[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power":3,"chapter-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-451":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Killed Me? Now I Have Your Power",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1085341,1415,"Chapter 451: Ascension in Madness","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-451",451,"\u003Cp>Chapter 451 – Ascension in Madness\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BADUM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara was in a complete trance, her mind flooded by the strange but now familiar whispers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was this unsettling feeling that crept into her heart at the whispered words; words that opened her heart, making it ready to listen and feel something she never thought she ever could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, the Heiress of Monsters began to grasp why Echidna said that this place was her beginning... that this place... was the root of her darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Madness, lass, Madness.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whispers continued, and even grew louder. At the beginning it felt like multiple beings talking at the same time, their voices overlapping each other in a strange chorus that made her existence shiver. Now, Inara could distinguish more than the voices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could feel their intents. And those intents were filled with madness, madness that entered deep within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She began to struggle, her mouth letting out gurgling, suffocating sounds, her very existence unable to contain such pure and ancient intents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’There is solace in madness, lass. And there is darkness in madness, as much as there is light in madness. Do you listen, lass? What do you hear then?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heartbeats. Inara wished to answer, but found herself unable to. Everything in her was in a paused state except her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was hearing heartbeats — ones louder than her own, and in such a strange rhythm it felt like someone was speaking to her through them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rhythm... oh, they felt like a dance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dance of Madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, Inara’s mind expanded, light and darkness pouring down inside her like water filling a parched hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body glowed, shining green and murky black, causing the tentacles to cackle with sinister excitement. They began to continuously twist, writhe, swirl upon themselves in strange fashion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at them from above, one could notice that they were moving in a pattern that closely resembled a snake biting its own tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Continuity, self-preservation, infinity, boundless hunger. You have them. You are her daughter, after all. You areourdaughter. Oh lass, oh lass, are you listening? Tell me, oh tell us then, what do you hear?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voices. Rhythms. Breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again, Inara wished to answer. Voices and such were all she was hearing; voices different from the whispers opening her heart. The breaths of those voices caressed her soul, and she shivered with delight and horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She realized soon after that the voices were the voices of the world, the voice of the King of Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something began to sprout from her mind, nurtured by the light and darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light was the first to sprout a seed, glowing a green ray on the parched soil that was Inara’s mind. Yet, it was soon swallowed up by the dark murky seed of Darkness. However, the absorption was erratic, volatile in a way that everything became forever altered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Light and Darkness refused to meld with each other seamlessly — to be one and only — the only thing that could be born out of such stubborn individuality in a world of duality was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Oh, Lass,MADNESS! The Warren! Oh, the Warren is indeed—!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madness sprouted from the mind of Inara. The light cloaking her body shifted, becoming one of crimson-black. The tentacles began to scream — screams of joy and fear and dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They immediately fled her body in haste. Some of them were late enough, earning the fate of being burned alive by the light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smoke rose like the breathing of a sleeping giant, screams intensified, and Inara’s body was now visible for all to admire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crimson-black light was strange, made of hands, hugging Inara on all sides. Especially her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her head was completely covered, nothing could be seen except her eyes — and they were monstrous even though they were closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light’s glow intensified, reaching a level so high it looked like the world was bleeding. But with that light, the seed of madness inside Inara grew more and more until it reached the level of a sapling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right at that point, when madness was high enough, when light and darkness were swallowed until nothing but pure void remained...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sublimationblessed the mind and existence of Inara.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were still shut, yet crimson-black blood dripped from them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each inch of that blood seemed to hold thousands of blinking eyes and grinning sharp-toothed mouths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Ah... so it was it.’ The Heiress of Monsters croaked, then cracked into uncontrollable laughter, feeling her body bathed in a comforting light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something had been permanently changed in her Self. Her senses were now so sharp Inara was seeing and listening to things her mind could hardly fathom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old voices — ancient and utterly terrifying — boomed, each of their words like a touch of madness and decadence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She realized only then that she was in the middle of them, lying there, observed with eerie focus and curiosity but also with greed and envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara suppressed a shiver. At least, she tried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Open your eyes, Lass, and let everything be complete.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whispers came back, but Inara instinctively refused to obey this time. However, the choice was no longer hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara’s eyes snapped wide open, taking in the sight of everything around her in one glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mouth stretched wide... and screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her madness reached then such a level that...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have attained Sublimation through Warren of Madness.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Will sang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Fantastic! You have obtained the right to take your own Evolution—!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Will paused, seeing with the scream of Inara a burst of monsters out of her body and a change in the whole space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a second more, The Will continued,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have created your domain.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have obtained the title:Scion of Madness.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Brace yourself, Inara Ouroboros Serpentine, you are ascending to the next rank!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of that was happening while Inara was billowing with madness, her mind still not mended after seeing those sights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those sights that the origins of those whispers mercifully erased from her mind, for...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Not ready! Not ready! The Warren not ready!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But soon... ah... soon!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Echidna was still in her graveyard, her head lifted upward with a wide smile smearing her monstrous face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She has succeeded.’ Echidna laughed with terrible horror. ’SHE HAS DONE IT!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her knees kissed the ground, her face suddenly began to weep — tears of joy and fear all knotted together in a twisted way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara had succeeded in attaining Sublimation through Madness. That was something none had ever achieved without losing themselves afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would Inara succeed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna didn’t know, for she had never expected her chosen one to ever succeed. But she should have known better. Oh, she damned well should!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Oh, Medusa! Medusa! She is indeed your daughter! Oh, how jealous I am! She should have been mine! Mine!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wept more and more, rolling herself on the ground rotten with blood and corpses restlessly, crying so much her face was soaked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I see now your goal, Medusa, my dear sister! I see now your goal!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hated her, had always done so, and always would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, at that time, Echidna decided to do something she never thought she would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have succeeded, Echidna Serpentine, Mother of Monsters. You have succeeded in the Gambit, in Death without Death.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Warrens are trembling, the gods are watching, They are watching.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Navel is listening. So tell us, Mother of Monsters...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[What is your Pathway?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna’s tear-streaked face was buried in her two hands, her wide eyes slipping through the cracks of her fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the day she had prepared for since the moment she had chosen Inara as her Heiress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her action was never for the child to fight her betrayers... oh no, never. It was only for her to achieve godhood — all to ascend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now she had done it. Yet she was about to do something contrary to what she had been dreaming about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laughing like one touched by madness, Echidna finally answered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I relinquish — surrender — myself to my niece, Inara Ouroboros Serpentine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, Medusa, my dear sister, I hate you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I love you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Unbelievable!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—End of Chapter 451—\u003C\u002Fp>",1365,"2026-06-03T10:53:47.503Z",1,"novelbin.me","f38b3744f34a4affab140f5bfbe6778668824ad12fb3697a15944f79f18b7a3e","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-452","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-450",481,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fkilled-me-now-i-have-your-power-cover.jpg"]