"I am sure that the Mother of Cups loves you, otherwise she would not have worked so hard to tear open such a strong and numerous restrictions and send the 'lotion' to you with great effort. This 'lotion' is not fed directly into your mouth for no reason... The Mother of Cups must have also spent a lot of effort to give you the gift."
With a playful look on her face, Dorothy said to Yunina directly. After listening to Dorothy's words, Yunina was startled, and then she said in a serious tone.
"What... do you know!?"
"Me? Although you always say I'm an old-fashioned person, I'm not the kind of hermit who doesn't care about others. I know more about life than you think... I'm always too attached to my mother as her 'daughter'..." Dorothy said this calmly, and what she got in return was a silence from Unina. Seeing that Unina didn't reply immediately, Dorothy looked up at the sky where thunder was constantly rumbling, and continued to speak slowly.
"I can see... the Mother of the Cup is deep inside the world, restricted by a powerful restriction, blocked, and imprisoned in a 'prison'. The lotion that He came to support you is trying its best to impact the restriction, break the cage, and create a crack in the barrier to send it to you..."
Dorothy continued to speak slowly. Listening to her words, Unina's silence became even longer. After a long pause, she spoke in a strange tone.
"What did you...see?"
"I saw that in her frenzy, she attacked the restrictions that besieged her, trying her best to bring you the lotion. I also saw that the restrictions that trapped her resolutely fought back against her actions.
"Your mother is currently a 'prisoner' of some kind, but there is also a 'jailer' force that is watching over the 'prisoner'. The act of the Mother of Cups feeding you with milk is, to some extent, an 'escape from prison'. The restrictions of the 'jailer' are restricting Her with all their strength, and now, it seems that they are slowly gaining the upper hand..."
Dorothy continued to say "yes" to Yunina in a playful tone. After listening to what Dorothy said, Yunina paused slightly, then said "yes" with gritted teeth.
"What on earth do you mean by these things?!"
"I don't mean anything else... I just want to say that although the Divine Master has passed away, your Mother is far from being able to exert her full power. After the Divine Master passed away, he at least left me with a truly independent divinity. This divine power now belongs to me.
"But you are different, Sister Yunina. You do not possess divinity. Your divinity comes entirely from the Mother of Cups. And now, He is also giving you the power of divinity by breaking through the restrictions. I certainly cannot use the divinity of the Divine Master infinitely in a short period of time, but can the Mother of Cups maintain this state of breaking through restrictions indefinitely?"
Dorothy continued to speak to Yunina seriously. Although they both possessed divinity, the situations of Dorothy and Yunina were different at the moment. Dorothy's divinity was a part of independent divinity that the Heavenly Judge directly separated from his own complete divinity. Yunina, on the other hand, simply obtained the divine power from the Mother of Cups. Strictly speaking, Yunina herself did not actually possess divinity.
If we compare divinity to spirituality, Dorothy's divinity is like her "awakened" spirituality, which has a fixed upper limit and can be restored to a certain amount every day, and can be restored slowly after it is used up. However, Yunina herself does not have this. All her divinity comes from outside, and she does not possess any of it herself.
Now, Dorothy's divinity is at risk of being used up in a short period of time, and Yunina's divinity is also at risk of unstable external supply channels.
"You...are questioning the power of a mother..."
In a calm voice, Yunina said to Dorothy, and Dorothy continued to answer calmly.
"No, I don't doubt the power of the Mother of Cups. I am just stating the facts... As for whether this fact is true, I think you know it better than me. No one should be able to feel the fluctuations of the divine power more clearly than you..."
"Even if what you said is right...so...what?"
"What? Since the restriction on the Mother of Cups is now in the strengthening stage, it means that the channeling of the divinity granted by the Mother of Cups will eventually be interrupted. So what you said before that you can be immortal is completely untrue, and you are not qualified to threaten me at all." Dorothy said seriously. After listening to Dorothy's words, Yunina fell silent again. If Dorothy could see Yunina's expression now, she would definitely find that it was extremely ugly.
Seeing that Unina remained silent, Dorothy did not stay, but continued to speak further.
"So... now you want to try, between the divinity between you and me, who can last longer, is it my part that is the legacy of the Divine Master, or your part that is the gift of your Cup Mother. Of course, the outcome of the bet is tragic. Both of us now cannot win this duel without the blessing of divinity, but now I am the one with the advantage... I have a little bit of redundancy..."
Dorothy continued to speak to Yunina seriously, although both of them were in a losing situation without divinity, but in fact Dorothy also had a little advantage. With the blessing of historical intelligence and legal support, the historical rewrite that Dorothy released on Yunina was very perfect.
In this perfect rewrite of history, Dorothy completely suppressed Yunina in the lightning cage. Under the continuous bombardment of the endless divine thunder, once Yunina lost the protection of divinity, it could be said that she would die instantly, without any room for error.
On the other hand, Dorothy's situation is different now. She is in an advantageous state. Even if she loses her divinity first, she can use her previous advantages to exchange for a certain degree of control over space and try to escape. In Yunina's eyes, Dorothy is an ancient gold at this moment. This is still her territory. In terms of tolerance, Dorothy is definitely much higher than her.
Another more important point is that Dorothy's divinity is her own, so she knows exactly how long it can last, and it is very easy for her to plan her future actions. Even if she determines that she can't hold on any longer, she can save the last bit of divinity to escape in advance. But the situation is different for Yunina. How long her divinity can last depends on the confrontation between the Mother of Cups and the restriction that imprisons Her, and when the restriction can completely block the Mother of Cups from interfering with the real world.
