Sigh... sighing while lying on the bed, another day waking up, the girl whose power has become stronger and whose temperament has become more beautiful is—yes, it's me, the Sword Saint who has recently somehow gained various new nicknames like "Savior," "Hero," and "Goddess of Dawn"—Tsukasa Astrea. To be honest, she had initially expected that titles might bring some kind of bonus, but this world really doesn't have that kind of system.
Tsukasa sat up from the bed, her thin nightgown outlining proud curves. She touched her face and casually summoned a few shadows to help her wash and change. Her mana had become a bit stronger yet again. Now she was so extravagant that she could waste mana on such things. She didn't know if her current mana had reached the level of a Demon King. She didn't understand it herself, because in these few months, her mana had turned from a small river into an ocean. She could no longer estimate the corresponding numbers, only knowing that no matter how she consumed it, it never seemed to run out.
"Could the witch factor really be able to create a god, or did I guess wrong? This isn't the witch factor of that one world; it's actually an Evil God factor, and I'm on the way to becoming a god. After all, if this continues, it wouldn't be strange to wake up one day with infinite mana."
From initial shock to numbness, she hadn't experienced many great storms because it had been a storm from the very beginning. To use an inappropriate metaphor, one day you wake up and find your height starting to grow; the first day you grow one centimeter, the second day two centimeters, and then you grow more each day. In a very short time, you have already become a giant. Your emotions can't keep up with the changes in your body. At that time, what other feeling is there besides numbness? By the time you come to your senses, you are already a giant capable of holding a planet in your hand. Would you still be surprised?
Although it was an inappropriate metaphor and an exaggerated description, her current experience was similar. Her attributes were rising too fast, giving her no room to think at all.
Moreover, these mysteriously rising attributes didn't cause any negative effects on her, nor did she feel unadapted like a superhuman who had just awakened their powers. She could adjust perfectly, and it didn't cause any inconvenience to her daily life.
"And I haven't been dreaming much lately. Strange, does awakening not necessarily mean turning into that appearance? The timing of the dreams is roughly related to when the Goddess Cult makes sacrifices. Could there be some connection between the two?" Tsukasa thought of a certain possibility, but there was no evidence to prove it, so she didn't think about it for the time being. After all, there was currently nothing to prove that the witch factor awakening would not cause bad effects on her.
So her next course of action remained unchanged. The emergence of the Goddess Cult had indeed strengthened her power, and the effect was incredibly exaggerated. If there were no side effects, she would even want to be a salted fish and focus on developing believers and the Cult. But the problem was that this thing likely had serious after-effects, and the full name of the Goddess Cult was the "Goddess of Dusk Cult," whose doctrine was to welcome the true Day of Redemption—Death granted to all things. It was undoubtedly an evil Cult where psychopaths gathered!
If she wanted to develop believers, she wouldn't choose this kind of thing. Wasn't this just asking for trouble, as if she wanted to call on the whole world to fight her?
"Master, there is a reply from the Theocracy."
Alice walked in with a letter.
Tsukasa had just finished putting on her equipment. She hadn't been idle during these days she spent in the Royal Capital.
First, she used the authority of the Adventurers Guild to rent the best blacksmith shop in the Royal Capital, recruited the masters there as assistants, and crafted several Epic-tier pieces of equipment. Although they didn't reach the level of artifacts, she finally said goodbye to the poor era of wearing basic white-tier gear.
The equipment was divided into:
Outer garment, inner armor, pauldrons, bracers, pants, boots, necklace, ring, scabbard... Although it was called armor, it was actually woven from the spider silk of some kind of rare spider monster, and then various common attributes were added using Enchantment Magic.
Ordinary effects like auto-cleaning, never wearing out, destruction nullification, and a 50% increase in physical and magic resistance were negligible for the current Tsukasa. Originally, the enchantments she wanted were physical nullification, magic nullification, and status ailment nullification, but unfortunately, the first two could not coexist. Furthermore, the higher the enchantment power, the higher the material quality required; otherwise, the enchantment would fail.
Moreover, if an enchantment failed, even equipment with destruction nullification would shatter. She wasn't entirely clear on the principles behind this.
The outer garment was a white trench coat. Although the style was that of a normal trench coat, it looked quite cool. The effects were as mentioned above, and because of the inherent properties of the spider silk itself, it could fit snugly against the body with excellent flexibility and breathability, causing no inconvenience in movement.
The inner armor wasn't underwear; she was wearing her underwear properly. The inner armor was actually a piece of leather armor worn over the chest, made from sub-dragon species leather. Its effect was physical nullification, specifically designed to defend against assassins.
The pants were long trousers made of the same material as the outer garment and with the same enchantment effects. They looked like a pair of white leather pants, but the material was spider silk.
The pauldrons were just a lightweight style commonly used by knights, bought casually from a shop. The enchantments were Swordsmanship Level +10 and a doubling of neural reaction speed.
The bracers and pauldrons were a matching set.
The boots provided +3000 Agility and were imbued with Wind Blessing magic. Once activated, the equipment's effects would increase threefold for ten minutes. Since the equipment quality was too low, even Tsukasa could only enhance them to this extent.
The necklace's additional magic was a one-time invincibility, triggered passively. Although Tsukasa could use this move herself, she might not react in time during a sneak attack, which was why she forged this necklace. However, also due to material issues, the effect was one-use only.
Two rings: one for spatial teleportation and one for magic nullification. The scabbard's effect was high-tier self-healing.
While crafting these pieces of equipment...
Tsukasa also got in touch with the Slane Theocracy. Although there was a grudge between the Astrea Family and the Slane Theocracy, the Slane Theocracy didn't know yet that she was aware of it. Ainz Ooal Gown hadn't exposed any information about Nigun, so she came up with a clever plan: to demand information about the Goddess Cult from the Slane Theocracy.
The Slane Theocracy was bound to be displeased with this suddenly appearing Goddess Cult, especially since the Cult had previously spread rumors that the gods they worshipped were false gods. Although that was the truth, the Slane Theocracy would certainly never admit it. Later, they had also actively joined the ranks to exterminate the Goddess Cult. If one were to ask who among these people wanted the Goddess Cult destroyed the most, she felt that aside from herself, it was the Slane Theocracy.
Thus, using her connections with the Adventurers Guild, she got in touch with the executives of the Slane Theocracy.
She walked up to Alice, took the letter, went to the desk, tore open the envelope, and pulled out the reply inside. "I hope this contains what I'm looking for," she said.
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