The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

Chapter 797: [Blessing Wish]

Afterward, bliss like a celestial being.

Even Shien himself hadn’t expected that upon returning this time, he would first experience such bliss instead of being “punished.”

If it weren’t for his princess’s penchant for drama, he wouldn’t have achieved such a feat.

“After all, I’m a man of conscience, right?” Shien said, holding Lucy and seeking her agreement with a self-satisfied expression.

“…” Lucy didn’t want to speak, she wanted to kill him. She could see his smugness. After this, her justified questioning had become unreasonable. She had been “subdued,” so what was the point of settling scores now? None! Therefore, Lucy regretted her dramatic act and the grand show she put on, deliberately trying to intimidate him. She should have known that this guy responded better to softness than harshness. She regretted it so much!

And this shameless man, having taken full advantage, even made a smug promise.

“Don’t worry, I won’t abandon you. Even though I’m engaged to a Demon Lord, you’ll still be the first to marry me.”

Shien had to make this promise. After all, Lucy came first, and he didn’t want to be a scumbag.

“…” Lucy still didn’t speak, only resenting herself inwardly. Why? Why did his single sentence make her feel so relieved, her resentment almost completely gone? Was she really that easy? The Kingdom’s Treasure, hailed as the most beautiful woman in the Human Race, began to question her life. Being so easily swayed was embarrassing. But what else could she do? She still had to marry him. If she couldn’t, that would also be troublesome. The marriage-minded princess felt a pang of melancholy.

Finally, after a long silence, she asked,

“Doesn’t the Dragon Demon mind you marrying me first?”

If she married Shien first, her position as the principal wife would be secure. Would the Dragon Demon accept this? Lucy was doubtful.

Shien, however, nodded firmly.

“She said it herself, not me,” he told Lucy.

Indeed, Airi had personally said this to Shien.

“Humans do have many customs and rituals. Although I find them boring, that princess of yours probably cares about these things a lot. Just tell her that I don’t care, she can do whatever she wants,” Airi had said to Shien.

“After all, the Demon Race doesn’t have the concept of principal wives and concubines, neither does the God Race. Only the various tribes of the Human Race have such customs, especially humans, whose lifespans are generally shorter.”

“In the Demon Realm, as long as you’re strong enough and your level is high enough, you can marry as many women as you want. Of course, if someone is stronger than you, then you might become part of their harem.”

Therefore, the Demon Race only cared about ability and strength, not status.

And Shien, as the renowned Hero, his strength now comparable to a Demon Lord’s, could naturally do as he pleased in their eyes.

Because of this, Airi didn’t care about such trivial matters.

“She also said that you’re qualified to make her follow the ‘first come, first served’ rule,” Shien said, seemingly amazed, “In other words, you’ve been acknowledged by the Dragon Demon.”

Therefore, Airi was willing to give way to Lucy.

“…Is that so?” Lucy murmured, relieved. Although she was determined to marry Shien, she had always aimed for the position of principal wife. If someone else took that position, although she wouldn’t break up with Shien, she wouldn’t be happy. Moreover, she also had to consider her own family’s reputation. She didn’t want to embarrass them. Therefore, she was prepared to fight Airi for the position. She now had the qualifications to do so. Although she resented and blamed Shien, she didn’t intend to punish him for this. She wanted to fight Airi, to let that infamous Dragon Demon know that she wasn’t a pushover.

Who knew that before she could even act, she was “subdued” by Shien, and her opponent even surrendered willingly. It was like putting on a grand show in her own little theater, only to find it was all for naught.

Thinking of this, although relieved, Lucy also felt slightly frustrated. She now understood why this fool dared to return before the three-race meeting. He had a solution, so he had the confidence to come back.

Lucy clenched her fists.

She really wanted to hit him! [○·｀Д′·○]

Shien naturally didn’t know that his princess was once again lost in her own little world.

He suddenly seemed to remember something and sat up.

“By the way, what happened to you?” he asked, looking at Lucy.

“What do you mean, ‘what happened’?” Lucy glared at him, pulling the blanket back up to cover herself.

Shien glanced at her, almost unable to resist the urge to pounce on her again, to show his appreciation for such a beautiful sight.

But he held back. He was more concerned about something else.

“What’s with your eyes? They can change color now?” he asked, both puzzled and surprised, “And your strength is completely different from before.”

Not to mention the extraordinary divine aura he sensed upon arriving, even now, with the appraisal ability of [Outer Awareness of Heaven’s Decree], he saw something unbelievable.

Specifically, Lucy’s current level.

—”—”.

Yes.

Her level was now a strange symbol he had never seen before. He couldn’t see the levels of Transcendent Level beings, but that meant seeing nothing, a blank space, not a symbol like this.

What was going on?

Lucy naturally knew that Shien wouldn’t ignore this.

So, she asked,

“Do you know what my Unique Skill is?”

This question stumped Shien. He had never known about Lucy’s Unique Skill.

