Ev inwardly expressed surprise as she suddenly felt sothing changed deep inside ryers body.
ryers consciousness had sohow awakened
Ev muttered as she sensed so ntal fluctuations coming from deeper within the black dragons mindscape.
Generally speaking, when a god performs a divine descent by using the body of a believer as a dium, the active consciousness of the host would typically fall into a deep slumber, thereby relinquishing control of their body.
This is usually done as a preventive asure since the psyche of the host is far more relatively weaker compared to a True God.
Hence, in the off chance that the consciousness of the host doesnt fall into sleep as it usually does, theres a huge chance the diums psyche might be assimilated and rged with the far stronger psyche of the deity, which will eventually becos a complete incarnation of the deity they relinquished their body to.
Even a dragon, despite its relatively stronger psyche, is still susceptible to be assimilated, since no matter how powerful a dragons mind is, its psyche remains a re drop in the bucket compared to the sea of consciousness of a divine being.
So, if the host doesnt fall into self-induced slumber, their bucket-worth of psyche would inevitably rge into the divine beings sea of consciousness and will disappear entirely.
Therefore, when Ev borrowed the Little Black Dragons body and used it as a dium to perform a divine descent, she had already relegated ryers consciousness to the deepest recesses of his mindscape, far away from her, so that he wouldnt be affected by her intrusion.
However, when Nidhogg forcefully invaded ryers body and entered the Black Dragons mindscape, ryers slumbering psyche unexpectedly awakened all of a sudden.
Nonetheless, Nidhoggs ntal invasion fell sowhere within Eves expectations.
With her being able to sealed off most of the Ancient Dragons power with the withering heart and Nidhogg having no physical body for himself, it was easy to deduce that the only option he would be left with was so kind of ntal attack to forcefully seize control of ryers body.
Having deduced this, Eve ca fully prepared into this battle with plenty of thods to counter any kind of ntal attacks.
Moreover, she had also long hidden ryers psyche in the deepest corners of his mindscape, protecting it tightly.
But the mont Nidhogg entered ryers body, the latters consciousness, which was slumbering in the deepest part of his mindscape, suddenly awakened as if it had been stirred by so unseen force.
This sudden turn of events startled Ev.
Her divine psyche was, after all, still within the confines of ryers mindscape, exerting her influence upon it.
Should the Black Dragons consciousness awaken at this particular mont, there was a high possibility of it being inadvertently assimilated into her own, thus losing his sense of self completely.
Furthermore, even if his psyche sohow evaded assimilation, it is still very likely that Nidhogg, who had now invaded the Black Dragons mind, would discover the fluctuations happening inside ryers mindscape, hone in on the source of this fluctuations and find the corner where she hid ryers psyche before devouring it.
With these implications, Ev felt a slight sinking feeling within her heart.
At the sa ti, she also felt a trace of puzzlent on how this sudden turn of events had transpired in the first place
How did Nidhogg do it?
He actually managed to awaken the slumbering psyche of the Little Black Dragon, which I had been protecting so carefully all this ti!
Thinking of this, Ev felt really confused since she herself, after all, was a Deity who governs over the Divinity of Life.
And having the Divinity of Life actually entails her with unparalleled understanding regarding the fundantal laws and aspects of life itself.
Under her influence, even if the other party were the Black Dragons ancient progenitor or might even be ryers very own father or grandfather, they would still not be able to easily awaken ryers consciousness just like that when shes clearly still in control.
Moreover, with him forcefully awakening ryers psyche, wasnt Nidhogg worried that he would be assimilated by her?
Once the black dragons psyche was assimilated by Eve, ryers body would truly beco an incarnation of her, thus rendering Nidhoggs sches futile in the end.
In this situation, his best course of action would be to break through the layers of obstacles Ev had initially placed within ryers mindscape in order to devour the black dragons psyche.
Of course, from Eves perspective, achieving this feat would be equally just as difficult for Nidhogg.
After all, Ev in her current state was soone not to be trifled with and unlike in the beginning wherein shes almost in a constant state of pseudo-death, her strength now is quite formidable.
