Seraphs, Keisha

Ye Chen smiled faintly. "There is no need to treat it as some precious treasure. It is merely an old suit of armor."

"Old...?"

Holy Keisha was even a little stunned. If what Immortal Qin Emperor Ye Chen said was true, then the armor she was currently wearing had already been phased out even within the Immortal Qin Empire...

This claim was truly difficult for Keisha to accept. Judging by its quality, this armor possessed performance that did not lose out to the Sacred Treasury in the slightest, and even far exceeded what she had imagined.

At this moment, Keisha, clad in the complete Gabriel Armor, had a distinct feeling of her own.

If she wore this armor and fought another version of herself who possessed Holy Keisha's Sacred Treasury,

the victor would most likely be the current her, equipped with the armor!

No... Stay calm. Be a little more composed!

She was the Angel King! Even if she no longer was, she was still the sole representative of the entire Angel Civilization, here to negotiate with the Immortal Qin Empire Civilization!

She could not lose her composure. She could not let herself be looked down upon...

Holy Keisha silently repeated these thoughts to herself.

Yet in less than a second, all of them were crushed into nothing.

She watched helplessly as the Immortal Qin Emperor waved his hand, and dozens of identical Gabriel Armors appeared, silently displayed in space.

"These... are all?"

"They are all replicas." Ye Chen said indifferently, "The one you are wearing is also a replica. Only the one Angel Yan is wearing can be called the Archangel Gabriel Armor. The rest merely possess the same materials and structure."

"Mm..."

Keisha had barely opened her mouth when she suddenly felt a profound exhaustion welling up uncontrollably from deep within her mind, accompanied by a faint throbbing pain.

She instinctively frowned.

"You still cannot fully wield the Gabriel Armor with ease."

Ye Chen waved a hand. "Come here."

Suppressing the burden imposed by the Gabriel Armor, Keisha slowly flew toward Ye Chen.

Then she saw Ye Chen extend a finger and touch her body. Keisha could sense that there was no offense or lewd intent in this gesture, and it was difficult for her to show resistance or rejection toward an existence that had already surpassed her understanding.

At the same time, the instant Ye Chen's finger touched her, something seemed to change in an instant.

Keisha suddenly felt all her exhaustion and stabbing pain vanish, replaced by an unending supply of strength and vitality.

"Ah..."

Keisha's eyes widened. "What... happened to me?"

"Archangel Gabriel was originally equipment designed to be equipped in Seraph form. You are not currently a Seraph, so naturally you cannot bear the load of forcibly equipping and using the Gabriel Armor."

Keisha froze for a moment, then was overwhelmed by shock!

She did not even react immediately!

"In other words..."

"That is right." Ye Chen nodded. "You are now a Seraph, Holy Keisha."

Holy Keisha drew a deep breath and instinctively turned to look behind herself.

Three pairs of utterly pure and flawless Angel Wings were slowly beating.

This was an angel with six wings upon her back, pure and supreme.

A Seraph!

"How do you feel now?"

"Better than ever before."

Keisha forcefully suppressed the shock in her heart and barely maintained a calm, peaceful expression. "So this is what a Seraph is like..."

Her brain had been further developed, her energy efficiency raised to the utmost limit, and she could even, much like Sunlight Empress Di Leina, directly draw vast amounts of energy from stellar power.

Keisha, whose evolution had stagnated for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, had evolved once again.

And all of this had been done by the man before her.

This supreme Immortal Qin Emperor.

With nothing more than a single finger.

No!

She was the executor of the Justice Order, the supreme ruler of the Known Universe.

She... she was Holy Keisha!

Calm down, stay calm...

Keisha forcibly held herself together, then gave a slight bow. "Thank you, Your Excellency."

"However... I have a question."

"Ask freely."

Keisha clenched her teeth. "Above Seraphs... is there another level?"

"There is."

There was more?

Keisha felt as though her mind had short-circuited.

Above Seraphs, there was another level?

She could not even imagine what kind of realm that would be!

She could not even begin to imagine it!

No... She still could.

Just look at the Immortal Qin Emperor before her. With one finger, he could summon so many Gabriel Armors and elevate her into a Seraph.

With a single thought, he could even cross countless light-years and bring her here.

If... if there was another stage above Seraphs, could it be that stage?

Ye Chen smiled faintly. "However, you may also regard it as nonexistent."

A deep confusion appeared on Keisha's face. "I... do not understand."

"You can even regard the angel bodies your Angel Civilization currently possesses as the final stage. Ultimately, stages are merely definitions imposed by us."

"And the only necessity for reaching higher stages is technology."

"In fact, after the Seraphs that once existed in history reached higher stages, they could even reveal only one pair of Angel Wings. In appearance, they would be no different from you."

"You mean..."

Keisha gathered her thoughts. "Technology is the ladder and marker of civilizational advancement, while so-called Seraph Technology is one stage of a civilization's progress. If one fully masters higher technology, then appearance is merely an external form of expression for living beings?"

Ye Chen nodded approvingly. "Correct. In truth, Seraph Technology is merely the product of Psionic Ascension and Genetic Ascension reaching a certain height. It can also be called an intermediate product."

Keisha nodded. "For us as we are now, it truly is far too difficult to comprehend."

"However... you said Seraphs 'once' existed in this universe? Does that mean they have already perished?"

"Correct."

"Could it have been... because of the Zerg?" Holy Keisha almost instantly recalled the tragedies and horrors she had just witnessed.

"No. The Seraph Civilization was destroyed by the Immortal Qin Empire."

One sentence.

It stirred up towering waves!

Holy Keisha instinctively held her breath.

In the Known Universe, there had once existed a civilization similar to theirs, yet more advanced than the Angel Civilization.

That civilization also possessed angels, and it was a civilization ruled by angels.

Yet it had been... annihilated by the Immortal Qin Empire?!

In an instant, in that single instant, Holy Keisha felt a chill run down her spine as cold sweat beaded across her forehead!

Then...

What attitude would the Immortal Qin Empire have toward their Angel Civilization?