Three years...

Charlotte paused slightly.

It unexpectedly took so long to devour Haral's power, something she hadn't anticipated beforehand.

No, to be precise, she devoured not only Haral's power but also the myriad divine laws and divine power of the entire Holy Royal Court, as well as the accumulated energy from nearly a thousand years of faith in the Mireya Continent's foremost church.

This was an energy immeasurably greater than the divine power she possessed herself.

Even with the assistance of the Blood Holy Scripture, Charlotte found the devouring immensely challenging.

But she ultimately succeeded.

Charlotte couldn't easily describe her current state; such a fierce devouring had practically forced her divine power to ascend to another rank, with her Divine Position further transformed under the influence of multiple laws.

She was still a True God, but not in the conventional sense.

Her divine power had undergone a qualitative change amidst the quantitative increase, becoming denser and more mystical than ordinary divine power.

It was as if she had become the origin of all things; if she wished, she could even transform her divine power into various forces, including all kinds of divine power.

Clearly, her divine power could no longer be simply termed as Blood Divine Power.

Now, her divine power should be referred to as Original Divine Power!

Her Divine Position and Divine Soul also attained the same ascension and transformation, her Divine Fire burning continuously, akin to a sun emitting divine power, yet also like a black hole that could devour everything.

Her Divine Soul grew stronger, with a faint sense of transcendence.

She recalled some matters she had forgotten, remembering those deities who perished for her.

"Yabaton..."

Charlotte's expression was complex as she finally identified the source that had long warned her to "beware of Haral."

The memories she had experienced were "restored."

Moreover, the most critical aspect was her relationship with the Mireya World.

If the entire world had previously been rejecting her, now, following further transformation, the world's rejection of her had vanished; on the contrary, the world had already submitted at her feet.

It was an indescribable feeling, as though the whole world had become her possession, with no force in the world able to escape her control, all bound by her constraints and regulation.

All laws, all energies were revealed without concealment.

Should she face "Helios" at this moment, Charlotte wouldn't even need to make a move; with just a look, a thought, she could effortlessly strip away his Divine Position and Divine Fire, absorbing everything for herself.

After all, everything in this world inherently belonged to her!

At this moment, Charlotte realized—

Grand, domineering, omnipotent...

This is the power at the Creation Level!

The Creator God, Master of the World, Plane Venerable!

Yet Charlotte felt little joy in her successful ascent.

None other than the fact this power was simply too mighty.

Mighty enough that even as a True God, she couldn't fully grasp it right away, mighty enough to make her own heart quiver in shock.

If it weren't for the Blood Holy Scripture, if it weren't for the Scripture itself seemingly undergoing some transformation during this devouring, aiding her in stabilizing her divine power, she wouldn't have been able to collect the overflow of divine power well.

There was nothing she could do; her growth was simply too rapid.

To go from a mere mortal to a True God in less than ten years was already quite astonishing, and now to have suddenly stepped into Creation, the leap couldn't be described as anything but massive.

It was akin to a child suddenly possessing the most advanced weapon in the world.

Possession doesn't mean familiarity, familiarity doesn't mean mastery.

She still couldn't fully master her own power, and this time for familiarization and sedimentation might take decades, even centuries.

But Charlotte probably didn't have that much time to settle.

Because... it's not over yet.

Closing her eyes, the cries, screams, and prayers of the believers came from all directions, shaking Charlotte's soul.

Those were the calls of the Dark Night Believers.

Not just believers, but also her Blood Favored, their intense call permeated with anxiety.

Three years was enough time for many things to happen.

And based on the feedback from the believers' prayers, war... had erupted.

As for the warring sides, in Charlotte's preliminary perception, one side was the Falling Star Kingdom and Coria Kingdom, and the other, was the New Moon Kingdom, West Yonette Empire, Moon God Coast City States, the other small nations of the Faith Holy Royal Court, and... the Church Authority Country.

The Church Authority Country...

Charlotte was expressionless, her gaze shifting to the Guardian's Staff following closely behind.

Feeling her gaze, the Guardian's Staff saluted respectfully:

"Congratulations on reaching the pinnacle, Your Majesty."

Its posture was respectful, yet its tone, like that of Charlotte who had awakened all "memories," didn't show much delight.

Charlotte was somewhat silent.

"Did the Church Authority Country betray?"

"Yes... it did."

"This is my seventh restart after crossing, is that correct?"

"...Yes."

"In all my past restarts, I never reached today's heights, correct?"

