"Life is like a journey, but mine is a f*cking escape."
Floating in the void, Zeus looked at her translucent body with a helpless expression. Now she looked no different from a soul, but it could be called a Divine Soul. Her Divine Soul was not comparable to an ordinary soul. Moreover, in the heart of her body, a beautiful crystal, only the size of a thumb, was emitting dazzling light—that was Zeus's Divinity.
"It's a good thing I practiced Eastern Taoist arts; otherwise, let alone soul ejection, even self-detonation would probably be difficult."
As Zeus spoke, a sigh of relief appeared on her translucent face. That was close; she almost became a thermal weapon. But now there were two big problems to solve: first, to repair her Divinity, and then to re-condense her divine body. Both were crucial tasks, but easier said than done. There were three ways to repair Divinity: first, through the power of faith, but to restore this thumb-sized Divinity to its original size (a baby's fist) would require hundreds of millions of believers and thousands of years.
The second method was to fuse and repair it with a Divinity of equal power. Not to mention where to find such a Divinity, a God King-level Divinity like Zeus's would be hard to match. Alternatively, it would take a hundred thousand years of nurturing the Divinity with vast divine power to return it to its original size.
The third method was to find concentrated essence of various energies and slowly restore the Divinity, but setting aside the time needed, this energy would likely need to be infinite-level. Moreover, Divinity was particularly picky, and Zeus didn't even know if it would like new energy sources.
"Although it's a bit regrettable that my body was destroyed, I can now fully cultivate Eastern immortal arts. And thanks to Alaya's sponsored earring space, which contains all sorts of cultivation books, plus the inheritance I gained in the 'Dark End' world, it's like I've been given a cheat!"
Thinking of this, a humorous expression appeared on Zeus's face. It seemed she was still suited for the East and not so much for Western divine powers.
"Indeed, I still need a body. But if I use a body from the earring space in this situation, wouldn't that be akin to 'body snatching'? While it could integrate perfectly, it might alter the shape of my soul. It seems I need to collect some energy sources to first help stabilize my Divine Soul."
Clenching her transparent hands, Zeus looked helplessly at the various avatars in the earring space. Before, with a divine body, she could freely possess avatars and play around, but now without a divine body, she was a bit afraid. If she were to merge with an avatar, she would probably have to destroy the avatar to change bodies again, and her Divine Soul might slowly mimic the avatar's appearance, eventually turning her soul into the avatar's likeness. This was not what Zeus wanted to see.
"I need to quickly go to a world with special energy."
Thinking of this, Zeus took out a palm-sized crystal from the earring space. This was a divine power crystal she had made in her leisure time. It was fortunate she had this crystal, as it could now recharge the earring and allow her to travel again. Otherwise, Zeus could only wait in this void for a spatial rift to appear or perish in this emptiness. Zeus was now completely unable to squeeze out even a trace of divine power to charge the earring, and because it was made in her leisure, Zeus had only made one.
"Please, even though my luck was terrible in my last life, in this life, I can only pray again. I've staked my life on this. Take me to a world where I can survive!"
Zeus watched solemnly as the crystal slowly melted into energy and entered the earring. As the earring slowly began to glow, and grew brighter and brighter, a faint smile appeared on Zeus's face.
When the light reached its peak, Zeus and the light vanished from the original spot.
On top of a skyscraper, a translucent, soul-like figure appeared on the rooftop. This was Zeus. When she arrived in this world and opened her eyes, she was disappointed to find it was a technological world. This made her lament her bad luck, and she felt a touch of unwillingness, but her last divine power crystal had been used, so she had no way to travel again.
Finally, with a sigh, Zeus wanted to take a walk to relieve her mood, but before she had taken two steps, she suddenly felt a stream of energy coming from afar.
"Eh!? Does this world have some mysterious power?"
Zeus tried to absorb this power while observing. She found that as the energy in the air grew denser, the people below began to change. They started to become frantic, attacking each other and gnawing on each other's corpses.
"Resident Evil? Senran Kagura?"
Looking at the human-like zombie behavior below, Zeus couldn't help but speculate. After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't guess which world it was. But there was very good news: this power was extremely good at mimicking energy. When Zeus tried to let her Divinity absorb it, this energy began to evolve and tried to infect her Divinity, but the power of a god was clearly superior to it, so it was successfully absorbed by the Divinity. Judging from the Divinity starting to feed back power, the Divinity seemed to quite like this power.
"This is truly good news."
Zeus happily observed the state of her Divinity, and the gloom in her heart vanished. So, she began to absorb energy while exploring this world. This world had completely piqued her curiosity.
Then she began to infiltrate this world's network, entering the secret network of the largest organization in this world, specifically into a computer belonging to a Dr. MEI, to understand this defense force that took saving the world as its mission, and thus began to understand this world.
"On this planet, 'Honkai' is born with civilization. The more human civilization develops, the stronger the will of Honkai becomes. It is a cyclical disaster phenomenon that occurs every few hundred years. The manifestations of Honkai are elusive: war, epidemics, climate disasters, comet impacts, and so on."
"According to ancient texts, it can only be described as the unfathomable will of God. But from the results, it invariably leads to the mass extinction of the dominant species of the world."
"And among them, each Honkai must give birth to fourteen 'Herrschers'. They take the destruction of humanity as their mission, especially the power of the Fourteenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of the End, which far surpasses that of other Herrschers."
"Every time a Herrscher is defeated, humanity has to pay a huge and heavy price."
"Humanity's only hope is to use the power of a Herrscher against other Herrschers."
Seeing this information, Zeus fell silent. So, it was this world. It seemed there was a reason for her coming to this world. So, Zeus put down the keyboard and took a deep breath: "Damn Dawei, give me back my money."
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