Chapter 286 Temporal Residence



Seth spent close to a minute staring at the sky with blinking eyes, trying and failing to understand what was happening, but it was the soothing sensation that entered into the core of his being, the core of his soul that had him snapping his head towards Alexia.

The face of the young cute teen with long blonde hair came into Seth's view, Alexia smiling at him brightly.

"Seth what's wrong."

"What's wrong, I should be the one asking you what's wrong" Seth nearly screamed, then in a calm tone and pointed at the sky and asked, 

"Where is the back portal?"

"I thought you didn't want it in you," Alexia asked her face taking on a cute confused expression, one that Seth almost felt bad for shouting at.

"I don't"

"So why are you looking for it."

One moment she had been all sweet and comforting, but now she was standing as a peak cause of his current frustration.

Deciding not to lose it, Seth took calming breaths but before he could be done with this, Alexia pushed herself off his chest, quickly climbed onto his lap, and wrapped her hands around his neck.

She gave off an innocent laugh at his expense and then in no time, kissed him.

The kiss didn't last for long as Alexia pulled her lips back, and then folding her hand, she spoke with a pout.

"I just helped you solve your problem but you're instead shouting at me, no fair darling."

Alexia frowned, looking at Seth accusatory, but rather than tell her anything, Seth leaned in and pecked her lips.

"I'm worried that you've done something stupid again," Seth said his eyebrow raised as he implicitly questioned her.

"Well... " Alexi couldn't help but draw out, looking away from Seth.

"Alexia" Seth began, but she quickly cut him off, I'm fine Seth. There is really nothing wrong with me, I'm okay.

"Then where is the black portal" Seth nearly growled out.

Alexia bit her lip knowing she couldn't keep quiet on this matter.

"It's in my soul" she muttered sneakily looking at Seth to see his reaction.

A moment of silence descended between the two of them as Seth's brain had to process her words several times.

"Take it out, it will hurt you" Seth immediately said after a few seconds.

"No, it won't "Alexia vehemently refused.

"What do you mean it won't, first of all, it wasn't meant for you and secondly, how did you even get it into your soul."

So far, Seth had deduced the black portal to be a product of the entity, but now Alexia was telling him she had somehow put it in her soul. Seth found himself baffled.

Seth swept all around his soul seeking the black portal, but he couldn't find it, he couldn't even trace it, it was like it had never existed.

"Remember, you said it was independent, so I figured since its functioning isn't connected to you and doesn't rely on you and yet you can move it, then why not move it into me."

Alexia's reasoning was so simple that Seth found it hard to believe it was actually so simple

"Our souls are totally different, how did you get it into yourself."

"I'm in your soul Seth, though small, our souls are linked, just my being in it already forms a rudimentary connection"

Though he understood her words, Seth still went about mulling, and Alexia seeing this decided to take action,

"Do you want to see it?" she asked.

"Where is it?"

"In my own soul space, if you want I can take you there" Alexia answered, her voice rather calm, but within her, it was a sea of nervousness.

"Fine, how will you do that "Seth asked.

"Just surrender your soul to me, or literally speaking, hand it over to me," Alexia said, reaching and pulling Seth's head close to her's until both their forehead touched.

As they both stared at each other at such close contact, Alexia's heart raced as the fear of Seth rejecting seeped into it, but later this fear dissipated as she found herself easily taking Seth's soul along with hers to her soul space.

One moment, the both of them had a red sky above their head, the next they found themselves in a brightly lit world with a normal yellow sun.

The same way they had left Seth's world was the same way they both arrive in Alexia's soul spec, with her sitting on Seth's lap and their forehead touching.

Seth pulled back and looked around, fascination and amazement on his face, but the emotion was short-lived as vigilance claimed his eyes when he looked sideways.

Alexia noticed this change but said nothing, she instead got off Seth and then began looking up into the sky, Seth subconsciously doing the same thing.

"There it is, "she said.

Seth stared up at the sky with Alexia looking at the black circle that swirled just some meters away from the sun that hung in the sky.

"And you're sure it doesn't affect you," Seth asked.

"No, I'm perfectly okay, unless I decide to refill my soul energy which I won't do for the time being, there should be no reaction from it."

"You can't keep it here forever."

"Actually I can, but I know you won't agree, so how about I keep it here for now, then when you're done fixing your soul I'll take it out"

As Alexia said, there was no way Seth could let her keep the swirling black mass in her, but thinking things through, her plan was a very sensible one.

"Okay," Seth said, but then he continued cautiously looking to the side, "Is that okay."

In the first few seconds of entering Alexia's soul space, Seth had been put on vigilance, and it wasn't the back portal that had caused it, but what could only be a feature of Alexia's soul space.

"Yes," Alexia said her figure disappearing and appearing 30 meters from Seth and at the end of the bright world of her soul space.

Alexia's soul space was in truth a very bizarre one, she had a 100 by 100-meter bright world which contained grasses, a few trees, a sun, a blue sky, and the latest addition of a black portal, but surrounding this cheerful bright world was just darkness.

"it's just a part of my soul, nothing much, perhaps it's the cause of my limited memory," Alexia said her hand reaching for the dark world outside but unable to reach it as her hand pressed against it like it were a wall.

Seth moved over and spent a few minutes observing it, but there was nothing to gleam from it, and not long after he left Alexia's soul space and then his world and returned to reality.

Seth's hand still hung over the crystal passively absorbing energy from it, but now as Seth opened his eyes, his absorption rate rapidly intensified, a wide smile climbing his face as he felt his soul being nourished.