Life places the souls into the crystal and a clone of Lily was made . Lily performed the necessary seals to cover the clone's identity as a clone and was given the pendant while Life reminded Lily .
" Rate is still in your body you know " " Yeah although I should keep him with me because I'll need to have him learn some harsh truth "
" Also call Ethan to get here he'll be responsible for bringing my purchases with him " ' Maybe I should talk to Ryson about that plan to make it much more legitimate ' The clone walked out saying goodbye to Ryson and taking the spacecraft back to the Labyrinth's body .
' Now time for some investigation ' Lily opened the blank grimoire while Birch was looking beyond the rooftop with her ' There's a lot of other more unique information from this but no matter how hard I searched none of them had these passwords Life told me about '
" What are you reading ? " " It's a blank grimoire " Lily takes out the book and Birch reads it " Ohh this is an amazing artifact "
Lily keeps it away from Birch and continues to read it " What do you think is the purpose of a labyrinth ? " Lily asked " I believe you would think it's to contain a monster but from what I heard about the Labyrinth it seems very mysterious kinda like that giant seal that this world is enclosed in "
" So you are aware of it ? " " Yes it was so amazing , but the thing about it is that it feels so foreign to me only a little of it seemed familiar " Birch said " So if the Labyrinth was the prisoner of this world why would people call it a Labyrinth shouldn't they call the monster ? " Lily asked .
" I thought about that too when I was reading the text of this world , so I had a theory what if the Labyrinth structures itself as a problem it doesn't have an answer to and simply lets the explorers find the answer ? " Birch said .
" Why would it have a problem it doesn't have an answer to ? " " It's just a theory to understand it there might be other possible ideas , just like how we don't understand how our brains work the Labyrinth likely doesn't understands how its body works so it leaves the thinking to others "
' Creating a problem to be solved , usually you'd need an answer or solution in mind when creating it but if you want to find the answer then how would you have created it ' Lily relays this understanding to Birch .
" Wouldn't recreating the problem be the right way ? " " But if the labyrinth was the problem why investigate for a problem , unless there isn't ? " " I don't think so , maybe when the Labyrinth created this problem they got lost while replicating it " Birch said .
" But that makes it strange , doesn't it ? " Birch nodded " Yeah you're right if the Labyrinth had created a problem they should know the answer unless they forgot about it . " Birch thinks of the theory and Lily does the same .
" What if the Labyrinth is working on a solution now ? But the problem is they can't consistently solve it because of the frequent attacks . " Lily said " Oh that's right it's like solving a really long number sentence but the problem the Labyrinth has is probably the lack of a paper to write down notes "
" Or someone is making them forget inside them " Lily looked in the direction of the Labyrinth thinking about that as a possibility " Maybe the password is what it needs " Lily considered the potential value of the Labyrinth .
' I'll have to search for the forbidden section of the Library of Seals " " Oh , let me do that " Birch instantly volunteered " Sure try not to get caught " Birch disguised his body and immediately departed .
' That takes care of the matter involving Keyly now I just have to find the reapers ' Lily uses the grimoire to search for the location containing the reapers and a door appears .
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Lily walks towards a facility hidden under a building with a disguise " Hey you aren't you " Lily grabbed a guard with their death extracted and took their life . The guards panicked seeing something strange like this and started firing shots which Lily absorbed.
The life of the immortal was taken by Lily and she turned to the other guards who started reloading " This can end with you dying like this immortal or you can tell your superiors I tried and stop attacking " Lily threw the corpse and one checked their body confirming they were dead .
" Good " Lily walked to the elevator and they quickly reported Lily's killing of a supposed immortal . The elevator music was replaced with an alert and Lily looks at the soul of the immortal and separates its life from it .
' I wonder if this Life thing is something that can be turned into an abstract entity like Life ' Lily thought and placed it inside a vessel that Life made for her ' How strange these things are ' Lily held the pendant Life and Death had crafted for her .
' Although this thing they made is amazing ' the door opens and Lily goes in to be fired at the sides by built-in turrets . Lily creates a death sword from her body's poison stabs the machines melting them and walks to the storage of death .
' Let's take them away before they use it for anything ' The pendant floated and Lily melted the glass with her sword and eventually she heard someone say " Wow lady you have some weird power " Lily looked at the death manifestation " You can talk ? " " Yeah so can the guys before me "
Lily looked at the other cells confirming the reapers' words " Huh looks like I have to tell Death about this and change some plans " " Death ? " " Just stay still inside the pendant " Lily gathered the reapers and went back to the elevator .
