Yours Lovingly, Cainhurst. (Continued)

After noticing Maria's appearance, Gordan stopped hiding and slowly materialized into a physical form in a world invisible to normal humans.

Maria quickly gave chase.

With a slight thought, the two of them appeared simultaneously inside the Demon King's Castle in Kazdel.

Gordan still retains Maria's appearance, but unlike Maria's cold and serene beauty, Gordan has developed a completely new feeling in Maria's appearance.

Alluring, seductive, and sensual beauty...

"I thought you'd find out about me much later."

Gordan spoke in a relaxed tone.

But Maria showed no interest in talking to the other person.

The crimson in her pupils reached its peak, even staining the entire space a vibrant red.

Its ferocious power even caused Gordan to lose his composure for a moment.

In that instant, Maria's body closed in!

"Um?"

Gordan was stunned for a moment, but then an immense sense of crisis surged into her heart.

Human emotions somehow managed to cause a reverse contamination at this moment, so much so that Gordan didn't even have time to come to his senses.

By the time she reacted and tried to dodge, Maria's Blades had already fallen!

The world around them, which seemed to be made of lines, was directly affected and destroyed by the shockwave from Maria.

Meanwhile, in reality, these buildings seemed to have been attacked by some terrible force, and suddenly began to collapse!

"Tsk..."

Gordan suddenly retreated, revealing a slit wound on his arm... but it healed in an instant.

"You're more excited than I expected... fellow countrymen."

Gordan looked at the woman in front of him, a human-like wariness appearing on his face.

Maria is going a bit too far.

Ultimately, what is the fundamental reason for the existence of those in Great Ones?

It is composed of pure information carried by unobservable forces.

Therefore, every time they truly appear in reality, it is a dimensional reduction attack on life.

The essence of those in Great Ones lies in strength, knowledge, and wisdom!

In a sense, the existence of humankind, by learning and utilizing the rules of the world, is actively accepting this process of erosion.

Humanity embraced wisdom and power, which gave rise to mad rage and slaughter.

However, as time went by, generations of people used various methods to incorporate this erosion into their own lives and even restrain it.

And Maria's attack just now... it carried her own information!

If we were to use a game as an analogy, then all of Maria's attacks came at the cost of her own life points!

Extreme violence and disregard for life and death!

Even Gordan was somewhat surprised by Maria's appearance.

Even as Great Ones, Gordan felt that the other side was being a bit too reckless.

"This is somewhat unreasonable."

Gordan spoke, his hand trembled slightly, conjuring a longsword identical to Maria's.

At that moment, Maria's figure instantly closed in, her body moving as she slashed with her Blades!

Just as Gordan was about to parry, he suddenly realized that Maria's blade seemed to pierce through his weapon and swept straight towards him!

"This?!"

Gordan stared wide-eyed as Maria struck him once again.

Her body began to break apart rapidly, and strange specks of light flowed from the wounds, quickly entering Maria's body, but then she quickly disappeared.

Maria abandoned the strategy of maximizing profits and forcibly absorbed this power!

"Your abilities..."

As Gordan recalled the moment the Blades pierced his defenses, his expression grew increasingly serious.

But Maria did not hesitate; she immediately gave chase!

The relentless attacks surged like a tidal wave, relentlessly pushing him to the brink of defeat!

This was something that Gordan couldn't understand.

Maria should know that at this moment, she is merely an incarnation of a part of her true self, right?

Even if Maria were to fight her current self to the death, wouldn't she gain more advantages in the end?

What was Maria fighting for?

After thinking for a moment, Gordan shook his head slightly.

Taking advantage of a gap in Maria's combo, he spoke softly.

"My impression of you may have to change again... I thought that although you were imitating, you should know who you really were, but... now you are completely different from what I knew."

In Gordan's eyes, Maria was like a person in a dog costume... At first, she thought Maria was just playing some kind of game... Even though the other was in her territory, Gordan was still willing to share with her.

But later, when Maria attacked her, she only thought Maria was playing some kind of overly individualistic game and was just imitating her. In essence, she still knew who she was.

But at this moment, she finally realized that Maria seemed to be completely different from herself.

