44 C44 Impossible Future

Azo felt like he was spinning, his mind trying to come up with many different solutions on how to get out of this. He needed more information, but he always came up with one solution which was similar to all his prior answers. This solution was not the best one as it related to just continuing the mission as planned.

His eyes were looking over the woman, his mind racing as things started to click in his mind as the undead rose above him trying to kill people, they were a natural reaction of the Goddess of death who was here for an eternity.

"I think some questions first before we decide on anything, not that we don't trust you it's just that we don't know you."

He stood up slowly, holding his ground as he felt his entire soul quake, speaking the Goddess of Death was causing a feeling of massive regret, his basic instincts screaming at him to run. He knew one thing and that was this woman could kill him quickly enough.

He felt his breath catching in his own throat, his soul wavering before he felt his shoulder brushing with Bull, his so-called Brother at arms standing side by side with him. The twins flanking on either side as Azo let out a relief-filled sigh as his comrades and friends stood beside him even in the most dangerous situations.

Aelina stood silent, the rattling of the chains slowly echoing inside the room as she watched the people, her smile softly growing as she knew the woman had done a good job, she always regretted the fact that the woman had the right to stand by his side. Now she knew why she was someone with incredible talents and power that could get things done.

"Ask the questions, I will answer as much as I can. You have roughly fifteen more minutes before someone arrives and if you have not left, then it will all be lost."

Azo felt this wave of information hit him, the time limit making his brain work faster as he had a few fundamental questions to get past first.

"The first question is how do you know that the church already is coming here and knows about us?"

He would take a breath as he decided to push out questions.

"Second, why has the church just left you here for anyone to find you?"

He would bite his tongue, lightly hissing as he tried to think of the correct way of saying this.

"How can you even prove to us you are Aelina and not just some ancient undead creature?"

Aelina smiled briefly as these questions came rattling off one by one from the man, he was indeed a smart individual and was wise for someone like him to be in charge of a team like this.

"It's simple as I was captured over a few hundred years ago, chained here alone without anyone's intervention. Left to my own devices I managed to raise an undead army, my goal to free myself and escape my bonds."

"It's a shame that as I was about to free myself, Saleh was reborn into this world. She came and stopped all my plans rather quickly. This vortex as you call it is not a place for the empire to send prisoners. It's to take excess magical energy from the largest area possible to fuel ancient spells to keep these chains in place so I can't escape."

"The next part is that the undead aura I give off was contained within this area due to this spell so that I cant create undead except for a few small locations near me. Lastly, the magic used is one of the most powerful, Gods use the power of faith to do divine magic, which is why the church operates above us. I feel like something has gone wrong in the past few years as the quality of the spell has weakened. I may be able to do one spell at this rate."

"Due to the systems that Saleh put in place though. They watch this room and have warning spells at the seventh level which are silent. I can see them, but I doubt you can. They will be coming and have already seen you all with clairvoyance spells."

"Lastly If I were a simple ancient undead creature, I would die still too massive injury or magical dispel at a high level. The church hates undead, so if that were the case, I would already be dead. As the Goddess of Death, I can control who dies and who lives if I want I can stop you from dying though It's a fate worse then death. Which is why I still have yet to die."

Azo listened to this extended set of words, his mind racing as the pieces began to fit together, Bull standing next to him seemed confused, and the twins held neutral faces as Azo just shook his head as he knew he needed to leave this place.

"What can we even do to help you. If you are a god then why would we ever fuck with Saleh, shes won as you are stuck down here to rot. Whoever fucks with a god is going to have a terrible time."

"Saleh is blind; she does not see the strings hanging all around her, I can't warn her as she is blinded by anger, rage and corruption of those around her. I know one person who can stop her, he's the one person who will resolve all these issues."

"This is the reason I need you to take a message to him, he should be in the western part of the vortex and will be likely stirring up the place as he's not a man who simply hides."

"You want me to go west and randomly find one person. Who is this person anyway?"

Aelina stared at him for a moment, considering if she should tell him the full truth, she hated to lie to someone who was a possible aid.

"He's a God, The most powerful god to walk this planet and I can assure you that the Creator god watches through his eyes."

Azo let out a sigh, giving up as he knew that nothing he could do would fix this issue. His best bet was to trust this woman on face value if the church already knew his face, then he was undoubtedly doomed anyway and he had to pick the side that did not want to kill him.

"You have a deal. What do you want me to say to him?"