' At least Death has some kids to take care of maybe I could get some for Life too , what should I call them ? Reapers are easy but for life it's hard '
" There are a lot of mythical references of embodiment of life but I don't know what is the perfect one " the elevator opens and she hears " You are to surrender and cooperate " Lily takes the lives of the immortals instantly and looks at the rest .
" This isn't a robbery to destroy the death vault it's a threat to my targets " Lily reveals a face that she had found and the descenders who watched it were surprised to see it .
" This just in the suspect had been revealed to be the original Immortal who was supposed to have been killed in action " the news headline said .
' So far I've already planted the doubt of the descender's credibility because of what I said , now I've planted a signal for the rebels and now I just need to see how much Birch got ' Lily waits at the rooftop spectating the news using Clairvoyance .
' Their security is garbage or is that just me being too good ? ' she worried about the lack of challenges and looked around the city ' It's strangely peaceful guess it's like being a tiny ant in a world , any big thing won't matter to you and you have no power to change it '
She checks on the facility containing the piece of the Labyrinth ' It's hidden greatly , these barriers also seem familiar , maybe that's why Keyly knew about my involvement with espionage '
Lily wonders if the Library of Seals also has passwords similar to the one Life uses to enter the world ' But if Life has that kind of information shouldn't there be a soul that had received that password in the first place ? '
Lily went to the reincarnation machine and used the debt chain to take the souls involved in communicating with the descenders ' These faces are from a long time ago , they are probably very old but it's something '
Lily decided to keep the soul with her ' They'll be useful for the black text I'll be making or maybe for blackmail ' Lily takes her cane and uses the spell to record the information of the descenders sending out passwords into the cane .
' I'm not much of a writer so calling these the black text is much better and as for where I could spread it the usual market is the only suitable place to plant them , but first I need a full proof tool to spread it ... so how ? '
Lily thinks about the spells that she could use ' Rewriting a text would be good , I can leave the spread of information to Birch , he'll be able to make a spell just for it '
' Why is Birch taking so long by the way ' Lily used her debt chain to send a message ' Ahh I got too immersed ' Birch thought upon receiving the message and quickly went to the forbidden section unsealing the sophisticated lock and entered .
"Rules of forbidden section , books must be read inside only" He ignored the rest as soon as he heard that and quickly went through the shelves while the rest weren't suspicious because he had opened the lock to the forbidden section himself .
' He was reading a book , even though I told him I have copies of the library at home already ' Lily was annoyed and decided to check on the interactions between the grand practitioner of death extraction and the descender who gave them the password .
' Interesting the practitioner gave the descender how to extract death maybe I should target them after I'm done , I could still use the same face of Immortal ... maybe go after them after placing the black text ? No that takes too long ... how about using '
Lily checked the picture of the descender who learned how to extract death and thought about where it might be ' Sigh I will have to get to them don't I ? ' she knew that the reaper would be useful and having blackmail material on that descender would be useful .
' their office is on the building and I think some of the corrupt had visited them I'll use their memory to make the door but I'll have to be secretive about it ' Lily exits the bathroom of that building and she hears some reporters from below .
She entered the empty office and sat there looking at the files while security had breathed her brainwashing gas ' Tanec the death-extracting executive supposed immortal but I don't know where her reaper is '
Lily thought about brainwashing but figured that she shouldn't do it without Life around ' the brainwashing those guards receive is very basic it shouldn't last very long but now that I have used the Immortal as the scapegoat I'll have to create a story and act according to it '
The elevator arrives and Tanec walks back to the office ' So how about the ridiculous plot of the immortal coming back after centuries from their death ? Seems good enough ' " YOU !! " Tanec fell and Lily shut the doors locking it away .
She took her cane and got off the seat " Hello Tanec " Tanec wondered why the security didn't inform her of anything " How did you get in here ? " " Your security was just not good enough and before you ask why I'm here . My answer is this "
Lily projected the soul that Tanec dealt with while they were distributing passwords to bring outcasts into this world to fight " I'm rather impressed by how your whole operation operates nowadays "
' I don't know much about the Immortal so I'll have to roll with it ' " You were gone from the Labyrinth how did you escape it " ' Ohh thanks for making this easier for me ' Lily smiles and looks at Tanec .
" I've changed quite a lot over those years , but I escaped . And I have some cleaning up to do " " What do you want from me ? " Lily smiled " Tell me about the passwords you've been distributing from what I heard it seems like you've left that business for a very long time and now you have these reapers ? It took me a while to get to know this place after I came here "
" Is that all that you want , the keys to this world ? " " Yeah and if you think I don't have evidence remember that I have the soul of the practitioner that taught you how to extract your ability to die "
Tanec looked at the soul thinking about the secrets that could be revealed and the blame that follows " Fine what do you want ? " " Hmm how about your death ? " Tanec already saw how an immortal without their death was incapacitated and unfamiliar with the experience .
