NOVPUBPpv Adella’s:
I didn’t plan to interfere, but I still paid attention to the situation while lying on the grass inside Zenos’s Dimensional Dragon.
Zenos’ fights were interesting, the way he fights is inconceivable to me, trying to devour an enemy like that while still alive leads to many risks, especially seeing that his body is largely made of energy.
When Zenos won his fight I couldn’t help but think about his lack of talent, with his powers it should have been easier to seal the enemy, he chose the worst way to face his opponent and I know how difficult these bastards are to kill.
"(An Anomaly, of all people it has to be a Dragon Eater.)" (I) 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
I know a little about them, before arriving in this universe I had the displeasure of meeting 3 of them, luckily I’m not a Dragon and that’s why I was ignored by 2 of them while the third continued chasing me.
While remembering those days I saw something else happen, Tarzor’s most loyal Servant, she appeared and took Cinthia away, I also paid attention to the Legions of Death being sealed one at a time more quickly than expected, so I missed the moment when 3 other enemies appeared near Zenos.
As I saw everything happening, I decided to leave Zenos to his own devices, he seemed to be doing well and the 3 enemies are clearly not as strong as the Dragon Eater.
That’s because I noticed something different and focused all my attention on Zenos’ Familiars, because I saw one of them being destroyed.
"(That was weird...)" (I)
I continued to watch, knowing they could not be truly killed as long as Zenos lived, but strangely they were consciously destroyed with concentrated, specifically targeted, perfectly coordinated attacks.
"I can’t feel that good from afar, but it felt like them..." (I)
Another memory came to my mind, something from the past that I will never be able to forget, my power was boiling inside my body with my fury reaching heights that in the past would have made me lose control.
I put my hand forward and the space melted into blood opening a bloody wound that I passed through before being stopped.
"You cannot interfere…" (Queen of the Grave)
"Shut up!" (I)
"..." (Queen of the Grave)
Before she could say anything, my right hand was already around her neck while my foot formed a spike of blood that went through the Serpent’s head that formed her tail, the Serpent was trying to struggle uselessly while she herself just looked at me with your murderous intent that I couldn’t care less.
"I’m going to go over there and if I find out that thing is what I think it is, then you’ll have things to answer for, Tarzor!" (I)
"You know you can’t..." (Queen of the Grave)
"I said SHUT UP!!" (I)
I break her neck by squeezing my hands tighter, but that couldn’t even be considered an injury to her.
"You must not intervene." (Tarzor)
Tarzor’s voice comes from everywhere, his power seems to be greater than I expected, he has isolated the Space Rift that I’m using, I know he can see me, but I don’t know where he is.
"I’ll deal with that thing, but I won’t intervene with Zenos... for now..." (I)
"I said no." (Tarzor)
Suddenly my whole body was knocked back a few meters, I even felt my Soul tremble, when I looked up again the Queen of the Grave was completely healed and behind her a pair of eyes were on me emanating a pressure no less than Selene.
"Don’t force me to use all my power against you, if a fight starts I’m sure Selene won’t stay any longer watching." (I)
"Why intervene?" (Tarzor)
"I don’t care what’s going on here, but that thing controlling the 5 planets, if it’s what I think it is..." (I)
"Do not interfere with Zenos and you can do whatever you want with it, but you will destroy his Seal in the process." (Tarzor)
"I don’t care... urgh!!" (I)
"Do not intervene again, I do not fear the Gods of this or any universe, so this will be the last warning." (Tarzor)
Before I knew it the Queen of the Grave disappeared as the eyes behind her closed leaving just me standing holding the side of my body where a part of me is missing.
I managed to regain my body’s shape, but this injury wasn’t just on my body, it reached my Soul and had enough power to destroy my Soul if he wanted to.
"Bastard!" (I)
Recovering my body was simple, but this injury to my Soul was something else, I can’t recover from it even using my Divinity, I would need Selene to take care of it.
Sigh
"At least it won’t interfere." (I)
With that resolved I continued on my way, during this time everyone who fought the enemy was defeated, most of them were trapped in seals.
The only one still able to fight was Alice and I could feel Zenos’s Familiars inside her, it seems they weren’t able to return to him.
