Lily returned to Rate , who is creating another healing ward with Solaris and Mother watching " Morning Lily " Rate said " Morning " Rate gave Lily a look and asked " Is something bothering you ? "
She looked at Rate , understanding that he's aware of the problem " Sorry , I didn't want to stress you out " " Why what happened ? " Mother asked out of concern " It's something I found out , let's just say someone is going to target the children and they have some annoying plans for them "
" Why not use the debt chain ? " Rate asked " I would , but I'm saving them , they have more uses than I thought " " But are you sure about cutting this kind of valuable information source ? " " It's hard not knowing , but the reason why we have been moving extremely fast in progression was because of the debt chains . "
" Hey " Mother said , looking at both of them " Oh right , sorry , I have to tell you a lot about this to understand it " " Can't you make it easier for us to understand ? " Solaris asked " Okay , in short the descenders wish to use our children "
Lily shows them the debt chains " I use this to learn , but right now I am saving it for other uses " " Why do they want our kids !? " Mother asked with some anger in her voice and some of her breath coming out of her mouth .
" Not sure , but it won't be good . I already have some guards around it . " " Why not attack them ? " Solaris asked " It's not that straightforward , if we show them that we won't be their allies , they may use the supernova plan and they might even use that plan , I've already done the research on how Indus recycles a star's body and I don't want you to die "
" So can we attack them later ? " Lily thought of her future plans and smiled " we will , but calm down , I know you guys love our kids but we can't kill the descenders , it won't be good for the kids if you kill a lot of people that easily " " But I have accidentally burned planets " Solaris said " But somehow that's different because you did it by accident . "
" I heard from the dragon riders that live inside my body that I've killed a lot " " Wait , you still have them inside you ? " Lily asked " No that weird black guy offered to get them all out " " Oh that's good , I should've done that for you " " Hey I can take care of myself " Mother said .
" I know , you did evolve to consume your own body parts and breathe in space " Rate recalled the training the calamity beast were doing altogether " I heard we were doing a training that involve doing that " " Because I was hoping to use you guys to help collect data on the world's seal it will be useful later when I want to protect Solaris and their soul "
" Oh so that's why , I'll do my best to complete that " Rate said " Before you jump the gun hear why I want that okay ? " Rate stayed silent and Lily said " Me and Mother went up to clean the debris near the world's end as a cover to investigate the world seal . While I do need as many calamity beasts that can survive without air , you don't have to go that far , We still need to create a base "
" Are you saying that I'm supposed to manage the base ? " Lily nodded " I've already called some people to help build a land carrier to make the space station for the resting "
She looked at the two " You guys got that right ? " " Yeah " " I'm glad , now Rate about the healing ward , are you sure you will be okay making it ? I heard you are expending a lot of effort for this "
" No need " " I'll be going out to spend time with the kids " Mother said " Me too " as they left . Lily sat on the bed that Rate finished enchanting " So about what those two said " " Pretty irrational but understandable "
" Yeah I was thinking the same " Rate said " It's worrying that they could do something like that , but that's why I have to stop them , thanks for the help with changing the conversation " " Uhm you're welcome ? " Lily smiled .
" But I'm amazed it seemed like the descenders are so few " " Because you haven't been up there Rate , according to what I learned , the planet I went to is just the most combat suitable ones and a usual gathering space for businesses related to their fight against the Labyrinth . It's also where most of the drama is occurring "
Rate imagined different planets supplying the planet which was in direct contact with the frontline " So the rest of the planets were meant to supply the direct supplier "
" Yep , but it doesn't mean they don't have communities , it's just that the planet I go to has the highest concentration of support , which is backed by others , me and Mother have seen it "
" What does it look like ? " " One of the planet is completely sterile , chemical waste is recycled and taken care of , another was filled with vegetation you can see from the sky . in other words it's so clean and beautiful . That's kinda why I don't want them destroying them they're innocent and they are going to be useful "
" Why are they useful ? " " because I'm starting to expand , I plan to say I can provide evolutionary serum from here , I've already collected a lot of favors and identified trustworthy partners . Argus is handling most of the negotiations for me but it will be fine "
" Then is it possible for me to go up there and visit them ? " Lily thought of why Rate suggested that " Because you want to learn more is it ? I guess I could it would keep you safe , I can open the door to your quarters during your sleep schedule "
" You can do that ? " " Why not ? I don't want you to feel lonely up there moreover it'll make a few things easier if I could dig some dirt and take over their basic needs supplier " Rate watches Lily's wicked smile filled with anticipation of her enemies fall .
