NOVPUBElizabeth didn’t seem happy telling me about the Heralds, this must be the first time she taught me something against her will and she seemed frustrated by it to the point of not even bothering to hide her disgust.
But that was just another factor to worry about, she seems to be against the idea of me having Divine Heralds and yet she teaches me about it, there is also the biggest problem that this whole idea came from our Mother, the Goddess Selene.
"< Teleportation >" (I)
I had a lot of things to think about, so I used Teleportation to appear on top of the library inside the City in the Dungeon, the Library was one of the tallest buildings and this considering the spatial distortion inside it, increasing the interior dozens of times the size it shows in the outside, all this because I and those influenced by me are knowledge accumulators, whenever someone from the Dungeon sees a book that they don’t know if they have in the Dungeon they bring it here and the various researchers also leave their books here for others to study.
"You really need to run from her, what she was saying was very interesting." (Hell Doll)
"..." (I)
I look at the doll on my waist, the Fallen Saint of Life who came from a Universe that no longer exists and served as Callidora’s subordinate for an unknown period of millennia in Hell.
I always carry this bastard’s doll with me, honestly, I no longer feel the same anger I felt in the past, but she is dangerous and unreliable enough to not be left alone, so I thought of so many ways to tie her to me point of not being your only option to be loyal to me.
"How much freedom have you had to speak?" (I)
"My Soul may be sealed, but my mind still works, not to mention you have been very attentive in feeding me such delicious delicacies." (Hell Doll)
Her voice was almost sing-song as she spoke with joy about the Divine Souls and colossal amounts of malice that I used her to get rid of.
"Don’t lie, Callidora’s seal isn’t something that can weaken like that and you didn’t even try to do such a thing knowing it’s impossible, so say it at once." (I)
"You are so naive, you still haven’t realized that Callidora’s power in you has increased your synergy with her, it wasn’t me who started talking now, it was you who can now hear me from inside the seal." (Hell Doll)
"What did she do to me?" (I)
"Swim too much, she can’t do anything to you too serious, it just increased your affinity with her, Hell." (Hell Doll)
"Her sensitivities to malice and negative emotions will be greater as will the oppression of her Aura, she has done this a few hundred times in the thousands of years that I have been enslaved by her." (Hell Doll)
"(I do not feel this influence she speaks of, nor have I gained any title or ability that indicates an affinity with Hell.)" (I)
I didn’t feel the things the doll said, at least not as she described it, but it wouldn’t be impossible for me to adapt to Callidora’s power after all this and create some kind of Affinity with that damn place.
"You were once a Saint, so you know about the Heralds, tell me about it." (I)
"No, you still don’t have control of me and I don’t like being sealed like this, so I’d rather see you squirming in frustration." (Hell Doll)
Her mocking voice seems like a bad imitation of what Callidora does so naturally, this Fallen Saint just wants to provoke me and I shouldn’t even ask her these things in the first place, I can’t trust what she says for now.
Sigh
"(I already knew at the time that stealing a Shard of Divinity would have repercussions and my plan to get several was more than just bold, but the frustration of what happened on that Moon against Ragnar’s Father was a lot of pressure on me, I was also with overconfidence after everything I accomplished in Hell, I never thought the consequences would be so many.)" (I)
"(What I’m doing is accelerating my transformation into a God, something I once wanted to avoid and now becomes something inevitable.)" (I)
"(My Essences also affect the entire universe just like any Essenes, I had never heard of these things and now I learn more and more due to lack of options.)" (I)
"(I also have to create Sources of Power from the 3 natural energies or I may bring calamity to the universe just by existing.)" (I)
"(Not long ago I discovered that I am a Solar System-level Apocalyptic extinction bomb and now I find myself being forced to do something that could trigger this explosion 7 times if I fail just once.)" (I)
Sigh
Suddenly blood comes out of my leg, making a puddle on the floor in half a second where a hand pulls my leg in and I am thrown once again onto my bed with Elizabeth looking at me with a calmer appearance.
"Have you managed to get your mind in order yet?" (Elizabeth)
"I don’t, but it seems like you’re calmer." (I)
"Don’t mind me, I just need you to understand one last thing." (Elizabeth)
"You need to make many preparations for your Ascension to Divinity, fortunately, the Essences you possess were transformed using your Chaos Essence, thus becoming branches of your Chaos Essence." (Elizabeth)
"You have also managed to form a core Divinity echo, it is still in the early stages and incomplete, but it will be a start." (Elizabeth)
"Now what needs to be done first of all is to obtain the missing Essences to stabilize your existence." (Elizabeth)
"After this, the 3 new Sources of power of natural energies need to be created, this will harmonize the Universe by rooting its Essences in a more natural way in the cycle of nature." (Elizabeth)
"There are many things to do..." (I)
"These are things that need to be done, when you ascend to Divinity your body and Soul will not withstand the impact of the Divine Power that will hit you first, then it will flow in a secondary impact to your Familiars and finally dilute in a third impact on your Heralds, this way the Divine Power will have somewhere to go when it gets to the point where you can’t stand it, that’s why Divine Heralds are important." (Elizabeth)
"(In other words, my Familiars and these Divine Heralds are a means to disperse excess Divine Power during my ascension, they are escape valves to lessen the pressure on me to avoid a catastrophe.)" (I)
"Alright, alright, I get it... let’s continue this conversation somewhere with alcohol at least." (I)
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Pov Zaya (Lady of the Grave):
Dream
This was some kind of dream and it wasn’t the first time I’d experienced something like this, I’ve been here a few times and always somewhere new, yet I always know I’m in the same dream.
It always starts the same way, a World of complete darkness where I am unaware of anything around me, then comes the various lights that are born from the darkness, countless stars that form constellations around me, flows of energies cross and flow around these stars without any order as if it were normal.
But the stars are not the only common point in all dreams, the biggest point is the road that seems to be made by the crystallization of stars, and the steps that appear on that path of stars were stained with blood.
The last point in common in dreams is the Eclipse that is always somewhere, sometimes I find myself facing a big Eclipse, sometimes I am so far away that if I don’t pay attention I might not see the Eclipse, and most of the time a presence appears to radiate from Eclipse.
The star path is everywhere, even if the position of the stars changes places and the Eclipse is always at different distances, the blood-stained star path always seems to be unchanging.
There is never anyone around me, just an immensity void, but for some reason, I always feel like walking along that path of stars, I never feel alone in these dreams because I always feel a perpetual presence pulling me into comfort, especially when I’m walking that path, maybe that’s why I like to do that whenever I appear in these dreams.
But today was different, for some reason every step I took made the stars around me move as if I had been walking for hours, with every step my sense of time was fading, and at some point, I came across it.
My eyes were closed, and I couldn’t look at him or interact with him, but his presence was the same one I felt the entire time I was here, even without being able to interact I still knew he was here and I felt safe.
Suddenly I feel his eyes looking at me and his hand on my face before he disappears.
When I opened my eyes again I felt like something had changed and looking around I realized that I was in someone’s dream, I don’t know how I can know this, but I simply know it’s a Demon with a jewel on his head and holding a sword appears with his body covered in injuries.
As soon as he looked at my resignation the world shattered as if it were some kind of illusion, then my consciousness slowly fades into darkness little by little.
