Rate couldn't believe what he had just heard from his mother " Is that true ? " Melda nodded ' Looks like I'll have to keep my hands off that page of unsealing their powers ' " So you all have much stronger restraints on you ? "
Melda nodded " Then who did it ? " " A close friend found someone appears out of nowhere offering a wide world and gave them the key to this world " ' I see so it wasn't as harsh ' " What about you ? "
" Don't know for all I know I didn't come here voluntarily " " The Labyrinth must've dragged you instead " Rate said and Melda thought of the Labyrinth " But if they did shouldn't you have your allegiance to the Labyrinth ? "
' She's doubting me , not much she can do if ' " No I'm not , even though much evidence has pointed to my likely allegiance to the Labyrinth, I'm was just as lost in this world as the dragon riders , they've lived here for a while which I'm wondering if the descenders actually care about fighting the Labyrinth "
" But that's not true , a lot of dispatched descenders fight earnestly " Rate said and Melda narrowed her eyes " You're right to doubt them you did go up there didn't you ? Even I thought they could've done more but all they gave us was the excuse that resources were scarce and you needed to be free from any Labyrinth influence "
" I see , but speaking of the Labyrinth's influence you guys should get yourselves checked after all I got you all from the Labyrinth " Melda tries to sense inside her body and soul " Ugh I do sense it " " Don't worry I can fix it the problem is the damage you'll need some help "
Lily dispels the effects and Melda feels her thoughts more clearly ' Kill the labyrinth ... huh it's much easier now ' " Rate you'll need to do this now , I don't know your friends very well " Lily showed the page " Uh okay I'll take care of it " Rate said taking the page to study later .
" When did you have that " " A while back I only recently got it " " From ? " " The Labyrinth , it was hard to take it during the fight this morning " " You fought with the Labyrinth ? " Rate asked surprised and Lily nodded " I needed some bait to get their attention though " Melda asked
' The descenders will find out about this information it would show that I have some bait for the Labyrinth they'll be on the edge when they realize that so I'll have all the excuses to ignore whatever mass media chaos is going on up there '
" What kind of bait ? " " I had the soul of a practitioner that can extract death it seems like Life's old world had a lot of arts that could remove death this one in particular was rather skilled according to Life " Lily explained .
" How did you obtain it ? " Melda asked " When Death came to this world the souls of the dead in his world followed him , I guess the same applied to Life " ' The information about Life and Death's story should be limited or else I might point fingers too soon '
" But it is interesting how the way you came here was through an invitation , Life and Death were different according to Death he was sent here to be disposed of because no one wanted to die in his old world meanwhile Life came here voluntarily "
Melda slowly understood what Lily meant and Lily sensed that she was beginning to see the truth that the descenders had been restricting by stopping the spread of information .
' Life said it before it was to keep morale high even Melda had to create a fake story to raise the spirits of the younger generation of mythical beast '
" Well this dinner has shed some light , but in the end , I just want to make sure I and people close to me survive " dinner ends eventually and Melda continues to think about the contents they discuss while Lily is focused on only the details of their sealed bloodline .
' I'll have to check on that key they threw away it's clear enough that it's useful for those who understand the history of that world , maybe that distributor has it although the problem is who they are '
Lily thought of the close friend guessing that she could extract that information and set her sights . The blank grimoire drew the image of the distributor and the time allowing her to measure how old they likely were ' Good thing I bought the history '
Lily was about to read the history but remembered her promise " Ugh but then there's that promise I have " Lily looked at the Blank grimoire ' Or maybe I could use this for the history , Life would pester me if I did use it for the library ' " What's the use of knowing a fake history anyways ? "
Lily arranged for Argus to pile up all of the history for the blank grimoire to absorb ' I'll rest for the day still a lot to do . They'll spread the information again this time some other dubious descenders might come down , I'll deal with them tomorrow ' a debt chain forms slowly overnight connecting Lily back to the Labyrinth .
