Divine Purity >>

THIRD PERSON POV

Skin sizzled, boiled, and burst open as organs and blood burst out in fiery chars from the various dead creatures subject to divine fury. It was a macabre scene of slaughter as golden beams swept through the hordes like a scythe through. a wheat field. Unending death.

The cleave of death that raced through the ranks of Monsters cutting and blowing many up without pause was uncaring to each. No matter the size each one fell just like the last.

A shockwave shattered the teeming hordes and blew many flying back. The closer ones who bore the brunt of the shockwave blast were torn to shreds.

Her fist blew heads and bodies to pieces as her divinity buffed and energized body shot through the ranks of netherlings spraying blood and gore all over the ice land.

Hilde couldn't even enjoy the sensation of flying without wings due to the macabre nature of the environment and the hazy fog of energy that clouded her brain. Her mind was too scattered to ask questions she would have had in this situation.

Fortunately, with more and more attacks dished the fog in her mind was first to fade.

Even as she realized the events going on around her Hilde still instinctively knew how to send yet another blast of condensed divine purity ahead of her.

Her leg whipped out aiming to kick an ice fiend back to another group only for it to shatter. Stunned she missed the one landing on her back.

The thing scratched and claw only for her to see its claws break and its fangs shatter.

Hilde's head tilted to the side as her curiosity increased. Grabbing the thing off her she flung it into the masses down below.

The hordes were unending. The ground was a mess with bodies, blood, gore, and ash. Shattered terrains of ice and melted spots where the water beneath the ice was filled with the corpses of broken creatures.

Yet still, the mobs were unrelenting

'And people think only undead are untiring.' She commented dryly.

"Alright focus." Scanning everything whilst dodging and kicking things to oblivion she noted that she was just lucky to have kept felling them even with whatever she had done to herself.

"What exactly did I do?".

[Self Buff - ?????]

This buff is unknown. By filling each of your cells with the divine and restorative energies without a means to ∆¶•°¶• it, you have elevated yourself in power. Your God body can only sustain this buff for thirty minutes.

[Would you like to name this buff]

"So I over-buffed myself. My cells soaked up the divine energy I filled it with and made me stronger. " The goddess frowned.

"Yeah makes no sense." She released a beam of energy shredding the closer group.

"If my cells could do that, no if anyone's God cells could do that, with all the energy in our body that we have access to at infinite amounts right now why don't we just grow, stronger? Why do we need the experience to level up?"

The answer wasn't coming. But Hilde refused to let this one slide. This was an answer she had to know now not later because the game wouldn't say.

Instinctively she propelled herself up and away from the hordes rising higher as she aimed for the hill she had noted before. This time she ascended to the tip of it.

Her goal was simple.

If she could use will to appraise others. Then why not herself?'. Lotus style in the air she shut her eyes, her ears listening for the approaching beasts while her mind flooded her will and intent into her body.

It was harder said than done. Especially with half her focus on it and the other on the still-attacking creatures. Sighing she withdrew her mind. Willing the divine energy to flood into her armor which was then absorbed by the shards fixed on the chest of the armor.

A flicker of static buzzed around her as confirmation of the shield being activated. Though she could detect a faint yellow ball around her.

With that out of the way, she drew all her focus into her body. This time she went about it differently. First, she created an orb of divine purity on her palm, next she wrapped her will around it. Imagine a hook firmly gripped into the orb.

Next, she pulled the orb back into her while making sure to ride it with her will.

'Like this, I should be able to see into my body. Before while healing myself I could only sense or feel the different parts or cells in the way. Now I should be able to see them too.'

She found out she was right.

It was magnificent. It was unlike seeing the Soul space.

Here Hilde found her body. It was like looking at the screen of character creation but not only in 3D but also internally. Hilde could zoom in to see her heart, her lungs, and every other thing.

The girl found her mind an even more fascinating place. The entire brain was bright gold, wisps of silver floating up from all over it. At the center was a white light, not as bright as the gold and not all-encompassing as the first two colors but spread enough to cover the center of the brain. There were more colors spread about at different locations but she couldn't pinpoint where one ended and another started creating a cluster hue of colors.

She noted that the golden light represents the extent of the mind, and the silver wisps were essences of will released by her mind. The white light was her imagination which helped to use and shape whatever she needed her will to be.

"Fascinating. I would have to get a good and cut it open to..".Hilde froze at her thoughts. Shaking herself she went back to what she was doing.

Her eyes went down to her body. There she found what she came for.

Her cells could be described as just prison cells. Each one was a cubicle or room. Every single one was filled with thick energy that the walls of the cell absorbed each time her body enacted an activity.

The rate of consumption was fast. Hilde watched mesmerized as the energy was pulled into the cell walls. There was where she noted the new phenomena that answered her questions.

The cell walls were like sponges that soaked up the energy stored. Going from shriveled to bloated. Then shriveling once more as the energy evicted them outside their storage.

