Chapter 156: The Monster They Created That Day

Sisa and her children were imprisoned for a year in separate dungeons, this is so that Basilio and Crispin would not be able to be instructed by their mother to attack prisoners or the soldiers that were watching the prison, after a year, the church enacted their true plan for the family, Sisa who is still begging for her and her children to be together again was given a deal.

She has to be a militant of the church for three years, and after that period, she will be with her children again, during the deal, Sisa is already on the verge of madness and the only thought that keeps her sanity together is the prospect that her children are still alive, thus she immediately agreed and trained herself in using the playground she has created for her children as the place of murder for her victims, the ones the church wanted dead.

Some of them were politicians who wanted the church and the state to break apart or nobles who wanted the church stripped of its army. All of them were killed by Sisa, who easily became the most efficient assassin of the church. One can say that she is very innovative in terms of unconventional use of space magic.

Normally, all things created by space magic will disperse after a while, thus she used earth magic and fused it with space magic (again, something that is not easy to do) to create an almost real-life playground simulation, she also used some wind magic to create breathing air, such is the reason for her efficiency, however, efficient or not, Sisa is still holding on the promise of the friars, their promise that she and her children will be together again.

And still, in her mind, it was still vivid how that promise was broken by the people she had trusted, quite blindly.

One day, three days before the three-year promise was fulfilled, the church of the god of the underworld, alongside Tydings Kingdom attacked the borders of Gjallarhorn, and at that time, the children of Urduja were still the high-tier fighting force of said kingdom, the council of the kingdom opposed such a dumb attack against a nation that has an ancient calamity protecting them, however, the church, or rather the god of the underworld is stubborn to overthrow the god of the sun in the land of Gjallarhorn, thus they proceeded.

Then, Urduja is still being sent to deal with the remnants of slavery in Genesis and the whole world, thus they proceeded with the attack despite the opposition, however there is one big problem, the god of the underworld and the god of the sun have ranks so far away with each other, the god of the sun is one of the original gods that survived the war of gods and nurtured an ancient calamity during the continental wars while the god of the underworld is only a god that emerged during the starting phase of the continental wars.

Not only is the god of the sun more powerful, but he is more intelligent, and is in fact furious at that time because slavery has encroached on the continent he and his brother Siginarugan have been protecting.

On that day, the sun took over the night as it descended and flattened the 50,000 army that was sent in the border of Gjallarhorn and Tydings, and what is worse than that is, Basilio and Crispin, the children of their strongest assassin in that army as a communicator and saboteur. The church immediately went into turmoil, the only two people who let them control Sisa were gone, and in the office of the head friar of the cathedral of the royal capital, a heated discussion took place.

"How will we be able to keep this a secret to Sisa?"

The head priest asked, causing the whole room to fall silent, in the reports, Sisa is seen as someone who has been numbed of her whole morality, and the only thing that will make her calm down is the mention of her children, if she wanted to, she can deal with the priests in the room while she is daydreaming.

What is a hero prospect if he or she is dumped into the 4th dimension, a place without oxygen? Such are their thoughts, well, unfortunately for them, such fears will come true this day, for they did not notice, or rather they did not know that Sisa can use the 4th dimension to peak at secrets, and hearing her name, she suddenly appeared in the middle of all the clergymen present.

"What... what is it? What is it that you want to keep a secret from me?"

The headquarters of the black ops of the Tydings kingdom is just beneath the cathedral to make the passing of commands easier, thus it was very easy for assassins to shuttle through the cathedral to the headquarters if not for the fact that they had put some defensive magic spells in the whole cathedral so that the assassins cannot infiltrate the office area.

They can also stop Sisa from doing so if they sealed the 4th dimension, unfortunately, they didn't so now, they are here, on the verge of their second great loss in two days.

"S-Sia! It is against the protocol to spy on your superior!"

The head priest who was sitting bellowed, acting tough despite the chattering of his whole body, and as he did so, he slowly dragged a file that was on his table to his cabinet, such a movement was seen by Sisa, thus, she dropped herself to the 4th dimension and reappeared in the side of the priest, she then punched the floating rib of the priest, causing the priest to shout in pain, he threw the file upwards, in desperation to hide everything from Sisa, yet the woman just caught it, alongside her catching the file are the other priest who have started to run out of the room to bid for their escape for the impending disaster that will be caused by their greed.

Sisa ignored the priests as she had a bad feeling about the file, she looked at the front page, and at the very front, the news that would finally make her lose her mind appeared.

"The sons of Sisa, Basilio, and Crispin are presumably dead by the solar attack of the god of the sun that melted all of the soldiers sent over to attack Gjallarhorn without exemption, this matter shall be classified and the black ops shall immediately devise measures to leash Sisa tighter in their lap to not risk her going rouge."

It was like something snapped in the very brain of Sisa, her hands that were holding the papers trembled until she could not continue her grasp of the file.

"My chil..."

"...Gone... they... Crispin... Basilio...?"

Sisa's articulation seemed to have shut down, she knelt as her knees buckled, tears flowing out of her eyes.

"My children..."

My children...

