Sharlyn Plot

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Feng, on the other hand, said a second internal "Oh shit" today, knowing where this was going if Celestina managed to recognize Sharlyn, and that things were about to turn south.

"Oh, wait. I know who you are. You're the Goddess of Creation, right?" As if realizing something, Celestina's previous expression was replaced with an extremely disdainful one "I thought that, since the two of you looked alike, that you'd be somewhat strong as well, but you're not nearly as impressive as your sister."

The moment those words left Celestina's mouth, Sharlyn's expression darkened to an extreme extent, having a look that even Feng had rarely seen, as the temperature in the room dropped to a freezing point.

Having held a faint hope they could avoid this topic, Feng could only let out a sigh at the mention of the Destruction Goddess right in front of Sharlyn; much less in the way Celestina insulted the Goddess of Creation.

If there was something that Sharlyn hated almost as much as creatures from the Dark Forces, that would be being compared to her twin sister.

He knew from the previous timeline that the Demon Goddess and Goddess of Destruction had interacted several times in the past, so aside from not wanting Sharlyn to know that he was associated with Celestina this early in the game, another reason for why he never mentioned the matter to her and didn't want the two of them to meet was due to the possibility of the Demon Empress seeing Sharlyn's face and recognizing it; which was very probable considering Sharlyn and her twin look alike a lot, being nearly identical.

Alas, circumstances forced Feng's hand and he had no choice but to call out Celestina who was the only thing in his arsenal that could fit in Sharlyn's room, unlike the Infant Silver Dragon, and kill Kildred without causing too big of a commotion and notifying everybody in the Stargazing Tower about the fight that was happening here, which would lead to them finding out about him possessing the Bible of Darkness.

Feng would rather avoid the extra trouble if he could while his tier was still low, so he summoned Celestina and hoped she wouldn't notice the similarities between Sharlyn and the Destruction Goddess, thinking that spending multiple eras in complete darkness without interacting with anyone after dying had caused the Demon Empress's memory to deteriorate a bit.

Sadly, a being of Celestina's level would have a perfect memory that wouldn't be lost from natural causes, and she only needed to search through her memories for a moment before realizing why Sharlyn's face looked so familiar and identifying the woman as the Creation Goddess.

As for why Sharlyn hated being compared to her sister so much? It was due to both their supposed rivalry, and the huge difference in strength between the two Goddesses.

At the end of the day, despite being an Advanced element, the element of Creation isn't very suitable for battle. It was undoubtedly capable of many incredible things, but it simply can not compare to an element like Destruction when it comes to fighting.

With her Mastery over the Law of Creation, Sharlyn can do unimaginable things that other beings controlling different elements could never even get close to achieving, and the Goddess of Creation was by no means weak in combat, being comparable to Primordial Gods, capable of utilizing her element for all sorts purposes in order to defeat her opponents; even being able to create other Laws.

From Basic Laws like Fire, Water, Wind... to Advanced Laws such as Illusion, Space, Time, Life, Death, or even Destruction...

...But that didn't mean that she could actually control any of those Laws, since she hasn't mastered any of them.

The best Sharlyn could do was create other Laws for an attack, but the power would be sorely lacking, and anything past the most basic of utilization would not be accomplishable.

Of course, Sharlyn doesn't rely purely on the Creation Law in combat, and has lots of powerful spells in her arsenal, along with multiple other methods to defeat her opponents such as Combat and Mana Techniques; but if it ever came down to a fight where Sharlyn faced an enemy with the same level of strength, same attributes, spells, combat standards, techniques, Mastery over their Law, and everything else that comes into play while fighting, with the only difference being which Law they used, she could never win.

A draw would be the best possible outcome if the Creation Goddess's opponent had only mastered a Basic Law, but if it was someone with mastery over an Advanced Law, Sharlyn's defeat was certain.

That being said, Sharlyn was still a natural-born God with Full Mastery over an Advanced Law and was overall quite talented and strong, so she was much more powerful than regular Ancient Gods despite being an Ancient God herself, having even defeated a few Primordial Gods in her past.

However, since she could achieve all that with just the Law of Creation, it all naturally went double for her sister, the Destruction Goddess.

"It's not surprising that a filthy demon like you would have such an impression of that bitch," A rare profanity escaped from Sharlyn's lips, her previously calm expression twisting into one of disdain and disgust as she stared down the demon in front of her "Demon Empress, you should have just stayed dead in your grave where fossils belong."

Celestina didn't seem bothered by Sharlyn's petty insults, the Demon Goddess's expression remaining the same despite the hateful glare she was receiving and as she unrestrainedly displayed her disdain for the Creation Goddess "You're one to talk? Didn't you die as well? And to some weaklings no less while futilely trying to stop the Endless Abyss. Look at your state now, becoming so weak and disgracing yourself so low as to even bestow your Full Blessing on some lowly mortal human. How the mighty have fallen. It seems like she had spoken too highly of you, you're much more pathetic than Seraphina originally described."

Although both of these two present Goddesses had died in the past and now returned to the land of the living, both using differentiating methods for the goal of revival, with both of them dying in battle, the reasons which led to their downfall and situations that had transpired for Sharlyn and Celestina to die were very different; not even being comparable.

In the Demon Empress's case, she was betrayed by her subordinates, multiple Primordial Demon Gods that were supposed to be loyal to the demon race's throne, and even a few beings who had reached the Half-step Rule level of Mastery over an element, along with her enemies such as some Primordial Evil Gods.

However, Celestina wasn't thought of as the strongest ruler of the demon race ever since the First Demon Emperor for nothing, as despite ending up in such a precarious situation and being ambushed by multiple top-tier powerhouses, she still managed to survive the surprise assault from all sides and escape.

Unfortunately, the dethroned Demon Empress then found herself in an even worse spot due to her enemies forcing Celestina towards a place where the one and only God Slayer just happened to be at the time.

