With everything being chaotic as fuck, I went back on my journey.

Of course, Mitsuki hugged me tightly after a long time. She doesn't even let me out.

"Charlotteeee~ I missed you so much!!", she cried, "It has been so boring would your I-know-everything attitude!!"

I do have a schedule to keep up, after all. So I'll probably plan for the next place to visit.

Oh, Seria returned to America already, so there are only the other four with me besides Utopia. Yes... four, Sinclair is somewhere on the ship. I don't know how but that bitch kept on evading Utopia and my detection.

"We are heading back to Greece. There is someone I need to visit.", I stated to her.

"Your sister?", Mitsuki asked me.

"No, we are going to Circe.", the Greek Goddess of Witchcraft, but she is also known by another name.

The First Disciple of Earth (Tiamat)

In myth, she is the disciple and first student of Hecate, the Goddess of Magic. Now, who is bold enough to call themselves a god of Magic? When all magic in this world can only be cast by a singular being? Only the World can.

Also interecting story, Circe got laid with Odysseus, birthed a son named Telegonus. Later in his life, the Oracle of Delphi said he would be killed by his son.

A scholar who hated Odysseus for some reason wrote that he was killed by Telegonus just after exling his actual son and then Telegonus married his wife.

The actual story is far funnier in my opinion. Ody was the first person ever to call out the bullshits of the Oracle, lived peacefully to old age. Telemachus, his legitimate son, granted him a mercy kill. THEN Telegonus ended up at Icatha the next day. This is the account recorded in the Akashic Library.

Well, the two half-brothers talked it out, went to Aeaea, and somehow, Telemachus married Circe. It isn't every day that you get to marry a goddess.

I would get to see the son of the greatest tactician of Greece, he died a long time ago, after all.

Why would I be there? It's a good vacation spot and a place for me to kill time.

Because soon, I will be laying my final steps to the future I wanted. The complete annihilation of the Stars' influences, so that my Starless World can be realize.

Heha... hehahahaha~!!

Enna entered the room, "Here are some refreshments, Your Majesty."

She placed down a bowl of cookies and two teacups, pouring tea into them. Her posture was elegant and nice, like a professional maid.

"You have improved a lot.", I smiled, putting several sugar cubes into my tea.

"Utopia forced me through a training course..."

 

=0=0=A month ago=0=0=

 

"[Your posture must be straighter, Miss Enna]", Utopia sternly spoke, watching her with a glowing crimson eye.

"Ugh...!! Let me rest!!", she cried out.

"[To be a servant of Her Majesty, you need to be better than the best.]", he replied, fixing her posture with mechanical arms.

"That doesn't even make sense!!"

 

=0=0=

 

"As an Angel, I never thought I would be subjected through such intensity.", she sighed then quietly head out.

Hmm, it's almost time.

"Let me go, Mitsuki. I need to shoot something.", I pried her arms open, freeing myself.

"Aww~ where are you going anyway?", she asked while following to the hallway.

What am I going to do? Simple. I obtained a bunch of data from Babel, courtesy of Utopia. I know the titles of several Eldritch Gods and Heralds around the world. I will shoot them all down.

"You should stay away for a bit.", I warned her, "my gravity is quite powerful."

"Alright...", she nodded and went back in.

Heading to the deck, I summoned Fallen Starlight and War Symphony.

"Reforge.", I smashed them together, forming the bleeding marble rifle.

Under the night sky, where the stars illuminate the world. Oh, how I wish for this world to be blinded by their light, for the light of this world to outshine the cosmos.

Now... The Lumination Prime, The Dark Malevolent, The Starlight Blaze, The White Rest, The Paradise Wonder, The All Seeing, The Lore Keeper, The Sacred Tomb, The Divine Law...

Those are all the Eldritch Gods I can handle at once, as their light is far away for them to become a major problem. Others closer to the Sol system are quite challenging, so I can't risk angering them.

For the Heralds in this world... Radoban, Igwitor, Hansen Carliron, Malenia, Gehennaro, Cortikalos, Ruben Akhor, Elledor, Erik Masedona...

These names are the ones Babel had, but I am sure there are more. Cross checking between the international registered identity list and the Library showed that there are quite a few that don't appear in my book, not to mention the unregistered people.

I have to make do with this.

I closed my eyes before chanting, "I am the Anchor of the Present. Splitting Time into Past and Future."