Facing soone like her whilst their powers had also been sealed, Ev couldnt fathom how the other party would be able to break through her blockade.
Yet, the subsequent turn of events greatly exceeded her expectations.
At the very mont wherein ryers consciousness had been awakened, Ev imdiately noticed right away that there seed to be sokind of inexplicable connection between the two.
In fact, both of them actually started rapidly converging with each other, as if there were a strong tendency hidden sowhere within them to rge into one existence
This revelation weighed heavily upon Eve.
Was Nidhogg planning to devour ryers psyche in this manner all along?
No This wasnt just a simple devouring but rather, this thod is closer to actually rging ryers consciousness with his own.
By the end of this, Ev was uncertain whether the dominant psyche would either be ryer or Nidhogg!
What made her even more puzzled and uncertain was that she discovered that ryer showed no resistance to this, as if it was the natural order of things and were preordained all along
Of course, although ryers consciousness has been awakened, it is still in a very instinctive state and he is probably still confused.
And this instinctive nature of ryer to rge with Nidhogg was what surprised Ev the most.
The instinctual convergence they both have gives the feeling akin to rivers flowing into the sea, or like fallen leaves returning to their roots
Suddenly, Ev realized that she seed to have misjudged sothing.
Regardless I shouldnt let this convergence ever succeed!
With this thought, Ev no longer hesitated and directly sank deeper into ryers mindscape, entering the place where she hid his psyche.
Imdiately upon entering this space, the scenery around her silently changed.
Ev found herself deeper inside ryers subconscious mind.
Typically, on most cases, ones mindscape reflects and is shaped by the hosts emotions and experiences in their life.
Sotis, they manifest into what the host desires the most, or perhaps, on the opposite spectrum, they can also manifest what the host is most afraid of, and it varies vastly from person to person
Ev rembered that after performing divine descent and entering his mindscape, the scenery that greeted her was a magnificent castle, filled with treasures and roast ats, while the personification of ryers psyche lay sound asleep on a giant bed made of gold coins
Obviously, this scenery was the manifestation of ryers desires and the aspects that mattered most in his life.
However, unlike the outer region of ryers mindscape, his more deeper subconscious mind showed a vastly different scenery.
Unlike before, it was no longer the magnificent castle, but a rather desolate forest instead.
In the distance, Ev showed surprise as her gaze fell upon a towering world tree, seemingly the centerpiece of this entire subconscious space.
After observing it for a while, Ev found that this particular world tree was much thicker and taller than Eves original body and looked exactly like the forr world tree recorded within her inheritance during its peak.
Also, one noteworthy difference is that there was a large pit dug at the roots of this world tree, and its thick and robust roots were also pulled out haphazardly, as if it had just experienced a fearso battle.
Furthermore, a huge cocoon was hanging down from the crown of the world tree, for which a figure was curled up inside.
It was ryer.
Whats going on?
Why is there a world tree here?
And how did ryer grow out from the world tree?
As Eve laid eyes upon the subconscious landscape around her, a sense of bewildernt enveloped her.
anwhile, inside the cocoon, ryer began to grow rapidly.
Bit by bit, his body expanded as the scales on his body darkened and thickened until he transford from a young dragon into a fully-grown one.
Seeing the appearance of that particular adult black dragon, Eves pupils slightly contracted.
She instantly recognized him.
That appearance
It was exactly the sa as Nidhogg!
Its just that his body shimred with natural light, whilst his breath was pure and calm, which was far from the malevolent dragon within Eves mory.
And right at this mont, while accompanied by a crazy roar, another giant black dragon rushed out from the other side.
It was Nidhoggthe real one!
His aura was evil and chaotic, and his emotions carried a hint of obvious excitent and madness, allowing the power constantly dissipating from Eves to corrode him, yet he still directly rushed towards the giant cocoon hanging on the world tree.
Hahaha! Yggdrasill! You cant stop ! From the looks of things, it seems victory now belongs to !
I thank you for returning my body!
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