Back to her normal form, a tall and gorgeous lady with an alluring smile that was fierce yet curious. Mature assets, but spirited and young bratty face, in contrast of bountiful mountains. Silky smooth although it was paler than most demi-human in Neamh, making her look mysteriously entrancing.
Her presence in that form was extremely domineering even without her ominous wings. The angelic ring of plasma on top of her jet black hair did the job well in balancing her creepy smiling tendency with a mesmerizing dancing silhouettes of runes at the halo exterior.
While her eyes were upon the scenery of her precious land—proud of herself, she was reminded that she promised to do anything that her wife asked in the exchange of leaving her in charge of the Citadel to prepare for the encounter with the universe serpent, except that it didn't really matter anymore due to how deviated it was from the original plan with how everything snowballed into a hell of a giant mess.
"A big animal?"
"Giant animal!"
"Big milky sack."
"Chew chew grass."
Surprisingly to her, the 'Minor Overseer' trait from the fusion of the divine crown and her halo did affect all kinds of sentient creatures other than wisps. The grasshopper, the bunnies, the deer, even the tiny bugs such as caterpillars and ants.
'So just like the wisps, my words could be interpreted by them too. Fufufu, angelic sorcery is fascinating."
Although they are of low intelligence, they might be useful in the future.
But that wasn't the main focus that she had right now. Her crimson gaze peeked to the pitiful hellspawn, wondering what she meant by 'awakening'.
It wasn't because the 'awakening' is a rare phenomenon of itself, but such a thing rarely applied to a highly intellectual being unless they forced them using some kind of artifacts or a highly precious awakening pill.
The 'awakening' itself could be seen as an existential breakthrough, adapting to the state of soul and energy that its physical vessel was forced to contain. Something like a forced evolution or intricate mutation for the soul of the host to survive. After all, living beings were meant to live long and copulate as much as they could.
Normally, it mostly applies to a mystical beast and plants. Gaining a proper sentience was one of them if they haven't had it in the beginning. Because lowly living beings such as plants, shrimps, ants, most insects, and other living beings lack a proper critical thinking device like a brain.
Not only does that affect the physical vessel, but akin to physical cultivation, the soul was affected immensely and contributed a lot for the instant adaptation. Their soul literally evolved so they could store consciousness and infuse a high critical thinking-capability metaphysically without any brain.
The same with everything that gains a life from inanimate objects.
Hence, the demi-human of Neamh rarely goes through a natural awakening. The Underworlders might deem awakening as a natural occasion there but that isn't the case for the mortal in here. Curious, MF wanted to see if she could abuse this for her plan of creating super soldiers disciples in her future sect.
"Wakey wakey."
Through a chemical process on her finger tip, she used her mana as a fuel to spark an electricity, shoving it to the hellspawn's nose hole.
"GWAAAA!?"
MF greeted her with a gentle smile. Instinctively, Tuli looked left and right to search for the entity that could threaten her mental and physical state. After assuring her that she was still alive, she looked at her master with a teary gaze.
She launched herself to hug her master's leg, weepings uncontrollably.
"There, there." The Ouroboros patted her in the head. "I already shoo away that scary angel. Your master is here now, everything will be fine."
"HUEEEEE!"
After waiting for the pitiful crying to end, Tuli was available for a human-like conversation. They walked around the river pond area with dense forestry.
"So the Angel that we fought has rewarded us with this land and you've got their approval!?"
"With six artifacts." MF giggled. "Everyone has their portion, this ominous gauntlet and the crystal on my back hand are two of them."
Tuli's eyes sparkled, "Aww, why don't you give one to me! As a magic forger, the structure and material of an artifact could immensely increase the quality of my creation! I could even duplicate it for you!"
"Heh, you can't with this one. The material isn't even within this plane of existence."
"Urgh, I feel defeated…" Her modified back forelimbs frowned. Well, it couldn't be deemed as wings as there was nothing biologically that allowed her to fly or flap with. "Then again, I get my second awakening after fifty years! I will surely be proven to be more useful in the future, humu."
"Is awakening a normal thing for underworlder?" MF pondered.
"Yes, it is. It's fundamental for us to achive as much awakening as we can. If you look at Damascus, she hasn't even used her true form. Her presence gave off that aura of an underworlder on their seventh awakening!"
"Hohoho."
"Maybe she hasn't trusted you yet, master! Be wary of her!"
The density of the streamline from that was coming from the underworld begs a differ. Kinda dissapointing that MF couldn't pinpoint where, maybe if she became a real deity, she would know the location of her followers.
MF smirked. "Just like what a wise tactician does. Show the world that you're weak when you're strong, show the world that you're strong on your weakest point.
"Damascus specialized in spell and formation assimilation, close quarters combat is definitely not her forte. Not mentioning, showing one's true form could be seen as the act of hubris instead of trust.
"You couldn't just show your strongest artifact to whoever you go to. There might be someone peeping, fufufu."
"Ah, no wonder. As expected of Master! Doesn't change the fact that I still don't like her!"
They both stopped in front of a crystal clear lake. MF gazed at her own reflection together with the gleaming sun.
"Both of you will be the greatest ally of each other in the future." An eerie smile of curiosity permeated MF's face.. "Now tell me, everything about your awakening."