Tome of Blood

Chapter 650-149- Fall
Three years...

Charlotte paused slightly.

She had not expected that it would take so long to devour Harald's power.

No, in fact, to be precise, what she devoured was not only Harald's power, but also the many divine laws and powers of the entire Holy Royal Court, as well as the total energy accumulated by the faith of the first church on the Miria continent for nearly a thousand years.

This is a divine energy much greater than the divine power she herself possesses.

Even with the help of the Holy Book of Blood, Charlotte still found it very difficult to swallow.

But she succeeded after all.

Charlotte couldn't say what state she was in at the moment. Such a violent devouring almost forcibly raised her divine power to a higher level. The divine nature in her body also underwent further transformation under the influence of multiple laws.

She is still a true God, but not a true God in the popular sense.

Her divine power has caused a qualitative change in quantitative change, becoming heavier and more magical than ordinary divine power.

It was as if she had become the origin of all things. As long as she wanted, she could even evolve her divine power into various kinds of power, including various kinds of divine power.

Obviously, her divine power can no longer be simply called the power of blood.

Now, her divine power should be called the original divine power!
Her divine nature and soul also underwent the same sublimation and transformation. The divine fire continued to burn, like a sun emitting divine power, or like a black hole that contained everything and could swallow everything.

Her spirit became stronger, and she even had a vague sense of transcendence.

She remembered things she had forgotten, and the gods who had died for her.

“Abaddon…”

Charlotte had a complicated expression on her face. She finally found the source of the warnings that had always been about "Be careful of Harald".

The memories of what she had experienced were "restored".

In addition, the most crucial thing is her relationship with the world of Miriam.

If the whole world rejected her before, then now, after further transformation, the world no longer rejects her. On the contrary, the world has surrendered to her.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe, as if the entire world had become her property. No force in this world could escape her control and would be subject to her constraints and control.

All laws, all energies, are exposed.

And if Charlotte were to fight Helios again at this moment, she wouldn't even need to make a move. She only needs a glance or a thought to easily deprive the opponent of his divinity and divine fire and take everything into herself.

After all, everything in this world belongs to her!
At this moment, Charlotte realized——

Great, domineering, omnipotent...

This is the power of creation level!
The God of Creation, the Lord of the World, the Master of the Planes!

But Charlotte did not feel much joy from her successful promotion.

There is no other reason, this force is simply too strong.

It was so powerful that even if she was a true god, she couldn't completely control it in the first place. It was so powerful that even she herself felt frightened.

If it weren't for the Holy Book of Blood, if it weren't for the fact that the Holy Book of Blood seemed to have undergone some kind of transformation during this devouring and could help her stabilize her divine power, she wouldn't even be able to properly control the overflowing divine power.

There's no way, she's growing up too fast.

In less than ten years, it was already quite exaggerated to go from an ordinary mortal to a true God, and now he has stepped into the creation of the world in one fell swoop. The leap is indeed huge.

It's like a child suddenly has the most advanced weapon in the world.

Possession does not mean familiarity, and familiarity does not mean mastery.

She still cannot master her own power well, and the time for her to become familiar with and accumulate power will probably take dozens or even hundreds of years.

But Charlotte probably doesn't have that much time to settle down.

Because...it's not over yet.

Closing her eyes, Charlotte could hear the cries, screams and prayers of believers coming from all directions, shaking her mind.

That is the call of the believers of Dark Night.

Not only the believers, but also her blood relatives, that strong call revealed anxiety.

Three years is enough time for a lot to happen.

And based on the response from the believers’ prayers, war…broke out.

As for the two sides of the war, in Charlotte's initial perception, one side was the Falling Star Kingdom and the Corea Kingdom, and the other side was the Crescent Kingdom, the West Yunet Empire, the Moon Coast City-State, many other small countries that believed in the Holy Royal Court, and... the Theocracy.

Theocracy...

Charlotte had a blank expression on her face, and her eyes shifted to the guarding staff following closely behind her.

Feeling her gaze, the Guardian Staff saluted respectfully:
"Congratulations on your ascension to the highest heaven, Your Majesty."

Its posture was respectful, but its tone was the same as Charlotte's, who had awakened all her "memories", without much joy.

Charlotte was silent.

"The Theocracy has switched sides?"

"Yes."

"This is my seventh restart since I traveled through time, right?"

"……Correct."

“Every reboot I’ve done in the past, I haven’t reached the heights of today, right?”

