On the next morning, Mia finally began her assault on the demigod threshold.
Countless black ripples spread around her as if all the light cast into them was absorbed.
She casually crushed a few Wizard Stones to replenish her Spirituality, and young Mia's body started to sink into the black hole, gradually consumed from the bottom up.
Immediately, the laws of the universe subtly trembled again, though the magnitude was even smaller than the previous Manipulation Law, so much so that most demigods didn't notice before the characters representing the laws disappeared.
After all, the Black Hole Law is not exactly rare or a Compound Law. The oscillation in the universal laws was due to Mia's deep understanding of this law herself—especially given how she spent all day using the Ripple Sword to fly around, her understanding of spatial dimensions was naturally profound.
As Mia's body was tossed back out from the dimensional plane, she lightly landed on the ground, puffing out her chest proudly to the surrounding girls, saying:
"I've become a demigod too! My title is 'Horned Space-time.'"
Horned Space-time? The girls glanced at each other, unclear about the meaning of this title.
The so-called demigod title actually represents a mark of universal law on a demigod's identity.
In human society, individual identity is usually marked by a "name," which is often closely related to their cultural heritage.
The universe does not recognize any intelligent race's culture; it only determines the demigod's title based on their place in the laws, and this title transcends any culture of a particular race, relating only to the definitions of objective laws.
Just like almost every intelligent race has a concept of "Life," though their perceptions may be entirely different, titles can be related to the word "Life"... but they cannot possibly relate to random words like fork, chopsticks, chicken, beef, etc.
This is why the title "Horned Space-time" must contain some special principle within the Black Hole Law that is perfectly compatible with Mia.
It's just that no one knows what this principle is, leading everyone to speculate different ideas in their hearts.
After a slight adjustment, Mia began to activate the Black Hole Law, intending to directly jump to Olympia City with everyone.
As she easily pulled out a black hole, the girls showed hesitant expressions of curiosity mixed with caution; after all, Mia's first use of the Ripple Sword resulted in a teleportation error straight into the Abyss. If they ended up somewhere like the depths of Purgatory this time… By the time they managed to fight their way out with the five demigods in the team, Constantinople would probably have been reclaimed.
"Ahem, I'll go first then." To save Mia's face, Aske coughed slightly and was the first to step into the black hole.
Naturally, before entering the black hole, he discreetly plundered Mia's law skill as insurance and a backup plan, which was only appropriate.
As his body passed through the black hole, a peculiar dizziness surged into his head.
Black Hole Transmission, unlike the Ripple Sword, couldn't be used frequently without cooldowns or dizziness at low cost, but held special advantages in long-distance teleportation. In the later stages of the game world, many demigods using Black Hole Law offered cross-national teleportation services, which Aske had experienced quite a few times.
Therefore, he only had to shake his head to clear his mind and found himself standing on the edge of a balcony at Weisbach Palace.
Aske: ???
Didn't we agree to go to Olympia City? Why are we in the Bavarian Duchy?
As the other girls appeared one by one from the black hole, the looks they cast on Mia grew suspicious, as if saying "See, I knew you would mess up again."
"Wait, it's not a mistake!" Mia hastily defended, "There's some sort of distortion array in Olympia City, I couldn't teleport directly there! So we first jumped to Bavaria, then to near Olympia City, and finally walked over!"
This explanation was reasonable, except if it was true, why didn't you just teleport directly near Olympia City?
At this time in Weisbach Palace, the Duke and his eldest son were not present, seemingly off preparing for the Holy War. Thus, Eleanor didn't stay long, merely giving some instructions to the butlers before asking Mia to teleport again.
The second passage through the black hole placed them near Thessalonica, close to Olympia City.
At this time, Thessalonica was half composed of nearly intact Byzantine-style buildings, while the other half was filled with various Thracian shanties.
Sheila, who had a good memory, casually reminded the others that this half-destroyed area was the ruins from when the Leviathan, the Olympus City had resisted during the Magic Tide, had crushed the land by crawling over it.
Back then, The Azure Longsword Team could only watch silently from treetops against this level of an enemy like Leviathan, unable to intervene.
Now over half of them had become demigods, even capable of facing Leviathan head-on in the open sea. Looking back on the trials they had endured, it naturally brought about feelings of nostalgia.
"Aske." Sheila suddenly spoke, "Can we stay in Thessalonica for a few days?"
"Why?" Aske asked.
"I feel my understanding of the new skill loosening," Sheila said, "I want to become a demigod before meeting my grandpa."
This immediately drew the attention of the girls: Are we about to have a new demigod in the team?
"Ahem," Eleanor coughed, "Alright, I also comprehended a new skill last night, advancing to Lv.19, so I can attempt the demigod threshold along with Sheila."
Sheila immediately shot her a look of gratitude; Eleanor's words were meant to bolster the necessity of staying, helping fulfill her little vanity of "becoming a demigod before meeting her grandfather."
"Alright then." Aske nodded in agreement as expected, "Since both of you want to attempt the demigod threshold, we'll stay here for a few days."
With the Squad Leader's decision set, the girls walked into town, chatting animatedly about Sheila and Eleanor's experiences of realization.
Especially Sigrdrifa and Nora, who were visibly envious to the point of longing to replicate the feat themselves, advancing swiftly to Lv.19 and then breaking through Lv.20.
Eleanor's fifth law skill was named "Oath of Faith," which draws power from one's will through sincere solemn vows.
The stronger one's determination to fulfill the oath, the greater the enhancement to their abilities.
Of course, Eleanor herself seldom used this skill, as she was more accustomed to wielding the Holy Sword, going full defense and attack mode to charge head-on and dominate the battlefield.
However, this skill could be applied to others, meaning anyone who sincerely vowed within Eleanor's vicinity and received her recognition could gain their willpower attribute enhancements.
The girls enthusiastically played around with Eleanor's new skill; Miel vowed to "bring ultimate happiness to everyone," Sigrdrifa vowed to "defeat all enemies obstructing us," and even Nora jokingly said, "to cook the most delicious food for everyone," all successfully gaining a vow buff, enveloped in a soft glow of willpower enhancement.
Meaning, as long as it was "for the team xxx," it was easily acknowledged by Eleanor, exceptionally simple indeed.
Medea, thinking about this, wanted to join in the fun, her mouth just slightly opening before she withdrew the idea.
Hmm, almost exposed.
The Enchanting Demon lady—actually didn't care much about this team, even her joining was initially coerced by Aske into signing a Soul Contract.
Making her vow "for the team xxx" might convince Eleanor but surely not herself; a pitiful glow of willpower enhancement would reveal Medea's true detachment within the team, causing trouble.
Even an "for Aske's xxx," wouldn't convince her unless xxx were some illegal words.
Thus she simply smiled throughout, pretending she had no interest in joining the fun.
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