"..."
Fu Hua stared speechlessly at Ariel before her. This was exactly like Shiraori during her chuunibyou phase! Clever as Fu Hua was, she immediately guessed what had happened to her.
Given Ariel's soul and mental condition, there was no way she could continue raising her Divine Domain Expansion skill, especially when her soul itself was already shattered beyond repair.
There was only one way for Ariel to become a god: like Shiraori, she had to fuse with a god's soul. Only by strengthening her soul could she take another step forward.
There were not many gods left in this world. The most obvious one was the Dragon God, followed by Miss "D," the creator of the system.
If Ariel were going to fuse with the Dragon God's soul, she clearly would not have waited until now. The Dragon God had a close relationship with the angel god Sariel—he liked the angel god—and he also cared deeply for Ariel, the divine beast spider by Sariel's side.
If there had been an opportunity, Ariel's soul strength would have risen long ago instead of remaining at lv3 until recently. And "D" clearly would not give Ariel her own god soul. If she had intended to, she would have done so long ago, not waited until now.
That left only one possibility: Ariel had done as she mentioned before and fused with Shiraori's Parallel Consciousnesses.
Shiraori's soul had fused with fragments of "D"'s soul. With the soul of a god, Shiraori had no bottlenecks whatsoever when it came to becoming a god.
Those Parallel Consciousnesses were also portions of Shiraori's soul. After fusing with them, Ariel's soul strength would naturally increase considerably.
Ariel's current chuunibyou behavior clearly proved that she had already fused with Shiraori's Parallel Consciousnesses. The only question was how many