33 Risen#re

In a place hidden.

In a place lost.

In a place that never existed to begin with.

The last vestige of the blue-eyed woman remained.

She looked through the hole in reality and stepped forward, her steps lighter than the wind.

Her two transparent hands were brought together, "Temporal Time laws activate," she whispered.

With just those words her entire being vanished with only her eyes remaining, it took one last glance at the silver eyed man who remained stuck and unmoving, before crumbling into dust.

The winds scattered the dust and blew all that remained of her into the lost world, in this place where nothing ever existed in the first place.

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The lightning connected to Lirian from the stormy clouds, the purple bolts looked more like the branches of a worlds tree that connected to Lirian.

His gaze swept onto the destroyed world, 'It's not enough,' was all Lirian thought, but he was tired of waiting.

The lightning flowed into him and bent to his will like a subject obeying its king, Lirian released a breath of relief, no, a breath of release from all his pain.

All he needed to do was unleash the lightning and everything would come to an end, this world would shatter and break, splintering into a billion pieces that would drift across the vacuum of space.

Some of the debris would become comets that light up the night sky and create a spectacle for people to observe, the smaller ones would burn up in the atmosphere of other planets and some of the larger ones would go on to hit planets out of their orbit, bringing the end of days to the people of those worlds.

There was a beauty and order to the destruction that Lirian could see with his eyes, in one of the meteorite's he saw a body, a body of someone he knew very well, it was Anya's her dead body that was drifting on a piece of the broken world and in centuries from now it would land on a nearby planet.

Lirian could see the body get buried in the earth, with time her body would start to rot and break down becoming nothing but a skeleton, with no one to remember her name, it was the same for many of the people present.

All of it was simply flashing through Lirian's eye, 'These are fragments of the potential future,' Lirian realised and touched his eyes he'd never experienced such a thing before, it was the power of his eyes.

'These eyes are truly special, a pity that I won't ever master this power,' Lirian thought, even the vision of Anya dying wasn't enough to stop him, he'd already chosen his path.

Lirian shut his eyes and prepared to release the tribulation lightning.

"Just because you've chosen a path doesn't mean that you have to stick with it to the end," but just then a voice from beside him shook Lirian to the core.

His eyes snapped open and he looked at the figure in front of him in disbelief.

The shards of ice were rapidly stitching themselves together to take on the form of Edith, "Samsara," she said with a smile so beautiful that it sent shock waves through Lirian's entire being, yet those shock waves seemed to help him greatly.

In his throne world the black ball of madness stopped releasing its power and the green auroras began dancing once more, pulling the black ball of condensed mist back into its depths.

Lirian shook his head slightly and rubbed his eyes, every single sense of his was telling him that the Edith in front of him was real, even the system was running scan after scan on the Edith before him and all the result were telling him that she was real.

"E-Edith," Lirian stammered, but he quickly shook his head and looked at her once more, sure she looked exactly like Edith, but she was far more beautiful than the Edith he knew, and her aura was other worldly like a goddess.

Most importantly she called him by his name, not Lirian but his real name Samsara.

"You're not my Edith, just who exactly are you?" Lirian shouted trying to reign in his emotions, he wanted to kill the person in front of him for impersonating her, but they were so alike that he couldn't bring himself to attack.

The woman didn't stop smiling and as she looked at Lirian, in fact fresh tears formed in her eyes as she floated towards Lirian not allowing him to back away any further.

"Your right I'm not the Edith you know," she said when she stood in Lirian's face, "But I am yours and you are mine," she spoke with conviction in her every word, each word like an almighty decree that not even the heavens had any say in.

With just the power of her words, Lirian was certain of his earlier guess the woman before him was undoubtedly a goddess and a very powerful one at that, a second-grade goddess at least.

Her hand cupped Lirian's face and at the simplest touch a look of unbelievable joy and euphoria filled her face.

As Lirian looked closely he found that a set laws around Edith's body appeared, the laws were concealed by the power of a god and from it Lirian could understand just vaguely what was happening.

"Temporal Time laws," Lirian muttered with surprise filling his face, it was a very complex branch of time magic that was hard to grasp and even harder to use properly.

"Yes," she answered with a bright smile, "We don't have much time before the spell wears of, at that time I'll…" her words trailed of and she glanced at Lirian sadly but she didn't say anything more, they both knew what would happen when the time they had was up.

"You're from a different reality?!" Lirian questioned with only a little certainty but the anger in his voice disappeared, this law was far too unpredictable for any certainty.

"Not exactly, I'm from a very different future of this world," she said but didn't elaborate.

"You created a nexus!" Lirian shouted in disbelief, a little overwhelmed, by his emotion, but this news was just insane.

Lirian had a saying concerning the two governors of order, fate and time, fate was a vengeful bitch that played all those that try to steal its secrets to a sorrowful death.

But in comparison to time it was a push over, time was like a mad dog, if someone tried to rewrite the course of events it would flip out, due to the actions of one person, trying to bring their dead lover back to life, it would wipe that person, their world and the next 100 galaxies out of existence.

Time was an easy law to use for gods, but gods only used it for parlour tricks, even god feared the consequences of messing with time, it was far too unpredictable.

"Me!" she laughed with an enchanting laugh that could calm the oceans, her laugh was so bright and happy that it made Lirian shudder in joy, "As if I'm stupid enough to do something like that," she said in an amused tone.

"Then who?" Lirian asked curiously wanting to know who in the world would be so daring.

Edith twirled her finger around enticingly and gently pressed it against Lirian's chest.

Lirian felt his heart slow down a notch at her touch and took him a short moment to realise that she was pointing at him while coming extremely close to him, there was barely even the distance of a hair's width between them.

With every breath they took her breasts brushed against his chest and she smiled even more enchantingly every time it happened.

"I did!" Lirian was startled, he had genuinely tried to create nexus's in the past, when Ella died it was all that he could think of doing but they always ended in failure, because time was a mad dog.

The enticing look in Edith's eyes vanished and she looked around a little distracted, "But Samsara you need to know that this is not the only nexus you're living in, this entire world of the seven great civilizations, is a nexus as well, we've been watching things, and you for a long time, but we have no idea who or how the other nexus was created, so you have to be careful."

"There is someone out there who has managed to do what only you have so its reasonable to say that you might have a very dangerous enemy out there," she cautioned Lirian with a worried look in her eyes.

Lirian nodded at the warning but a concerned look entered his eyes, "You were very happy to see me," Lirian said with a bit of caution in his voice.

"Did something happen to me in your future?" Lirian had to be cautious with his questions, it wasn't a good idea to know many details about the future.