This kind of problem is extremely metaphysical for Yunina. The result of the struggle between the two forces is completely unknown to Yunina. In this situation where the specific result is unknown, Yunina has much fewer strategic choices than Dorothy.
After careful consideration, Yunina discovered that although Dorothy said she was gambling, in fact, the only person gambling was herself... Dorothy could be invincible...
The enemy's advantage on the scene and the uncertainty in the supply of the Mother of Cups' divinity made Yunina realize that the situation was not going well for her. In addition, this was a local holy land, and because of the suppression of the holy land, she could not exert her power on a large scale and carry out operations such as laying out the flesh and blood land.
In fact, after seeing the power displayed by Dorothy, Yunina no longer wanted to completely defeat her and seize the divinity. She just wanted to intimidate Dorothy, force Dorothy to give up Vanya and Evie, and give up this holy land in North Wu that was threatening to the South Wu Afterbirth Force. Otherwise, her trip would be in vain. But in the current situation, this deterrence could not be achieved, and if things went wrong, she would be in danger.
Finally, Yunina made a decision in the lightning. After she chuckled, she spoke.
"Oh, remnants of Qi... This time, you have won, but don't be complacent. Ancient creatures are no longer favored by the gods. You can't make waves in this era with just a little bit of legacy...
"I tolerated your shielding of the two Radiants this time, but I also want to warn you not to interfere with the great cause of us Red Followers in the future. The wave we have set off under the watchful eyes of the Great Mother will unstoppably engulf this world.
"No matter how high your glory rises, it will eventually be drowned by the blood tide. As the remnants of a bygone era, you can't change anything. Either hide in a corner and never come out, or choose the right direction..."
Yunina murmured softly in the lightning. After her last words fell, her body in the lightning seemed to have lost the support of regenerative power and disappeared into gray smoke in an instant.
After that, a violent shockwave erupted from the lightning, which directly dispersed the lightning that Dorothy had been maintaining, and rushed in all directions. Dorothy turned into lightning and retreated a long distance to avoid the shock before she barely stopped.
After the impact, a red halo suddenly shrank, and after a distortion in space, it disappeared into nothingness. Then, the entire world returned to silence, and Yunina's figure completely disappeared. Dorothy could no longer sense Yunina's existence in this holy place of Heopiris.
This was Yunina escaping into the inner world with the help of the power of the Mother of Cups. This escape directly broke away from the restrictions of Heopiris. It was as if Yunina had made some kind of "return" to the Mother of Cups, and the Mother of Cups took her away.
However, this return also consumed all of Yunina's divinity that remained in this area. Even the divinity that she originally used to erode the virtual history and remained in it was completely consumed. Without the remaining divinity, it means that Yunina will not be able to come back here directly in a short time. Just like when Yunina fought against the four pharaohs before, her body was completely destroyed and reborn. This situation will never happen again.
"Huh... finally left..."
Looking at the situation in front of her, Dorothy sighed slightly and said that her original goal was not to kill Yunina, but to drive her away. Yunina's divine supply was unstable and gradually weakening, and her situation was actually not much better.
In fact, the key to restricting Dorothy's use of power is not the divinity of Judge Angel, but the final buff that Viageta gave Dorothy. Dorothy is still a mid-level being after all, and there is no way for her to actively exert the divinity of Judge Angel to this extent like she does now. This is the result of Viageta's dying buff which briefly enhanced Dorothy's adaptation state to the divinity to the golden stage.
The duration of Viageta's buff is actually much shorter than the duration of the divine power of the Heavenly Judge, so Dorothy can't actually use it for long. If Yunina could be as impulsive and reckless as the Terror Wolf and fight Dorothy head-on, Dorothy might not be able to win. The reason why Yunina felt that she couldn't win against Dorothy was largely because Yunina regarded Dorothy as a normal gold with divine power.
Just like the other four pharaohs, Yunina directly thought Dorothy was an old monster from the First Dynasty that had been left over from seven thousand years ago, but had somehow avoided turning into a ghost.
Of course, seeing the holy capital of the First Dynasty suddenly reappear, and seeing a fellow who was the same as those pharaohs, or even more high-end, coming out of the holy land, using the mysterious power of "Awakening", it is hard to guarantee that Yunina would not make a mistake and directly regard Dorothy as a golden monster.
In the situation just now, if Dorothy could not mislead Yunina to let her retreat on her own, Dorothy could only drag her into the depths of the virtual world and see if she could add another layer of virtual world isolation to prevent the fragile divinity of the Mother of Cups from providing communication from being cut off due to too many restrictions and isolations. Of course... the success rate of this backup plan is extremely questionable.
"Is it finally...gone away?"
On the street in the holy city, a quiet and elegant beauty dressed in luxurious robes slowly opened her eyes and looked towards the sky where the battle had subsided.
"The successor chosen by the divine master seems to be an interesting person..."
Looking at the only figure left in the sky, Shepsuna thought in her heart that the important information Dorothy used to formulate the battle plan before, about the state of the Cup Mother and the fluctuation of the divine supply, were all discovered by Shepsuna. Dorothy gave her some of the precious divine power to restore it to its former state, and she wanted to use her power to spy on the enemy's weaknesses.
"Are you trying to break free from the cage, Evil Cup Mother Goddess? It seems that a great change in this century is about to come..."
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