Under normal circumstances, Celestina wouldn't have been outmatched by the God Slayer, since she had her own means and trump cards to not be on the losing end against him in spite of the God Slayer's superior combat standards and possession of a special power that was very deadly for everything and anything, which allowed him to permanently kill any creature; including Primordial Gods, natural-born Gods, and even beings who had mastered a Half-step Rule.

Facing the legendary being while heavily injured and still shaken by the betrayal she had gone through, however, Celestina stood no chance against the God Slayer, who naturally didn't intend on giving up the opportunity to take out a powerful adversary like the current Demon Empress, especially considering Celestina's reputation at the time.

Killing Celestina proved to be a much more difficult challenge than expected, though, and in her desperate state to survive, the Demon Empress held nothing back as she tried her best to get away from the most formidable killing machine in history, in which she succeeded while being even more gravely injured during the process.

Had she not taken that much damage from both the unexpected ambush and from the God Slayer, Kratos would have never been able to swoop in and deal the final blow.

The God of War wasn't weak, but he wouldn't have even been able to put up a fight against Celestina in her peak form. Kratos was only a human Ancient God with no special Bloodline, origin, or base strength, but thanks to being completely decked out in Divine Artifacts, along with many other means to boost his strength, The War God had the raw strength of a Primordial God.

He hasn't been humanity's strongest combatant for multiple eras now for no reason, holding up the hopes and dreams of the human race during times when immensely powerful beings threatened to devour them and creating the War God's Temple along with other powerful humans during ancient times to protect the Greater God's Domain from Dark Forces.

Along with his War Goddess and the many Divine Artifacts at their disposal, Kratos had fended off humanity's enemies during those times, eventually inventing Battle Arrays in order to fight against opponents much stronger than themselves.

Even so, the God of War wouldn't have had any hopes of defeating Celestina, who wielded the Power of Darkness to the extreme and had Mastery over the Darkness element at the Half-step Rule standard, if not for her grave injuries and weakened state.

It was still a fairly tough fight for Kratos, and he only managed to kill the Demon Empress's physical body without destroying her soul or stopping her from sealing herself into the Pandemonium Lashblade.

Kratos's reputation then grew as the one to have killed the last ruler of the demon race, while the Pandemonium Lashblade somehow ended up inside of this God's Domain's War God's Temple's treasury, before Feng recently exchanged for it.

In Sharlyn's case, on the other hand, the fight had been between her and some other Goddesses on one side and a couple of Evil Gods and Demon Gods on the other as Sharlyn's group attempted to stop the Abyss from spreading into this God's Domain; along with individuals like the Scholar trying to take control over the God's Domain.

The level of strength possessed by the fighters was much lower, with none of them even being capable of wielding a Half-step Rule. In the end, Sharlyn died while protecting Feng's home God's Domain from her enemies and the Abyss, choosing to use her body as the main power source for a seal to keep the Endless Abyss at bay and stop any of the evildoers from entering the God's Domain.

Sharlyn mostly didn't mind sacrificing herself since it was for an important cause and she could revive fairly easily thanks to being a natural-born God, so the Goddess of Creation just accepted her death and worked on recovering her strength.

But now it served as a source of ridicule from the Demon Goddess in front of her, who called Sharlyn's enemies weaklings, and, by extension, her an even bigger weakling for dying to them, which she technically had the right to do considering how many powerhouses and planning it took to bring Celestina down, with the Demon Empress being ambushed and on her own, while Sharlyn got herself killed in a fight where she had teammates and enemies many times weaker than what Celestina faced.

The Creation Goddess was thus annoyed to no end by Celestina's jab at her strength while once again using Seraphina, the Goddess of Destruction, as a comparison. Sharlyn also wondered how the Demon Empress had come to know about what had happened to her and apparently all of the details, which should be impossible considering Celestina had died long before any of this transpired.

What Sharlyn didn't know, though, was that Celestina has been somewhat free to run about ever since making the deal with Feng thanks to the conditions in their contract, and she hasn't been wasting any of that time playing around.

During the period when Feng wasn't carrying her around or needed her assistance, Celestina has been running around with Zero Wing's Main Force all across the lower level maps of this God's Domain and helping the restored members kill powerful bosses as per Feng's orders.

Using the time and chances wisely, the Demon Empress investigated anything of significance, such as what the current state of God's Domain was, how long has it been, who of the people she used to know were still alive, in what kind of state is the demon race, who Feng was, along with lots of other details that could help her piece together what has happened since she died.

Through her research, Celestina found out about the original God's Domain continent breaking apart and some of the current state of affairs like the environment around them and how much it had degraded compared to when she was still around.

However, what she could learn by using regular investigation was very limited, especially on the very important things that she was the most interested about outside of this God's Domain.

Most of the people didn't even know that there was a much bigger and greater world outside of the their God's Domain since it's the only thing they had ever known, while the information available to Celestina didn't indicate that anyone was aware of what has happened or is currently happening in the Greater God's Domain.

With other avenues for info exhausted, the Demon Goddess could only resort to acquiring knowledge from Zero Wing's restored members, who she had noticed during this time know much more than what they logically should.

In spite of them seemingly originating from this Elementary God's Domain, Celestina has had a hunch that these humans were very irregular and knew much more than they were letting on even though all of them were at either Tier 0 or Tier 1, not taking long to confirm that feeling as she travelled around and fought monsters with the Main Force members.

Other natives of this God's Domain may not notice it and simply think of the restored members as strong and weird, but she could tell.

From the way they walked, from the way they talked and carried themselves, the things they knew and did, along with listening in on bits and pieces of their conversations, Celestina became certain that these people were different from the others, not being limited to the Elementary God's Domain in which they were currently residing, and having been to the Greater God's Domain.

They became Celestina's primary source of information for the things she was interested in.

However, getting any of them to talk wasn't that simple, as apart from some basic info and fragments of answers given in passing, the restored members weren't willing to easily divulge such information to a demon like her, not being sure if they were allowed to since Feng didn't say anything when it came to the Demon Empress asking them about stuff.

Opting to avoid potential trouble from the Guild Leader by answering and accidentally telling Celestina something that wouldn't be good for her to know, the Main Force members Celestina tried talking to either turned down her questioning or just ignored the Primordial God threat that could possibly end their existence in the future.

