Novel Full Chapter 474: The Devouring Goddess (3)
Chapter 474: The Devouring Goddess (3)
Hearing her continue on with such casualness but also reveal that she indeed knew what was going on, Ancestor Shadow got even more on guard.
He exhaled slowly, keeping his expression neutral as he secretly sent out signals through hidden channels to place his entire domain on lockdown.
In that moment, barriers began to activate quietly in the background, sealing off escape routes and reinforcing the ritual chamber without any visible change.
He sat down in the space across from her, maintaining a calm but watchful demeanor.
“Since you already know this is a ritual,” he said, voice measured, “you should also know there is still an hour until its completion. So, in the meantime… could you at least enlighten me a bit?”
Nia tilted her head, her smile never fading as she studied him.
“Enlighten you?” she echoed, sounding almost amused. “About what, exactly?”
Seeing that he was clearly trying to buy more time she didn’t mind one bit. And it all revolved around her path she was now taking on.
As it was not just about Devouring Realities.
“About yourself…” He said as he was indeed interested as what gave her the galls of being in front of him.
Even though he seemed more cautious, it wasn’t about her power, but the possibility that she was from a lost reality.
That was something that could have far greater consequences than conquering his own reality.
And even now, he watched her carefully, noting the way her smile didn’t waver—too serene, too knowing.
He knew she felt it, but clearly, she wasn’t bothered by the lockdown, the barriers, the subtle tightening of his domain.
If anything, she looked slightly more entertained.
Nia folded her hands in her lap, as if settling in to tell a story she’d been waiting a long time to share.
“About me, huh,” she said lightly. “Fine. It’s always best for one to hear their thoughts aloud.”
Her gaze wandered past him for a moment, as if she were looking at something far beyond the chamber walls.
“I wasn’t always the person you see before you… and I have one person to thank for that,” she said, beginning to give him a hazy account of her life.
In truth, this might have been the first time she truly sat and reflected on the journey she’d taken since that day she left Solace, arm in arm with Ash.
From conquering kingdoms and being trampled by Vesper to driving all vampires to extinction, she had endured quite a lot.
Yet, through it all, there was one thing that never changed.
Her love for Ash was the force behind her every action and thought.
“He’s my sole purpose in life… without him, I don’t exist,” she said with a laugh.
“Anyway, that brings me to this very moment,” she continued, as roughly forty minutes had gone by.
“My Ashy has been carrying an incredible burden for, technically, well over a hundred thousand years,” she added, while Ancestor Shadow struggled to believe what he was hearing.
Ancestor Shadow kept his posture composed, but inside, he was having trouble comprehending all her tales.
’In just one hundred thousand years… she transcended the lower frameworks and ascended into True Reality?’ He thought internally.
As this was the biggest shock of it all, not her journeys through minor worlds or universes. But her stepping beyond a Third Dimensional being at all.
This was something that went against everything he knew, every precedent, and any record.
Obviously, Nia and the others ascended from the Organisms, which was essentially the lower framework itself.
But not all Realities’ Lower Frameworks were the same—many truly embodied the idea that there’s a sky beyond the sky.
And never had there been a person who ascended from the absolute bottom all the way to what many believed was the pinnacle of existence.
Yet the way she spoke… the way she believed it… the way her presence seemed to bend the chamber around her…
He couldn’t simply dismiss it. Even now as she continued, he listened well.
“So, since he’s been grinding so hard for so long. I will be the first to do what we all should have been doing. I will help propel his power even further.”
Her smile sharpened.
“Because unlike what you assumed, I’m not from some forgotten, dying reality. I come from the one that will be the last standing…. The origin point and the very end.”
Ancestor Shadow’s eyes narrowed at this revelation.
’So, she’s not from a lost reality… that’s even better.’ He mused as he flicked his attention to the ritual’s progress.
It was currently at ninety-eight percent.
RUMBLEEEE!!!
The chamber quaked as it neared the final stages of its activation.
At the precise instant it achieved full capacity, a sweeping and catastrophic effect rippled through the network of thousands of interconnected beings.
Entire minor factions disintegrated in an instant, extinguished with the suddenness of candles overwhelmed by a violent storm.
Ancestor Shadow chose numerous lesser factions to avoid drawing attention from those who ruled their domains.
In this reality, beings perished constantly… as it was just a part of nature here.
But losing major factions was a serious problem, and he would never risk sacrificing his own people.
HUMMMMMM!!!!!!
As beings died in masse, his own power surged, rising almost uncontrollably.
From the Dimensional Existence up to the Nineteenth in mere moments. The exact level Ancestor Wukong stood at.
He gasped, almost unable to contain such power.
Nia watched him with a delighted expression, as if admiring a flower blooming.
“Perfect,” she whispered.
HUMMMM!!!!
She stood up slowly, her aura spreading out around her like a living force.
“By the way, I’m Nia Originat,” she announced, her voice echoing through the ritual chamber and beyond its walls.
“Leader of Ash’s Eternal Guard… and the Goddess of Devouring Love of the Ineffable Pantheon.”
With that, a slender katana materialized in her grip, its gleam catching the dim light. She glanced at Ashy briefly, then offered her final words before moving without hesitation.
“And today marks the beginning of Armageddon for this Reality—your end will serve as fuel for Ashy’s growth~”
SHK!!!!!!