Chapter 363: Elandra, Goddess of Emotions

Mila As one of her clones Watched all the elder gods from a hidden spot near the entrance to one of Aalam’s universes in the Prime Material

Mila

As one of her clones Watched all the elder gods from a hidden spot near the entrance to one of Aalam’s universes in the Prime Material and another did the same in the undead’s main universe, Mila’s main body in a nearby universe breathed a sigh of relief.

While Primordius had been fighting the elder gods in the Prime Material, Aalam had released his Universal Undeath Cleansing Chain Lightning in the undead’s main universe and the other remaining universes of the undead, wiping out all the remaining undead, even their gods, due to how powerful the lightning had become after they’d used it to cleanse the undead universes without elder god level inter-universe portals. And this, from an outside perspective, looked incredibly helpful to Primordius, as the undead elder gods could now only regenerate their faith energy from the souls of their followers in the soulbound afterlife

of the Highest Shade.

At the same time, while Mila had increased the energy cost of the array formations on Primordius’s main planet with a preplanned set of modifications, seemingly acting directly against Aalam’s grandfather, they had long noticed the modifications someone else had made and what the formations had been modified to do, thus how they had put Aalam in the perfect position to surprise his grandfather.

So, there had always been a chance Mila’s main target, Elandra, wouldn’t show up in person.

Given what Mila could now see, that the woman was a whole lot more powerful than every report Mila had ever seen would have led her to believe— seemingly even somehow having formed a master slave bond with the Divine Child judging by the nature of the bond between them that Mila could sense—it wasn’t surprising. But it had been a danger.

Universes were really, really big, and, without the woman appearing in a place Mila was Watching, it would have been almost impossible to find her even if Aalam took over the universe she was hiding in.

“Aalam,” Mila sent to her husband, whose main body, with all his soulstructures, had already escaped to one of his universes. “Before dealing with your mother, we should kill Tallia. The fact she was stored in one of her father’s spatial storage rings could be part of her mother’s plan, and, if so, I’d like to search her soul to know what it was.”

She felt a feeling of assent from Aalam as Primordius continued to fight against four of the undead elder gods and the Divine Child in the undead’s main universe—the Lord of the Nightwalkers and the Mummy Lord having tried to chase her husband before beginning to search for survivors—and Aalam, who’d managed to take over control of Primordius’s spatial storage rings far quicker than they had expected, summoned out Primordius and Elandra’s daughter and killed her.

With the way Primordius’s God rank storage rings were designed, seemingly far more focused on defending themselves and their contents from the effects of elder god level combat than providing difficulties to any thief lucky and stupid enough to steal them from their owner, there was no way for anything or anyone inside the storage rings to sense outside, so Tallia was completely surprised when Aalam summoned her. And this allowed him to summon her into an already premade destruction array which instantly attacked her with thirteen blasts of order infused energy, each empowered by over 24 True Laws, even as Aalam’s domain suppressed her and his blade, Legacy of the Fallen, controlled via telekinesis, stabbed through her head.

With only God rank power, there was nothing she could do.

When her soul appeared, however, Mila, through Aalam’s senses, was immediately able to notice something was wrong, and it was only through quick and almost instantaneous movement on Aalam’s part that her husband soul wasn’t destroyed as the soul, quite obviously a small fragment of a soul at the elder god level, completely burned itself up to blast out a concentrated full-powered elder god rank invisible attack at him, infused with seven middle grade True Laws.

Tallia, it seemed, either always had been or at some point had been replaced by a clone of Elandra. And, given Aalam had killed her in a universe with at most B rank portals to other universes, the soul fragment wouldn’t have any way to flee. So, it destroyed itself and tried to take Aalam down with it.

And, even with Aalam’s energy being at the elder god level, his Laws at about the same level of power as an elder god, and his body and soul far, far more powerful than any other A rank in the history of the multiverse, if that attack had hit him—if Elandra’s soul fragment had had a bit more time to prepare—Mila would have become a widow, the weak soulstructureless clone Aalam kept hidden in one of their other universes and his ability to revive himself from a drop of blood due to one of his new skills be damned.

“Mila,” Aalam sent after a few seconds, his emotions showing almost as much fear as Mila herself was feeling, “I think we might have underestimated elder gods a bit, at least the truly powerful ones.”

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Elandra

Elandra screamed in rage as she felt her soul fragment, one of her main trump cards against Primordius, be destroyed.

Her plan had been perfect. She’d split her soul and made her main body emotionless to lose the lightning bastard’s interest. Then she’d raised a clone of the opposite gender, given him a reason to want to flee, and hidden him in another universe so she’d be able to revive herself if her main body was killed.

Over trillions of years, while growing personally more powerful, she’d then subtly maneuvered that sanctimonious harpy into attacking the Eldritch Terrors, something she’d realized the King of Demons had been waiting for, and, when the King of Demons ate the woman, straining his soul to devour her even with all his injuries from their fight, she’d finally risked using both of her bodies to enslave him.

Then she’d waited for the evil hydra bird to fully digest his new gains and released a soul plague to make the undead elder gods more likely to take the risk of invading the Prime Material. She’d even taken over the body of her own daughter using a soul fragment, killing the eternally corrupted child in the process, so she could better watch and manipulate Primordius’s actions.

But she hadn’t taken into account the results of the lightning bastard’s love of procreation. She hadn’t foreseen him having a daughter able to bypass the multiverse’s first law of breeding. And she hadn’t foreseen the Runemaster Truesoul being born from that woman and its eventual rise to power.

Killing dozens upon dozens of gods as a B rank, creating a technique capable of wiping out all undead in a universe in a matter of days while not even a million years old, and becoming a force that could participate in a battle at the elder god level while still mortal, these things were not normal.

But the biggest source of her frustration, and the part of what was occurring on the battlefield she most hadn’t seen coming, was that the mortal genius and his wife were seemingly helping the lightning bastard.

Sure, the so called Heavenly Spark Soul King had cut off his grandfather’s hand, which made it seem like he and his wife wanted to use it as the focus for a bloodline curse, but Elandra wasn’t stupid. They’d killed or were about to kill all of the lightning bastard’s children, and the little brat, like all incarnations of the Runemaster Truesoul, was obviously a master of crafting and alchemy. They didn’t need Primordius’s hand. They could make a whole clone of the man if they wanted.

No. They just wanted Primordius’s youngest spawn for their own revenge, and seemingly had wanted to kill Tallia for some reason as well, depriving Elandra of her second most powerful pawn and backup for reviving herself.

And, sure, they’d secretly altered the formations built into the Endless Battlefield which Primordius had tried to use in the fight to use more energy, but, again, the Heavenly Spark Soul King was arguably the best crafter in the universe. There was almost no chance he hadn’t noticed how she’d had the King of Demons change the formations while Primordius was away. It was well known that the Heavenly Spark Soul King and his wife could see through each other’s senses. So, the fact she was currently wasting 300% more energy than normal to keep the lightning bastard in the undead’s universe was intentional.

The two A ranks were almost certainly trying to balance the battlefield so she, Primordius, and the undead elder gods would all kill each other off. And, most frustrating of all, there wasn’t much either she or the lightning bastard could do about it as the two mortals seemed to have the ability to travel through almost any level of portal.