[You have successfully suppressed the Corruptor!]
[You have claimed victory against an existence identical to yourself.]
[Title obtained: Punisher of Corruption.]
[Title obtained: Existence of the Void.]
[You have gained a massive amount of Experience Points!]
[Your level has increased.]
[LV.131]
“…Level.”
A staggering 131.
Before facing Black Lily, it was only 126, so this was quite a significant level up.
Back when I caught the Demon of Preservation, I only leveled up by 2, but Black Lily boosted me by a whopping 5 levels.
[Oh]
[Are you crazy? LOL]
[What’s with 131?]
[No, stop leveling up.]
[I just increased by 5 levels.]
[Wow.]
[So what’s the catch?]
[Is this the end?]
My vision was hazy.
From the excessive use of power, my whole body swayed, and my head buzzed.
I barely managed to keep my eyes open just before collapsing and unfolded the next message.
[Title obtained: One Who Reached Level 130 (Semi-Transcendent).]
[You are granted the blessing of ‘Irelementum’ for your path ahead.]
[You have preemptively blocked the existence that would become the world’s evil.]
[All titles related to the Savior have slightly increased efficiency.]
Whoa…!
The emerald power seeped into me in an instant.
In a situation where it wouldn’t be surprising if I collapsed right then and there, I felt a sense of recovery.
Of course, it was just enough to hold on for a bit, and I wasn’t fully recovered, so I planned to go straight to bed as soon as I was done.
‘Raid should be fine for a while…’
I had suppressed the most dangerous Preservation, and Duke Huangyeol had no remaining pieces on the board.
The only one left was the Demon of Space, who sleeps underground, but I could easily suppress that in the time I had left.
[So what’s the reward?]
[Reward, reward, reward.]
[Is the raid over?]
[What do I get for taking down a transcendent level?]
“Well… they probably won’t give you anything, right? It’s still me.”
With my strength slowly returning, I reached out toward the air.
I was hoping to push through the next message, but instead, something dropped.
Thud.
“A book?”
A book with a black leather cover.
It wasn’t too thick to fit in one hand, but it wasn’t thin either.
The black cover had bizarre characters that resembled a devil’s book filled with magic, but there was no magic.
Instead, it felt oddly refined; I sensed no energy from it.
“This is…”
[You have obtained the Book of Magia (lĭber).]
[This item is a growth-type item.]
[By awakening ‘Knowledge’, you can acquire the magic and sorcery of the mythological age.]
I flipped through the cover of the book.
The first page had phrases and several spells that were hard for even me to comprehend.
‘…If the first page is this difficult, how challenging must the rest be?’
“How hard could it be?”
The only part I can somewhat understand is about three lines in the first paragraph.
The very first line seems doable even with my level of magic knowledge, but since I’m not feeling great, I think I’ll save it for later.
“I feel like it’ll give me a headache if I try it…”
[????]
[What the heck?]
[Magic responsibility?]
[Is it a transcendent level?]
[Growth type ㄷㄷㄷ]
[Is this really Professor Lily’s book?;;]
“It looks like a book about the magic used by Dark Lily. Even I find it quite difficult…”
When I obtained the Kraken’s Spear, I experimented for a bit, but this is a seriously challenging item.
Even with complete full condition, I might just barely manage to cast it.
Thud.
The book was folded in my hand.
Rustle!
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Then, the book burned away and vanished from my hand.
Seeing some energy remaining makes it seem like I can summon it back anytime I want.
[Can other users learn that?]
[If they do, can they use magic like Dark Lily? LOL]
[Whoa]
[Ohhh]
[Academy difficulty skyrocketing LOL]
[It’s crazy that someone would carry that around?]
[Mage users are going to go crazy LOL]
“Well, who knows if I can even understand this…”
It’s a magic of a difficult level even for me.
Users lacking knowledge and talent in magic would never manage to master it, even if they died and came back.
“Of course, the system could ‘assist’ though.”
The system can turn even talentless humans into superhumans.
Neris, the Master of the Magic Tower, is a prime example, ranking 30th despite having no talent in magic.
She can use a technique that blows her body up with just a ‘click’ without a second thought.
“Plus, she can withstand some holy and magical powers…”
“…Maybe it’s possible.”
[Oh]
[?]
[Really?]
“The possibility isn’t completely zero. The techniques you all use also require advanced magical knowledge.”
In the end, this is also an item given by the system.
Given that it’s refined and protected by the system, it’s hard to say it’s completely impossible to use.
Though it would certainly be quite difficult.
“And lastly…”
[Danger!]
[A part of Lily Elbrite (Corruption) has escaped outside the continent through an unstable flow!]
[A weakened Lily Elbrite (Corruption) will appear somewhere on the continent.]
“…?”
[???]
[Huh?]
[What?]
[If you catch the weakened Lily Elbrite (Corruption), you’ll receive additional rewards.]
