But Silver Fantasy only shook her head.
Although she was doing everything she could to reach that supreme godhood, how could a god king spark possibly be so easy to forge? After all, she was not Lynn. A firstborn soul was innately compatible with every divine spark, and she even possessed part of an Outsider's primordial source. Attaining the Creator's godhood would be harder still.
But she had found another path.
Using technology from Ether, she had made the divine spark of all things her energy source. Through a series of technological applications, she had successfully tapped into the spark's most essential power by force, despite not having attained godhood herself.
And the terrifying effects unleashed by combining the laws of all things with mechanical technology were plain for all to see.
"I'll keep trying to attain godhood."
Silver Fantasy raised her head as she spoke.
"As long as the number of those Nightmares doesn't exceed what I can sustain, we can still fight this war."
But what about the more distant future?
Only six years had passed.
The number of those Nightmares had already reached such a terrifying scale, and the Nightmare King and his companions were also growing stronger with time.
What if another ten years passed?
Or a hundred?
No one could foresee that distant future.
But the dark clouds looming overhead had not dispersed in the slightest because of this victory.
Those Nightmares could lose countless times, while a single defeat for them would mean losing everything.
It could be said that,
as the war dragged on, many people had almost nothing left in their hearts but their hopes for Lynn. At least when they gazed toward that terrifying, dark future, they could still comfort themselves this way.
Everything would get better.
*Lynn would surely lead