In the past few days, Lilith finally understood everything.
She was like a fool, repeatedly pushed to the forefront of the stage in the previous era.
The apprentice she had unearthed, Goliath, had been manipulating her from the shadows.
"Damn it! Let me see your Saint’s body then." Lilith said.
"Of course you can."
But what Goliath displayed next made Lilith’s heart skip a beat.
"First, my own formidable power."
Goliath shamelessly demonstrated the mix of his [Libra] and [Shadow], birthing a [Magic] Divine Power.
"As of now, I am the Demon King and will also be the God of Magic, forcefully connecting with all the demonic entities of Hell."
A deep glow flickered in his eyes, like the most erudite scholar in the world,
"Everything in the world is connected in some hidden manner, apples fall, flowers fade, mountains crumble, rivers flood..."
"It’s like a web of causality, all converging on me. No longer will the Hellish creatures refuse to aid by providing power."
"I will forcibly extract their power!"
A trace of coldness appeared in Goliath’s eyes, "I am the Demon God of all nature, wielding the most formidable power in the world."
As soon as he said that, the chaos of organs beneath him seemed to produce strands of causality he spoke of, connecting together.
Golden threads intertwined, coalescing into a Sacred Body.
Only, it bore golden cracks akin to molten lava burns, like the fissures of a tortoise shell.
Lilith was completely stunned: "You, how did you make it fuse? This Sacred Body, it’s obviously in pieces! It shouldn’t have fused together!"
Goliath said, "Why can’t the Saint’s Organs fuse? It’s because they are incompatible, but my power is unique, providing energy transformation between the Saint’s Organs."
"Between the organs, I act as the energy [Transformation] bridge, so they merged."
"This is the nature of magic, allowing even the incomplete Sacred Body to forcibly be perfected."
"This body casts no shadow, for the shadow has filled the gaps between the organs."
Intense anticipation and desire filled his eyes,
"Magic, ah, it’s truly the greatest divine system for the future era!"
"It will surpass the Mysterious Divine System of God!"
After speaking, Goliath’s soul shadow drifted out, donning this body that paralleled the God Body.
"It feels absolutely wonderful!"
He stretched his limbs, energy conversion flowed vividly within the gaps of his limbs, exuding an unimaginable sense of oppression.
Goliath looked up at the moon:
"Originally, I faked my death to get away, to coexist peacefully with God, but it had to come to this."
"This time, our numerous divine powers gather, united as one, while God is merely a single Mysterious Power. Who knows who is stronger?"
"You are too powerful; the pressure is no less than the previous God Body!" Lilith’s excited voice came from beside him:
"Life eventually ends, even if we merely grasp the life of Divine Objects, whether it’s me, you, or God, none of us can escape death’s fate."
"God will die."
"Unless one day, a Divine Object representing death descends, a true Death God emerges."
Goliath’s expression was utterly calm, through Lilith’s [Transmission], as if becoming an all-knowing deity across the entire earth.
At this moment, as the God of Magic, innumerable vast streams of information flashed through his mind in an instant.
He connected to the lines of energy transformation in various regions.
He saw on the grasslands, the fall of apples from trees, subtly extracting part of the falling energy.
A child caught the apple, and even the energy exerted by the grip was partially extracted by him.
One apple fall, twice was energy siphoned by him.
The fall of the apple was the cause.
Being caught by the boy was the effect.
And this process of causality, he extracted a part of its power...
From this perspective, wasn’t he also stealing causality?
"And now..."
He gently extended his hand, grasping the air, a wanton smile curved his lips: "Let’s play a small game."
...
"Another apple is falling!" On the distant plains, a young boy hurriedly reached out to catch the descending apple.
But in the boy’s astonished eyes, the falling apple seemed to have the energy consumption formula reversed, a mysterious energy interjected into the apple’s descent.
The apple fell with gravity’s acceleration.
Suddenly, the apple hovered in mid-air.
The apple rapidly ascended with gravity’s reversed acceleration!
Gravity began to reverse.
The boy showed an expression of shock, "How can this be! Apples fall from branches, isn’t that the natural order of the world! How can an apple float up to the sky after leaving the branch?"
"Where does this ascending energy come from?"
...
Demon Capital.
Lilith, through the image returned by Goliath, face full of shock, sheer disbelief written across her features: "You, how did you do this!?"
Goliath revealed a slight smile: "If I can secretly extract transforming energy, naturally, I can inject energy during this transformation process. You can understand this principle, right?"
"I can." Lilith wasn’t a fool either.
But Goliath’s next words, even if Lilith understood, filled her with fear.
Goliath said:
"As a deity who steals energy, the energy I covertly draw from the earth at all times has already overflowed. I can’t use them all, my body is too weak; absorbing too much energy would make me explode."