After ending Michael's life, despite her confusion over the connection she still shared with the Soul Record, Lilith could not help but stumble backwards.
Her pale face made her look like soone suffering from a terrifying terminal illness and her previously steady and unwavering eyes finally showed signs of hesitation.
She was really tired. Too damn tired.
Exhausted physically, ntally, and spiritually. Not to ntion that her injuries were not light at all.
Using her sword for support, Lilith slowly knelt on the shattered ground. She gasped for oxygen to fill her lungs but it didn't do much good because every ti she tried to breathe the fire- like energy still persisting deep inside her organism wouldn't stop tornting her.
"My luck is really bad this ti." Lilith smiled bitterly and shook her head as she quietly contemplated, "Any other archangel probably would have been fine. Michael's flas simply cannot be suppressed by my frost skills."
Although she was constantly trying to cool her body using skills charged with frost magic, the results weren't turning out to be particularly successful. Lilith assud that even if she spent all her remaining Mana she would probably only be able to recover 30% at best.
An aura of pale green light gently surrounded Lilith's delicate figure, giving her an extrely gentle and warm charm. Surprisingly, the dry and destroyed land where no life could be born showed signs of blossoming when this light appeared, though only faintly.
She condensed a green orb in her palm and brought it to her chest, boosting her healing greatly.
"Even then. I'm afraid I'll only be able to fully recover after clearing the energy left behind by Michael." Lilith sighed sadly, "Unfortunately there is no mana here. Even if I can recharge my Will now it won't be convenient to use so skills."
After a long ti, a glint of worry flashed in her eyes. The pale light still shone around her, and as she looked at the black land under her knees she whispered in a way that laid bare how weak she felt in her heart: "Zemin... You have to survive. You must."
Lilith won't be able to bear such a great loss. Not a second ti.
A few minutes later, Lilith slowly stood up. She frowned slightly at the pain eating away into her bones and flesh but still said nothing. Looking off into the distance, she muttered, "Looks like they're still at it..."
Despite the distance of over 1000 kiloters, Lilith could still hear the earth-shaking explosions. She could even faintly see flashes of light glowing on the distant horizon, proof that the other battlefields were in full bloom.
After a mont's thought, Lilith did not leave imdiately but walked towards Michael's corpse.
First, she took his storage ring and kept it for herself; she would check her loot later. Then, she put away the spear that Michael wielded for over a millennium.
Once she cleared all the valuables from the corpse of the once mighty and arrogant Fire Archangel, Lilith narrowed her eyes and said in a nonchalant voice, "I know you can still hear what's going on outside and I know you understand what I'm saying."
...
Except for the howling of the wind,Lilith got no response from anything or anyone. However, she continued, "Form a temporary contract with . This way you will not have to consu your records to maintain yourself, I will provide you with my Mana or Will, and in return, you will help eliminate the fiery like energy in my system."
During more than five minutes, Lilith just stared straight ahead. If anyone else was present they would probably mistake her for a crazy woman whose brain ended up fried under the flas of her opponent.
Fortunately, Lilith was not an inexperienced young woman but despite only being less than 100 years old she had already experienced enough hardships to make her understand that haste and lack of patience often led to waste.
Suddenly, Michael's lifeless body glowed with a faint red radiance. The temperature in the surroundings imdiately rose several levels to the point where everything within twenty ters began to turn into steaming hot lava.
Lilith put so distance at the sa ti as her surroundings beca blanketed by a light but powerful mist of frost, freezing the ground and even the air.She narrowed her eyes at the small blood-red fireball floating nearly two ters above the fallen Archangel's corpse, "Looks like you're willing to do a little negotiation after all."
A rather fierce sounding voice thundered in Lilith's head: "Brat, you said you want to enter into a temporary contract with ? Hahahaha! I don't know whether to call you stupid or daredevil... Most of your records are composed of ice and cold energy type skills but you want to form a contract with the most powerful attack fla? You might as well kill yourself now to spare yourself so pain later!"
Lilith wasn't too surprised even though this was her first ti interacting with a divine fla. She knew from Bai Zemin that the stronger a divine fla beca the higher its level of consciousness would be, and he wasn't too far away from successfully making the Endless Blue Lotus Fla in his possession able to communicate with him.
"You don't need to worry about that. I have this with ." Lilith extended her free hand forward and a small fragnt similar to a strange rock floated above her palm, "With this holding up I should be fine for at least 1 or 2 years, don't you think? You won't even lose at all.
The red-colored divine fla floated silently for almost a minute before Lilith heard that fierce voice again, now lighter than before.
"Even though you have a Firmant Fragnt with a bit of immortal energy left behind by so ice kid I still won't enter into a contract with you."
"What?" Lilith frowned as she didn't expect that answer.
