NOVPUBPov Silvia:
After we returned home, everyone split up, already busy with something while I went to check the Arboreal System with Sakura.
After what was done against the God of Law and the destruction of the God of Light’s base, a massive attack even bigger than the previous one or led by one of the two Gods was not out of the question.
At least that’s what I thought and Sakura, as well as many others, thought the same way as me, but to everyone’s happiness, we were wrong, there were no attacks after that.
It seems that my Father expected this since he went to sleep as soon as we returned, Samara also ignored everything and locked herself in a room in the Communal Temple, blood-curdling screams came from that place.
For some reason Niryna did something similar to Samara, she took a large room inside the Communal Temple, but she didn’t go in alone, she took Lilith, Haku Loki with her, I didn’t know what she was doing and Veronica just didn’t want to talk about it.
Alice and Vanessa meet often, meetings happen every 5 hours and this repeated for 4 days, it had also been 4 days since Zenos woke up, during that time the Dragons of the Space Element managed to gather all those who were missing, this included my Father’s Familiars.
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In a forest in the middle of nowhere with only low-level monsters, I was watching Adella unleash mountains by throwing other mountains on top, swinging her claws creating red valleys full of mist that smelled of blood and with an Aura so angry that it made the space ripple around her.
"How long is that bastard going to sleep!?" (Adella)
"There are many things to do, enemies lurk around every corner! Strange movements are increasingly seen on the battlefields and he didn’t even hear what I had to say!!!!" (Adella)
"Let him sleep, you know this is not a normal sleep." (me)
"You know even more than me, I saw you talking to that envoy of Tarzor, the Mother of the Grave." (me)
"I also saw you leaving the room where Freya was before realizing her disappearance." (me)
"I know almost nothing, I just passed on a message and made some speculations, you must know more than me." (Adella)
I know Freya was trying to achieve, but I didn’t know what the great Sister hoped to achieve, she was the first of us and by far the one with the most comprehensive thoughts, while we all worry about just 1 world, she worries about entire universes, her scope of thought is a little too big.
I don’t know what she’s looking for with Freya, but for her to make such an offer to her worries me, she doesn’t do things without a reason.
"Stop worrying, if you’re looking for answers, why don’t you go see her... there." (Adella)
"..." (me)
"(The seed...)" (me)
"Now stop talking about it and try to help me do something about that idiot’s current problem." (Adella)
"Not even the Familiars can touch him now, there’s nothing we can do until he wakes up." (me)
"The Dragon Eater won’t stay in that place forever." (Adella)
"According to Mavis, he’s just getting used to the rules of this universe and its Essences, it shouldn’t take long, a few days at most, and now it’s been more than 5 days since I saw him." (Adella)
"Wouldn’t the Dragon God take care of this? He used our Father’s Totem to distribute the Anomalous Power, I can feel it in myself, so the other Dragons should be able to..." (me)
"For someone who was a World Tree, you’re quite naive, aren’t you?" (Adella)
"..." (me) 𝚗𝚘v𝚙𝚞b.𝚌𝚘m
"Dragon Eaters are predators, killers, and bandits." (Adella)
"They are not an invading force or conquerors, they do not act according to rules as the current Divine war is going on." (Adella)
"They have 1 target they see as an enemy, that is a retard who made me his daughter, all other Dragons are seen as food by them with only a few being a threat like the God Akatosh." (Adella)
"Zenos killed one of them, bone alone already categorizes him as a threat, which would only put him side by side with the Dragon God on their list, but then he had to devour one of them..." (Adella)
Sigh
"Don’t get me wrong, I love killing, torturing, and humiliating my enemies as much as anyone, but I still have some idea of what to do and who to do it with." (Adella)
"For beings who proclaim themselves as Dragon Eaters, one of them being devoured by a Dragon is too humiliating." (Adella)
She stomped her foot so hard that it made the whole place shake as if it was going to break, a shadow rose up with the head of a Dragon, it was Okan trying to see what was happening and I waved him off to me, Adella is already angry enough.
"There is a monumental difference between being a threat and being an enemy, do you understand that in this scenario they only sent 1 of them here!?" (Adella)
"In other words, you are worried about our Father." (me)
"Yes, I am and if you dare to bring up the subject again I will break your branches and you will not like knowing where I will stick them." (Adella)
"The one who spoke is no longer here, I don’t even know what we were talking about." (me)
She is at least sincere about it, but to still be here after so many days, the Goddess Selene must be equally worried, which makes the situation even more serious.
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Zenos’ POV:
I don’t know how much time passed, but I felt something burning around me, when I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a desolate land, Starfire was burning everywhere, but it wasn’t normal fire, it was taking on the shapes of people, buildings and increasingly vivid animals.
The more I woke up and my mind became clearer, the Starfire gained more details and even began to change its color to match what it was imitating, it was my old world, but I don’t remember that memory.
"It’s not a memory, it represents the longing for who you were." (Freya)
"Freya..." (me)
Suddenly I hear a voice and my mind floods with images of Freya, the Starfire in the surroundings changes, the buildings and people disappear revealing the slave house as well as the images of the mansion, Freya wearing her maid’s dress, her appearance as a White Elf and then as an Ancient Elf.
But all that existed were scenes with flaming Auras and several Freyas taken from my memories, all with the same flaming Aura around them, even looking everywhere I couldn’t see the real Freya.
"I’m here." (Freya)
"Where have you been?" (me)
Suddenly a small green dot appeared, it was as small as a speck of dust, if I didn’t concentrate, I wouldn’t even be able to see it and even then I couldn’t make out much about its appearance other than a green light.
"I’ve been very busy, I had to visit the Fairy World and the Spirit World, I also had to go to the tree in the Sacred Beast Star System." (Freya)
"You gave me a lot of work, you know that?" (Freya)
"What are you doing, does it have to do with that tree?" (me)
I’m not an idiot, I had already made some associations a long time ago, the silhouettes of trees in the sky or other places in the territories of my Familiars in the World of Fairies and Spirits, as well as the one I saw on the Stellar Path, everything was connected somehow and Freya seemed to be associated with it somehow.
"You’re partly mistaken, even the physical tree that Sakura takes care of is nothing more than another part, just like the shadows and silhouettes of the tree you’ve already seen, they are parts of a whole still without its essence." (Freya)
"Walk with me..." (Freya)
I felt this point of light scratch my snout and that’s when I realized that I had been in Dragon form this whole time.
When Freya touched my scales, I felt her power and something caught my attention, it was the power of Chaos, but it wasn’t the same as mine, it seemed incomplete and it felt more like it was transforming into an Anomalous power, the aspect of transformation for creation and life.
My power resonated with hers, accelerating this change, the Star Fire around me faded, revealing the Star Path where I was lying, in fact I was on a throne between two trees with the Star Path branching out infinitely between the stars in front of me.
When I blinked, I was in my Human form walking side by side with Freya, but her learning was somewhat illusory, and there were also great changes in her.
I walked beside her, her illusory hands clasped in mine, she didn’t explain anything to me with words, but she showed me in a way, I understood what she meant and why she didn’t speak in words.
After all, how can I explain universal concepts in words when there are no words to express them? If I hadn’t become a God, I wouldn’t even be able to understand 1% of it.
I don’t know how long we walked, she suddenly stopped and turned to me, pressing her illusory lips to mine, but at some point she disappeared without a trace and I opened my eyes, facing the Universal Seed containing the Star Palace inside, along with the shadow of a tree.
"I understand, but waiting is hard..." (me)