Hence, Celestina was left with no other option but to resort to bribing the restored members in order to make them spill out what she wanted to know.

Being only a soul, though, with her physical body created by the Spectral Animacell, Celestina was penniless and had no possessions to her name at the moment, so she couldn't offer them anything material to trade for information with.

Luckily for the Demon Empress, all of those humans were people desperate to improve their strength, and her knowledge as someone who had reached the level of strength thought of as the very peak could be very valuable to the restored members.

Through offering advice and guidance on various subjects using her experience as master in many realms of God's Domain's matters and a Fate Realm expert that had mastery over two Platinum Combat Techniques, the scheming demon girl managed to obtain loads of important information that interested her greatly from the restored members, who, although had lots of ways to improve their strength and guidance and training methods from their previous lives thanks to Zero Wing, wouldn't dream of passing up the opportunity to learn from a mighty figure like the Demon Empress.

Even those top experts in the Universal God's Domain who were among the strongest and basically unmatched against other players, including those who had reached the Third Step of the Beyond Domain Realm, would kill for such an opportunity to improve, let alone them; with most of the current restored members being merely in the Void Realm or Domain Realm, and some even in just the Flowing Water Realm.

The situation between Celestina and the restored members instantly switched following the Demon Goddess offering guidance for information, with the members lining up and practically fighting over each other to tell Celestina what she wanted to know, bringing up whatever they knew that the others hadn't said yet in order to have a slight chance at receiving her teachings.

A sense of satisfaction and triumph filled Celestina at that moment as she watched the humans compete with each other to give her the info and earn her favor, being reminded of her identity as the Demon Empress and remembering who she was and how people used to treat her.

Due to Feng's constant mistreatment, Celestina hasn't felt like herself ever since returning to the physical world, forgetting that she was the mighty ruler of the demon race who used to demand respect with just her very presence, making others shake in fear from simply mentioning her name, the psychological and sexual harassment the Demon Goddess has been receiving as she had to take orders from a human dulling her sense of what kind of behavior and treatment was acceptable.

Celestina's hatred for Feng was further fueled when she realized what kind of state she was falling into and reminisced about the respect she used to effortlessly obtain as a result of her immense strength, no one daring to treat the infamous Demon Empress like Feng had been doing all this time.

Internally, the demon maid swore that she'd give her contractor a piece of her mind when they met again, but it all quickly came crashing down.

The restored Zero Wing members, although eager and pretty desperate to grow stronger, wouldn't give away the info Celestina was after for free or without insurance that the demon girl would pay up on her end, so as per the agreement between them, Celestina had to give each of the players who had answered her questions and added onto the piles of information personal guidance and teaching on whatever they wanted to improve.

It wasn't that difficult for the Demon Empress to fulfill her part of the contract thanks to her vast knowledge and experience, but due to the large number of players and needing to guide each of them in a different way depending on their already decent progress, it had taken a lot of time, with the very notion of her having to do such a thing with some weak humans making Celestina feel disgusted.

Thus she didn't get to enjoy the feeling of superiority for long as the Demon Goddess was taken down from her pedestal by the restored members once the time came to pay up for the information, and even more so once Feng recalled her to his side, the treatment unbefitting of an Empress like herself reemerging and mercilessly putting Celestina back in her place regardless of her protests or wishes.

Nevertheless, Celestina managed to get her hands on what she had wanted to know, obtaining information about the current state of the Greater God's Domain, the demon race, some of her old comrades and enemies, along with the places and items of importance to her; allowing the Demon Empress to begin planning out her next steps for recovering her position as the ruler of demons and getting back at the traitors who had stabbed her in the back.

Among the interesting bits of information, though, was the history of this God's Domain, the events leading up to its current state, including the matters pertaining to the sealing of the Endless Abyss from anchoring any further and putting the God's Domain in danger.

However, no names were mentioned in the explanation, and the restored members didn't reveal that it was the Goddess of Creation who had sacrificed herself to seal the Abyss off, or Sharlyn's current identity after reincarnating, knowing that was something that shouldn't be told to the Demon Empress, so the restored Zero Wing members only told Celestina about the basics of what had happened in return for the Demon Goddess's guidance.

Unfortunately, their efforts to conceal most of the important details like Sharlyn's role in the sealing of the Endless Abyss or presence in this God's Domain proved to be pointless, as immediately after seeing the Creation Goddess and recognizing the silver haired woman as Seraphina's sister due to the twin Goddesses' close resemblance, Celestina easily concluded the missing parts of the story using the stuff she had already found out from the restored members.

She also finally realized why Feng's wings had looked so familiar to her.

After all, Celestina had seen that exact same pair of wings that was fairly recognizable in their design, only the pair she had seen had pitch-black feathers instead of the pure-white ones Feng's wings were made out of, and that pair had a wingspan of over a thousand meters; making her contractor's wings seem more like that of a baby chick's in comparison to the ones the Demon Empress had seen on the Destruction Goddess's back.

With Celestina ascertaining Sharlyn's identity as the Goddess of Creation and recognizing the wings Feng possessed as a white and pure version of the ones belonging to the Goddess of Destruction, it was simple enough for Celestina to put two and two together, realizing that Feng had obtained his back appendages from Sharlyn.

Considering Feng's origin and identity as a human, there was only one way for him to have gained such a unique and physical trait from the Creation Goddess, and that was through a Full Blessing.

Sharlyn giving Feng her Full Blessing would also explain the extreme feeling of weakness and oddity that Celestina sensed from the opposing woman, causing the Demon Empress to be sure of her guess, and she immediately used her newfound revelation about Sharlyn to insult and make fun of her.

Despite the two of them never having met in person, both Sharlyn and Celestina despised each other. Though, in the Demon Empress's case, it was more of an indifferent disdain towards an annoyance, while Sharlyn just full-on hated Celestina and wished death upon the violet-haired demon girl.

This was due to both of the girls' nature which they were born with.

