Chapter 1114: Expelling A Territory Is Easy! All You Have To Do Is...
"I see..." Replicus said.
He had heard a streamlined version of the last bit of Yuyui's story long ago, but frankly, because of the pressure of the Premium Age Royale, and how casual his and the girl's
relationship had been then, he had frankly never really cared for it.
What he had cared for was the fact that she couldn't die and was thus a fantastic guinea pig for all sorts of experiments.
Now, though, he took her story to heart.
"You have so much to be grateful for. Your parents weren't wrong. Perhaps they saw some fight in you. You proved them right by fighting insanity for five years; claiming a power that many failed to obtain since the Grand Wars; by being indispensable to my cause, which mostly involves fighting for dear life, and by facing your own demons through great pain. You should take pride in that," Replicus said.
Yuyui smiled. There was a genuineness in her smile that showed her internalising what Replicus said. She had battled things the original version of her would never have. Staying in her parents' warmth, to some degree sheltered and shelved her potential instead of allowing it to be tested by dire, dark trials.
Yuyui was tempered like steel now.
She felt herself worthy of mentioning for her master.
That said, she couldn't help but wonder about something else.
When Yuyui first went to a Temple and spoke to a priest, he told her these exact words:
"Your Direction will tremble and spill a dramatic change in your path when you sing from the heart. A song of great pain. A song of happiness. A song of great triumph. It may be in this order, or it may not, but the Deitess Listafelle will be with you."
(A/N: Refer to Ch.465.).
Apparently, Yuyui would experience life-changing things, depicted by songs she would sing.
Replicus narrowed his curved sockets.
"Is that so?" he said.
Now that he thought about it, most of the beasts he fought never really used Nitros unless they were about to expel their Territory. This fact contributed greatly to their defeat, after all, one of the only reasons Incandescent Stagers were so hard to fight was because it was nearly impossible to harm them with powerful skills when Nitros was guarding them, cancelling out mana and even Aura-powered skills!
"So, it's that simple, is it? I suppose humans could never fully replicate all that comes with Territories from beasts," Replicus said.
"Can you produce Nitros, master?" Baddan asked solemnly.
"Yes. That's not a problem at all."
Replicus then went on to ask Baddan about how to toggle a Territory from dormant to active like beasts from Sacred Forests could do, among many other things.
When he felt that he had absorbed as much knowledge as he could on this, he finally turned to Serenity within him. This was the main reason he was riding slow towards Edagon.
'You owe me a lot of information. You promised I would get all the answers about the Null Verse at the Fourth Tier. That still stands, right?' he asked.
"Of course," Serenity replied.
"Then, I have something to ask first. Maybe that could be the best way to approach this," the Progeny said. "During my battle with the necromancer, I used my Reversion to gain access to Undeath energy. I then mixed Undeath and Null Life Essence together and the result was me and that man's lives or maybe souls bleeding into each other. I saw a bit of his life, he saw a bit of mine. Before that, I used Reversion on a few million Undead. Their Undeath energy- which turned out to be the target of my Maximum Catalyst - turned into life energy. How do these two energies work - Null Life and Undeath? Let's add Voided Death to the mix too. I
need to know."
Serenity seemed to take a second to think.
"I suppose the best part to begin when explaining all this to you is... Void, Emmae and I were
siblings. In the beginning of our story, we never thought that we would come to loathe each other and part ways with the ideas we had once collaborated to create. Ideas that were different, but tightly bound to our kinship still..."