"(That energy, that arrogance in his presence, he’s one of them...)" (I)
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Pov Zenos:
The great Serpent got close enough for me to realize that its size would be enough to swallow entire planets, yet its voice sounded powerfully as if it were right next to me.
"We’ll see how you survive this..." (Tarzor)
"It seems like you really don’t understand, right?" (me?)
"..." (I)
From inside the Eclipse a 4-pointed star comes out as Tarzor spoke, this star stopped in front of me as it disappeared leaving a person behind, a copy of me in the form of a Dragon, but its colors are inverted to mine.
Its silver crystal scales shine in blue and black colors, its horns seem to be golden while its eyes are closed as I feel its presence focused on me.
This is not the first time encountering an ’evil version’ of me, but somehow it felt differently, I was in my normal form while looking at that great Dragon, his presence was the same as mine, but his Essences they were different with the only one the same being the Anomalous Essence of Chaos.
His presence was as real as mine, he was not an illusion, he was not an image of me, he was an entity separate from me that at the same time was me.
"That shouldn’t be possible." (I)
"Don’t be surprised by so little, since you were born into this world has there ever been a day when you weren’t surprised by something?" (me?)
He was talking and I knew there was no reason to be afraid, that was a valid concern for me, I knew a lot of stories where characters had their bodies stolen by alternative personalities or even creatures that invaded their bodies, I didn’t want these cliché plots to happen with me.
"You’re not going to tell me to fight, right." (I)
"Come on, show me what you can do when facing yourself." (Tarzor)
"I guess the accepting myself trick isn’t going to work again, is it?" (I)
"No, I am not you, I am just using your appearance, I am the 3 Wills of those you defeated, I am using the Anomaly within you to merge into a single being." (me?)
"You talk too much..." (I)
I was truly tired to the point that I almost let an enemy tell his unnecessary speech when the right thing to do is to just crush him, luckily I managed to catch up in time to take advantage of the low guard.
I have been mentally tortured by my sister Caitlyn in the past and received many types of training pushing me beyond my limits as well as strengthening my mind, this place we are in was created somewhere between my mind and my Soul, which means it belongs to me.
Without speaking or moving, rays of energy crossed the entire body of the ’false self’ who seemed not to care.
"Do you think you are causing harm? I am just a representation, an image, a will that is unaffected by life and death." (me?)
"I don’t have the patience for this crap." (I)
As much as I complain, I can’t deny that I don’t know what to do, so I tried to create Starfire around him, but he just opened his jaws, sucking everything in like it was an appetizer.
I sensed Tarzor’s amusement in the distance and tried to attack him with star energy beams or Starfire, but he was unaffected, in fact none of the attacks even reached him as space became fragmented before returning to Earth normal around you.
The ’false me’ in turn just raised one of its claws where a large book appeared, then it threw this book at my feet while shrinking in size, that’s when I recognized the book.
"..." (I)
"Why are you afraid of a book?" (me?)
I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t understand it at first, this was just a children’s story that I randomly picked up on my travels, if I remember correctly, I never finished reading it, even though I was always stuck in the story every time I tried to read it, I never finished it.
When I looked at the ’false me’ again, I noticed that his eyes changed, they looked like a 4-pointed star, I also felt his presence trying to expand.
"Can’t answer?" (me?)
I smiled, I finally understand something, I can’t hurt him, I can’t kill him and I can’t seal him, but I can do something much simpler.
"Falling for mind tricks doesn’t work against me, even if I don’t fully understand what you are...doesn’t mean I’m powerless." (I)
I command my Authority which in itself is a representation of the power of my will, my Authority as well as my Aura is marked by everything that makes me up, this includes my Essences, one of which represents the power of Demons and the other representing the power of corruption.
Using my Authority to form a Dragon even larger than Tarzor, I manage to swallow the ’false self’ whole this time I felt its presence diminish and its body fall apart.
I felt the Fragmented and Whole Essences within him separate once again struggling to free themselves as they were corrupted within the Starfire, only the 4-pointed star remained intact against my Authority.
"The time has come to end this." (Tarzor)
