[Lilha!]
[RLHRHHHRHRHL]
[Oh]
[I was wondering when you’d arrive, lol]
[Let’s go to the door]
[Door door door door door]
[Oh, what’s this? Already arrived?]
[DDD?]
[It’s huge!]
“Lilha~ Hello.”
Somewhere far away from the continent, on an island.
After hearing the location of the door from Leo, I decided to explore the pure white door once.
As I turned on the broadcast, many viewers flooded in and filled the space, and we chatted for about ten minutes.
“I’ve been hearing a lot lately about such ‘doors’ appearing here and there. So, I thought I’d come and explore. It just so happened I had business nearby.”
As expected, the door stood at about 20m tall, quite substantial.
The white door had intricately detailed engravings, and among them, I spotted a familiar symbol right in the middle.
‘Balance Scale.’
“Oh. Of all things.”
[?]
[What?]
[That door is huge!]
[Let’s smash it!]
[Isn’t it opening?]
[Of all things?]
“It’s a symbol I recognize.”
Balance Scale.
Unlike the Demon Race, the Celestial Race is made up of numerous families, a collection of forces.
Most Celestial beings, unless they’re among the highest like the Eight Seats, are deeply connected or bound to their family.
The Celestial beings tend to care for their kin, but they can also reject or wage war against those who don’t belong to their family or faction.
Among them, the Balance Scale is the emblem of the ‘Statera’ family, the angel of perfect balance.
‘Those who obsess over balance and cost.’
While most Celestial beings value cost, the Balance family is particularly extreme about it.
‘Perhaps it’s only natural.’
The ‘Forgotten Emperor’, a mutant Celestial that appeared during Pharaoh’s intervention dungeon, belonged to a collateral branch of Statera.
The emergence of this family might have been a foretold event.
“It’s the emblem of a family that cares about balance and cost. It’s also a somewhat well-known family among the Celestial race.”
[Oh]
[DDDDDD]
[As expected, Lily knows everything, lol]
[Angel Lily, lol]
[OMG]
[Must be super strong]
[Lily knows it all?]
[How strong?]
“Hmm… Yeah, they’re strong. In terms of factions, they’d definitely be among the top ten.”
This family was created directly by the Eight Seats.
Naturally, the scale of their power would be enormous, but whether the core of this family is the Eight Seats is another matter.
Most of the time, those at the level of Eight Seats wouldn’t even care about families or factions ‘and such.’
Only the Six Demon Kings and those of the same rank could stand shoulder to shoulder with each other among the Eight Seats.
“But Statera is dead in the first place.”
The war had escalated so much that Statera’s soul was crushed and she perished, while her family’s Celestial Race had nearly reached annihilation.
The branch families, although a few remained, were merely lower-ranking Celestials and it was clear that they couldn’t maintain their legacy.
Moreover, it was more plausible that what they suffered came not from the Demon Race, but rather from infighting within the Celestial families.
“A Celestial fighting another Celestial leads to Celestials dying, huh?”
What a heartwarming story that is.
“Honestly, they were almost all dead. It’s not really a pity, is it?”
Mmm.
[Lily?]
[?]
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
[What?]
[Something feels off here.]
[Isn’t it a pity?]
[Ah, haha, a good Celestial is only a dead Celestial.]
[LOL?]
[Information: Lily really, really hates Angels.]
[To Lily]
[Humans are the Lilys, hahaha.]
“That aside, thinking about the upcoming disaster, we should check the door. Even if it doesn’t open now, you never know.”
I slowly walked toward the giant door.
Even when I reached right in front, the door stood there silently, not responding at all.
The Holy Power barely registered, except for a tiny fraction.
“Would someone skilled in magic feel a bit of resistance?”
Thud.
“……”
[?]
[Oh]
[What’s happening?]
“Nothing yet.”
Even though my hand touched it, the door remained unchanged.
I pondered for a moment and infused it with Holy Power.
Thud thud thud thud!!!
The power of destruction filled my body and violently knocked on the door.
With a strange noise, the door trembled widely, and at the same time, the ground around started cracking.
Boom!!!
The earth sank deeply.
Even with the supports for the door vanished, that pure white door proudly maintained its place in the air.
“Hold on?”
Even though I was pushing what could be considered upper-tier Holy Power, the door remained intact.
There was neither destruction nor even the slightest crack forming.
In fact, with no reaction to the Holy Power occurring at all, a stubbornness began to well up within me.
Flap!
I spread my Wings of Light.
