"No need, I have money."
Aisha took out ten gold coins from her personal storage space. Her daily expenses were handled through the system's shop, using their internal points and credits.
Money from this world was practically useless to her.
Still, thinking it might come in handy, she had brought along a few hundred gold coins.
"I'll give it a try."
She walked up to the stand where each draw cost ten gold coins and placed ten coins on the counter.
"Alright."
The attendant smiled and pointed to the golden lottery box beside her. "Good luck."
After paying, Aisha studied the golden box closely—it was clearly a cleverly disguised magical device, extremely easy to tamper with.
Just as she thought—this was a scam.
Aisha reached into the golden box and pulled out a small golden sphere.
The attendant's eyes widened. "Congratulations! You've drawn our mystery grand prize! Please follow me to claim your reward!"
"???"
Aisha blinked in confusion.
She followed the attendant into a nearby building. When she came back out, a young girl stood beside her.
Saeko Busujima tilted her head curiously. "What's the mystery grand prize?"
Aisha glanced at the girl and replied flatly, "It's her."
Although she knew the Theocracy had practiced elf slavery before, she never imagined they'd go so far as to use people as lottery prizes.
Aisha wasn't stupid. This whole "lottery" setup was obviously prepared for them—a ploy to send in female spies disguised as prizes.
Whoever came up with this... really was a genius.
A slave?
Hearing Aisha's words, Saeko looked the girl up and down.
She didn't look like a slave at all.
"She's an intelligence agent from the Theocracy, under the Windflower Scripture. Her mission's to get close to us," Aisha said calmly.
"How do you know that?" Saeko asked, puzzled.
"She told me."
Aisha shrugged.
"Lady Aisha, do you not require my service? I can do anything."
The girl followed beside Aisha, speaking timidly.
"Anything?"
"Mm-hmm."
"I want a perfect score on my exams. Can you do that for me?"
"?"
"Mechanics, magic, psionics, biology, astrophysics—how much do you know?"
"??"
"Nothing? Then go kill a True Dragon King for me."
"???"
The girl stood dumbfounded.
Kill... a True Dragon King? How could she possibly fight something like that?!
"Um... Lady Aisha, I do know a bit of magic," the girl said weakly.
"What tier of magic can you use?"
"Second-tier."
"That's pretty good."
Aisha nodded approvingly.
For humans, being able to use second-tier magic already placed her above average. Third-tier was often the peak of a lifetime.
A level 30 human—considered a hero by their standards—was, to them, merely a slightly stronger elite soldier.
For squads like theirs, no one wanted to drag around a weakling.
Aisha suddenly thought of Kiki and Iron Maiden.
Right... in a big enough forest, there would always be strange birds.
Some people in their ranks still liked keeping pretty women like this around.
"Let's go."
Aisha activated her flight magic. A thin layer of magic wrapped around her body as she soared into the sky.
Saeko Busujima and Shizuka Marikawa followed right behind her.
Before learning magic, they'd relied on flight devices. Now, they mostly used flight and teleportation spells.
Fifth-tier teleportation magic required a mark at the destination.
Since they hadn't visited the Great Forest of Evasha before, there was no mark—they'd have to fly there.
When transferring data, they could rebuild a body using nanomaterials from the Great Forest's base.
But doing so would reset their levels.
They'd need to retrieve their original body's Honkai core to restore them.
...
In the capital of the Elven Kingdom—
Within the Elven Palace—
"Aisha, you're here! Without you, I've been so lonely!"
As soon as they met, Kiana Kaslana teleported forward, wrapping her arms around Aisha's neck and affectionately rubbing her cheek against hers.
Aisha gently ran her hand through Kiana Kaslana's long white hair, then flicked her smooth, jade-like forehead twice with her fingers.
"With so many people around, I don't believe for a second that you're lonely."
Her gaze swept across the beautiful female elves nearby.
"If you keep this up, you're only going to grow more twisted."
Aisha sighed softly. They didn't have to worry about physical exhaustion, but when one indulged in lust too often…
Resistance built up.