Creatures like Demons, Demonic Beasts, Void Creatures, and Abyssal Monsters mostly pursued death and destruction, with demons constantly invading areas with other life, killing, destroying civilizations, enslaving other beings or turning them into puppets, and overall trying to take over the rest of the world for the demon race to rule over all other creatures.

Demons have been doing these kinds of things ever since the First Demon Emperor appeared and created more demons, the behavior being deeply rooted inside of the demons' basic nature, and Celestina was naturally no exception; having done her fair share of conquering, slaughtering, enslaving, destroying, and many other atrocities that still scar the Universal God's Domain.

In complete contrast, Sharlyn is a being created by the world itself as part of the Forces of Light with the purpose of bringing creation to reality, protecting the world from evil, and preventing mindless destruction. Hers and Celestina's ideologies and ways of life were the exact opposite, resulting in their goals opposing each other and the two Goddesses often butting into the other's business.

However, due to the massive difference in strength that had been present between the Creation Goddess and the Demon Empress at the time when both of them were at their peaks, the most Sharlyn could do was mildly inconvenience and annoy Celestina, throwing a few wrenches into the demon ruler's plans and actions.

When it's the other way around, though, any one of Celestina's actions against the Goddess of Creation or her objectives could be very devastating, which often resulted in Sharlyn being on the losing end.

Their constant meddling with each other resulted in the two women having very hostile feelings toward one another, while never actually meeting in person for various reasons, mainly due to Sharlyn being smart and cautious enough to never be in the same place as or near Celestina, knowing the Demon Empress was many times stronger than herself and could kill her with relative ease.

Them never meeting was also because Celestina never bothered with trying to actually hunt down the Creation Goddess, aware that the pest was a natural-born God who she wouldn't be able to truly get rid of due to Sharlyn's God Factor; which even the strongest Soul Fire could only slightly damage.

Killing Sharlyn simply wasn't worth the hassle if it was only temporary considering it would take plenty of effort to either get her location, or lure the Goddess of Creation out for a fight, and then eliminate her, which would be an ordeal of its own if Sharlyn, knowing she was going to die and have to revive anyway, were to go all out, holding nothing back and making it a bit of a challenge to finish her off; only for the Creation Goddess to return within a year or two after all that effort.

Her persistence to get in Celestina's way despite her strength being sorely lacking pissed off the Demon Empress to no end, and she never had a good opinion about Sharlyn, always having much more preferred Seraphina, her twin sister, with whom she had interacted several times in the past, as the Destruction Goddess's perspective on the world, behavior, goals, attitude, and overall personality was fairly similar to her own.

Both Celestina and Seraphina pursued absolute power, using any means necessary to achieve what they wanted regardless of the righteousness or consequences that would entail and the impact the atrocities they committed had on others, with destruction being in their nature from birth.

The only difference was Seraphina literally being born with the power of destruction, having an innate and instinctive power to control the Law of Destruction, along with an urge to bring ruin upon everything around her.

Similarly to how other creatures were born with the need to prosper, develop themselves and the world around them, and leave behind their lineage and legacy, the Goddess of Destruction had the need to do the exact opposite; willfully destroying the things around her as she craved to fulfill her purpose.

Such was the unfortunate nature of natural-born Gods. Although they gained immense strength, become as immortal as one could get in God's Domain, had a guaranteed path to Tier 6 even if they did nothing but breathe, and were capable of incredible control over their assigned element from very early stages of their lives, the impulses and other consequences brought about by being inlaid with an element that made up their very being made for quite a limited existence; with natural-born Gods nearly being slaves to their elements and the desires influencing their actions and very nature according to their element.

Those limitations were also the reason most natural-born Gods, including Sharlyn and Seraphina, only ever manage to become Ancient Gods, stuck in that realm and unable to grow into Primordial Gods.

Having been born with unfathomable compatibility with a certain element, natural-born Gods could quickly and easily increase their Mastery over their Law, even having a decent chance at pushing their Mastery to the Half-step Rule standard, making it a trivial task to integrate the Law within them during their Tier 6 Promotion and become Ancient Gods, but the problem came after they are no longer able to improve their Mastery as effortlessly and wished to master other Laws in order to get even stronger.

With them having so easily reached their high standard of Mastery over their inherent Law, mastering a Law with which they didn't have much compatibility was extremely difficult, while their own natural inclination and bias towards the element they had been born with would also hinder the natural-born Gods' progress towards improving on other elements.

Even if they somehow manage to obtain Mastery over a different Law from their innate one, infusing it into their Superior Divine Body, if they even had one to begin with, along with the original Law and making them function together was nearly impossible, especially due to their physical God Factor clashing with the second Law as it was different from the one the God was born with and therefore quite incompatible with the God's naturally formed being.

This instinctive disposition towards other elements and Laws made it next to impossible for natural-born Gods to become a Primordial God, which all had multiple Laws integrated into their Divine Bodies, with it being a necessary requirement in order for a creature to become a Primordial God.

In fact, the number of natural-born Gods who had ascended from Ancient Gods to Primordial Gods throughout all of God's Domain's history could be counted on one hand, the low number making it evident how challenging it was for them to grow stronger in that department. Though, most of those natural-born Gods were ones that had been born with a Basic Law, and none of them had an Advanced Law either as their innate element or in their roster of mastered Laws.

Stuck at Ancient God rank, most natural-born Gods never succeed in progressing and remain inferior to Primordial Gods, but still manage to be as strong as them thanks to the inherent perks of being a natural-born God, their God Factor, and high compatibility and Mastery with their natural element.

Nevertheless, the boosts from being a natural-born God in this aspect of a powerful physical body and Divine Body were mostly just enhanced and greatly stronger than those of other Ancient Gods, much different from the supernatural superiority that Primordial Gods possessed due to having multiple Laws inlaid and working in tandem within their Superior Divine Bodies.

As for those few natural-born Gods who managed to become Primordial Gods, their strength was unimaginable and they practically had no contenders, aside from those beings who had mastered a Half-step Rule of course, with nearly all of them being among the Universal God's Domain's Twelve Great Gods.

