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Chapter 372: Changing Alliances
🕑 Added 2025-08-17 11:42:48 +0000 UTCElandra As she continued to fight against Primordius with the help of the demon and the undead shade, Elandra thought back to the time befor
Elandra
As she continued to fight against Primordius with the help of the demon and the undead shade, Elandra thought back to the time before she’d caused her own death to escape from that same demon, back to the last time she’d been truly happy.
Sure, there had been near constant war between monsters, messengers, and the newly arrived humans all throughout the Prime Material. Sure, the undead, the demons, and the eldritch terrors had been much more of a threat than during the last 45 trillion years. And, sure, her mother had pretty much disowned her after she’d married her husband, unhappy that she’d never be able to get a grandchild. But Elandra’d had a loving man in her life. She’d had her mother and the Radiant Behemoth as forces of primal power she believed would guide the monster races through the storm. And she’d yet to lose anything truly important to her.
Now, however, through infighting, her own machinations, and the workings of a man who she now believed might have become her mother’s apprentice, most of the enemies who’d caused her suffering were dead.
She’d manipulated the death of Quandra and the two most important and powerful messenger gods, along with all the eldritch terrors. The two main undead responsible for killing the Radiant Behemoth had died at the hands of Primordius long ago. And the Heavenly Spark Soul King and his wife had seen to the deaths of all the cultivator gods of the Prime Material, the traitor god of the monster races, and possibly all the demon and undead gods as well, in addition to three of the undead elder gods.
All that were left of her enemies were her two primary targets, Arthur, the king of demons who’d killed and then eaten her husband, and Primordius, the most powerful of the cultivator gods and the man who’d made her second life a living hell.
The demon she knew was scheming again, his breakthroughs during the fight granting him the power to break her slave seal at any time judging by the emotions he was feeling as seen using one of her uniquenesses when combined with her emotional Laws, and, predictably, he was going to continue acting like he was weaker than he was to try and stab her in the back instead of actually being more helpful against Primordius. Meanwhile, Primordius, despite being worse off than possibly any other time after he’d become an elder god, was still able to fight off three of the most powerful elder gods to ever exist by himself.
The new revelation that her mother was able to sacrifice her life twice, however—likely meaning her new racial abilities and classes after somehow being reborn as an apocalypse phoenix enabled her to be reborn numerous times—changed things.
The Heavenly Spark Soul King and the Mistress of Oaths and Deception were not her enemies. They just thought of her as one, likely due to side effects of the soul plagues she’d released to make the undead elder gods more likely to take action. And there was a lot more they could do if they worked together.
So, using a small fraction of her mental capacity and a tiny bit of her mana, she began to send out mana waves containing all the information she had about her soul plague out into the universe, using one of the more detail oriented small languages of the side universe where her main clone had been living for the last several trillion years.
It was widely known that Omniglot Reader was a very common racial ability among those from Earth, and it seemed to be a racial ability perfectly in line with the power set of the Mistress of Oaths and Deception, so Elandra was about 95% sure the woman had it. And, from her senses, she could feel someone Watching the fight using the divine role of the Watcher, while everyone she knew with that divine role was pretty much confirmed as dead. So, seeing as the woman had literally trillions of people she could call on for translation if she didn’t have the Omniglot Reader racial ability herself and was either the one Watching or in command of the one who was, Elandra was over 99% sure the information she sent out was received by the United Federation of Planets, and that information would almost certainly reduce their hostility toward her.
Then, for good measure, she also sent out information about what had happened to Quandra, Arthur’s new Law advancements, and Arthur’s emotions, along with their implications about her slave seal. And, to be thorough, she also included the emotions she’d been able to sense from Primordius and the Highest Shade throughout the fight as well, along with a breakdown of all the known abilities of the remaining combatants, herself included.
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Mila
“Aalam.”
“On it.”
While Mila concentrated on the bloodline curse she was still using against Primordius, Aalam shifted most of his focus to analyzing the information about the soul plague they’d just received from Elandra, the most urgent thing to verify if the information she’d sent out was truthful.
Then, about fourteen seconds later, Aalam spoke words Mila’d been waiting for for a long time. “If the information is accurate, I think I have a possible cure.
“I’ll message Diana and have her test it out on Nitya.”
Nitya, as one of the original leaders of the United Federation of Planets, was incredibly famous, and thus had accumulated a lot of faith energy, the prerequisite for being negatively effected by Elandra’s soul plague. And, unlike some of the others with equal levels of faith energy accumulation, she only had a strong soul, not a soul at the sublime soul level, so she was one of the best candidates for testing to see if the effects of the soul plague could be expunged.
Mila would normally be the best person to perform the test, what with her being the individual with the most control over faith energy in the United Federation of Planets, but she was busy, the only one who could maintain such a powerful bloodline curse against Primordius, an act that required almost her full attention. So, Diana, as the only other individual who’d reached Supreme grade in a shadow line uniqueness, was the next best candidate.
It frustrated Mila to no end, however, that, with her also being the only one who could Watch the battle still unfolding, she couldn’t spare the brainpower needed to enhance her bond with Diana to watch the process, or even fully absorb the technique Aalam had developed based on Elandra’s information.
All she knew was that it required isolating a special kind of faith energy produced by negative thoughts towards an object of faith and then eliminating it from the object of faith’s soul using the faith energy expunging power of a Supreme grade shadow line uniqueness.
So, the three hours she had to wait for Diana to go to Nitya, study Aalam’s new technique, practice, and then perform what was effectively soul surgery, was torture.
She had to give up control, leaving the communication and remote monitoring all up to Aalam.
“It works.” Mila could sense an extreme amount of happiness from her husband as he said the words, a happiness she then immediately started feeling herself. “It took Diana a few hours of work, but preliminary reports show Nitya’s emotions as being as close to her natural baseline as could be expected after over a million years of growth.
“Given the technique works, at least 95% of the information from Elandra concerning the soul plague can be verified, and Diana will be performing two other tests soon on some B ranks to verify another 4.96%.
“If those tests succeed, I think we can trust the entire information.”
Aalam was the science expert, so she trusted him more than herself about verifying such scientific data, but, already, after only the initial success, Mila was already sure all of the information Elandra had broadcasted specifically for her and Aalam to see was truthful, except for maybe the parts about her own abilities.
The possibility of the woman being Immortalia’s daughter was higher than before, though not by much given the sheer threat she and Aalam posed now and in the future, and thus the advantages of trying to ally with them. But it didn’t really matter for the fight.
No matter what, they weren’t going to risk fully trusting the woman, but they didn’t have to given that no one from the United Federation of Planets was personally fighting on the field.
With Elandra’s information, Mila could now confirm her previous theory that the Highest Shade was a self-controlled murderous lunatic. She could confirm that Primordius’s sensory skill, Stormlord’s Senses, was effectively just an enhanced version of Heightened Senses that included an extra sense for natural energy and about half the effects of Electromagnetic Senses. And, finally, she now knew the enforced alliance between Elandra and the Divine Child was over, the Divine Child just waiting to stab Elandra in the back.
And that last piece of information was incredibly important, as their previous plan involved the Divine Child dying along with Elandra before Aalam used his years of preparation to finally kill Primordius.
