I was already in front of the barrier and with Nix's help I started to walk leaning on it to the barrier, without waiting any longer I touched the barrier, it was made of energy and it was still solid, but I could feel sothing.
I withdraw my hand and wait, almost at the sa mont, the whole barrier begins to decrease in size and gradually dissolves, from the inside a strong sll of blood explodes outside as well as blood stains in all corners.
But what caught my attention was the one in the center, he was looking directly at and he walked calmly towards getting on his knees.
"I live to serve your will, Zenos." (Hades)
His movent was a little stiff and when one of his knees touched the ground, cracks spread out, clearly he still doesn't have complete control over his power.
From the mont I looked into his eyes until he got down on his knees my eyes road all over his body, I was in disbelief.
He had a height of 1.30 being a little taller than , his hair was red with a streak of it being black, he has no visible horns, but he has an Eclipse-shaped crystal in the middle of his forehead, and his eyes are like mine and your skin is also brown like mine.
I could see scales like mine on his arms and legs, I could also hear a voice that was a bit thicker and deeper than mine, his appearance was almost the sa as mine with his face being completely sa as mine with few differences.
"Get up and put this on." (I)
"How to order." (Hades)
I take one of my magic size fit clothes and give it to him to put on since he is stark naked.
He doesn't seem to be body shy, but I couldn't leave him as he ca into the world with other people around, but I must say I was in disbelief as his appearance was almost the sa as mine.
As soon as he finished getting dressed, Elizabeth had already set up so tables with Natasha's help for all of us to sit, I chose to have a conversation alone with Hades so that no one could interrupt.
"Why do you look like ?" (I)
"I don't know, I didn't have a choice in shaping my body, but I feel proud to share so many commonalities with you." (Hades)
I could only assu that him looking like was a strong possibility, almost everything about him ca from , at least that's what I think, I'll have to ask Elizabeth later to confirm.
"How's your mind, is it ssed up or sothing?" (I)
"My mind is fine, but the mories themselves are jumbled, too many people's mories to organize with yours being the easiest as they are most complete." (Hades)
"As long as I don't have to look back I should be fine." (Hades)
"Are your emotions under control?" (I)
"Yes, I could tell from your mories that it must be difficult to control your emotions, but for , it was very easy." (Hades)
I look at his Aura, he manages to control it, but it's like soone pulling a horse's reins to control him forcing him not to advance, his control is still superficial.
"Why did you build the barrier?" (I)
"I needed to control my power and Aura, even my body was sothing strange, I thought it best to close myself in a more restricted space to do this, so I wouldn't have interruptions." (Hades)
"Then why didn't you try contacting other people or resolve to break the barrier now?" (I)
"My desire and will is to serve you, I could feel your desire to know and I fulfilled your will." (Hades)
He seems to have a lot of loyalty to , but I don't know how far that can be true, that's because I don't know how much he understands the concept of loyalty, everything he says seems more emotional dependence on being the one who gave him life.
"If you didn't have control over your power, how did you create the barrier?" (I)
"I didn't create it, I just used the remnants of the space that was once under your command to restrict the area and then I used the sensations I felt when those 3 spoke to ." (Hades)
He must be talking about when Karina, Alice, and Eva started talking as they each took the position of the tip of a triangle, did he try to imitate that?
"You don't feel hungry, thirsty, or tired after all this ti?" (I)
"..." (Hades)
He seems not to have understood my words, his eyes beca more confused, it seems that he felt sothing and he doesn't know if he relates to my words or not.
"(I think this conversation is going to be longer than I expected.)" (I)
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It was already night when I was almost carried back to the Communal Temple, Karina wanted to continue soaking in the pool of blood and that's what I did, it was helping my recovery much more than I expected.
Hades stayed on the sa floor where he was born, he for so reason didn't want to learn anything from my sisters, instead, he asked my Familiars to help with his training.
In the end, it was decided that Ragnar would teach him about Aura as he was the expert in this field, Sakura would train him in combat having been the one who trained generations of Lamias warriors and Hinata would teach him about the Soul as he is a Spectral being strongly linked to death.
My biggest concern was Hinata, but Eva offered to be a vessel for Hinata to possess, just that way she can communicate normally with others, not everyone can understand her intentions directly like I can through her few words.
As soon as I closed my eyes to float in the pool of blood, I felt soone approaching, at this ti the Communal Temple would normally be closing, so I knew it was nobody among the townspeople.
When I opened my eyes it was Arash who was standing on the edge of the pool of Blood looking at , I could feel his Aura reaching out towards cautiously, it seed he was checking how I was doing.
"Your condition looks better, that's good." (Arash)
"Are you worried about ?" (I)
"I'm more concerned about my daughter bonding with you, your connection is much stronger than a normal Contractor between soone and a Spirit." (Arash)
"But that's not why I ca here." (Arash)
I looked away and could see an Alice with a vein in her forehead so swollen it could burst at any mont, but she didn't co closer.
"Why does Alice look so pissed off?" (I)
"I put a barrier using my aura around us, I don't want anyone interrupting us and unfortunately I can't wait." (Arash)
"What do you need?" (I)
Arash shouldn't need for anything, he is far more powerful than I am and his position as Dragon Emperor is as important as a saint as far as I can understand.
There shouldn't be many situations where I could be useful in doing sothing for him, especially sothing he would need to co to in such a hurry without waiting for to recover.
"I need you to go et Orsel, you would have 3 days, but due to his precarious condition I was able to postpone it, so you have 1 week to find him." (Arash)
"Just for the record, do you want to go see him?" (I)
"Yes, he will explain the rest when he gets there." (Arash)
"I assu he's in this Border Town thing, isn't he?" (I)
"Yes, I already have soone organized to guide you there." (Arash)
"..." (I)
"Don't make that face unfortunately it has to be you, I could explain and it wouldn't make a difference since you plan on going there anyway." (Arash)
"Why are you sure I want to go?" (I)
"Bordertown floats in this planet's orbit using the energy flow between this world and one of the Moons." (Arash)
"Fine, you convinced , I will." (I)
Sigh
"My daughter said you love going to exotic places with beautiful scenery, I'm sure you can imagine the kind of scenery you can see from up there." (Arash)
"I already said I will, but just for a hypothetical question, could I enter that city any other ti?" (I)
"If you refuse to go, don't think about approaching that place, there will be many people angry with you, people much stronger than you are currently." (Arash)
"..." (I)
"(He's not giving chances to say no, but I also have no reason to refuse his request, he would never put his daughter at risk, so everything should be fine.)" (I)
"Can I at least send soone ahead?" (I)
"Better not, things there don't follow the sa customs here, you should go with the person I'm going to send with you and follow his advice as much as possible." (Arash)
Arash spent a few more minutes talking to about the repercussions of my Dragon Totem temporarily disappearing and told to try to be less drastic next ti as it caused a lot of problems among the Elder Dragons that he had to resolve.
After that he left and Alice stayed by my side until the mont I fell asleep still thinking about the pictures astronauts took in my old world, that was the only reference I had for what I could find in Border Town and I was excited to that.
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