Chapter 1221 A Tale of the Four

Chapter 1221 A Tale of the Four

Kaella Seinold Fe'krel, a proud, strong woman who shed away everything – her family, her wealth, her old world – departed with hope on a course to pursue her ideals.

Her rigid, untameable stance on what life and death were, what they were supposed to be, pushed her towards similarly motivated individuals from an infamous band of mercenaries: Aspire to Divine.

She had had doubts when these people had reached out to her but soon she found that these doubts were unwarranted.

The Aspire to Divine mercenaries were the real deal.

Kaella was impressed by how vast their operation was. Because she had only seen a few hundred of the mercenaries on Faaminl, her home world, she had assumed that was all there was to them, but she had been mistaken. The hundreds she saw were just people from her own world who had been recruited before her.

As she left with them from Faaminl, wondering just how they would escape without upsetting the Rules, she was fed information she had lacked prior.

The Rules barring exit and entry from a world were exceptionally lenient when it came to the natives of said world. This was why they managed to leave Faaminl without any problems.

As for how it was that the Aspire to Divine mercenaries had managed to setup this entire recruitment process. Well...

The group was shockingly knowledgeable when it came to all things Divine and beyond.

They had ways to inspect and 'flirt' with the Rules governing a world.

For as long as needed, they would simply watch and select potential recruits from the great void using powerful detection artefacts. These seldom worked on the stronger, Rich Worlds, but for Faaminl, they worked well enough.

To ensure smooth recruitment, the Aspire to Divine mercenaries employed small, but powerful communication tools that wouldn't be rejected by a world's Rules. These tools would be dropped close to the marked potential recruits and through these recruits, the Aspire to Divine mercenaries would conduct their operations.

Kaella had been especially excited when she was evaluated by the six thousand older, veteran members of the Aspire to Divine who received them upon leaving Faaminl. They rode a great, odd silver vessel through the great void.

They called her a great number of flattering adjectives and gave her a rank befitting of her immense strength and talent.

Soon, Kaella was handling recruitment operations while undergoing the detailed induction that preceded a promotion into the above average tier of mercenaries in the interworld mercenary group.

A lot of people had admired Kaella, wanting to befriend her, but she wasn't the sociable sort. Aside from top ranking members of the group, she didn't entertain anyone else.

There were many reasons for this, but chief among them was the crushing guilt Kaella felt from what she had left behind. Her decision to leave Faaminl was bearing good fruit, and yet she had left her son to suffer alone back on Faaminl.

This sullen fact disallowed her from doing anything but attempting to rise up the ranks and grow in power in order to reach her goal. She resigned herself to not savour the process, much less enjoy it.

This soon changed, however.

From Faaminl, the new recruits and the six thousand veteran Aspire to Divine mercenaries had been going from world to world, bringing in new members while building a steady chain of camaraderie, but after a point, the recruitment stopped.

The high-ranking mercenaries changed the course of the great, silver transport vessel and in what might have been months ( the passage of time was hard to process and quantify in the great void), the group landed on a Breaking Chasm.

Breaking Chasms were realms greater than worlds, normally conquered and inhabited by Divine individuals and Deities.

It was here that Kaella saw the true scale of the Aspire to Divine mercenaries.

There were millions affiliated with the group and over half had stepped into Divinity.

Kaella's intrigue and excitement had soared.

Her determination was fuelled.

Years passed.

Kaella grew colder and more impressive, exploiting the resources Aspire to Divine practically handed to the talented.

She fell in love.

Parrhaya and Rorsetta didn't quite like Ciumin.

He had odd ambitions and was rather bold when sharing them with anyone other than Kaella. He too was freakishly talented and unlike Parrhaya, he basked in his talent rather than subduing it under modesty.

Ciumin's deepest desires were rather sombre but oddly reasonable. While they had a touch of darkness to them, Kaella didn't mind. Ciumin wasn't a bad person in her eyes; well, compared to what she had done to get here, he was a saint as far as she was concerned.

Kaella and Ciumin ascended into Deific power a short while later and moved up the ranks.

To Kaella's surprise, Parrhaya and Rorsetta invited her to an idea they had been concocting. Since they all had become Deities, Parrhaya suggested that they all create a world with characteristics that matched their objectives rather than setting out on their own.

Kaella found the idea delightful, but Ciumin didn't and she understood why.

Of course, because Ciumin loved Kaella, he didn't stop her from joining her friends.

However, since creating a world was a binding affair that would essentially tear the two from each other for a lengthy period, Ciumin gave Kaella a condition; he wanted to become part of the world Parrhaya, Rorsetta and Kaella were to create.

Kaella accepted wholly, but her friends were not too happy with this.

For Kaella's sake, they agreed in the end, but things went south almost immediately after the creation process started.

Parrhaya and Ciumin did not get along.

Ciumin criticised Parrhaya's ideas ruthlessly.

"What use is a bunch of creatures born with all the power in the world? Are you insane? What principle do you hope to learn from creating such a thing? And you want us all to help you? That's a waste of energy!" he would say.

"That's about as thick as I've ever seen a man get. Why are you so obsessed with standard living creatures and solving prior mysteries? Nothing in this reality is new. Go find some world that already exists with these conditions, and write a paper on your findings. This is worthless! Now, if you would listen to what I have in mind..." Ciumin would bark.

Kaella didn't know who she should support.

Thankfully, both Parrhaya, Ciumin and Rorsetta didn't allow her to butt in, but she felt awfully small when she heard them arguing while she sat some distance away, watching.

It was strange.

Everyone was here because of her.

If not for her, everyone would have gotten what they wanted.

But at same time, Kaella couldn't change the current status quo.

This proved true when Parrhaya finally had enough of Ciumin.

Kaella had never seen him so furious.

And it was then that she realised how mighty a Deity could be even in the eyes of another Deity.

The words Parrhaya said on that occasion still reverberated through her very soul.

"I have and will continue to tolerate you only because I gave my word to Kaella. I'm against throwing you out of our circle for that reason alone. But I can't stomach your attitude anymore. For Kaella's sake, I will have you linger, but I will not tolerate your outrageous opinions against my or Rorsetta's plans. For that..." he had said, and through a manner of technique Kaella couldn't understand, he sealed Ciumin in the unstable foundations of the world they had begun to create.

Parrhaya had then turned to a shocked Kaella and said:

"I'm sorry, but refusing to entertain with him meant he would take you away, right? I couldn't allow that. I gave you my word that we would make your ideal a reality. And about him... don't worry. It's not permanent. We will release him after we have enthralled ourselves with our ideas and brought you up significantly in strength."

It was these words that Kaella remembered when Aigas was completed, when Parrhaya created the dragons, the Giants and humans, when Rorsetta created the Sif, when the two became the land and the sea.

And when Rorsetta and Parrhaya were called upon by their superiors, ordered to hasten back to the Breaking Chasm where their journeys had begun, Kaella recalled how they, with great trust and faith left her with their work and hoped she would grow while protecting and bettering it.