The power of the Silent Domain is about to truly unfold.
It's important to understand that Sterl wants to learn the Curse Law himself, which is quite troublesome. A curse is a rather unique form of Law that requires Sterl to endure various powers of curses, to suffer greatly, and to spend a long time gaining insight amidst the endless curses.
Alternatively, Sterl could first seek a legendary ability related to curses and then try to comprehend the Law, but that would also take a considerable amount of time. Furthermore, to ensure the defeat of a legendary powerhouse and extract their legendary ability, he would need to expend a Fate Token.
At this moment, Sterl finds it most cost-effective to devour from Rosalie.
...
Meanwhile, Rosalie is in a state of indescribable fear.
She knew this day would come, but she didn't expect it to arrive so soon.
After her death, she had just logged off for less than a second.
"I'm offline!"
"Could it be that my mother's arrangements didn't take effect?"
"No! No!"
...
But suddenly, a scream escapes Rosalie as her in-game body is engulfed by a swirling black hole-like creation that appears out of nowhere. Rosalie attempts to resist; at this moment, her character's attributes seem to remain intact, and she unleashes a platinum-level skill.
However, that skill cannot manifest any power and is directly blocked by the multicolored glow emanating from the black hole-like creation. Subsequently, the skill is consumed by the black hole entity.
Rosalie's physical body is also devoured, leaving only her soul behind.
Next, the black hole creation opens its massive mouth.
In an instant, Rosalie's soul is sucked into it.
When Rosalie regains consciousness, she suddenly feels that she has been forcibly pulled back to [Transcendence].
She finds herself trapped in the position before her body was shattered, unable to move.
"Mother! No!"
"Please! Let me be reborn once!"
"According to your words, I am still not mature! I don't want to become [Divine Attachment]!"
"Please don't..."
This time, Rosalie is genuinely terrified!
She pleads helplessly, but after a long while, she realizes that everything is eerily calm.
"Right, the mechanism of Heavenly Curtain Canyon causes this place to be in a secluded space, and there's a formation blocking it. With the same divine-level power, my mother can't find me for now."
"But... what am I supposed to do?"
"I seem to... still be able to open the character panel, and all my attributes haven't changed. Since my soul has been pulled back, does that mean [Transcendence] didn't erase my character??"
Rosalie laughs and cries at the same time.
She doesn't even know—
"What good is it to retain my attributes in a soul state? Without a physical body, they can't be utilized at all."
As Rosalie complains, a voice suddenly speaks from beside her: "No, it's still useful."
Instantly, Rosalie's soul reveals a look of extreme terror.
"Mother? No! Spare me!"
"I didn't intend to escape; I'll come back with you right away..."
She quickly realizes that the voice beside her belongs to a male, not her "mother" at all.
But when Rosalie turned to look back, her heart sank even further.
For standing there was another terrifying entity, this extremely perverse and mysterious demigod! He held a translucent Flame in his hand, gazing at her soul with a strange expression.
[You have gained life force; your life force limit has increased by 20%.]
[You have acquired a measure of blood force. Detecting your possession of [Origin of Chaos], you have received a total of twenty points of blood force.]
[You have acquired the divine authority [Creation (Concept Level)].]
The notifications were densely packed, and each one was extremely explosive.
The overall attribute increase speaks for itself—this was always a significant enhancement for Sterl.
Increasing affinity for Laws was also good.
After all, gaining a new Law always brought a slight passive bonus; additional Law Power was always beneficial.
The enhancement in life force, while not a qualitative change, brought Sterl another significant step towards developing into a humanoid boss.
What surprised him the most was that this time, using the Blood Sacrifice Array was different from the last time when he intercepted the Archduke of Blood's array and amassed a large amount of blood force that he couldn't utilize.
Because he possessed the Origin of Chaos, Sterl could directly convert the blood force into usable blood force.
A full twenty points!
This total included not just the demigod and divine-level boss forces, but the entirety of all life within the Heavenly Curtain Canyon!
Adding in the blood force that Sterl had previously collected, his blood force now reached 29.65 points!
That's right—he had worked tirelessly before and barely accumulated 10 points of blood force, but now, after this wave of the array, he was close to 30 points.
Sterl felt that it was time to rethink his plans.
In addition to the Flowing Water Law, he could now unlock two complete-level Laws and find a compatible platinum-level skill to enhance those new Laws!
This would significantly elevate his combat power.
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As for the ultimate prize...
Sterl excitedly opened the divine authority panel and, sure enough, there was a new entry: [Creation (Concept Level)].
There wasn't much information on the panel, just a brief line: [Superior conceptual divine authority, even the faintest trace contains incredible power.]
[Yes/No to assimilate?]
"Of course."
Why even hesitate?
Sterl decisively chose to assimilate it.
Superior divine authority?
Conceptual divine authority?
Though he didn't fully understand what it meant, he had a rough idea.
As far as he knew, all known divine authorities of the gods were objectively existing concepts, such as those related to humanity, nature, Flame, the moon, and so on...
However, creation wasn't an objectively existing thing; it was an action, a concept—hence, it was referred to as conceptual divine authority.
Moreover, ordinary deities could only possess divine authority over objectively existing entities.
Didn't that imply that this conceptual divine authority was of a higher caliber?
Having completed his analysis, Sterl increasingly felt that he had hit the jackpot!
However, after assimilating this creation divine authority, he only sensed a tremor in his mental world, unlike the immense changes when the divine authorities of nature and humanity settled into place.
It felt as if nothing had happened.
No, that wasn't quite right...
It couldn't be said that nothing happened.
[As a Creator's Act]—this special skill had changed!