Chapter 710: God and the End of Days

Hearing A Qiu’s inquiry, Lolth narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.

"Well now…"

"It appears you’re probing fundamental truths at such a tender age."

As the words lingered in the air, A Qiu pressed her lips together and gave a faint headshake.

"For my twenty-year-old self, it was more a stroke of luck than wisdom…"

"Yet this question’s significance has grown clearer through my subsequent journeys – like a persistent star brightening in life’s firmament."

Lolth inclined her head in silent agreement as A Qiu spoke.

"Precisely. The question’s very gravity betrays the inadequacy of any literal interpretation…"

This remark caused Tina and Isabella to exchange perplexed glances. The maidens had been attentively following the exchange ever since discovering A Qiu’s unexpectedly charming countenance, their interest piqued by the shifting undercurrents in the conversation.

The third query’s nature…

Clearly diverged from its predecessors.

"But… what’s being implied here?"

Even Kanor wore an expression of dawning comprehension. Only the turtle Naivee released a world-weary sigh.

"All who transcend the Holy Domain and brush against divinity’s veil eventually confront this truth…"

Her shell shifted with ancient wisdom as she continued, "When one questions whether our world contains fundamental disharmony…"

"The mere asking carries its own answer."

For if no discord existed…

The inquiry itself would hold no substance.

Yet mere affirmation solves nothing – the true essence lies…

In pinpointing the nature and locus of this cosmic dissonance.

The solution glimmered within Naivee’s earlier words.

"Divinity, you said…" Kanor’s gaze pierced through the twilight, settling on the ancient turtle at her feet. Her eyes gleamed with epiphany. "A crucial mystery I’ve long overlooked – willfully ignored due to maternal influences…"

"What constitutes the holy trinity of deity? The gods themselves, their celestial authority, and that essence we term divinity?"

That elusive spark separating Holy Domain practitioners from true demi-gods…

Now shimmered within Kanor’s grasp, illuminated by Naivee’s timeless wisdom.

What exactly is ‘divinity’?!

The fundamental distinction between Kanor and most others in this world lies in this…

Her adoptive mother, Mrs. Fuen, is undeniably a goddess.

A deity of the main plane, and… that humble shop where she grew up, though diminutive and shabby compared to other "Divine Kingdoms," remains her authentic Divine Kingdom!

Even Lolth, though similarly a child of the God of Light, wasn’t reared within the Land of Light itself!

Thus, for Kanor, the essence of divinity… was as familiar as her own breath.

Like someone raised exclusively on black rice who’d never comprehend it diverges from conventional understanding of "rice."

In this revelatory moment, Kanor grasped…

The "divinity" she’d encountered—whether permeating her childhood store or briefly wielded in the half-plane of the deathly Divine Kingdom—revealed itself as utterly bizarre.

The Holy Domain fundamentally represents a Superoperator’s magical extension, using magic to influence and harness natural laws.

But when evolving from Holy Domain to Superlative Level and seizing that shred of "divinity"…

It bestows reality-warping "authority"—the essence of divine power.

Simultaneously, magic ascends to a higher form of power—the reason for its "superiority" remains unknown, yet divine power undeniably dominates, suppressing ordinary magic in countless aspects!

Though these demi-god abilities remain domain-bound, their mere existence defies rationality!

How can this arcane force, distinct from magic, dictate life’s hierarchy and grant divine authority?

"This feels profoundly… profoundly wrong."

The words escaped Kanor’s lips like whispered revelation.

Lolth glanced between her apprentice and the earnest-faced A Qiu,

releasing a weighty sigh.

"Truthfully… Your awareness of this dissonance heartens me."

"Rather… If even you perceive the anomaly, ‘divinity’ must be examined beyond mere transcendence."

After all, these souls lack reference to a world devoid of "Superoperators" and deities.

Yet all demi-gods instinctively sense the fundamental wrongness in their power.

Still, like A Qiu and Naivee exemplify…

Without godless reality for contrast, they cannot conceptualize true "normalcy."

But Lolth can.

"Honestly, were I to assess this world, the extraordinary remains within ‘normal’ parameters… If creation myths hold truth, the primordial goddess surely intended such powers."

"Perhaps an unintended flourish—letting mortals graze cosmic truths."

Here, Lolth’s cadence fractured momentarily.

"But divinity, gods… all deific elements exude palpable wrongness."

"Though the ‘End of Days’ remains enigmatic, this constant refrain—that only godhood offers salvation…"

"My spatial magic expertise reveals the planes’ true visage—know you how alternate planes, main plane, and Divine Kingdoms appear spatially?"

Lolth’s features contorted with visceral discomfort.

"Vile beyond measure! Dimensional structures and Divine Kingdoms sprawl like festering scars!"

"Though my knowledge remains fragmentary… assembling these shards reveals…"

"The End of Days and divine existence share intricate entanglement!"

"Perhaps unintentionally… but godhood’s origin likely mirrors the End’s catastrophic genesis!"