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Woods starts growing some plants around the fireform's land , while a spacecraft arrives ' Looks like they took the bait , but if they did it this fast they must have someone sending this information back ' " Argus makes a map of information leaks starting with Meld and Rate "
Lily takes the elevator and walks to the station where she meets Tanec " And who must you be ? " " I'm Tanec I've come down hearing that you have someone called Death " " So Emma told you about it , but from what I heard I told Sermin I was not gonna hand over him "
" Oh no it's not like that " Lily used the debt chain and got Tanec's thoughts ' If she has the soul she could be connected to the Immortal so I'll have to find evidence to be able to get rid of them or add insurance ' ' She's a bit slow to understand '
" I've heard you fought with the Labyrinth a day after returning " " Why yes , are you here to ask about a piece of it , I can always go since I have bait " ' Bait ? ' " If I may what kind of bait do you use ? "
" A soul of a practitioner , Life said she had it when she came to this world . She even used it to come to this world , honestly the labyrinth has some strange taste " ' It's okay they still didn't think of the distributors as the descenders '
" Well if you do find anyone calling the descenders the ones who bring them in you shouldn't believe them , the Labyrinth is capable of brainwashing people into defending it . You should read the research about the Labyrinth piece they found out that brainwashing was one of their self-defense mechanism "
" Really ? " Tanec nodded ' That should keep me free from any accusations as long as she realizes that I'll be safe ' ' She really thought this through sorry for doubting your intelligence ' " So the Labyrinth is smart enough to understand the inner workings of you descenders ? "
Tanec nodded with a smile " After all they have driven away some descenders to their side it's easy for them to see what our society is like " " Then what are you here for ? "
" Well I want to ask about the death manifestations that disappeared a few days back , you had someone called Death so I had no choice but to suspect that you could have them "
" Then go and investigate " " Thank you for your cooperation " Tanec followed Lily while she sent a message to Death through the debt chain and called him " Death can you meet with us some investigator is here "
They meet up and Tanec immediately senses the dense amount of death manifestations " What ? " Tanec raised her guard looking at Death " Why would you show up evidence like this ? "
Lily sighed " Relax the death manifestation you sensed inside Death are the ones of my residents and employees it's quite a number too "
' That makes this investigation harder than' " Oh sorry for that behavior " That's fine now are you going to investigate it or not ? " " Well I don't sense any death manifestation that I kept in the vault so I would like to at least look around "
" Go ahead " " But with a place this big I would need more so is it possible for you to call your personnel to cut the cost ? It would make at least be helpful for your reputation " Tanec said ' She is that suspicious but I don't think she'll find anything '
" Then I'll head over to the station " ' If she has evidence of being with Immortal I can get some achievement out of her , but if not then I'll at least be seen as trying to track Immortal instead . ' Lily returns after sending the message .
" I'll be busy reading up the labyrinth research now so you can have all the time to investigate my territory " " Wait , this much will be a bother for you so I would like to compensate you after all this "
Lily thought about what she could get from Tanec " I've heard that your business surrounds the extraction of people's death , as you may know, I already have Death to take care of that so do you have any sort of research progressing the extraction of the death from other creatures "
' Death did say that it would be difficult to get rid of someone's death if he doesn't understand how to die so ' " I want to see if you have any understanding of that kind of thing " ' A demanding request but not much I can offer she's not the type to take the money '
" Then I will show you some of them " ' I do need to improve the death I extracted from Rate it was such a sloppy work I'm barely keeping it from returning '
" Then I will accept that , what kind of creature do you want me to research on their death extraction ? " Lily thought about the current candidates " I was thinking of a living star "
Tanec froze " But you know this can only work on living things that can live right ? " " Yes however won't it be useful for it to be applied on a star " " Nono Commander if I were to do that I could end someone's sanity , you are aware of fasting right ? "
" Yeah , I've experienced it " ' All my life too ' " If I were to take their ability to die they wouldn't be able to burn their body as fuel anymore " " Tsk so I'll have to figure out another way then " Tanec sighed with relief as she thought about the star Lily was referring to .
" However if you'd like how about I give you something else , we descenders have records of various kinds of techniques I can look one up to change your living star into something else " Lily sighed " Then I'll take that offer instead ' So I'm taking care of the death extraction myself now ? ' Death thought and left.
" I'll have Argus accommodate you while you wait for your investigation team " Lily said " That would be great "
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Tanec sat on the bed thinking about the deathless residents of the territory ' The number of deathless here is even more than the ones I've done over the years , she'll be in the way of my business even after I confirm her innocence and I'm not capable of framing her '
' Looks like Tanec is thinking too dangerously ' Lily thought while monitoring her through the debt chains . Lily turned her attention to the blank grimoire now that she was done with Tanec " Alright Blank grimoire that distributor from yesterday searched for it in the database of the descender history "
The page with the distributor's identity slowly reveals itself " A retiree ? Do they exist here ? " Lily checked on what the retiree did "After gaining a lot of money through the stock market they have retired and continued with small projects to keep their secluded life"
' that's all ' Lily thought about how insignificant it was and thought of how she could make use of this " No I can't do that Tanec already suspects me of having the soul of the practitioner with me and even told me about it , I'll have to find a way to connect them through a debt chain "
Lily thought about her business that was working up there and went to check on the station to check any message and found a long one from Argus "Mistress here is a list of customers we've been having for the evolution potion as well as some investors willing to accept none of them have been accepted yet however the amount they wish to offer has been recorded"
Lily looked at the investment and found the distributor's name " So they also want it their investment is very high " Lily looked at the other data Argus had sent such as the population of the planet that they are in as well as the type of species through the descenders internet .