' Why would he want that ? ' Tanec was confused and wondered if there was a drawback but she already saw how often Lily had killed an immortal . A debt chain formed satisfying Lily while Tanec gave her a safe which Lily opened and absorbed the reaper into the pendant .
" Good doing business with you , I'll come to you whenever I need something " a debt chain was formed and Lily gathered all of Tanec's information ' This is a convenient debt chain , an unlimited supply of information and a sleeper agent that will never wake up '
Lily walked out of the door and made the security replace the footage leaving the building . She returned to the rooftop " I got it " Birch said showing a transparent book " good I have another job for you "
Lily gives Birch a physical copy of the history of the reimor kingdom " I want you to create a spell that activates at random times I need you to spread it so that this text is known by them but they can't trace us " Lily gives Birch a few pages from the blank grimoire containing all possible ways of evidence tracing known to the corrupt .
" Ohh this is a weird book " Birch starts reading it and Lily heads out to steal the piece ' Unlike the reapers this one is gonna be much harder ' Lily opens a door to a distant location from the massive facility while Birch looks at what Lily had left him about the grimoire .
' What if I make something like that ' Birch starts to create a spell ' If she wants people to read this book it's much better to have something that could spread without notice ' Birch thought of the viruses that he learned based on the science books .
' Maybe I could do something like that but I need it to be imitate it perfectly , she also wants the information to spread and there are already a lot of people who knows how to deal with tiny things . '
Birch looked at the roof used a see-through spell and zoomed into a satellite ' Hmm that could be useful , they did say that the Labyrinth could interfere with some kind of things in the air so some of their technology couldn't work properly so what if I do the same except the goal is to turn some books into this text ? '
He thought about the words that he saw " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic , but if I create an extremely sophisticated magic it will be completely mysterious " Birch was satisfied with the conclusion and started to work on it .
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Lily finishes the map of the facility after recording the details on the blank grimoire through the debt chains ' This is ridiculously big but then again the pieces have been spread out to have them researched on their own although it seems like the prime time to catch it all is when work is over ... '
Lily looked at the star wondering if that was created by Indus too ' I've searched his name and his growth is terrifying , he's a very neutral party intending to recreate his home's environment but also the night sky he came a bit late and is younger than Tanec '
' But I of all people shouldn't be saying that after all ' Lily sensed her body acknowledging the world that was hidden inside ' My growth itself is much terrifying ' she spotted Rate destroying the fake thoughts Life made for him and had a thought of how cute he was .
' Ahh right back to work ' Lily waited for night to come and while waiting she felt something strange happening ' Hmm what's this ' she called Birch and he teleported to her side " Yep I caused that " " How did you get here ? Isn't there a rule where you need to have a memory of a location to come here ? "
" I used the debt chain , usually you can create portals when there is a stable connection and mine was " Birch turned to the giant facility " So what are we here for ? " " A piece of the labyrinth , I figured I could use that to give to the Labyrinth so that I could get some more debt out of them "
" so you're just stealing it ? " Birch asked " Yes now don't bother me and stay at the rooftop , you're still coming with me " " Ahh but this foreign land has so many things to know " Lily thought about the pendant and showed it .
" When I went to rescue the reapers some of them turned out to have some level of consciousness so I figured I could give them to Death and let him take care of it . That means they're coming with me "
" I'll go with you " Birch said not intending to let this opportunity to discover the secrets of the reapers slip off especially after we experienced the agony of not being able to observe or study the great fire or the two entities in Lily's pendant .
" Good now the faster we finish this the faster we can leave " Lily stopped Birch as soon as she realized what it meant to tell him " But I intend to wait until nighttime so that we can gather the piece "
" Why ? can't we just go in and take it ? I have a spell that can bind anyone with the same bloodline " " Can you be less enthusiastic about stealing the piece of Labyrinth ? We're gonna get it anyways "
Lily spent her waiting time entertaining Birch and when it hit nightfall all the researchers left the facility ' Good ' Lily makes a trapdoor and drops her through a blindspot hacking the entire system .
They waited for a while until the hacking was complete " Okay let's head in " Birch was curious about the enhancement Lily gave to the cane and followed her " This is a very impressive facility " Birch said .
" I know ... all sorts of data was found here " Lily left for a room and went to the secret location ' So this is the room where they keep the data on brainwashing ' Lily figured she could use this type of research as blackmail in the future and gather them .
