Aftermath (Please Recommend, Monthly Tickets, and Follow-Reads)

After confirming that the lightning element in Huang Village had dropped to levels that would no longer affect people's lives, Wang Lei prepared to make a run for it with Raiden Ei.

The thunderclouds in the sky had mostly dispersed. Such a huge commotion must have been detected by both the angels and Super God Academy. Without the thunderclouds blocking them, they would likely arrive very soon.

However, just as Wang Lei was preparing to leave, he noticed two more spoils of war on the ground: a severed finger and a battered greatsword that had been struck by lightning.

The finger naturally came from the Demon Claw. It had probably been cut off by Musou no Hitotachi. Morgana had fled in too much of a hurry and likely had not even noticed that a piece of her precious Demon Claw was missing.

As for the greatsword, it had naturally been left behind by A Tuo. However, it was merely a greatsword mixed with a small amount of Dark Iron Silver. It was not the Commanding Sword he later used to become a god. Its value was not particularly high, but it was more than enough as Wang Lei's first trophy from a battle against an advanced civilization.

So, when Wang Lei opened a rift and left, he naturally swept up both trophies. He could not let Super God Academy profit for nothing.

Meanwhile, while Wang Lei and Raiden Ei were dealing with the aftermath in Huang Village, Morgana took A Tuo and teleported all the way out of Hua Xia before finally stopping to catch her breath.

The moment they stopped, A Tuo apologized to Morgana dejectedly.

"Queen, I'm sorry. I held you back."

Hearing her most loyal subordinate say that, Morgana did not lose her temper. She merely waved a hand.

"It's fine. Against an enemy like that, you really couldn't have helped in your current state. But where the hell did that god called Raiden Ei come from? Damn it, she's a Fourth Generation God. I've never heard of anyone like her in the universe. That slash... heh, even if that bitch Keisha showed up, she'd probably have to avoid its edge."

At that moment, Carl of Styx happened to notice that communications with Morgana seemed to be available again, so he directly requested a call.

Morgana had finally found someone to vent on. The instant the call connected, she began cursing.

"Carl, you scheming bastard! You even set up your Queen, huh?! You trying to get me killed?! Just you wait! If I don't tear down your Death Song Academy, I'll write Morgana backward from now on!!"

Carl was left utterly dumbfounded by Morgana's barrage. What was this about? After thinking it over, he wondered whether Morgana had somehow landed straight in the middle of a group of angels when she descended on Earth. That would explain her fury. But he had calculated it before—there should not have been any angels at that landing site.

Back when Carl still had a physical body, he had admired Morgana, who had still been Liangbing at the time. So even after being cursed at like this, he still answered patiently.

"Liangbing..."

"Call me Queen Morgana!!!"

"Very well, Queen Morgana. Please believe me, I have no intention of harming you. Is there perhaps some misunderstanding? According to my calculations, there should have been no angels at your landing site. There was merely a sudden thunderstorm on Earth just now, which interrupted our communication for a while."

Morgana actually believed that Carl would not deliberately harm her. She knew perfectly well that Carl liked her, even if he was not good at expressing it.

But after he turned himself into that so-called Phantom Body, there was no possibility between them anymore. To begin with, she had little interest in men. Now, Carl could not even be considered human anymore. What the hell was there to talk about?

Yet when Carl mentioned the thunderstorm, Morgana instinctively thought of the slash that had nearly struck her. The sensation of heaven and earth itself turning against her still left her shaken. If that slash had truly landed, even her Fourth Generation God Body might actually have died.

Morgana immediately exploded.

"Carl, you idiot! You've got the nerve to mention the thunderstorm? That was the domain of a Fourth Generation God specializing in lightning! Queen Morgana nearly got cut to death by that Fourth Generation God called Raiden Ei! Do you understand?! That woman can pull a sword out of her chest! She's terrifying! Even my Demon Claw got damaged!"

As she spoke, Morgana took out the Demon Claw that had blocked Musou no Hitotachi, intending to show Carl the fracture on it.

But the moment she took out the Demon Claw, she discovered that the joint behind its index finger, along with the index finger itself, was gone. She immediately let out a wail.

"Ah! My Demon Claw!! It took me so many years to forge this weapon!! Carl, you bastard! Compensate me for my Demon Claw!!"

Hearing Morgana's wail, Carl also saw the Demon Claw's condition through the projection. Though somewhat surprised, he analyzed it in a calm tone.

"There are signs of melting along the cut. The incision is uneven. It should have been gradually severed by a high-energy attack. However, Queen Morgana, your Demon Claw is forged from pure Dark Iron Silver and dark iron. Even if the previous Sun God were resurrected, he could not cut such a gap with his abilities unless he could compress the energy of a large solar flare into an area the size of a blade. But even with the Big Clock, that level of energy control would be difficult to achieve."

Morgana became even angrier upon hearing that. Was he suggesting she had damaged her own weapon just to scam materials from him? She continued roaring.

"You think I need you to tell me that? Carl, you moron, I'm telling you, that Fourth Generation God named Raiden Ei did exactly that! Lightning is like a toy in her palm. Stop comparing her to a god like the Sun God, who only knows how to destroy things. Maybe the Sun God can destroy a planet faster than she can, but in a one-on-one fight, his only option would be to turn himself into a bomb and try to take her down with him!"

Carl fell silent. He had just run another calculation with the Big Clock, only to find that Earth's condition was almost completely unchanged from his previous calculations. There was absolutely no information on the god called Raiden Ei.

Just as Carl fell silent, Morgana dropped another bombshell.

"Oh, right. That god also has a subordinate who's roughly a Third Generation Super Soldier. He's skilled at manipulating quantum particles and can even use them to perform operations similar to a Void Engine. He can directly turn living people into quantum particles, send them elsewhere, and then turn them back into physical beings. Do you know anything about this technology?"

Carl was once again full of question marks. Quantum particles? Since when could quantum manipulation affect reality? And turning living people into quantum particles... Why did that sound a little like the technology he had used when creating the Phantom Body? Suddenly, Carl thought of a possibility. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he replied to Morgana in a pleased tone.

"No, Queen Morgana. There is no known technology in the universe that can directly quantumize a person and then restore them. We may have encountered an unknown civilization. Perhaps it is the legacy of some ancient civilization left behind on Earth."

"An ancient civilization... You mean the Pangu Civilization? But that doesn't seem right. Weren't the Pangu Civilization giants over ten meters tall, according to the legends? I'm certain those two are God River Bodies."

"Then I do not know. The universe has existed for 13.8 billion years. On the scale of the universe, we are merely a fleeting bloom. Perhaps the embers of an even more ancient civilization were left on Earth."

Upon hearing this, Queen Morgana could only nod. She then told Carl to quickly send over Demon One and the materials needed to repair the Demon Claw. Without Demon One, she could not exert her full combat power at all.

And until she figured out exactly what kind of being Raiden Ei was, she could not act recklessly in Hua Xia for the time being. She needed to go elsewhere to revive the demons.