Chapter 257: New Growth
’One month, can I complete this task in one month?’ Luigi thought to herself, her mind racing against the impossible deadline set by her new master. The Central Region was a chaotic nexus of overlapping domains, a graveyard for empires. Searching it manually would take decades. Then, the parameters of the command echoed in her head, and an idea appeared in her mind:
’Of course!! I don’t need to search for the palace, as long I can see a powerful god level treasure, I can come back!! Master didn’t mention any way to get one.’ She nodded her head, realizing the loophole. She was an angel; theft and plunder were beneath her divine nature, but survival dictated new rules.
"I understand, Master!! I will get it done in one month." She said, her voice filled with newfound resolve.
Mirabella stood up again. As the heir to the Sun family, her armory was already overflowing with inherited relics that defied the world’s logic. "I don’t need a bow, an armor, or a sword... I will prefer a new mage staff, a dagger, shield, or even other else, understood?"
"Yes! This servant will take note of this." She said, bowing respectfully.
’Is there anyone in this current world who is selecting God level weapons? Seeing one is already a miracle in this world... How many does she have?’ She thought, her awe deepening at the sheer, terrifying depth of Mirabella’s hidden resources. To treat divine armaments like items on a grocery list shattered the known laws of Galaxy Fall. She stood upright, eager to escape the suffocating pressure of the room:
"I will take my leave now." She said, and Mirabella nodded her head, her expression unreadable.
"Remember, you have one month... I hate waiting."
"Understood, Master." Luigi said, and flew out of the window, propelling herself into the night sky. At that exact moment, Adira undo the barrier, allowing the angel to slip through the spatial net. The moment she left the vicinity, Adira build the barrier again, sealing the penthouse in absolute, karmic isolation.
"Now!!"
Mirabella snapped her fingers, channeling her energy. The air rippled, and the golden Palace appeared before her. It wasn’t a mere illusion; it was a supreme spatial artifact shrunk down to the size of a jewelry box, radiating an ancient, suppressing aura that made the very fabric of reality groan.
"Master. You already possessed the Palace, why did you ask her to search for it, which is clearly impossible." Adira asked in confusion, floating down to inspect the floating, golden citadel.
"I can’t reveal this to her... I don’t trust her yet. Maybe if she returns, she might gain that privilege." Mirabella said, her tone cold and calculating. A King-stage powerhouse’s former general needed to be broken and tested before being allowed into her inner sanctum. As she spoke, both hers and Adira’s bodies glowed with a blinding, teleportation light, and they both vanished inside the palace.
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[Golden Palace Dimension]
Mirabella and Adira appeared right in the courtyard, which was filled with different colorful flowers. This was no ordinary garden; the flora were extinct flowers which Mirabella simply formed with a thought. The dense spiritual energy air filling her with energy, washing away all fatigue in mere seconds.
"What a good place, I still can’t believe it." She muttered, taking a deep breath of the purified spirit energy, and turned her head to Cupcake, who was peacefully sleeping in the flowers, absorbing the passive ambient energy.
"She has only been in here for four hours, and she already reached Lv350... Well, only five level higher." She muttered. To level up while simply breathing was a cheat code that would make the outside empires wage world wars to obtain, yet Mirabella treated it as a casual convenience. She turned to Adira:
"The eggs."
The Divine Fairy snapped her fingers, manipulating the spatial inventory of the palace, and the three eggs appeared before them, red, purple and blue.
"Thanks to Mom, the fire zone is unlocked... Let’s go visit it."
Without another word, the two with the eggs vanished again, traversing the vast, internal biomes of the supreme artifact.
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[Golden Palace - Fire Zone]
BOOOOM!!
Mirabella and Adira appeared in a land filled with flames, volcano and lava. The sky was choked with perpetual ash, and rivers of molten rock carved through the blackened earth. It was an apocalyptic wasteland designed to temper the ultimate fire-attribute beasts. But to Mirabella’s surprised, she felt nothing from the heat. The absolute authority of the Palace recognized her as its master, neutralizing the lethal temperatures into a pleasant warmth.
"This will be good." She stared at the biggest volcano on the zone, a towering monolith of erupting magma. And with a flick of her finger, the fire egg, which she just fed the Wyvern’s fire core, flew towards the top.
Adira watched in silence as the egg hovered above the peak, and fell into it, plunging deep into the heart of volcano.
"...?!"
The two stared for some seconds, the fiery light reflecting in their eyes, expecting an explosion, or maybe a tremor to signal the violent birth of a mythical beast, but nothing happened. Instead, the system screen switched on, its blue light contrasting sharply with the orange flames.
[Duration: Two Hours.]
"Two Hours? From months to hours! The Palace is truly a Supreme Class artifact!!" Mirabella muttered in disbelief, and awe.
"While we wait, let’s check out the five God level skill scroll I got." She spread out both her arms, and five silver skill scrolls appeared before her. They didn’t just glow; they hummed with the condensed laws of the universe, each one representing an ability that could topple nations.
"A legendary level skill is already overpowered, I wonder how powerful a god level skill would be, not to mention I have fiv--"
{Note: Host can’t Wield the whole five skills due to its immense power.}
{With Host’s current strength, you can only wield three... You can wield the five after reaching Lv500.}
"I knew they will be restrictions, at least I can activate three skills... Actually, that’s more than enough. For now." She stretched her hand towards one, accepting the System’s safeguard.
"Let’s start with you."
The silver skill scroll glowed brightly, its silver light illuminating the whole fire zone, piercing through the volcanic smog. And after some seconds, it shattered into millions of light fragments and flew towards Mirabella, merging with her very soul.
"Where is my skill? Almost--"
{Congratulations! Host gain a new skill!}
"Yes!! Show me my new skill!!!"
{The Almighty: grant the ability to see ten seconds in the future, active skill. Zero spirit energy needed to use.}
"Huh? This is all?" She muttered in surprise, staring at the brutally short description. No flashy elemental damage, no planetary destruction.
{Skill can’t be max.}
"Huh?!! But... Why can’t I max it?!! Is it because it’s a god class skill?" She muttered, her brow furrowing, and turned to Adira. She analyzed the tactical weight of the ability. Foreknowledge without an energy cost was absolute supremacy in close-quarters combat, defying the very flow of time itself.
"This skill is good, but with my ten invisible guardians, I won’t need it... Only in a situation where my guardians are useless." She nodded her head; understanding that true power lay in application, not just destructive output. She needed to test the latency between perception and reality.
"Adira, Attack me with your fastest skill."
"...?!"
Adira was dumbfounded, her tiny, glowing wings fluttering to a halt, tilting her head to the side, stunned speechless by the sudden, suicidal command from her master.