Toward the east, a streak of silver light flew with insane speed, looking like a passing comet to those who witnessed it.

Stella’s eyes looked like the starry sky as she held the silver longsword now with red patches of her blood on it.

It glowed with the intent of the starry sky as she swung it at any living being she saw. Her motivation had reached its absolute peak as she could care less about her energy consumption.

Unless she met someone like Angelia or a Mortal King, she could be said to be invincible.

Her eyes turned toward the east as she felt a massive surge of dark energy; it was collectively released by a massive number of creatures.

"Found you."

Stella muttered with a smile as her speed increased. She didn’t want to waste any time, so she used her star essence to enhance her physical abilities by 1000%.

After a while, she appeared in front of a massive army numbering in the half a million, filled with all kinds of creatures.

This army was led by three ascension ranks: a giant rat at Ascension(Mid) rank, an Arachne at Ascension(High) rank, and a cave goblin at Ascension (Mid) rank.

Stella stopped above the army as she started at them with cold eyes, perhaps due to Stella extreme speed they seem to have just sensed her presence.

Then, she looked into the distance, where she could see a deep ravine. From the ravine, small teams of underground army were exiting.

"A bird to fr.."

The cave goblin was saying in an arrogant tone after sensing Stella’s presence but stopped after seeing her figure.

His eyes turned red with lust in an instant as drool started to drip from his mouth, and his breath became like a mad dog.

"She is Mine!!, MINE!!!"

"My new toy, kekeke."

The goblin started to shout as he rushed toward Stella. His lust seemed to have corroded his senses as he didn’t seem to sense Stella’s aura.

The other two were frozen in fear as they couldn’t even move their body, just the presence of Stella made them feel that they were carrying a mountain.

Sensing the lust-crazed rush of the cave goblin, Stella’s eyes narrowed as she showed a disgusted expression.

"Ignorant."

Stella said as she swung her sword. A sword light flashed passed as the cave goblin was split into half.

The cave goblin still had the lustful expression in his eyes before they lost their color.

Ignoring the goblin’s dead body, Stella looked at the large army and narrowed her eyes, finding this matter troublesome.

After all, although her speed and strength are very high, her area of effect attack can be considered to be very lacking.

Looking at the fear-frozen Arachne and the rat, she moved forward and appeared in front of them. She raised her sword and sliced it at the Arachne’s neck.

The Arachne stood there frozen, unable to move, as if she had accepted her death. Her head was chopped off as her massive body fell to the ground.

"Smart."

Stella commented as her eyes turned toward the rat. As her piercing gaze landed on it by instinct, its hair started to rise as it got ready to flee.

"Too Late."

With Stella’s words, the rat’s head was also chopped off, then she turned her attention to the army they led.

Their eyes were filled with shock as they watched their thought-to-be invincible commander die.

"Run!"

It’s not certain who said it, but all the entire army started to flee in all directions. Stella randomly swung her swords as a sword light passed by.

Whoever was unfortunate enough to touch the sword light had their life taken away as most of their body wasn’t even completely intact.

But the death of this small group was a drop in a bucket compared to the vast army of almost half a million.

"DIE!!!"

Just as she was about to make another move, a rat-like scream was heard as a claw of a giant rat filled with poison attacked her from behind.

The claw hit Stella’s position as it swept by, and the winds rose as the ground collapsed due to the power of the strike.

But alas, it didn’t hit Stella as she appeared behind the rat that attacked her, it was the same rat that she had beheaded.

"Hmm"

With a little narrowed eyes, she swung her sword, cleaving the rat’s hands as its giant body fell to the ground with a painful cry.

"AWRRRRR!!!"

It screamed for a while before the cut hand miraculously disappeared from the ground, and a green glow appeared on the rat’s amputated hand as a new hand was grown in an instant.

"Interesting."

Stella muttered with a smile as desire-filled glint flashed thorough her eyes. She really liked this regeneration ability.

This time, the rat seemed to have come to its senses as it didn’t dare attack Stella any longer as it massive body started to run.

"Should have run away sooner."

"Rising Star"

Stella said as a sword light flashed passed slicing the rat in half, its body fell to the ground as if dead, but after a while the two separated part attached itself.