' Even though she's like this , she's still kind ' " Maybe I can make use of that land carrier the Sages and futures aren't doing good staying stationary developing there spells and technology from he materials I gave them access to so I'll need to buy some learning opportunities for them "
" but isn't that expensive ? " " it will be but I'll start gaining a lot of cash soon , with the freed lands and my performance as well as the Labyrinth's debt to me , I'll be able to afford them . Moreover it can work as a cover for you unless I plan to change it "
" You are really putting a lot of thought in this " " Of course I am , you can look forward to it " " I'll work harder to make sure the calamity beast meets your expectations then " Rate said , looking forward to improving the training .
" Do you have the mindset of training people by forcing them to work out till they fill numb and heal them perfectly ? " " That's what I've been doing though " Lily wondered how funny the contradiction between a caring spouse and a ruthless trainer was .
" You look so cute , I doubt anyone would think you're a ruthless trainer " " How am I a ruthless trainer ? " " Because you don't let them rest , you fix the damage . unless you fix their mental fatigue then you won't be ruthless "
" But if I do that , they'll get used to the comfort and it won't be good for their mental training " " It's a funny contradiction " " If we're talking about contradiction aren't you also contradicting yourself , you work like a bad person but you're kind "
Lily smiled " Of course I'm kind to you " " Even though you had to pretend to be brainwashed " " It's not like you did it with bad intentions you had to do what you could to survive and now that we are in a much stable boat , you will be fine "
" Thanks " " I'll see you later " Lily leaves to continue her work ' now as of now I've been progressing everything too quickly , but I do need to be ahead of the descenders ' Lily enters the main operating systems of Argus which is now fused with the Blank grimoire .
' I've been forcing things to go too fast with these debt chains , I'll have to slow down or else they may attack but preparing is fine . ' " Call Death " Death appears to Lily " What did you call me for ? " " I need help in acquiring information "
Death figured out what she needed " Okay " Lily nodded and Death opens a portal to the spiritual world .
Lily walked out and fell down . Death grab her as they descended down " So this is the Labyrinth's body " " I wouldn't call it a body but more like a soul " " It seems amazing for a soul like this to instantly change their body as soon as they regained control "
" It's just what they are capable of , so you were saying about acquiring information ? " " Yeah I need to look for the keys but it seems to be futile considering the great space " " So you're throwing the plan for freeing the Labyrinth out of the window ? "
" Of course not , I'm just looking for who was able to create the keys . I'm sure the distributors keep that in great secret , they've dealt with many people who likely have different ways to get close enough but fail . "
" So you're being careful ? " Death asked and Lily nodded " I will need some help to acquire the way out , if I'm going to lock Solaris inside a seal , I'll need to figure out how to dispel it might not be part of the package of understanding the seal " " So you plan to get the soul that learned to create the keys ? "
" Yeah I don't know all of the real history , they may also fabricate history but even that fabricated history could be useful " Lily looked down " So can you let us in , I want to take a look on Immortal "
The Labyrinth opens and Lily and Death walked down " You know it's hard for you to have any power in here right ? " " I'm only here to look " " I still can't believe you'd go straight to Immortal "
" They're the only one who are close enough and are completely ignored by the descenders viewed as a rebel "
" But for some reason they are an integral part of the resistance against the Labyrinth " " Because they were hasty their plan was to seal the Labyrinth away again which we've already seen has failed " Lily said as the Labyrinth continues to create stairs .
" But Immortal succeeded " " Only because they are actively maintaining the seal , even the descenders have to keep the Labyrinth from leaving by dragging people to this world and lying to them that their mission is about fighting the Labyrinth but it was hard to kill "
" And from what you've mentioned the contingencies and the price of several frontlines . Also I just found out about the descenders that leave the world seal " " Yes , but they are aware that the Labyrinth will go after them , won't they ? "
" Did you bring me here to check the memories " " Of course , I did , so Tell me how do these descenders gain access to leave ? "
" Only a select few need to be incredibly capable to be allowed to go out of the world's seal and station themselves just outside of the seal enjoying the luxury of a long life while being the furthest from the Labyrinth "
" You've seen that much already ? " " Yeah after all the Labyrinth's gaze can reach far and you can see through the world seal but not leave it " Death said " How eligible do you think I need to be to get out here ? "
" According to the Labyrinth some distributors that got rich enough can eventually leave to go out , moreover , it's been watching silently " Lily hears a tremor and the Labyrinth who questions the collection the other memories .
" I promise I'll be making some payment soon like last time , I just need to have a look at this Immortal " They arrived at the center and looked at the seal " So this is what it looks like " Immortal tried attacking , but Death blocked it .
