Chapter 1264 The Truth Behind The Deep One’s Origins
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(Drake's POV)
After saying our goodbyes to Aquarius, the room fell silent for a bit. However, although we felt sad, we couldn't simply stand still and waste time here. We had to move, and quickly. I believe the more we pressure the Deep One, the more desperate he'll become. We have to deal with him as soon as possible.
"Sapphire, are you alright?" Benladann wondered, trying to calm her down. Sapphire was crying a lot, I understood her pain, but crying wouldn't get us anywhere.
"Yeah… I am alright." Sapphire sighed, cleaning her tears. "I am sorry for being such a crybaby… I know I shouldn't be showing this facet to my child." She caressed the egg.
"That egg, do you think it'll hatch any time soon?" Wondered Miranda.
"Miranda it was just made though?" Benladann sighed.
"I can feel its life slowly forming, and very fast." I said. "I can feel the power of Aquarius, Sapphire's, and also something else… a power it might have inherited from the unique energies contained within the Fragment of the Blue Orb."
"I see…" Sapphire said. "Maybe it'll hatch quite soon, we have to hurry and get back to my home first then."
"Alright, we can do that right away, actually." I said with a smile, raising my hand into the skies while channeling the powers of the Dream Divinity. "[Dream Assimilation]"
FLUOOOOOOSH!
The entire Dream immediately started beginning to distort, everything started spiraling into my hand, and then being absorbed into my hands and fusing into my Divine Realm.
Once it was over, we were back in the beginning, outside the ruins. Fuyu contacted me through telepathy, as she said an enormous piece of Divine Dream Land had begun to fuse with my Divine Realm.
"D-Drake, did you brought this here?!"
"Yes, relax, it is a Dream Dungeon I absorbed, leave it there for now."
"Oh, alright! Anyways, did you do it? Complete the dungeon?"
"Yeah, everything's alright. Though, I have a bad feeling about this… The Deep One may soon be on the move. If possible, can you fly into the skies and stay above Aquarius while being camouflaged? So we can prepare for the worst."
"Very well! Charlotte here has already begun moving, she had a similar feeling."
"Good, I'll leave the rest to you two then."
"Sure thing!"
Like that, we quickly went back to Sapphire's Divine Realm to prepare. Sapphire placed the egg over a bed made out of cushions, which she enchanted with magic to remain warm and nice.
The egg was unleashing a bright blue colored aura around itself, which stated spreading further and further, slowly. It seems the child was already aware of their surroundings.
"It is reacting to me?" Wondered Sapphire, realizing the child's divine aura was beginning to shine brighter when it touched her.
"It seems they want to be with their mom." Benladann said.
"Yeah, perhaps it is way to grow stronger? You should stay at their side." Miranda agreed.
"V-Very well, for now, time here goes slower than outside. If possible, everybody should take a break and relax. We need to prepare and rest before the last battle." Said Sapphire.
"Phew! I really just wanted to rest for a bit! I am literally DEAD!" Yuki sighed. "Also Master, did you had to just fuse me with your weapons?! I feel a bit gross…"
"Hahaha, it was something… certainly interesting." Hector laughed.
"I assume that you were able to perform a Spirit Fusion with us and the weapons due to all three of us being in a spirit form as well, wasn't it?" Wondered Pekora.
"Yeah, and sorry if it was a bit weird, I was desperate and I needed more power. I should had asked you beforehand…" I sighed.
"Oh no, it's fine." Pekora nodded. "At the end, we were able to help more than I thought."
"Your powers are sure something though, Lord Drake!" Hector was amazed. "To think you can even fuse your Spiritual Powers with us and transform us into spirits…"
"It is a trick I just figured out recently actually." I laughed. "By merging created spirits with your own divinities and abilities, it is possible to merge even non-spirits with spirits, or multiple at the same time… Though I think this was my limit for now."
"Amazing… I don't think my mom ever did something like that, did she?" Belle wondered.
"I did!" Sighed the Fox Venerable, appearing as a ghost-like apparition behind us. "It was part of my ultimate move, heh… I am surprised you've figured out how to use such a technique already, Drake. Your growth is simply incredibly fast."
"Oh, look who's there." I said with a giggle.
"We've been watching for a while." The Frost Queen apparition manifested herself at my side. "Good job, Drake, you've done well. Now that we've learned many things… It seems the Deep One is truly a Soul Fragment of Oberon."
"Yep, couldn't had guessed it otherwise, it was too different…" The Fox Venerable sighed.
"Really? Well, Oberon overall's an asshole, and the Deep One's an asshole as well, it kind of checks out, no?" Wondered the Frost Queen. "You're quite terrible at discerning things, dear."
"Don't call me dear!" The Fox Venerable said grumpily. "Remember that we are only allies because of Drake…"
"Heh, you're quite an easy woman to provoke with a few words, I can't believe you were a Venerable older than me. Dear, you have to work on your personality a bit." The Frost Queen.
"Ugh shut up!" The Fox Venerable complained.
"A-Anyways, if this is true then… Oberon might have left one of his many soul fragments in the chaos plane so he could attain or learn the Chaos Element, isn't it?" I wondered.
"Yeah, seeing how his soul fragments are all interested in Benladann's element, it could be said he wants to master such a power… But to think he would go as far as doing this. It is quite obvious his Soul Fragment, the Deep One, no longer wants to cooperate with the other fragments, he's working alone." The Frost Queen said. 𝒷ℯ𝒹𝓃𝓸𝓿ℯ𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝓶
"That's the problem with this idiot." The Fox Venerable laughed. "He seems to be incapable of making clones that can cooperate. Is this because they're all from the same selfish bastard?" She laughed.
Honestly, she was right, Oberon was terrible at making his own clones cooperate with one another. How much of an insanely selfish egomaniac was he?
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