Kiana and Sirin's evolution was reaching its end, and their absorption of energy from the Sea of Quanta gradually slowed.
As the rate of energy consumption in this area decreased, energy from other areas began to rush in rapidly.
"Not leaving yet? If you don't go now, you won't be able to~" Ai said, looking cheerfully at Sa, whose body had begun to change irregularly.
Sa could barely move because Kiana and the others had drained the energy in the area. Now that the energy was returning, Sa's body once again began to uncontrollably absorb energy and grow.
"Ai… I'll remember you…"
Sa stared intently at Ai. All It wanted was to see what was absorbing the energy, but this bitch Ai kept blocking It from looking.
And that Vita, a two-faced subordinate. She'd better hide her memories deep, lest It discovers what she's hiding.
Oh, right. It almost forgot that Vita was still being thrashed.
Sa quickly waved its hand and recalled Vita. Ai could cancel the time loop at any moment. Once the time loop was gone, Vita would lose the ability to continuously resurrect. If she died then, she would be truly dead.
Although It hated Vita, but…
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Previously, Kukulkan was doing the same as before, smashing Vita with stars. But it seemed Kukulkan had finally angered Vita.
She transformed directly into a massive peacock, which immediately piqued the somewhat bored Kukulkan's interest.
Kukulkan kneaded Vita's Honkai Beast form into a small ball and began swatting her around, just as Janna had once swatted her.
There was no hatred or resentment; Kukulkan simply felt it was a legacy that she needed to carry on properly.
But after only a few swats, Vita disappeared again.
Kukulkan shook her head regretfully. Just as she was getting into the rhythm and wanted to sing, dance, and rap while playing ball, Vita vanished.
"Gone is gone. She'll be back in a bit anyway."
But after waiting for a while, Vita still hadn't returned. Instead, Ryn came back.
Ryn tilted his head up, looking thoughtfully at Kukulkan and the massive, 300,000-meter-tall phantom behind her, whose top was out of sight.
"You have this ability too? A Nebula Form like in Chao Shou Wu Zhuang?"
Ryn looked at Kukulkan's Nebula Form with envy. It was way cooler than the rock giant he had constructed before and Mei's Susanoo-Herrscher of Thunder version back then.
Just like in an anime he watched as a child, "Chao Shou Wu Zhuang," it was a "Nebula Form" that only the truly strong deserved.
Whether it was strong or not was debatable, but just being massive was awesome enough!
"Uh, what's Chao Shou Wu Zhuang? And what's a Nebula Form? I don't know. This is my true form incarnate. When I manifested it with Honkai energy on Earth, it was originally only about three thousand meters tall…
But after coming to this world, it seems some limit was removed. Plus, with your energy, Ryn, and the energy of the Sea of Quanta being plentiful and almost inexhaustible, I tried to let loose a little…"
Kukulkan scratched her head in a difficult manner, then retracted what Ryn called the Nebula Form. Her eyes were filled with thought as she drifted towards Ryn, looking lost.
"Nebula Form it is, then. It sounds pretty good.
Let me tell you a secret, Janna knows this trick too! But the Nebula Form she summons is that giant manta ray of her true body; she rarely descends in a humanoid form.
So… how am I supposed to teach this? Ryn is Ryn, not a Honkai Beast. You probably don't have a true form, do you?"
"Ababa…"
Ryn turned away awkwardly at Kukulkan's explanation.
He'd better not learn it. If he learned the Nebula Form in the future, who knew if it would summon an incarnation of his true self…
Or if it would summon Tianqi…
Or… the idiot, Stigmata Kiana…
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Kiana and Sirin were curled up together like a pair of yin-yang fish, a cycle of cause and effect, life ever-generating.
They seemed completely unaffected by Cortana's self-destruction or Kukulkan's "Stars, Fall From the Cosmos," sleeping peacefully.
Energies of various colors swirled around them, transforming and sublimating their bodies, giving them divine physiques even before they officially ascended to godhood.
Maheśvara and Cortana quietly stood guard by their side, watching them gently while vigilantly sensing the alarms they had set up, waiting for them to awaken.
*Voom—*
A black hole opened in front of Maheśvara, and Kukulkan and Ryn stepped out, appearing before everyone.
Seeing Kukulkan, Maheśvara finally let out a sigh of relief. Ever since Ryn had said that even he could die, she had been on pins and needles.
She wasn't afraid of dying herself; she had been born when Honkai first appeared on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. She had lived long enough.
But she was afraid that Kukulkan would die in front of her, just like Elysia had, and she would be powerless to do anything.
"Welcome back."
Maheśvara opened her arms, welcoming Kukulkan with a smile.
Ryn held back Kukulkan, who was excitedly about to run and hug Maheśvara, then turned his head and said to Maheśvara, "Just now, a girl named Vita tried to seduce Kukulkan and almost charmed her soul away. Your charm isn't working, Maheśvara!"
"Huh?!"
Kukulkan's mouth hung open in bewilderment. Her brain overloaded, nearly smoking, as she couldn't figure out why Ryn would say that. She hadn't even exchanged ten sentences with Vita!
Just as bewildered as Kukulkan was Maheśvara. Maheśvara thought about the Vita she had seen earlier.
Vita was indeed very beautiful and dressed seductively. If Elysia were here, she would have already gone up to hold her hand and befriend her.
Then, Maheśvara looked down at her own hands, and along her arms to her clothes.
A simple white cloth garment that covered her entire body, leaving only her face exposed, as plain as could be…
Compared to Vita, she was indeed not very attractive…
Maheśvara's eyes dimmed slightly, and she looked up at Kukulkan distractedly.
"Mhm… I'm indeed not very charming compared to humans… So, does Kukulkan like that type of girl?"
"No, no… it's not like that! Don't listen to Ryn's nonsense, I don't even know that Vita person!"
Kukulkan was afraid that Maheśvara would actually misunderstand, frantically waving her little hands.
But Maheśvara's eyes were already lifeless and empty, as if she had suffered a massive blow and her soul had already ascended.
"Ryn! Say something! It's not true, it's just a joke!" Kukulkan grabbed Ryn's shoulders in desperation, shaking him frantically.
Ryn raised his hand and gave Kukulkan a thumbs-up, with a look that said, "This is all I can do to help you, bro."
That's completely unhelpful!! Kukulkan was so angry she could have ground her molars to dust.