NOVPUB"Why can he sleep and I can’t?" (Layla)
"Shut up, Layla." (Nix)
"Should we wake him up?" (Ragnar)
"I think so, we’re not sure what’s going on." (Orion)
"We still don’t know where Sakura is." (Ragnar)
"I think I know where she is, we need to wake him up." (Nix)
"Master... wake up..." (Hinata)
"..." (I)
When I opened my eyes I was lying on the branches of a tree, but they were not normal branches of a normal tree, the branches seemed to be made of black crystal, and inside there were stars with flows of colored energies passing from one star to another.
This tree was very strange and at the same time it seemed familiar to me, so I diverted my attention trying to follow the voices I heard before, they were those of my Family members, and Hinata among them was trying to make me wake up.
I tried to look around me but I couldn’t find anyone, that’s when I realized it could be inside me and try to feel them, I couldn’t find any of them inside me so I tried calling out to them.
"Where are they?" (I)
"Can’t you see us m?" (Nix)
"Hinata..." (Hinata)
"Master, can you see or hear us?" (Nix)
When I followed the voices awake this time, I managed to track down to 5 condensed energy stars, these stars were following me and didn’t seem to be a dangerous one, so I left it aside until now.
When I followed the voices straight to them I started to look better, their Auras are those of my Familiars.
"Explain to me what’s going on." (I)
"We don’t know where we are, we don’t know why we are here, and I can’t find food..." (Layla)
Before Layla could say anything else, one of the stars pushed her back, by her presence it was easy to see that this is Nix.
"I have a hunch that we are dreaming master, the feeling is similar to your rare dreams where the star path opens for people, the feeling is very similar." (Nix)
"A dream?" (I)
"(This doesn’t feel like a dream, I can see the world around me changing more and more as if I were alive.)" (I)
I got up and started to notice some things, when I looked around I realized the true size of this tree, a landscape worthy of a science fiction film, when I looked around the tree I noticed several silhouettes that looked like black ghosts with stars inside half transparent.
Some of these silhouettes were tall, others were shorter, some were fatter and others were thinner, some had non-Human features like a snake’s tail instead of legs and the lower part of the body like that of a spider.
Even the behavior of these silhouettes were different, some stood still and looked at the tree, some touched the tree, some floated around the tree, some tried to climb the tree, and so on.
When I tried to focus on one of the silhouettes I noticed that the appearance started to change, I realized it was a person from the Dungeon and I started focusing on random faces, I may not recognize them all, but it was obvious that they were people from the Dungeon.
"It feels like we’re in a dream like those where I lure people to the Dungeon to a path between the stars." (I)
"Different..." (Hinata)
"Hinata’s right, this is different." (Nix)
"Different like…wait…where’s Sakura?" (I)
"We don’t know, only we showed up here, we don’t know what it could be." (Orion)
"..." (I)
I close my eyes and search within myself for the connection I have with Sakura as my Familiar, then I use that connection to track where she was and that’s when I realized that the tree I was standing in was Sakura.
"She’s here, she’s always been here... now understanding why this place seems to be constantly changing." (I)
This is Sakura’s Divine Awakening process, I didn’t know how long this would last so I just sat down and started meditating so I wouldn’t get bored, I needed to be quiet so I wouldn’t cause problems since I didn’t know exactly what it was all about.
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Pov Ynes:
I was looking at Zenos’ body inside the Communal Temple, so I left there heading straight to a place where there was someone lying on the grass while lying in a pool of blood.
"Can I talk to you?" (I)
"You’re already talking, so say what you need and leave." (Blood Sin)
"..." (I)
This was one of the most dangerous creatures in the universe, there is no Demonic God who does not know the one that washed countless worlds in blood and led several Gods to death, needing thousands of years to be reborn.
"Say it at once, I don’t want to waste my time with you." (Blood Sin)
"She wants to know about what you did to Zenos." (Yara)
"You must stop being rude to others if you still want to remain sane." (Yara)
"I made a deal with him, there’s no way he can break it..." (Blood Sin)
"Honor means nothing to Zenos, he keeps his word if he respects the person, the same goes for the Gods, so don’t think for a second that he won’t go back on it if he deems it necessary." (Yara)
"I’ll kill him..." (Blood Sin)
"Stop the threats, he has even the God Baldr as enemies, don’t think for 1 second that he wouldn’t dare to do something, he’s someone unpredictable." (Yara)
The High Priestess of Life appeared from behind a tree, she seems to be unafraid of the creature in front of us as she speaks, if she is here then Blood Sin must avoid a meaningless fight.
"Can we get back to the question of Zenos?" (I)
"Hernoth’s daughter is right, why did you do something like that?" (Yara)
"Stop complaining, I just gave him a little help, if he succeeds then creating the Source of Power will be much easier." (Blood Sin)
"He can..." (I)
"He’ll be fine, if what he was doing was truly harmful then Selene would have stopped me." (Blood Sin)
"That makes sense." (Yara)
"..." (I)
I can’t understand how they can have so much trust in him, there are so many things that could go wrong now.
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Pov Zenos:
"Teacher!" (Orion)
"I felt..." (I)
I stopped the meditation by standing up, the wave of power seemed to come from somewhere, but I don’t know the exact place.
"Nix, you know... wait..." (I)
I was close to asking Nix about it when I suddenly felt something and put my hand on it where I’m standing.
I could feel the pulse of Sakura’s Aura with each beat getting stronger and stronger, the transformations in the surroundings are also strange.
The tree itself releases a burst of power making the space around it ripple wildly, all the silhouettes around the tree disappear as if they were illusions while a strong life energy begins to condense in the center of the tree, swirling the stars within from the tree just as all the energy in the area flowed towards the center, a new silhouette was forming using all that power now.
In the center of the tree the silhouette forming was becoming more and more detailed, it didn’t take long for it to form Sakura’s shape before being kicked out of the Tree.
As she emerged from the Tree, it seemed as if the tree began to shrink as streams of energy shot out of the tree and into Sakura’s body.
Suddenly everything was glowing making it impossible to see anything, when this glow disappeared I found myself floating in a pool of blood filled.
Then some branches grew from my body as I dragged myself out of the pool of blood where Alice was already waiting for me with a towel.
"How many days have it been?" (I)
"It’s been 4 days." (Alice)
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The next day I was lying on the bed covered in blood, right after talking to Alice my whole body started to hurt while Sakura’s body was writhing inside me.
I couldn’t say how many hours passed before the pain stopped, my whole body still wasn’t normal and so I was waiting another 1 or 2 days to at least stand up, in the meantime I’ll take a look at the Divine Awakening notifications from Sakura, I don’t want any surprises later.
Ding!
<[ The Familiar and Divine Beast Sakura (Titan Empress of the Star Tree Incarnation) Became an extension of the [ Essence of the Star Corruption Tree (Partially Sealed) ] and becoming an extension of the [ Star Element Ki Source ] ]>
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<[ Sakura (Titan Empress of the Star Tree Incarnation) awakened as the Incarnation of the Star Tree receiving the title [ Incarnation of the Star Demon Tree ] ]>
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<[ Sakura’s (Titan Empress of the Night Forest Incarnation) Divine Awakening has been completed ]>
It seems that Sakura achieved a Divine Awakening without any problems, being one less thing to worry about for me, that alone is a relief.
I can feel my connection with Sakura as strong as others, but I can’t talk to her, it feels like she’s asleep inside me.
"(We’ll have a lot to talk about when we wake up, Sakura.)" (I)
With Sakura’s problems resolved, now I just need to take care of this Source thing and I decided to build this Ki source here with Sakura’s help.
