Cosmic Pathway

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Shiraori PoV:

As I walked through the hallways of Nazarick at a brisk pace, Aura and Mare followed me with a sad expression. We reached the familiar Gates of Lemegeton, with Sebas opening the gates to the throne room.

All the guardians except Shalltear, Victim and Gargangtua were already present. Albedo and Demiurge also had grim expressions on their faces. I could make out what was going on in their minds. It was pretty damn obvious.

They were likely disappointed in themselves for not doing their jobs as defence commander and guardian overseer properly by allowing an intruder to enter Nazarick. While I was also shocked to a certain degree it was not the same point as the guardians.

I did not know how the intruder entered Nazarick and for what purpose but I was mentally prepared for such an event happening. In fact, it was only a matter of time before the multiverse started throwing curveballs at me and trying to disrupt my plans.

My plans having gone so smoothly until now was very suspicious. By all means, Marvel and DC were like the Western versions of Chinese Xianxia universes. Something always had to go wrong in both of them and both were filled to the brim with bullshit scenarios, especially for villain characters.

Since my actions are also pretty villainous will some sort of magical plot armour make the goody two-shoes heroes to suddenly defeat me?

I did not like the sound of some random MC coming up and defeating me using the power of love and friendship. The MC's in this case would obviously be the heroes who's storyline the comic features.

So I had also been coming up with contingency plans and variations of contingency plans for each and every bullshit scenario. For the infinite multiverse, no amount of these plans would ever be enough.

Albedo had already notified me in the earlier message that the intruder was Amora the Enchantress. Of course, I knew who that was. If she was anything like her comic self then she would likely have been a strong challenge, but she had already been captured.

Obviously, the lack of access to an Asgardian source of magic and a physical fighter helping her got her defeated quickly. But the implications of her infiltration were worrying. What if Asgard already knew about Nazarick? My mind was filled with what ifs.

Hah, I should maybe gain some hobby for leisure? I could use it to cool down. I would have read web novels or manga in my last life but no point recreating what I have already read, just to read it again.

I am not some isekai protagonist who has to plagiarise work for personal reasons, after all. Well, the only exception might be if it is used in scamming.

Upon taking my place on the throne, the guardians bowed down and Albedo spoke:

"Welcome back, my lady. Shalltear has captured the sorceress Amora. Amora is currently being treated by Pestonya after which she will be brought to the throne room in a few minutes."

'Hmm, very well. It seems Shalltear did not have any issues defeating her. Excellent. Did you find out how she was able to infiltrate Nazarick?' I replied. I had tried blessing the NPCs with a silent casting ability, but the effect was slightly different from what I had intended.

It seems that a listener heard the spells cast to sound like nonsense. Maybe I should call it 'obscured casting' instead. But why did she not get silent casting directly? I will have to look into it. My thought process was cut off as I heard Albedo's voice

"I am deeply sorry for my negligence in allowing an intruder into Nazarick but I am afraid that I don't know how she was able to enter. All of Nazarick's defence systems on the 6th floor were shut down upon Amora's entry into Nazarick." Albedo bowed down and apologized.

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