"With all in agreent, I can start, right?"
I asked, my words earning their nods, yet a presence of unease still lay within all of them. Not having the mind to deal with that now, I turned towards Mira, a nod leaving to which Mira just nudged away with Aria.
The two of us quickly appeared in a closed basent, the raw corruption energy here being disgusting and huge.
"I hate this place, Daddy," Aria spoke as her nose wrinkled along with her eyes. To this, I patted Aria's head, my eyes moving toward the minuscule crack in the air, floating in the middle of the room. The corruption energy that should be unseen now in this as dangerous red tendrils-like energy kept escaping from the crack, its size barely being equivalent to a pinky finger, yet the consequences of its power were devastating to the world.
"Now you just pretend to pass your power to while you place your hand on , got it?"
I spoke, to which Aria lovingly nodded her head. Thus, I walked toward the crack as I gazed at it. Its figure is similar to that of a broken mirror, forming a portal yet I am unable to gaze to the other side. A red screen-like covering taking over the other side.
'Now it's all or nothing...'
Musing to myself, I activated the connection, this ti bonding myself to Orpheus, thus granting about 30 seconds of power enough to destroy worlds. Aria placed her hand on my back and pretended to pass on energy to while my finger touched the crack, the bloodline energy of mine lashing from within as it covered both of and Aria completely.
A disgusting feeling filled my head as I touched the crack, sothing deep within my blood and body both fearing and hating this crack. And under such, I got hold of my energy and pushed it towards the crack. But the mont my energy t the crack, the world froze around .
'What is it now?....'
[This is bad...']
No sooner had the system's words ended, a pressure like never before fell upon , even with my current level of power being helpless as my knees buckled. Then it ca, the feeling of death, the world around twisted as I seed to enter a white room, my knees still on the floor.
'What is this?'
My mind turned a bit sluggish as two sets of pairs of eyes suddenly opened up above . Even looking at them, I could only tell they were eyes from their shape, the size of the eyes, their presence of any other detail being blurred from my eyes. And for the first ti in a long ti, I knew my death was near, even with my immortality of life. These beings, whatever they are, are capable of taking away my gifts and killing off.
'So is this how it ends?'
It would seem after all of my trials and hard work, this is how I will die. The pressure around soon started to get higher, and the eyes focused on like never before, the feeling of death started to get closer and closer to , until...
100 affection!
100 affection!
100 affection!
'??'
[??]
'What the heck happened?'
[You tell !]
Seeing the rising affection of those two eyes towards , my mind stopped for a mont. Even the system seed more confused than , but the good thing that happened was that the pressure holding down disappeared as I found myself back in my position, the crack in front of now closed, the entire corruption energy here now gone, with Aria still clutching . Yet even with all this, my mind still stayed in a daze.
'What the heck was that?'
Do I have so sort of special power that seems to make beings of extre power suddenly form an affection for ? Perhaps I am really dead back in my world and I am still going through a lucid dream at the end of my life? Maybe I am brain-dead and trapped in an illusion?
[It's none of that, and you know it...]
The system suddenly interrupted my thoughts, and within that bosom, her hand patting my head as she spoke.
"Thank God, I was worried..."
ti, my family and friends appeared in the room, their worried eyes on . But seeing that I was fine, they all smiled. Suddenly, my brain had to deal with a lot of things which led to close my eyes for a mont.
'I will deal with you later.'
Giving my warning to the system, I focused back on my family, my smile finding myself at the hug of my mother and her bountiful bosom, her hand patting my head as she spoke.
"Thank God, I was worried..."
I just smiled at her words, not even going to say the fact that I was near the step of death a few seconds ago. Though this once again reminds of how much I have adapted to this world. In my monts of close death, the only thing that kept passing through my mind was how my death would affect all those girls in love with . The thought of how my family would definitely break again kept resounding in my mind.
I am more than sure that Clara will definitely follow in death, and perhaps most of my lovers might even go crazy, and sothing bad will definitely cover the world. It is within this recollection of mine that Orpheus's voice filled my mind.
'Son! Are you alright?'
'Mother?'
I asked back.
'Don't you worry a bit; your mommy will deal with this. For a mont, I thought I lost you...'
This was the first ti I ever heard such raw emotions of fear and passion in Orpheus's words. And this once again showed that whoever I faced was no easy foe. I'm sure that Orpheus is yearning to just take away but is holding back for so reason.
'Son, don't worry; nothing like this will happen again...'
With such words, my connection to Orpheus was cut as Grace asked in a worried voice.
"Son, are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
I responded, a smile gracing my face as I placed a kiss on Grace's cheeks. My action earned a smile from her as I looked at the group here, my eyes eting all of them as I spoke.
"Shall we start the play?"
Third Person POV:
The world soon entered another level of shock and surprise, the news of the fall of the Hillclowd family making its way into the depths of every power, the information of their slavery and misuse of different types of species shocking the core of people related to the Hillclowd family. The waves of despair filled the surroundings of the Rockville kingdom.
While only the news of slavery use filled the common populace, the true powerhouses of the world understood the inner depths of the sin of the Hillclowd family, their na now forever etched as one of the biggest betrayals to the world. As the news of their connection to corruption energy and their practices hit the news.
Within minutes, powerful people across the world, belonging to different powerful places, gathered within the halls of Hillclowd. The main bargaining being done by the War Council as the sins of the Hillclowd family were enough to shake both the realms.
Though once a clear picture started to form of the sins of the family, deep surprise and disbelief started to fill every one. The more evidence all of the powers read, the more chilling the case and situation beca.
The pills, the babies, the chiras, the connection to corruption energy, the inscriptions on everyone, and finally, the most dangerous part of the crack, this made everyone reevaluate the threat covering all over the world.
But their surprise of everyone only deepened when they learned about the closing of the crack, being the powers they are, they did their own research and calculations to arrive at their own deductions which only furthered to birth the greed in everyone's heart. The prospect of claiming the crack brings a new light of hope within the hearts of the people.
But that was dashed as soon as the figure of Austin was revealed just to the few trustworthy powerful people of the War Council. The look of Austin being in a near-death state, with his survival barely hanging by a thread with the help of innurable healing spells, made everyone understand that the idea of claiming the huge crack threatening the world is close to nil.
"This happened because he didn't have enough energy..."
Mira spoke with surprised rage and sadness, her hands lovingly patting Austin's face as the others watched on, the mana in the entire place trembling at the anger of Mira as one of the spokespersons spoke.
"If he is to get stronger, will it help?"
To this, the reddened eyes of Mira seen through the veil focused on the man, the mana around getting tighter as she spoke her words with clear aning.
"He is almost half dead even with taking in my energy. Do you have any other questions?"
The maddened glare of Mira reminded the other people to take a back step as another person spoke.
"Then we will take him to the saintess of life; this boy is the future of the world, and we can't lose him."
"It's already done; I will be taking him to the saintess and keeping him under my watch."
The roughness in Mira's voice left no question as she left with her nephew, her back looking quite weak and down.
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