"...Yes."

"But it's not over yet, right?"

"That's right."

"Then what about you? Who... exactly are you?"

Charlotte looked at the Guardian's Staff and calmly asked.

It was a rather abrupt question.

But it was a question Charlotte really wanted to know.

No reason, but after ascending to [Creation], Charlotte recalled those forgotten memories.

It was indeed not her first crossing; she had actually crossed seven times, each time awakening in the manor, each time reaching the Mythical Rank, and each time... failing in the struggle against the Primordial!

However, in the memories of the first six times, there was no Guardian's Staff!

The Guardian's Staff appeared only in this crossing!

Charlotte's question did not receive a response from the Guardian's Staff.

This Wisdom Divine Artifact simply remained silent.

Silent, yet respectfully standing.

"Alas..."

Charlotte let out a long sigh.

She could see it, the other party didn't want to talk.

No, perhaps it's not that it doesn't want to say, but rather... [cannot say].

She regained her "memory," but she herself didn't know if it was complete, what if... the Guardian's Staff was a backup left by her past self?

After all, only it knew about Charlotte's multiple restarts.

Though very suspicious, at least this Wisdom Divine Artifact truly stood on her side.

Her transformed Divine Power was very keen, and it could discern this fact.

"Tell me, what exactly is going on, why is there a war, why... is it the Church Authority Country."

Charlotte no longer continued to dwell on this topic.

After a slight pause, the Guardian's Staff spoke with a trace of bitterness:

"It's... the Primordial! Although you succeeded in devouring Divine Lord Haral, the Primordial's pollution, the Primordial's will... has influenced the Holy Believers!"

The Primordial's will...

Charlotte pondered deeply.

She tried to communicate with the Faith Network of the Creation Royal Court, and then found that despite having devoured Haral's power, the Faith Network was completely severed from her.

As if... control had been seized by some power.

It wasn't just the Faith Network, but Haral himself as well.

She didn't forget Haral was normal because she was special, having the Blood Holy Scripture, she could even purify and devour the Primordial, let alone retain memory.

But even the Guardian's Staff, as an "indigenous," didn't forget Haral!

What does this signify?

It signifies that Haral... was not entirely devoured by her!

In other words, her devouring was incomplete.

Charlotte remembered the expression "Haral" had before being devoured.

That fleeting, bizarre smile.

The smile expanded, ultimately overlapping with the eerie expressions of the priests, engulfed in flames, praying to the sky in the "future" fragments Charlotte saw...

'It's the Primordial! The Primordial... escaped.'

She murmured in her heart.

The anxiety in her heart grew stronger, vaguely, Charlotte felt as if she had done something wrong.

"Return to Falling Star."

Taking a deep breath, she commanded.

...

Falling Star Kingdom, Falling Star City.

A span of three years can bring about many changes.

In three years, Charlotte could initially digest the Divine Power she had devoured, and war could erupt, armies perished, cities fell.

Without Charlotte's intervention, relying on the strength of the Falling Star Kingdom and the Coria Kingdom to resist the Allied Forces and the Church Authority Country was still too much of a stretch.

Now, the capital of the Falling Star Kingdom was engulfed in a sea of fire.

Thick smoke billowed, raging flames burned within the city, both the outer and inner city had fallen, and only the Falling Star Royal Palace's Red Palace was still resisting.

In Red Palace Square, knights surrounded by black flames charged with lances, clashing with the army in silver armor.

The New Moon's banner fluttered in the wind, suspended behind the black knights, as grotesquely mutated war horses stomped eagle and lilac banners underfoot, black and red blood stained the entire square red.

The palace guards fell one after another, Holy Hall Knights and Judgement Knights with black-patterned armor guarding fervent priests, encircling the last resistors.

Sebastian, Nisi, Badak, Albrecht.....

They were all wounded, their vigor exhausted.

"Lord Sebastian, surrender! The Dark Night God has abandoned you! Only by embracing the great Creator God can your sins be cleansed!"

At the forefront of the Allied Forces, Angus de Valle, formerly the Great Commander of the Holy Hall Knight Order and Charlotte's loyal follower, now the Chief High Priest of the Holy Royal Court, advised.

He wore a bizarre smile, sharing the same fanatical yet eerie expression with all other clergy and even soldiers of the Allied Forces, like puppets controlled, or infinite extensions of a single will, appearing extremely unsettling.

However, besides the surrounded Dark Night Believers, no one noticed their problem.

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