After Ranni's brilliant victory over the Second Prince of the Elbas Family, things went back to normal in the Snowy Region and Eleum Loyce continued developments of Ongoing experiments, and the Cultivation of the Human Assets of Forossa.
The remaining tournament matches for the last remaining unclaimed territories.
At that point there wasn't any matches for me to continue watching, and so I left to continue preparations before I ventured with the other Factions' leaders to the exploration of the Center of the New Continent.
I still had quite some time until then so there wasn't an issue with me quickly taking care of some other personal matters.
As Tallon was preparing to venture into a very dangerous location, every faction including his own, led by Ranni in his place, had begun Strengthening their forces and properly occupying their hard won territories.
And so the official and peaceful colonization between the five factions had officially and finally begun after many chaotic skirmishes and deaths.
As for the Hive, Noah Balvan continued to be the absurdly overpowered Wuxia protagonist he was and cultivated at a rapid pace.
The Hive had also prepared their own territories in similar ways to the other factions by creating barriers and erecting Formations that can ward off the Magical Beasts from their bases of operations.
Noah had been given his domain, however since the Lava Lake region belonged to Forossa, unlike the original story where he himself took up residence there, he instead settled down and established his domain in the Desert.
This was done so that Noah can have easy access to the Divine Dragon's dungeon and inquire to it about any questions it may have, still unaware that the Divine Dragon was just a fabrication of Tallon's design.
As for Black Knife Tiche, she continued to serve as my double agent by acting as Noah's Sword Bodyguard.
Back when Noah and his group encountered my fake Divine Dragon in the Dungeon, when they left Tiche needed to swear a pact of loyalty to the Hive.
This would have outed Tiche as a double agent from the beginning if it wasn't for the fact that I had quickly erased her memories and ties to Forossa and replaced them with fake ones.
Thanks to this, she was able to infiltrate the Hive without issue and swear to Chasing Demon's Rank 6 Oath.
As an assassin, Tixhe was prepared for this possibility of needing to erase her memories, even her mother Black Knife Ringleader Alecto would do this without hesitation and had taught this principle and ideal to all those under her command, including her daughter Tiche.
I still have Tiche's real memories and can return them to her whenever needed, so instead I gave them to Alecto to hold onto until the time comes to return them to her daughter.
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I had been preparing for my venture back to the Kesier Ape God's Domain where i had previously went with my mother Lilith.
We had captured some Rank 5 and 6 Kesier Ape specimens at the time, but it was at that same time that the Empire sent the message for the meeting between the Powerhouses.
That had delayed my plans and I was forced to leave it for a while and deal with the issues on the surface.
However, now that the territory battles had been concluded, I can go to deal with the weakened Rank 7 Ape God whenever I want.
My current Cultivation Level was as follows:
Dantian - Rank 6-Gaseous
Body - Rank 6-Liquid
Mind - Quasi-Rank 7
It would still take some time until I would become a Rank 6-Liquid stage being with my Dantian.
I was able to aquire a Quasi-Rank 7 Mind despite not being at the peak of the Rank 6 stage.
Reason being, my constitution was different, I had the Elden Ring (unactive & depowered) within my body just like how it was apart of Marika/Radagon who served as its vessel.
My Mind wasn't fully Rank 7 but was still a Rank 6 Mind.
It's just if I had to say what it was classified as, then a Quasi-Rank 7 Mind stage was what I'd say it was.
King Elbas, God's Right Hand, God's Left Hand and Great Elder Diana probably have a Quasi-Rank 7 Mind as well so it wasn't anything odd. Although, God's Right Hand must have a Rank 7 Mind already since he is the first one of the powerhouses to ascend and become a Rank 7 being in the story.
Chasing Demon would have what I'd assume to be a Rank 6-Liquid or Rank 6-Solid stage Mind.
The Mind center of power doesn't have different stages like Gaseous, Liquid or Solid stages, but instead just goes up by whole numbers by Rank.
My mother Lilith most likely has a Liquid Stage Mind thanks to the Rank 7 Kesier Rune I obtained for her and I to use, from the artificial Rank 7 Kesier Ape i made with my Horadric Cube and the Kesier Rune Ring.
Using the Moonlight Bridge Formation I had used back then, I was able to teleport back to the Ape God's Domain.
Fighting the Ape God now would be suicidal, although I did have a 13% chance of winning with all the preparations I had made.
