Chapter 9:Pandora
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[Litia:what should i do right now? Mio...]
Litia said sadly, looking at Mio's pale face in her lap.
In the late hours of the night, Litia remained by herself as she mourned the passing of her closest companion, gazing up at the sky lit by the partial lunar eclipse.
deep in her heart she really wanted to give up because she felt unable to bear everything alone plus after the death of her loyal assistant Mio, she desperately wanted to stop all this but she still couldn't do it for various reasons
She needs some alone time to work on self-reconciliation for the time being, rather than dwelling on her mistakes.
[Litia: For the time being, I will consider where to bury Mio's body and pay my final respects to her tomorrow morning. I still can not give up because if I do, it will undoubtedly have an impact on other people and possibly the entire world.]
Sha! Sha!
Litia said this while compacting her purple-black mana on her right palm
[Litia:Damn! I had assumed that this was something a mana user of the dark type should possess. Again, I regret not learning about this sooner. It turns out that I was taken completely by surprise and did not recognize how unusual my situation was, even for the demon race!]
Crack! Crackle!
slowly While continuing to compress her mana, Litia's right hand started to slowly crack like a glass. This caused her to become even more alarmed when the crack suddenly spread so quickly that it reached her right eye.
sha! sha!
[Litia:Urgh! This power was always meant to be a curse rather than a source of power.]
Sha!
Letting go of the mana compaction in her right hand, Litia sighed.
[Litia: Sigh...despite my best efforts, I will never be able to master it because this power, despite being extremely powerful, has too many detrimental effects on its user.]
[Litia: Too many side effects and setbacks before I found myself ensnared in this absurd circumstance]
Whoosh!
She continued to gripe about her lot in life when all of a sudden she turned to look up at the sky, where she had just witnessed the apparition of a tailing meteor shining through the night sky.
[Litia:Huh? What is that? is it magic bullet? Probably not, as that object shines brighter than a magic bullet.]
Whoosh!
The meteor passed over the sky and vanished, its light fading toward the west, but Litia, who remained enthralled, started to recall something that seemed like myth.
[Litia: Ah, I see. I have never seen it before, so that is why I am not familiar with it.]
[Litia: In Western mythology tales, the brilliant object that emerges in the sky solely at night is referred to as "Pandora," a mythical personification who fulfills every wish, no matter how absurd it may seem.]
[Litia:However, this is just a rumor that has not been verified by a well-known figure; it might even be a work of fiction, but...]
Litia was silent for a moment while hoping for something
[Litia: Pft! for the time being, all I can do is wish that this mythical creature of Pandora will punish Count Doem and restore Alstrea's glory, despite the fact that believing in such a tale is forbidden for adherents of the sun god religion because it is considered worshiping a different god.]
[Litia: What was I thinking? pft! Do I feel so desperate to punish Doem for having such a dream? How childish...]
Litia stated that as she began lying on the grass with Mio's body next to her, she briefly tried to see the sky before her vision blurred due to fatigue from the long struggle.
[Litia:Im so.....tired.....Mio.....]
Litia finally fell asleep that night, anticipating her fate the following day....
sha!
Meanwhile, not far away, a nearby light beam started to emerge in the forest with an incredibly bright blue ray before gradually fading into the night.
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[The Next Day]
[Litia:hmmm? such pressure on mana! who the hell!]
swish!
Litia was startled that morning when she felt a tremendous pressure next to her, causing her to jump away from her recent sleeping position out of reflex.
[Litia: Who is this peculiar-looking man?]
At that precise moment, Litia discovered the presence of a very tall and odd-looking man who was wearing a black suit and was tightly hugging a briefcase on his chest like a sleeping pillow.
The man was clearly still asleep and unaware of Litia's attention to him, but what awakened Litia was not the strange appearance of the man but rather a solid beam of mana power covering his face, making it difficult for Litia to see his face.
[Litia: How is this even possible? This person...how could he condense his mana power into one part of his body, and the mana power he possesses is so abnormal that....]
Litia paused her speech to focus on her right hand, which had cracked due to overuse of mana power.
[Litia: That is correct, it matches mine.]
sha! sha!
[Litia:The Ultimate Darkness!!]