The pierced soul shattered like a piece of broken glass, rapidly breaking apart from the center. The goddess of the dead seemed to gradually regain consciousness, her eerie smile turning into terror and struggle.
"No! I don't want to become..."
She seemed to be about to say something, but her soul shattered too quickly, and Bai Xi didn't hear what came next. The goddess of the dead vanished before her eyes, as if she had been absorbed by something.
Although it seemed as if she had vanished into thin air, Bai Xi keenly sensed the strangeness of her surroundings.
Something is reclaiming her.
The fact that the Goddess of the Dead directly collided with her holy sword was a conspiracy against her; someone was manipulating things behind the scenes.
Bai Xi was absolutely unwilling to give up like this.
She had a vague feeling that she was about to grasp a corner of the truth.
Without hesitation, she attacked the location of the slight abnormal fluctuation, unleashing forbidden-level spells at it as if they were free. She even pulled out the God's Scepter and Scales that she hadn't used before, but it seemed as if she was casting spells in the air without any target.
Each spell created a huge crater in the wasteland before him, and as the crater grew larger and deeper, Bai Xi still couldn't break through that abnormal spatial fluctuation.
Her strength was still insufficient.
But the next second, she suddenly remembered that she still had a complete fragment of the Goddess of the Dead's soul inside her. Rather than doing this useless work, she might as well try something else.
There aren't many spells related to the soul, but back then, in order to deal with the undead and solve the undead scourge, light magic was developed to its fullest extent.
Therefore, she could try to activate the soul fragments within the divine core.
According to her discovery, only one individual can exist in an era, so only Roy came with her. The little ghosts and the others were overwritten by the existing individuals. As for the Goddess of the Dead...
The Goddess of the Dead couldn't possibly be truly dead. Fragments of her soul clearly remained in the future, even within her body. This suggests that even if she isn't completely unharmed, she's somewhere—a place the mastermind behind it all wants her to be.
As for the play just now, it was probably meant to make her think that the Goddess of the Dead was dead and could no longer pose a threat to her.
It's a smokescreen.
"Too cunning..."
Bai Xi took a deep breath and muttered to herself.
Once the soul of the goddess of the dead within her awakens, the other one will disappear.
The moment the idea took hold, she began to act. Using soul-connecting magic was actually very dangerous, as it was easy to be influenced by the other person's soul. Unless absolutely necessary, she didn't want to take such a risk.
but.....
Now that we're only one step away from the truth, Bai Xi is absolutely unwilling to let it slip away like this.
A burst of intense light suddenly erupted from the scepter of the main god, and a large amount of light elements gathered around Bai Xi. Even Luo Yi's body was radiant with a white glow. The moment Luo Yi received Bai Xi's idea, he cooperated with her almost without hesitation.
A ring of light spread around Bai Xi, making even Ulysses, who had been standing next to her, feel uncomfortable.
Although he was different from demons and undead and not considered a dark creature, he was not included in the category of living beings either, and had a natural aversion to this kind of power. Helpless, he could only leave Bai Xi's side and watch her from a distance, but he did not know what Bai Xi was planning to do.
The calamity of the undead has not yet arrived in this timeline, so the magic that Bai Xi uses does not belong to this era and is not within the scope of Ulysses' understanding.
The divine essence within Bai Xi glowed faintly, but under the stimulation of the light element, it quickly overflowed with a large amount of death aura. The power from the 'Despair Ice Crystal,' which is the fragment of the Goddess of the Dead's soul, was activated and spread wildly within Bai Xi's body.
When Baixi is not in use, it remains dormant.
But when Baixi tried to awaken her, this power spread like locusts, uncontrollably, and any power it could reach was assimilated by death.
Bai Xi did not stop it, allowing this change to occur.
After waiting for a long time, Bai Xi finally heard an excited voice coming from inside her head.
"I'm finally back to life!"
It was the goddess of the dead who had just been fighting her.
Clearly, she doesn't understand what's going on and doesn't realize that she's actually under Bai Xi's control.
However, she wasn't stupid; within seconds, she realized her predicament.
"Heh, so it wasn't me who was resurrected, it was you who discovered me."
That's what she said.
"I noticed you a long time ago."
Actually, Bai Xi wasn't sure if the Goddess of the Dead existed before, but now that they were in a standoff, she didn't need to say it.
"It seems their plan is doomed to fail."
The Goddess of the Dead chuckled, the sarcasm in her tone alone conveying a clear meaning, without needing to read her expression.
However, perhaps because she had been asleep for so long, the goddess of the dead within her seemed to be more peaceful and less hostile towards her.
"who?"
Bai Xi grasped the key words.
"Hmm...you want to know?"
The goddess of the dead spoke in a teasing tone, as if she were playing with a pet.
“If I’m not mistaken, you also seem dissatisfied with ‘its’ arrangements, and besides, you’re in my hands now, so killing you would be a piece of cake for me.”
In negotiations, Bai Xi is as calm as a robot, using every condition she can find and leverage as a bargaining chip.
"Oh, you're right, I do not like it, but I don't like you either. Anyway, I've already been discovered and I'm going to die either way, so why should I help you?"
After hearing Bai Xi's words, the Goddess of the Dead let out a maniacal laugh, which only subsided after a long while. She then spoke to Bai Xi with malice.
"...Do you want to live? I'll save you."
Bai Xi was unaware of what had happened to the Goddess of the Dead, but she was always good at making empty promises.
But they were just exchanging barbs, and now he's saying these things; it sounds quite ironic.
Bai Xi could only comfort herself that this was only how it appeared in her eyes; in the eyes of the Goddess of the Dead, hundreds of thousands of years must have passed.
"You? You can't even save yourself, yet you want to save me? Don't be ridiculous."
The goddess of the dead seemed to have heard a huge joke and had no trust in Bai Xi at all.
"...Does someone want me dead?"
Bai Xi countered with a question.
"No, no, no, you will not only not die, but you will live a very good life."
The Goddess of the Dead seemed to know a lot. After Bai Xi asked the question, she refuted Bai Xi's words without any hesitation. However, the gloating and schadenfreude in her words could not be shaken off.
So what she meant was that she would live, but it would probably be a terrible experience.
Bai Xi silently translated it in her mind.
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