In a Kingdom where the darkness of night had been reigning for an entire day, barely managing to give way to the morning dawn, when Sierra opened her eyes, it was plunged into darkness again.
Darkness engulfed everything.
If light had been able to illuminate the surroundings before, now no light source could pierce the darkness that seed to fill everything around.
The military, who cordoned off the area around the barrier and studied it, noticed how it began to darken. Before their eyes, in a matter of seconds, the gray opaque barrier completely turned into the dark color of the elent of darkness.
The alarm was imdiately raised, and the news reached the leadership of the Awakened Association and the Federation Council.
The Creatures of Light, the eternal enemies of the creatures of Darkness, quickly moved and rushed towards the barrier. However, the creatures of Darkness themselves, hiding in the Capital of the Federation and its surroundings, were attracted by this unusual phenonon, the nature of which no one could explain.
The barrier’s change did not go unnoticed by other hidden creatures, and one by one they began to appear at its borders.
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Arabel, like all creatures in the Kingdom, was shrouded in darkness.
Darkness filled everything around her, and she couldn’t even see her own hand, which was feeling her face and eyes.
"Is this the phenonon of Big Sister?" She asked herself, but there was no answer.
While she was in this darkness, Arabel felt a familiar excitent inside her.
One of her bloodlines, the Dark Valkyrie bloodline, seed to respond to the darkness surrounding her.
Closing her eyes, Arabel succumbed to this feeling and transford into a Dark Valkyrie.
The darkness around her began to move, and after her transformation, her body began to absorb the surrounding darkness.
Arabel was delighted.
Her bloodline was improving rapidly, and she felt that if she continued like this, she would soon achieve her goal.
However, just as she was about to strengthen the absorption and speed up the process, a scream suddenly rang out:
"Stop it!"
Arabel was surprised to open her eyes and find herself reflected in front of her. More precisely, a Dark version of himself.
She was standing in front of her, exactly repeating her appearance when she transford into the Dark Valkyrie.
"Stop it!" her reflection repeated, and hearing the alarm in her voice, Arabel listened and stopped absorbing the darkness.
Seeing this, her copy breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at her.
"It’s been a long ti, big sister," she said, and at that mont Arabel suddenly realized who was in front of her. It was the Dark One she had t before, when she was gaining on the Spirit Form. The version of herself who claid that "I’m new."
Arabel looked around in surprise, trying to find two other versions of herself — White and Pink. She was thinking: "If one of them is here, then the others probably are too."
The Dark version shook its head and said, "Don’t look for them, they’re not here."
Then, pausing, she added, "For now."
"What does that an?" asked Arabel. "And why did you interfere?"
The Dark version did not imdiately respond. She looked at Arabel with a smile, as if admiring her.
"I stopped you from doing sothing you might regret later," she said.
"Big sister, you are not stupid and you need to understand why you are in such a state and who caused all this," she added.
Arabel, realizing what was happening, nodded,
"This is an older sister phenonon."
The dark version of herself also nodded in response,
"That’s right."
"Tell , big sister, what happens if you continue to absorb all this darkness?"
The Dark One’s words made Arabel think. She felt that if she continued to absorb the darkness, she would be able to achieve her goal of taking on the Dark Spirit Form.
The dark one, as if reading her thoughts, nodded, "As long as you absorb enough darkness elental energy, you will succeed, big sister."
After a short pause, she added: "And as a result, you will create your own phenonon that will eclipse the current one."
Those words from the Dark Version of her echoed in Arabel’s head, and her eyes widened in shock and fear. She finally realized what she had almost done.
"Do you seem to understand, big sister?" the Dark One asked, and Arabel, after a slight hesitation, nodded.
"You have two choices now, big sister," the Dark One said. "The first is to continue absorbing the elent of darkness, summon your phenonon, and gain on the Spirit Form, while preventing Elder Sister Sierra from achieving her goal."
"And the second one is to give up your attempts and give in to your older sister Sierra, allowing her to succeed," she added.
Arabel didn’t waste ti thinking. She imdiately stopped her transformation and abandoned her intentions.
"I can’t deprive big sister of the chance to find her Spirit Form," she said gratefully, smiling at her Dark Version.
If she hadn’t stopped herself, as the Dark One had warned, Arabel might have regretted using her older sister and gaining her Spirit Form before she could reach hers.
When Arabel made her decision, her dark version smiled at her, unsurprised, as if she knew she would do so.
At the sa ti as Arabel gave up her attempts, her surroundings distorted, and three more figures joined them. Arabel recognized two of them at once: they were White and Pink versions of herself. But the third one surprised her: it was a new version of herself with long sea-green hair like Esma’s, and with a gentle, kind smile on her face.
"Didn’t I tell you that Big Sister would give up on this attempt?" the Pink version said, laughing.
No one responded to Pink’s words, and everyone stared at Arabel in silence.
Arabel, in turn, did not take her eyes off them.
She still couldn’t figure out if these versions of herself were real, or if it was just her imagination, and she’d lost her mind a long ti ago.
The White version seed detached, cold, and indifferent. She represented her elent of ice and the bloodline of the Ice Valkyrie.
Pink was a little crazy, lustful and jealous. She embodied the energy of madness and her new bloodline of the Mad Valkyrie.
Arabel couldn’t quite understand the Dark version of herself. She seed very ordinary, unlike the others. But Arabel was sure there was sothing special about this version.
The Blue version exuded tenderness and good-naturedness. Arabel realized that this new version embodies her elent of Water, the understanding of which reached a new level after the formation of her First Constellation.
Looking at the four different versions of herself, Arabel felt very strange. And at that mont, she caught an anomaly, turning her gaze into empty space.
The four other versions of her smiled and exchanged glances.
"She did notice her presence," Pink remarked, and the other three nodded in agreent.
"Is there really another version of ?" Arabel wondered, sensing soone’s presence but unable to see who it was.
At this ti, there was a small figure sitting inside the void. She was a girl of about seven, with long silver hair, pouty lips, and a shy expression on her face.
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