NOVPUBPov Elizabeth’s:
I have been in my Divine Incarnation for hours now, in the past maintaining this state almost permanently was easy, the Divinity I possessed was something branched from my mother, but thanks to Zenos now my Divinity belongs only to me, I feel it changing every time more and more as I’m being dragged up with him.
Thanks to these differences, it has been more difficult to maintain a state of power like this, my Soul is finding it difficult to keep up with the changes.
"< Blood Rune: Beast Bloodline > ×1000" (I)
With a movement of my hand, a Spiritual Rune is formed from the crystallization of the power of blood, then this Rune divides into a thousand before activating itself, creating liquid Beasts like blood already attacking the enemies, with so many I didn’t need to aim, saving time to receive the Bird of metal coming towards me.
"I’m busy, keep it brief." (I)
"[Join the others near the waterfall.]" (Nicole)
After saying that the Metal Bird left, it looked like one of Nicole’s Golems, but I could feel that it was made of pure Spiritual Energy containing thousands of Runes in its composition, I can’t say how or when she created something like that.
With nothing else to distract me, my attention turned once again to the enemies, each time the creatures die their power is absorbed by the others, strengthening them as if inheriting their power.
"(If these creatures had blood, they could use this Rune to its fullest where they could also multiply with each enemy devoured.)" (I)
Seeing that I managed to halt the enemies’ advance at least for a few minutes, I begin to retreat, deactivating my Divinity state before the weight on my Soul begins to negatively affect me.
As soon as I arrived at the waterfall I found Natasha healing Magnus who had lost both eyes and almost all of his scales, my sisters and the others are all here, Ibuki and Kira are the only ones at the edge of the lake looking in while the others are all paying attention on enemies just like I do too.
"I understand." (I)
I didn’t need to ask, I could feel what was happening from the moment I arrived, the waves of Spiritual Power from before was one thing, but now the island was about to change, if that happened during the fight it could have resulted in a moment of weakness.
"What are we going to do if they arrive early?" (I)
"They won’t make it in time." (Natasha)
"They are not idiots, they have intelligence and hierarchy, they are already retreating with their elites while sending the weakest as a threat." (Stella)
"Just take care of those who get close, leave it to me." (Caitlyn)
"< Aura Incarnation: Nightmare Queen >" (Caitlyn)
Caitlyn’s Aura gathered into an illusory image of her with her eyes closed and a royal outfit made of bones and scales, her wings seemed to be made of tormented Souls.
As soon as she appeared the environment became surrounded by red mist, illusions appeared and with that the screams soon began, even I couldn’t see through the mist and this continued for several minutes before the waterfall behind us pulsed destroying all the illusion that was created proved to be even the mist itself, the enemies were in agony in the delirious skies and Caitlyn’s image crumbles into Aura once again returning to her.
"It started." (Stella)
"He’ll be fine?" (Ibuki)
"That’s his power, don’t forget." (Byakko)
"Byakko is right, I’m more worried about the enemies trying something desperate to get in the way." (Kira)
"They already tried, you just don’t know, but others took care of it, we were prepared for it..." (Stella)
"..." (all)
A pulse appeared once again, but this time it was not a simple wave of Spiritual Energy, it was a wave of Essence that makes the foundation of this entire reality ripple.
Everyone fell to the ground, but that was only due to the impact and they were already getting up, only Kira fell unconscious with Byakko holding her, me and my sisters on the other hand were not well, as we have Divinity and Essences of our own, our senses can perceive much more than them, right now there seems to be a buzzing inside my mind and my senses are all trying to make sense of the mundane current reality.
It took me a few seconds to at least adjust my senses, but the buzzing in my head only grew stronger when the second and third pulses came.
That wasn’t the only change, the island itself was unusually like the waterfall was a fountain filling this place, everything seemed to have lost its solid composition while flowing with the waves away.
The trees themselves were growing even more with new trees appearing as well, structures with Dragon ornaments sprouting from the ground, mountains rising in the distance and a large amount of Infant Spirits being born formed from this new Spiritual Energy.