Even as she watched, she had to wonder why the cells didn't make the use of the energy permanent. Hilde knew she was missing something.

"But what?" Sighing she left the cells and headed up back to her head to check her eyes.

There she frowned.

The cells around her optical nerves were destabilized and charring. The compressed energy beams of the divine purity were destroying her eyes each time she let loose a beam even as the divine energy there healed it.

It was like a cycle of birth and destruction. Destroy and repair.

Yet Hilde noted a difference in her eye cells. She would have missed it if not for the differences among some of the cells. While some were weaker others were firmer.

Studying them she realized these were the cells that were in the direct path of the compressed beams. Getting overwhelmed, destroyed, and then fixed by the energy held in their storages.

It didn't make sense. In the other parts of her body, the divine energy was flowing in and out of the cells without affecting them. It was just a buff, a sponge soaking up water and releasing it to return to its former form.

"What was different here?".

The more she accessed the more she got confused. It made no sense.

Hilde decided to try something.

Slowly she willed energy to flow again and compressed them. The compressed energy tore through her body like a vice, searing through the nerves and organs, muscles and veins. Cartilages and blood vessels.

*****

A horde of beasts attacked the bright glowing shield that protected a female who hovered lotus-style above the tip of the cliff. Each beast ran up along the other pouncing on the shield as they attacked it fiercely.

A few miles away hovered a being. Wings covered in flakes of black ice flapped at intervals keeping her airborne. All-deep red eyes pierced the environment and focused on the scene of gruesome butchery that was Hildelith's challenge.

Long red and black hair fell to her narrow waist, and arms that had four white bone joints piercing out and upwards from the wrist to her elbows hung at her sides. Four tails lashed about in the wind while her human-like face glared.

Her beauty described danger and not innocence.

Four horns pointed up from her head. The only dressing on her skin was a black metal padded with animal fur wrapped around her breasts and connected to the thigh shorts that hung from her hips by a thick but thin chain.

The Winter Deviless frowned as she accessed the damage done to her territory. All she wished was to drop in and crush the invader.

Yet she had to reign in her desire. The cold while it robbed her of all emotions and fear didn't take her common sense. Something that gave off such pressure and aura wasn't to be dealt with lightly. Plus she could see it barely moved yet her followers had died in the tens from it.

Why she didn't know what the invader was doing? A sixth sense told her that she needed to move now.

At the hill a strange shudder escaped the female goddess floating there, golden blood streaming out her lips and eyes. The various intelligent beasts that had been sending in the horde of lesser intelligent ones to break the shield smiled. Believing that the attack on her shield was now getting to her body.

One such intelligent thing, an eight feet Arachne devil made various clicking sounds sending even more of its children forward to hasten the thing's death before the lair ruler arrived.

The others seeing this also gave the same orders. Their thoughts were to attack at once.

Up in the stream of beautiful lights, a familiar gray-eyed boy chuckled. Unlike the others, he neither floated nor possessed wings to hover. Instead, he stood in the air like it was solid ground. His eyes while not unchanged had a spark of light to them as he looked from that distance at the still-shivering girl.

" Just a bit more Hilde. You are almost there," he smirked with glee before shaking himself. 'Does being joyful at her pain make me like that Old sadistic Devil.' he frowned at the thought before shivering.

"No, I'm more overjoyed with the coming results" He nodded quickly assuring himself that he was no freak.

His frown vanished as he agreed with his thoughts.

Feeling something in the air Cole looked to the far west his gaze zeroing in on the Devilless.

"A perfect specimen for testing, maybe. Hopefully she is swayed". he decided after a brief examination. Disregarding the being he looked down on the subject of his interest.

" Ah. How far you have come. From a fainting lass to a glorified goddess about to breach a tier. And how low I've fallen. I'm a court mage now. How quaint" he chuckled to himself.

"Me, a court mage. " he laughed loud in amusement his shoulders shaking as his head fell back with his hair I bothered by the wind. Tears stung his eyes.

"Ah, Callisto must be having quite the fun from this". He frowned a bit before he looked down at her again.

" Yet she ignores and delays the knowledge and my quest." he rubbed his jaw his smile unfazed. Shrugging he waved it off.

"No matter. What will be, will be. And nothing will avoid it. At her own time. Hopefully it won't be too late by then". He paused. Sighed and shook his head.

"Who am I kidding? It will be late. I'll just have to watch the show and wonder how she handles it. If it's her I'm sure she will do just well. The others..." Cole shook his head.

"Damn. It's gonna be bloody and..." he halted as a ripple spread in the air. Focusing on the scene below he noted that a wave had blasted out of the goddess and knocked back all the beasts around her. The shield had shut down.

"Hmmm. What...oh. She did it. Guess it's all done here." With a wave, the gray-eyed boy was gone.