And when that happened, it took ever greater pleasure to feel anything at all.
"I know."
Kiana Kaslana stuck out her tongue, loosening her hold around Aisha's neck.
"You've come all this way—let me take you all to have some fun!"
Kiana Kaslana led Aisha, Saeko Busujima, and Shizuka Marikawa around the Elven Kingdom.
The elves, recognizing them as their Guardian God friends, greeted them warmly everywhere they went.
After extensive reconstruction, the Elven capital had completely changed. The elves no longer lived in treetop houses connected by hanging bridges.
Instead, the capital had become a fairytale-like forest city. Green lawns lined the roads on both sides, with colorful flowerbeds scattered throughout. The houses were elegant wooden cottages, shaped naturally from the trees themselves.
The entire scene was brimming with life and vitality—a place that felt soothing just to behold.
Kiana Kaslana enjoyed this kind of close-to-nature living environment.
If this were a normal world, and she were just a normal human, such a place would be filled with insects and vermin—she'd be feeding mosquitoes every night.
...
Houkai Universe.
Through the expanding interdimensional passage between her world and the world of Ainz Ooal Gown, Kiana Kaslana was gradually invading the other side.
She didn't even need to issue direct orders to the Honkai squads she sent in.
That world would naturally descend into chaos on its own.
Under Kiana Kaslana's influence, the entire Honkai collective had developed a distinct atmosphere—one that glorified resolving everything through brute strength.
Countless races in Ainz's world were on the verge of extinction, hunted relentlessly by the Honkai squads. Many had already been wiped out completely.
"Origin Magic, huh?"
The powerful True Dragon Kings who watched her secretly from afar—Kiana Kaslana knew they were researching ways to expel her and her invaders.
Origin Magic was the exclusive domain of the dragon race.
Currently, only that magic held the potential to seal off the passage between their two universes.
Ainz Ooal Gown, the Six Great Gods, and the Eight Greed Kings—those players had all originally been game data from another world. The Dragon Emperor's Origin Magic had summoned them, converting pure game data into physical reality.
Even their in-game items had become real.
The Honkai squads' rampage across Ainz's world relied heavily on their anti-magic capabilities, which turned all spellcasters into powerless mundanes—then crushed them with overwhelming physical and technological superiority.
However, that anti-magic ability only affected tiered magic—it had almost no effect on the dragons' Origin Magic.
At that moment, Kiana Kaslana sensed a surge of magical power emerging from her own universe.
Her gaze shifted toward the source.
A crimson star radiating mana into space.
"Yay! I did it!"
Sirin cheered excitedly, darting around the star at light speed. Using it as a core, she rapidly created a massive shell to trap and harvest the emanating mana.
In this magical universe, the cosmos itself was saturated with mana—stellar radiation was intertwined with it.
At the most fundamental level, its natural laws differed entirely from those of other worlds.
Honkai energy coalesced into Kiana Kaslana's form within the void.
"Mom, I've successfully created an infinite mana source!"
Sirin stopped her light-speed flight and appeared beside Kiana Kaslana, looking proud.
"Very good."
Kiana Kaslana smiled, gently stroking Sirin's long purple hair.
"As expected of my daughter."
Sirin's face flushed happily under the praise.
"Mom, what do we do next?"
"Well…"
Kiana Kaslana tapped her chin thoughtfully. In Ainz's world, magic without mana was useless.
Without mana, magic was nothing.
Just like an appliance without electricity—it became nothing more than decoration.
She had instructed Sirin to study mana and create a mana source precisely so that they could use magic in other worlds.
An appliance disconnected from a power outlet could still run—if powered by batteries.
But that required generators, nuclear plants, and storage cells to exist first.
The mana star Sirin created was, in essence, a nuclear power plant.
With the mana source issue solved, the rest was simple.
Kiana Kaslana fused Stigmata with the Rune technology of Ainz's world, adding an additional Stigmata slot to store energy from different worlds.
Upper, middle, and lower Stigmata—three in total.
"By the way, Sirin, how did you suddenly learn to create a mana source?"
