[Vol. 9] Chapter 44: True Name
In other words, the current state of the Origin Realm, and even the entire great world, might have been deliberately created by that person. Even the fact that she came north and ended up here, following many intertwined causes and effects, was probably because of Hen secretly guiding and helping her.
Hen’s role in this grand plan was slowly becoming clearer. Then… what exactly did Dawn do?
Since that sly fox didn’t join the [Divine Catastrophe], why did she fall in the end?
Thinking this, the priestess lowered her head again, planning to keep studying the ball of golden and silver light in her hands, hoping to find more clues that she hadn’t noticed yet. But before she could continue, the ball suddenly split into two parts, one pure gold and one pure silver!
As if pulled by some natural force, the golden part moved on its own and entered Violet’s body, merging smoothly with the Divinity called [Radiance]. At the same time, a starlike glowing shadow quietly floated out of her backpack and absorbed all of the remaining silver light.
“Hm?”
This was… [Anchor of Time]?
She instantly recognized the artifact of the [Time] law that had appeared on its own. The girl was shocked, but also felt a flash of realization that she had half-expected.
As she thought, Hen wouldn’t have given this thing to her regardless of the cost unless there was a much deeper reason.
But then, what was with that golden light?
The priestess frowned slightly and instinctively checked her own condition.
[Radiance], the Divinity she obtained at level 110, was one of the most important foundations of Violet’s power, more important than even her strongest artifacts. But this Divinity had always been mysterious. Unlike Dawn’s inherited Divinity [Reincarnation], which was fully under control, [Radiance] always carried hidden risks.
She remembered that there had been several times when [Radiance] reacted abnormally because of outside influence. Violet had always forced it back down, and it never truly damaged the core’s origin, but… it wasn’t something she could ignore.
Since her journey to this world, this was the first time [Radiance] had ever actively absorbed outside power. Unlike simply drawing in faith energy or reacting from stimulation, Violet could clearly feel that after merging with that golden light, [Radiance] had started some kind of change.
She couldn’t describe exactly what was changing. The best way to put it was that it felt like the whole concept of [Radiance] was “expanding” or “growing.” More importantly, her control over [Radiance] had increased again.
Even though [Radiance] was one of her earliest and most central powers since arriving here, in truth, it was also the one she understood and controlled the least. Even though it gave her extraordinary strength, she was only ever able to use maybe 10–20% of its full potential.
The Divinity had always felt like it was half-asleep.
Violet didn’t really know why, but after inheriting [Reincarnation] in the Ancient Spirit Realm, her control over [Radiance] improved once, rising from 10–20% to around 40%.
This improvement was hard to explain, more of a subtle feeling than something shown on her stats. Her overall strength had increased a lot, but that was mostly because of [Reincarnation] itself.
Later, after coming into contact with [Origin Machine 03], the previous form of the current blank-minded construct, the strange energy that had flowed through it gave her another boost in control over [Radiance]. That time, the increase wasn’t as big as with [Reincarnation], but still added another 5%.
It felt as if some mysterious, invisible element she couldn’t sense or understand had blended into the Divinity, like broken jade slowly being repaired. But the problem was—
[Radiance] was already supposed to be a perfectly complete Divinity. So what exactly was being repaired?
And now, after the golden light merged into her body, Violet once again felt her control over [Radiance] improve. This time it was smaller than the previous boosts, but perhaps because it passed some kind of limit, or maybe because the situation was different from before. She noticed something she hadn’t seen in a long time.
Her attribute panel had actually started to change.
Realizing this, the priestess didn’t dare be careless. She quickly opened the detailed panel and carefully looked through it from top to bottom.
Id: Violet·xxxx
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female
Race: God (Lv110)
HP: 3,560,000 / 3,560,000
MP: 7,200,000 / 7,200,000
Strength: 9120 (+29,999)
Agility: 10,335 (+29,999)
Intelligence: 189,719 (+29,999)
Main Weapon: Eternal Scepter of the World's Heart (Divine Artifact)
Armor: Feather Robe Graria (Divine Artifact)
Accessories: Sacred Healing Amulet (Semi-Divine Artifact), Blessed Gauntlets of Protection (Semi-Divine Artifact), Ring of Divine Aid (Semi-Divine Artifact). Set effect is active.
Special Equipment: Divinity: Radiance, Divinity: Reincarnation
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As expected… once reflected in numbers, this change became very clear.
Violet’s level had already reached the maximum, and all kinds of growth had almost reached the limit. Unless she absorbed treasures on the same level as her, such as a one-time consumable Primordial Artifact, her basic stats could hardly change anymore. Even the power of faith had almost no effect.
The only time she had seen a clear increase was when she obtained the [Reincarnation] Divinity, which slightly raised her three basic stats. But this time…
Originally, the extra values for her Strength, Agility, and Intelligence were all +9999. These weren’t based on her natural body, but were special bonuses added directly. This kind of “blessing-like” bonus didn’t come from normal equipment. It appeared naturally on her panel when Violet reached level 110 and obtained the [Radiance] Divinity.
In other words, these bonuses could be seen as part of [Radiance] itself. On the other hand, the benefits of the [Reincarnation] core worked differently, directly improving her real body instead of just showing as panel numbers. Functionally, the result was similar, but how it appeared was not the same.
The boost from [Reincarnation] increased her main stat, Intelligence, by about 40,000, while the other two barely rose, something that matched Violet’s natural focus on magic.
But the change from [Radiance] this time was completely different.
Just from absorbing that small piece of golden light, her +9999 bonus had suddenly jumped to almost +30,000. Even more shocking, both Strength and Agility rose equally, which meant her normal physical abilities had more than doubled. The effect was so huge it was frightening.
“This is… way too crazy…”
The girl tested her fists and felt her body strength was indeed much stronger. The panel changes were real. Without using any skills or equipment, her physical body before had only been equal to about a level 70 warrior. But now, she could probably kick away almost any enemy below god level with ease.
And from the information she had, there were at least a dozen more fragments like this one in the Origin Realm. The largest was in the far northern ice plains, and judging from its size and power, it might be more than ten times greater than the one under the Ice Sea. If she collected all of them, Violet couldn’t even imagine how strong the power of [Radiance] would become.
But instead of excitement or longing for that greater power, her first reaction was actually a heavy, indescribable unease.
Because her panel showed something strange.
After her name [Violet], there had suddenly appeared a mysterious hidden word: [xxxx].
What did this mean?
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