NOVPUBI was exhausted, honestly, it was difficult for me to even think of something offensive to say to Callidora, but I couldn’t fall asleep, I needed to be prepared to protect myself.
The pain in my body was not as great, the injuries on my arms and wings are not as bad as what my Soul already feels, the attacks from that scythe that seemed incomplete still managed to hurt my Soul.
"Haaa... haaa... haaaa... hhaaaa..." (I)
"(No blood... weakened connection with the Sources... Dormant essences... weak body... Wounded soul... Hinata sleeping...)" (I)
"(Here comes the pain... again...)" (I)
"Aaaahhhh!!!!" (I)
I couldn’t think clearly, but my condition was obvious to the point that it hurt to realize how vulnerable I was.
I wanted to look at the notifications, but my mind was in no state to comprehend anything I could read and my vision was failing like the days when I fell into a coma frequently in my past life.
"I KNOW YOU’RE NEARBY! SHOW UP!!!" (I)
"You surprise me Mr Zenos, I am truly impressed by your level of madness." (Mother of the Grave)
"Ahhh!!! Dorga!" (I)
"You may have erased the Souls, but the will remaining in those Essences will be a challenge for you." (Mother of the Grave)
I refused to have my consciousness stolen, I knew this ’Mother of the Grave’ was nearby, she has been watching my every move since I arrived, she definitely wants something.
"Grrr!!!" (I)
I wanted to speak but at that moment the pain was reaching my Soul, my body was fighting because of these new Essences, it seemed that because all my other Essences were in a dormant state, these 3 Essences were causing chaos as if invading an empty house to throw a party.
The pain was mainly these out of control Essences trying to alter my body and now trying to influence my Soul.
"(I have to resist...)" (I)
While I was in agony, the Woman approached me descending from the head of the White Serpent that is part of her tail, she was acting calmly even though her words were full of ironies against me.
"You know, you’re still too young to understand your own power, so let me tell you something interesting." (Mother of the Grave)
"You are absorbing too complex powers, life and death are not compatible." (Mother of the Grave)
"But this will stop the problems." (Mother of the Grave)
I couldn’t react as she approached, so she knelt in front of me with her face inches from mine as she opened her mouth from which a white Serpent comes out with her eyes closed before invading my mouth sinking into my stomach.
Ding!
The last thing I felt was something touch my Soul, then suddenly everything changed.
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Pov Alice’s:
I was surrounded by Legions of Death, there are 5 in total or that’s what I expected, we were deceived, right now I’m the only one still conscious, everyone else is almost dead, destroyed or imprisoned.
We believe they were all Legions of Death and even though it was a difficult battle, we managed to seal them one at a time using Nicole’s tactics, at first it was really difficult and as we were able to finish them off one at a time, we were able to gather our forces against the others gradually easing the battle until only 5 Legions of Death remained, as they were unable to take the form of statues we thought they were all younger and weaker Legions of Death, we were naive in generalizing the enemies into just two groups based on such superficial information.
It was only when the sealing of the Legions of Death was in constant progression that we noticed these 5 planets always being in the same positions between them, otherwise they are also very different from the other Legions of Death Planets.
These 5 planets were very powerful using elemental powers, they seemed to be waiting for the Legions of Death to be defeated before making their moves.
Zenos’ Familiars were destroyed immediately, being the first to be defeated, it was only then that we realized the strangeness of these 5 planets.
Soon all of Zenos’ children were trapped in chains of crystallized elemental power, their bodies were a mess of injuries only maintaining life due to their enemies’ lack of interest in killing them.
"(What do I do...?)" (I)
"(Don’t do anything, we don’t know what these things are, but they are certainly not Legions of Death, they also appear to be a single individual.)" (Ragnar)
"(Our bodies were destroyed in a strange way, they were annihilated, we must do something...)" (Orion)
"(Where is that bastard master when we need him!!!)" (Layla)
"(I WANT A NEW BODY NOW!!!!!)" (Layla)
"(Shut up, the situation is bad enough, didn’t you feel how that thing destroyed us? Didn’t it feel familiar in a way?)" (Sakura)
While we were surrounded, I just stood still, whatever these 5 planets are, they haven’t attacked us yet, which for me was great since the Souls of Zenos’ Familiars came to me as their Saint, that’s because their Souls weren’t capable of reaching Zenos wherever he is.