Neither Sharlyn nor Seraphina ever managed to add more Laws into their Superior Divine Bodies and become a Primordial God due to the endeavor being too implausible and the traits brought about by their respective elements greatly directing their behavior towards other elements and the world itself; with Seraphina putting all her efforts into mastering the Law of Destruction, causing a lot of havoc everywhere as a result of the necessary practices and their destructive nature, while Sharlyn focused on using her control over the creation element for combat and stopping people like her sister in their evil deeds, as per both of the Goddesses' instincts.

It was why the two of them could never get along despite being sisters, never having a proper sibling relationship as they became divided due to the nature of being both had been born with.

Meanwhile, Celestina, albeit quite similar to the Destruction Goddess, had a much different approach to causing destruction as she seldom purposelessly killed or did anything that wasn't beneficial to herself or the demon race, yet still did whatever it took to achieve her goals when necessary similarly to Seraphina.

The Demon Empress and Goddess of Destruction had thus gotten along quite well thanks to their mutual interests and matching personalities, often working together on things, combining their strengths, and learning from each other.

At first, Celestina didn't think much of Seraphina, simply taking the newborn God as some arrogant punk who went around doing whatever she wanted as the instincts of her element compelled the destructive girl to do whatever they told her like a slave.

But later on, the Demon Empress's opinion of the Destruction Goddess changed as she watched Seraphina, at first using the girl and treating her like a toy for amusement to quell the often present boredom of a mundane life when nothing interesting was happening, only for the Goddess of Destruction to rapidly catch more and more of the Demon Goddess's interest with her changes and quick growth into becoming an actual competent powerhouse.

Before meeting Celestina, Seraphina would simply pursue the destruction and her origin without paying any heed to anything else or bothering with how to apply herself aside from acting on instinct and growing stronger during her earlier days when she and Sharlyn had recently spontaneously come into being like how natural-born Gods do.

Afterwards, upon seeing how the Demon Empress operated, carrying herself in an overbearing manner and doing as she pleased, accomplishing just as much as her, if not more, in terms of causing destruction, yet still acting rationally and with purpose as she wreaked havoc upon God's Domain, the Destruction Goddess became inspired.

Seraphina underwent a drastic change after learning from Celestina and changing herself, becoming more mindful of her actions and how to utilize her strength without any unnecessary waste and effort, becoming much stronger as a result while fulfilling her previous goals.

Over time, the strength and reputation of the Goddess of Destruction exponentially increased by many times, eventually becoming feared across the entire God's Domain as she became one of what's known today as the Universal God's Domain's Twelve Great Gods, as well as someone even Celestina and other beings of her level had to respect upon Seraphina pushing her Mastery and learning how to use the Half-step Rule of Destruction; even if she hadn't fully mastered it like the true strongest beings in the universe had with their own elements.

Regardless of her position in God's Domain being greatly elevated and her strength growing, Seraphina's attitude and respect towards Celestina never changed, and their partnership only became stronger with Seraphina's rise.

She later on regularly joined up with the Demon Empress due to their aligned interests and position among the Dark Forces in God's Domain, helping each other out and working together in spite of Celestina being significantly stronger than the Destruction Goddess.

With Seraphina's Mastery over Destruction and her help, Celestina was even able to improve on the demon race's Destructive Soul Fire.

Although the First Demon Emperor acquired Black Soul Fire from the Bible of Darkness and passed it down to all other demons that came after him, it was never something any demon other than the First Emperor himself could fully control, only ever being capable of using it like a skill with minimum control or input of their own.

Not even Celestina, who was considered the strongest demon ruler in history after the First Demon Emperor, was able to completely master the usage of Soul Fire.

Even so, the basic power of Soul Fire at the time that all demons inherently have and could use was immensely powerful, valuable, useful, and deadly, particularly during the earlier days when there wasn't any proper defense that people could use to protect their souls from it before some methods had been developed, with it being one of the main reasons demons used to be such a threat and why everybody feared them.

At least, that was the case during the time Celestina had still been alive, while now the demon race, although remaining quite infamous and a cause for concern amongst all races, was no longer as highly thought of, respected, nor dreaded.

Thanks to Seraphina when the demon race was still at its peak, though, and her expertise that Celestina was not capable of, the power and versatility of Soul Fire reached a completely different level.

It required the user to already possess a high level of mastery over Black Soul Fire, a high Concentration standard, and overall enough strength in order to be capable of utilizing the new advanced version of Soul Fire that Seraphina and Celestina had worked on and created together, with only some among the top echelons of the demons who were much more experienced mastering it.

However, those who could use the improved Soul Fire had seen an enormous increase in their strength when utilizing it. The Demon Empress, in particular, reached even greater heights and her reputation grew ever more infamous with her incredible utilization of Soul Fire which made most of the efforts other beings had developed over the years to counter the destructive black flames of the demon race completely useless and futile.

Throughout the years of their alliance, Celestina and Seraphina became closer, their partnership turning into a great friendship, and in many ways, Celestina had been more of a sister to Seraphina than Sharlyn ever was. The Goddess of Destruction had also become someone who Celestina could put a lot of trust in.

Although she had plenty of trusted subordinates and followers within her ranks within the demon race as their ruler at the time, along with multiple allies who were either likeminded individuals among the creatures in the Dark Forces or with a normally neutral stance on the matter between the Dark Forces and the Forces of Light in God's Domain unless their own interests were involved, there had never been anyone who the Demon Empress thought of as a friend.

Most people on her side she treated as tools and disposable objects, valuable underlings, or they were her peers. Seraphina was the first person who Celestina had a genuine friendship with, considering her a close ally and friend to who she could entrust with very important things.

She even trusted Seraphina enough that the Demon Empress had secretly given her the real Bible of Darkness after it had been greatly damaged during the scuffles when Celestina had been ambushed by the traitors and her enemies and fallen to Legendary rank, passing it to the Goddess of Destruction using some special means without anyone noticing and leaving it with her to protect due to the Demon Empress not being certain of her own fate at the time and having a bad premonition; deciding it was for the best to make that precautionary measure, which evidently proved to be a right move as the Bible of Darkness would have otherwise ended up in Kratos's hands.

