Chapter 523 A big piece of the puzzle (part 1)

Chapter 523 A big piece of the puzzle (part 1)

While the survivors of the human army cleaned the battlefield under old Ben's watching, Daimon and the girls travelled through the portal created by Rita, strangely the dimensional tunnel in which they were was different than the ones created through Space Shift, which Daimon has seen before.

Here not only space laws existed like normally, there were darkness laws lingering through it as well, which was rather strange, the only thing Daimon could think of, was that Rita's Space Shift was altered due to her strong shadow affinity.

As a proof of it, the portal for them to leave, appeared on the ground in an area covered by shadows, inside of the Valleris's mansion, so they literally emerged from the shadows, of course Rita chose one of the places in which Daimon has been, so there weren't guards here as it was the area that was assigned to Jeanne.

Speaking of which, Daimon felt a bit curious about those white metal boxes those two were holding, he knew what was inside of them, but he didn't know what they were planning to do with them.

Feeling Daimon's gaze on them, Emily turned to see him before saying.

"We aren't going to eat it or something like that... the biggest part of my father's heart blood was absorbed by them and infused in their hearts, so we'll use a little ritual to separate it".

"Reyne you also come, let them properly catch up", said Jeanne to her daughter, who was looking at Sarah play with that purple mist next to Jasmine.

"Mm", Reyne nodded and then followed her mother and Emily to their room, leaving behind Daimon, Jasmine, Sarah and Freya.

"Let's go too, we have a lot of things to discuss", said Daimon as he gazed at Freya, before he left to the room which he shared with Sarah previously.

On the way Daimon felt Jasmine's happy gaze on him, which was caused by the fact that they were "allowed" to be present for the conversation he was about to have with Freya.

Daimon hadn't specifically explained to them about his system, he has only done that for his soulmates, per Evangeline's suggestion, but even if he didn't explain about his, those two had been too involved with Adam to leave them in the dark at this point.

They even killed Adam, so they aren't "normal" people anymore, Evangeline didn't explain much cause restrictions, but she did say that they are now able to clash against system users, to a certain extent, despite not being directly linked to him, like Aisha and the other soulmates.

Sarah could see through Adam's tricks even before all this, but she was unable to truly wound him, but now she should be able to, even if she didn't have items from a system, that was the biggest difference.

As for Jeanne, Emily and Reyne, they were surprisingly immune to Adam's "Hero Charisma" as Ariel called it, apparently Adam's skill had a certain possibility to fail, when the target were women with extreme negative affinities, which is why it didn't work with Sarah.

Though Jasmine was also part Nethereal which should have helped her resist Adam's skill, her Nethereal side has been suppressed by the lineage of the Light Palace and their extreme positive light affinity, while Sarah was born with dual negative affinities, namely darkness and poison.

And now she has obtained an even more extreme negative one, in the form of Nether, speaking of that, Daimon needed to have a small talk with the crazy girl, to see what was the effect of her recently obtained nether, the restrictions and so on, not only because he was genuinely curious about it, but because he might have to deal with the Nethereal that tricked her mother, which is supposed to be her father.

Soon, the three girls entered the room and then Daimon closed the door behind of him, the crazy girl was wild as ever, she just took off her shoes and jumped on the bed, Jasmine on the other hand slightly closed her eyes as she noticed that this room only had a single bed and it was quite a big one, in other words she and Daimon had shared a bed... alone.

Not to mention, she saw Daimon not avoiding her like the plague for a change, which meant that while she was gone, Sarah and Daimon had gotten "closer" for sure, how much, that was the question she was making to herself.

But that could wait for later, since there was an "outsider" among them currently, in the form of Freya, who remained standing while Daimon and those two sat on the edge of the bed.

"First of all, who are you and be as specific as you "can", if there is something you can't say out loud, just give me a signal and I don't think I have to remind you, but lying is meaningless in front of me", he said as he gazed at Freya.

The silver armored woman nodded and then snapped her fingers to create a metal chair for her to sit.

