Chapter 95 - Minor Ascension

The kappa was startled, it then found the stacked pyramid of cucumbers on its side.

The water yokai looked around only to find nobody, mostly the residents doing their own business from afar. The kappa then walked to the front of the small shrine and began to clap its hand two times before bowing, reciting its own prayer.

Meanwhile, MF stumbled upon a natural cave filled with a dense amount of mana. Although it was a little bit far away from the center so the divine energy from Anvriel hadn't reached as much to this yawning cave covered in grass and moss.

"Time to check the 'faith' energy I had accumulated!" MF placed her fist in the air.

The streamline of faith had grown significantly from the anonymous musical performance. Formerly, it was only 217 surging threads.

Now, there were 1,280 streamlines of faith from the people of Ouranos Citadel. The rest did give some amount of faith but it was so little that it didn't affect the amount by much. Averaged at 5 PPs.

From the Domeniul Ceresc itself, it had 312 streamlines. The land was vast, this rate was still amazing by any means.

"What a wonderful day it is!"

Before she wanted to unwrap the divine crystal on her right arm, MF noticed that something was changing within her soul.

It felt warm and energetic. Something was preventing it from bursting and it seemed like it wouldn't be any more beneficial to hold it for much longer. The Nerull's Bane was giving its essences to the center of this energy, turning it even hotter and darkish.

"... Is this what I think it is?"

With a fair share of reluctance, MF opened the lid of her soul as the dense energy began to erupt. Her soul began to change, it had become more sensitive, stronger in presence, and enigmatic. The released energy began to reconstruct the very core of her soul into something much higher.

Suddenly she felt light, extremely light, as if she was above all kinds of planes. Her senses were forced to perceive a bland vast space, there were numerous orbs laid before her.

But after a while, some began to disappear, as if they were saying a goodbye. Each of the orbs that stayed began to represent itself with a symbol, giving their greetings to the new Ouroboros.

There were five orbs, some were stronger than others, some were bigger, some were ominous.

The giant dark orb began to bow, representing itself with a reaper symbol. The message ingrained itself to MF soul.

It was the symbol of 'Death'.

The dark orb launched itself to her, fully incorporating itself to the very base existence of MF's soul, giving her the enlightenment needed.

'Minor Pseudo Deity of Death' portfolio acquired.

The second one was a fiery reddish grey orb, flickering with blue so zestful. Instead of bowing, it fluttered about around her, giving a vibrant giant symbol.

It was the symbol of 'Determination'.

With zest, the orb forced itself to MF's soul.

'Upper Minor Pseudo Deity of Determination' portfolio acquired.

The third one was a green orb, there was a smaller silhouette of growing light, as if something was born the very moment it was presented upon her. At first it backed a little bit before throwing the symbol at her.

It was the symbol of 'Life'

It splitted into four, one of them was given to MF as the rest flew away.

'Quasi Pseudo Deity of Life' portfolio acquired.

The fourth one was an orb of ever changing colors, radiating its existence as kind, yet dangerous. MF felt like this orb was rooting for her.

The radiant orb immediately turned to dark. Numerous small orbs appeared and launched themselves to this orb, it then turned into a swirling yin and yang. A thick symbol was created in front of it.

It was the symbol of 'Perpetual Creation'.

Turning into something akin to dust, all of them siphoned to MF's soul.

'Usurping Pseudo Deity of Perpetual Creation' portfolio acquired.

There was only one orb left.

It was the weirdest of them all. The moment began to act, the whole plane was stretched infinitely.

After that, it broke into fragments, only some of them ingrained itself to MF's soul.

'Infinity Essence' acquired.

The whole plane then turned into normal, vast, and bland. There were numerous orbs available out of reach, waiting to be grasped.

Slowly, MF felt like her soul began to leave, fragments by fragments from this weird plane. Out of every orbs there was, only three were near enough for her to try to grasp.

One of them emitted the same substance akin to the 'void'. Curious, she decided to use every inch of her willpower to lengthen her consciousness strings to make contact with it.

When it was almost within the touch of her soul tentacles, a huge source of pressure immediately appeared. MF shifted her perception to the ceiling—if there were any to begin with, to found a massive, harrowing, and grand entity.

It was gazing at her soul, as if it was a mere ant. MF couldn't move nor even act, the pressure was so immense that the Ouroboros herself almost lost her consciousness with every passing moment within that plane.

In the end, the horrifying entity smiled sinisterly.

MF was back to her original body, together with enthusiasm and fear.

"... What in the world is that thing?'

Her whole body got limp. Her body couldn't hold herself together, as she let herself sit on the cold ground with shivers.

MF needed to talk this out with the universe serpent when she met with him again. Presumably, on her birthday.

"It seems like I'm just a goldfish in a small pond after all." She tightly clenched on the hard ground, making a crack as her smile widened. "On the bright side, I've officially become a deity… Kuuuuuuuu!!"

She held her right hand high in the air. Her eyes sparkled, with a stupid grin so contagious that her inkish aura began to revolt.

"I DID IT!!!"