Chapter 1609: Chapter 1609

Maria's attack shattered the combined barrier of the Hive Queen and her Daughter instantly, sending waves of sharp pain into their massive brains. Both gigantic insectoid women glared at Maria in disbelief and anger.

"Mother! Isn't she too strong? We weren't… We were not supposed to fight someone like her!" the Hive Queen's Daughter cried.

"Silence, my child," the Hive Queen said. "She is very strong, but she has yet to see what we can truly do. Connect your power to mine."

"Don't you dare question me."

The Hive Queen's Daughter's long tail pierced her mother's back. The Hive Queen's eyes glowed brightly with pink light, her psychic powers surging immensely.

Her daughter groaned, feeling her powers absorbed by her mother, as Maria observed the scene with a slight sense of disgust.

"You guys are really quite something… Oh well."

Maria wasted no time, tearing through space by enveloping her body in Black Void and appearing before the Queen, her long scythe slashing downward.

"{Psychokinesis Dominion}"

Maria's many eyes widened as her mind was suddenly dragged from her body and soul, thrust into an endless realm of spiraling, psychedelic colors.

There, she saw the Hive Queen and her Daughter, surrounded by trillions of clones, some so gigantic that Maria could only see their heads and massive hands rushing toward her.

"Welcome to my Dominion! A Realm forged from my Mind. Now that you are separated from your Body and Soul, you are nothing but a puny insect before my Psychic Power!"

"I see. How pitiful. I thought you had power over Souls. Is this the extent of what you can do?"

"Hahahaha! Keep talking as I destroy your mind and reduce you to a vegetable!"

The Hive Queen laughed, attacking Maria from every angle, tearing her mind into countless pieces.

Without her Soul or Body, Maria seemed utterly hopeless as her mind was seized and shredded!

"Hahaha! Now your Body and Soul are mine! I have gained such a powerful body! You were simply too foolish to fight me head-on! HAHAAH! HAHAHAHAA!"

The Hive Queen laughed as her Dominion began to disperse, aiming for Maria's now-vegetative body and soul.

Her Dominion didn't dissipate. It spiraled back to normal, then twisted, black dots appearing everywhere.

Her eyes widened as countless black dots rapidly darkened her Dominion. From these strange, miasma-like dots, red eyes emerged everywhere.

"W-What? What is this? Go away! Die! I destroyed your mind!"

She desperately attacked the black dots, making them vanish instantly, but small black tears fell into the psychedelic vortex of colors, spreading more miasma.

From these, more red eyes appeared, crying additional black tears. The Hive Queen grew desperate, her heart racing as the "infection" within her mind persisted.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

She kept destroying the black dots, but more appeared, and the tears spread even more darkness. She could hear the cries of someone.

The eerie, chilling wail of a woman echoed through the endless black void brought by her tears.

At that moment, the Hive Queen felt completely trapped.

In pure, endless Sorrow.

The Fear of being Alone began consuming her as she gazed into the darkness. The rıghtful source is NoveI[F]ire.net

Sorrow overwhelmed her, and she cried uncontrollably!

"N-No! Why am I crying? What's happening? My daughter, you— Ahh!"

She saw her daughter crying black tears, her body slowly melting into a pool of dark miasma, filled with red eyes weeping.

She was already consumed!

This was the difference between her and Maria.

While the Hive Queen was an L Rank entity, capable of destroying an entire planet if she wished, Maria had evolved beyond that, ascending and descending into the embodiment of fear and madness, a being beyond reason.

She both existed and didn't, in a constant limbo between life and death. She was more dead than alive, yet she transcended these concepts.

"You seem not to understand what I am. When you become the creature I have become… life and death become meaningless."

"My very existence is a concept rooted in both existence and non-existence. I exist and don't. I may not have awakened the Psychic Powers you possess, but my Mind, Body, and Soul are always one. This is something you never understood. You thought you separated them."

From the black miasma, something emerged, coalescing into a beautiful yet aberrant wailing maiden of darkness and void, her tears spreading shadows everywhere.

"However, you only brought me into your mind. With body… and soul."

Her third red eye opened, releasing a shockwave of pure energy, shaking the Hive Queen's entire body, soul, and mind.

"Unless you possess the power to negate or destroy concepts, you cannot harm me."

The Hive Queen was rapidly consumed, black miasma enveloping her entire being…

"THEN I WILL EVOLVE TO DO THAT!"

Her body began transforming as the Psychic Dominion shattered and broke into pieces, distorting reality as it merged with the material world, creating a chaotic sky!

An explosion of psychic energy and void power erupted. Both nearby spaceships were absorbed by the blast. The Hive Queen's body glowed as Maria heard her daughter screaming.

"Mother! Wait! I can be of more use! Don't!"

"In the end, you were created as my emergency food. Fulfill your purpose!"

The Hive Queen monstrously devoured her own daughter, taking huge bites of her head, especially her juicy brain, and then the rest of her body, consuming her in four bites.

Maria didn't panic or react emotionally. She watched, understanding the cold, emotionless nature of these beings.

Not every intelligent being was emotional, after all.

The Hive Queen was a merciless entity, perhaps better suited to being an Outer Goddess than Maria.

"You ate your own daughter, yet I can't say I didn't see that coming," Maria commented. "What's next? Are you truly going to evolve? Go ahead, I'll allow it."

"You will regret this! Hahaha!"

As the chaotic realm, blending Maria's Void and the Hive Queen's Psychic Dominion, trembled, the two spaceships caught within rushed toward the Queen.

Maria watched as the Queen's body grew immensely, fusing with both spaceships, which contained tens of thousands of her children.

She devoured them while merging with them, sacrificing their souls and bodies as material for her evolution.

Everything melted into purple goop, wrapping around her body. She dissolved, then rapidly transformed.

The goop hardened, becoming tougher than diamonds, as something inside developed swiftly.

She was hurrying greatly.

"Maria! Why are you letting her do this? Kill her already!" Lucifer protested from afar.

"If she evolves, she'll become much stronger. The stronger the food, the better, right?" Maria asked. She had slightly shifted her perspective.