After Aleister's body shattered, her consciousness neither dissolved into the void nor left her form to become a wandering soul.
She only felt the world before her eyes so dim... like the final moments of twilight, a solitary candle flickering in a dark room.
The entire world held only one source of light.
And that was the "angel" before her.
She extracted and refined her life essence, letting it merge into the angel's body.
In that instant, Aleister's entire consciousness shook violently—
"Letting more people survive, that is the best choice... isn't it?"
The voice of the Serpent Celestial Marshal echoed as if in a hallucination.
"The Nurturing Skill is merely a bridge; it is not the end goal."
"You have not truly understood what it means to become a Pillar God. That is the living pillar of this world."
"I want to go home—I have a way to return. I've already found the Path back home."
"Drink, drink... feast upon my blood, unpraised and unsung!"
