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"Mom…" I smiled lightly. "It's fine. She is under my control, and we share the same goals. Right?"
"I guess so," the grumpy ant replied. "I aim to destroy the gods, and so does she. That is all. We work together and help each other grow stronger. Thanks to me, Sylphy has grown as powerful as she is now, and so have her weapons. Without the materials I have cultivated here, her sword, Scarlet, would never have become this strong. Her shield, Sapphire, also reached this level because Scarlet shared fragments of her own divine body as the final ingredients."
"That is amazing," my father said. "I am so excited too! This means that in the future it might actually be possible to change things, to change how this world works, to stop them from manipulating us, Faylen!"