As the amount of Holy Power surged, I summoned the White Guardian from the air and transformed it into a spear.
Whooosh!
The tip of the spear, filled with distant holiness, aimed at the door.
“Spear’s Roar.”
KWA-AAAAAAAN!!!
The Holy Storm swept over the door and obliterated the small mountain behind it.
The storm’s aftermath surged into the sky, sweeping away all the clouds in the vicinity before finally stopping its attack.
“Hmm…”
The flawlessly clear blue sky shone down on me.
[Whoa]
[Th-th-th-th]
[Crazy]
[Nature Destroyer Lily lol]
[Nature: Please stop…]
[lolololololololol]
[Isn’t all the life living on the mountain dead?]
[Wow… even like this?]
[That’s brutal, really brutal]
“Yeah, it is brutal.”
I shook my head as I retrieved the spear.
I used enough strong power to blow away the mountain where living beings were hidden, but opening the door was impossible.
Before me stood the door, magnificent and majestic, seemingly saying it could never be opened.
The only difference was that the amount of holy power flowing out had increased significantly from earlier.
Though unpleasant, the holy power flowing out was still not particularly threatening.
“Now that I look at it, it’s not completely intact.”
Creeeak…
The firmly shut door opened just enough for a piece of paper to slip through.
The issue was that all I could see through the crack was pure white light, and it was impossible to pass through such a narrow opening.
It couldn’t be opened any further.
“It seems breaking through physically is impossible for now. The law is close to absolute, making it tough…”
I thought about firing a Resting Spear like Jackal, but Resting Spear is a technique that pierces an opponent’s ‘soul.’
It wouldn’t be much use against a mere non-living being armed only with power and authority.
That said, using Sacred Transformation or Annihilation to break through at full strength felt a bit off, too.
‘Who knows what might jump out?’
The Eight Seats Statera that once died wouldn’t break out of a casket (if it did, the Deoen world would be annihilated immediately).
Thanks to the Demon Race warning of the Silence of the Dead, it was highly likely that a top-tier Celestial Race would emerge from within.
Considering the characteristics of Deoen I’ve seen so far, that probability isn’t low.
‘An existence that is a disaster just by being there, appearing without being influenced by the System?’
There couldn’t be anything worse for a User than that.
“It’s not like we need to force open the disaster’s door right now. We still have about three months to prepare.”
[Right, right]
[LOL]
[?]
[I’m curious, huh]
[But earlier, Lily wanted to open it]
[Hahaha]
“If it opens that easily, it means it’s easy to deal with.”
If it can be opened with just one ‘Roar of the Spear’, then it wouldn’t be a big deal to confront it right now.
But given that the door is holding steady at this moment, trying to force it open might be a bit much.
‘It feels like the system is intervening to some extent…’
Since there was no pressing urgency, there was no need to provoke the system to open it.
If it were a door made with regular magic or powers, I would’ve asked Lasty for help, but this door is made of holy material.
It was a door that Lasty couldn’t handle.
[What the heck]
[Was that attack really easy…?]
[LMAO]
[So what do we do now?]
[Can’t we break it with a hammer?]
[That’s too bad]
[So what’s on the agenda for today?]
“Today… I guess I should tackle the homework I’ve been putting off.”
Originally, I should have done it before the Siege War, but I had to postpone it due to time constraints.
To prepare for the upcoming disaster, I need to quickly wrap up the tasks I’ve delayed.
‘There are a total of five multi-dimensional worlds.’
I’ve cleared Blodia, Teshiniria, and the Main Temple, leaving only the Raccoon territory of Golden Sky and the land of the Celestial Being, Ertarn.
For now, there’s absolutely no way to go to Golden Sky, so the only remaining option is Ertarn.
Above all, I need to get the final reward, the ‘Celestial Stone’, from Ertarn to free Myeosin.
That was the condition set by the Raccoons: to bring back the two final rewards along with the ‘Fragment of Transformation’ obtained from the Main Temple.
“If I clear Ertarn, it’ll mean I’ve cleared all the multi-dimensional worlds except for Golden Sky. My level should rise pretty decently too.”
[Ohh]
[Haven’t we almost cleared Ertarn?]
[Let’s go!]
[We should clear it quickly, right?]
[It might take a while, haha]
[Let’s directly go for the clear~]
[Wonder how long it’s going to take this time]
“I have some affinity built up from before.”
I should probably get it quickly, right?
‘If not, there’s nothing I can do.’
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