"For starters my name is Freya, since you killed that lame excuse of a hero, then you must know at this point that there are "extraordinary" existences, even among geniuses, I used to be the companion of someone like that and so was Karla too".

"I guess that my personal matters are of no interest for you, so I'll keep that out as it won't affect the answers you seek", said Freya before continuing.

"I honestly don't remember how many years ago it was, just like you and that girl with a "peculiar" affinity, my companion and Karla's one got mission, which led us to this planet, the difference is that back then, both humans and Ghouls were way stronger than now, the Archdukes were all Stellar ranks and the Blood King of back then had managed to... set a foot into the next realm", she said as she pointed at Sarah.

With peculiar affinity she obviously meant the strange purple nether that Sarah became able to control, after absorbing all the dark energy that Karla bestowed to the Ghouls.

Daimon's eyes glowed behind his mask, this is the first time he hears about anyone surpassing the limits of the Stellar ranks, even Maximum ranked were still Stellar ranks after all.

"Leaving aside the ventures that those two had together when they first arrived, in one of their missions, they met a native of Kerrol who managed to escape the living hell of a human farm, though his own means and also awakened as a "chosen one", and that's where things changed".

"That native started at a really low point, but this planet was his stage so he sky-rocketed through the ranks quite fast, and so with three people leading the humanity, the victories started to increase, until only the major areas controlled by the Ghouls remained".

"If you wonder why the Blood King didn't simply come to crush them, the missions and the appearance of a native chosen one was perfectly "timed", the Blood King had isolated himself to attempt an advance, so he wasn't aware that a fire had been lit up in his backyard".

"As for the Archdukes, they were all only early stage Stellars, so with those three at the peak of the Arch rank, they were able to repel them, also a couple of Ghouls were brought to our side, all in all with some loses on battles, the war was going to be won...".

"I'm not sweetening what happened, I certainly failed to fulfill my duty to protect my friend, but that for me both of them caused her death... she used something she shouldn't have and cut both the Blood King bastard who died on the spot and the trash hero who managed to escape, not without losing something important for him".

"Karla was forcefully stripped away from him and I personally cut his arm before everything went blank... the ability that my companion obtained by forcefully pushing herself to the limit was "Sever", so she split the body of the Blood King into countless threads of blood and the hero bastard was split of what he treasured the most, the source of his power".

"But that wasn't all, she also... cut the connection between her and me, there are different types of agreements between us and our companions, that angel girl mentioned to you right, well, mine was supposed to be a permanent contract meaning that when she died I would too, but she changed it so that I could live since she took the decision to avenge her loved one even if it costed her life".

Daimon nodded, he was ready to die back when he fought the manticore, after Aisha died, whoever preached about forgiving someone that killed a precious person for you, didn't know what the hell it was talking about.

That being said, now Daimon realized that he was too immature, he was able to win because Aisha half killed the manticore and because his instincts took over, after that, even if he didn't die, he would have ended up shortening his lifespan quite a lot.

Obtaining the system changed his perspective, if he would have awakened the system before he saw the manticore was still alive, he might have chosen to hide and then look for a way to revive Aisha, ironically enough, it was his reckless abandon to kill the manticore what allowed him to bring her back.

After a moment of silence, Freya then said.

"As much as I would have liked that to be the end, I ended up obtaining a second chance, call it fate, luck or some idiot pulling the strings behind scenes, the younger sister of my late companion became a chosen one after getting news of the death of her only family and I was chosen to be her companion...".

"We started all over again, she knew about me so she naturally asked about her sister's death, so step by step we became strong once again, but we couldn't find that piece of trash, until she reached the Arch rank, she got a mission to a planet that was accessible through a ruin, similar to how my previous companion and me ended up in Kerrol".

"But this time we arrived at Neptune where the stage was different, that mission was shared with other three guys, and among them there was another damn hero, but as much as I hated them, he wasn't the one we were looking for, or so we thought".

"Turns out, that guy had some kind of encounter, though he lost his administrator, he gained the support of one of those guys who controls an energy similar to that girl's one, and his overall aura and even affinity changed completely, so I couldn't recognize him until it was too late".

