My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 174: Is it Over?

"How did you get there, human!?" The Heavenly Demon was furious, but she could barely do anything.

Powerlessness soon spread throughout her body. She couldn’t circulate spiritual energy in her demonic mana heart or access any qi from her dantian.

She got sealed by a potent sealing technique, and those daggers were the cause. However, the perpetrator was just a weak 0th Rank mortal with a close to non-existent aura!

[Pola (FV: 62) | 7th Rank Early Stage]

[Hostility: 70%]

[Talent: 1 Star | Common]

[Hexira (FV: 6988) | Heavenly Demon (Soul) | 14th Rank Mid Stage]

[Hostility: 70%]

[Talent: 5 Stars | UR]

Ely widened her eyes in shock when she used her Sacred Vision from close proximity. She stared at the Heavenly Demon Inheritor’s soul, and the status screen differed from when she used her bare eyes.

As the Heavenly Demon Inheritor, Hexira’s body was already at the 7th Rank Early Stage, with the ordinary person class talent. Yet, the status screen showed 14th Rank Mid Stage when Ely looked at Hexira’s soul.

’What Yuuki and Sylvi said is true. This girl shouldn’t have this power, but the Heavenly Demon Soul took over her body. She is an inheritor, not a reincarnation, with her awakening. Pitiful girl... you were just a village girl a few hours ago, but why you sold yourself to a demon?’ Ely heaved a subtle sigh.

"!!!" Hexira widened her eyes when she saw that look of sympathy.

She is already fused with a destined village girl with a demonic heart.

The village girl sold one’s soul to her after getting too fed up with this filthy world.

The village girl’s family was poor, and it was hard to find food, especially in winter. That girl did everything she could to stay alive, but the world was cruel. Even her family used her as an object rather than a human.

This village girl had already abandoned her humanity. Still, some things passed to the Heavenly Demon who had taken over her body.

When this priestess looked down on her, just like those humans do, the Heavenly Demon Soul also got angry because she hated being belittled.

"Don’t look down on me! Is that all you got? I am a Heavenly Demon who once ravaged the Third Heaven alone!" Hexira shouted angrily.

"!?" Ely got pushed back. She had no idea how Hexira could still muster that spiritual energy.

The huge blue crystal core flared up, and The heavenly Demon’s spiritual energy surged.

Seeing the dangerous situation, Ely immediately took a defensive measure and made her emergency move.

*Whamp!*

Ely used her wooden wand to hit Hexira on the nape, sending the living ticking bomb unconscious. The damage went straight to one’s soul, and the Heavenly Demon Soul also received a direct hit. Hexira was momentarily unconscious.

Ely staggered slightly and fell on her buttocks. She breathed a sigh of relief afterward.

"Phew, that’s a close call. Luckily you moved fast, Ely. Are you all right?" Sylvia wiped off her sweat and extended her hand to Ely.

"Ah, uhm, thank you." Ely took Sylvia’s hand and stood up, then looked to the side.

The one trapped in the potent trap formation was only Sylvia’s blood clone in an almost perfect disguise as the real one. The God-tier dark spear was also there to trick the Heavenly Demon.

"We need to handle her as soon as possible. Can you seal her completely? We also have to pull her out of this huge crystal core. She is too dangerous." Sylvia heaved a sigh of relief.

Her blood clone soon turned into a pool of blood and returned to her. Her dark spear also shot back into her grasp.

"Okay. Let’s do something." Ely nodded in agreement. She returned to the unconscious Heavenly Demon.

Hexira’s legs and arms were embedded into the huge blue crystal core. Ely touched that crystal and found it was like a high-density jelly.

Upon that realization, she tried to pull Hexira out, but the girl was still stuck there. Her physical strength was her biggest flaw at a time like this.

"Uhh..." Ely put her hands on Hexira’s armpits, then pulled the girl with all her might. It was too heavy, and Hexira was still stuck there, not moving.

"!~" Sylvia covered her mouth as she found Ely adorable and hilarious.

Having failed, Ely apologized because of her lack of physical strength. Fortunately, her friends already knew about her weakness. Sylvia was happy to help her pull Hexira out.

"Hmm!" Sylvia exerted her superior demonic physique. She pulled the Heavenly Demon out of the core crystal, leaving many trails of jelly fibers and mucus-like liquid.

