'Ohhh, she's asleep...
A mysterious voice echoed in rciless's mind, low and distant yet impossibly close. Every ti it spoke, his immaterial heart pulsed with a deep, resonant energy... a power that wasn't physical but sothing far more profound.
Or rather sothing more conceptual.
It rippled through him like a vibration in the fabric of his very being.
rciless did not reply, although he listened.
As the voice continued to speak.
Praisin Anastasia even more.
'You know, Big , I can feel it... She's so damn cool! Haha! It's been so long since I've seen sothing like this up close; it's actually refreshing.'
The voice said, praising Anastasia.
It sounds almost childish in it's praise, yet behind that childish deanor, their was unrefined chaos within its voice.
'Soone like her is so useful to have around; even when her eyes were closed, I could still feel her watching. Everywhere, in every direction within her reach. And it wasn't just here; she was looking into other places too. Places beyond normal space, or what you'd probably call a higher perception of the fundantal reality around her... seeing through Aether is such a useful power to have, hehehe... you really need to train your Aether more.'
'It must be comforting to have soone who can peer into the very concept of ti and space and watch how things will shift and move.'
The voice continues to praise Anastasia, and rciless just stays on the side as he listens intently and when it stops.
rciless finally steps in, putting in his 2-cent on the matter.
"You know, you've been weirdly talkative lately. Out of the hundreds of voices in my head, yours is loud, almost too loud. Didn't we fuse into one when I ate you and the others? How did you manage to stay independent like this?"
This was indeed a valid question, but the answer rciless got back surprised him a little.
'Hmm... I am the core of your Immaterial Heart... That makes the pri conscious core of Shared Collective. Since I have the strongest mind in the collective by default, of course, being sothing that was once, or maybe always a part of you, those other noisy pests will never drown out.'
rcy said to rciless.
As he continued.
'Kihihihihi… Besides, the mont we beca one, you and I slipped into a state of duality, both separate and together. How strange, isn't it? This… peculiar thing inside you made it possible. Ah, Correspondence… that's your true form now, rciless. How fascinating... it would seem Correspondence accepted the rciless side of rather than rcy, so your kind of the very pri idea of both the Duality of rcy and rciless, good for you.'
He let the words hang in the air, his voice soft but unsettling.
As continued to speak.
'I have fragnts of mory about it, but they're so… hazy, shrugg!! Ah, cons of being a re fragnt... All I truly know is that our existence—yours, mine—is nothing but a placeholder. My identity, rcy's identity... is nothing more than a re mask, spreading like a rot through this little fruit.'
rcy explained, but rciless already knew this much, since they share mories as one and two, yet as neither or either.
Yet still one, despite the contradiction.
His comnt only continued further, as rcy said.
'It seems you, the rciless side of , have beco the mind of this chaos called Correspondence. That leaves as the placeholder, the mother variant of all other rcy variants.'
'But you? You're the only rciless that currently exists, because there is no other strand of this thing called Correspondence. To sothing like you, rcy Morgan is nothing more than a mask to hide your true self behind.'
'Hehehe.... How sad... I got disown for a better version of myself; well, either way, it is what it is.'
The conversation was brief, but its weight lingered. rcy stayed silent, lost in his thoughts, while rciless simply went along for the ride. They'd been flying for about three days now, give or take.
Ana, on the other hand, seed to have grown bored with the endless journey and had fallen asleep.
At that mont, rciless found himself deep in thought, trying to figure out a way to deal with the Protector. The truth was, he didn't have a plan; well, he did, but its not much of a plan if it isn't full proof.
And rcy, one of the many voices in his head, began to speak once more.
'Say, Big ?! Are you planning on using that? On the protector...
The question was simple, but rciless understood what his younger child-like self was getting at.
He replied back to rcy.
"Yeah... I've been holding onto this for a while. Everyone knows that only an Authority can take down another Authority, but here's the thing: I don't have one. I'm not a Spawn, so an Authority is out of the question. What I do have, though, is an Arbiter's Blessing."
rciless said, annoucing a special Trump card he has been hiding for a while now.
