"Wrixia? But why?"
Hex didn’t expect the one known as the Oldest One to be the one to influence dina. Didn’t the cat say the tree helped absorb and, as such, contain the Divinities from destroying all life?
For power. What else?
"I still don’t get it. The Oldest One is at the Taboo Stage, it controls the center of the world, has the most variety of lifeforms...what power does it seek?"
Power, no matter how much one has, never seems enough. You believe the Old One has enough power? What about the Godking? Didn’t he have enough power? He helped create everything and ruled everything within creation, yet sought power. Power of eternity. The Gods, the Divine Lord, the Taboos, all seek that sa thing. Eternal power.
"So they are afraid to die. Even with a life spanning Ages, they wish to exist through Ti."
He summarized the best way he could understand the issue. He had seen plenty of people or creatures strive to live a bit longer. All, so they could fight and conspire to live a bit longer and longer.
You could put it that way.
"And why influence a little innocent girl over such an ambition?"
That baffled him more. Even if he could understand the need to exist for eternity, he still struggled to grasp how a little girl could help achieve a dream that alluded to even the Gods.
dina wasn’t...isn’t the only one under the influence of higher powers. As far as I know, more than seventy-five percent of all life has been corrupted. Only a few, with a Will surpassing normal limits, have kept the corruption at a minimum.
"To do what exactly?" Hex fired question after question, displaying his confusion. "The Gods are dead."
The cat didn’t reply imdiately. It sniffed and looked at Hex with curiosity.
"What?" Hex asked after seeing it eye him with interest.
Nothing. I didn’t expect you to have no influence and no strings of fate attached to you. I realized it only now.
"So?" He shook his head and looked back at the cat. "No, first answer my question and without being cryptic about it."
You are no fun.
The cat seed to smile as if it had been teasing Hex.
The Taboos and Gods wish to exist for eternity. To do so, they need a great source of energy. Spirits are an excellent source. By granting Blessings to any being, not only Heavens, any of them can transform the souls little by little into a great energy resource.
Wrixia went one step further. It wished to infuse so of the weaker Wills into humans so he could harvest them when the ti ca.
"But you said a seal of sorts prevents the tree from absorbing the divinities completely."
Blessing of life. And that is what Wrixia chose dina to remove.
Hex blinked blankly at the cat, who t each blink of his with a bemused blink of its.
"Wait. So the tree wished to remove the Blessing and chose dina for it. And that brought so changes. But why let her steal? Why not bestow it?"
It all seed a bit too convoluted. Wouldn’t it be safer to just Bless the little girl without a Blessing? It seed such a roundabout way to achieve a goal.
It couldn’t. The backlash of the seal would weaken it to the point the other Wills, those of the deities, would overwhelm its Will.
It convinced dina that the Blessing of life would help her solve her problems.
"And she believed? It seed a bit too desperate, didn’t it? She never strikes as soone who reached that point when I read passages from her diary."
Selena, the sister as she was nad at birth, was on the verge of losing her Saintess status, so...
The cat didn’t complete the sentence. It didn’t need to do so. Hex understood it.
For so reason, he had yet to uncover if he ever could; dina would happily take every and all risks to see her sister retain her post and title.
"What happened then?"
She was targeted. Sohow, she escaped. The last I know, she left Wrixia when she learned that an empire on the continent, near the Endless Mountain, existed with a ruler considered the most powerful clan in the world. She even uncovered a secret parchnt that pointed at the ruler having the Godking’s bloodline.
Selene, her sister, ca to after so ti. Once she learned the destination dina was headed to, she left in search of her.
"That’s how they reached up north and t the baron," Hex murmured, finally filling the pieces of the puzzle, albeit a small piece of the overall puzzle. The more he learned, the more he understood how fast and long the history of the world was.
Baron?
Hex wasn’t surprised the cat didn’t know his master. From the scrolls, he gathered that his master never visited Wrixia.
"Mikhael Lichtenmane. He is my master and Selene’s husband. He is the one who decided to keep alive, and considered part of Selene, which is why he didn’t kill ."
Mikhael? The Invincible Knight? The one who absorbed the Will of the God of Justice and refined it?
The cat’s excitent at hearing the na of his master caught him off guard. Plus, the titles.
He had heard his master never suffered a defeat but he didn’t know his master refined a God’s Will.
"Refined a God’s Will?"
Yeah. Actually, only when dina heard about his feat from so secret source, did she get inspired to travel to that Empire. She said she had to et that man to free herself.
"And left you behind? For what?"
Seeing the cracks appear in the cat’s appearance, Hex knew his ti was limited. So, he asked, hoping to know what the purpose of the cat was.
Left ?
I belong here. After all, I am one of the remnant Wills absorbed by Wrixia. The Will used to balance the Blessing of Life, as I was the Goddess of Death.
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