I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Twelve thousand years is not a long time for Olga.

If enough mantra energy is collected during this period, Brithara can be defeated, and then the divine kingdom can be permanently stable.

But Skadi, two thousand years later, sacrificed herself in place of countless lives on earth, contributing immense power of the Word.

A person with unlimited potential has given her everything.

"Olga, how is the situation?"

The door suddenly opened, and Deus stepped into the medical room, looking at Olga, who was gritting her teeth and pressing buttons on the virtual screen in front of the treatment pod.

In the past, if Deus had come to Olga in person, she would have been very happy and would have reported to him respectfully.

But now, Olga, her heart heavy, felt no joy. She turned to the man she respected most and said:

"This is very bad. Her reaction to the power of the truth is so low that it's almost nonexistent. Her life force is almost undetectable even by the instruments. If we don't use a static field to seal her off, she will die of old age in the next moment."

She also heard about the current state of the Causal Fortress, which has reached an unprecedented level of 80 trillion units of mantra power in terms of energy reserves.

If such energy reserves are replenished quickly enough, the Causal Cannon Brahma can unleash a continuous barrage at full power.

Over the past two thousand years, the divine kingdom has collected more than one trillion human souls.

Skadi alone filled a staggering 80 trillion mantras of power, a force so immense that it defied belief among the countless gods and humans within the Causal Fortress.

"...You're saying that Skadi has awakened a very strange power of incantation?"

Upon hearing Olga's words, Deus's expression remained unchanged, but a sense of sorrow and desolation surfaced in his unwavering eyes.

He used to be the commander-in-chief of the Divine Kingdom Army, but now he is just a master grieving for his disciples.

"Yes, that mantra... I don't sense any aggression..."

Olga described to Deus the scene of Skadi awakening that strange power of incantation.

She didn't know what kind of power it was, but Skadi was able to fill the Eight Extremes Furnace to a value of 80 trillion by herself, which seemed extremely powerful and terrifying.

Despite the immense power of the mantra, Olga felt no pressure whatsoever when Skadi awakened; instead, she felt...warmth.

Before arriving, Deus had already seen the core of the Eight Extremes Furnace, and the furnace core that the divine kingdom had created using the highest technology and the eight true words was no longer worth calling the Eight Extremes Furnace.

Because in the heart of the furnace, a brand new golden gem formed from the power of mantra has appeared, which is the mantra power that Olga mentioned, Skadi's awakened power of mantra.

"...Olga, let's cancel the domestication and harvesting of humans in the Great Reversal Project. Let's continue to draw upon the power of mantras in the same way as before. The unprecedented 80 trillion mantra energy is enough for us."

Arriving at Skadi's sleeping pod, Deus sighed, a rare occurrence for him. His disciple had once again shattered his impression of her.

Even though the other party saw the Great Reversal Plan very clearly when witnessing it, Deus also thought he understood his disciple a little.

But the other side repeatedly showed unexpected situations, just as Skadi said, they didn't understand Skadi.

The harvested souls disappeared, and Deus knew it was Skadi's doing.

The other party still cared about the sacrifice of life, and used himself to replace the human souls that would be harvested over the next ten thousand years.

Is this a fair exchange?

No, that's not true, absolutely not.

Deus knew that even with twelve thousand years, the divine kingdom could never collect the power of eighty trillion people; at most, it would only be around eight trillion.

Therefore, Skadi not only exchanged the lives of humans for the next ten thousand years, but also repaid the kindness of Deus's teachings, Olga's instruction, and the nurturing grace of the divine kingdom, and even had more to spare.

"understood."

Upon hearing Deus's order, Olga glanced at Skadi in the recovery pod with a complicated expression, wondering if her student would be happy to hear the news.

............

On the other side, Skadi, who was temporarily in a state of death, had her soul leave her body.

Although Skadi sacrificed her immense cosmic power, which she had cultivated for thousands of years, and even her body decayed to the point of death, her loss was considerable.

But you have to be willing to give up something in order to gain something in return.

Skadi, who acted according to her own heart and even her own nature, underwent a transformative change in her soul after saving those oppressed souls together with Mary.

After their souls were liberated, they expressed their gratitude to their benefactors.

Skadi accepted this gratitude without a second thought, her mind now in a state of profound reverie.

Buddhism views the physical body as a mere bag of skin, believing that the mind is the true reality, and that all conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows.

At this moment, Skadi is moving away from her delusions and ultimately attaining nirvana.

The body is real, the mind is illusory.

With the power of the [Illusion] Mantra, Skadi seemed to have reversed her own perceptions and even her worldview.

As her eyes gradually brightened, Skadi gazed at the ocean of souls and mantra power around her, and a completely new 'vision' appeared before her.

At this moment, Skadi, whose soul had undergone a complete transformation, had seen the boundary between illusion and reality after reversing the distinction between the two.

At the same time, she also saw her own decaying body, frozen in the intensive care unit.

"Now... if I wanted, I could shatter and reverse the reality and illusion of life and death..."

Skadi, in her spirit form, blinked her azure eyes, which were adorned with faint mandala patterns and resembled lotus flowers, and seemed almost omnipotent at that moment.

