Chapter 1952: The Great Beyond Is Born!

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"WHILE I CRUSH YOU, GAZE UPON ALL THE WORLDS OFFERED TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER!"

Camael’s words echoed across the entirety of Floor 90.

As his voice rang out, the clouds and flames merged into vivid visions, illusions of what was happening far below.

There, dozens of worlds were being visited by Celestial Avatars of each Archangel, the Administrators.

Everyone else with Maria was exhausted, resting inside Maria’s Void Aura bubbles scattered across the heavens of Floor 90, trying to recover and cheer for her.

They watched the visions in dread, fearing what the Archangels would do to those worlds.

And yet...

"H-HUH?! WHAT?!"

Camael was just as confused as everyone else.

In each of those worlds...

There was nothing but pitch darkness, an endless void of nothingness.

"Where are the worlds?!"

"Reporting! Have you found anything?"

"No...!"

"I’ve checked from Floor 40 to 30! T-There are no worlds!"

"What?! But they were there a second ago!"

"What’s going on?!"

"Floor 1... not even Earth is here?!"

"Hell is not here?! How?! We didn’t even realize! Hell is gone!"

"W-What?! But it was right there a second ago!"

"H-How could the entirety of Hell disappear when it is larger than all fifty worlds combined?!"

All the Archangel Avatars gazing upon the floors of the tower began to panic, unable to comprehend what was happening.

From Floor 50 to Floor 1.

All the worlds were gone!

Camael’s blazing eyes immediately locked onto Maria. The pressure alone was enough to make her bleed from all seven orifices.

"YOU! What have you done?!"

"Heh... Wanna take a guess?!"

Not even Michael had been aware of this plan. Maria had carried it out so secretly that even he could not glimpse it despite having access to her superficial thoughts.

In fact, now that he thought about it...

It all clicked together.

"The reason why you spread such large soul fragments, weakening yourself... over all those worlds...! The reason why you placed a large fragment of your body there... a gazing moon eye, a mountain of bones... a swamp of blood..."

As everything fell into place, Camael, still confused, attacked in a fury he could no longer hold back.

"What did you DO?! Where are the fifty worlds?!"

"Right here!"

Maria roared and spread her Dominion across all of Floor 90!

RUMBLE!

Her Dominion swiftly swallowed Floor 90 as well as all the floors beneath it, which she had secretly prepared as well.

The Dominion shifted, revealing countless worlds and planets across an endless cosmos within her very soul.

"W-WH...! WHA....! WHAT?!"

Camael froze, staring in shock at the tremendous, massive world before his eyes.

Maria...

"You swallowed all fifty worlds?!"

Michael screamed in disbelief, shaking Maria’s body.

"Swallowed sounds really nasty. I didn’t eat them. The moment I spread a fragment of my soul into a world and left a physical piece of my body there, the world became part of me."

"...?!"

"I didn’t eat them. I simply made these worlds extensions of my own existence!"

RUMBLE!

And at that moment, it happened.

Maria’s Aura erupted with power comparable to fifty different worlds.

Billions of lifeforms across all these worlds raised their arms at Maria’s request.

Their essence, though small individually, became utterly massive when combined. Maria rapidly began to evolve.

She had already reached Max Level, after all.

"It’s time, Michael!"

"T-Time for what?"

"To evolve into the next level!"

After slaying so many gods with her family across the Tenfold Realm, Maria had already met the qualifications.

At Level 1000, Maria had access to her next evolution.

She would combine her Living Body, representing Life and Light, with her Outer God Soul, representing Death and Void.

She would condense and fuse the two opposite essences within her that could not normally be used together.

"All Archangels, come back right now— KUAAAAGH?!"

Camael called out to the rest of his siblings, but it was too late.

Maria’s sword, growing to the size of a planet, pierced his true body and dragged him down from the crack in space.

"What are you planning to do, you madwoman?!"

Camael roared. His majestic, blazing form resisted the blade even as Maria pulled him downward.

His blazing hands summoned endless Flames of Judgement, born from the Wrath of God himself.

However, Maria, condensing the power of fifty worlds within her entire being, quickly closed the gap in strength.

"I will use you as the materials I need for my ascension."

With the eyes of a predator staring at her prey, Camael, the embodiment of God’s Wrath and an Archangel made entirely of flames, felt a chill run down his spine.

"N-No...! LET GO!"

Camael fought back with his Celestial Authority, pressing down on Maria with tremendous force.

Yet even though Maria with her original strength would have already died, the fifty worlds together condensed all of their essence, including the living beings within them.

Their distinct essences and powers were refined into ever greater divine power.

"This sword is made out of the hopes and dreams of all fifty worlds you were going to offer to that monster! This is the Blade of Fifty Swords: Aeon!"

Maria forged her sword and turned it into a True Immortal Treasure as her power coalesced across Aeon, baptized by the name of an Outer God.

This tremendous sword, carrying the total power of fifty worlds and all their souls and living beings, slashed across Camael.

The Archangel’s attacks were in vain. His flames were immediately split apart and scattered by Maria’s swordsmanship.

"T-THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!"

Camael screamed as he was launched into Floor 10’s continent. His titanic body slammed down, burning everything within a radius of over ten thousand kilometers.

BOOOM!

"Nnnggh! Ngaaahhh!"

The Archangel tried to resist, using his Authority as an Administrator to overwrite everything and delete Maria’s skills.

However, it was impossible.

"I-IT DOESN’T WORK?!"

Maria had already disconnected her personal System from the Tower’s System and had been sharing it with everyone else for a while now.

The Administrators no longer had power over Skills, Titles, or Stats, and they did not even get the chance to manipulate such things to force their opponents into submission.

Camael unleashed God’s Fury in desperation. Thousands of giant blazing hands rushed toward Maria from every angle.

Space and time distorted as billions of blazing swords flew toward her at the same time.

And yet Maria smiled and closed her eyes.

"Michael, do you trust me?"

"...Maria."

"Do you?"

Michael, who had doubted whether Maria was truly capable of overcoming his creator, quickly lost all doubt.

What she had done was a completely insane feat.

And even now, Floors 51 to 90 were also being assimilated.

Just a minute ago, she had finished assimilating Floor 90!

All of Umbralheim, Olympus, Thebes, and Vedas were now part of her very being.

Her Soul Realm had become an infinitely larger world than anything else in the entire universe.

A massive world to which Maria had already given a name.

This was the Realm where people would finally be able to live on their own and decide their own fate.

No longer fearing that their worlds would come to an end or be devoured.

They would enjoy true freedom to live their lives as they pleased.

The Great Beyond!

"I trust you, Maria!"

Michael grabbed Maria’s hand as his Celestial Soul merged into her.

Maria’s entire body quickly began to grow even stronger and evolve.

As Camael’s attacks rushed toward her.

She swung thousands of swords emerging from every angle.

Each of these swords was a star within her endless cosmos!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

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