During the times when the two of them were at their peaks and doing casual things like terrorizing civilizations, expanding their territories, and chatting over a cup of tea, a topic that would every so often come up was Sharlyn.

Talking about the Goddess of Creation, neither of the dark Goddesses were pleased with her, and Seraphina would often complain about her sister, insulting and mocking Sharlyn for her actions despite knowing that she was biting on more than she could chew.

It was from those conversations with Seraphina that Celestina learned more about the Creation Goddess and knew as much as she did despite the two of them never actually meeting in person, along with why the Demon Empress had a lot of disdain for Sharlyn on top of what she already felt towards the opposing Goddess that came from their indirect clashes.

From their early days while still being together as sisters, the natural-born twin Goddesses of Creation and Destruction would often get in fights over all sorts of subjects even while at only Tier 0, their arguments growing over time along with the two's strength.

Constant bickering would later on, once the two reached higher tiers, turn into full-blown out fights where the two would duke it out over a disagreement, with Sharlyn almost always being on the losing end and getting her ass kicked by Seraphina due to the difference in their strength and elements.

Being the exact opposite of each other, one would think that Creation and Destruction would offset each other in a clash of equal strength, but that was not the case.

In fact, the Destruction Goddess's utilization of the Destruction Law was a complete counter to anything Sharlyn could throw at her as Creation itself was not an element meant for direct combat and had little offensive power, only allowing the Creation Goddess to conjure up other elements for a battle; but they would naturally be inferior to an actual version of that Law as Sharlyn couldn't exercise the same amount of control over them as she could over a Law that she had some Mastery in, not to mention that she was up against the Destruction element.

Among all the Laws below Peak rank, the Law of Destruction was by far the strongest in terms of destructive power and direct, head-on combat, so in a fight where both Sharlyn and Seraphina had an equal level of Mastery over their respective Laws, there was no way for the Creation Goddess to win since everything and anything she could use against her sister would just end up getting completely demolished by the powerful Destruction Law.

As a result, Sharlyn would always get beat up because of their arguments, but Seraphina thought it was well deserved that she gave her annoying sister a good beating since she was the one who started their fights 90% of the time without learning her lesson.

Granted, it was all due to Seraphina's actions and whimsical behavior towards other creatures weaker than herself as she trained and practiced the Law of Destruction, resulting in countless deaths and horrific situations, which forced Sharlyn to be unable to sit still and watch her own sibling do such horrible things, resulting in the Creation Goddess making a move and getting in Seraphina's way in order to stop her, leading to more verbal and physical fights between the two of them.

However, in the Destruction Goddess's opinion, if she was weaker, then the dumb sister should just shut up and not provoke her. Weaklings had no rights, and whatever happened to those that get caught up in what she does was irrelevant to Seraphina. If they have the strength, then they should stop her. If not, then it wasn't her problem. At least that was her worldview during the time the Goddess of Destruction was younger.

The relationship between Sharlyn and Seraphina never seemed to improve no matter how much time passed, even getting worse with the years passing as Seraphina continued doing things that her sister disagreed with and opposed, fighting becoming more frequent, and nearly all that the two of them did, with Sharlyn growing angrier at her sister and Seraphina becoming more annoyed and irritated by her other half's constant bitching in her ear.

Seraphina even went as far as killing Sharlyn a few times when things got particularly heated, not minding the death of her sister too much since they'd always revive after some time passes thanks to being natural-born Gods, but it definitely served to make Sharlyn ever more enraged with the Destruction Goddess as they got further torn apart.

Their sistership grew more and more hostile due to the nonstop fighting, until it eventually got to a point of no return once Seraphina started allying with Celestina, the ruler of the demon race and one of the people who Sharlyn despised the most in God's Domain.

Regardless of how her sister felt about it, Seraphina did as she pleased and whatever was in her best interest without caring for the consequences or minding Sharlyn's opinions on it, simply treating the sibling like she was a nuisance that kept buzzing around her and making things more difficult and a major pain in the butt.

On the other side, though, it was a completely different situation, and Sharlyn was of a much different opinion than Seraphina, considering it a war between her and her sister after the Destruction Goddess joined up with the Demon Empress.

Following which, aside from working with others among the Forces of Light to hinder Seraphina's and Celestina's bad deeds, alongside the actions of all other Dark Forces, Sharlyn had a burning rivalry inside her and trained herself for combat in order to defeat Seraphina and redeem herself after getting beaten and killed multiple times by the one she no longer thought of as her sibling.

But she wasn't being taken seriously at all by Seraphina.

Sharlyn simply could not do one-on-one combat when Laws get involved, and she never had any chances of beating her sister.

Still, it wasn't like all her training had been pointless as Sharlyn had grown strong enough to solo beat even some Primordial Gods as long as she had a bit of an advantage.

That didn't satisfy her, though, unwilling to stop until she could defeat Seraphina in a fight.

Her, mostly one-sided, rivalry with her sister pushed Sharlyn to continue improving her strength while focusing primarily on combat, which was a mistake for someone like her, whose element and class were both meant to serve as support.

Neither the element of Creation nor the Oracle class, which Sharlyn was, were supposed to be used for combat in the way that Sharlyn has been using them, but she didn't care.

In fact, had Sharlyn focused on improving her Mastery over the Law of Creation for actually creating things instead of to make use of it in fights, she would have been capable of much more, as even creating powerful Divine Artifacts would be possible for her thanks to the amazing abilities someone with high Mastery over the Creation Law would have.

Out of all Advanced Laws, the Law of Creation was definitely the most useful one if used correctly, since it could create any other Law, even Peak Laws. But it was also incredibly complex and difficult to fully master, making it not nearly as used as other Laws despite its astronomical potential.

Even though there had been several Gods who had Mastery over the Creation Law, no one could ever reach that ultimate stage, and Sharlyn remained the strongest one among them.

