Raith stared, dumbfounded at what had just happened.
No common sense in the world could make it make sense.
The soul plane was an intangible materialization of his own soul, he was in his soul and it was not supposed to be physical.
It was more like an incorporeal existence, his consciousness was what existed here.
Although the physicality could exist in his soul plane, but he never thought that would be possible without his consent.
Now, not only had this strange primordial forced him into his own soul plane, she also forced herself.
Utterly baffling!
Raith frowned skeptically at her before asking with a wary tone. Albeit rudely.
"Who the fuck are you? And why are you here?"
That mont, his heart seed to cave in with pain but he didn’t care. Right now, he was just boiling with vexation.
If such a thing has soone being able to enter his soul plane existed then it would cause a lot of trouble for him.
Even if it was a primordial...he didn’t mind killing them. He didn’t mind it at all.
’I’ve always wanted to kill a primordial’
"Human... let make a deal with you."
Raith cocked his head.
’What’s this bitch about, she forces her way into my soul and spits rubbish?’
Oblivious of his thoughts, the lady began to walk around, almost looking as if she was floating on top of the tranquil water surface.
Despite bearing ill thoughts toward her, Raith couldn’t say anything and just watched in silence.
She walked around, rounding him for a couple of seconds them stopped behind him.
Causing him to tentatively turn his head, glaring.
"It’s around here isn’t it? The seed of greed."
Raith rolled his eyes up, ’I suppose it’s not strange that she knows about that... she’s a primordial and Fel did ntion that the sins ca from a certain primordial. But still...’
He turned his whole body to her and shrugged.
"I don’t know." Then a pensive frown ford on his face, "Instead, I should be the one asking questions."
The lady, elegant and slender smiled genuinely. Although Raith just saw the smile as devilish and incredibly unsettling...sothing about it was.
"Whatever, you want to know... I will tell you, in exchange. You will make a contract with ." She said, her voice cold and hoarse.
Raith took a couple of seconds to think about what she had just said while looking at her with a dead serious expression.
Then he closed his eyes and responded with a dismissive expression, his tone laced with nonchalance.
"It’s fine then... I’m not desperate for an answer please leave my soul"
The primordial face contorted into a frown. One incredibly pretty. Even the waters seed to ripple in any slight change of her deanor.
It would make anyone almost think that she had a certain influence on his soul... or she did have a certain influence on his soul...
Raith shook his head and frowned.
’What the hell is wrong with ...’
He darted a stern frown at the lady lingering for a mont before he ushered her.
"So? Will you leave now from my soul?"
Forsaken Star was awfully silent even though she had just been turned down by Raith. She seed unfazed and for Raith personally... she seed too composed.
Like she knew exactly what she was doing.
He couldn’t read her... and it was annoying.
Then she drifted her face towards him slowly and pushed her hat up with her middle finger.
"You don’t understand what I an when I say, I will tell you everything? Didn’t you just get a ssage from your mother telling you to go to so damned santuary."
At that point, a terrifying frown crashed on Raith’s face.
’This isn’t getting funny anymore’
That ssage was as personal as personal could be defined. It was in his own soul!
There was no way this primordial should know about it!
Of course, Raith also thought of the fact that she was a primordial.
That fact alone introduced a variable that tipped the balance of the whole scale.
He didn’t even know what to think again and was drenched by a flood of confusion.
"How do you know about my mother and the ssage?"
Forsaken Star allowed a small vixenly smile. Her hoarse voice making it out.
"Well, young one, there are a lot of things you do not know. You don’t even know who you are. Knowledge impedes your path from so much that you could be."
Raith’s frown deepened.
"I know who I am thank you. And I am not about to allow myself be tricked into a plan of yet another primordial. I’m not that stupid" he responded resolutely.
Forsaken Star stared at him, her eyes laced with cold disgust.
"You lost once and you got scared? After all that was sacrificed so that you could be made a reality?"
Raith arched a brow.
’What nonsense is she talking about?’
She suddenly grabbed his hand. Hers, cold as if no blood ran through her veins. Or maybe she didn’t have any of such.
"This body was created by sacrificing the greatest of beings, resources and lives were lost to make this happen? In order to trap the abyss. Eventually, it worked, the abyss was in you and yet you let it go... just like that. Like a fool"
’The more she speaks the more confusing I get’ Raith hijacked his hand away from hers.
"I don’t understand shit of what you are saying. If you are going to say sothing then just say it... why speak in parables."
Forsaken Star sighed and composed herself, becoming her usual calmness before the blink of an eye. She spoke, her tone dripping with divinity.
"Your mother... she was like a ntor to ... I don’t know if you know of it at all but she was a primordial."
Raith raised his chin as she spoke... unbelief played across his eyes.
Regardless of how he looked at her Forsaken Star continued.
"She was in pursuit of the abyss... when we lost all contact to her."
"We... you and who?"
She paused for a couple of seconds then responded.
"Baal"
Raith’s eyes shot open imdiately.
"Baal?"
"The first king if Felfhiem Baal. Yes him."
Her words were direct as they could be, she is a primordial why would she be lying about anything.
Besides, Raith could tell that this was leading to sowhere. He could finally feel it!
He could feel it that the fragnted pieces of information he had was coming together. That it could all make sense any minute from now.
That this was the key to the explanation of his very existence.
After dwelling in a whirlpool of confusion for a couple of beats, he slowly raised his wet face and looked at her, remnants of those confusion, straining her frown onto his face.
He asked:
"Why was my mother looking for the abyss?"
She leaned her head back and looked down at him.
"I can’t tell you that. Not when you refuse to make a contract with ."
Raith arched a brow.
"Why do you need a contract from a human?"
A scoff escaped her lips.
"A human? Is that how you’ve continually deluded yourself?"
She folded her arms and said to him, schooling her voice.
"You are not a human. I need a contract with you in order to beco your sponsor. Even though you disappointed in a lot of ways, you equally amazed in other ways, such as possessing this..." she looked around, then looked at the sky, "and that."
Then she looked at him, "also, managing to find the seed of greed and nurture it into existence"
Raith looked at her tentatively before retorting.
"I suppose not everyone has a soul plane but all rulers have the seed of their sins and nurture it to existence don’t they?"
The lady shook her head.
"No, you have it all wrong. They nurture the seeds yes but it can never germinate. It shouldn’t be able to."
Raith paid attention to her.
"For the seed of a sin to germinate it needs cosmic energy... and the amount of cosmic energy it needs, if given, it could suck an entire dinsion dry. But because your body could house cosmic energy which is a peculiar to only primordials, you continually absorbed cosmic energy and fed it to the seed."
The information settled in like a heavy storm cloud, casting a shadow of realization over Raith’s thoughts.
It was all slowly beginning to make sense... at least the part where his body was different and why the abyss found it blissful to use... to the extent that it was planning to overtake his body from him.
Fel had said that most abilities the abyss gives are more related to the host than the abyss itself. However, the abyss is a primordial one that was a origin as at that.
So of course, it could make anyone enormously powerful.
Being able to cheat death was not a power to be trifled with after all.
Raith looked into the lady’s eyes, his own igniting with flas of resolve.
"Fine. Let’s make the contract"
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