Kiana Kaslana asked curiously.
"I'm not exactly sure—it probably has something to do with the classes I obtained."
"Classes?"
"Mm. In that world, I gained three new classes—Goddess of Magic, Magical Girl, and World Interpreter."
"When I used the Astral Quantum Computer to analyze mana, break down tiered magic, and create Honkai-based magic, those classes just... appeared."
"After that, I could somehow create mana stars purely by instinct."
"I see."
Kiana Kaslana nodded. In Ainz's world, doing certain things granted corresponding classes and skills.
Sirin, while experimenting with the Houkai Universe's Astral Quantum Computer, had unintentionally triggered a bug—every result of the computer's research was credited directly to her.
Strange.
Kiana Kaslana remembered doing similar experiments herself—so why hadn't she received new classes?
She did have the "World Interpreter" class in her Ainz-world avatar.
Maybe she hadn't delved deep enough into magic to fulfill the conditions for "Goddess of Magic" or "Magical Girl."
"Mom, my magic has already reached the point where I can use any spell I want, anytime I want."
Sirin raised her hand and conjured a miniature sun.
Although she didn't fully understand how, she could now use any kind of magic freely.
No racial or class restrictions at all.
"I want to return to the Honkai world—to test resurrection and time manipulation magic."
Her passion for studying magic stemmed from its potential to revive the dead and control time itself.
The only question was—would those spells still function once she left that world and returned to the Honkai world?
After all, the universal laws differed. Bugs were inevitable.
"I'll go back with you."
Kiana Kaslana naturally supported her daughter's decision. What worried her most was that, if Sirin failed, she might act recklessly.
"Don't worry, Mom. I'm not a child anymore."
Of course, Sirin understood her mother's thoughts perfectly well.
She reflected on her past life—
Gain power.
Grow arrogant. Fail.
Gain power again.
Grow arrogant again. Fail again.
A childish temper—like a pufferfish.
"Right, Mom—I might have a way to solve the energy loss problem when crossing dimensions!"
Sirin suddenly recalled something, her tone brimming with excitement.
"Really?"
Kiana Kaslana froze for a moment.
Energy loss during dimensional travel had always been one of her greatest obstacles.
If that could be solved, she could freely access countless more worlds.
"I'm not certain yet—it needs testing."
Sirin used magic to absorb the entire mana star into her body, channeling its immense power.
A massive dome-shaped, three-dimensional magic array spread across hundreds of kilometers around her, glowing with violet light. Semi-transparent symbols and runes flickered in complex, ever-shifting patterns.
The sight was dazzling.
"Teleportation magic?"
Having studied magic herself, Kiana Kaslana could vaguely recognize the structure Sirin was casting.
It looked like a fifth-tier teleportation spell.
But the scale and complexity—this was far beyond super-tier or even Origin Magic.
"Dimensional Transfer!"
Sirin raised her hands, channeling mana into the circular array.
A blinding white light burst forth.
The entire array flared brilliantly.
Both Sirin and Kiana Kaslana vanished.
...
Honkai World.
In space near Mars, the environment around Kiana Kaslana abruptly changed. She glanced around, taking in the surroundings.
That familiar planet—
The Solar System.
Mars?
They had left the Houkai Universe, yet the connection to it remained intact.
The Honkai World…?
They had jumped directly from one universe to another.
Incredible.
Even Kiana Kaslana was stunned.
The deviation was enormous!
Sirin, too, was confused when she realized where they were.
Her dimensional transfer target had clearly been Earth—so why had they ended up near Mars?
They'd missed by more than two hundred million kilometers.
"Sirin, is this an advanced version of teleportation magic? How did you manage it?"
"I don't really know," Sirin admitted after a pause, struggling to describe the strange sensation. "I just think about the kind of magic effect I want—and then I can create it."
Kiana Kaslana fell silent, thoughtful.
Her daughter's counterpart in Ainz's world must have come into contact with some kind of rule—or authority.
And knowing Sirin's history—whenever she gained a new power…
The next thing that followed usually wasn't peace.