Constructing a battlefield that can reflect everything on the ground—this is not an easy task for Mohe.

Simply put, Mohe is facing a choice: one is to create something akin to the "World Reflection" alchemy item, directly projecting everyone here and then proportionally weakening them, adjusting on a numerical level before engaging in battle—or to let everyone's soul participate in such a fight, but leave a "death escape" loophole to ensure that no "defeated" individual dies, allowing them to depart from the World of the Dead.

The former is much more troublesome than the latter, and ultimately, the latter would have some impact on the participants in such a war—however, the distinction lies in that Mohe can use some underhanded tactics with the former, making considerable manipulations in numerical adjustments. If she tries any shady moves with the latter, Doro could easily notice.

Personally, Mohe tends towards the former plan; she has no intention of facing Doro in a fair and impartial battle.

But then again.

The words of the Elf earlier surfaced in Mohe's mind, making her feel as uncomfortable as if she had swallowed a fly.

Am I afraid to face Doro head-on?

Mohe admits that right now, Doro is somewhat stronger, and indeed she's a bit fearful of the unpredictable consequences if she initiates real war with Doro... but that's definitely not the reason she'd avoid direct conflict with Doro.

What kind of person is Mohe? Many may have misconceptions about her, the Demon King, but in reality, she is a magnanimous and benevolent existence.

To have Mohe speak for herself, she could cite an example—there has never been any race in this world that perished because of her.

Thousands of years ago, it was the Nakrasa's sacrifice of their entire species to gain power to oppose her that led to their downfall. In contrast, Mohe never did anything to any race.

Quite the opposite, she was very proactive in maintaining diversity among races. For instance, she gave the King of Dragons a type of drug conducive to reproduction—this is exactly a manifestation of her kindness and benevolence.

Not only did she not annihilate any race, but rather, she created many races. Although the world labeled these she created as the "Demon Race," in Mohe's eyes, the races she created are no different from humans, elves, or dwarves.

On the contrary, after Mohe was "killed," the diverse Demon Race suffered crushing attacks from the major races, with many races created by Mohe being slaughtered—though Mohe does not feel angry about this.

Thus, she is generally reluctant to initiate such large-scale wars. The battle initiated by the major races against her, after all, was initiated by them; she merely watched the development in silence, waiting for a certain moment to arrive.

In summary, she doesn't launch a real war against Doro because she doesn't want the world's races to continue dwindling. Creating a race requires inspiration! She doesn't wish to recreate races she has already created before; every race's birth needs some inspiration, and she won't create things she's uninterested in. Hence, if races keep disappearing, it would become troublesome to recreate them.

Doing something out of interest and doing something out of necessity... are entirely different concepts.

Mohe doesn't want things to develop that way.

Although, although Doro is indeed stronger now, it must be said that she wasn't crushed last time; she merely lost by a single move—she isn't without a chance of defeating Doro, just that there is a certain risk. As for harboring any feelings toward Doro?

Foolish Snow Elf, with nothing but love affairs in mind, don't they know that the most unreliable thing in this world is the emotion between life forms?

As an Eternal Life Form, Mohe can vouch that the only things leading to eternity in this world are power and knowledge.

When will these ignorant life forms realize? With both power and knowledge, she's definitely beyond Doro, who only has power. In the eyes of Eternal Life Forms, this is but a fleeting moment! The success or failure of a moment is utterly meaningless in the eternal duels of Eternal Life Forms, which is a way of showing weakness in itself.

She began to make modifications in this World of the Dead.

Mohe is now somewhat concerned about something else, namely the matter with the Goddess.

Since she and Doro have reached this extent, the Goddess seemingly has no plans to descend?

This forces Mohe to suspect whether some issue has arisen in the Celestial Realm, though the Goddess did descend through Charlette not too long ago—but that descent was driven by Charlette's will, her wish for the Goddess to come down, hence the Goddess's descent. The Goddess's voluntary descent has not been seen.

Even now, as she operates alone in the World of the Dead, the Goddess seemingly has no intention of meeting her… what's the situation?