Nonetheless, even with Sharlyn only putting in the basic usage of the Law of Creation with her high Mastery, she could still easily create Fragmented Divine Artifacts, and even possibly some weaker Divine Artifacts if she managed to pull off the creation, while never focusing on the job of being a craftsman, simply making some equipment for her comrades in the Forces of Light when necessary.

It was only thanks to her that the War God's Temple in the Greater God's Domain had as many powerful items as it did and managed to hold on despite its massive losses in both manpower and equipment during the trialing times of humanity's war with the Dark Forces, barely having enough to not run out of supplies and survive through the many horrible wars.

Such a way of utilizing her abilities wasn't useful to Sharlyn, though, as it didn't help her in growing stronger or in fights, which she is adamant about improving despite it being very obvious it wasn't an element suitable for combat, and should instead be used for creating.

True to her stubborn nature, Sharlyn refused to give up on her goal, looking for ways to grow stronger and only focusing her Law on Creation for that purpose, but was smart enough to understand her previous plan wasn't working out, so she started thinking of different methods to apply the Creation Law and defeat Seraphina.

A brilliant idea eventually came to the Goddess of Creation on what she could do. Instead of relying on herself and the Law of Creation to fight, which proved to be ineffective, she'd simply create something stronger than both herself and Seraphina in order to finally have a chance at beating her sister.

Unfortunately, that didn't work out, and it had even spectacularly backfired right in Sharlyn's face.

Not to say that the objective of creating creatures to fight was a failure, though. In actuality, Sharlyn succeeded in that part with decent results as, after a couple of unsuccessful attempts, she managed to bring many powerful creatures into reality using the Law of Creation which possessed great strength and could serve to fight against evil.

Through just a few tries and perfecting her techniques, Sharlyn created an entire race of strong creatures with Life Ratings only slightly weaker than Dragons designed purely for combat; the Valkyries.

With the Angels she had created in her own image, Sharlyn's combat capabilities had indeed greatly increased, and she could use these Angels to fight wars against other races by herself, but it wasn't enough.

They were no doubt strong, with the Tier 6 Valkyries being capable of defeating even Gods and putting up a fight against a non-serious Ancient God, but the Angels didn't have much talent in Laws, meaning they couldn't master them, so there was no way for the Angels to defeat even Ancient Gods, unless the opponent chooses to not use any Laws themself; let alone Seraphina.

Marking the project as a failure, Sharlyn still chose to keep the Angels around and continue making more since they could be of great use for all sorts of purposes, and she had truly given the Angel race a pivotal role within God's Domain that was very important throughout the years.

But that's when things started going to shit.

Upon finding out about her sister's newly created underlings, Seraphina decided that she wanted some of her own. It wasn't possible for her to create them like Sharlyn did as that required using the Law of Creation, which the Goddess of Destruction was definitely not capable of, so Seraphina simply chose to take some of Sharlyn's for herself.

And she did that by corrupting the Angels and turning them into the Fallen race, getting a legion of Fallen Angels under her command.

To say that Sharlyn was pissed after finding out what Seraphina did would be a massive understatement, but it once again ended the same way it always did as Sharlyn couldn't beat the Destruction Goddess in a fight.

Hence, she could only attempt to revert the Angels' Fallen state and turn them back into normal Angels, only for that to fail as well. No matter what she did, Sharlyn could neither remove the Fallen Angels' Fallen state, convince them to work with her, or get Seraphina to tell her what and how she did it.

All for naught, Sharlyn nearly felt like crying after everything failed and having no other choice but to give up on recovering her lost Angels, who she had gotten a bit attached to by that point, and then watch them follow her sister's commands to do all sorts of things unbefitting of Angels.

The only thing Sharlyn could do was make sure it never happened again by inventing defenses for her remaining Angels and making her new ones unable to be corrupted so easily.

Many had speculated throughout history what exactly the Goddess of Destruction had done to suddenly turn so many of Sharlyn's Angels into the Fallen race out of nowhere, and she didn't seem capable of mass corrupting them anymore like before, so no one will probably ever know.

Still, she, and many others, had tried their hand at corrupting the Angels' minds and turning them into Fallen Angels, most of the time failing, and on rare occasions succeeding.

Sharlyn hadn't been particularly concerned at first since even if Seraphina had acquired a number of her Angels and turned them into her own subordinates, she couldn't get any more, unlike her who could create as many of them as she wanted with enough time. But then the Fallen Angels started reproducing under the Destruction Goddess's command, something that shouldn't have been possible as Sharlyn had not designed them to feel any sexual urges or be capable of making children.

Seraphina's forces quickly multiplied through the power of sex, and there was nothing Sharlyn could do to stop it.

In her efforts to create something that could defeat her sister, Sharlyn had not only completely failed, but she had even given Seraphina many powerful subordinates.

It was, quite likely, the biggest L Sharlyn had ever suffered under anyone's hands, it being her rival sister who she had grown to hate making it all the more painful.

Ever since then, it has been a known taboo to mention the Creation Goddess's sister anywhere near her, and even more to compare the two twin Goddesses.

Without a shadow of a doubt, if Celestina's words had ticked Sharlyn off before with her first remark, the Demon Empress had just totally enraged the angelic woman with her last sentence, which proved to be the wrong buttons to push going by Sharlyn's clenched fist and slightly shaking body.

Beyond Feng's and Celestina's expectations, however, the Goddess of Creations didn't lash out at the demon girl, a smile instead appearing on her breathtaking face as she spoke.

"Sure, I gave my Blessing to him. But what about you? Aren't you the mere maid of that 'Lowly mortal human'? As the Blessing bestower of the man who is your master, shouldn't a dirty thing like you be on your knees when standing in front of me?"

This time, it was the Demon Empress's turn to become pissed, glaring at Sharlyn upon being reminded of her current position and getting insulted in such a way by this weakling.

The pitch-black flames burning on the Pandemonium Lashblade grew larger and more ferocious while killing intent laced Celestina's aura, clearly preparing to end Sharlyn where she stood, and permanently this time around now that the natural-born Goddess's God Factor had weakened to such an extent.