' Selling it according to the population sounds right but I think it would be better for Scyan to expand it from what he already understands , it's time-consuming to do that if only that distributor was a human instead of something else ' Lily issues her intention for the progress .
" Let's see "Tell Scyan to work at his own pace and make constant announcements as to when the evolution potions are ready for a certain range of species" And send . "
Lily decided to start reading on the Library of Seals according to the recommended order and Tanec started the investigation team when they came down . She finished clearing some of the gaps and went to great fire later in afternoon " You're here ? "
" Yep hope you don't mind the plant Woods have been growing , they like the light you emit plus some of it is feeding the children too " the great fire looked at Lily and said .
" You don't have to keep using the , you have already said that we are wedded so I won't mind you calling my children yours too even though you haven't sired any of them with me "
" Okay I have been a good father , I hope you don't mind the time it's taking for your food to get here " " You don't have to worry about it I only eat a few stars a day " Lily smiled ' So this must be what those salarymen feel when they live with someone else , it's a nice feeling to be able to help someone and get back thanks '
" Keep eating I do need to study the box later plus I told my personnel to work hard if they want extra so you can be reassured plus I can go down and get some more "
Lily recalls the debt chain that she saw this morning ' To think debt chains can be formed if the Labyrinth realizes the value of the good thing it did cause I do have to feed them ' " I want to ask what this foreign feeling I have around you is "
" Hmm foreign feeling ? " Lily thought of what she carried with her that wasn't with her when she last visited " Oh it must be this " Lily took the blank grimoire and out came the eroding piece " Yes it's that is it dangerous ? "
" Rather than dangerous it was something I could use to get rid of some weight on people " " It does feel like the foreign will of this land when I first came here " ' So that's why Life said there was a greater will in here '
" If you're worried I'll ask the Labyrinth about why they gave me this " Lily manifested the debt chain and got some answers from the Labyrinth " Ohh I see so that's why ... don't worry about it dear they just want me to keep this safe , I'm free to use it however I want but I need to give it back when they need it "
" Okay and thanks for providing my children this education , they've been more active lately which should mean they've been happier now " " Always happy to provide for the family " Lily leaves returning to the glass dome .
" Now this is bad " ' The Labyrinth wants me to safely keep this from Immortal's interference , guess they plan to send me sheets of it as they progress with breaking the seal the immortal placed on them '
" Life requests your presence " Argus said and Lily walked through a door to find Life " You called ? " " I've been wondering what to do with the few life manifestations you've obtained and the ones I took from my old world . I remembered that you had helped me gain a self so is it possible for you to do it again ? "
" Yeah sure how many ? " " Just one , I have little experience " " Okay " Life takes out a single manifestation and Lily uses her soul to awaken it " Is it good ? " Life sensed the manifestations of the soul .
" Yes it's good thanks for this " " You're welcome " Lily leaves the room and checks on her plans ' Most of them are just waiting replaced with studying and organizing but that's not healthy , concerned parents would definitely think about how burdening this is '
" Heh , Death would probably say it's boring and Life would give me some tips considering she understands the way of life " Lily paused to think about them ' Oh so that's what I think of them now ' Lily smiled thinking about it .
" Argus make an appointment for dinner tomorrow with Rate " Lily goes to bed and rests looking forward to her relaxing days .
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Four days the star forger comes " Thank you for the piece you have given me it exceeds more than my desired amount so I sold it for favors " Indus told Lily personally .
" Now as for who will manage the facility I've already given it to one of my personnel you don't have to worry about it although I am curious why you want one "
" I needed to feed a living star " " so you have that kind of being by your side I am surprised " " Yeah but if touch them I'll have your head " " Haha I won't " Indus shrugged the threat off .