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It was like a dream, no, a nightmare, for the moment Sisa learned of this tragedy, her naturally big mana pool relative to her non-hero prospect self enveloped the whole 500-meter radius from the cathedral outward, the last instant the people were nervously praying that there will be no retaliation from the side of Gjallarhorn, and the next instant, they saw darkness with cracks that have blue light seeping through them and the next instant, they were floating in a blue, geometric space, and what's worse is that the place doesn't have air.

The whole chunk of the city that was transferred to the fourth dimension by the seemingly perpetual wrath of Sisa started to gasp for air, the priests who had run away looked at the blue skyless ceiling of the 4th dimension, there is a lady, the lady that they have been able to control all this time, is now creating thousands, no hundreds of thousands of swords and is hurling it in all direction.

"BRING ME BACK MY CHILDREN! MY CHILDREN! MY CHILDREEEEN!"

She shouted and shouted, she shouted until her vocal cords were ruptured as she murdered anyone that looked like breathing, though all living beings at that moment, even her could not breathe, it's just that she used wind magic, so she was fine.

No one knew how can she have the presence of mind to use magic in the middle of her spiral down the path of eternal madness, all of the humans present in the removed chunk of the royal city just knew one thing.

All of them are dead.

Indeed, Sisa did not stop despite her exhaustion, and only when the chunk of the city was ridden out of all living beings did her view went back into the large crater that she had created.

"Bring me back... my... Children..."

Such were her last words before she passed out from grief and exhaustion.

Yet still, it was disregarded, the kingdom is afraid of humiliation, thus they made it look like the religious order is a cult that was given a lot of freedom that they abused, they also painted Sisa as an almost uncontrollable monster that will make towns and cities merge just to defend themselves.

And, she was ultimately defeated by the king, in their stories at least, so that the kingdom would cover up how a chunk of their capital disappeared.

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Sisa who was drowned with melancholy as she strode to the end of her miserable life started to make her pants slower and slower, and as her vision blurred, her mind was still in an overdrive as it remembered all of her memories.

_After that, I was picked up by King Tydings IV, was brainwashed to further descend down the path of insanity, made to participate in the Artificial Hero Prospect Project of Stardust, and became the strongest general of the Elven-Human army..._

Sisa finally closed her eyes, somehow, her mind was already clear, even though she died not being able to see her children ever again, at least she would be able to meet them to where ever place she was going, well that is at least what she thought because Sipnayan hurriedly crushed three medicines into fine power and let it flow down the throat of Sisa.

"30 Seconds, no time to dally."

Sipnayan muttered she did not wait for the whole skeletal system of Sisa to go back to its original position as intended by the medicine, the process would take more than a minute and the drawback would make her unable to deal with the cleanup, she pulled up a disposable teleportation paper and then transferred herself to the tent once more, she made her reappearance acknowledged and wrote letters to the living generals that are still fighting against the knight order and then transferred the letters to the recipients, after that she sighed whilst a voice was heard in her ears.

"Are you alright?"

[Guide] asked her, even though Sipnayan was obviously gassed.

"Yes, I will just deal with the backlash for a little while."

[Guide] went silent at that, which made Sipnayan continue.

"In any case, I already told the people at the back of the city that I can't help them, also I will be giving Sisa here to Lady Sophia, maybe she will give me a bigger plot of land to herd my ingredients for the second branch of my restaurant if I offered Sisa's mountain ranges."

[Guide] affirmed in understanding, of course not before cursing about how shrewd business owners are, with a little bit of talking, they said bye to each other, and as they did, Sipnayan heard a notification rang out of her ear.

[Notice: The debuff for the unique skill [Disintegrator] has been applied.]

Sipnayan clicked her tongue, and as she did, her body started to morph, it shrank and shrank until her body that was oh-so-lusted upon by Wokung became that of a child.

_Dang it._

She cannot help but curse, her unique skill [Disintegrator] is a skill that lets her disintegrate into a fine level of perfection anything that she wants to disintegrate, the most basic ability is her hands being able to "disintegrate" (chop) ingredients into cubes, cubelets and even fine-grained, of course the greatest is the ability she used that can destroy a part of the 4th dimension, the [Absolute Destruction], such is the reason why is the strongest fighter of Bulawan is not even a soldier.

There might even be a time were Sipnayan was proudly able to go on one against Sophia in her hero version, if not for the fact that [Disintegrator] cannot detect illusions, also because her level is just in the hero prospect level (but not being an official one) that she will lose the said fight. However, all good things are accompanied by something horrible, and that something horrible is the backlash of said unique skill's ability, not only would the ability need time to activate, but it will also turn any user into a child, and not only in appearance, Sipnayan became a child in everything.

She became easily tired, more immature, and hell, Sipnayan suspects that if she was to wait a little longer for the debuff to dispel, even her menstrual cycle would stop from coming, which is already delayed by a week.

"Can't it be just me being unable to move for a whole day or something given that I was stripped away of the ability to use the unique skill? This is such a bummer."

She sighed, and as she did, she heard a shout at the entrance.

"W-who are you!?"

A monkey soldier shouted she was high-strung as she was in a war.

This is also one of the things Sipnayan doesn't want, to explain her identity to other people.