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"AAAAAGGGGGGHHHH…!

"

The hivemind's roar of agony was heard all across the planet of Eden.

Many people were confused about what was that even about.

Some thought it was a bad omen, the world was crying!

Some of the people thought that this was their fault, that they shouldn't had done the things they've been doing until now.

Some others blamed the higher ups, thinking they had offended the planet by playing around with magic too much.

But only an organization that spread around the continent knew that the scream was actually the cry of pain of their god, the Dark Lod of the Depths.

The head of the cult of this continent sat down over the Yggdra's Duchy throne while the Duke was elsewhere, she heard the scream of her lord as she felt utter frustration.

These nasty invaders and enemies of her lord had once more done something awful to him! This was already the second time they had heard him scream in so much pain.

A sudden oracle reached her…

"Hurry up! Gather the artifacts, and hasten the process of the ritual! And kill that damn Sage girl!

"

The woman's eyes shone brightly with eerie light.

"Yes, my lord…

"

They had already been gathering many forces, the forces of the Cult around the continent were already gathering around the Duchy, many of them were already occupying most of the royal plaza.

And there were more to come. They saw Manationia as an enemy of their god, and she was way too powerful now, they had to do everything they could to fight against her and defeat her once and for all.

The forces were gathering, and Manationia herself had no idea that they were going to such an extent for her…

However, there were other things that the Hivemind addressed, a ritual, and artifacts… What did it meant by this?

Not even Veronica, Ervas, and Aurora were able to get any info of this as the memories they took were not of that area of his mind where such things were stored.

In fact, they got a lot of weird memories because the Hivemind had independent personalities but were all the same mind with different souls, they even got memories from the other Hiveminds across the Universe.

Nonetheless, the Hivemind felt completely offended by this, and roared in anger in the depths of the planet, so angered that he slightly made the entire planet have an earthquake!

TRUUUUUMMM…!

"Ggrr…! H-How dare they?! Angh…. My soul… it is too weak… I must… achieve the next stage in my soul if I can even fathom to fight against them in this state…! I must achieve… Divinity within my soul!

" thought the Hivemind.

Amongst the many things that the Hivemind had learned since it was thrown into the depths of this planet was that the power of Gods was a thing, and that mortals could achieve it through grasping divinity within their souls.

Ascending into a higher realm of existence, their feeble little souls gained supernatural powers, and ended turning into very powerful assets.

These powerful divine souls were one of the strengths that the twins had over him, which he never was able to copy from them… thanks to their powerful divinities and the divine souls they had reinforcing their powers, the Hivemind ended being defeated and thrown into the planet's underground, sealed for eons…

This is why the Hivemind didn't wanted to commit the same mistake twice, it was going to achieve the unthinkable and do the things that not many would had ever dared to do, he was going to acquire the power of divinity and become invincible both in soul and body!

His body was already capable of fighting against Supreme Gods, but his soul was his greatest weakness, these beasts that assimilated and devoured everything had the terrible weakness of not being able to enhance their souls! No matter how many flesh and living beings they ate, they had no talent for the ability to eat souls, and although they could assimilate and use energies, it was limited, and they couldn't properly create them.

They were simply incredibly powerful living beings in the flesh and body, capable of constantly regeneration, learning, assimilation, and improving their very metabolism countless times to adapt to even the harshness of outer space.

It was even possible for them to survive being bathed in radiation and even assimilate this radiation as energy, to even be burned by plasma by passing near a star and regenerate quickly or even generate specialized armor capable of even resisting plasma to an extent. Was there anything they couldn't do? The older they grew and the more biomass they assimilated, the stronger they would grow and develop into an endless adapting entity.

The Hivemind had devoured races capable of manipulating mana naturally, alongside psionic power and psychokinesis, making of their racial trait already to be able to assimilate mana and use it to copy even the most complex of spells from an enemy, they are also able to use a variety of techniques that use mental power, such as Telekinesis, Telepathy, and more…

However, by themselves, they're still rather unskilled at the usage of magic and their elements, and this was the reason why the Hivemind lost against the twins at the end, even thought it was capable of copying their spells, their power was not as enormous as their own.

Although there was an original stalemate, when the twins decided to go all out and sacrifice themselves, the Hivemind had already lost. But it learned from them and realized that it could also achieve the same level!

It racked its brains thinking about ways, until it realized that worship was what brought divine energy, and when a soul naturally gathered enough divine power, it would ascend and become a godly divine soul.

It wanted that! Just that!

The hivemind wanted to achieve this level of divinity, with that, his weak and tiny soul would finally become something more admirable, and he would gain unprecedented divine power.

Combining it with the original power it had, it could very clearly find a new way to keep fighting… and perhaps this time win against the twins…

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