Chapter 378: Deus ex charta

Chapter 378: Deus ex charta

[Scroll of assisted inspiration] : Infuse it with mana after writing your current issue on it; the system will provide you inspiration to resolve the problem. One-time use.

Item level : 100.

Grade : Flawless.

There was still her last query written on it, remnants of her passage in Suns orbital temple : How do I survive my current situation. She had gotten no answer that time, but now was different, this time she was in the systems reach. With a charcoal pen from her storage, she scribbled over her previous query and wrote a new one: How do I get the dagger and survive?.

It was hard to think with Lerverle battling the golems outside. He seemed to be doing somewhat well, but clearly the golems were worthy of being a level 500s home guardians.

She infused the scroll with mana and shortly thereafter, words appeared: draw a bigger connection, followed by a small drawing of what Sofia instantly recognised as an unknown divine rune, which was surrounded by a bunch of sparks.

Is that

Sofia brought out as large a bone plate as she could fit inside the shield and reproduced the divine rune onto it.

Nothing happened.

The sparks! Connection is

Sofia placed her palm on the bone plate and channeled an Angels bolt.

Electricity!

She felt a distinct sense of reality breaking around her. Spreading from her hand, streams of blue electricity crackled within the shield, and in a flash of otherworldly iridescent colors, a being made of such electricity appeared above the divine rune.

[False God]

I have returned.

Once again indebted.

The false god of connections connected the Dagger to Sofias hand. It was now in her grasp as if it had always been there.

Most I can do. Too much mana here. Cannot stay nor get you out.

More are coming. Nice to see you again. Good luck.

Sofia barely had the time to think a quick thank you, and the friendly archangel was gone.

More are coming? More what?!New novel chapters are published on

No one was going to answer, so Sofia turned to identifying the dagger, which the Scribe actually refused to do.

[This item must be primed with your mana before being identified. This item already has an owner and cannot be primed.]

Shit.

A few seconds later, Pareth stood up again. He was back into his very first skeleton once more, the one Sofia had found in a tomb near her Orphanage. She had kept it all this time, and it was the only humanoid skeleton she had at the ready at the moment. It was much weaker than the bone-mauler skeleton, but still better than nothing.

Welcome back. Any ideas on how we can get out of this mess?

Pareth looked around and shook his skull.

For lack of a better option, Sofia sat down and started working on another unlife rune. The five minute channeling time felt like an eternity. About thirty seconds in, her channeling was interrupted by a shockwave that sent her rolling back and crashing against the shield.

Outside, the green inferno had disappeared, washed away by the wave of energy. There was nothing else left nearby. The shields Sofia was in were the sole thing left within a gigantic crater. Hugos base had been underground, but now, from the bottom of a several kilometers deep crater, Sofia could see the sky.

The source of the shockwave and the maker of the crater was fighting Hugo. Saint Tartaros.

Sofia had a hard time catching a single glimpse of their battle, but she could feel it every time they clashed, the world itself shook from their attacks.

Hugo managed to trap Tartaros within some kind of mana bubble, stopping him for all of a second.

Within that second, Hugo channeled an astronomical quantity of mana and unleashed it in the direction of the ground. It washed over Sofia, suffocating but harmless. From the depth of the crater, a sleepng being was brought to life. Hugo had summoned another Golem. A colossus. A titan of untold alloys and mana. The immense being woke from its stone prison, and slowly rose. It was taller than the crater itself, and, jumping out of it, it joined the fight, only to get tackled by a giant blue Dragon striking it out of nowhere like a meteor.

Sofia closed her eyes. She was unable to watch anymore, the battle was going too fast, and their attacks destroyed the land so far and wide that the crater around her kept getting wider and deeper. It would only take one stray hit coming her way and it would all be over, so she stopped watching and concentrated, she needed to cast that unlife rune, and fast.

Until the hell of sound and energy from the battle ceased.

Sofia couldnt help but look, it took very little time to locate the source of the sudden calm.

Archangel.

Tartaros, Beligenus, and the Exidian Emperor were all holding onto Hugo, entrapping him within a whirling vortex of mana, and this was when an Archangel had appeared. The beings flickering form defying all logic. The many places its right arm were in at the same time coalesced into a singular solid image, and as it raised it, aimed at Hugo. Mana concentrated so much at the beings fingertips that it became solid, and traced thousands of ritual circles in the air one after the other.

The otherworldly voice of the Archangel pierced through everyones head. With each of his words, endless concentrated streams of mana from around the world gathered within the palm of his hand.

Hugo desperately tried to fight back from within the Vortex of mana.

Hugo ElderPlain.

The archangel paused.

You have violated the pact.

As an enforcer of this worlds laws, I deliver unto you, your final sentence.

You shall be exiled within the eye of creation.

May you repent for eternity.

The mana Vortex was dispelled by the Archangels magic. A glowing prison made of countless threads of white magic formed around Hugo. The Archangels magic pulsed, and the threads closed like a cocoon around the level 500. With each pulse, more and more threads wrapped around the helpless Artisan, until it all collapsed into a silent flash of light bright like an exploding sun.

When the light disappeared, Hugo ElderPlain was no more.