Chapter 155

Nahida exerted great effort to locate Su Bai through the Irminsul, but suddenly realized that when the two first met.

There was no Irminsul device by Su Bai's ear.

Presumably, he seemed to hold the act of acquiring knowledge from the Irminsul in contempt.

Su Bai's disappearance made Nahida even more terrified.

If Su Bai had kept appearing, she would not have been so worried.

What she feared was that the other party might be doing even more terrifying things in places beyond her perception.

After an unknown duration, the blonde girl Su Bai mentioned finally set foot on the land of Sumeru.

The moment Lumine and Paimon donned the Irminsul devices, Nahida sensed their presence.

Although reluctant to use the dreams Su Bai gave her, for the sake of Sumeru's safety, Nahida compromised, guiding Lumine and Paimon to start their path of self-rescue along the dream route from before.

Nahida also used the Irminsul's backlash to project her consciousness onto the puppet Katherina developed by Snezhnaya.

She came to the real world to guide Lumine and Paimon.

Yet as this journey progressed, Nahida grew increasingly furious.

The Akademiya controlled the people of Sumeru to create a god, forcing them into endless cycles within dreams.

All to acquire more knowledge and power to complete the God-creation plan.

The Akademiya also issued orders to hunt down Lumine, Paimon, and others.

The Fatui Harbinger Il Dottore even used Irminsul devices to research control over the consciousness of Sumeru's people, turning them into living corpses.

Dreams and reality offer vastly different experiences.

Nahida was utterly enraged.

But she understood these were merely surface phenomena of Sumeru; she could defeat the Shouki no Kami.

None of this was the most important thing; what mattered most was that she needed the power of Greater Lord Rukkkhadevata's final memory to defeat the one pulling the strings behind it all.

Su Bai.

"Scaramouche?"

Within the Shouki no Kami, Scaramouche looked down arrogantly at Nahida, Paimon, and Lumine.

"Ah, what an ancient codename."

"Now that my spiritual realm has reached the level of a god, it feels as though I have lived for ages equal to heaven and earth."

"Looking back from here, the name Kunikuzushi is so insignificant, so ugly."

The Shouki no Kami suddenly erupted with waves of pressure.

Terrified, Paimon almost hid behind Lumine: "Judging by this pressure, he really has become a god."

"Scaramouche was originally a body perfected to the extreme of the mechanical puppet concept, with a constant flow of power from the Gnosis..."

"I wonder how much power the Akademiya and the Sages contributed."

"But from a spiritual perspective, I do not believe he has reached the height of a god."

"It doesn't matter; we will surely defeat him."

"Oh?" Scaramouche let out a sneer.

"Just relying on you? The God of Wisdom?"

"Hehe, there is no god in this world who does not crave power. A god as weak as you is no wonder even the people of Sumeru wish to cast you aside."

"Wisdom cannot solve all problems; just like now, your wisdom is powerless against my strength."

"Come on, let a fragment of the Archon War be reenacted here to bear witness to the birth of this god of mine."

Thoma: "Beelzebul, I have ascended to godhood."

Klee: "Beelzebul, I have ascended to godhood."

Scaramouche: "Thoma, are you never going to stop? Do you also want to be added to my blacklist of certain death targets like Dottore?"

Thoma: "Why do you only scold me? (Crying loudly)"

Jean: "Klee, do not learn from that Abyss Lector."

Diluc: "Is this the Shouki no Kami?"

The moment the Shouki no Kami reached its complete form, it brought a tremendous shock.

The Shouki no Kami is absolutely an existence no mortal can oppose.

Kaeya: "Lumine, have you really fought against something like this?"

Lumine: "Isn't this happening right now in my past life?"

Cyno: "It was indeed Lumine who fought; our entire Sumeru witnessed this scene through the Irminsul in this life, and together we figured out a way for Lumine to defeat the Shouki no Kami."

Furina: "Lumine is terrifying; she actually used her bare hands to block the massive palm struck down by the Shouki no Kami? Did Lumine possess such terrifying power back then? If she has restored her strength now, isn't she even more terrifying?"

Lumine: "Of course (proudly); we are good sisters. If anyone bullies you, I'll protect you."

Neuvillette: "Want to bully Furina? Her current strength seems no less than that of me, the Dragon Sovereign."

Su Bai: "(Facepalm)"

Lumine: "Oh, if Su Ye bullies you, you're on your own (side-eyeing with a wicked grin)."

Furina: "He wouldn't do that."

The thunderous might of the Shouki no Kami was terrifying indeed.

Unfortunately, just as Scaramouche reached for Nahida's Gnosis, he discovered he had been fighting Lumine within a dream all along.

"One hundred and sixty-eight dream cycles; this is exactly the number of times you were forced to plunge the people of Sumeru into the Flower-Feast."

Nahida awakened Lumine's memories of the one hundred and sixty-eight battles just now, and made all the people of Sumeru watch this battle simultaneously, providing Lumine with the method to defeat the Shouki no Kami.

"I beg you, my first Sage, Buer."

【.....】

Soon, the Arbiter's God of Justice was struck into stillness.

When Nahida went to extract the core power of the God of Justice—the Thunder God's Divine Heart—the Wanderer panicked completely.

"Only that..."

"Only the Divine Heart..."

The Wanderer tore free all the tubing connected to his body, trying to stop Nahida—but he failed.

The Divine Heart ultimately fell into Nahida's hands.

All of this had once appeared in her dreams.

Nahida felt absolutely nothing.

She held the Thunder God's Divine Heart and came before Lumine.

For the first time, her expressionless face finally showed a flicker of emotion.

The final memories of the Great Benevolent Tree King did not appear in her dreams.

Perhaps because Su Bai did not know what the Great Benevolent Tree King's final memories were, the original scene showed nothing at all.

"Huh..."

Nahida exhaled deeply.

Yet her tense expression worried Lumine and Paimon.

"What's wrong, Nahida? The battle is over—we won."

Paimon looked at this little Grass King who had been imprisoned with concern.

Though everything had ended, Nahida's face bore a worry she had never shown before.

"No. The real battle has only just begun."

"What!?" Paimon recoiled in shock.

Lumine furrowed her brow and asked curiously: "What's going on?"

"Azar, the Wanderer, and the Doctor—they were all pawns in someone else's plan."

"That man appeared in my consciousness. He has always controlled my Consciousness and Dreams."

"The moment he has been waiting for is this one—the moment I use the Divine Heart to remove the Great Benevolent Tree King's final memories."

Nahida pulled out a golden object resembling a canister of knowledge.

"This is the Great Benevolent Tree King's final memory."

"Only by using the power of another Divine Heart to remove the Great Benevolent Tree King's final memories can we gain the strength needed to defeat him."

As for how to defeat Su Bai the Sage,

The livestream audience wanted to know even more: what manner of being was the Great Benevolent Tree King?