[The weakened Lily Elbrite (Corruption) will randomly appear across the continent.]
[Facing the weakened Lily Elbrite (Corruption) will grant you the blessing of ‘God Santos.’]
[The moment you face the fallen Lily Elbrite, the blessing of ‘God Santos’ is bestowed upon you.]
[If you don’t defeat the weakened Lily Elbrite within 200 days, she will regain her original power.]
“It wasn’t just a disappearance, huh?”
She had completely lost most of her power and sanity, with only ‘instinct’ remaining.
Lily had various instincts, but one significant instinct was ‘survival.’
No matter how much you can resurrect, if her soul is captured like just now, it’s game over, so she instinctively fled.
Normally, one couldn’t leave the continent until the battle was completely over, but due to the aftermath of the fight between us, the barrier was down.
[Oh no no no no no]
[This is bad!]
[What’s going on?]
[The raid isn’t the problem right now, LOL]
[Emergency!!!!!!]
[Just like I feared…]
[Lily is two now?]
[What?!]
[Does that mean I can meet Black Lily again?]
[Hahahahahaha]
The chat window seemed to be in chaos.
My personal chat was already going wild, and the alliance’s communications were filled with serious voices going back and forth.
If they just saw my fight, there couldn’t be anything more serious than this.
No matter how weakened I am, there’s no way regular users could stop me.
I shook my head.
“It will be fine. If it’s me.”
Because it’s me, it’s fine.
That could be seen as a somewhat arrogant comment, but Black Lily had exhausted all her magic.
If all her magic is used up, her sanity will slowly return, and under ‘normal’ conditions, she wouldn’t harm the world.
Even if she loses her mind again and causes trouble, in her weakened state, I could definitely stop her.
“Who knows what will happen after 200 days, though.”
For now, I’ll leave it be, and if anything strange happens, I’ll take care of it then.
Let’s organize it this way.
I casually informed the alliance about the areas they should be cautious of and didn’t resist the drowsiness creeping in, giving a casual farewell.
The waves of drowsiness were overwhelming…
‘…I’ll deal with Duke Huangyeol later…’
■
“…Did I fail?”
The mastermind behind this, Duke Robelian Huangyeol, scoffed from the crack created by the power of ‘space.’
He devised quite an elaborate plan and mobilized every tactic to block every possible variable.
In the process, he consumed a clone of himself, made contracts with repulsive demons, and even created traps that directly countered Lily’s traits.
He prepared so many different tactics, but Lily smashed them all without a hint of struggle.
‘Demon Lily has been defeated.’
“…But it wasn’t a complete failure.”
After all the commotion, Demon Lily managed to escape the continent alive.
She is in a vastly weakened state, but it won’t be long before she regains that power.
I will recover again.
When that day comes, I can execute ‘it’ as planned.
Uuuung…!
As Robelian’s hand sliced through the air, space opened up freely.
Before he knew it, he was standing deep underground in the Empire and walked along a long corridor.
Thud, thud, thud.
“I need to find it first.”
This side is currently aided by ‘space.’
I must find the demon Lily before anyone else and put her in my grasp.
I had prepared a space that could trap even the ‘real’ Lily for this day, and with her weakened state now, it should be possible—
“Reina?”
“……”
“What are you doing here?”
At the end of the corridor, Reina was turning around.
A magical research assistant following in the footsteps of Magic Lord Karia, managing the Demon of Space who had been sleeping underground for a very long time.
Since her contract with space, she had acted as a control tower preventing cracks and needed to continue that role at this moment.
The location should be a bit higher up than here.
“Has space awakened? Or why have you come down?”
“Because I wanted to.”
“What…”
She flinched.
She turned her head.
Although she had the same face and figure as Reina known by Duke Huangyeol, there was one crucial difference.
Instead of black eyes, her violet eyes dripped with chilling magic.
She looked like she was crying, yet she wasn’t.
“… You’re not Reina.”
“I came here as drawn. I’m completely drained. It takes a long time to regenerate everything.”
“……”
“I borrowed this body, and the magical ritual set up here is a complete mess, but I’ll fix it and use…”
Chirrup…
“But I can’t help but wonder why I’m here cleaning up after you. It’s hard to comprehend.”
“If you want power, I’ll give it to you. Space is asleep, so taking that power should be easy. If you just make a contract with me—”
Whoosh.
She passed by.
‘Lily,’ who had taken over Reina’s body, drifted on, and Duke Huangyeol touched his own neck in confusion.
“I already took it.”
“…!”
Puhwaaaah!!
“I was curious about your intentions for creating me, but it wasn’t worth figuring out. So I’ll just leave.”
Before long, Duke Huangyeol’s neck vanished, and he collapsed as the door behind him creaked open with a woosh—
The Demon of Space, thoroughly disheveled and barely hanging on, was left behind.
As she took one last look at the demon, her face still looked like she was crying, and she simply vanished.
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