The change was quick and in a short time everything was transforming, when the world seemed to become solid again a column of Starfire burst from the waterfall going up to the illusory moon in the sky.
Soon Zenos and Nix in their Dragon forms emerge at the same time from inside the lake, which now really seems to contain a Star System inside, but what caught my attention the most was the shadow of a distant Tree among the countless stars, something that only caught my attention because of the last Power Source that Zenos created.
"(That can’t be the Star Corruption Tree... right?)" (I)
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Pov Zenos:
Ding!
From the moment our consciousness was fading away with only our instinct working, I no longer knew how much time was passing or what we were doing, but the feeling of being complete took over my Soul as the same connection I have with Source Ki formed with this place.
The next thing I knew, I was leaving the lake with Nix by my side, both of us still in Dragon form.
Soon a flood of information came into my mind at the same time, information about everything that had happened to this Spiritual island since we entered the lake and notifications of what we had just concluded.
Before seeing the notifications, I tried to internalize the information, which only took a few seconds.
"(Nix, they’re under the island, you know what to do.)" (I)
"(Yes master.)" (Nix)
I let Nix take care of the enemies by creating a ritual below the island while I went down to the edge of the waterfall where the others were, I returned to my normal form while watching the notifications.
Ding!
<[ You have successfully created a [ Chaos Spiritual Energy Source ] ]>
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<[ Your amount and recovery of Spiritual Energy has grown]>
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<[ Your Familiar Spirit has been immensely strengthened ]>
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<[ Your two Power Sources are partially connected ]>
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<[ □□□■■□□□□■□■ ]>
"..." (I)
"It’s not time to be stunned yet, can you fight?" (Elizabeth)
"It would be better for you to stay here..." (Stella)
I was listening to them when they surrounded me, but my attention was on the notifications, several things were different than expected.
I was already expecting the increase in my and Nix’s power, the same happened with the Ki Source and it was expected since our connection with these Power Sources first impacts my Family members before reaching me.
But I didn’t imagine that there was some kind of connection between the two Sources of Power, I couldn’t help but look back at where the waterfall was that now makes liquid Starfire fall into the lake that looks like a portal to another universe, among the stars I noticed it immediately the shadow of a tree, it was like my eyes were pulled directly to that spot and I knew what it meant.
But what caused me the most discomfort was that crossed-out message that I can’t figure out the meaning of, it must be something important and connected to my Source of Power to appear like that.
"You are listening?" (Ibuki)
"We don’t have time, they’re here!" (Kira)
Suddenly I feel Ibuki’s hands around my face forcing my attention to her with Kira right behind looking up, I was listening to everything they were saying, but I really paid little attention until now and when my eyes looked up I saw them, but what bothered me was not being able to feel them.
In this place I could feel everything and everyone inside, both friends and enemies alike, my connection with this place was much deeper now and yet I didn’t feel them until now using this place at least.
Using my Aura and with them right in front of me on the other hand, I can now identify them, at least what they are, Lesser Gods.
I couldn’t feel them using my connection to this place because they are using their Divinity to isolate themselves, but since I have Essence I am able to feel their presence personally.
There are 2 Minor Gods, 3 of them appear to be Specters or Ghosts with the other 2 being Demons.
"(Master, those at the bottom of the island are dead and seem to have performed a Ritual to open a passage that I’m trying to close now.)" (Nix)
"(Close this and come back here, those who passed are right in front of me.)" (I)
Now I know why they only appeared now, I also know how they managed to arrive together when Stella said she had taken care of everything, they literally went straight here.
"Hand over Zenos and his Familiar and we’ll leave the rest of you..."
"Shut up you idiot, we’re not Mortals and we won’t be shaking in fear of you... say Bahrain." (Natasha)
"Don’t waste your time, these are the 4 Living Calamities, don’t underestimate them and don’t waste any more..." (Bahrain)
Before he could finish speaking I was attacked from behind and I felt that Nix, still coming towards me, was also being attacked.
"(They thought I was stupid!?)" (I)