' It would be bad for the corrupt and those involved to have me find it ' " Maybe I should've requested a visit ? No they would have to burn the evidence so what if I had these papers delivered to me ? by the immortal ? "
Lily thought it would give her reason to rebel against them but still doesn't include those who actually brings the outcasts into this world through the distribution of passwords .
' Although it would give them a warning about it ... it still won't stop them . Keyly wouldn't care much about the brainwashing since I was already aware so right now the only ones who don't know I was aware of the brainwashing are the mythical beast and the corrupt who use brainwashing '
There was just one problem that Lily had ' Keyly already leaked the information that I was aware of the brainwashing to the other rebellious descenders , I was eventually gonna tell Rate and the others that I was aware and that is where the problem lies '
Lily was already aware that Rate and the mythical beast had all fallen under the brainwashing of the Labyrinth the only problem was whether they would remain loyal ' Looks like I'll need to visit that story that Rate said the one about coming to this world '
The materials for researching the Labyrinth's brainwashing were taken away and then she looked at the other files while holding the ones for blackmail " Hmm ? The perfect being ? " She recalls her old world memories about the perfect being ' this kind of research was organized although it's not deeply researched '
" But it brings some bad memories although since it's not well researched I'll ignore it ... but " Lily grabbed it anyway and reads it "The blood that was given to us by the distributors was very useful in the project and vision of creating the perfect being"
' According to Tanec the distributors are the ones giving the passwords out ' "The blood was amazing and we don't know anything about it but the fact that there exists a being with so much genetic material that it's wrong to call them perfect yet for some reason they are and exist"
' Is that me or someone else ? ' Lily searched for the blood sample the research was referring to and found it ' Yep it is me ' Lily looked at the data reading "What differentiates this sample from the piece is the fact that it reacts to anything that absorbs it"
"It could be similar to the Labyrinth due to how it infects the area around it however it's also entirely different , at the surface both of them kill anything foreign and merge it with themselves . if possible maybe an interaction between the sample and labyrinth piece can be made"
' at least I know what the distributors have been making ' Lily takes information about the distributors from Tanec ' what a crude system of distributors ' she compared the distributors from before and after finding out how much it had devolved from dragging people to this world into getting profits likely had signs of corruption due to people like Tanec .
' the problem is what did they pay for me ? ' she had to put this kind of idea aside since Tanec had only information on the surface level of the current distributor status and a deeper understanding of the old one ' But Tanec seems close to the Immortal maybe I can get information through her '
" I got everything " Birch said and Lily returned the research about her blood sample recording it in case Scyan never reached this far yet " Can we hurry back now ? " " We'll try but right now I need Argus to order a few things for me "
They returned with the piece of the labyrinth shrunk inside a box " Argus I need you to get these things ordered and tell Ethan to shrink the load and show off to Ryson " " command confirmed , Ethan will show Ryson his shrinking ability what kind of purchases would you like ? "
" Hmm actually , send Ethan to get the elixir straight from Basil and invite Ryson for it " " Command changed , Ryson will witness Ethan's shrinking abilities and Basil will give Ethan the purchase . How much would you like to purchase from Basil "
" Use up all the money that was converted and have it prepared tomorrow , remember that I wasn't here and this order was something I placed a long time ago " " Affirmative " Argus made a hologram to confirm the complex order and Lily confirmed it and meets with Birch .
" Can I at least look at the reapers ? " " No they probably wouldn't like it if someone like you were to stare at them , you can check on them after Death introduces himself as someone similar to them "
" So you want him to adopt them ? " " Sorta although it's more like an apprenticeship , even if Death is old he acts much younger because he doesn't talk to a lot of people and is the underworld of it all "
Birch notes that while Lily continues to talk about her plans for the reapers " They'll eventually gain some semblance of a self so I'll have to make sure Death takes care of them , I don't like abortions "
Lily went to the bedroom and slept for the next day While Birch was wondering about that research that caught Lily's eyes ' Maybe I should look into her ' Birch walked into the bedroom and decided to cast a high-level analysis spell .
' Hmm this weird guy is here ' Birch looked at Rate who was panting ' I finally finished it ' ' This is an amazing world I should ask her about it ' ' Can you get off my body ? " Birch was surprised to hear that Lily was aware of his actions and backed away quickly .
' I rest and this is what happens ' Lily looked at Rate and figured it was the perfect time to say something about Rate . Lily walked into the space and looked at Rate , she gave him a pat on the back " So care to tell me what you were doing here ? "
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