"Little girl, I've lived longer than you or any being alive today could even imagine, and I'm afraid I'm the only one left of mine along with the Eternal Rebirth Fla who is following that girl of the phoenix race. I have only followed two beings in my long life, this child Michael whom you killed was the second." The voice seed to sigh as if recalling events of the past. After a short pause, it continued, "Even though that boy Michael was a bit arrogant he still t the requirent to beco a user of this Fla of Burning Wrath through his personality. I won't contract just to continue to exist; it was like that before and it's like that even today."
A sparkle of understanding shone in Lilith's eyes and she finally grasped what was going on.
"If that's the case then you do not need to worry." Her lips curved upward slightly and for a mont she forgot the pain that was devouring her from within.
"What do you an, brat?"
Lilith rolled her eyes secretly, a little unsure whether to laugh or cry at being called a brat over and over again. However, considering the age gap there was no reason to complain so she just ignored it.
"Just before you said you're the only one of your kind next to Eternal Rebirth Fla."
"So what about that?"
"Well, you're wrong." Lilith shook her head. Her eyes flashed with a mysterious light as she slowly said, "Actually, there is soone who already managed to enter into contract with the Endless Blue Lotus Fla and the Heaven-Devouring Fla."
"What?" Lilith heard so agitation in the voice, but even she was unable to state it 100%. "Those two are still alive even now? Impossible! Leave aside the Heaven-Devouring Fla, I know very well that the Endless Blue Lotus Fla absolutely wouldn't enter into a contract with anyone after that kid fell in the First Great War back then!"
"But that's the truth." Lilith shrugged and said indifferently, "Besides, this person and the two divine flas didn't enter into just another random kind of contract but rather it is a Soul Contract in which their lives are directly linked."
"You... Wait! You said that person entered into contract with both of those two at the sa ti? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Girl, you dare to monkey with ?!"
BANG!!!
Lilith suddenly stepped back and a wary expression shone in her eyes. She waved her hand and ford a large ice sphere around herself just an instant before she was devoured by a sea of burning fire.
What happened? Lilith didn't understand what was happening.
They were just talking and it seed to be going well but suddenly this thing happened... She just couldn't find where the problem was. However, she knew what started it.
"Is it too strange for a person to enter into a contract with two divine flas at the sa ti?" she asked after a mont of silence.
"Hah!" a scornful laugh echoed within the sea of flas, its location untraceable, "Even if I told you there's no way a baby as you could understand! Let tell you sothing, even if this little multiverse you live in were twice as old as it is it would still be just a little baby in my eyes! Two divine flas at the sa ti? Peh! Even a Heaven rging stage would blow up into a million pieces!"
Lilith sucked in a breath of cold air upon hearing the words of the Fla of Burning Wrath. She did not doubt what she had just heard, because she knew that all divine flas were extrely proud after awakening self- consciousness and there was definitely no need to lie given the circumstances.
Even if everything was twice as old it would still be a newborn in front of the age of the fire in front of her? Lilith shuddered at what this implied, particularly upon hearing two new words that were definitely not from around here.
"Hmph. You finally know now." The voice echoed throughout as it coolly said, "That's right. All of us divine flas co from the place you know as Golden Domain. There are so things I can't say since we all reached an agreent with that person hundreds of millions of years ago, that's why-"
Suddenly, the voice stopped abruptly as if it had suddenly thought of sothing. Lilith slowly frowned and couldn't help but wonder if sothing was wrong as even several seconds later she didn't hear any words again.
After a long ti, the Fla of Burning Wrath spoke again. However, it sounded a bit strange... Lilith could have sworn it was trembling slightly.
"You... You're not lying to ?"
Lilith nodded faintly, "Of course."
This conversation with the Fla of Burning Wrath didn't reveal anything too clear, however, it did serve as a clue to a few things. To be honest, Lilith had a guess or two at this point. However, she didn't dare ask questions and temporarily could only remain in doubt. If there was one thing she was certain about at this point it was that Bai Zemin's identity absolutely was sothing that was far beyond what she originally estimated.
Obion World.
More than 100 kiloters away from the place where Sonnata and Bai Zemin clashed for the last ti.
Hidden behind a Leyend-grade treasure that not only served to hide his presence but also granted great defensive capabilities for a short period of ti, the Emperor of the asura race looked at the blaze of white light falling from the sky with a serious expression on his face.
Thanks to this Legend-grade treasure that took the form of a bracelet, Thannath was able to withstand the terrifying shockwaves and stray attacks exploding relatively close despite being only 100 kiloters away from the battlefield throughout this ti. If it wasn't for his treasure he would have definitely died when the first shockwave hit, however, that human actually fought head-on and killed that angel!
"To think that he actually killed that trash angel... Damned monster." Thannath clenched his fists tightly as he muttered with lingering fear, "Fortunately I prepared this eight-circle spell. I can't let this brat live longer or he really will be my bane!
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