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"Yeah, don't you remember? It's a Realm inside of my Soul where I grow Spirit Treasures," I explained. "I use them often as materials, even now for the Dream Weapons."

"Hmm… Oh yes, I now remember," Lucifer nodded. "So that place still is there, huh? I remember you saying something about it not being solid or something though?"

"Oh that's on the past now, as I've grown stronger, it's no longer just purely ethereal, and it can be a physical plane as well," I nodded. "It hasn't developed that much because we've been here for a while, and I've been just lazing around outside of that… But once I evolve again, I might get something new. It always happens like that."

"Interesting…" Lucifer nodded. "I suppose I could go, but that place, how does it look?"

"Oh! Are you curious? You can easily check out, let's go inside!" I said.

I quickly placed my hands in my chest, as Lucifer was confused.

CRACK!

Until I broke open a huge black hole in my chest, which sucked him inside.

"W-WAIT A SECOND…!"

It also sucked me inside! What a fun way to travel.

FLUOSH!

Once inside my Soulscape, I saw the dark, endless night skies, the bright moon shining above, the stars, and the ground beneath.

A beautiful, large flower garden of red, black, and purple roses, to the distance, a forest of bone trees and a demonic tree that sprouted demonic fruits.

Further away, a massive mountain made of gray stone and crystals, releasing Void Essence everywhere.

A giant tower made of black stone and infused by the ghostly specters of hundreds of beings encompassing it.

A turbulent, pitch-black ocean with swirling chaos inside.

And lastly, a giant sphere, the Void Star, shining with its pale gray light above all.

In my previous evolution, all of my Spirit Treasures became Divine Spirit Treasures too, which probably also boosted all my Elemental Power, Energy Recovery, Resources and Materials Protection, and the growth of my Divine Ember/Flame.

Looking at it, the list was big.

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{Divine Realm Spirit Treasures}:

[Void Star (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 5)]

[Mountain of Ginnungagap (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 1)]

[Demonic Tree of Death: Qliphoth (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 4)]

[Moon Gazing Giant Lily (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 3)]

[Sea Of Chaotic Miasma (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 5)]

[Sky Of Cosmic Void (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 5)]

[Tower Of Primordial Death (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 5)]

[Abyssal Demon Garden Of Blood, Poison, and Darkness (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 4)]

[Necrotic Death Bone Forest (Divine Spirit Treasure: Rank 4)]

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Some of these spirit treasures ended up merging together once I ascended higher, for example, those three types of flowers used to be on their own but then combined into that giant garden.

And the forest, it once had death trees and bone trees, yeah… They can merge and stuff, which is pretty cool all things considered.

"Woah!"

As I descended and fell gracefully over the floor, I heard Lucifer's groan as he slammed face-first into the ground.

BAAAM!

The entire Soulscape trembled, he was sure heavy.

"A-Are you okay?! Sorry…!"

I ran towards him, and I was met with an angry expression.

"Ugh, did you had to drag me here so aggressively, Maria?!" He complained. "I thought…! It was… it was weird!"

"I know, I know, sorry…" I apologized. "But here we are, this is my Soulscape, pretty cool right?"

"T-This is…"

He quickly stopped glaring at me angrily, looking around at his surroundings.

"Such a thing… Is it possible? Inside of your own soul?" He wondered. "W-When… just when did this entire thing started to begin with? Nobody else has this expect you."

"I don't really remember…" I said. "Hmm, maybe when my soul got big enough I guess? Can't really give you a big estimate as to when but… Do you like the place? Now that you're embracing the Element of Void a lot more, there's some places where your evolution could be boosted or go faster."

"I-I can see that, that mountain over there, or the star above us…" He said. "Both of those could work out for me. But what are they?"

"The mountain is called the Mountain of Ginnungagap! It's a Divine Spirit Treasure, very valuable," I said. "It is one of the gifts I got from my benefactor once I evolved… I think? Yeah, I think that's how it went."

"You got gifted a whole mountain?!" He looked at me in disbelief.

"Yeah! Anyway, come here, let's go check the mountain," I said, grabbing Lucifer's hand.

"Fine…" He groaned.

FLASH!

With his wing and my natural flight ability as a ghost, we reached the faraway mountain in like a minute, admiring its surroundings.

The rocky surface, the desolate land, the perpetual silence… It sure was a boring place!

"This is such a massive place… Is this where you usually keep your Undead?" He asked, looking down the distance, the desolate, gray landscape had several beautiful yet lugubrious areas, one of them was a series of small ponds of liquid nether, not yet a fully formed spirit treasure, but that looked to be one in the making. Surrounding it there were thousands of wandering Undead. Zombies, Skeletons, Specters, etc.

"Yeah, I mean most of the time," I said. "I tend to vary between putting them here or my Shadow Realm… It's harder to drag them out of here though, so this is where the biggest reserve is, while the Shadow Realm receives Undead constantly to resupply. What? Amazed by my realm's incredibleness?"

"I mean yeah, it's amazing… It's like your own world," he said. "And so many Undead and the other treasures… Don't you think this feels like something similar to the Underworld?"

"U-Uh, maybe?" I wondered. "I haven't put too much thought into it. But you're not wrong… Hmm."

"And that tower, what does it do?" He pointed into the distance again.

"What tower? Oh! That one," I muttered.

There was a gigantic, black tower overflowing with nether and phantasmal energies.

This was another of my new Divine Spirit Treasures…

The Tower Of Primordial Death.

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