Chapter 541 - 539: Charging Through Everything

"This Divine Realm... doesn’t quite match the descriptions in the books."

Benovia muttered to herself, gazing at the remaining soldiers ahead.

With continuous slaughter, the remaining guards successfully reached the strength of level four.

Meanwhile, those who had been killing gathered at the back of the court on the Ascension God Stairs, gradually boosting Benovia, temporarily granting her level four magic power strength.

But even with level four strength, looking at the remaining dozen soldiers, Benovia felt she probably couldn’t defeat them.

Yet, watching the squad regain their offensive posture, Benovia decided to deal with them first before considering anything else.

She stood up, tore open several scrolls, and cast multiple blessing spells on herself, grabbed her sword again, and charged with the magic puppet.

Ten minutes later, Benovia was panting on the ground, half-kneeling, leaning on her sword.

At this moment, her armor with rune defenses was already torn to shreds.

Fortunately, she had brought spare equipment.

Taking a set of spare armor from her backpack, Benovia gained a bit of security. At this point, she dared not be reckless and decided to see what was really going on here.

"Perhaps a decapitation strategy is needed?"

Benovia muttered.

As she was pondering, another squad rushed over, shouting and charging as soon as they saw her.

Their momentum was even stronger.

"Is it never-ending?!"

Benovia charged forward.

After yet another bout of combat.

This time, Benovia was cautious, avoiding damage to her equipment, but after dealing with this even stronger squad, she felt her magic power showing signs of exhaustion.

"That should be enough; let’s retreat for now and assess the situation."

The girl murmured. Just then, she paused and looked up at the sky.

A faint silhouette appeared in the sky, followed by a beam of light projecting onto her, instantly refilling her magic power rapidly.

Benovia’s eyes brightened.

"A blessing from the Gods..."

What are you waiting for?

Charge straight ahead!

So, Benovia advanced instead of retreating, continuing forward.

Rose watched thoughtfully.

The trial of the stairs doesn’t require strict adherence to rules; Hilia chose to follow the rules, thoughtfully exploring the trial’s clues, while Benovia preferred to slaughter first, then find clues during the process.

Each method has its pros and cons, the latter being at least one difficulty level harder than the former.

Of course, that’s only before the ascent. The difficulty is about the same once the actual climb begins.

"If I give you an infinite mana regeneration buff, allowing you unlimited firepower, can you solve it?" Rose pondered with some anticipation.

Apart from providing an infinite mana regeneration buff, Rose didn’t intervene, adamantly watching as Benovia slowly fought her way into the palace, confronting the emperor father nearly reaching level five, grinding him down with infinite mana, bringing down the final trial.

Who knows what expression her father would make if he knew she killed him twice in the Ascension God Stairs.

With infinite mana, even the ’final boss’ elevated to nearly level five was no match for Benovia. The subsequent climbing process was thrilling yet safe, finally reaching the top and completing the rank ascension.

Benovia stood at the peak, overlooking the court below, and let out a long breath.

"This trial is even more disgusting than the last one; who knows what more revolting things will come next time."

Could this be the consequence of worshiping that God?

If that’s the case... bring more of it!

Feeling the seemingly bottomless magic power within her, and the magic refinement rate dropped to 80%, Benovia felt completely satisfied.

Everything around slowly turned to particles and dissipated, Benovia returned to the Joyful Cottage, immediately bombarding Rose with questions.

However, all her inquiries sank into oblivion.

Rose had already blocked all her words, returning to Hilia’s side.

At this time, Hilia was meditating, slowly restoring her magic refinement rate with potions.

Every time one advances or absorbs large amounts of magic, the refinement rate decreases because the magic just entered hasn’t been refined.

Therefore, after advancing, some time is needed to resolve various issues and quickly enhance combat power to a perfect state.

Below 100% refinement rate, using magic not of one’s main school results in varying degrees of debuff. The next task Rose wants Hilia to undertake cannot have any errors.

"Give her another two months; stabilize at level four in two months."

...

Time flies, quickly arriving in May, the weather growing hot alongside continuous rain.

During this period, Hilia’s magic refinement rate returned to 110%, and she made other improvements, learning some level four magic, and equipped the magic puppet with [Life Drain] and [Life Conversion] spells, completing the magic puppet’s life magic system.

Now, the stored spells on the magic puppet cover group healing, rapid healing, damage transfer, immunity to instant death, lifesteal, and mana-blood conversion.

Mana-blood conversion is unlikely to be needed, since the trials in the deepest parts of the Divine Realm rarely push Hilia to exhaustion.

Besides Hilia’s improvements, Rose casually threw Phil, Encore, and Doris into the deep Divine Realm, let them endure hardships, and then granted them various blessings, allowing them to also benefit from abundant magic power limits.

Encore and Doris seldom interacted with Rose; this was their second time receiving his blessing. Rose followed the usual routine, showing himself, unsettling them.

Comparatively, Encore was better; she accepted quickly.

However, Doris seemed to struggle to accept, wandering around bewildered for days after advancing.

But it had nothing to do with Rose.

After all, they were just backups; who knows if they’ll be needed later? It’s like handing gifts to game characters with no concern for their future use, just giving them now.

After finishing their Ascension trials, Rose checked on Shaline, a girl who tried to summon him but failed.

Unfortunately, her divine contract level was inadequate, so Rose couldn’t successfully affect her Divine Realm tier, and had to give up.

Besides, he also checked on the transfer student Aurora.

Upon knowing Hilia’s advancement, Aurora was stimulated, starting diligent studies and practice.

However, she hasn’t yet reached the requirements for the Ascension trial, so there’s no need for intervention.

As for whether or not to intervene later, Rose hasn’t decided.

"Five Holy Daughters should suffice; adding more would complicate control... speaking of which, why are all my targets girls? Could it be the backlash from the Star God Curse?"

Rose pondered thoughtfully.

The Star God Curse inherent from the start actually began to dim once he became a God. Now, the Star God Curse has greatly faded, with its effects not as strong as before.

"Never mind, let’s not worry about too much for now and start taking action."