Chapter 77: Expedition

Chapter 77: Expedition

Venus.

"How are they?" Aucuses asked with concern.

"They are fine." Lilith answered, removing her hands from their foreheads. "However, since they were completely under influence of desire, they probably have very little memory of the whole incident. But I could restore it."

"No." Aucuses said, shaking his head. "Let it be. It's better to be safe than sorry."

By saying this, Aucuses knew, he was contradicting himself. After all, he was going to show them the great old ones. But this was only under his protection and where the power of the outer gods cannot expand. Here, however, the authority of the mother tree of desire descended through the corpse of the ancient god. So, even if the influence has now been expelled, there is still a significant risk present.

Lilith nodded in understanding. She looked at the Angels who were lying unconscious on the ground and said. "They should wake up soon." Then she got up and turned to Aucuses. "I'll wait for you at the crater." She excused herself with a serious expression.

Aucuses nodded and watched her disappear into the volcano's scorched crater. Then he saw his angels slowing down, their bodies shaking as their closed eyes opened in confusion and bewilderment.

He sighed and waited for them to get a hold of themselves...

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In the crater, Lilith walked through the ashes of the roses. She bent down and picked up a red petal from the ashes. Her eyes were slightly reminiscent of the past as she gazed at the petal of the hand.

The petal suddenly flew from her hand as a gust of wind erupted behind her. She turned to see Aucuses standing beside her, arms folded and eyes narrowed.

Aucuses has already persuaded his angels to continue their scientific expedition. He didn't make up an excuse or a story to hide what happened. He just told them they would find everything eventually.

Yes, he is still going show them. This incident only amounted to strengthen his resolve about it. He cannot always protect his angels from the dangers of the cosmos. It was too close this time. They would have been corrupted by the divine slut were it not for the blessings, Aucuses and Lilith gave them before embarking on this journey. They need to know the whole truth so that incidents like before don't happen again.

His angels were still confused about everything, but they resume their journey under his stren words. He also altered reality to change the last focal point into the volcano in the nearby plain so that they come back to the crater.

Inside the crater, Aucuses approached Lilith and stopped right in front of her. His body inches from hers, a solemn atmosphere filled the entire crater.

"Ombella, did you know it before?" Aucuses asked her, his golden eyes staring into her red eyes.

Lilith was unaffected by his intense gaze. She calmly walked away from him, then she replied. "No, I didn't expect Kvastrir's corpse to be on Venus. War was chaotic at that time and I was just a subordinate god back then. So I didn't know much about the consequences of the war."

"But weren't you Aurmir's wife?" Aucuses asked, suppressing the anger that burned in his heart. God knows how excruciating it is for him to keep up with her act, even in situations like this.

Lilith suddenly laughed. "Wife?. No, I was far from that. To him I was nothing more than his slave or tool of reproduction for his glorious race ... " Her laughter died away with the last words, leaving them in an eerie silence.

Aucuses asked worriedly. "Sorry if I said something ..."

"No, it's okay." Lilith cut him off, turned to him and gave him a weak smile. "I've already come to terms with all my past." She continued after she recovered and calmed down. "That War. Aurmir didn't say much about it after returning to the castle. However, he looked frightened, as if he had seen something terrible. He was also badly injured and corrupted by the crimson moonlight. He went into solitude for long time after the war...."

Aucuses listened while ignoring her magnificent acting.

"Do you know Lilith, the Sanguine ancestor?" He asked the most important question. "I heard she was the one who killed Kvastrir and Flegrea."

"Lilith..." Lilith murmured, her eyes distant. She seemed to be recollecting the past. Finally, she looked at Aucuses and said.

"Just after the war I heard a rumour. While I'm not sure if it's true, this is all I know about situation of Lilith during the war. She said to have gone completely mad during the war, not even caring about her own life." She concluded succinctly.

Aucuses eyebrows rose when he heard it. He didn't fully believe her words, but the doubt of whether she knew the corpse of ancient god was here on venus disappeared after hearing her words.

"Amanises and others contacted me." Lilith said, and her face turned solemn. "They want know everything that happened here."

"I'll tell brief them when we get back to Earth." Aucuses said, pulling a brown book out of space and throwing it at Lilith. "Read the last pages of the book."

Lilith grabbed the book and opened it after hearing him. She was going through the first pages filled with formulas of the 22 paths, and the hermit path was complete in the book.

"Where are your angels? Are they back?"

"Oh, the expedition is still in progress."

"You still let them?"

"I made them continue it."

"..."

The twilight of the sun shone on their figures as they continued their journey to Voyager.

Meanwhile, Diana, Lucas and Blaise were far away from the valley, making final preparations for the scan.

"It's enough." Diana said as she began to float off the ground, then she assumed a sitting position in the air.

"Do you want a hand?" Lucas asked, checking the equipment one last time.

"No." Diana shook her head. "Get away from me now."

Lucas and Blaise walked away from her, but their attention was still solely on her.

Diana began. She used her "Knowledge" authority and connected to the equipment in front of her.

In an instant, her perception expanded and began to cover all of Venus. Meanwhile, all devices at the focal points around Venus glowed with purple light. The lights started to extend out from each device to connect to nearby devices.

Buzz!

Soon, the entire planet of Venus was bathed in violet light. From space, Venus was covered in a giant formation with points of light at every focal point on the planet.

Diana floated with light purple steaks emanating from her figure. The lights converged above her head and transformed into a pair of eyes containing countless resplendent stars.

A formless ray of light shot out from the pair of starry eyes, illuminating all of Venus.

The entire planet became illusory and ethereal, as if everything temporarily transformed into a block of basic information under the power of violet light.

The light that illuminated all of Venus almost immediately converged back into starry eyes, returning Venus to its previous form.

The starry eyes then dimmed as the converging light recorded and brought back a ton of knowledge about Venus.

The starry eyes eventually morphed into a journey that fell into Diana's hands. The diary contained all the information recorded on Venus.

Diana landed and flipped through the book almost immediately. She also looked worn down from doing such feet.

""Are you okay?"" Lucas and Blaise in unison, much to the dismay of the other.

"I'm just a little tired." Diana smiled in response. "Let's return to Voyager. I can't stand this planet any longer."

Blaise and Lucas nodded in agreement. Then, using authority of knowledge, they teleported all of the equipment back to them and made their way back to voyager.

When they reached Voyager, they saw their lord waiting for them.

"Do you want to stop at mercury?" Aucuses asked, his hands folded and his eyes fixed on them.

"No." They answered in unison, much to each other's surprise.

"I expected that." Aucuses chuckled: "Then let's go straight to our final destination, the 'Sun'."