Chapter 106 The True Reason For Non-Interference

[A bit of his life force, my foot!

This spirit is lacking more than half of his life force, any more and he would have been in a critical state.]

Artemisia's words elicited reactions of shock and surprise from the three who heard her. She paid them no mind a she calmly began pouring divinity into the body of the spirit, giving his fur a golden sheen as particles of golden light danced around.

"Huh? Wait, didn't you say that you were not allowed to interfere in the world?!"

[Healing the wounds of a guardian spirit of my world that were caused by the denizen of another world, is well within my rights as a goddess.]

Artemisia answered Evan's question as she stopped her actions, patting the head of the unconscious spirit and transmitting her thoughts to him before giving him back to Evan.

Before Evan could even properly hold the spirit, she placed a hand on his chest and pulled out another spirit, one about 20cm in height and was wearing a black silk dress with black hair that curled at the ends.

[This one is suffering from something similar to demonic energy corruption, but is totally different.]

Turning to Pride, she asked.

[Did you attempt to remove the demonic energy in her body?]

"Of course, however, it refused to budge."

[That's because the demonic energy was imbued with a trait that the Ilmoths recently included into their bloodline.]

As she spoke, Artemisia placed her palm on Kayla's face, pulling it up a few seconds after, along with a string of black gooey liquid that came out of the young great spirit's mouth.

[Guh!...*cough*...*couGH!*]

Kayla let out a few coughs but remained unconscious, however, Artemisia paid this no mind and poured a bit of divinity into her body, healing her before giving the young spirit back to Evan.

[Treat her right.]

"...You say that like you're sending your sister or daughter off to get married."

[Well, the contract with you isn't much different and I've grown fond of the young spirit. I also take her guardian, Kuro, as some sort of little sibling.

I need to have a talk with the Spirit King soon, maybe before I return to my realm.]

Evan placed Kuro on his shadow and the sleeping cat melded into it instantly, as for Kayla, she miraculously opened her eyes, flew to the top of Evan's head and laid there before going unconscious once more.

? "Speaking of which, where on Aidos were you for the past few months?"

[Hmm...Me? I was in another #galaxy# in different part of the #universe#.]

"What?" "Huh?" "For real?"

Pride, Eliza and Evan reacted all at the same time upon hearing their answers. Evan then turned towards the two girls with a look of shock on his face as he asked.

"Did you perhaps not hear her?"

"All I heard was 'I was in another' and then the rest was garbled, it was like there was some sort of noise that prevented me from hearing her other words."

Evan's jaw dropped upon hearing Eliza's reply, he turned to Pride for confirmation but she nodded in affirmation while having an annoyed look on ger face.

"I understand Eliza not being able to hear it, but Pride too?!"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Be quiet for a moment, Eliza."

Evan shut Eliza up before turning to Artemisia who was chuckling at the duo's interaction.

"What are you laughing at?"

To Evan's question, Artemisia only shook her head and flicked her finger, sending a bolt of golden energy through a small portal she created in front of it.

'It's a pity I won't be able to see his reaction when it hits him. This is what he gets for showing me silly possible futures.'

[The 'Eternal of Time and Destruction' cries out in pain while glaring at you.]

Artemisia ignored the notification in front of her and spoke to the trio with a yawn.

[The reason that you can hear it is simple, your original world is technologically advanced enough to discover what laid beyond the sea of stars. Thus, prior to coming here, you already possessed knowledge on #galaxies# and the theory of the #universe# was already established in your world.

However, due to the restrictions on Aidos, the existence of another world was barely discovered a thousand years ago. Sadly, the technology that would let them explore other worlds without relying on something as unstable as dimensional rifts is not available anymore.

While the possibility of others existing is known to them, its simply impossible for them to leave and explore the other worlds beyond the sea of stars, hence, it is impossible for them to know of another #galaxy's# existence.]

Artemisia said so many things in one go and Eliza had a hard time understanding, especially as a few of her words were censored to her.

Pride on the other hand, could more or less guess what the censored words were, after all, she was a demon that spent nearly two centuries travelling to other worlds through dimensional rifts and conquering them.

She was aware of the existence of other worlds and while she didn't know all about what laid beyond the sea of stars she saw 'that day', she knew fully well that everything was inside one 'gigantic bubble of energy'.

Evan rose an eyebrow upon hearing Artemisia's words. His mood turned sour as he voiced out a question.

"Restrictions... Was it the previous seven again?"

[No, this restriction applies to all worlds in this part of the #universe#. With, my authority, I can temporarily lift it to make it easier to explain why these restrictions are in place.]

Artemisia waved her hand and a translucent blue screen that had different coloured lines of code running through it appeared in front of her.

A smaller keyboard appeared below and ran her fingers across the keyboard. The next moment, a wave of golden light spread out across the room, the screen and keyboard disappearing along with it.

[That just reduced my time in this body by about an hour. So, I've only got one more hour left. Should be enough to handle everything I planned.]

She muttered to herself before looking up at the trio in front of her, her mind recalling a certain series of events that occurred dozens of millennia ago.

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The worlds that existed in the galaxy Aidos was in were all once technologically advanced, far more technologically advanced than even Evan's original world.

After all, these worlds had discovered the existence of magic and other 'supernatural' energies and had used these energies to further their world's advancement.

Magi technology was something that was prevalent and the things achieved with said magi technology

In a certain world, an Emperor of a country set out on a path of conquest, aiming to dominate every country on his planet.

He was fortunate enough to discover a dimensional rift that led to a treasure filled world, one he occasionally explored and used its vast resources to improve his existence level, empowering his armies alongside.

He gained enough strength to dominate all other kingdoms and empires on his planet and succeeded in doing this barely three years after he set out on his path of conquest.

After this, he consolidated his rule on his home world, before venturing out to other worlds. He spent a few decades researching on methods to achieve interstellar travel and succeeded nearly fifty years after, setting out with his empowered armies to another planet to dominate its denizens, just like the demons that invaded Aidos intended to do.

That in itself was not an issue, there was no restriction that prevented him from going over to other worlds so he was free to do what he wanted.

Along with his armies, he explored through space, sometimes being unlucky enough to enter planets that were uninhabitable for him and his armies, and nearly dying a few times due to the resistances of the world's original inhabitants.

However, all these experienced made him stronger and allowed him to eventually succeed in conquering all the planets in his star system.

Like before, he spent years consolidating his rule, taking advantage of his increased lifespan form his high existence level.

One day, he had a thought.

"All the worlds I conquered rotate around this one star, our sun. What about the other countless stars we see in the night sky? Do they all have worlds rotating around them?"

To confirm his thoughts, he set out once again, leaving behind the children he sired to watch his conquered territories as he moved to confirm his theory.

His first few attempts failed, but after spending decades in the darkness of space, he finally discovered another star system, one that was smaller than his original one and had three inhabitable planets in it.

Thus, the conquest began once more.

Discover, wage war, conquer, plunder, consolidate, empower, set forth.

That was the line of action he took every time he discovered some new planet or new star system.