Stuck in a Chinese novel

"How is she?" Rafael asked me as I exited Alicia's room. While he was worried, I still advised him to let her rest. I didn't know what her condition was, but whatever the problem was, she needed rest at the moment. I alleviated the symptoms as much as I could but even I couldn't do anything about the mana in her brain.

Veronica seemed to have learned her lesson well from the last time. This time, there was no divinity, only mana. I could tell it was foreign but I couldn't do anything about it. I could have asked someone expert like Rafael to take a look but while they were experts when it came to mana, they weren't very much so when it came to the brain.

There was a very great chance there could be permanent brain damage and I didn't want that at all costs. A brain cannot be healed. Organs of the human body can be reconstructed and even a heart could be repaired if a brain could be kept alive for long enough but the brain, otherwise known as the mainframe of the human body, couldn't be repaired even with the power of life.

Well, there was the option of making her immortal but she was nowhere near the stage where her body could bear the power of the element of life.

She'd explode at the very least. At the worst, well, I didn't even want to imagine that.

I placated Rafael and returned to my room. As much as I wanted to stay with Alicia, I needed to do something about her current situation as well. Veronica needed Alicia for possession. Her body was made for her possession. I didn't know what the story in the novel was because in the novel, while the demons constantly targeted Alicia's mental health, there was no indication of Veronica possessing her until the last part of the seventh volume.

Since Alicia wasn't a heroine, Eric didn't find some miraculous remedy to her ever going bad condition in the first place.

Body reconstruction was also an option but if the imprint was on her soul as well, well, then it would be impossible to save her. I could do something else but I didn't have much hope for it.

Soul was the sole thing in the creation even my father didn't dare to dabble in. I, the one who was nowhere near his level, and knowledge, couldn't even dream to do so.

[He's not as innocent as you think]

I was inclined to side with Allison's remark. I had come to know of many things, many new things, about my father. His fighting style, the one that held nothing back but also very much contained. That was not the father I remembered.

So there was a case that he could be hiding some things, but there was also an indication that it was nothing. After all, soul was a tricky thing to get into.

But if Allison was saying something, there must surely be something to it. I just didn't know what.

Still, there was no way to ask for help from Dad. Ignoring the fact that he might not even listen, even if he did, he couldn't come down here in the first place. If he ever did, the laws of this world would weaken to the point that there wouldn't be the need for a demon king or whatever. This world would be destroyed in a matter of days if not in one.

Well, if nothing worked, there was always the option of killing Veronica. Granted it'd be very tricky to kill a supreme, but it wasn't anything I had never done before.

[With how strong their connection is]

[I strongly advise against it]

That was also a problem. With how fast her condition was worsening indicated that Alicia's connection with Veronica was very strong. Killing Veronica would have adverse effects on Alicia as well.

While I was stuck in this dilemma that didn't seem to have a way out…

Boom!!!

A strong explosion shook the foundations of the imperial palace. I turned in the said direction, the direction from where I could feel an immense flow of divine power.

That wasn't the divine power of a human. That was the divine power of a supreme. Other than me, they were the only ones in this world who could wield it to such an extent.

~~

"Oh, great goddess Isis, we greet you." As I arrived at the location where I could see Alicia standing in the middle of the destroyed courtyard with a benevolent expression on her face. All around her, everyone, from the emperor Orion to a servant of the imperial family, knelt in reverence of the being possessing Alicia.

For some reason, they couldn't see the bodies of the servants who were with Alicia, taking care of her. It didn't look like they died from divine energy. Their necks were snapped.

Some goddess.

"Rise, my child," A voice filled with divinity spread throughout the palace, not just the part where we were, "I, the benevolent goddess Isis, have come to bestow this land with my blessing and help resolve all the troubles that plague you."

"Oh, my goddess," Orion knelt even more than he already was. Everyone else also bowed even more following his lead, "I cannot expr---"

"What a load of cr*p," I said. As usual, when someone of great following was called out like that, the entire audience would freeze, trying to comprehend the words of the one who spoke.

But, on the off chance they didn't hear me, I gladly repeated myself, "What a load of cr--"

"I heard you the first time, child," Veronica replied, her expression instantly turned cold the next moment.

"Haha." I chuckled, "I was worried you hadn't."

So glad she did.

"What are you doing?!!!" Orion yelled, his mana emitting from him at a very strong intensity. Not just him, but everyone present was angered by my remark. Well, almost everyone. Rafael, along with the girls and Max, were looking at me with worry in their eyes.

Not worried for me though, they were more worried about the meat suit Veronica was using to talk to us.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"It is all right, my child. He is just… not on the right path." Veronica said, benevolence dripping from her tone and words. I was more and more angered by her words.

"Shut the fu*k up and get out of her body. If you don't, I will rip you out of her, kill you, and then kill each and every one of you fuc*ers." I said, my expression cold as hell but there was one difference between mine and Veronica's earlier expression.

The intent in my eyes was solely to kill.

"Stand down!!! I will hear no more insolence from your mouth!!!" Orion got more and more angry at my behavior. I didn't want to do this, but I really didn't care about his anger at the moment. Instead, I turned my attention to Veronica and said, "Let her go, Veronica."

Hearing her name loud and clear, a smile appeared across Veronica's face as she said, "Well, it does not seem like you are planning on letting me be the goddess for a little longer."

She stressed the word 'Goddess' to relay the irony in her sentence before she said, "Let us end this farce. I am running out of time as well."

[Warning]

[Warning]

[An individual beyond the user's current level has appeared]

[An emergency quest has arrived]

[Survive]

[Time limit: 10 minutes]

[Reward: All stats +100]

[Punishment: Death of the being you desire the most]

I didn't care about anything else. As soon as I read the last notification, I jumped into action and attacked Veronica.

[Archangel's blessing]

[All stats +50%]

Boom!!!

~~

As their fists collided, Adrian easily came to a halt. As he was stopped, Alicia raised her head to look at him, a smirk on her face, "Well, you sure are the strong one."

Push.

A gentle push of her arms and Adrian was blown away like he was nothing, along with everyone else in the vicinity. Since the attack was focused on Adrian, the others were safe, but they didn't come out unscathed. Especially the lower-ranked ones.

Thanks to the quick thinking of Rafael, however, the majority of the people were teleported away.

Just at that moment, Adrian jumped back, at the speed of lightning, or even faster than that, and he struck Alicia again, his force the fullest he could muster.

However, the result remained the same.

"Rafael!!! Evacuate the capital!!!" Adrian yelled as he was once again struck by Alicia's force but this time, he wasn't blown away. He was seriously injured though.

Several of his tendons burst apart like high-pressured pipes and his left arm was gone up until his forearm.

After all, her divine power was being absorbed. And at a terrifyingly fast rate as well.

"You heretic!!!"

Boom!!!