"Argent Overdrive...", then I opened them, the Compass Roses shine brightly and the white halo manifest behind my head.

Fu...

"I offer to Humanity—", I put a part of the energy I got from my Inner World onto the Scale, "Let the Exchange begin."

I converted that energy into enchancement, but since I feel like my Soul is being stingy as fuck... I activated Hope and Ambition. Gold and Silver shine in my eyes.

"In the Name of Humanity.", I raised the rifle to the sky, letting the blood drip down my arm.

The energy inside the gun began to gather, spinning and forming a bullet.

"By the Rite of Steel and Gunpowder..."

The blood stopped flowing from the gun, as the malice leaking out began to coat around the bullet.

"O' Light from across the Cosmos..."

I shall teach them the madness that makes humans who they are, show them the endless malice of this world...

"May your Existence be Denied."

And I pulled the trigger, the rifle let out a painful cry as the bullet came out. Rising into the sky, the crimson bullet split into hundreds of fragments, dancing across the sky.

Beautiful, the malice of mankind is.

I dropped my gun, spreading my arms out with a maniacal smile. This is what I want!! Yes!!

"For my Starless World, witness the might of mankind!!"

There is no one who can stop me!! Dear guests and invaders from beyond the sky, die for humanity!!!

Ah... being crazy once in a while can be fun.

"[Your Majesty, we are about to arrive on Aeaea.]", Utopia notified me.

"Got it.", I nodded.

With a snap of my finger, I separated the two guns from each other and returned them to my Gate of Akasha.

As I walk back into the hallway...

Huh... I found myself in endless darkness— I grabbed something that came at me from behind, slamming into it.

"Vision.", a voice echoed.

Hmm... a long-range attack, robbing me of my vision.

"Taste.", it echoed again.

My sense of taste is also gone.

"Smell.", that too.

"Hearing.", gone.

"Touch."

My final sense went away, now I am stuck in total darkness...

Well, not really. I am still in Argent Overdrive, so I know that I am still inside my ship from the pressure of things touching my Soul.

"You know, I can still speak and hear even without my physical senses, you know?"

The second goal of Alchemy, the Synchronization of Body, Mind, and Soul, go beyond my body. If anyone want to rob me of my senses, they need to trying harder than just sealing my body.

I navigated back to the deck. Now, since my Soul has a limit as well as my vision in this state, I need to break out of this situation.

Well, I already know who is responsible for this...

"Circe, if you don't stop, I will delete Aeaea from the map. You know what I can do, so quit it.", I gave out my promise.

I've destroyed two cities already, an island wouldn't be much different. Ah, right... I need to remove Ramses the Great's Inner World from Kiyv, that place became a desert real quick. Gotta deal with that later.

Oh... she complied, my senses returned.

I crossed my arms with a smile, "I appreciate your greeting, Circe."

 

=0=0=

 

Aeaea, Italy.

 

Standing on top of a mountain untouched by time, a fair and petite lady wearing a toga stares beyond the horizon, wings made of gold and wax spread out in their full grandiose. Her fluffy pink hair swayed in the wind, while her crown, made from a pair of bull horns and golden eyes, stayed still, staring at the vessel approaching this island.

She was Circe, the Goddess of Witchcraft, the First Disciple of Hecate - the Ego of Earth.

 

=0=0=

 

Yet in another location, a black cat was watching a writhing mass of tentacles screaming on top of a tree, crimson cracks glows as it let out its last breath before vanishing.

Then the cat changed, it shed its fur, its skeleton changed entirely to a bipedal one. Switching from eyes to eyes, eventually landing on non-compound, mamilian eyes, round and bore a crimson glow to them.

From paws to hands with an opposable thumb, it chose white for its skin color.

It took the form of a human, changing back and forth from male and female. Eventually deciding on a female, a tall and boundtiful woman.

It grew long hair, moving by itself as if alive, turning into a crimson red as if on fire.

The person it took the form of is none other than Charlotte.

The loser of the Great Game, the Hivemind of Life, is no more; the Records of Beast is no more. It is its own being.

Like all life on this planet, it, too, can hold a grudge.

Even if it is no longer the Hivemind of Life.

It is still Earth's representative of wildlife.

Avalon, the Perfect Lifeform— now it had taken the Ultimate Predator's form.