By relying on her own will to reverse or break the illusion of reality, she can accomplish a great deal, almost like having a cheat code. Bringing someone back to life doesn't seem to be a difficult task for Skadi now.

Just like Izanagi in Naruto, who can turn unfavorable events that happen to him within a certain period of time into a dream that never happened, and only choose to turn favorable events into reality, this is also a kind of reversal of reality and illusion.

But Skadi is stronger than Izanagi, at least she doesn't have the limitation of losing an eye after each use.

"Wow, that's amazing! You have exceptional talent, Skadi."

Suddenly, amidst the ocean of countless souls and the power of truth, a treacherous laugh suddenly rang out.

Skadi frowned. This place could be described as a chasm between his spirit and soul. Although the surrounding ocean of souls and mantra power existed, it was as if they were worlds apart, separated by dimensions and realms.

This is the first time a third person has come here besides Mary.

Following the sound, she saw a golden spider swimming happily amidst the waves of love's power, praising the currents of love's power.

Its mechanical body is covered with intricate and ornate patterns, making it resemble an exceptionally high-end work of art.

Golden Spider swore that this was the first time he had ever seen such power of incantation, which did not belong to any of the Eight Extremes Mantras of the Divine Kingdom.

It represents the power of true love, filled with warmth and compassion.

This power of mantra may not be good at causing damage, but it has the effect of restraining and purifying negative defilements, which are like demons. It can even reverse them into positive mantra power.

Once the Fortress of Cause and Effect is filled with this power of mantra, all the negative mantra power generated by the soul is purified and disappears.

This feat and miracle can be described in four words.

Wash away the superficialities!

"who are you?"

Without a trace of fear or surprise, Skadi walked up to the Golden Spider with a blank expression, grabbed it, lifted it up, and asked who this guy was.

The golden spider struggled briefly in Skadi's palm before easily breaking free of its restraints.

Then, golden spider silk shot out and wrapped around Skadi's index finger, hanging upside down in front of Skadi, and said with a grin, "Who I am, does it matter? You're already dead."

"Does it matter?"

Skadi asked the other person a question in the same tone.

Could this guy be mistaking her for someone who doesn't understand the situation? And his tone sounds like that of a schemer, and also like Skadi's second brother, Lanmeng, plotting against someone.

The golden spider paused for a moment upon hearing this, then continued to laugh, saying with a smile:

"Oh dear, I almost forgot. To be able to make such a selfless sacrifice, you probably didn't care about your own life or death, or perhaps you were already prepared for it?"

"I've been secretly spying on you, and I always feel that you, this guy of unknown origin, are very suspicious."

Skadi twitched her fingers, making the spider in front of her spin around, and then unceremoniously grabbed the spider silk. With her other hand, she lightly pressed down on the spider's golden silk sac and pulled out a lot of silk threads to play with.

The golden spider was speechless at Skadi's overly familiar and rude manner. She said she was suspicious, and then she even pinched her butt and played cat's cradle with her web.

Given his cunning yet arrogant nature, he should have been angry, but he valued Skadi highly, admiring and appreciating the potential she displayed.

Besides Asura, the one in front of us is also quite talented, and even surpasses him in some aspects.

"Well, this suspicious fellow of mine can also be considered a god, but unlike the gods of you humans, I am a god of the underworld."

The golden spider was also letting Skadi play with the tough spider silk made of the power of the mantra. It jumped onto the pattern woven by Skadi's spider silk and bounced its eight spider legs as if it were dancing.

"The gods of the underworld?"

Upon hearing this, Skadi raised an eyebrow, roughly understanding what this guy was referring to.

"Yes, I live right here..."

The golden spider chuckled as it spoke, but suddenly its golden silk sac sprayed out countless dense strands of spider silk.

Like a spider capturing its prey, it enveloped Skadi in a ball, breaking through the space and pulling her into another boundary.

......

Skadi was able to react to the Golden Spider's sudden sneak attack, but sensing no malice whatsoever, she simply let the spider do as it pleased.

After everything in front of her was enveloped in gold threads, Skadi's vision was plunged into darkness.

The darkness didn't last long; two seconds later, light appeared before Skadi's eyes, causing her to raise an eyebrow slightly.

Upon arriving in this entirely new world, she felt a strong sense of falling. As the surrounding scenery flashed past her, she knew she was falling.

Although she couldn't fly in this place, Skadi wasn't panicked at all.

Instead, they curiously surveyed their surroundings, and the first thing they saw was a towering stone pillar that seemed to reach straight into the sky.

Above the stone pillars, there is an endless expanse of pure white, and below it, at the bottom, there is an endless, surging black mist, like an ocean.

Amidst the flowing black mist, countless stone pillars carved with Buddha statues and heads are slanted and scattered haphazardly, creating a desolate yet eerie atmosphere.

There was no sky above, no bottom below, and everything around seemed to have no end.

In Skadi's new perspective, the size and distance of this place before her were...infinite.

There is no front or back, no up or down, no direction, and the boundaries of distance are blurred.

"Is this place... a place purely of concept?"

Skadi, who was falling continuously, touched her chin. Just as she was about to fall into the gloomy and deep sea of ​​black mist, her eyes suddenly narrowed.