After using a whole hour to explain, show, and introduce every single soul of importance in the sprawling sea city, the two finally reached a secluded, heavily guarded sanctuary deep within the palace. The heavy silver doors parted, and a rush of warm, dry air washed over them.
Mirabella moved her gaze around the beautiful garden, completely confused. Lush, vibrant terrestrial flora bloomed in absolute defiance of the dark ocean surrounding them. Above, a brilliant, warm light bathed the courtyard, mimicking a perfect summer noon.
"Aunty, how did you build this?" She asked, staring directly at the miniature sun hovering above them, its rays casting long, familiar shadows across the grass.
They were clearly 800 meters deep in the sea, surrounded by crushing aquatic pressure and eternal darkness. Then where did this authentic, life-giving sunlight come from?
"Oh, that’s just a manifestation from my specter. It takes the energy from the actual sun in the surface, and shone it down here for my flowers." Seraphina explained, a touch of maternal pride in her voice. She gracefully walked over and sat down on a beautiful, intricately carved silver chair, and continued:
"As you can also see, although we are underwater, there is not a drop of water here... You can say, we are right outside the surface."
Mirabella slowly nodded her head, processing the sheer volume of energy required to maintain such an absolute spatial isolation barrier. She stepped off the stone path, bent down, and delicately picked a strikingly vibrant red flower. Its petals curled backward like wild flames.
"What sort of flower is this? I haven’t seen it before." She asked, turning around to face the Mermaid Queen, twirling the stem between her fingers.
Seeing the specific flower she had casually plucked, Seraphina was stunned. The color drained from her face.
"Oh dear, that flower in your hand is known as Gloriosa Lily, all parts of that plant, especially the roots and tubers are considered highly toxic and can be life-threatening if consumed... And after Doomsday, it mutated, that in your hand is the only pure Gloriosa Lily which hasn’t mutated, but it’s still dangerous." She paused, her silver eyes suddenly narrowing as she noticed Mirabella’s bare skin making direct contact with the volatile stem.
"Wait, how come there is no irritation?" She stood up abruptly, the regal composure of a Queen vanishing as she rushed towards Mirabella. She frantically placed her hand on her forehead, then her neck, even pulling back to check her eyes for the telltale dilation of poisoning.
"Don’t worry, Aunty, I am fully immune to all poison, this can’t do me anything." Mirabella explained calmly, touched by the genuine, panicked care her aunt still harbored for her after all these years.
"Fully immune to all poison?! Did you locate the Poison god inheritance?" Seraphina asked in absolute surprise, taking a step back as she assessed her god-daughter in a terrifying new light.
"Poison god inheritance? What’s that?" Mirabella frowned. Her immunity was a foundational perk of her poisonous gas, and world chosen ability, also forged through brutal battles. She had never heard of a specific divine inheritance granting it.
"Huh? You actually don’t know about the Inheritance? It means you aren’t fully immune to poison. I am guessing you have a skill which gives you 100% immunity, but what if a God rank poison attacks you?" Seraphina grabbed her wrist lightly, her grip firm and protective, and led Mirabella back to the ornate table, then sat her down to explain the deadly realities of the higher realms.
Mirabella watched intently as her aunty sat beside her, realizing that her system’s ’100% immunity’ might have a fatal, conceptual blind spot.
"The god poison I am referring to isn’t that of a Sovereign, or divine sovereign... All these poison can still be dodged. But a true God rank poison, you can’t survive that."
"So the only way to overcome this is by gaining the inheritance?" Mirabella asked, her mind already calculating how to add this elusive stronghold to her checklist.
"Correct! In ancient texts, it said the Poison god inheritance is located in the Poison god’s Castle. This castle is very strange, up to this moment, no one have located it." Seraphina sighed, pouring them both a cup of shimmering, energy-infused tea.
"The inheritance is in a Castle!! Is the poison god dead?"
"Sadly, Yes... He died in the great war which closed the Primordial gateway."
"Primordial gateway?"
Each of the words spoken kept stunning Mirabella more. The cosmic lore of the universe was vastly older and far more complicated than the system interfaces had ever implied. Even so that, Seraphina stared at her in genuine surprise, setting her teacup down with a clatter.
"You don’t even know about the Primordial gateway?" She asked, incredulous that someone as powerful as Mirabella could be missing such a foundational piece of the universe’s history.
"Well, I know about the Great one or evil one. Whatever he is called, then Calamity Void, and a two-headed creature with fox tails and four arms. I also know about the Fourth World is assisting Lamashtu as she attack Earth. Well, and I know something about the Julian who called himself the Great King. Also about Heaven, and the Gods and goddess who resides in the fifth world." Mirabella listed them off casually, treating the apocalyptic terrors of the cosmos like entries in a hunting ledger.
Seraphina slowly nodded her head, her silver eyes wide as she processed the sheer caliber of enemies her god-daughter had been casually brushing up against.
"You just got pieces of information, but at least these pieces gave you a general idea."
"Well..." Mirabella placed the deadly Gloriosa Lily gently on the table, her blue eyes distant as she was lost in thought, aggressively piecing together the fragmented lore she had gathered across her brutal lifetimes.
"What I can summarize from everything is this; Heaven and the Evil one are both enemies, both sides have their factions, and army... Heaven’s faction should have been the five worlds, but the fifth betrayed Heaven, and is now corrupting the other four worlds... As for the Evil one, he was trapped away, and his faction are busy searching for ways to get him out... The way to free him, must be located in the four worlds under Heaven, which is why they’re continuously attacking it."
She delivered the summary with the cold, calculating precision of a Sovereign charting out a universal war map.
"Wow, that’s an impressive brain you got there!! Okay, let me tell you more." Seraphina leaned in, the playful aunt fading away to reveal the ancient, knowledgeable Queen.
"In the Third World, there is a gateway, which lead to the fourth world, they call it the Bridge... While in the fourth world, there is a gateway which lead to the fifth world, this gateway, they called it the Primordial gateway, and only a Supreme Heaven class can try to open such a thing."
The architecture of the universe finally made geographical sense. The realms were stacked, separated by absolute, conceptual barriers.
"What about from the other side?" Mirabella asked, her eyes narrowing as she instantly pinpointed the tactical flaw in the cosmic blockade.
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