" Your decision to help the Labyrinth is too narrow-minded " " Why ? Because they haven't destroyed me ? Here's the thing Immortal , I'm just here to visit to see how you are , it seems like you do have the souls that are related to the seals "
Lily's eyes looked straight at Immortal " looks like you are wasting a lot of your strength in maintaining the seal and interrupting the Labyrinth from figuring it out . "
' If I want to compare you , you'd be like an office worker . Always working the same thing everyday , requiring all of their salary to pay for daily expenses and never enough for themselves . I hope this office worker stays that way '
Lily smiled , looking at Immortal's state ' Although pressure does make diamonds a soul is much different , who knows what laws it must follow to walk in a path of a great will , but since Immortal has that figured out the problem they have is that they have to keep the seal maintained so no time for self-improvement '
Lily thinks of the keys she's been giving to the Labyrinth , which is slowly losing all of its perceived value as time passes " Let's head back " Lily and Death walked back up " If you plan to leave this world , won't they be cautious because of your reputation right now ? "
" They would if I weren't happily married , they likely know a lot of information from my old world . They generated an image of me being a ruthless mafia boss or the like , but right now , it's different . I'm just a commander who is loving my spouses very dearly "
" But there are a lot of things that could stop you , that truth detector they have " " Then we can tell the truth just remove the memory of conspiracies out of it , I already know my way around it "
Death sighed , seeing how bold Lily is and decides to just accept it " If so where do you think you will appear ? " Lily thinks of the possible locations " I have some underground base that I left to maintain , but if possible , I would like to go to another world that hasn't been touched "
" Should be able to find a lot of those " They returned and Lily returned to her work .
...
In twenty days , the frontline gets used to the rotation of the constant attacks against the Mazes " Frontline combat status stable , fighting has turned into an everyday occurrence , records of dispatched returning home being replaced by others to gain merit have also been increasing "
" Only makes sense with the space inside Ethan's space expansion limit being emptied by the decrease of Basil's sponsorship , more space for the dispatched " Lily turns her attention to the growing demand .
' It looks like the rebels are steadily growing in power . I'll have to give the distributors a chance to fight , maybe they might drag in the people who has retired from this world '
She checks to see the plans that Keyly gathered for her ' it's really the same , they even plan to use this to force everyone to turn against me by revealing my personal strength ' she checks Keyly's status , finding that she was still alive and going against the plan of antagonizing Lily's position .
' They've already lost the other frontline , so Keyly's argument is growing , she hasn't leaked that she's following my orders and most of the information surrounding me is kept confidential to her and only her . She really is the perfect candidate for me to use to control '
Lily wonders if a divide will eventually occur among the rebels ' If that happens , I'll need to take care of them ' Lily hears the Labyrinth's daily reminder of the payment that Lily was supposed to give them .
" Yeah yeah here you go " Lily gives the Labyrinth another key acquired from the distributors ' It's a good thing I have something the descenders never encountered yet '
Lily checks the reports on the station that were printed out ' An increase of the Labyrinth gaining control in other areas , they're basically asking me to get stronger , even though we are stabilizing , they want me to increase support on the offensive dispatch team . '
She continues reading the request , which was supposed to be an order " Searching for any victims dragged into the Labyrinth is important , as the Labyrinth generally drags any great potential civilization into this world "
' They say that , but I've checked and found that the distributors aren't even doing it anymore , but now that they have done that , they may try to change how they word it from now on ' Lily checks the reports from the dispatched who left the base for exploration .
' According to the stations Mother placed around for me , the dispatch have found many that are dragged here and had a very hard time , but there are a lot more civilizations that are new , looks like the descenders have stopped using that information restriction spell '
Lily writes a report , which also came in with a request "I have found many victims as you've said beyond my previous search record , which has given me a question of what this world truly is . As the people have said they have been invited rather than dragged to this world which seems to be a common ground among these victims"
' I hope this would make them terrified , I can see many ways on how this would go ' She imagines different futures and thought of divination ' I don't feel comfortable being right about these futures I see or maybe it's because I know different kinds of people '
Lily sighed , thinking about her improved vision ' Since I have access to clairvoyance , let's see through the seal ' Lily closes her eyes and peers through the vast cosmos that the world seal has contained .
That darkness that clouds the world seal is seen through and Lily looked at a scene ' There are quite a lot of them ' Lily gets the blank grimoire so she can record the information that she says and starts scrolling through them witnessing many signs of intelligent life .