“I only heard that you, like Diere, were born with a powerful Unique Skill, but I don’t know what it is,” he said honestly. Lucy never told him, and he never asked, so it was delayed until now.

Lucy wasn’t surprised.

“My Unique Skill has always been a secret kept by the royal family. Except for a few, no one knows. They only said it was powerful, and I’ve never encountered a situation where I needed to use it.”

Lucy gathered her hair, exuding a languid beauty, and said slowly,

“Actually, before this, my Unique Skill was unusable.”

These words stunned Shien.

“An unusable Unique Skill?” he asked, surprised.

“Yes,” Lucy nodded, looking at Shien, “Because my Unique Skill requires a very, very long time to develop.”

Saying this, she extended her hand and took out a scroll, a sealed document.

“This document was written on the day I was born, then sealed in the magic library beneath the Royal Palace until recently, when it was unsealed and given to me,” she said, handing it to Shien.

“Everything about my Unique Skill is written here. You can read it yourself.”

Shien, not being polite, took the scroll and unsealed the wax and string, noticing traces of residual magic power. This meant that the document was sealed both physically and magically. And judging by its age, it had existed for quite some time. He suspected it had been in the magic library for seventeen years.

He unfurled the scroll, revealing a parchment filled with words from another world.

The parchment read:

“In the 983rd year of the Peace Calendar, a legitimate descendant of the Mitra Kingdom’s royal family, the second princess after Lilia, was born.”

“Upon her birth, the world seemed to rejoice, trembling slightly.”

“After testing, the Kingdom discovered that this newborn second princess possessed incredibly powerful magic power.”

“That magic power transcended the world’s barriers, reaching the Divine Realm, the Demon Realm, and even every corner of the Human Realm.”

“On this day, the Holy Sword, passed down through the Kingdom for a thousand years, reacted, and Lildas, the Goddess of Fate, personally descended and bestowed her blessing upon the second princess.”

“Afterwards, we were shocked to discover that Princess Lucy not only possessed incredibly powerful magic power from birth, but also an innate Unique Skill.”

“The power of that Unique Skill surprised even the Goddesses of the God Race and amazed Lildas, the Goddess of Fate.”

“Its name is—[Blessing Wish].”

“It is a Unique Skill that can trace the origin of a blessing bestowed upon its possessor and then manifest a power identical to the source of that blessing.”

“In other words, with this Unique Skill, Princess Lucy will be able to wield the power of the Goddess of Fate who blessed her.”

“The power of the world’s strongest being, the one who controls fate, will be in Princess Lucy’s hands.”

Seeing this, Shien’s eyes widened.

“You… you can use the Goddess of Fate’s power?” he asked, looking at Lucy in shock.

Lucy smiled.

“That’s right,” she replied.

Leaving Shien speechless.

Chapter 798: A True Genius!

The power to manipulate fate.

This was recognized as the closest thing to omnipotence. The ability to manipulate the fate of all things, to make wishes come true to a certain extent, made the Goddess of Fate second only to the Demon King and the Supreme God, and with the Demon King gone and the Supreme God in seclusion, she was recognized as the strongest in Omnipotence.

And this power, the strongest of all, was now in Lucy’s hands.

—[Blessing Wish].

This Unique Skill, capable of tracing the origin of a blessing and manifesting a power identical to its source, made Lucy the second being capable of manipulating fate, after the Goddess of Fate.

“If the one who blessed me was a Lower God, then my Unique Skill would manifest the power of a Lower God.”

“If the one who blessed me was a Higher God, then my Unique Skill would manifest the power of a Higher God.”

“This isn’t something I can control, but a passive effect. When I receive a god’s blessing, it activates automatically, tracing the blessing’s origin and manifesting its power.”

“This process only happens once in a lifetime.”

“Therefore, if the goddess who blessed me wasn’t powerful, or even lacked combat abilities, then my Unique Skill would be useless,” Lucy revealed this secret.

“Fortunately, I was born with powerful magic power, so powerful that it even alerted the Divine Realm, and Lildas, the Goddess of Fate, personally descended and blessed me.”

It was at that moment that Lucy’s Unique Skill activated, her future becoming limitless.

“To manifest the Goddess of Fate’s power, my [Blessing Wish] took seventeen years, finally succeeding a little over a month ago,” she said.

“Because of this, a part of my existence has also become similar to a goddess, which is why I’m like this.”

Saying this, Lucy pointed at her eyes. Her wine-red eyes shimmered, turning into a brilliant, noble, and cold gold.

Shien understood.

“So it’s because a part of your existence has become like a goddess that you have a [True Mark]?” he asked, touching the ancient mark on his arm.

“Yes,” Lucy nodded, “Although I haven’t completely transformed into a god, I do possess the same nature as a Goddess of the God Race. This [True Mark] appeared when I was fifteen, hidden within my body.”

It wasn’t until she chose Shien that she entrusted her [True Mark] to him. This way, even if she died, she would be resurrected by his side, only truly dying when he died and the [True Mark] was destroyed.