However, when I think about it, I remembered that in the story, King Elbas had also prepared himself beforehand and still returned with the captured Ape God while having injuries across his body.
If someone like King Elbas didn't come out unscathed then chances are I will die.
I can't take that risk until I obtain the so-called Rank 6 Resurrection Water Spell from the Representative meeting prior to the Winged Beast Crisis outbreak.
I searched around for a while until I eventually discovered what I was looking for.
It was the Lawless Law material.
This material can be transformed into Soul Stones if I'm not mistakened, which is used as the currency in the Immortal Lands.
In addition, if I pour my Law/Individuality into it it will take on that conceptual property and can express it in turn.
That way I can use the filled Law material to create and enhance my current gear to a Quasi-Rank 7 item or even a proper Rank 7 item.
Furthermore, I had planned to use this for another reason, but the addition to upgrading my gear and allowing it to become stronger with a evolutionary or growth type Law and attribute would be perfect.
After spending some time harvesting the durable material I eventually depleted as many deposits of the Lawless Law materials before I used the Moonlight Bridge Formation to return to Forossa.
I spent the next few days using my mimicked Divine Deduction Technique to create numerous crystals that contained my one of my Individualities of Sin (Greed) within them. In addition, I had Ranni's help in her analysis of the God Shandal's Ice to identify specific points of his Individuality/Law of Time and its deeper connection to his being and merged it within thr numerous crystals.
I had long since discovered many tall Rock Formations that surrounded the Central Region, and so I teleported to the top of these Rock towers and placed each of my Greed crystals atop each and every one of them.
This was my plan against Shandal for when he appears in the battle versus the Quasi-Rank 7 Winged Beast Leader.
I had to infiltrate each of the territories under the control of the other factions but I was easily able to remain undetected to such low level Cultivators.
After I had done that I returned to Forossa's capital Leyndell and used the remainder of the Lawless Law materials to create new and enhanced pre existing gear.
I did keep some of the material so I can give it to Ranni later on. As a mage she needs the material more than the others so she has at least some proper defensive gear.
Like that, a few weeks had went by and I eventually departed with Lilith to meet up with the other Rank 6 powerhouses as we began our exploration of the central danger regions of the New Continent.
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Weeks later since Tallon and Lilith's departure with the other Rank 6 Powerhouses to the Center of the New Continent......
Shiaori had been bored out of her mind since Tallon left.
Back when Tallon first appeared in the Elroe Great Labyrinth in the world she reincarnated into after her death, he had helped her to survive the onslaught of dangerous monsters that could have killed her at any moment.
Tallon had said he was from another world and wanted to find ways to gain strength for himself but they ended up becoming friends as they traveled together and made it out of the Dungeon.
He helped her to eventually evolve into an Arachne and obtain a Human form.
After having obtained the Taboo Level 10 skill, she learnt about that world's hidden black history.
The world was on its way to annihilation because the Humans were tricked by the Elf Potimas, who's actually an alien, into draining the world of its MA Energy.
Potimas failed to become a God because of Sariel's intervention at the last moment, but by that point the world was doomed to die.
The Evil God D and Guïle along with Sariel made the system under D's suggestion.
Sariel sacrificed herself to become the core of the system and became the Voice of the System while her Godly energy was drained from her body to preserve the world's imminent destruction.
Guïle was made into a God/Administrator that managed the world since then and Potimas went into hiding.
In the present day the world was about to end just when I had been reborn into it and struggled so survive, only to end up dying again!
That's BS!
What the fuck!
Why did I get reincarnated into a pre-end world Dark Souls universe!
What is this Level 1 Spider vs Level Infinite Bullshit plot development!
Regardless, I had asked Tallon to take me with him back to his world. I could care less about this world, why do I need to act like some kind of Hero?
I'm not even acquainted with anyone here except Tallon, I have no obligation to help save this world.
The people of this world doomed themselves to begin with, they can watch the world end.
And just like that I left with Tallon from the world I was reborn into and came to this new world Tallon was from.
Not that Shiraori cared anymore, but because of her absence from that world, it's destiny of foretold destruction eventually did come to pass.
Sophia was kidnapped by the Elves, but when Potimas discovered that she was a Vampire he had her killed because her ability would prove dangerous in the future.
Schlain, Katia, Feirune all grew up and met with the other reincarnations.