"After defeating our respective opponents, we were sent in a "bonus" mission, which took us back to Kerrol, but while I couldn't recognize that bastard, he did know about my new companion, because her sister had mentioned her and they resembled quite a bit, with the difference that she had light affinity instead of metal".

"So, we were ambushed by the guys of this place that had been controlled by Karla, waiting for that bastard's return, but the Ghouls who all those years back supported my companion saw the resemblance and actually helped us resist, this time I took the initiative to use a part of my existence, and cut the new source of power that bastard got".

"Also, my new companion killed the hero bastard but died together with him, since neither I or Karla died, but I was weakened, she imprisoned me into that star and made up the history that the natives of Kerrol know about".

"As for the source of the curse that kept Karla at her wit's end, since she couldn't escape unless he killed all the humans and Ghouls or me using the same trident with which he killed the chosen one of Kerrol, that guy apparently had made some kind of deal with someone powerful enough to suppress us and even those guys who controlled that dark energy, and since he betrayed it, both him and Karla paid the price".

"Luckily, with the last bit of my energy I sent what I severed from that guy and from my second companion, away, back to Neptune, those two didn't have any other family, but the younger sister had a friend who she considered her sister, so I made sure that her lineage was received by her so those two's will could continue, and that was the last thing I could do, before I was sealed away".

"Through the years, Karla tried to get me to tell her where the hero's things were, but not only I didn't know, even if I did, I wouldn't have told her, and she couldn't kill me nor damage me too much, unless she recovered the trident of the hero, so she created a fake mission to bring people here".

"My second companion as well as the trash guy didn't complete their mission, so the passage to Kerrol remained opened, after a lot of work, Karla managed to distort it so that only the ones she needed to escape this place could enter through the passage left by us".

"You can guess the rest, that guy who you crushed, was also a hero, so he probably used some sort of reward to enter, I was wondering why were you brought here id you weren't one, but now all makes sense, you were brought because you are one too", concluded Freya.

Only to see Daimon shaking his head, he stole the opportunity from Adam, but more importantly, the one who was kidnapped was Jasmine, the passage was in the territory of the Light Palace, and the second host of Freya was a light affinity system user, who died here without anyone knowing the truth.

And there was another light system user that died in similar circumstances, which he knew about... the Matriarch of the Light Palace, and Jasmine's ancestor, also now things made sense, the cross bow was what didn't match for him, though it was made of some kind of metal, it was clearly a magic weapon that was specifically used by someone with light affinity, so at first Freya's host didn't match for that, but the second one did.

Daimon turned to see Jasmine who was in awe at the story she just heard, to then say.

"It's okay, deactivate the effect of the bracelet".

"Mm", Jasmine had her doubts, but she didn't hesitate even for a second after listening to Daimon's words, with a single thought, the bracelet of the god of mischief stopped changing the nature of her light element.

"You!", Freya almost fell from her chair the moment she felt Jasmine's aura, and she stood up from her chair when she saw the white halos appearing in her pupils.

Daimon then decided to test something out, light vertical lines of light appeared in his eyes as he took off the mask of the Hollow Suit, to reveal his face.

Freya's body trembled, her murderous intent flowed out of her body, but Daimon didn't care, because it lasted for a single second, before it became confusion.

"You, what are you?", she mumbled, and the surprised kept coming, Daimon took out a beast pouch from the inventory, and then retrieved the object he was keeping inside of it, a large vase which was full to the brim with a semi-dark liquid.

With a snap of Daimon's fingers, a gray sphere was retrieved from within the liquid and shown to Freya.

"I guess, I should thank you for this then", he said as he played with the hollow gray sphere that when submerged in water, produced the liquid that was turned into the liqueur that the Blackfin family treasured so much, as it enhanced their lineage.

But for Daimon had a different use, since he obtained the Black Armored Shark lineage from it, and earned the Dracolevia lineage thanks to him overscoring during the trial of the Lineage Temple.