"……Correct."

"But it's not over yet, is it?"

"Yes."

"What about you? Who are you?"

Charlotte looked at the Guardian Staff and asked calmly.

This is a very abrupt question.

But it was a question Charlotte really wanted to know.

There is no other reason. After being promoted to [Creation], Charlotte also recalled those forgotten memories.

This was indeed not her first time traveling through time. In fact, she had already traveled through time seven times. Each time she woke up in the manor, each time she reached the mythical level, and each time... she was defeated in the battle with the original!
However, in the memories of the first six times, there was no guarding staff!

The Guarding Staff only appeared during this time of traveling!
Charlotte's question received no response from the Guardian Staff.

This artifact of wisdom is just silent.

Silent and standing respectfully.

"Ugh……"

Charlotte sighed.

She could see that the other party didn't want to say it.

No, maybe it’s not that I don’t want to say it, but... [I can’t say it].

Speaking of which, she has recovered her "memories", but she herself doesn't know whether the memories are complete or not. What if... the Guardian Staff is a backup plan left by her past self?

After all, it’s the only one that knows about Charlotte’s multiple restarts.

Although it was suspicious, at least this artifact of wisdom was really on her side.

Her transformation power was very sharp, so she was able to detect this fact.

"Tell me, what happened? Why did the war happen? Why... it was the Theocracy."

Charlotte didn't dwell on the subject any further.

The Guardian Staff was silent for a moment, and then spoke with a hint of bitterness:
"Yes... Primordial! Although you have successfully devoured the God Lord Harald, the Primordial pollution and the Primordial will... have affected the holy believers!"

The original will...

Charlotte mused.

She tried to communicate with the faith network of the Court of Creation, and then found that although she had devoured Harald's power, the faith network was completely disconnected from her.

It's like... some force has taken control of me.

Not just the faith network, but Harar itself.

It was normal that she did not forget Harald, because she was special. With the Holy Book of Blood, she could even devour the primordial purification, not to mention retaining her memory.

But even the "native" guardian staff did not forget Harald!
What does this mean?
This means that Harald...was not actually completely devoured by her!
In other words, her devouring was incomplete.

Charlotte recalled the expression on Harald's face before he was swallowed.

That fleeting, weird smile.

The smile continued to grow, and eventually it gradually overlapped with the strange expressions of the priests who were wrapped in flames and praying to the sky in the "future" fragments that Charlotte saw...

"It's the original! The original... ran away."

She murmured in her mind.

The uneasiness in her heart grew stronger and stronger, and Charlotte vaguely felt as if she had done something wrong.

"Return to the falling star."

Taking a deep breath, she commanded.

……

The king of stars, the castle of stars.

A lot can happen in three years.

Three years is enough time for Charlotte to initially digest the divine power she has absorbed, but it can also be a time for a war to break out, for the army to be destroyed, and for the city to fall.

Without Charlotte's intervention, it would be too difficult for the Falling Star Kingdom and the Corea Kingdom to fight against the coalition forces of other countries and the Theocracy.

Today, the capital of the Falling Star Kingdom is engulfed in flames.

Black smoke billowed and raging fire burned in the city. The outer city and the inner city had fallen, and the only one still resisting was the Red Palace of the Falling Star Palace.

On the Red Palace Square, knights with black flames all over their bodies charged with lances in hand, colliding with the army clad in silver armor.

The crescent flag fluttered in the wind, hanging behind the black knight. The hideous and deformed warhorse raised its hooves high and trampled the eagle and lilac flags under its feet. The dark red blood dyed the entire square red.

The palace guards fell one after another. The Templar Knights and the Inquisition Knights with black patterns on their armor guarded the fanatical priests and surrounded the last resisters.

Sebastian, Nice, Bardock, Albrecht.
They were all injured and weak.

"Sir Sebastian, surrender! The God of Darkness has abandoned you! Only by throwing yourself into the arms of the great Creator can your sins be washed away!"

At the forefront of the coalition forces, Angus de Vallee, former Grand Master of the Knights Templar, a loyal supporter of Charlotte, and now Chief High Priest of the Holy Court, persuaded.

He had a strange smile on his face, and maintained the same fanatical and strange expression as all the other clergymen and even the soldiers of the coalition forces. They were like controlled puppets, or as if they were the infinite extension of the same will, looking extremely terrifying.

However, no one noticed their problem except the surrounded Dark Night believers.