Practice // Ignorance Is Bliss

Stella felt something in her soul change as she thought about the shackles that bind her. But she couldn't pinpoint it.

'I gained the [Concept of Time] but... why now? Why didn't I comprehend this when I gained mastery over [Time Authority]?

Is it related to the freedom I was thinking about?'

She had a nagging feeling in her heart that it was important to her purpose.

So she decided she'll try to comprehend the [Concept of Time] first.

But all of her [Concept] was still at 1%.

She had to do something related to them to increase their comprehension.

So she had decided to experiment with her [Time Authority].

'Let's see what kind of change it brought.'

She activated [Temporal Halt].

This was the same ability that activates when she glances inside her own consciousness or reads information about herself.

But now, after gaining basic mastery over [Time Authority], she could activate it at will.

However, this time the world did not turn grey, but the time flow stopped. She could look around with her consciousness, but couldn't do anything else.

Now, she also activated [Time Domination].

As soon as she activated this ability, she could slowly move, albeit with some mental strain.

'So I have to increase my mastery over [Time Authority] further if I want to freely move in frozen time... I should be able to speed up and slow down time as I wish too. Time travel seems a little bit further away than that.' She thought to herself.

'But, if I activate [Temporal Halt], how much does it actually freeze?'

[The entire reality is frozen. Absolute Authorities embody all of reality.]

'Ah, that's good to know. There shouldn't be any problems using it as much as I want then.'

She decided to practice mastering her [Space Authority] a little bit.

She kept teleporting and created spatial tears. Then connected them manually to make space tunnels.

She practiced freezing space or infusing space law on herself to speed up, block projectiles, or attack with devastating power.

Her range of consciousness already expanded to a terrifying spherical range of 1000km and kept increasing at a fast pace. She should be able to envelop entire planets soon.

She could access and command all the laws within her range of consciousness. So she could see everything, control the environment, and get information about everything within it.

Stella was omnipresent within her range of consciousness. She knew and saw everything within her dominion. Her [Nihility Computation] ability recorded even the tiniest amount of information and stored it.

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She finally started practicing manipulation of the laws within her range of dominion.

On the planet's surface, she decided to make some mountains.

As soon as she willed it, the Soil trembled and moved to shape the surface just like she wanted to.

She tried to build some structures such as houses, towers, castles...

So soil and stone, metals, minerals, and so on responded to her command and made the structures just like she thought in her mind.

She willed the almost non-existent water particles in the air to freeze, and fall as snow. And so it did.

She wished for lightning to appear in an area, and wished for fire in another area in her mind.

And they obeyed her command instantaneously.

She willed the wind to blow, and storm to form... And they came.

Stella cut apart the structures and removed gravity from that area so they floated freely.

Anyone would've been excited to the extreme to suddenly have this kind of power.

But Stella was already numb in these two days.

'This amount of power, which is increasing rapidly each moment.... What do I even do with it?'

Stella chuckled.

'I'm still overthinking too much.....

She shook her head as she decided to test her physical strength now.

She had absolutely no doubts about the ability of [Infinite Strength] anymore. Because the rest of her abilities were the same, or more absurd.

She knew for a fact now, it was indeed infinite.

She removed her limiter and lightly tapped the ground with her foot.

The entire planet trembled.

'But if my strength is infinite, shouldn't even the lightest of my hits destroy everything?'

She indeed found this part of her strength puzzling.

[Indeed. But you have to reconfirm inside your mind if you actually want to destroy something, else you'll readjust your strength subconsciously to match the target's resilience and how hard you attacked the target.

If you lightly slap a rock and a book with the same force, without reconfirming your intention, you'll damage both of the items the same amount, despite using different amounts of strength.

This is one of the failsafe in your abilities. So that you don't shatter the planet the moment you set foot on it.]

[Gaze of ######] explained to her in detail.

'I see. so if I lightly tap on the planet and a small ball without intending to fully unleash my strength, they'll receive the same amount of damage. But the actual strength used in each case will be wildly different.

That makes sense.' She nodded her head.

'I practiced and gained basic mastery over all of my abilities for now. So I should head back.'

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It was almost five hours since she left the planet.

So when teleported to Stargate City, it was already evening.

However, as soon as she teleported to this planet, her face changed into various colors.

First, it became red, then blue, then green, and then ash white.