She looks at other locations and stops ' I have a few conclusions to draw from this . the maintenance of the seal is the presence of intelligent life but the problem is I don't know how this works , maybe it's part of the mechanism or it could be that my version of their history is wrong , Either way to confirm it , I need to be a retiree . '
She wondered what she needed to do in order to achieve such a thing ' Maybe I should fasten the calamity beasts' growth , I already have the control over the sealed beings , they may take that later but I could just say that I'll be visiting them and hand the hearts to Argus to control instead '
" Calling Rate " Rate answers Lily's call " What did you call me for ? " " I want to make our honeymoon to visit all of these planets as I've said " " Ehh ? when ? "
" After you finish making that healing ward , we can leave as soon as possible . Mother has been setting up a lot of stations and even Solaris has given us a lot of metal , so I'm planning to spend some money to send a request for us to tour it "
" Oh , but won't the base have problems ? " " No , with all the great forces of the base , it's fine for the current great wills to leave , moreover I have more plans than that , which do involve me having a very loving family "
" I do love you " Rate said and Lily teased " Then say it in front of me " She couldn't tell but smiles , imagining Rate blushing " Thanks dear " Lily chuckles and placed several updates . She went to the station to ask Ryson .
" You want a tour ? " " Yeah , I suggested seeing how the other planets support the fight against the Labyrinth . moreover , it helps my spouses to learn more , I don't want to push them to learning so much when they haven't lived the same lives as me and my other spouse "
" That sounds nice of you commander , but if you do want to give your spouses a tour , I need to see how eligible they are " " What do you mean ? " Lily asked " There's the concern of the frontline without your presence and your spouses too considering their position "
" Argus is like a copy of me and they've managed on their own and we have never expanded beyond the freed lands and we are still maintaining control "
" Oh then I need you to at least show me a lot of proof that the frontline can be handled with you and your spouses absent " Lily wondered how that was possible .
" how about you ask the dispatch I have barely interacted with any of them and I've never done much over the past few days , I was just here for show and so were the rest "
" but even show is important " " It won't be since I can replace Mother and Solaris with the combined effort of the currently growing numbers " " That's true " Ryson said , thinking about it " Maybe it's possible , can you agree that people will come down to check ? " " Sure "
...
Five days passed and " You've passed with flying colors , here is a list of several planets you can visit " " We can visit all of the planets that support the fight " Lily said before even looking at Ryson's suggestion " But there some that aren't the best of the best "
" We're not finding the best of the best , as I've told you before , we're touring so that my two spouses can understand diverse culture , while Rate has experience living in the previous frontline , he doesn't know as much as I do "
Ryson sighed " At least look into the advertisement after hearing that you are now sponsored by different companies who gain support from the government because they ran out of money to pay you , a lot of them want that support , so they've even prepared advertising "
' this could actually be useful ' " Then I'll give everyone a chance , in fact , I'll go get more freed lands " " What but " " There's no stopping me " " Commander ? "
Lily takes her spouses and makes another deal with the Labyrinth " Alright so this is how it will go " Lily talks with the Labyrinth while her spouses talk among themselves " I'm really interested to see how they have created stars " Solaris said .
" I just want to see if I could eat a lot , Lily said "There are a lot of food I could have" " " Because a lot of people come from different worlds , We might see a lot of architecture too , or a lot of cultures " Rate said .
" I am interested in this culture thing , I heard a lot about the different kinds of views on stars like me " Lily continues her private talk with Labyrinth " So deliver damage to Immortal , guess you still need me to do that but first I need to be at the center "
She turns to her spouses and said " I'll be gone for a while , hope you're fine with caves " " We'll be okay " Mother said and Lily leaves , going into the center with the Labyrinth's assistance " Alright let's do this " Immortal wondering what she plans to do .
' Let's see if you really are immortal " Lily used a key to open a hole and stabbed a thin fetor needle into Immortal , causing them to lose focus . The Labyrinth took that opportunity and attacked Immortal while Lily took the souls they were holding .
The immortal quickly repelled all of the Labyrinth's body out and restored the seal , quickly healing themselves " Why ? " " Like I said I made my choice with the Labyrinth " Lily said and the Labyrinth took her back to her spouses .
" Thanks and for your troubles " Lily gives the Labyrinth all of the keys thereby giving it access to their body back " Also here you should use this to keep yourself from getting bored " Lily gives the Labyrinth a laptop , which contains all of her saved-up stories " Should be good entertainment for you "
Lily returned to her spouses and they went back " What did you do with the Labyrinth " Rate asked " Made the usual trading of services , I've got more freed lands thanks to that " Lily said .
" And ? " Solaris asked , hoping to join in the conversation " I guess I did give them access to a lot of stories , you know , the same thing I gave to you entertainment " Lily said and Mother asked jokingly " Are you gonna marry the Labyrinth just like you married us ? "
" ... Hmm that's not a bad idea " Rate was shocked but Mother and Solaris looks forward to it .
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