Refusing to believe it, Radeus sent another slash at a different tree in the courtyard, once again erasing its [existence]. The result was the same as before: the tree vanished again.
"Holy shit, am I blessed by the RNG gods?"
He had used Conceptual Slash twice in a row. Either its activation chance was inherently high, or Radeus was incredibly lucky.
Meanwhile, Ghislaine watched Radeus in complete confusion. All she had seen was him wave his hand twice, after which those two trees had inexplicably disappeared.
"But this Conceptual Slash really does only work to a certain extent. If it completely erased existence, all memories of these two trees and the big holes left from planting them would disappear too."
"After all, erasing something's existence means it never existed in the world in the first place, so naturally, there wouldn't be any traces of its existence either."
"Still, this is pretty good. Domain Expansion alone is already underhanded enough. If this could completely sever concepts too, that would be downright broken!"
Radeus was extremely satisfied with this modification to Malevolent Shrine, so much so that he had already begun looking forward to seeing what Limitless would be like.
A year had passed since Radeus awakened Malevolent Shrine, and both he and Rudeus had turned nine.
"Can I really not go back?"
Rudeus looked at Radeus like an abandoned puppy.
"Nope. Dad said that if he saw you come back, he'd break your legs and send you right back here!"
Radeus shook his head helplessly.
Not long ago, Radeus had received a letter from Paul, asking him to come home for a visit.
The monsters around the village had recently become increasingly ferocious, and their numbers had even multiplied several times over. Paul was starting to struggle to keep up, so