Ten Lucky Draws: I Became OP

Chapter 646: Code Black (2)

The power that Eve and Eliya possessed was beyond the comprehension of anyone beneath their level of existence.

At best, with a stroke of luck, someone might catch a glimpse of what made them so extraordinary—much like the Domain Lord who had been scheming against the two women.

But even then, as mentioned before, it would be nothing more than sheer chance.

The Origin’s Essence was not common knowledge; if anything, it was more of a whispered legend among those at the rank of Domain Lord.

And even if they understood the sheer might of the Origin’s Essence, they could never grasp the true strength of the essence these two carried.

This was not the Origin’s Essence passed down directly from the Mother or the Father.

No, it came from someone even more astonishing—Ash himself.

As stated before, he had gifted it to them, but it’s important to remember that the Origin’s Essence Ash first received long ago, back when he was leaving Elaris.

And with so many years passing since then.... it clearly had evolved countless times. By now, its limits were known only to him—if even he truly bothered to know them.

Much like Kaguya these women were always destined to rise above anything they encountered with this essence.

However, it was clear how vastly different the Prime Expanse was from the True Realities, where Kaguya had been sent.

In that place, her comprehension was enhanced to such an extent that she could rise through the ranks with ease, mastering anything she set her mind to.

But what would this mean for Eve and Eliya, beings whose growth wasn’t fueled by their own efforts, but rather dictated by the Station above them?

Well...

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SHKKK!!!!

Eliya drove her spear through the chest of a particularly large Divine Horror, splitting it cleanly down the middle before kicking its dissolving corpse away.

She turned her head slightly toward Eve, who was calmly floating a short distance behind her.

"Ancestor," she said, her voice carrying over the distant roars and explosions, "shall we stop warming up now?"

Eve didn’t respond with words.

She simply smiled as she raised one hand.

HUMMMMM!!!!

In that moment, the golden-white gate shielding their company pulsed.

Normally, ideas—whether lower, greater, or primordial—were streamlined.

For example, if someone possessed a Greater Idea of Killing, their imagination could only produce constructs of killing, never anything that could save or relate to saving.

But Eve and Eliya were different, and that’s how they made their names.

Though they embodied the Greater Ideas of Guarding, the Origin’s Essence gave them freedom.

Their powers weren’t limited to guarding alone; the very concept of how to guard could be reshaped.

HUMMMMM!!!!

As the gate pulsed, it didn’t just reinforce itself — the whole barrier surged outward in a sudden, controlled wave.

When the wave swept over the nearest cluster of Horrors, their bodies unraveled from the inside out, not by sheer force, but because Eve had, on a fundamental level, denied them the right to exist in the space she was protecting.

At the same time, Eliya moved.

She didn’t bother with precise strikes anymore.

HUMMMMM!!!!

Her twelve wings spread wide, and with a single thought, countless white feathers detached and shot outward in every direction.

Each feather carried the weight of her Greater Idea — the absolute authority to guard what she chose to protect, and destroy what threatened it.

The feathers moved like a storm.

SHUUU!!!! SHUUU!!! SHUUU!!!!!

They tore through the swarm of Horrors with terrifying ease.

Some feathers pierced straight through multiple enemies at once, while others curved mid-flight to strike down those attempting to flank them.

The Divine Horrors that had been so difficult for others to kill were being erased in large numbers, their grotesque forms breaking apart the moment Eliya’s conceptual authority touched them.

Eve, meanwhile, continued to float calmly.

BOOOOOM!!!!!!

With another gesture, several layers of golden barriers manifested around her and Eliya, intercepting the attacks of the Horrors that managed to get close.

Each time a Horror struck one of her barriers, the creature’s body would begin to crack and disintegrate, as if the very concept of "attacking them" had been rejected from the narrative itself.

Eve floated calmly amidst the chaos, her golden eyes facing forward as another wave of Divine Horrors rushed toward them.

She tilted her head slightly, her voice calm and thoughtful as she spoke.

"These Horrors... they’re definitely something new," she said, her tone tinged with genuine curiosity.

She knew these weren’t the same Horrors they had fought over the past year. In just the last hour, everything had been turned completely upside down.

The clearest sign was the foreign energy radiating from the Horrors—an energy that was unmistakably Divinity.

"Even from this distance, it’s the same... but different. That same foreign energy is surging but even stronger."

Eliya cut through another cluster of Horrors with a sweeping motion of her wings before flying back toward Eve’s side. She landed lightly beside her, her twelve white wings folding slightly as she caught her breath.

"You’re right," Eliya said, her white eyes narrowing.

"Still, the Domain Lord did warn us." Before arriving, the Domain Lord had cautioned them that the battlefield was shifting, and things were far from how they should be.

At first, they thought this meant they might encounter Ash out there, but over the entire year they’d been here, nothing unusual had happened.

That is, until an hour ago, when the Horrors appeared.

She looked over at Eve.

"Yet we’re still able to kill them. And... I think it’s because of that essence that man gave us."

Eve remained silent for a moment, her head still slightly tilted as she observed another Horror disintegrate after striking her barrier.

The golden light of her authority continued to reject their existence without issue.

"It is odd," she finally admitted. "If Domain Lords were dying before the Horrors appeared... then what was it that did it?"

Eliya turned to look at her directly, her expression serious.

"Well, couldn’t it still be him behind this?" she asked quietly. "That damned man... "

Eve didn’t answer immediately.

She simply watched as another wave of Horrors crashed against her barriers, their grotesque forms breaking apart under the weight of her Greater Idea.

After a few seconds, she spoke again, her voice calm but carrying a trace of uncertainty.

"...I don’t know," she said. "But if it is him... then things are about to become far more chaotic than we thought."