NOVPUBI have my suspicions about everything that involves Callidora, she is the definition of absolute selfishness, everything she does is thinking about herself and this combined with her intelligence as well as vast life experience makes her absolutely unreliable.
Fortunately this also makes her predictable, there are few things she wants and there is no reason for her to lie when manipulating the truth serves her purposes, even now she doesn’t seem to want anything from this Baldr of Darkness, in fact she is clinging to him as if he were her possession.
"(Don’t worry, in the end you can take him out, but he will be my daughter’s, she needs qualified guards to stay by her side and an ancient God will be excellent material to create one.)" (Callidora)
"..." (me)
"Lady Callidora, my master asks that you do not interfere with the interrogation, please." (Lara)
"Cough! Cough Cough!!"
"Don’t worry, I’m just making this conversation less annoying, I’ll leave the rest to you." (Callidora)
Saying that, she disappears like the special effects of an 80’s TV series, as if she was never there and a few seconds later the chain on Baldr of Darkness’ neck marks her neck while destroying her capable.
He seems to have an expression of pain for half a second after the chains on his neck disappear and the wound closes leaving only the marks, then he looks at me with a strange expression with his eyes shining with some meaning that I don’t understand. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
"You serve this thing... aahhhh!!"
"I advise you to refer to her as Callidora, it will be better for the preservation of her existence." (Lara)
"Listen to her." (me)
"..."
Sigh
He hadn’t even finished speaking before a column of purple energy filled with wailing souls rose from the ground with him in the middle, going beyond the sky, it lasted only 1 second before disappearing and when it did it revealed his already tattered clothes in an even worse state, even without hair it was half burned, dark red vapor rises from his body where several wounds had opened, but his eyes focus on Lara before turning back to me.
"Just keep talking, what did you mean by ’devoured’?" (me)
"..."
"He was a fool, our connection was not something that could be easily broken or denied."
"(He’s speaking better now, even if his appearance is more pitiful than before.)" (me)
I’m glad he’s speaking better and the conversation has returned to what matters, he seems to be ignoring the change in his voice or what Callidora just did by showing up here.
"We were both Baldr, our existences were connected from the beginning, that’s why I could feel his current state and also had one or another flash of what he was seeing, sometimes even hearing his voice or having some of his thoughts flow to me."
"..." (me)
What he’s talking about is strange, I can feel his complete Soul inside him, so clearly the Baldr who betrayed him should also have a Soul of his own, which makes them separate individuals, even if they had a connection it should be something more to do with their minds and Essences, it shouldn’t be something like the level of connection he claims to have.
"Don’t be mistaken, I have no reason to lie about this, in fact it was this connection that allowed me to know what happened after I ended up here."
"He was accepted as a God in his Universe, the Baldr there had been injured and had not been Reborn, which made several Gods accept that traitor as the new God of Light."
"I don’t think the other Gods would accept an Evil God into their ranks so easily." (me)
"They didn’t want him as a replacement, they wanted someone to take care of the problems caused by his absence at that time while the true God of Light recovered or some other God could help him recover."
"He agreed and it came as no surprise to me that he wanted to make this situation more permanent, he tried to consume the Divinity and merge the Soul of that Baldr with his, so he would be the only Baldr capable of assuming the position of God of Light."
He was smiling when he got to this part, clearly something happened there, she is being very vague and with few details, she is treating such a big event in a very superficial way.
"He was devoured, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA... HAHAHAHA... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."
"A complete idiot... hahaha...."
"He, like me and some other Gods, are echoes of the really strong Gods, do you understand this concept?"
"Yes, you can continue." (me)
This has been explained to me before, the Great Gods of our Universe have branches in other Universes, before I thought that this was exclusive to our Universe and our Gods, I had no idea what really happened.
Now I myself am a God, I understand Divinity better, I understand better what a universe is, just as I understand that our universe may be one of the oldest, but it is not even the oldest and even less the most special.
Very strong Gods who not only possess Divinity, but have become the very Definition of their Divinity, attaining a power beyond that of my mother who used the Divinity of Blood to attain Authority over the powers of Life and Death.
The Great Gods not only of this universe, but those of other Universes possess such a great resonance that it exudes along with the power of a Universe’s Aura or something similar, I can feel it.
After Tarzor was reborn as a Universe, he also began to use this Universe as a guide for himself and during his birth process he even attracted Gods of this Universe to himself, but this was only possible because of me and the connection I have with these Gods.
It was after that that I realized what copies of Gods in other Universes are. They are Gods who were already born Gods, created by their universe by copying an older universe in an attempt to stabilize the Essences. Since they were based on other Gods, they would never reach the power of the originals, just as Adella, who is a copy of my mother from another universe, never reached the same power as my mother.
"(Trying to take over a place that does not belong to you has too many risks, his greed would have gone wrong anyway.)" (me)
"I took great advantage of his screams in my mind, his Soul was refined, his Divinity and my own were integrated into his, that’s how Baldr was reborn."
"Unfortunately, I still can’t accept this. He didn’t care about any of this. He completely cut off his connection with me and used my sacred books as well as my counterpart’s in inconceivable ways!"
"Even now he insults everything I stand for, everything I am even more than my counterpart did, using my holy books as a tool, corrupting what I am and forcibly extracting my power while I am sealed here!"
"Your story is interesting, but even if it’s true, how is it useful to me?" (me)
Knowing that Baldr merged with an Evil God and also possesses the power of Darkness gives me a tactical advantage since this power has never been used by him until now, perhaps the other Gods don’t even know that he possesses this power, so this knowledge alone can already be considered useful at least.
Unfortunately it’s not something crucial, he must know something else, I need to know a better way to attack Baldr and not just tactical knowledge that may or may not be really useful in the future.
"I no longer have my connection with him, but I know everything he does with my sacred books, I know about his armies, I know where they all are even now and I can wipe them all out."
"How would I do that?" (me)
"Where there is light there will also be darkness, he cannot eliminate the darkness completely from his soldiers and the power of darkness is capable of corrupting everything."
"Is he telling the truth?" (me)
"I’ll check..." (Lara)
"(He’s telling the truth, but he tried to make a deal with me before you came here, he’s nurturing a Demon with his hatred inside his body, he wants to become a Demon God and even promised to open the gates of hell in his universe, all to kill Baldr himself, Baldr’s Soldiers would become Demon Shadows under his control.)" (Callidora)
"(He didn’t lie, but I don’t advise you to trust him.)" (Callidora)
"(You said you want to use him as material, but will he still be able to affect Baldr’s army?)" (me)
"(Yes, actually, with my daughter’s power, it will be even better than he planned, a new race of Demons may be born since my daughter can use some of his power.)" (Callidora)
"..." (me)
"..." (Lara)
Before Lara checks with Niryna and Callidora, I already received the answer in my mind, now I understand Callidora’s goal, a new race of Demons and the construction of a force under Niryna’s control.
"I told what I knew and showed my worth, only with me can you deny his army, so free me and I will be more than happy to kill that God!"
"Of course we will free you..." (me)
I couldn’t help but smile, he doesn’t realize that Callidora has already ruined his plans, he doesn’t know about Niryna and thinks that his proposal would be tempting for Callidora, he trusted her too much.
