My Body is a Divine Vessel

Inside the Room Made of Sand, I stared at the woman before me with a bewildered expression.

She, too, looked back at me with a peculiar expression.

“It would be normal to introduce ourselves first, but we don't have time for that right now. My body is a divine vessel? What does that mean?”

“Literally. Haven't you ever thought it was strange that you could freely use Lilia's powerful Authority And even use *Time Stop*, which isn't even Lilia's original Authority but one forcibly bestowed by the Demon King of Hell, without any side effects?”

I had thought it was strange.

But if I started listing all the strange things, there wouldn't be just one or two.

Since asking myself wouldn't yield any answers, I had simply put it out of my mind.

“Using an Authority forcibly bestowed by another being is far more taxing than using one's own. I, too, could forcibly draw upon Lady Lilia's Authority to heal people, but not as naturally as you. *Time Stop* in particular should have caused severe overload, shouldn't it?”

I nodded at her words.

“It did.”...