Only after inheriting Astraâs inheritance did Lia realize how bizarre her circumstances of death were.
To create the âSword of Promised Destinies, Pratigya,â Astra not only just sacrificed her soul and body, she sacrificed her âexistenceâ and all the âthreads of destinyâ that used to bind her soul to this world.
Everything in the world is bound by their own âThreads of Destiny,â which work like an anchor for the person or entity that keeps them bound to this world and its reality.
If a personâs âThreads of Destinyâ are completely severed, they will have nothing to keep them anchored to this world and reality.
In this kind of situation, the person would end up dying so thoroughly that nothing can revive them.
Unless those severed threads of destiny are re-woven and reattached to your body, itâs nearly impossible to survive this kind of fate, and unfortunately there are no beings capable of creating threads of fate aside from the âOriginâ itself.
The damage done to threads of fate is thus permanent and near impossible to heal!
Astra severed her ties with reality, molded her body into a new shape, and created a weapon that was so overwhelmingly powerful that it couldnât have been connected to the threads of destiny, as they wouldnât have even been able to bear the burden of supporting it!
The main reason why the âSword of Promised Destiniesâ is just a one-time-use weapon is because it canât be anchored to the world like other objects and individuals through the help of the threads of destiny.
Even if you donât use the weapon, it will slowly disappear over time as its existence will fade away into nothingness because of not being anchored to the world.
Once used, the weapon would consume all of its energy and would cease to exist completely, and along with it, the existence of the person who created it would also cease to exist completely.
Astra molded her entire existence into something completely different and broke her ties to the world; thus, the âlawsâ of the âworldâ have become unable to properly express her death circumstances.
To them, she didnât completely die but turned into something new, but still also died and turned into nothingness.
This bizarre situation and confusion among the âlawsâ of reality has caused the situation of Astraâs death to become very mysterious.
All healers that reach rank SS, like Selain and Aria, seem to be able to find out Astraâs exact death circumstances through the confused memories of the âLawâ of âProtection and Cure.â
On the other hand, other âlawsâ do not seem to have much impression of her left, and thus other SS-rankers remain very much confused about her and think sheâs gone missing.
The main reason why Selain and Aria knew about Astra turning into a sword for King Allen was also because they inherited that memory from the âLawâ of âProtection and Cure.â
But Astraâs death circumstance is so bizarre that those two unconsciously always end up not talking about Astraâs true death circumstance whenever they talk it out with others.
It is almost as if the âlawsâ of the âworldâ refuse to acknowledge all this and creates distractions on their own without even knowing!
âUnless itâs a healer, it seems people canât really acknowledge or even understand this topic...â
âThe laws of the world itself are confused... no wonder that others are confused too..â
Sacrificing your existence and breaking all ties with the world is no small matter; it even jumbles up the memories and impressions of the âLawsâ of reality and creates mass chaos.
Nowadays, the main reason why Astra is considered âmissingâ together with King Allen is because people donât seem to realize what actually happened, and only SS-rank healers are immune to this confusion in the truest sense.
âThen does this mean that those who are closely tied with âLawsâ of âProtection and Cureâ and âCosmic Orderâ like me... would be able to realize this problem and confusion but others canât?â
The âLawâ of âCosmic Orderâ that has favored Lia is one of the few âLawsâ that managed to keep an impression of Astra.
For Lia to inherit Astraâs knowledge and even actually interact with her memory, she needed the help of the âLawâ of âCosmic Orderâ; if not for it, she wouldnât have been able to talk to her at all.
Lia didnât know, but Riya had managed to listen to Aria and Selain talking about Astraâs true death circumstances back then too.
And it was mainly because she was already favored by the âLawâ of âProtection and cure,â like the two SS-rank healers.
All in all, creating âPratigyaâ was no joking matter; it was a gamble on such a massive scale that one could even say the âworldâ could lose its impression about the person creating the gamble in the worst-case scenario.
âThe more I digest this inheritance, the more I feel that creating this so-called mythical artifact is a massive trap that I should avoid at all costs!â
While Lia was busy thinking about various things in her mind, Rioâs voice snapped her out of her daze.
"We are here..."
At Rioâs words, Lia came back to her senses, stopped flying, and stood beside Rio in mid-air.
"That must be the final boss of this dungeon... are you ready, Lia?"
Lia looked at the monster that Rio pointed at, and her eyes narrowed as she found that the other boss monster of this dungeon was actually considerate enough to find a massive open field for a duel.
In the barren wasteland where there was nothing else in sight aside from miasma, corrupted soil, and broken boulders scattered around everywhere, there was but a single humanoid-shaped individual sitting peacefully in a âseizaâ posture on the ground.
The individual had big fairy wings and was giving off powerful fairy healing magic fluctuations despite being much bigger in size than a normal fairy like Nova and the airhead twins.
Although a major portion of the other partyâs body was covered in miasmic corruption and decay, the individualâs beautiful-looking face made their identity pretty clear almost instantly.
That was without a doubt.
"A True Royal Fairy..."