*SHUA!*
A silver-gold light suddenly overflowed from Charlie's body, filling the entire room with a magical pressure so massive that the surrounding air seemed to freeze instantly.
No complicated spells were uttered.
To Transcendents, the incantations of human speech no longer held any meaning. All that existed here was absolute will and the manifestation of a Divine Authority that transcended all laws of nature.
Charlie looked down at the girl in front of him with a gentle gaze, filled with both guilt and deep affection.
*PUCHI!*
Using his own fingernail, Charlie sliced open his palm.
Instead of ordinary red blood, the fluid flowing out of the wound was the essence of pure divinity. It radiated a mystical, holy glow, shimmering like molten silver in the dim light of the room.
"I'm sorry, Mahiru... because in the end, I have to drag you into my destiny that is fraught with danger." Charlie said softly.
Hearing this, Mahiru shook her head quickly. Her gaze was direct and radiated an unyielding firmness.
"No, this is my own choice, Charlie-san."
"Because you are the most precious person to me, I will go with you wherever you are. I will not let myself be left behind again."
Saying nothing more to argue with her, Charlie slowly brought his wounded palm closer.
Through the sacred physical touch, the blood essence of the Transcendent flowed, seeping directly through the skin and merging into Mahiru's body.
The moment the holy fluid made contact with the girl's bloodstream, a wave of incredibly immense warmth exploded from deep within Mahiru's chest.
*WUUUSHHH!*
The entire room was instantly blinded by an incredibly dazzling glow of white light.
Inside that vortex of holy light, the tissues of Mahiru's body began to be completely overhauled down to the deepest cellular level.
Charlie's infinite magical energy poured in relentlessly, mutating the essence of Mahiru's soul from a fragile mortal being into an immortal entity bound forever to the existence of the Dragon King.
"Ngh... Ah...!" Mahiru groaned softly, both of her hands gripping her own chest tightly.
She could feel an extraordinary amount of pain during the transformation process.
Her soul vessel felt as if it were being forced to stretch and reforged upon an anvil of divine energy that burned her entire body from within.
The intense heat and tremendous pressure almost caused her to lose consciousness.
However, that extreme pain and exhaustion vanished instantly within seconds, replaced by a surging, soothing sensation of new power in her blood vessels.
Yet, just as the white glow faded, an eerie silence suddenly descended upon the house.
*CRACK!*
At that exact second, the sound of an invisible fracture echoed through the air—a sign that the world's threads of fate had been severed instantly.
The God's Law worked in silence, immediately erasing the entire existence, name, and memory of this new Familiar from the mind of every human on the face of the earth.
In this world, the name Shiina Mahiru had been expunged from the pages of reality.
The contract was fully completed. In front of Charlie now stood a loyal and immortal follower—yet one who was estranged from the world forever.
Meanwhile, Mahiru did not care in the slightest about the massive surge of power she had just obtained.
As all her temporarily forgotten memories flooded back into her mind in their entirety, tears immediately welled up in her eyes.
She looked at the man she loved with tearful eyes, then without hesitation threw herself straight into Charlie's warm embrace.
"It was terrifying... it was truly so terrifying, Charlie-kun...!" Mahiru's crying broke out within the youth's tight embrace. Her body trembled violently as she held back the remnants of her emotional panic. "I forgot you... I looked at you as if we were strangers who had never met. I really never want to experience the same thing a second time!"
Charlie held Mahiru's body tightly, burying the girl's face against his chest while his right hand moved gently to stroke her smooth blonde hair, which now appeared slightly shimmering.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry for making you go through such a painful experience, Mahiru. This is all my fault." He whispered in a tone filled with deep regret. "I truly did not know that the increase in my strength would bring such a terrible impact on my surroundings. I was too reckless."
Before their moving reunion could proceed any further, Charlie suddenly felt a sensation of spatial distortion. His vision spun, and in the blink of an eye, his surroundings had completely changed.
A floor of pure white marble stretched out endlessly beneath his feet, reflecting a gleam of light that came from nowhere.
There were no walls bounding the space, no horizon at the edge of his sight, and above him, a canopy of sky filled with billions of countless stars arched magnificently.
The place was simply a vast void, enveloped by a grand and sacred eternal silence.
In the midst of that barren emptiness stood ten chairs arranged around a large round table.
Void Sanctuary!
Charlie immediately understood the situation. He had been forcibly transferred to the Void Sanctuary by his two big bosses, Gaia and Alaya.
(Since I am already here, does that mean the Parasite-Type Abyssal Devourer has been successfully eliminated by Elena?)
He guessed the situation to himself.
(Phew, I was almost too late. If I had delayed restoring Mahiru's memory and making her my Familiar by just one day, things would have definitely become highly troublesome once I returned to my original world.)
Charlie then cast his gaze around the round table, until his eyes locked onto a high chair marked with the Roman numeral ten (X).
There, Elena's figure appeared to be sitting casually while waving her hand toward him with a wide, innocent smile.
Before Charlie could chide his coworker, a voice that was extremely cheerful, clear, and child-like suddenly echoed through every corner of the void, breaking the eternal silence of the place.
"Welcome back~!" Gaia greeted in a tone of voice full of energy and overflowing cheerfulness. "Congratulations on the return of our Saviors! And of course, congratulations because you have succeeded in completing the Quest this time very brilliantly!"
"Well~ even though I know there were a few complications and minor dramas that occurred during the completion process over there, in the end, what matters most to us is this perfect final result!"
Two figures of the supreme entities suddenly manifested right in the middle of the empty space at the center of the round table.
On one side stood Gaia, radiating an aura full of cheerfulness, while on the other side stood Alaya with a cold, flat facial expression devoid of emotion.
Both manifested in the form of young girls of unparalleled beauty—the legendary kind of beauty capable of toppling a nation or destroying an entire civilization with just a single blink of an eye.
Gaia looked at the nine Saviors in turn with gleaming golden eyes that sparkled cheerfully.
"Now, because I know you all must feel very exhausted after undergoing this quite long Quest, and surely can't wait to go home immediately to rest, I won't beat around the bush anymore!" Gaia clapped her hands once with full enthusiasm. "Without wasting any more time, let's just go straight into the session for granting Rewards for all the hard work and dedication you have shown!"
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