Chapter 69: First, I Have to Find Myself.
(Ria’s POV)
Ria: “…”
Really? This is what I end up having to deal with? The worst part isn’t the dimension that I must explore, but the fact that this is a direct cause due to my lazy/cheeky actions.
Honestly, I would like to blame Celia for me being like this, but this was almost always my default. Rather, Celia and Amelie have made be less cheeky. I do actually care about people now.
It seems that the universe is out to get me. Besides trying to erase me, nothing has really gone my way out all lately. Of course, Celia accepted me, and I still loved by her and our family. Which is very good.
But none of my plans worked out. It’s like the universe, the Will of Existence, whatever. Is constantly stopping me and my plans. Just like it wants its plans to be carried out no matter what.
Ria: “…”
Enough about that, though. I will talk to Celia about this, as it pertains to her specifically. For now, I must work on finding myself in this world. If Celia was here, how would she describe it?
Slash!
Perhaps she would call it hell, or something similar to it? Unlike the others, Nia, Lia, and Ria, all kept their memories. My plan for them was to let them suffer very long periods, without Celia ever saving them anytime soon.
And that, well… I don’t know if that worked at all. Looking into the future, I see Celia, and everyone else, still very much alive. Her wives are there, so that might mean that they never gave up on her.
Since this whole game started, it’s been countless years. I didn’t bother to keep track, but it must have been over 20 or so years. To think that they would still love Celia after so long… I thought so less of them, it seems.
Cut!
Ria, or rather, this timelines Ria, is still pretty strong. Currently, she should be a Supreme Goddess. Unlike the others, I let them keep their full bodies. I just threw them into those dimensions, without much in the way of an explanation at all.
Growl!
Even with her strength and power, I wonder if she can even survive? Please don’t tell me that she is dead already, and that it was the Will’s doing…
God: “Oh, she is alive, but barely. If you spent even just a day more wasting time, she would have died.” She said, popping up out of nowhere.
Ria: “And where is she right now?” I ask, slashing down another monster.
God: “I have no idea. I have oddly no sight in this dimension, the Will of… Let’s just call it the Will from now on, okay? Anyway, I have been blocked. I can only tell that Ria is alive.” She explained.
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Ria: “Won’t she still die, then?” I reply with a raised eyebrow.
God: “With you killing so many of these monsters, it should give her more than enough time to recover.” She denied.
Ria: “…”
God: “My search for Sava continues, so I cannot linger here any longer. Good luck, Ria.” She said, bidding me goodbye, before vanishing just as fast as she appeared.
Immortals are very hard to kill, let alone actually permanently ending the existence of theirs. And that is where these creatures come in. Before leaving, God said that she never created such creatures, and she has no control over them whatsoever.
These monsters are of the same species that almost killed Amelie long ago. Besides the body, I never found another hint of them anywhere. Clearly, I was blocked, as there were millions of them here in this dimension…
Slash!
All I did was examine the body, and do a universe wide search for others like it using my magic. I got no results at all, and I thought that it was just an outlier of a monster. That was obviously a lie, possibly told by the Will…
Many, Many Hours Later.
At the end, I used up tons of my power, not caring about the planet at all. The land was greatly damaged, but that wasn’t a current concern of mine. By this point, I had killed practically an entire planet of those monsters.
Frustratingly, inspecting them yielded no information whatsoever. If I was to make a guess, these must be the Will’s enforcers. When they need something to happen by force, these monsters are deployed.
I killed so many of them, enough to where it should be safe now. But I doubt that Ria will just come out of hiding. In her mind, considering that she is me, Ria probably feels very unsafe right now.
For years, she had to deal with killing these monsters and trying hard to survive. All of a sudden, some powerful being shows up, and kills them all? Knowing me, I would hide. Which brings me the problem of actually finding her. I actually have two problems at the moment…
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:Status:
Name: Riatzia.
Sex: Female.
Race: Highest Goddess.
Domain: Loving my Wives.
Age: 8,563,987.
HP: 1,027,050,000/15,965,990,000.
MP: 204,002,000/6,984,898,000.
AGI: 82,783.
STR: 360,923.
DEX: 183,834.
INT: 95,926.
Hunger: 62,710/180,234.
True Level: 80,895.
Race Level: 59,751/??????.
Current EXP: 4,827,839/9,539,742.
Titles: Time Crosser. Changer of Fate.
Self Improvement Points: 942,791.
Upgrades/Skills Available: 0.
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It was no wonder how Amelie was able to evolve after killing just one of those monsters… I got 5000 levels up from killing them, and it’s not like it is easy for me to level up these days.
I would love to admire the progress of my Status, but I have a truly major problem at hand. My MP doesn’t regenerate, and now that I’ve used so much power, I have so very little health…
My healing magic doesn’t work, not like God’s healing magic was the same. I couldn’t just rely on her to save me, either. That method she used, God had to sacrifice part of her soul to heal me.
Of course, those parts will heal back. But the point is that method isn’t something that we can just do over and over again. In fact, before leaving Heaven, God informed me as such. God had already used up too much of her soul to save me, and it will take a year or two for it to regenerate fully.
Thud!
Spit!
Blood filled my mouth, more than I could spit up in one go, or even at the right pace. Choking like this isn’t fun, not in the least. I spat out so much blood, that it was like I had sacrificed an entire adult human, and spread their blood on the ground under me…
Ria: “…”
My vision was blurry, I couldn’t recall a time where I was ever this injured. To this indisposed, to the point where I struggled to even remain aware and awake. I fucked up, massively. But, being brought to death’s door like this was a far better outcome.
If I didn’t do this, the Ria of this timeline would have been killed. How she managed to survive this entire time was beyond me. I didn’t even freeze the time in the dimensions that I sent Celia’s wives to…
The Ria of now dying, would mean that I would have no chance of surviving the Will trying to erase me. At least now, I can hopefully still live through this and find Celia. As my vision got worse, I spat up more blood, teetering on passing out. Before I did, I caught a glimpse of someone catching me…