Alidor walked up to the tower, stopping at a 3-ter safe distance. Turning back, he spoke to basilisks. “It will only get more dangerous from here.”
Although Alidor didn’t say much, what he was really thinking was that he had no idea. He didn’t know whether this was another ga, whether it was a trial, or even if he really was ant to co here. Was this a suicide mission? Was he really ant to conform and follow the path everyone else did?
Alidor’s disguise disappeared along with everyone else’s. He had only used them as an extra asure, because as he said, he hadn’t been preparing for such a weak enemy.
Maybe if anyone heard how Alidor thought of the first son, they’d be shocked. After all, Alidor was still in the ridian formation stage, and yet, he had easily dealt with the best genius a king god clan had to offer at that stage.
But, with the versatility an innate aurora gave you, especially when it ca to your 6th sense and intelligence, people at the sa cultivation level hardly stood a chance. Although an aurora 6th sense couldn’t see through techniques like the Uidah clan’s buddah’s eye or the Mathilde family’s Asura Imperial eye, it heightened your senses. You could see better, hear better, and technically, even feel, sll and taste better.
It was an overall boost so great that often, those with innate aurora were limited by their bodies as opposed to their senses. A pri example of this was when Dyon was stabbed through the heart by Oliver, Madeleine’s elder brother.
At the ti, Dyon saw Oliver’s attack and had even perfectly placed an array to intercept it, but, he knew his body wouldn’t react in ti. The 6th sense literally gave innate aurora wielders the ability to think and sense at a speed no one could match!
Suddenly, a small voice snapped Alidor out of his thoughts. “Big Brother?…”
“Yes?”
“Can you tell the story again?”
Alidor’s brow furrowed, “Why do you insist on listening to sothing you know will make you sad?”
Kaeara remained quiet for a long ti before she gave her brother the answer she always gave. “You’re always taking care of . I don’t even know how much you suffer everyday just so you can. I want to balance it out with this story.”
Alidor’s heart panged with a sprout of sothing he rarely felt. Kaeara always answered like this, but he always reacted this way. It was ridiculous, and he hated how irrational it was. But, the purity behind his little sister’s thought process was sothing he could hardly bury.
“You don’t need to do this. It’s my job.”
“And this is my job.” Kaeara pouted.
Alidor’s eyes flashed with gold as he began diligently studying the Epistemic Tower, beginning to slowly walk around it large base.
“Our family was once a part of the Uidah clan. We shared much of their techniques, wills and philosophies.
However, our family structure was odd amongst those of the amrtial world. As two equal halves of our collective clan, The Uidah and the Gautama chose the leaders of them both based on talent.
The problem with this thod stemd from our thod of asuring talent and how that biased many of our results.
We follow the path of the Buddah, and although there are ten powers in perfect balance, our families only managed to stumble upon one: the Buddah’s eye.
Because of this, our leaders were chosen by who could master Buddah’s eye to the highest level. However, there was sothing about our Gautama faction that gave us an advantage so large that generations would go by at a ti before a mber of the Uidah family would rule. And that, of course, was our soul talent.
The Gautama family, for one reason or another, had manifested probably the most innate aurora wielders in history. That being said, that didn’t an there were a lot of us. In our long history, I am but the 12th.”
Alidor stopped, seemingly studying sothing before he continued. “However, despite the number still being small, it was still much more than clans even like the Ragnor, Sapientia and Pakal clans. And, even when an innate aurora wasn’t produced, our ability to soul cultivate and our innate souls were so far above average that we still maintained an advantage.
Finally, the Uidah clan had had enough. They were tired of losing power for millennia at a ti and tead up with a clan to eliminate us… I’m not sure what clan that was, or what purpose they had in helping the Uidah, but all that matters is that they helped.
In the end, all but the two of us were wiped out. Mom and Dad sent us into the gate to hide, hoping my innate aurora would keep the two of us safe while we grew. The end.”
“Big brother, you cut so much out! I’m not happy.” Kaeara frowned. How was she supposed to share her brother’s pain if Alidor kept cutting out the most heartbreaking parts?
Alidor only sighed, ignoring his younger sister. She didn’t need to know about the details. She didn’t need to have thoughts of her mother being defiled. She didn’t need thoughts of her father being tortured. She didn’t need thoughts of her elder brother cowering in a dark basent, holding the bundle that beca her in his small arms as he watched it all happen through a crack in the ceiling.
Those were mories Alidor held onto for himself. Thoughts he would use to fuel him as he forged ahead. And this? This was step two.
Alidor’s lips almost twitched into a smile as he finished making his way around the tower. ‘Alright, I was right. Good.’
Reaching his hand forward, Alidor drew an intricate array. And, almost magically, his hand didn’t beco mutilated like Kaeghan. Instead, a foggy door manifested itself 3-ters in front of the Epistemic Tower.
“Let’s go.”
Watching silently as the Basilisks entered, Alidor took one more look behind him before he continued. His brows furrowed, but, he couldn’t find evidence of anything out of the ordinary, so, he simply continued, the foggy door disappearing behind him.
Soon, there was absolute silence. The tower lood and the random spatial fluctuations continued to crackle in the air…. When suddenly, a flash of gold appeared in the air, a handso young man stepping out of it.
“I think letting you use my face is enough paynt for to use you. Don’t you think?”
Dyon smiled to himself, standing in front of the tower before walking forward confidently.
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