NOVPUBI was sitting in the middle of space, there was nothing around me but the stars and Dark Dragons, I was in the exact place where the Star Palace was until it later became the Universal Seed.
With a movement of my hands the space crystallized in front of me as if it were a small mirror, but it was not my reflection that I saw in the mirror, but rather a completely different space.
It was the Star Path, my eyes were focused on the image of the egg, Tarzor’s illusory eyes were focused on a point above it where the Anomalous Cores that I was able to gather in this battle were located.
My Divine Weapon was there in the form of a sword, the infernal chains were no longer holding the blade to seal that power inside, all the power contained in those items were being sucked by Tarzor’s illusory eyes, this included the Souls of the Anomalous Dragons as well.
"How is his progress?" (Niryna)
"I don’t know, but maybe it’s about to hatch." (me) 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Before, the egg was being nourished by the Stellar Path, but a few hours ago it stopped. All it does is continue to absorb the power of the Anomalous Dragons.
It was no longer a secret. Akatosh explained to all the True Dragons about the Anomalous Dragons. He spoke about their true names and how they proclaim themselves to be Dragon Eaters. He did this through his high-level Priests. Since Karina was a unique Saint among the Dragons, she also received this oracle, thus passing on this information to me. However, it was information that I already knew mostly from what I found out from Callidora. The only new information was about the Anomalous Dragons, which was the name I started calling them because I didn’t like their previous name of Dragon Eaters.
"Did you want to talk to me?" (Niryna?)
"..." (me)
I suddenly noticed something and looked away from the mirror to look at Niryna, that’s when I realized what was wrong with me, I got a little irritated when my eyes fell on her.
"Why are you using her body!?" (me)
"Hahaha... I knew you would notice, but I’m impressed with your senses." (Callidora)
After I spoke, Niryna’s posture, expression, and behavior changed, her expression becoming extremely disturbing with eyes full of innate cruelty while her face showed a mocking expression.
Her posture also became more casual, lying directly in the middle of the space as if she was floating belly up in a lake, she was at ease as she lay on her side looking at me, her smile irritating me greatly.
"If you did anything to her..." (me)
"Don’t worry, she’s just sleeping, I didn’t take control of her body, I’m just stimulating her muscles to move the way I want, she knows that too." (Callidora)
"Why do this and not talk to her directly?" (me)
"Because I wanted it this way, I wanted to see her reaction and it was worth it, hahahaha..." (Callidora)
"..." (me)
Callidora has always been willful and arrogant, for her the only will that matters is her own, everyone around her is a toy and probably even Niryna should be considered just above a toy, which in Callidora’s twisted mind must be a unique and special case in her entire existence.
"When she wakes up I won’t be able to do this, so tell her what you want right away, I need to wake her up before the chocolate cake is ready, I need to eat that delight while it’s still warm." (Callidora)
"(She thinks more about food than Ragnar.)" (me)
"So I’ll be blunt, what’s going on with Samara, does she have some of your power?" (me)
"That should be obvious, you had her refine my chains and her Soul was bathed several times with my power while she was under my service." (Callidora)
"You know that’s not what I’m talking about, the Infernal Power is something I already expected, but she used a power similar to reality, which should be impossible for her." (me)
Taking Hinata out of the equation, after I thought about it, only the Infernal power wouldn’t make sense for Samara to see the battle happening outside the universe, I was so focused on Hinata’s weirdness that I left Samara aside, relegating everything to the Infernal Power.
"Don’t be naive, my chains are made by refining the remains of Universes and Souls that I broke, they naturally possess the Power of Reality, so no one can escape from me, breaking the power of reality is almost impossible." (Callidora)
"Only the Anomalous power has any visible effect and even that only opens up a possibility, even then it would need to be stronger than the one holding the chains to break, which in my case makes it impossible." (Callidora)
"But you said it yourself, I refined your chains for Samara." (me)
"The power of Chaos is a special case, you didn’t break the chains, you transformed them to be useful to Samara, there is also the obvious reason why I allow this, you are still not strong enough to break my chains or even refine them if I decide to intervene." (Callidora)
"(This doesn’t seem like the whole truth, but I’m surprised she would tell all of this so gratuitously.)" (me)
I was surprised by the identity of the chains, not by Callidora’s ability to do such a thing, but by the cruelty of such a heinous act, using Souls and parts of universes to forge chains that will be used to trap or torment countless lives, she talks about these things very easily, sometimes I forget about the monster Callidora will always be.
"You should also know about Hinata, how can she possess a Reality power?" (me)
I was very surprised by this, I still remember the Notifications about her when they raised her power with Anomalous Essence along with Tarzor’s power, but I don’t really know about this power.
I tried asking Hinata, but for her it was like trying to explain ’how the sky is blue’, ’how to breathe’ or ’how Fast and Furious became a superhero movie franchise with cars’, these are difficult answers that few people can explain.
Since she doesn’t know how to describe how she does it other than ’I can do it’, I had to continue with the idea of looking for Callidora.
"You must know about this, even without being there, you’ve seen Hinata many times and must have noticed something, you were already watching me through Niryna long before she was actually born." (me)
"I won’t tell you, you’ll find out sooner or later, it’ll be funny..." (Callidora)
"What are you...?" (me)
"Huh...?" (Niryna)
"..." (me)
Suddenly Niryna was the one who woke up, it was strange to see her wake up with her eyes open, her posture, behavior, her eyes and even her expressions changed completely, it was incredible to see how the same face can reveal two completely different people, the mundane was so drastic that even I was left without a reaction.
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1 day later.
I was inside the Star Path, Hinata almost dragged me here with Zaya, they were both very anxious, but I could already understand the reason, I could feel it.
When I entered the Star Path I only confirmed what I was feeling, turbulence, it was as if a storm was forming, in fact it seemed like a storm was happening.
The entire Stellar Path was rippling like a sea in the midst of a storm, these spatial waves would be enough to destroy entire worlds if it happened outside, the crystal paths were shining brightly while the silhouettes of those who were on the path were standing completely unperturbed, all facing the same direction where the center of these turbulences was.
I followed alongside Hinata and Zaya, for me the entire Stellar Path could be traversed in a single step, so it was almost immediate that we arrived at the center of the problem, the turbulences could not affect me either.
In the center of this place was the egg, it was there wrapped in clouds of Essence and Stellar Fire, fragments of what were once Anomalous Cores were around it, their exhausted powers becoming just empty shells, even the Souls of the Anomalous Dragons were devoured.
Its power and presence were growing and the illusory eyes were shining brightly, the entire head of a Dragon could be seen being made of these energies and fire.
What was causing the turbulence was exactly the universe interacting with the presence of the egg, it wasn’t colliding with it, but it wasn’t mixing either, it was as if a clear separation was being made, but that was exactly what was causing problems.
"This won’t work..." (me)
It was clear that the egg still needed something to be born, it was still being pushed away by the universe, so it was looking for that something elsewhere, and as soon as I got closer, the connection I had formed with it before grew thousands of times.
"..." (me)
This connection wasn’t strengthening for energy transfer, it was something different, it was like an anchoring, I felt the turbulences surround me and I made the other two move away so there wouldn’t be any problems.
But before long the turbulences gradually subsided until it became calm once more and cracks appeared on the egg shining brightly, my Divine Weapon that was staying around it shone together and shattered as it once again became a Purple Sun and a Fragmented Moon.
