Chapter 394 The Merging

Chapter 394 The Merging

?The fact that there is another artifact like the red crystal humbled Raith a lot. Surely, he had felt like the most powerful one way or the other. [The Source] was what brought him to life, released him from the shackles of Cor - Ellion's time loop and was subtly feeding him strength.

He had not even be able to grasp0.1% of what it consisted and could do but Raith was already filled with so much expectation anytime he thought about it.

He felt like, only time will tell, as long as he had a crystal that was linked to the first primordial, something that even primordials covet then he would eventually be distinguished from the rest of the world.

However, all that was on a table with unbalanced leg. Fear slowly crept into Raith's mundane heart. To think that one of those REVERIE grade artifact could be something he would get entangled with very soon.

Raith frowned. There were so many things tied to this mission. What if the primordials discover that he is with the red crystal? Or what if that broken throne is able to do something to take the red crystal away from him.

After all, Sage had said nothing can be said about them, those particular grade cannot be comprehended in a sense. And he sorta understood that, he was merged with one himself.

So, nothing is impossible... and he had not even began to scratch the surface of what [The Source] can do.

He slowly touched his right side heart... the extraordinary heart. Raith closed his eyes and mutter.

"Maybe it is time to start daring some things." His eyes glowered with resolve. "I can't afford to stay in this mediocrity anymore. If my safety is being challenged then I have to push myself out of my shell."

With those words of determination, Raith lifted his legs and sat crossed them. He comfortably put his hands on his knee and closed his eyes, transitioning to his soul plane.

The reflecting water, the retreating darkness at the edges of the plane - towards the horizon, and the crimson star. Everything was just as he had left it. The crimson glow from the star however, seemed to have grown more gentle and beauty, before it was a harsh red but now it seemed warm and casting a twilight-like radiance in the whole place.

On the surface of the water, the two birds were running after each other. This time, when Raith entered, they paused to look at him and continued their play like he didn't just come.

Meanwhile Greed watched from afar, a deadpan expression on his face.

After a few more hours, Raith's brow finally twitched. A couple of seconds later, they furrowed and drew tight lines on his forehead. Stones of sweat formed all over his head and after a few more minutes, they began to trickle down.

Inside him was a raging storm, trying to merge three different entities into a single one didn't exactly come as easy as he thought it would. Each one was like a liquid storm, the darkness was like a formidable flood threatening to swallow his entire being in whole— the light however, even though it served only as a reflection, it was blinding and was like a veil of Luminous that refused to be undone.

It was strong and no matter how much this veil collided with the liquid storm of darkness, it didn't come down, nor did the darkness retreat. Raith's body shook with terror and was on the edge of breaking.

The sweats on his body increased. As it was happening in the soul plane, so it was in reality. Raith's shirt was dampened with sweat. And even more poured down from his body, his face grew pale and the frown on his face showed the struggles within him.

His body was trembling and he was barely holding it together, parts of him were begging to tear apart, the moment he yielded to it that was a certain failure.

Although he didn't know how long he was supposed to hold out for, he didn't know if they would even be able to accept each other to become one.

Raith tightened his eyes bit down on his lips to hold on stronger.

He endured for another few more hours, before the radiance of the source began to permeate both the storm of darkness and veil of light. Within them was a crimson ethereal glow that seemed to be turning them from inside out.

At that moment, Raith understood something.

[The Source] was never supposed to be on the level of this two. Perhaps that thing is a mediator, a force that pulls other forces together. It was incredibly powerful and seems like the only entity endearing enough to attempt to merge light and darkness.

"Raven... Raith..."

Raith's frown deepened as he heard the silky voice, it's been an awful while he heard it but he was sure, it was familiar and undoubtedly.

'Mother?'