In the real world, people watched Bedivere's passing and the Lion King's return to humanity with endless sighs and deep emotion.
A sense of relief—it's finally over—filled most people's hearts. Everyone was ready to enjoy the ease that came after the great battle.
Then, a shocking twist arrived.
That damned Honkai actually noticed the Lion King just as the Singularity was about to dissipate. Drawn to her powerful Chief God-level body, it immediately launched a void injection.
Thus, something went wrong with the Lion King, whose body had already contained an enormous amount of Honkai energy.
The Honkai suppressed within her was completely activated. Using the Lion King's body as nutrient fluid, the Honkai energy began multiplying madly like a virus soaking in culture medium, rapidly eroding the goddess's body.
However, though she had temporarily lost the power of the Holy Lance and was herself in a weakened state, the Lion King was still a Chief God-level deity. The moment she was invaded, she began resisting and successfully held back the erosion of the Honkai, preventing herself from immediately becoming a puppet controlled by it.
Even if a deity's power was not as terrifying as the Honkai, she was hardly some insignificant nobody who could be controlled so easily.
Then the Honkai pulled another underhanded move, directly copying Majin Buu's method and undergoing a round of mitosis.
When a black Lion King formed primarily from Honkai energy, having seized most of the Lion King's power, appeared, people no longer knew what to say. All they could do was curse the Honkai for being so despicable.
The black Lion King looked identical to the Lion King, only colder. Her hair had turned pale gold, and her pupils were the same pale gold, utterly devoid of emotion—as though everything in the world