She was truly one with these creatures...

"You're really crazy."

Over the long years, Gordan had encountered many crazy people like himself, but he had never seen anyone as crazy as Maria.

Even those compatriots who don't see themselves as Great Ones know they are not human.

But Maria was not like that.

"..."

Maria remained silent in the face of Gordan's words.

Her eyes were bloodshot, with an unsettling quality.

Gordan, on the other hand, pondered for a while, putting himself in the other's shoes for quite some time before finally coming to his senses.

"So, what's driving you to act this way now is your descendants?"

Gordan could only conclude that it was that child who fueled Maria's frenzied killing.

"I will also cherish my descendants... that wolf, that strange bloodsucking thing... Speaking of which, the bloodsucking one, it seems you had a conflict with it for a while."

Gordan spoke, his tone calm as he attempted to engage Maria in a confrontation.

Of course, she had long realized that Maria was impossible to persuade. She spoke only to buy time to figure out how Maria's attack, which transcended time and space, had just occurred.

Even those in Great Ones are not omniscient or omnipotent.

There are always things in this world that even they cannot understand.

"... If you are angry because I want to take over your descendant's body, I can assure you that I will not affect his future... I will ensure that his destiny stays on its own track."

Gordan narrowly dodged Maria's side slash, but unexpectedly, the slash was interrupted midway through its swing.

Then... the sword thrust out!

"..."

Another hit.

The violent power and information collided with the power she possessed at that moment, like hot oil and ice, the two rapidly dissolving each other.

"This world... has no destiny!"

Maria finally spoke, uttering her first words to Gordan.

The fierce look in his eyes stirred up another emotion within Gordan.

It's like a hole suddenly appearing on a dining table, and the tablecloth drags all the various things that were on it into it.

That is... an emotion called fear!

Damn it!

This fellow countryman has truly gone mad!

Gordan took a few steps back, considering retreating.

But even faster, Gordan discovered that Maria was now acting like she was going berserk, relentlessly closing in on them.

She really is willing to risk her life to kill herself here?!

This made Gordan somewhat flustered.

Although she kept talking about her true form and incarnation, it was clear that she couldn't be that open about it.

Or, to put it another way, when Gordan's true form differentiated into the human 'Gordan', she also acquired human emotions.

She wanted to live, she wanted to continue... Although she kept talking about her original self, she actually possessed her own consciousness.

She refused to die!

Thinking of this, she quickened her pace.

"I've studied the theories of this world, and I know that for humans, offspring are an extremely important concept."

Gordan spoke, he stared again at the rapidly approaching Blades.

A crimson aura surged within her; if this attack landed, she would certainly be in serious trouble.

Thinking of this, she gritted her teeth, suddenly raised her long sword, and with a surge of air, blew away the surrounding buildings made of lines. Her pupils suddenly contracted!

"Clang--!"

It's blocked?!

Gordan's eyes lit up with joy, but he was even faster, delivering a side kick that sent her flying backward!

The blasted-away Gordan floated for quite a distance in this strange world, like a cloud.

Even the slightest change she makes along the way could cause a turmoil that could cause the fragile structure of reality to collapse!

At the same time, her body was rapidly disintegrating.

In the distance, Maria continued to approach.

But she is no longer as crazy and sharp as she was at the beginning.

That fighting style, which seemed to be burning her own life force, consumed more than just her spirit and strength.

It's also something about her very essence.

She began to feel tired and weak.

Why did you do this?

Gordan stood up, his voice filled with deep doubt.

Maria, however, only took one step closer.

"Someone once told me... that only by truly experiencing that environment can one truly understand the changes it brings."

Her voice was soft, and the necklace hanging at her waist swayed slightly, as if it were a response from afar.

"I was a mother once... but I didn't know anything about it that time."

"But this time, it's different, Gordan."

Maria took a deep breath, and as her eyes opened and closed, flames burst forth wildly.

She has always said that she doesn't dwell on the past or care about what has already happened.

But in reality, she was just deceiving herself with those words.

Her life form allows her to remember everything that happens around her, the anger and regret that never disappear!