[Vol. 9] Chapter 122: Breakthrough! Breakthrough! Break Through the Limit!
“...Ha!!!”
With a sharp cry, six pure white wings opened wide behind the girl, creating a storm-like blast of wind. The powerful force pushed her body to accelerate again, rushing downward toward an unknown depth!
Break through the barrier, break through the limit!
Faster, faster! Keep speeding up!
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
She tore through the raging sea of fire, turning into a flash of platinum light that could hardly be seen by the naked eye. Flames crashed against her layers of protection, while the roar of explosions blurred everything in front of her. She could no longer see or hear, yet her heart and soul burned with excitement under this unknown and unprecedented challenge!
She heard a voice calling out from deep within her soul:
Not fast enough!
Not strong enough!
This level, this is not my limit!
That was... the echo of a Divinity!
BOOM!!!
It was as if something had been broken open, the golden shell formed by her light-born body shook violently, but she ignored it and continued forward.
BOOM!!!
BOOM!!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
Layers upon layers of unknown seals shattered under her fierce assault. She rushed toward the abyss like a falling star diving into hell itself. In the burning inferno, she became an unstoppable, dazzling light, carrying endless waves of thunderous explosions in her wake!
The mountains—no, by now, she had probably already gone far beyond the snowy peaks, plunging into some deep and unknown place. Everything around her trembled violently under her relentless advance!
Nothing could stop her. Her power surged higher and higher, like an unstoppable tide. Her light grew brighter and brighter, magnificent and overwhelming. From within her body spread an extraordinary, divine aura, blazing endlessly like a fire that could never be extinguished!
Without pressure, there can be no growth. All this time, the power Violet possessed had been far too strong.
That strength allowed her to move forward without obstacles, but it also limited her potential to grow. Even though she had gained many opportunities and blessings, none had brought her true transformation.
But this roaring inferno from beneath the earth was like a furnace for refining pure gold. At the perfect moment, it pushed her long-awaited breakthrough to its peak!
Wumm~! Wumm~! Wumm~!
Everything shook.
The forces of Radiance and Reincarnation, the two Divinities, vibrated and resonated within her soul!
They spun rapidly around her essence, sending waves of vast, divine energy surging through her entire being.
After reclaiming the memories of her past as the Spirit Fox Shrine Maiden, for the first time, these two Divinities showed a sign of merging.
No—not merging, but harmonizing.
A Divinity is the embodiment of a law, the purest form of a worldly concept. Normally, different Divinities repel one another, for each represents a unique truth. Although Violet somehow managed to make these two divinities coexist peacefully within her, there was still a deep gulf between coexistence and true fusion. The creation of new authority, a new law.
Yet now, it seemed she had finally taken that most difficult first step.
This was a power that belonged to her alone. A power that belonged only to Violet.
The essence of authority began to flow out, thread by thread, from the Divinities of Radiance and Reincarnation, weaving into Violet’s soul.
For a true god, the Divinity is the soul itself.
But for this priestess, her two divinities had always been like powerful artifacts she wielded.
That was why, she had never called herself a supreme being.
From that moment on, everything began to change.
It was an unbelievable realization. Violet could clearly feel that the fusion rate between her and the Radiance Divinity, which had already risen above fifty percent, was now slowly dropping as those thread-like streams of light were drawn out of it.
But… she didn’t feel weaker.
On the contrary, the faint uneasiness she used to feel whenever the Radiance Divinity became too active or overly stimulated was now fading away.
It seemed that… the fusion wasn’t truly decreasing.
Instead, part of that percentage had transformed into another form. Something different from before.
She couldn’t describe exactly what it was like. If she had to put it into words, the power of the Radiance hadn’t actually lessened. Before, the increasing fusion rate only made Violet feel as though she was slowly turning into something closer to the Divinity itself. But now, it was as if—
【Radiance】 was gradually turning into her.
And that wasn’t all. As the power from both Divinities flowed into Violet’s soul and began to merge through her as the medium, some of her long-stagnant skills actually started to evolve.
Her divine sense spread outward, and to her surprise, the ten radiant rings of the 【Ten Radiance of the Holy Light】 floating around her were slowly merging!
The edges of the halos began to intertwine, their outlines growing blurred, as if they were trying to unite into a larger whole, but the process was far from easy.
It was as if an invisible force was pushing them apart, resisting the fusion. Perhaps these halos, which each represented different divine attributes, were like Divinities themselves, naturally repelling one another. How could they merge so easily?
Seeing this, Violet was taken aback.
Could the legend about the 【Ten Radiance of the Holy Light】 in the game actually be true? Did this skill really have a hidden, higher form? But why was this transformation happening only now?
She didn’t understand. But if this change truly came from the two Divinities, then she was almost certain that, for now, this evolution could not fully succeed.
Because she still hadn’t completed the full 100% fusion with Radiance, and the merging of the two Divinities had only just begun.
If the cause is not complete, how could the result be?
Sure enough, as the fusion process slowed, the halos’ edges stopped merging. In the end, they only partially overlapped, becoming incomplete, “half-fused” rings.
Even so, each ring’s power boost was now about thirty percent greater than before. When combined together, the overall improvement was astonishing, it truly was a great leap forward.
Unbelievable… she could still become even stronger?
The priestess tightened her grip on her staff, feeling a rare thrill rise within her heart.
Compared to the 【Destruction Mode】, which merely boosted her physical strength in small ways, this evolution of the 【Ten Radiance of the Holy Light】 was a genuine, all-around improvement to Violet’s potential, and more than that…
When she turned around, she saw the six pure white wings behind her had lost their color. They had become almost transparent, yet glowed with a deep, solid brilliance. An unreal, breathtaking light.
As the wings flapped, the force of the wind and her speed multiplied far beyond even the peak of her earlier wing form, by more than tenfold. Even the waves of flame rushing toward her were forced back, losing much of their strength under a single sweep of her wings!
How incredible—
And yet, how natural.
Yes. Perhaps this was the true power of the 【Feather Robe Glaria】. The true Primordial Artifact. The true 【Wings of Light】.
She could feel it. The ancient seals that had long bound her were finally being undone. Everything was changing.
Gently touching the miraculous texture of the wings behind her, the girl smiled softly.
“Glaria… Glaria... Heh, sorry to keep you waiting. Let’s go.”
She spread her wings wide, cut through the infernal flames, and in an instant, vanished into the deepest depths of Hell.