“No wonder…” Shien finally understood.

“No wonder your status in the God Race is so special.”

Nien had also said that although Lucy was outstanding, the reason she was favored by the entire God Race, treated like a daughter by Lildas, wasn’t just because of her talent.

Only now did Shien understand that the reason Lucy was so respected by the goddesses, so loved by Lildas, was because of her [Blessing Wish] Unique Skill. This Unique Skill allowed her to inherit the Goddess of Fate’s power, even transforming a part of her existence into that of a god. Such a Lucy could even be considered a goddess. Naturally, the Goddesses of the God Race saw her as one of their own, even as a second Goddess of Fate. Lildas, knowing that Lucy would eventually become like her, naturally treated her like a true daughter.

However…

“Since you’ve already mastered the Goddess of Fate’s power, why is your level so strange?” Shien asked, puzzled.

Logically, having inherited the Goddess of Fate’s power, she could even become a second Goddess of Fate, achieving Transcendence. And if she transcended, he shouldn’t be able to see her level.

However, her level was displayed as a strange “—”.

Shien didn’t understand what this meant.

Lucy smiled wryly.

“Although I possess Lildas’s power, it doesn’t mean I’ve become Lildas,” she said meaningfully.

“You mean, divine power is ultimately something only a goddess can possess. Although you have a part of a goddess’s concept, you haven’t completely become a goddess, your essence still human, so you can’t fully utilize this power, right?” Shien asked thoughtfully.

“That’s right,” Lucy confirmed.

Her current state of existence wasn’t stable, partly god, essentially human, yet possessing a [True Mark], the core of a goddess, and able to use the Goddess of Fate’s power. In terms of power and nature, she was closer to a goddess than a human. But in terms of her concept, the part of her that was a goddess wasn’t significant. Having a small portion of a goddess’s concept, yet possessing such distinct divine characteristics, made her power and state unstable. This was why her level was displayed so strangely.

“Now, when I use my power, the goddess part of me will manifest and rapidly expand, giving me power comparable to a Transcendent Level being.”

“But because I’m not truly a goddess, once it expands to a certain point, it will be suppressed, like a flood blocked by a dam, and then dissipate.”

“After dissipating, the goddess part of me will rapidly decrease until it completely vanishes.”

“When that happens, my power will also plummet, until I can’t even use my power, not even my own original power, becoming incredibly weak.”

Lucy revealed her greatest weakness to Shien. She hadn’t told anyone about this, perhaps only Lildas, the Goddess of Fate, who possessed a similar power, could guess.

Shien finally understood. Lucy’s current state was similar to that of the Half-Demon in the Original Demon, both incomplete Transcendent Level beings. The difference was that the Half-Demon’s power fluctuated uncontrollably between Limit Level and Transcendent Level, while Lucy could control when to use her power.

Once she used it, she would become stronger and more like a goddess over time, until reaching a critical point, then her power would plummet to zero, leaving her incredibly weak and powerless.

“When [Blessing Wish] was completed, I went to the Divine Realm and met with Lildas.”

“She evaluated me at that time.”

“And she believed that when I reach the critical point, my power will be no less than hers,” Lucy said.

“But after reaching the critical point, I’ll only have a few seconds of power comparable to Lildas, enough to unleash a single attack equal to her full power, then my power will plummet, and I’ll become weak.”

The trigger for this state was her divine power. Once she used it, her goddess side would manifest, its expansion rate determined by the frequency, duration, and intensity of her power’s usage. The faster the expansion, the stronger she became, but the sooner she reached the critical point. Conversely, if the expansion was slow, she wouldn’t reach the critical point so quickly, but her power wouldn’t be as great.

“Then normally?” Shien asked, “When you don’t use your power, what level are you?”

Lucy immediately answered, having already tested this.

“Because a part of my existence has become like a goddess, and my state is unstable, my level can no longer be viewed conventionally,” she said with a troubled expression, “Even without using my power, I’m stronger than before, roughly equivalent to a Legendary-level expert.”

“If I use the Holy Sword, I can fight against Limit Level experts.”

“But my life form itself is incredibly unstable, and Lildas believes I might transcend the limits of life at any moment.”

“She believes that if I can successfully transcend, then my state will stabilize after breaking through the limitations of life.”

“At that time, I will be able to completely control the power of fate, truly becoming an existence on par with Lildas.”

Hearing this, Shien was once again speechless. Looking at the troubled Lucy, he really wanted to say that she didn’t realize the true significance of this. What was truly shocking wasn’t that she could rival Lildas after transcending, but that she had the potential to transcend! Under the constraints of Logic, the limit of life was level one hundred, and no one but a Hero could truly surpass it! But Lucy had this potential!

This was the Kingdom’s Treasure!

This was the renowned second princess of the Mitra Kingdom!

Shien finally understood why Mitra’s Holy Sword recognized her!

It was because she had the potential to surpass her ancestor, Hero Mitra!

A genius!

This was a true genius!