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Now that Maria had grown so powerful, she could finally gauge Hel's true strength.
And she was…
"Ridiculously strong!"
Every previous foe she had faced paled in comparison. Not even the Heavenly Emperor, the Vampire Family Heads, Zeus and the Olympians, the Egyptian Gods, or the Archdemons came close.
Hel remained above them all as a Supreme Goddess of Death and Souls—perhaps the only god in all of Yggdrasil who could truly oppose Odin to this degree.
Yet Maria smiled with unshakable confidence.
Her journey had not been in vain.
She had fully awakened as an Outer Goddess and was now grasping something even further beyond.
Her power had grown vastly superior to what she once possessed.
Still, compared to Hel, she could not be certain whether they were equals.
Yggdrasil was truly a mysterious world, teeming with beings of unimaginable strength, far more so than the realms beneath it.
