At the sa ti, inside the Earth Online world, a similar pair of black eyes flashed open inside the Abyssal zone. A woman’s figure erged from the shadows. She conjured a mirror of sorts from the shadows, which displayed her immaculately beautiful yet sinisterous face.
In a second, the image distorted and the mirror rippled like liquid midnight. This ti, another reflection stared back. It was still the sa face, but it was not the woman’s. Those galaxy-white irises, that abyss-black sclera, that predatory calm. It was Umbraelith.
Umbraelith’s image flickered inside the conjured glass. The real woman, hidden deep in the Abyssal Zone, clicked her tongue.
"Tch. Umbraelith... you devious little cunt..." Her voice was a low snarl, elegant and venomous all at once. "How did you sniff out so fast?" Her own eyes, black as collapsing voids, narrowed in irritation.
Her hair spilled down her back in strands of abyss black, and her entire being was surrounded by the unmistakable aura of shadow. In fact, the two won looked extrely similar and could even be mistaken for the sa person if it were not for the difference in their power levels.
"Always watching," she muttered. "Always scavenging for scraps Father left behind. Why can’t you simply leave that old man be? Can’t he rest in peace?"
Umbraelith’s phantom smirk curved in the mirror. The real woman, Umbra’s other daughter, bared her teeth in a smile that never reached her eyes.
"Don’t get cocky. If I were at full strength... hmph... It’s fine. So what if you already found ? It doesn’t matter. You will never be able to reach past the system’s barriers. And even if you do, it will already be too late. I will make sure of it."
The next second, the mirror broke and shattered into shadow shards that disappeared into her aura.
"Tsk. Pathetic," she muttered to herself. "I let one little war with you drag on too long. It’s ti to end this thing once and for all, my dear sister." She threw her head back and laughed wildly. "Two versions of the sa lineage. Two monsters carved from the sa god. Two inevitabilities on a collision course. Let’s see who wins this ti!"
"The Goddess who ascended or the fallen heir?!"
"Daddy’s perfect little princess or the lost daughter, the one he abandoned?!"
"Umbraelith or Umbraessia?"
The abyss itself seed to stiffen, the darkness shivering. "Don’t worry, Sister. I’ll make this fun." She stretched out her arm, and the abyss responded.
Shadow currents roared upward, spiraling around her like a hurricane of ink. Shadow beasts, behemoths with ribcage mouths and triple-layered eyes, fell into prostration, trembling under her aura.
Even half-broken, she controlled the Abyssal Zone like a sovereign. "Umbraelith..." she murmured, almost tenderly. "You’re still chasing Father’s corpse like a starving dog chasing a dry bone. Always the good girl. Always seeking his approval." Her smile sharpened. "anwhile, I found sothing better."
Her gaze drifted, piercing the thick layers of dinsional fog, to the parasite pool far away, where Damon was currently bathing in shadow worms like he was at a spa and not inside the literal resurrection engine of a god.
The woman inhaled, tasting the threads of stolen shadow essence in the air. "...So it’s him." A slow, amused hum rumbled in her chest. "Aww... my little sister... it looks like once again we have set our sights on the sa man... what is it going to be this ti? ...are we fighting over him, or are you going to kill him before I get the chance?"
Her lips curved into a wicked, knowing smile, one that held history, resentnt, and a twisted sort of amusent that only twins raised by a God could understand. "Typical," she murmured. "You always ruin your toys before anyone else can play with them."
She lifted her hand, and the shadows ford a projection, Damon, suspended in the chaos of the parasite pool, lightning and divinity blazing against millions of tiny horrors, shadow essence spiraling around him like a tornado trying to swallow a star.
Her eyes lit up with fascination. "He devours father’s resurrection worms as if they’re snacks." Her smile widened. "What an interesting mortal... if tis were different, I would have played with you for a bit. Unfortunately, that bitch is forcing to speed up my plans."
She shattered the projection as well, no longer paying attention to Damon. She seed completely unaffected by the fact that soone was draining from Umbra’s eternal shadow pool.
Instead, she shifted her focus to sothing else. An orb of pure pulsing abyssal energy erged in her hands. Without any warning, she tossed the orb casually on the borders surrounding the abyssal zone.
Imdiately, chaos exploded.
The abyssal zone that was contained until now suddenly started expanding. Black cracks spiderwebbed outward. The Abyss surged.
A tide of pitch-black fog, shadow beasts, fractured space, and dissonant energy erupted outward, no longer contained by the ring that held them prisoner. The ground buckled and expanded. The sky dimd. It was the beginning of a whole new era!
The woman simply watched, amused. "Aww... look at that," she whispered, voice dripping with delight. "Freedom."
Shadow beasts and abyssal abominations, thousands, millions of them, burst out of the spreading darkness, shrieking in triumph. Behemoths of bone and darkness crawled over one another, eager to escape. Wraiths flickered like living curses. Abyssal leviathans twitched awake beneath layers of collapsing space.
The woman lifted her chin, breathing in the chaos like perfu. "That’s better." She stepped forward, hovering over the churning maelstrom of unleashed darkness, her aura coiling like a serpent around her body.
"Umbraelith thinks Father is the only path to godhood," she murmured. Her fingers danced lazily in the air, shaping new patterns in the chaos. "But I... I found a shortcut."
Her smile sharpened. "A system world. A world with rules. A world that I can break."
Imdiately, another orb of pure pulsing abyssal energy appeared in her hand. This one was a lot more powerful and stronger, and this one, she did not simply toss it out. She first conjured a portal from thin air, and with a wicked grin, she tossed the ball of chaotic energy into the portal.
"Now it begins!"
End of Volu 3~~
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