blueteamnovel Chapter 242: Your love...is heavy
Chapter 242: Your love...is heavy
"E-Eli, You don't need to--"
"Mariel, move aside" Eli interrupted Mariel.
"N-No, I won't let this bastar--mmffff" Wei, who was about to pull his wife, was suddenly restrained and pulled to the ground. A single glance from Eli's crystalline eyes made Wei shudder in fear, recognizing the presence of a 'FIEND!!'.
"Eli, it's fine. I can kill h--" Mariel tried to talk to him, expressing her responsibility for Mei's death. Although she was somewhat comforted that Eli was trying to ease her guilt, she believed she must take responsibility for what happened.
She was the one who let this happen so she must kill Mei with her two hands before she becomes Fiend.
Yet,
Eli kissed her forehead before saying, "It hurts when you are crying" pointing to his heart. He continued, "Killing that thing is easy for me, so don't worry" and moved towards Mei.
Mariel was taken aback by his words. This was the first time she heard someone say they were hurt seeing her cry.
"I--I...." She reluctantly nodded, "Please give her a painless death" as she stepped back.
Eli, who sat before Mei's blackened body, looked at Mariel and said, "I am not going to kill her".
"What?" Mariel frowned, not understanding what Eli was trying to convey.
"I am going to kill what's born inside her" Eli clarified as he put his hands on Wei's sternum and muttered.,
/"Soulvorax"/
The veins around Eli's hands suddenly pulsed, their usual translucent appearance transforming into an ominous shade of black. It was as if an unseen force surged through his veins, sending dark ripples across his skin.
"What the....?" Mariel's eyes widened in disbelief, and her breath caught in her throat, as she observed the unsettling transformation on his body.
Mariel's eyes widened in terror when she saw it. For a fleeting moment....she was certain she recognized the same reddish-black entity that she had encountered before. The memory flashed vividly in her mind, "What in the name is he...?" she muttered to herself, unable to comprehend the extraordinary nature of Eli's being.
And she noticed something, the once vibrant grass beneath Eli's feet now withered, losing its vitality, as if the very life force around him succumbed to an invisible drain.
"AARRRHHHH!!"
The motionless body, Mei suddenly screamed as the blackened areas slowly reverted to normal. Wei's eyes reflected disbelief, his gaze shifting between Eli with astonishment and his wife with a spark of hope.
Veins around Eli's body pulsated as if absorbing something, the black colour diminishing entirely, leaving only lingering darkness at the sternum where the Soul Crystal might be attached to her heart.
Eli, in the process of absorbing Mei's corruption, felt his soul entering her Soul Crystal.
Inside this metaphysical space, he encountered two distinct figures:
One was a large, white entity, while the other resembled a small, curled black figure like an infant, both hovering in a realm of white with black mist.
"Hmmm..." Eli contemplated as he gazed at the black figure.
"I am sorry, child" He uttered, and with an unusual act, he opened his mouth as deformed into a reddish-black void and...
"MUNCH"
He ate the dark entity, and the black mist in the metaphysical space began to dissipate.
Outside, Mariel witnessed the vanishing black spot, her disbelieving eyes following the spectacle.
Old Mei returned to normal, her pale, wrinkled face slowly gaining a rosy hue, though she remained unconscious.
"I-It will take-ha-sometime for her wake up..." Eli, standing unsteadily, was caught by Mariel just as he was about to stumble.
Feeling her embrace, Eli managed a smile, "I killed her, so don't cry....." he said before succumbing to exhaustion and fainting.
Mariel looked at the man who accomplished something unprecedented. The veins on his body continued to pulse with darkness.
The new soul sought to assert its dominance, taking control of the body like a ghost controlling the body, but here the original was already deleted from the body.
In Mei's case, I did something drastic....I ate the new soul. Something that could not done by the current technology or even possible by any kind of magic... That's what I knew.
It was like hitting the reset button to keep Mei from turning into something dark and scary. Just trying to save her from a bad fate, you know?
I returned to the icy throne, a structure sculpted from glacial elegance that cradled me in its chilly embrace. Despite its frozen composition...a peculiar comfort enveloped me as I settled into its frigid contours. The throne, an ethereal creation, seemed to be created by liking someone.
As I took my seat, my gaze involuntarily gravitated toward the two empty seats positioned beside me,
"Mother.... Ava...." The names slipped from my lips like whispers carried by the snow wind, laden with a profound sense of longing. Closing my eyes, I felt my time was up here when a certain pull washed over me.
"Ashy~"
"Dear~"
The voices, filled with an undeniable yearning, echoed from either side. A bittersweet smile played on my lips as I succumbed to the embrace of slumber.
As I drifted into dreams, my body felt heavy and also my senses here.
The reddish-black figure within me stirred, slowly rising from the icy throne and,
'Clap'
A resonant clap echoed, and the space around the ethereal world fractured like an illusion and,
"KIIIKKKIIII!!"
A majestic white phoenix that soared into the white endless sky.
"HELP!!"
"NO!!!"
"FORGIVE US!!!"
...
Desperation and anguish reverberated from the unseen depths of the mountain below, adding a haunting layer to the surreal happening below.
'Clang, Clang'
A pink chain manifested in the hand of the reddish-black figure, accompanied by a delicate collar around its neck.
Seated upon the icy throne, the reddish-black figure cast a discerning gaze at the two white figures now occupying the adjacent seats. They had materialized seemingly out of thin air, mirroring the mysterious nature of their surroundings.
'Clang, Clang'
The pink chains in their hands and pink collars mirrored the strange dance of connections in this otherworldly realm between ethereal places. Each chain connected to the reddish-black figure's hands and it connected to their hands, a silent testament to connections that transcended the boundaries of understanding....
With a nonchalant flick of its fingers, the reddish-black figure conjured a peculiar sight...an amorphous mass of black sticky liquid that hovered before it.
"WVAVVAAA!!!"
The eerie cry echoed, resembling the plaintive wail of a child.
The figure shook its head as if amusing and.....warmly smiling? In an oddly tender gesture, it extended a hand to pat the sticky substance, causing it to swirl and disintegrate into minuscule particles.
"Swoossshh"
Soon the figure looked at a white crystal bird.
A sudden gust enveloped the scene as a colossal snowstorm materialized, obscuring the movements within before dissipating into the vast expanse of the endless white world.