"A mere ant dares to- Hya~!" Before Celestina could finish her sentence or make a move, a high-pitched moan-squeal sounded out from her mouth as Feng harshly pulled on her demonic tail to shut his demon maid up.

Stepping away from the bastard, Celestina shoot Feng a hateful glare for a moment as she gently rubbed her tail. She was about to start cussing him out, but the weird look she was receiving from Sharlyn and the teasing look Feng was giving her after they both heard Celestina release such a sound made the Demon Empress grit her teeth and look down in embarrassment, a faint shade of red appearing on her cheeks.

"Celestina, go pick up that stuff. I've got some more business to attend to." Feng didn't intend to tease the Demon Goddess right now, at least not while Sharlyn was there to see it, so he told the maid to collect the loot dropped by the slain Great Demon.

Taking the chance to get out of this situation, Celestina didn't even say anything or nod, just turning round and walking over to the dozen or so items on the floor. While she was heading over there, though, Feng took the chance to once again use Eros Vision on the Demon Empress and see what's changed.

[Celestina]

Tier: 4

Level: 99 (Contract Bound)

Gender: Female

Race: Demon (Noble rank: ???)

Title: Demon Empress

Age: ???

Cup Size: H

Virgin: ???

Mental State: Enraged, Embarrassed, Faintly Aroused

Physical State: Normal

Stamina Remaining: 99%

Affiliation: Dark Forces, Empress of the Demon race

Relationship Status: None (Contract Bound to player Ye Feng)

Favorability: Hostile (Wishes the most painful, torturous, agonizing, humiliating, merciless, atrocious, harrowing, grievous, grueling, cruel, violent, gut-wrenching, dreadful, anguishing, hellish and excruciating suffering and death upon the player. There is a very high chance of the demon never being willing to let her grudges go.)

Sexually Attracted: 11%

Fetish: Masochisam

'As I thought.' Feng confirmed his suspicions about something that he had discovered during his previous life by accident. Although Celestina wasn't a full-out masochist, she definitely feels some sort of pleasure from being mistreated.

This entire time, Feng had wanted to see if this was something the Demon Empress naturally had or if she had gained it at some point in the previous timeline, now having finally proven it true, and that the more he plays rough with Celestina while having the Seducer Subcalss, the more her sexual attraction towards him will increase regardless of whether she wanted it to or not.

Now, all he needed to do was put his plan into action, and Feng will obtain the Demon Empress.

Looking away from the demon maid's shapely backside, Feng switched his gaze to the other beauty in front of him, who was still gazing weirdly at Celestina after the seemingly impending battle between the two of them had suddenly been thrown off track, with her disgruntled feelings at her sister's mentioning putting Sharlyn in a bad mood.

[Sharlyn]

Tier: 4

Level: 200

Gender: Female

Race: Human (Natural-born God)

Title: Creation Goddess

Age: 25 (Soul age: ???)

Cup Size: H

Virgin: Yes

Mental State: Bottled-up Anger

Physical State: Normal

Stamina Remaining: 20%

Affiliation: Forces of Light, Goddess of Creation

Relationship Status: None (Blessing bestower of player Ye Feng)

Favorability: Very Friendly (Uncertain whether the player will fulfill his end of the deal)

Sexually Attracted: 2%

Fetish: ???

'I wouldn't expect anything less from the Goddess of Creation. She could even rival the Demon Empress.' Feng exclaimed in his mind upon seeing the stats revealed, not that surprised by any of the information, merely stopping at Sharlyn's cup size for a moment, as he had always been pretty sure of it but never with complete certainty, so the system verifying it for him was a nice clarification, before getting rid of the System Panel.

Concerning Sharlyn's aroused anger from Celestina talking about Seraphina, he was naturally aware of the relationship problems between the twin Goddesses, but Feng could do nothing about it as of yet.

Their relationship was a complex matter, and even with Feng serving as a mediator for them in the previous timeline, the two never completely made up, still acting like stubborn children when it came to the matter despite so much time passing, but it had improved, and Feng earned the opportunity to learn from the Goddess of Destruction herself on how to improve his Mastery over the Destruction Law, along with lots of other valuable stuff.

"Anyway, are we done with the curse on me?" Feng called out to Sharlyn, awakening the Creation Goddess from her thoughts. Though, he was naturally aware that everything was already settled as the system notifications about him completing the Darkness Descends Quest had sounded out immediately after Kildred's death.

System: Epic Quest "Darkness Descends" completed.

Quest rewards: Star-Moon Kingdom Reputation +50, White River City Reputation +500, automatically promoted to the status of Count in White River City.

System: Congratulations on becoming a Count of White River City. You can now employ 100 guards, including four Personal Guards. You can also enjoy a 20% discount on all expenditures in White River City.

If a Viscount was considered a major noble, then a Count was a top figure among major nobles.

In God's Domain, the highest social status a player could attain in a city like White River City was Marquis. Only in a capital city like Star-Moon City could players become Dukes. Thus, becoming a Count of White River City was quite impressive.

To players, the largest difference between a Count and a Viscount, aside from the difference in status and the number of guards they could employ, was the Divine Colosseum.

The Divine Colosseum was a location where players could raise their combat power. Meanwhile, the Colosseum required Magic Crystals as currency. However, Viscounts or below would not receive any discounts at the Divine Colosseum. Only Counts or above would enjoy that benefit. This was also one of the reasons why many players had strived to increase their Reputation and become Counts. That way, one could lessen the burden on their wallet.

Compared to ordinary players, a Count's title held far more importance to players who owned private Lands because Counts possessed much greater authority. This authority was also the capital that a player required if they wished to rise and succeed in a city.

Sharlyn closed the Bible of Darkness and turned to Feng, saying softly, "Yes, the curse has been removed. It's good that you actually managed to get rid of Great Demon Kildred. However, even though Kildred is dead, why is there still such a dense Power of Darkness lingering around you?"

Seeing Sharlyn's confused expression, Feng already knew about the root cause. He then retrieved Moloch's Ring from his bag, saying, "This is why."

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