While Cheng Yu and Grete did everything in their power to hold Belial back, deep within the underlying Rule Network that formed the Chaos Sea...
Miss Puppet's consciousness drifted like a lone little boat on a storm-tossed sea.
Perhaps Miss Puppet had enjoyed far greater luck and ease than the beings who had ascended to Holy Spirit before her, but each hurdle in the last five of the nine tiers was as difficult as reaching the heavens, and that difficulty increased exponentially.
The key to becoming a Holy Spirit-becoming a rule-was the hardest part for Miss Puppet. When merging with rules at the Legendary stage, her racial traits had allowed her to analyze them through immense computing power. And since Miss Puppet had no soul to speak of, her ascension to Legendary had been a perfectly natural process.
Even when she later ascended to Epic, her ability to preserve data meant that she had merely spent an incredibly long time finding her own timeline within the Spacetime Dimension. Her racial traits also meant that the long journey through time would not drive her insane. In fact, Miss Puppet clearly remembered exactly how long her consciousness had wandered through the time dimension.
With the Legion's Trans-Meta-Universe-Class Computer, Miss Puppet had ultimately completed the transition from Legendary to Epic.
Of the five great hurdles that followed, Miss Puppet could be said to have passed the first two with remarkable "ease." But the third hurdle, ascending from Epic to Holy Spirit, was far less kind to her.
This truly required merging one's consciousness with rules. Although Miss Puppet still enjoyed a unique advantage-she did not need to merge her consciousness into an existing rule-constructing a rule of her own within them was an extraordinarily difficult task. One careless mistake could turn every part