' she must be close to them ' " I've heard about your relation with the mother dragon that flies in the sky any chance that you have the same with the star ? "
" Yep " " Then that's all my questions do you have any ? " " No but I am curious what's happening up there some of the dispatched keep checking on the station very frequently "
" You didn't ask them ? " " Was too busy with the library " " I heard it takes a lifetime to understand a shelf of it how far are you in ? " " I'm passed halfway through the entire library "
Indus was surprised " How? " " I'm much older than I look I only started growing when I came to this world never got that kind of opportunity back in the old world " " Well there are plenty of deathless who can breeze through the library because they understand many fields "
" So care to start telling me what happened up there ? " " You have asked about the dispatched worry which likely stems from some strange black text that appeared the higher-ups believed it to be propaganda from the rebel group " " Care to tell me more about them ? " " You can search it yourself but it is much easier for me to say it "
" I'll take that offer " Lily said and Indus started explaining " If you've read the Labyrinth piece research you'll find that the Labyrinth has a defense mechanism to bring people to protect it "
" I know that part " " Then the next part will be much easier to explain , because of the black text that's been appearing many people are starting to doubt our leaders "
" So it's a rebellion " " Exactly there have already been rebels who take on the name Immortal and since they've appeared it's increased not to mention the various times our history could be false "
' I'm deeply aware of that ' " So this black text is messing up public opinion ? " " Yes they may turn to rebels however they aren't as bad as the ones who side with the Labyrinth . But they're just a symbol of the bad choices of a leader so of course some of the dispatched are worried after all in here it's just staying as the frontline "
Lily nodded " I am surprised how little the Labyrinth is attacking you while you steadily expand , if your expansion rate continues some people may come down although there are still plenty of people who are adamant about not getting too close to it "
' These people should be the distributors although I wouldn't worry about them too much since the Labyrinth didn't even attack me despite having the practitioner's soul ' " But are there also some important officials that aren't allowed here ? "
" Yeah although some of them aren't officials , you don't have to worry about protecting them since it's not yet time when they decide to send important members down here " " Why would they do that ? "
" Probably because we just got robbed of a piece of labyrinth , there's a possibility that could happen and a lot grew anxious . So some started having some dangerous ideas like the fresh piece of Labyrinth could be reconnected to the Labyrinth "
" That's very interesting , but who knows what the Labyrinth will do after I took a piece of it " " By the way you should talk and try to calm the daughter of Duarte down , she found that you stayed here for at a hundred days and got mad "
" I needed to make sure the descenders weren't involved I don't want to look like an ignorant fool to them " Lily said " Then that's all I'm going to tell you " ' Maybe I should visit the dragon associates I am bringing down Mother here for her to rest but there's no reason to bring them down after I wiped out their memory '
Lily decided to put the idea away and thought about the land transfer ' Actually maybe I should ' Lily called Beryl and took her to the sky where she found a big land beside Mother " Alright just settle close enough " Lily jumps on Mother's back and looked at the settlement .
' Hmm it seems like most people have evacuated , I'm glad none of them had the idea of setting up businesses although it is a bit troublesome ' Lily sent a message to have the leaders gather in a location and proceed.
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" Long time no see everyone , I see that the Futures are still using an AI to represent them " Lily said in a square table with the leaders of each group on one side " What have you called us for ? " Agatha asked .
" I'm checking on how well you are faring as you may know I've already sent you some land to live on while I bring Mother and the ancient dragons down " Derick understood Lily's reason " We will be okay with that Patron , restricting the ancient dragons to us isn't right when we were the ones who care for them "
" Good now what about the Sages and Futures both of you already have some clear reasons to stay out of the Labyrinth , it's for progress, right ? " Agatha and the AI nodded .
" Then I will gather your research progress as payments I'm sure you are all self-sufficient enough to take care of yourself even without the mother dragon , Afterall , all she needs to do for you is to carry you "
Derick could sense some hidden anger beside Lily " Patron , I'm glad you took the mother dragon and her children in , I've thought about what you said about how we treat the mother dragon , she was supposed to be viewed as a myth yet we only viewed her as a solution "
Agatha and the AI followed suit giving their thanks to Lily too " Good you know what you guys are doing , make sure to get ready for any updates I'll be making with Mother " Lily leaves the leaders ' That should push them to work together with me and get close to me '
Lily leaves thinking about the descenders that could use them to restrain her ' I'll have to expand even further the Labyrinth surely won't mind ' Lily returns to the ground and visits the great fire again .
" So how was the food ? " " It's very filling " " That one was very fulfilling although I think because I've been eating a lot I've been growing , it's hard to stay dense like this "
" You can always eat much less " " I am I've been starving for eons so my hunger was great but it's subsided by now " " Well there's going to be a lot of sun have you finished that one already ? "
" Yes " " Great I've calculated the production and it should match the speed at which you eat " Lily takes the empty sunbox to study later .
" I can't believe that you cold people were able to harness the birth process of a star " " I can tell you about it after I talk to Indus and learn more about it , just make sure to eat , I like to know I'm starving you when I'm supposed to bring the bread to the house " " But I eat suns "
Lily sighed wishing great fire learned enough for them to understand her words but still smiled .
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