My Ultimate OP System: Summoning All Dragons, Gods, Heroes & Villains Chapter 175  Alter-Bella

She paused, her gaze shifting from Ethan to Bettie. "But I could sense remnants of my power inside you."

Bella nodded. "Yes."

"May I?" she asked gently, gesturing toward her.

"I need to see how deep the darkness runs," Isabella explained. "To understand what’s happening to you."

It was like looking through a dark lens that revealed the inner workings of Bettie’s magical pathways.

But woven between those natural circuits were darker threads.

The remnants weren’t just surface-level. These strands of black energy coiled around Bettie’s natural mana pathways, and in so places, the darkness had rged so completely with her circuits that it was difficult to tell where Bettie’s own magic ended and Isabella’s residual power began.

Isabella’s eyes narrowed behind her closed lids as she focused on that area. The darkness had saturated the neural pathways responsible for magical comprehension and visualization.

That was why Bettie could suddenly comprehend higher-tier spells.

Bettie’s breath beca slightly uneven. "What... what did you see?"

Bettie’s eyes widened.

Bettie’s hands trembled slightly. "That... has never happened before."

Bettie hesitated, then asked quietly, "Can you... remove it?"

Isabella sighed, then looked her directly in the eyes. "I can. But not without killing you."

Isabella’s expression remained calm. "It’s rged completely with you. Any attempt to remove it now would an pulling at the strands attached to your own circuits. Your body wouldn’t survive the extraction."

There was heavy for a mont.

Bella hesitated for just a second, then said, "I don’t think so..."

Her heart rate skip a beat, which mostly happened when soone was lying.

"I think it might just be the stress," Bella continued. "You went through a whole lot Elizabeth, then your body began adjusting to these new changes, and just after the final years graduated, you were already back the next week as an employee..

Bettie frowned. "But I an... for a whole month?"

Bettie nodded slowly, absorbing that. "Okay... that makes sense, I guess."

Isabella’s response ca quickly. "That was different."

Isabella paused, then said, "That was... probably a mory."

"Well, you were unconscious," Isabella said, her tone uncertain. "But maybe not completely? I an, who knows. Sotis when people are in that state, they’re more aware than they realize. Like... half-awake."

Isabella shrugged slightly. "So when you saw in the hallway, maybe it just triggered that thought."

Later that night...

Isabella, on the other hand, had decided to spend the rest of the day with Ethan. Right now, she lay on his bare chest, staring into the Arcphone she was busy scrolling through.

Ethan stared at the ceiling, mostly lost in thought. One of his hands rested on her lower back, rubbing her bum softly.

Isabella shifted slightly, adjusting her position so she could look up at him. "Yeah, go on, babe."

Bella sat up at that, taking so of the sheet with her to cover her nakedness. She had a somber look on her face, and for a mont, she was silent.

Ethan didn’t exactly look surprised, but he went on to ask, "Is there a reason why?"

Right then, a flashback scene from earlier that day played back in her thoughts.

[Flashback Scene]

The darkness had pulled her deeper, and Isabella found herself floating in the void of a dark space, a subconscious realm of endless black in every direction.

This monstrous figure with glowing red eyes stared down at her, its form shifting and writhing like smoke given shape. It was massive, incomprehensible, terrifying to anyone else who might have seen it.

In fact, as she watched, the entity folded upon itself. Its features twisted and contracted, morphing and reshaping until it took on a different form.

This other version looked almost identical to her. Sa face, sa long black hair, sa body. But there were differences.

The dark version tilted her head, her grin widening. "Hi again, ."