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After doing everything I could to help revive Henrietta and finally seeing her fine, I ended up falling unconscious. I guess I overdid it even more than I should have.
I really thought she was going to die; I never thought Gaia would sacrifice herself to this extent for . She is simply a constellation of the many others watching over .
Her kind personality might be a reason... but not really; being kind doesn’t an going so far for soone she had only known for half a month.Yet she went as far as taking a fragnt of her soul to gift a powerful yet deadly privilege. I guess… I cannot overuse this. Next ti we go into a Dungeon, I’ll make sure to prepare even better and pack up at least a hundred Elixirs or sothing.But… Now that I know she’s safeand fine, I have a question.
Where am I?
I am sure I am sleeping right now, yet I am in so sort of dream where I feel awake at the sa ti. Ah, how were these called? Lucid dreams?
It wasn’t the typical void where the protagonists wake up while sleeping, which will help them awaken so sort of hidden power within them or whatever.
No, this place was a really fancy-looking temple that seed to be straight out of Greek mythology.
The skies were blue, and the sun shone brightly. The temple itself seed like a giant floating island, and the skies went down below as a beautiful sea of clouds greeted .
Oh my god... This place is awakening my fear of high places.
I kept wandering around, noticing I was wearing a simple white dress and was barefoot. The floor was really cold, but the sun was warm, making for a pleasant combination.
“Is soone here?” I wondered, looking around.
I suddenly landed in a garden surrounded by colorful flowers. In the middle of this garden, there was a single wooden table and two seats.
In one of them, soone was there, sipping so tea. I couldn’t see her clearly, but once she noticed , she opened her eyes wide.
“Y-You are… H-How are you here?!”
“E-Eh?”
Her appearance… I could perfectly recall that appearance: the beautiful, long blonde hair that seed like a sea of gold; the flowers growing across her beautiful hair; her two green eyes, so shiny and beautiful they were like two eralds.
That motherly appearance and the gorgeous figure of a model—one of her arms was made of wood, while the rest of her body emanated a beautiful aura of divinity.
Of course, she made quite an impact in the webtoon of the Solo Player Novel. Gaia.
“I-I… have no idea- Eh?”
However, there was sothing about her... One of her eyes, her left eye, was gray, and around that eye, there were ugly scars.
This is not how I rember her. What happened to her?
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One of my eyes suddenly started hurting a lot, though.
“Anna…?! C-Could this be…” Gaia tried to stand back up, but quickly began groaning in pain. “Ugh… A-Ahhh… I can’t stand up so well now…”
“Wait there, please; I’ll go et you properly,” I said, rushing to her side.
It was really Gaia, a constellation, and I was eting her in the flesh as well! But was this her true appearance? In the novel, it was said that Constellations' true appearances were “made of pure power, incomprehensible to mortals,” and that they took forms that suited their personalities when eting mortals.
“This is dangerous... Anna, why are you here? And in this form, is this because of what I have done?” Gaia seed to be panicking.
“I-I don’t know! I just fell unconscious and landed here!” I was surprised.
“This is bad… You need to go back quickly.” She said. “You cannot stay in my realm either if the other Constellations find you- Ah!”
However, I didn’t care about that. I jumped towards her and hugged her.
“A-Anna?!”
“Thank you so much for what you’ve done for ! I-I don’t really know how to repay you, so please at least let hug you…”
Her eyes looked at in surprise, but then she smiled sweetly, caressing my hair.
“You don’t need to feel indebted for what I’ve done for you.” She sighed. “Since the mont I saw you in the Cosmic stream, I could tell you were different. Your soul, your charisma, your kindness... I do things because I want to, without expecting anything in return. Don’t worry, there is no debt to pay.”
“You’re like an angel!” I cried.
“Hahaha… That’s a weird thing to say to the Mother of All Titans.” She sighed.
"Wait, but why am I here?” I began wondering again.
“Hah, you’re finally beginning to wonder?” She sighed. “But I believe... It might be my fault. I ended up forcefully giving you a piece of my soul as a Privilege, and I didn’t take enough caution. Perhaps this generated a connection. When you fall asleep, that part of your soul that has fused with my fragnt... might be capable of traveling to my realm, as if trying to seek .”
“O-oh…” I sighed.
“You shouldn’t be here... You’re not ready for this, either. Until the Third Event..." She said. She was seemingly afraid, as she looked everywhere. “Not many Constellations are like , Anna, so for now.”
She touched my chest, beginning to use her divine powers, and suddenly, I felt as if sothing within my very being was slowly stitched back together.
FLASH!
“T-This is?!”
“I’ve stitched the power I gave to you better now; perhaps now it should be safer for-”
Crack… crack… CRASH!
Suddenly, within the Realm of Gaia, atop the skies, a crack in space opened.
Darkness started pouring everywhere as an enormous, overwhelming energy started spreading across the entire Realm.
Slowly, a giant… thing, resembling a black tentacle began descending, and more tentacles followed suit right after that.
Dark lightning started falling from the crack in space as the sky turned deep black.
“OOOOHHH…”
An incomprehensible groan echoed everywhere, making my head go numb.
“T-They’re here… They found this out, the Void Rulers…”
“V-Void… Rulers?”
The Void Rulers are entities that live on an even higher plane of existence than Constellations. They’re moderators of Constellations themselves and hold higher authority.
They are, however, strangely passive and only act when rules are being broken severely and casualty itself is being disrupted.
These entities are often referred to as {Higher Ups} by Constellations and Administrators alike because they find it bad luck to refer to them directly as Void Rulers.
“You have to go! Don’t worry about ; they’ll go once you’re not here.” Gaia sighed, suddenly giving a last hug and a kiss. “Anna… survive until the Third Awakening, and let’s et once more!”
“I-I promise you!” I said, as I quickly began dissipating, completely disappearing from within Gaia’s Realm…
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Once Anna disappeared, Gaia looked as the skies suddenly stopped growing darker, and the tentacles imdiately retrieved themselves.
However, one of them remained, glancing at her with a single, red-colored eye.
“No… more… interventions…”
“I-I apologize… I promise I will not violate the rules again, Great Void Ruler.”
Gaia kneeled before the entity’s overwhelming presence.
“The ga… must continue."
The tentacle quickly retrieved itself from wherever it ca from, and Gaia collapsed to the ground, gasping for air and completely exhausted.
“Hahhh… I felt like my entire being was about to be pulled apart. By everything sacred, I need a vacation.” She sighed. Thousands of tiny spirits appeared around her, carrying her to her bedroom. “I need a nap…”
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