NOVPUBThis place was entirely made of metal, a large room with small floating beds shaped like eggs, in addition to these beds there were machines that I don’t know and a large entrance.
I was facing an angry Yntra as if responding to her anger her beautiful image was destroyed as her muscles grew to the point of tearing her skin, her body became twice the size with her head almost hitting the ceiling, and tentacles grew in Her back and head bones changed into an imitation of a Dragon’s head giving Yntra a monstrous appearance.
Her fury was more than palpable, I could feel this place’s rejection of me on a much greater level than before to the point where I almost couldn’t hold on to this place.
"(This place was as deep as I could get before she started to fight back, but strangely she was very willing to stop me from getting here.)" (I)
"I see, this is the core of her will, the biggest pillar in her mind." (I)
Just as that cabin in the blood forest is my central pillar in my mind, this nursery is the central pillar in her mind.
After everything I saw until I got here and what I could understand, I begin to see why this place was the central pillar in her mind.
"This may just be a place for you, but will you want to destroy everything? You know I can fight you on equal terms even here, it doesn’t matter if neither of you wins." (I)
"I don’t mind!" (Yntra)
She seemed to disappear as she left the space above me, she attacked me as a distraction from above to let her pass using the Holy Power concentrated below me in the form of a monster’s head trying to bite me, which doesn’t work when I jump to the side, entering the space to come out in front of her with a kick already inches from her face.
She dodged my attack or that’s what she thought as my body exploded releasing 5 beams of Essence circulating around her image of her imprisoning her as a wave of Holy Power explodes making the entire nursery shake with cracks spreading.
Soon there was a black crystal sphere with 4 different colored energy rings rotating around it, a similar image of the Essence Core within my Soul with the only difference acting as a sphere of flesh with 1 eye, 1 mouth, and some tentacles floating inside thrashing around trying to get out.
I simply come out of my Divine Weapon as if I were a Ghost possessing it, when my body reformed I could feel that the corruption of this space was very slow, but what surprised me was that all the destruction done was being reversed, the cracks closed, the devices and floating beds returned to their positions, all of this was as if time was moving backwards until everything was in perfect order as it was when I arrived here.
"Interesting." (I)
"You bastard looks like you got what you wanted." (Yntra)
"Yes, I beat you in your own mind, so if I could..." (I)
"No, I won’t make it easy for you." (Yntra)
The sphere of flesh stopped fighting inside its Essence prison, and the tentacles returned inside its body leaving only a ball of flesh with 1 eye and 1 mouth.
Her image seemed calm, but I can feel her Aura breaking in the face of despair, losing to her means much more than just her defeat or her death, I don’t think she cares about those two things, what is destroying her now is the same thing I used to mess with her emotions until now, the possibility that everything she did was for nothing.
Even without knowing everything she went through, I can imagine some of the more obvious things and assume a few others.
"(Corruption is very slow, it could take hours and every moment counts as there is still an enemy in the shadows.)" (I)
"(I have to make her finish breaking, her will is now stronger than before, but the reason is her hatred towards me, without this hatred her will could have already broken.)" (I)
"It was worth all your research, all your experiments on innocent people, the countless sacrifices you made, everything you abandoned and lost...your own daughter." (I)
"SHUT UP!!!" (Yntra)
SHUT UP!!!
It seems that even with your Soul imprisoned, your consciousness is still free, the words of the ball of flesh and the mind were at the same time showing that there is still a connection.
"What do you know!?" (Yntra)
"We were facing a crisis! I am one of the greatest minds in the Universe, my research on regeneration allowed us to fight for years longer, and my research on body modification improved our soldiers, granting us the only victory we achieved against those damn things!!" (Yntra)
"From start to finish, I was right! That naive girl Astrid was only able to run away because of me!!!" (Yntra)
"She was weak, always thinking of ways to escape and run with her group of cowards without ever daring to go further wasting her mind on scrap metal seeking useless improvements instead of seeking the next step of evolution like I did!!!" (Yntra)
"THEN WHY AM I WRONG!!!!" (Yntra)
"If it weren’t for you stealing Haku from me, messing up every one of my major research, and forcing me to act hastily without proven research, I could have reached eternity and brought everyone with me!!!" (Yntra)
She is in a spiral of guilt, but even so, her mind rejects mine violently, I cannot corrupt her mind any faster, my attempt to break her only increased her defenses against me.
"We both know you would have failed anyway, even if I hadn’t come, you’re already inside someone else’s trap, so don’t make things worse." (I)
"Do you know Haku is fighting outside right now?" (I)
"..." (Yntra)
"How did you find out about her?" (Yntra)
"It wasn’t difficult, in Haku’s memories it was clear that you approached her first, one of the most intelligent and respected people approached a young researcher, you supported her much more than would make sense and included her in your important projects, everything That was strange in itself." (I)
"I came to consider that you were in love with her, but you never showed things like affection, sexual desire, or even romantic interest to Haku, you were always very objective even with the clear favoritism." (I)
"But I only understood after Haku came over to my side and you started creating clones of her." (I)
"If you only wanted her mind and knowledge, then there was no reason to maintain her appearance and over time the clones always proved to be the leaders, you cared too much about her to just be her assistant." (I)
"Sexual desire and romantic interest were out, so the only thing missing was the connection between friends and connection between family members, the first being impossible as they had shown favoritism since they met, there was no time to form a friendship of that depth." (I)
"You really like hearing the sound of your own voice." (Yntra)
"Haku is your daughter, one you abandoned, and yet here we are, a memory that is a central pillar of your mind, a nursery." (I)
"I didn’t want to abandon her, but I didn’t have time for a child, I spent months sleeping in the laboratory to the point where I didn’t remember where my apartment was." (Yntra)
"I had more important things to attend to and luckily she inherited my intelligence, she really was my best assistant and a source of pride for me, yet you took her!" (Yntra)
"Yes, I broke what you did in her mind and I give her all the freedom she wants, now you won’t have the same end." (I)
I could see the thoughts running through her single eye, then I felt her rejection disappear, then my corruption and my mind took over in seconds, the ball of flesh inside the prison of Essences becoming clearer as it disappeared.
"I’m lost, but my legacy will still live on in her, I hope she walks a better path than mine... take care of her for me..." (Yntra)
From start to finish, this was the only time I showed her affection, in the end even a bad mother is still a mother.
"I didn’t need to say it, she’s one of my companions now." (I)
I could feel the Essences burning the Soul as control of its planet-sized body began to weigh on my mind.
"This will take... a while..." (I)
The Essences began to disperse as the image of a nursery disappeared like an illusion revealing a hut next to a cave among several blood red trees, my central pillar replacing Yntra’s.
Her mind broken and her Soul destroyed, her crimes were many and grave beyond what she could imagine, the Demonic Goddess of Death and the Goddess of Life would not let this go.
"I’m going to make good... take advantage of everything... you left..." (I)