The mucus-like liquid crystallized in seconds, but a human-sized hole was left in the crystal core.

Ely took out a holy sword and tried to scrape the crystal core, but it got no scratch. She then crouched down and cut the base that supported the crystal core, but her sword got stuck halfway.

"This is the main power source. Sylvi, please cut off the core’s connections and the large cables. We need to secure this crystal core." Ely asked her Deity-level friend for help again.

"Okay. Please seal this girl and take a few steps back." Sylvia raised her spear and then flew up to the ceiling.

A few seconds later, she disconnected the crystal core from any variables. Ely sealed the huge crystal core and put it into her storage pouch.

"Hmm?" Sylvia looked to the side.

The Heavenly Demon was tied up like a cocoon. Only the face was visible. More than fifty sealing talismans were affixed there to ensure the Heavenly Demon couldn’t muster any power.

"As long Ely is around, you can never muster any strength with that kind of hostility. Your power source has been secured, and you only have yourself now." Sylvia nudged the unconscious Heavenly Demon.

Somehow, she felt this girl was pretending to be unconscious, waiting for an opportunity to backstab them. However, it was still a hunch.

Fighting evil was Ely’s specialty. This stupid Heavenly Demon would never imagine that Ely was the evil nemesis and skilled in sealing techniques. Therefore, the Heavenly Demon was sealed for real.

"This ancient floating fortress probably has some spare power sources. But it’s in an inactive state. Can we trigger them if we do something to this control room?" Ely checked the devices around the room.

"Well, yes... This floating fortress is similar to the floating fortress or a spaceship in the previous world. Let’s see what we can do with-" Sylvia tried to touch some eye-catching buttons and mechanisms as if she wanted to try something.

However, everything became red all of a sudden. The lighting had already dimmed because the crystal core had been taken, but a bright red light immediately shone on them.

"U-uh? This isn’t good. Did I accidentally trigger a self-destruct?" Sylvia raised her hands. She slightly paled at that.

"No, it’s not self-destructing, but the backup power sources took over and started to re-activate this floating fortress. We need to find them and destroy them." Ely checked her surroundings with her Sacred Vision, trying to locate the backup power sources based on the recently activated energy flows.

*Rumble!*

The floating fortress shook, and Sylvia rushed to grab Ely and the unconscious Heavenly Demon.

"We can’t linger here any further while people outside are bombarding this floating fortress." Sylvia darted away from the vicinity, fearing the floating fortress would explode.

"Wa, wha-" Ely was about to say something, but she swallowed it back because she knew it would be too dangerous to stay in the danger zone for long.

Nobody could guess what would happen inside the floating fortress. Therefore, Sylvia brought out Ely and the Heavenly Demon with impressive speed.

*Boom!*

Over five dozen people bombarded the floating fortress, destroying its cannons and demonic golems. However, the floating fortress was still trying to free itself from the restraints.

*Swoosh!*

Sylvia flew out of the floating fortress. She immediately threw her protest at Yuuki and everyone. "Hey! We were fighting the final boss, and you make our battleground shake continuously."

"Huh?" Yuuki stopped her attack and turned her head to the side. She and several people immediately flew over.

"This is?" Evelyn pointed at the unconscious girl bound like a cocoon. For some reason, she got some Deja Vu when she saw such a tight cocoon binding technique, and she knew it was Ely’s doing.

"Sky Sword Technique! Final Move!"

"Starlight Impact! Befall!"

The two 10th Rank Blood Moon great elders released their ultimate moves. A gigantic sword covered in golden qi manifested in the sky and impaled the floating fortress to the ground.

At the same time, a stream of sparkling golden glow descended like a waterfall, causing a blast.

Thousands of demonic golems were annihilated in those final moves, and the floating fortress soon stopped moving. Hundreds of its tentacle-like hands fell limply to the ground, and its huge red-eye main cannon dimmed.

"The floating fortress has been destroyed, and we have captured the mastermind, the Heavenly Demon Inheritor. But, is it over?" Ely put her hand on her upper chest and muttered softly.

She secured any items attached to Hexira’s body and the huge core crystal. She was being cautious than worried and wary. The Heavenly Demon Inheritor probably still had some hidden tricks.