"It's not as strong as an Authority, but it's close in its own way. Think of it like this: if authorities are the ultimate cheat codes of creation so much so they are seen as powers that can only be called miracles, then a Blessing is more like a custom mod for the ga. It doesn't break the rules outright; it bends them and twists them to its own logic."
"The power of a blessing really depends on what it's designed to do, and the stronger the blessing, the more it can defy the usual limits of existence's systematic set up. Birthrights are basically the sa things as blessings, but blessings are superior; they are basically a pay-to-win kind of power in the grand sche of things."
"And typically speaking, a blessing is basically a portion of a Spawn's power given form in their chosen arbiter as a supernatrual ability within them that aligns with their personality."
Said rciless to rcy.
"And in my case, I got my blessings from the Mother of Lies. Most of them are immaterial powers tied to the line of the Origin, since AE is a Spawn from the Origin's bloodline. But yeah... I'll admit, I have one Arbiter's Blessing with that, at the very least, gives a fighting chance."
rciless admits, while rcy listens and responds back as such.
'Ohohoho! So that's your grand plan, is it? Bringing those two along? How very quaint! I can see the logic, sure, but do you honestly believe they'll be enough to stand against a Protector?'
rcy said, as he went on praising rciless.
'Ah, don't get wrong; your plan has a certain brilliance to it! After all, what better counter to an Authority than nothingness itself, the ultimate force of chaos's undoing? Magical natures, born of the primal essence, are the true antithesis of authorities. For the re fact that Chaos and Nothingness were crafted as natural enemies, destined to harm each other in their endless cycle of predation.'
'You see, chaos from the outside seeks to invade constructs of the apogee's, the embodint of creation and destruction, or primordial nothingness, as that is what each Apogee is the Everdark is, primordial nothingness. Why? Because all things stem from nothingness. Nothingness is the origin of creation and its inevitable end, which is destruction. anwhile, the chaos outside... it is a primordial force like nothingness that represents discord, a greedy abstraction yearning for form. Chaos cannot exist as sothing material, but it hungers... no, craves to gain a shape."
rcy explain.
As he continues.
'That's why it invades and corrupts apogees. Chaos has the unique ability to parasitize cosmological systems within Apogees, to overwrite their very essence and bend them to its will in their own image or idea. By doing so, it taps into primordial nothingness power of creation and destruction, carving out its own spectrum of totality within the Apogee itself, where it can finally beco sothing more than a formless abstraction.'
'But you'd do well to rember, just as nothingness is the antithesis of chaos, the sa holds true in reverse. Chaos itself is the antithesis of nothingness. These two primordial forces are like fire and water, locked in eternal opposition. Equal in strength, they cancel each other out, their conflict perpetually unresolved as they cannot correspond with each other.'
Explain rcy, but of course, rciless, learn this from rcy mories and other people's mories as well, mostly the queen in this case.
But that is why he needs Lucy and Ophelia; for one, his last arbiter blessing was special, very special, unique even.
But it had special conditions, the first of which was the most important.
One to use the power of his 5th blessing, he needs a vessel, but not only a strong vessel, but a female one at that.
Secondly, their personalities need to match up with certain mories inside immaterial heart.
Thirdly, the woman in question has to be dead, or freshly killed, or rather, there has to be no soul in the body of the woman, and Lucy and Opeliah were both vampires, beings without a soul; they fit every bill for his plan to take on the protector.
But the strongest vessel here was Anastasia, so she was the MVP, and as such, she was going to play a vital role in the downfall of the protector.
However, there was a problem, and rcy called him out on it.
'That's all well and good, but you do realize the limitations of 'Flashback-Reincarnation,' don't you?... The power itself relies on how many vessels you have, and each vessel can only hold a single soul fragnt at a ti. These fragnts are put into a state of constant flashback and last no more than 60 seconds before the mories and essence fade completely and cast out of the vessel body.'
'With a power like this, for a short while, you can summon one of your witches from the Shared Collective, but only temporarily. You'll need to play your cards right, though. So, tell , who exactly do you plan on summoning first?'
rciless took a mont to think, and his decision was already clear.
"I want to summon the Witch of Advice Unissa. They say that any advice she gives will co true, but only if she herself believes that the advice can be certain in the context of the situation... so a power like hers would most likely give a fighting chance."
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