The rat was alive again, but it was panting with deep breaths as its body was filled with purple sweat. In Stella’s eyes, its aura had decreased considerably, and perhaps its lifespan was also shortened.

The price of such a powerful regeneration ability she guessed.

"Let’s see if you can survive this."

This made Stella even more interested as she looked at the rat as if it was a gunnie pig.

"Star Enchatment."

She muttered softly as her strength was raised by another 5000%. A majesty of the king was released from her body as an image of a starry sky appeared behind her.

"SKY FALL!!"

She shouted as the starry sky behind her crumbled into pieces and turned into a large sword slash.

The rat wasn’t even able to scream before its body was destroyed on an atomic level. Due to the power of her attack, the space hit by the attack showed signs of cracking before it was quickly stabilized.

Stella closed her eyes as she felt the new ability she had acquired from the rat. This time, she didn’t turn it into energy but made the talent her own.

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Corrupted Regeneration: An ability obtained by digesting something containing the energy of a C#!$ C#@a!@#. It grants a form of immortality as the person possessing it can not die in any form as long as the energy demand is fulfilled. If not, lifespan, vitality, or even the realm itself will be consumed by the C#!$ C#@a!@# who granted this ability.

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Looking at the ability description, Stella frowned, especially when looking at the blurred name. Just by reading it, even though it was blurred, she felt a sense of impending doom.

Her soul was shaken as an unknown fear rose from deep inside her heart; various chaotic thoughts and murmurs started to appear in her mind she fell from the sky.

Her body became motionless as her eyes started to lose it’s luster; her thoughts were only focused on understanding the truth behind the blurred name.

All her memories started to get blank as her star-like soul started to darken with a chaotic red glow. Thunder roared in the sky as the heaven of the Titania started to show fear.

The entire world darkened as Stella’s eyes completely lost their light and started to show a dark orange color.

A sense of impending doom started to rise from her body as her aura rose wildly. From the Transcendent Rank to Acension, then to the Mortal King.

The mortal king became the king of the earth in an instant as a heavenly throne of pure chaos was created.

Her heavenly, king-like aura rose as the entire sky took on an orange hue. Half of a corrupted divinity was born as she stepped into the realm of a god, becoming a demigod.

Her wings, which were once as pure as the shining stars, darkened as orange dots of chaotic energy rose from them.

That corrupted divinity created a false divine body as she reached the False god rank.

The sun in the sky turned completely black as the moon also rose, now not releasing a silver white glow but the reddish glow of blood and carnage.

The Stars in the sky were the only ones that managed to fight back as they did their best not to be corrupted.

The entire continent shook as if it were on the verge of breaking.

Stella’s aura hadn’t stopped rising as it tried to break the shackles of heaven and become a true god.

The heavens of the continent did its best as it tried to stop her from becoming any stronger.

Far away, Neo fell to the ground with a pained look as he put his hands on his chest. He vomited blood as he felt a sense of despair and doom rising from inside his soul.

He bit his lips as he tried to calm his mind. Opening the personal stats panel, he tried to look at what was wrong with him.

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Name: Neo&!%^#&^*!#^

#$@$#@#@

Rank: Transcendent(Low)

Stats:

Physique !$%$!#%!# !%#@^!$ !$@^ !

Talent: Enlightened Mind, Ba!%$@!$@^&!

Skills: Master Swordsmansh!%#&%! !%#@ *! @#*#!*%# *#!*&#!#! #

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Looking at his glitched stats panel, his eyes widened as he fell to the ground with a thud. His vitality started to weaken as his road of Transcendence started to dim.

The starry sky above his head cracked as the flowers in the garden did their best to stop the collapse of the road.

In the distance, Lily, who was flying, stopped as she looked at the changes in the sky. Her soul shook as she felt a sense of fear rising.

Her eyes widened as she felt a change in the connection with Neo; she felt his breath declining as if he was on the verge of dying.

Without a moment to waste, she turned back as she flew with all her speed. She used every enchantment magic she could and even used flame magic a propulsion to increase her speed.

In the territory, Neo lay powerless on the ground as he tried to hold his sense of self. His mind was darkening as with his last bit of consciousness he muttered.

"Stella..."