"(We need to think about something...)" (I)
The five planets were all separated with each one having different elemental powers, one of them being covered in a red liquid emanating the power of blood, another being covered in metallic surface, another was covered in clouds shooting lightning, another was covered in green and the the latter had suddenly become almost transparent.
The planets were positioned as if forming a 5 pointed star between each other, they move as a whole and not as separate things, this made me wonder if there are really 5 enemies or maybe it is just 1 enemy.
"I didn’t expect to find something like this here, I didn’t want to intervene, but I won’t let this continue." (Adella)
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Pov Zenos:
When I realized everything was different, I was in a place that looked more like a dark forest, but I didn’t know if the contours I was seeing were tree trunks or support columns.
"..." (I)
I looked around realizing that I couldn’t differentiate directions and in a few seconds I realized that this wasn’t my body, I also couldn’t feel the state of my Soul.
"A mental world?" (I) 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝔠𝔬𝖒
"You’re here, aren’t you?" (I)
"..." (I)
I can’t feel anything in this place, I can see my body but it feels like it’s an illusion, this place appeared around me after that Serpent entered and was swallowed, it wasn’t hard to imagine who was around even though I can’t feel him.
"You’ve been watching me this whole time, you were also the one who pulled me into that hall of mirrors that led to that God of Death, then took me back to Erkales." (I)
"What do you want from me? Is this some kind of test?" (I)
"It’s not tests or anything... I just wanted to know who you are..."
"With no others to protect, no Family to support, no one to intervene... only counting on yourself and how you would face slim odds of success."
In the middle of the darkness, a pair of Serpent eyes that looked like big walls appear, eyes full of a depth that I didn’t know, their calm neighbor seems to be present everywhere.
"You say that, but there was a lot of interference." (I)
"Yes, but I still know who you are... a new Anomaly." (Tarzor)
"Creation itself exists by defined patterns, everything in existence has patterns, acting outside of patterns on this scale makes you Anomalous." (Tarzor)
"Kill what cannot be killed, surpass limits that should not even be known, resist a power that rejects the foundation of creation within your Soul." (Tarzor)
"..." (I)
I look around and I feel like no matter where I turn my face, his eyes are always there.
"You are young, not only young, but also ignorant of yourself." (Tarzor)
"You don’t understand what Chaos is, but you still manipulate its power in inconceivable ways." (Tarzor)
Suddenly it was as if everything changed once again, I was motionless facing his eye, everything around was full of White Serpents knowing through my body, 3 of them opened holes in me removing 3 Crystal Fragments, one of them full of the Power of Death, one filled with the Power of Life and the last one filled with the Power of Fragment.
These are Fragments of Divinity, Incomplete Essences and one of them is complete being a complete Divinity.
"I know why you are here, I also know why the Gods sent you here, but for then take it, if you are able to bear it." (Tarzor)
From inside my chest a white Serpent head makes its way out, this Serpent being the biggest of all not counting the big eye in front of me, this white Serpent devoured the Essences and that was when I realized that the Serpent itself was an Essence.
"If you survive I’ll tell you everything, about what comes next and what comes after that." (Tarzor)
Soon the Serpent that came out of me returns the way it came out until I am no longer able to locate it inside me.
"""!!!!""" (I)
A pain surfs so fast that I can’t describe it before it disappears, then the world changes once again, I suddenly find myself among the stars in a space scenario similar to the one created in my Territory.
Around me were many versions of me from all my past evolutions and even from my past life.
On the opposite side of where the Eclipse was, I could see something move among the stars until it was within sight, it was a White Serpent whose presence was bizarre on so many levels that I was unable to describe.
The Serpent alone was larger than the distant Eclipse, clearly its size was colossal as it looked at me before speaking, its voice seems to resonate directly into my Soul.
"If you want to know that much about me, then why don’t you tell me who you really are?" (I)
"I am Tarzor...that is what I will always be." (Tarzor)
