperation with Maya has ended. Though, perhaps that's not quite accurate. After all, I was never truly cooperating with that woman. My goals are quite different from hers~"
"What do you an?" Yumo frowned in confusion.
"You should already be very clear about Maya's goal. She wanted to cultivate a Saint who could control Abyssal Lord powers, using your power to suppress the outer realm, to suppress those endless hordes of Abyssal Demons."
"Yes, I understand that clearly."
"But I don't want that."
Though Lena still wore an elegant smile, her eyes now carried a bone-chilling coldness.
"You know, miss Yumo, for tens of thousands of years in the past, the outer realm's Abyssal forces always suppressed Source Star. Because of the great war hundreds of years ago, the outer realm forces suffered heavy losses - half the Abyss Lords ceased to exist, and the demon hordes were also greatly reduced. After that, we lost our advantage and even fell into a disadvantageous state."
"I don't particularly like that constant fighting. I prefer to have a peaceful, quiet life. To maintain stability, what I need is for both sides to be evenly matched... After being an Abyss Lord for hundreds of years, you should know how much Abyssal Demons despise other races, right?"
Lena smiled and asked rhetorically while walking step by step toward Yumo.
At the sa ti, her gaze moved to the humans infected by shadow power below the high platform.
"On the other hand, to humans and other life in the Source Star Universe, we are demons, existence that must be eliminated. In the trial space, for the trials to proceed normally, Maya gave various blessings to the life there, giving them so shadow power resistance. But in the outside world, including Earth, the creatures living here don't have such high resistance. Look~ Two Level 6 Abyssal Demons can cause such damage, easily spreading the infection. Without high-level experts stopping them, the shadow power released by these two demons would be enough to infect all of Earth. Most life in Source Star is too fragile."
"I suppose so." Following Lena's gaze downward, Yumo nodded slightly, unable to deny it.
After shaking her head helplessly, Lena continued.
"Therefore, in the eyes of Source Star's lifeforms, we are monsters threatening their survival. They hate us and would love nothing more than to eliminate us completely. We and they cannot coexist. When Abyssal Lords held the advantage in the past, they intended to devour the Source Star Universe. Similarly, if Source Star gains the advantage, they would also want to completely eliminate the Abyssal Demons. So to maintain peace in this world, the only way is to maintain the balance between these two great powers."
Speaking thus, Lena gave Yumo a aningful look, "You're not stupid, you should understand my aning, right?"
Faced with such a gaze, Yumo sighed deeply with complicated emotions, "You're afraid that after I help the Guiding Saint, it will cause further imbalance, right? So, your purpose is..."
"Just as you think." Lena smiled gently, walking very kindly before Yumo and slowly extending her right hand.
"I ca to find you to invite you to the outer realm. That is where you belong, where you and your lovely children belong."
Yumo: "..."
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