33 Risen#re

The Domain of Pride

The Immortal Realm

"Papa!" a childish voice sounded with a hint of annoyance, "Why won't you let me see what's happening?" the childish voice was filled with indignance.

"Are you cheating on mommy again with that stupid girl, I don't like her you should stop your self from being with that girl, you only belong to mommy," the child echoed in Lucian's ears with an angry pout.

Lucian didn't have the heart to bother with Ella's ramblings, his gaze was fixed on the him in the image.

'Mysterious entity!' he echoed in his head, with a glance to his back he turned to the entity that occupied Katerina's throne.

"You met with my main body?" he asked the entity, but he was already certain of his deduction.

"Something unforeseen happened, and I had to intervene, then I spoke with your main body," the entity said with a distracted air in the blueish mists that surrounded the throne.

"Did you really tell my main self that we would die permanently this time? Is that even true?" Lucian questioned with a grave voice, he knew himself quite well, throughout the many lives he lived he was an extremely suicidal person, the only thing that stopped him was knowing that he'd come back.

Being reborn always came with a whole set of problems, and the time to regain ones power was always a problematic time filled with unknowns, it was simply a better choice to keep living and research new means for a potential permanent death.

Half of Lirian's research was spent on finding a solution to his death, and now the entity told him that he could end it all, that was no different from handing a person with suicidal tendencies a stand and a hanging rope.

"It's true, no more revives for you, but of course there are all your avatars including the you in front of me that can bring back the main body if it falls," the entity said with an excited tone as if this was all one big game to him.

"Dammit," Lucian cursed, "I have to stop this, Katerina please don't let Ella see what's happening down there while I'm gone,"

Without waiting for a reply Lucian shoved his mind into the throne world, if he knew anything about himself, it was that revenge always came first, so the fact that his main body was already suicidal before killing all those zealots meant that his mind was already being attacked by the black mists.

But just as Lucian pushed his mind forward he felt a barrier preventing him from linking, he opened his eyes with a startled look, "Where are we?" he asked with a shaken look.

"We are in a different universe, The Domain of Pride," Katerina answered, "Your main body is not yet an immortal, you can't link to your throne world across the universes," she said with a knowing look in her eyes.

Everything that she knew about Lirian, was from the secrets he shared with her.

"I never took you for a suicidal maniac," she said with an amused smile as she looked through the conflux of fate.

"You can take credit for that, while I did consider it many times, you're the first that managed to push me over the edge," Lucian spat coldly at her.

"Your fighting again," a small and cute voice shouted angrily, "Hump, you might have stopped me from listening but I can still tell when you fight," Ella humped angrily and Lucian could see the little ball of light glow red in annoyance.

Lucian shook his head and turned back to the entity, "Send me back to the sixth universe, I need to stop myself from doing this,"

"NO!" the entity said strongly and for the first time it seemed mildly annoyed my Lucian, "You are needed here to act as a bridge, there is someone that must survive that ordeal, besides this is a tribulation your main body will succumb to the loss or overcome it."

"Damn you," Lucian roared at the entity and several red rings began to manifest around him, "If you don't want to then I'll just leave myself."

The rings merged together to form a gate, but it started to crumble just as quickly as it formed, "Did seeing your main bodies increase in power confuse you," the entity ridiculed.

"Ha, even with your main bodies current power, you know that it's not possible to cross the universes, so why waste your effort," the entity laughed.

"True, but as you've noticed I tend to have suicidal tendencies," Lucian scoffed and removed a hand on his chest to reveal a red ring of light.

"Since it seems like I'm important to your plan I wonder what would happen if I die here," Lucian threatened his draconic grey eyes were filled with determination and completely unfazed by the thought of death.

The being in the mist looked on coldly a dangerous air filled the mist and even Katerina began to panic slightly as she felt the power in the entity grow.

Lucian was desperate to stop himself from committing suicide, but at the same time he was feeling all the pain of his main body, they were the same person in the end of the day, who else could understand the pain better than him.

No matter what he was determined to return and if he couldn't he'd really take his own life, but just then an energy permeated his entire body and washed away the spell that locked into his body.

"What the hell that was a…" Lucian said looking at the entity with shock, it completely dispelled a very intricate spell, one that Lucian was confident could not be broken, it was where he got his confidence from, yet it was broken so effortlessly by the entity.

"A sacred spell that you developed yourself, I know, but so what my power is greater than you can fathom," the entity said in a chilling voice as its energy completely sealed Lucian.

"Katerina the conflux will soon come to a close, that will be your time to act," the entity said and continued to gaze at the images.

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The Throne World.

Darkness encroached on the world covering every inch of it, the green auroras were nowhere to be seen and the black mists had condensed in a black ball that hung in the world.

The ball emitted dark light like a sun only it released scorching darkness, that burned into the minds of the past lives of Samsara.

Thin tendrils of black crept from the centre of their heads and enshrouded their bodies in vines of darkness, and on the main throne the darkness finally broke through the barriers and crept into Lirian's mind pushing him over the edge.

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Lirian breathed out with relief as the cold edge of the blade kissed his throat.

There was a simplicity to death that he yearned for with desperation, and now it was finally an option.

The blade sunk through his skin but a look of annoyance quickly entered his eye, his samsaric esper energy was actually able to contend against the power of the blade, despite him suppressing his own power.

"Then I supposed it's off with my head," Lirian muttered and swung the sword at his neck.

"LIRIAN!" a hoarse voice shouted with desperation, but Lirian paid it no mind at all and continued with his motion.

"STOP!" the voice shouted once more but this time a wave of surging might was released by the voice to forcibly stop Lirian.

Lirian swung his blade but the pressure forced his blade to come to a halt, he looked up in annoyance and saw Anya racing through the sky towards him, with a panicked look in her eyes.

"What do you want Anya?" he asked looking up but his voice was not one she recognised, there were several horrifying voices all combined into one, and there was a lack of any human emotions

Anya's mind was incomplete chaos as she looked at Lirian, he looked the same, but everything else was completely different, it was like she was looking at a stranger.

She couldn't feel his power as he was concealing it, but she was certain that he was holding a lot of power, her earlier suppression should have been enough to lock down the movements of a seventh grader, yet it only managed to stop the strike that Lirian had aimed at himself.

He didn't even use his cultivation to shrug of her pressure.

"Who are you? What have you done to Lirian?" she asked with fear in her eyes as the only thing she could imagine was that Lirian was possessed by some ancient and very powerful spirit.

Lirian threw his head back and cold laughter rung in the air sending chills down her spine, but it wasn't just her, because at that moment the other elites arrived, followed by the zealots.

Shortly after the apparition appeared the laws regained their calmness, but the cultivators were all panicked, they stopped their battle and all of them came racing to find out what had happened, and now when they found the centre of the destruction.

But fear crept into their bodies as they gazed at the person who stood at the centre of the destruction, they recognised the figure, but none of them recognised that bone crushing voice, just those laughs were enough to push their minds onto the brink of madness.