"Ah!!!!!! My eyes!! My pure eyes!!! They've been tainted by these shameless scoundrels."

Stella screamed at the top of her lungs as she closed her eyes.

But then she realized she technically no longer used her eyes to see.

She immediately adjusted her consciousness to not provide visual and sound feedback anymore.

What she saw was horrifying for her indeed.

As she teleported to this planet, her consciousness spread out to a major part of the Western Continent and it included many many people.

She had seen countless people performing night activities in full vigor. It was especially disturbing as she could both see and hear them going at it.

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[ The remaining part of this chapter may have contents that you may find disturbing and uncomfortable to read. If you are sensitive to such things, please skip to the next chapter. There will be a vague recap of the events. And if you have decided to read on, please proceed with caution. ]

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"The sun isn't even set, yet all of them are having sex like rabbits."

She gritted her teeth and cursed at all of them.

She also saw some extremely deranged things that turned her heart cold.

Many small girls were forced to have sex, and most of them were captured and sold as slaves.

Looking at their eyes that were devoid of any will to live, Stella felt her skin was pricked with countless needles.

'Damn it!!! Damn it!!! If I get too angry it'll be bad for everyone...'

She was angry. Extremely angry. Because what she saw was heart-wrecking.

'Many of them already became pregnant. Those beasts!!!!'

Stella couldn't take it anymore.

She directly used her absolute dominion to send all of them directly inside her frozen sub-space prison.

Stella was this much close to killing all of them instantly, but she held herself back at the last moment.

Whether they get to live or die, it'll depend on the number of atrocious things they did.

She had already counted and processed everything that she saw with [Nihility Computation].

So each of them would get their proper punishment.

Stella directly teleported to a little girl that seemed almost on the verge of death.

Looking at the girl's body lying on the bed that was filled with scars and whip marks, she felt her stomach churning.

Stella slowly lifted the little girl up from the bed into her arms as she used [Radiant Healing] on her.

"Hey, big girl... Your name is Lisa, right? It's okay now. You're alright.

The scary guy is gone now. Nobody will be able to do anything bad to you anymore.

It's going to be alright now."

Stella spoke softly to the girl.

She healed all the scars and internal injuries on the girl's body.

Her mind and soul were also stabilized.

The girl slowly regained her sense of self as she was healed back to her peak state.

As she finally gained her clarity, she immediately jumped away from Stella's hand and frantically looked around to see if there was someone else.

"It's okay. Nobody is here. He won't come back again to hurt you ever again." Stella slowly walked close to her.

"Really?? He won't return? I..." The girl asked Stella with a trembling voice.

"He will never return. I promise." Stella told the girl.

"Thank you! Thank you so much! I... I thought... I was going to die here." She hugged Stella as she started crying.

"I'm sorry." Stella consoled her as she cried.

She had already transported all the other girls into another frozen sub-dimension with air. Many of them were in critical condition, so she couldn't let time flow and make them suffer more.

"I'll take you to a safe place." Stella told Lisa as she also transported her to the sub-dimension.

Most of those girls didn't have any clothes on. And those who had any, were torn into many pieces.

So, Stella took all of the girl's clothes that were in those houses.

Then she entered the sub-dimension herself.

Looking at those miserable girls, she couldn't help but clench her teeth.

She used [Radiant Healing] on all of them and put them down on beds with soft cushions she had just created from manipulating wood elements with her authority.

Then she spread out the clothes in front of each girl.

Stella took a deep breath, and let the time flow of the sub-dimension resume.

Slowly, all the girls woke up, one by one.

Seeing each other, they were scared, confused, and then relieved.

They got hold of themselves after the initial shock.

Looking at the clothes in front of them, they dressed as they talked with each other.

They were in much better condition both physically and mentally as the effects of [Radiant Healing] were wonderful. All of their scars were healed and their body was reverted to their previous state. They would no longer worry about their body being tarnished.

Their souls and minds were stabilized and nobody was in trauma.

"Where are we?"

"I don't know. This place is a bit weird."

"The cushions on the beds are really comfy."

"I'm hungry..."

"Eh, my clothes are so baggy."

"Wow! Look at how high I can jump!"

As their minds were strengthened, they did not dwell too much on their horrible experiences. But, they could feel the changes in their body.

For most of them, they felt it was a really bad and long dream.