After Hugo's attempted assassination on Schlain, Oka removed his skills, and somehow miraculously survived withiut Shiraori needing to heal her damaged soul, and Hugo would eventually incite a civil war with Schlain's Elder brother upon hearing that a Queen Teratect was sent by the Demon Lord Ariel to kill the Hero Jullius in the war efforts.
The Reincarnations all gathered at the Elf village where the barrier Potimas had created with technology of the old era and with MA Energy remained unbroken without Shiraori's help.
Potimas eventually drained the MA Energy within the souls of the reincarnated students and Oka to restore his damaged body and was able to eventually able to drain the last remaining bits of MA Energy in the planet as soon as Sariel had died and before Guïle could take Sariel's post to become part of the System.
Potimas eventually became a God and succeeded in his purpose and escaped the planet before it's inevitable destruction.
And that was that.
Shiraori was bullied by Tallon into becoming his maid, which she was forced to accept because of a deal they made, and because she held some romantic feelings for him, which he was aware of and why she could have the position of being a concubine of his while the only wife he had was Ranni.
Even though she became his maid, she isn't actually a maid and just sometimes did maid things while in maid clothes, while the rest of the time she was just lazing about all day eating or playing games on the offline game console that Tallon aquired for her to use.
(A/n Don't question why the technology works in a magic Cultivation world. I don't want to explain and become filler Chapter again. Long story short, he altered the technology to be magic-technology and got a pump power generator from Earth, TV and all that other shit that's needed.)
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Shiraori was currently forced to be a Maid for the upcoming days, she didn't mind it since she'd become used to it.
At least she won't have to act as a maid after the upcoming event which she is glad for.
She'll be representing Forossa as its lead representative and one of Forossa's promising Heroic Cultivators, in a trade meeting between all the Factions.
After that she won't have to act as a maid since it'll show Forossa in a bad light if such a representative was treated in that way as being a maid despite being entrusted with an important assignment by one of its rulers.
Shiraori stood behind Ranni as she was at her desk signing various documents and preparing various invitations for the trade meeting that will soon take place.
From what Shiraori had learned already, it seems that Tallon can glimpse into the future, though he keeps it a secret and doesn't disclose any information about it, only to Ranni and a few individuals, her being one of them, he still doesn't reveal the whole truth.
The other factions representatives, based off Tallon's future Foresight ability, will be as follows:
Papral Nation: Faith Vigney of the Quiet Lake Sect
The Hive: Noah Balvan, Demon Prince of the Hive
Utra Nation: June Ballor
The Empire: Andrew, Eager Titan
And then there is her...
Forossa: Shiraori White, Arachne Empress
My title is cool!
All the others also have titles, I guess June Ballor didn't have a title amongst the others to show her achievement.
That will impact the Ballor family and the Utra Nation, especially after one of their strongest Royals lost to Forossa's Queen, Ranni.
The Natural Paradise, that was located on the North Coast towards the Eastern side of the New Continent and was one of Forossa's claimed territories in the territory battles, is where the meeting is to take place in one month's time.
In the original plot, the Papral Nation was the faction that occupied the Natural Paradise region, however because of Tallon's intervention, Forossa now owned it.
Tallon knew this and didn't want a butterfly effect to occur, thus he had informed Ranni of this and for her to propose the trade deal meeting between the faction in this location and that Forossa would manage everything under the Rank 7 Oath of peace previously signed by the factions leaders.
The other factions didn't oppose this and had agreed without protest.
Ranni handed the invitation four letters to Shiraori and she left to find a few capable individuals to personally deliver the invitations to the other factions Elders.
The Wasteland region for the Empire.
South of the the Murky Lake region for the Papral Nation.
White Woods Forest for the Hive.
The Hyenas region for the Utra Nation.
This was where the main fortified fortresses and base of operations on the New Continent for each Faction resided and ruling over each area was multiple Elders but one in particular that oversaw operations there.
Jade Luminous, Tallon's sister rules over the Eastern Coast's territories from the main base of operations and HQ located in the mountainous region where the Divine Cut is located.
And Ranni rules the Western Coast territories of Forossa from Eleum Loyce located in the Snowy Regions South-West of the New Continent.
And so just like that a month passed by...
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The time for the meeting had begun while Tallon and the other Powerhouse leaders explored a certain cave in the central of the New Continent that would have disastrous ramifications that would soon follow.