With it, a mark appeared on my left hand, a mark of a weird woman, human in appearance, while holding her legs with her arms as if she was inside a womb or something.
I knew this was the link between me and that monster, and it usually took the shape of the monster itself. Yet that shape was indeed quite weird.
As I didn't have enough time to check it out, I threw such a matter behind my back, turned around, and focused entirely on dealing with this Curasee god.
To kill a god, one had to use a godslaying weapon. And that meant no attack landing on Karoline right now was sufficient enough to claim her life.
I had to use my Scissors. Yet before I'd done anything, a sudden portal appeared out of thin air, engulfed everything in a radius of a mile, before vanishing together with Karoline.
She… That Curasee god… Was gone!
[Attention, Karoline ran away. She can't leave this world, and she is badly hurt. Find her fast and notify me about her location]
[She is gone? Escaped from you? Wow! She is indeed something] Lily laughed, [Leave her to me. If she is wounded, then we can finish her]
[No, she is different] I knew she and others would take her the same way I considered her before, as a mortal, as someone we could easily kill with our powers and might, with our weapons and armies.
But that was wrong. [Once spotted her, engage and inform me. No one can kill her except for me]
[Got it!] Lily hesitated for a few seconds before adding, [If I asked about the reason, you won't tell, right?]
[If you know the answer, why ask then?] I laughed, [Just make sure our forces are spread around]
[And about other races? Shall we exterminate and end this?]
For a moment there I was about to agree. But Sith's next warning made me stop.
[Don't! He will run away the moment the sealing over the entire world is gone by the system]
[Don't do it, let's find her first and leave the races here surrounded and under our mercy] I didn't delay my answer any more.
[But…]
[Just do it, we don't want to screw up when we get the upper hand] I gave her a hidden warning, and she was a good girl to grasp my meaning.
[Fine! Let's search for her all over the world then. Once spotted, I'll inform you and then we'll end this]
[Good girl!]
I looked around after ending the chat with Lily. "What shall I do now?" I felt a bit lost here. I got everything under my control, the enemies were at my mercy, and Karoline was going to get caught sooner or later.
For the first time since I was born, I had nothing to worry about. I got nothing to do, no kind of urgent task or some sort of a mission or a challenge to survive or feed myself and live through the day.
It felt… A bit weird! I never felt like this before. And for a reason, I craved for the times when I got something to do, something next on my schedule, some place to visit, enemies to kill, or even a goal to achieve.
I stood in the middle of this continent, seeing nothing but a suffocating pressure of peace. And when I thought about the peaceful future lying ahead of me, I couldn't help but bitterly sigh.
Such a life… It was never meant for me to live it! I always thought that I wanted to live such a life, one without worries, one without any fears about my future. But now? I could tell clearly that I wasn't born for such a life.
The decision I once made got confirmed deeply inside my heart at this moment. I should spend my time after winning this to rebuild and fortify my kingdom, build up lots of armies, and prepare for the next adventure.
My next step would be to secure a foothold for myself inside the grand universe. And then I'd go and try to aim for the top three, even for being the supreme ruler of the entire universe.
As I didn't have anything to do, I started to roam the world again, collecting bones and trophies from the inventories of the dead races all over the world.
I kept collecting these for a long time, even for a few months. During which, the hunt for Karoline was going from being easy to challenging, ending up with great frustration by Lily and other generals.
They first thought this task was easy, and spread out lots of forces to look for her. But soon enough they realised how hard it was. The issue wasn't to find her, but to capture her before running away.
I agreed before with Lily to go and help them in sealing her movement once spotted. But every single time she was half a beat faster than everyone. And I knew the reason for that.
"This map… It's a double edged weapon…" I could already tell where my forces were and what locations they were positioned at. The map showed everything, updating once per two hours, and that showed her where my forces were and if she was in danger or not.
I refused to believe she could keep running forever, or her ways to travel away were activated on a whim. She needed time to activate her way out every time, and that was done by the help of the map.
I tried to search for a way to seal this map, but failed. The map was something given by the system, and it didn't get affected by anything.
[Is there no other way?] After speaking with Lily for many times, I finally came up with the only solution for this problem.
[We may take a long time to do it, but this is the only way we got] I paused, [If we want to get rid of her, then we have to fill the entire world with our forces, forts, defensive towers, and even normal people to help trapping her]
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