He pulled her close into his embrace, patting her head, "I'm sorry."
dusa leaned into him for a while. Both of them remained silent as Eros comforted her with his presence.
Seconds turned to minutes and hours.
After a while, dusa raised her head to him, "please, don't let them suffer as I have suffered. They are unruly because they carry my hatred, but they do not deserve it...."
She suddenly faded into thing air the mont she said those words.
"They hurt her just like they hurt you."
Eros raised his head to the voice.
It was the celestial being with flowery golden patterns on her dress.
"Many have suffered in this manner or worse. The heavenly Dao is angry with the gods. A fight that shall shake the cosmos is close. Whose side shall you be on?"
She walked towards him and placed a hand on his chest.
The mont she did, Eros felt a deep burn. It was as if his conjoined soul had suddenly been branded by a mark.
He held his chest as he fell on his knees to the ground. He frowned tightly to the pain.
However, he suddenly looked into his soul.
The mark he saw absolutely surprised him.
This was a celestial branding.
Just as gods depended on their Divine core, so did Celestials.
However, for Celestials, it was totally different.
They did not depend on Divince Cores, but rather, a celestial mark.
In the entire cosmos, no two celestial marks were ever the sa.
However, no one could carry a celestial mark unless that person was a celestial being.
As Eros interacted more with the mark, he suddenly felt sothing he had never felt before.
His understanding of celestial energy suddenly changed.
No, it got better.
He felt as if all this ti he had been using Celestial energy crudely, like a man that had been wearing clothes inside out.
He still covered his nakedness, but it was not the right way.
After all, he was a god in his forr life and not a celestial being.
He had been using Celestial energy from a god's point of view.
But with the celestial brand in his soul, he felt celestial energy in a different light.
This was a very foreign feeling for Eros. Gods did not have bottle necks in their cultivations. It mostly ca easy to them. Their only problem being a lack of enough energy pertaining to the divine stand.
Therefore, this feeling was foreign to him.
Eros himself could not believe it but at the mont, he was being enlightened.
He imdiately sat in a lotus position as he comprehended the mysteries of the branding he had been gifted.
.....
anwhile, outside the pool, the mother and daughter pair waited in silence.
As they did, soone ca into the cave.
It was Diana.
"I have secured the prisoners as you requested princess, all that remains is to feed them to the altar."
She slithered forward.
She looked around the place, "my queen, did you already feed him to the Altar?"
Shade shook her head, "co," she pulled her closer, "He is in there." Shade pointed at the pool.
"The sacred pool!?"
"Yes!"
"What if sothing goes wrong?" Shade asked.
"Don't worry, nothing will go wrong," the queen added, "I can feel it. He is the one we have been waiting for," she pointed to the mural on the wall.
Diana looked at it. She had an obvious frown on her face.
"And what if he isn't? That prophecy is just an old pipe dream. The prophecy also said that his co will bring the beginning of an end. Even if he saves us, is that really sothing we want to have? Is that not the end of the world as we know it!?"
The dusa queen sighed, "Diana, it is far more complicated than you think it is. If you were had the Priestess destiny, it would have been easier for you to understand, but you don't. Trust , it is for the best."
Diana frowned. This was not the first ti that information has been with held from her because she was not the next priestess in line.
In truth, Shade was not just her best friend, but also her sister.
Many of the dusa tribe people were related in such a way.
However, Shade had been born with red of her lower body, indicating the destiny of priestess.
It is said that in every generation of dusas, they could only be one.
Shade was that one.
As such, she carried the title of both princess and the next priestess.
Just then, the pool suddenly radiated a bright white light.
And then the murals on the wall suddenly glowed brightly. Even the eyes of the dusa stature glowed brightly.
However, the glow suddenly and slowly disappeared.
It was as if the powet in them had been drained completely.
It all went into the pool.
And then even the glow in the pool suddenly disappeared.
As it did, all three won suddenly had a forbidden feeling.
"I...I can't feel it anymore." Shade was the first to mutter her thoughts.
"Oh No! The pool. He has drained the celestial energy of the sacred pool." Diana muttered lowly.
"It...it can't be. There must be an explanation. It can't just..." The Queen was speechless for words.
Diana backed away from the pool slowly, "we...we are finished."
She could not believe this.
This pool had helped them sustain their life force since forever. It was at the vote of their culture, of their lives.
Without it, they were practically walking corpses.
After all, every adult dusa had to take a deep in it every day for their sustenance.
Diana backed away as she panicked. She couldn't take it again. She turned about and rushed out of the room.
"Diana...wait!" Shade tried to call to her, but she had slithered away.
Just then, the queen looked closer into the pool.
Bubbles were coming out of the pool.
Soon, a hand reached out of the pool....
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