Mohe does mean to communicate with the Goddess, after all, it's been many years since their last meeting. The Goddess's recent maneuvers have been quite significant, creating life forms like Doro, overturning everything in just a few decades, which actually goes against her former agreement with the Goddess. However, being an Eternal Life Form, Mohe knows that such promises are nonsense; she wouldn't adhere to such agreements herself, let alone the Goddess?

But communication is necessary; she needs to confirm the Goddess's status.

The Celestial Realm belongs to the Goddess, the ground belongs to her— this was agreed long ago. Given that the Goddess led to the birth of the White Church and also created the Hero, maybe... the Celestial Realm indeed has a problem.

Her expectations of Doro might be of another kind.

An expectation for Doro to solve the issues of the Celestial Realm.

Is it something ominous?

If it were something ominous, the Goddess should have contacted her.

Back then, they jointly exiled many ominous beings, which inherently provides a basis for cooperation on this matter.

She can only temporarily press this idea down; now is not the time to worry about the Goddess's matters. Currently, it's time for her and Doro's confrontation, and the affairs here are more crucial; each should tend to their own problems, she doesn't have much interest in minding the Goddess's business. Anyway, judging by her observation, the Celestial Realm seems quite normal, so if something does happen, they'll deal with it then. To put it bluntly, what if the Goddess dies?

After all, since Doro is strong now, there's a chance for collaboration with Doro.

She has to stay in the World of the Dead for some time now.

...

Human Alchemy, Adeline has actually been researching it for some time.

To call this technique forbidden might not be quite accurate.

After Adeline's careful research, she found that this technique could possibly lead humans toward "eternity," at least she confirmed one thing.

The Demon King's Blood of Mohe was created through this method.

Was the great calamity back then triggered by Mohe's dread of such matters, leading to destruction? But why the Star Tear? Why would Mohe harbor pity and sadness for such things? The Demon King definitely isn't that kind of person.

With these doubts, Adeline finally found Doro.

"You said, if there's anything needed, I could ask you."

Doro nodded: "Yes, you are right, what do you need?"

Adeline glanced at Adriana, who was standing behind Doro, always with her head lowered, like a loyal maid.

Then expressed her thoughts: "In my research, I discovered something..."

She presented the issues she encountered: "I want to know, for the Demon King, would she kill because others have uncovered her secrets?"

Stating frankly about Human Alchemy and the Demon King's Blood, Adeline didn't know if this was correct.

Doro gave a definite answer: "If Mohe were that sort of person, she wouldn't have waited for me to breakthrough back then."

Adeline paused.

Doro continued: "If, according to your hypothesis, the so-called Human Alchemy allows humans to reach such a realm, then initially, Mohe surely held a supportive attitude towards this alchemy, anticipating the birth of life forms like her. On my path to transcendence, I felt her loneliness and solitude, persistently overlooking this world, awaiting someone to stand before her—so, if it is as you say, this alchemy isn't the reason for Mohe to destroy the city. It ought to be her cause for sorrow and compassion, her lamentation for not obtaining the answer she sought within this alchemy."

Listening to Doro's words, Adeline suddenly realized that Doro and Mohe already "understood" each other. They, the Hero's party, traveled together for years, but did they truly understand each other? While maintaining surface-level peace, each believed to be in a place of joy and happiness, but did they genuinely understand each other?

Did Doro back then, understand them as thoroughly as she understands Mohe now? Did they understand Doro's thoughts as thoroughly as this?

Apparently not.

Doro and Mohe are now beings of the same rank.

"If seen from this perspective, then Human Alchemy carries some hidden risks, forcing Mohe, who was originally expectant, hoping for the birth of beings like her, to kill and destroy the city, thus filled with sympathy and compassion, lamenting for this. This alchemy likely has undisclosed risks."

Doro nodded: "Exactly. This aligns with the logic of the events; do you plan on using that to reach this domain? It doesn't seem like a good choice."

"Even the same thing, used by different people, can have different outcomes."

Adeline merely replied this way.

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