Chapter 452: Who is Ziraili?
'I am not fighting just to protect her, even thinking so is egotistical. I am fighting to help all the natives, to save as many lives as possible. I am fighting because I cannot stand the thought of the servers being shut down!'
'I do not think of myself as a hero, but I can't just sit out of a war... I guess this is a key difference between and Erik.'
Eldrian didn't dislike Erik for his wish though. It was normal to not want to be part of a war. Eldrian realized that he was strange in wanting to fight.
In willingly endangering himself to help as many as he could. It wasn't sothing everyone was willing or even capable of doing. This was made even less normal with those he was endangering himself for being 'fake'.
Be that as it may, he wasn't going to try and change himself nor his friend.
He had long since accepted that not all things were rational and logical. So things just couldn't be explained.
"Are you going to go today?" Erik asked after a mont of silence passed.
"No, I logged in too late. We will go tomorrow, if Ceph is ready." Eldrian knew that Cephaphyr must be working through a heap of things after their bonding.
For now, Eldrian had simply given him space. To allow the little alicorn to work through it on his own and be with his parents. Eldrian also wasn't going to ask him to keep it from his parents.
Not having any other heavy topics he wanted to talk about, Eldrian asked Erik what he was doing.
"Ah, Zamia told that it might help gain better control if I try to move the plants instead of just have them form sothing. So I have been training with grass. It is the easiest to move, and once I get the hang of it, I just add another blade to increase the difficulty."
"I see," Eldrian smiled and asked Erik a bit about how this worked. Finding that it was similar to how he first used mana.
Erik wasn't really controlling the plants, rather he was sending his mana to it with so of his will. Similar to how Eldrian would keep control of his spells, only, the plants had a will of their own.
Calling it a will might be a bit much. But they did have a way of living and growing. They had life, which might be a better description.
Erik could try, if he wanted, to extinguish this flicker of life in the plants. However, doing so wasn't easy and Erik didn't feel confident he would be able.
What doing so would allow though, was for him to push the plants past their normal limits. According to Zamia, they would then wilt and die soon after. Thus, she only recomnded doing so in a pinch.
"I see you finally ca," Agamas said, smiling at the two who were busy discussing magic.
"Ah, yes. Sorry, I lost track of ti." Eldrian replied, quickly turning to the alicorn in elven form.
"It is quite alright. I appreciate you giving us more ti to stay as a family."
"Of course."
A mont of silence elapsed, after which Agamas asked with all seriousness, "What happened when-?"
"In all honesty... I do not quite understand it myself. We had our mories overlap for a mont, but only for a mont." Eldrian replied, this was the biggest thing to him.
"Ceph told you t one of the gods..."
"Ah yes, Ziraili." Eldrian wanted to say he had t her a few tis, but he didn't want Miracle to know about that. Even just confirming this was going to have so massive backlash if the one monitoring him picks up on it.
Luckily, nothing serious had happened for the past two months where he had just been training. Hence, Eldrian doubted the monitoring was still as strict.
"Actually, can we talk telepathically? It will be far faster to catch you up."
Agamas nodded, not sure why. He suspected that Eldrian feared it might actually be overheard.
Eldrian naturally hoped that Miracle had missed his addition of eting a god, and one whose na they didn't even know.
'Do you still rember how to communicate?'
'Of course,' Eldrian replied almost instantly, 'Can I ask that you first share what Cephaphyr shared with you?'
'Why?' Agamas asked.
'Because, I want to know what he kept to himself. If he decided to do so, then I do not want to go over his head.'
Agamas pondered on this for a mont, 'Alright, I did feel that he was keeping so things from us. But that is his decision and we won't force him... Nor would I force you.'
'Thank you.' Eldrian bowed a little in gratitude, after which he quickly tried to sort through what Agamas shared with him.
'I see, yes. We did et a god, her na is Ziraili and she is the true god behind our Chosen's abilities and being here. However, because she has no followers on Gaia, the gods decided to hide her existence from everyone.'
'Why would they do that?' Agamas asked, shocked that Eldrian seed to know this god so well.
Even the most faithful believers would never consider themselves acquaintances of a god. Eldrian's relaxed ntal state when talking about this god made it clear he did not consider her a higher being. Sothing that even he, one of the strongest on the planet, was incapable of doing.
Agamas only knew of a select few who could think like that, and most of them were in the dragon council.
'Each god has an area of faith and godhood. Or at least that is how I have co to understand it.' Eldrian stated, questioningly.
He didn't know much about the gods themselves, he knew more about them as AI.
'Yes, it is normally one over branching godhood with many smaller areas of influence.' Agamas added.
'Ziraili isn't like that. Her godhood is literally ensuring our safety in this world. What else she is capable of, I believe even the other gods are unaware. Thus, in short, our ability to resurrect is thanks to her.'
'Is this why she appeared before you two?'
'Partly, yes. However, as I ntioned before, we have t before. She has helped when I did so really dangerous things regarding my soul, and I was actually the one to give her her na.'
This, beyond anything Agamas had co to learn of the elf, left him stunned. It shocked him to his core and even shook the foundations from which he viewed the world.
From what he knew, all other gods had sent an oracle declaring themselves to their followers. Never had he heard of soone naming a god.
He did not doubt Eldrian's words though. He could clearly feel that Eldrian was telling the truth, which made him understand that this might also be why Eldrian asked to talk through telepathy.
'She ca because both I and Cephaphyr seem to have... We are fated to live a life of struggle, I think.'
'What do you an? Are you talking about the prophecy? We already know that it was true, but not as we believed.'
'I don't know the prophecy. But I do know that Cephaphyr is unique even among you alicorns. And I, I am a candidate.'
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