Yaleth couldn’t move. His body had been frozen from fear, and the simple pressure from the man’s gaze was crushing him alive.
’They said the blessing had healing ability.’
’So why is he here?’
Most blessings had the God Parents’ Intent.
Yaleth had predicted that the Monarch of Death and the Lady of Spring used their energies instead of Intent to create a blessing for Neo, which was why the blessing gave him abilities of two different nature.
’But the blessing had Intent from both Godparents? How is that possible?’
Yaleth’s body shuddered. He wanted to lower his gaze, but he couldn’t even look away by his own will.
’We are screwed.’
The Absolute Judgement.
The Undefeatable Monarch.
The Prime Death.
Anyone worth a dime would’ve heard those names. They belonged to the Monarch of Death, Hades.
Hades had lived and disappeared during the Universe Creation Era. Still, people feared and revered him to this day.
A mere mention of the name would make people shudder.
’Velkaria, and I both were the cause of his son’s harrowing life.’
’No way he is going to spare us.’
This was why Yaleth had been against manifesting Hadean Light Blessing. The risk was too high.
But in the end, he had listened to Velkaria and—
’No, there is no point in blaming the past.’
’I need to think of a way out.’
He had already given up on living. They would be killed, that much was guaranteed.
But he hoped they weren’t ’punished’.
The punishment from the God who was once called Absolute Judgment would definitely be infinitely worse than death.
"Uh—"
Yaleth opened his mouth to speak, but Persephone was faster.
"I’ve been hoping to meet you two for so long."
She moved towards Velkaria who was still confused.
Her hands moved to hold the floating eyeball. Waves of energy pulsed from her hands. The energy hit Velkaria and an astonishing transformation occurred.
The corruption on Velkaria’s physical form receded.
Her muscles twitched and she slowly transformed into a humanoid figure.
She looked like an 18-year-old human girl. Her figure was proportional, and she had an extremely beautiful face. Her black hair had lavender sheen, and she had amethyst eyes.
"H-huh? W... what is this?"
Velkaria was stunned.
She touched her face and body with trembling hands. Her eyes were wide from shock.
"I have restored your original form too. Now, you can switch between your Void Angel appearance, your true appearance, and this human appearance. This one is easier to move around, so I let you be like this now, but you can try to change."
Persephone smiled sweetly.
"Thank you for being with my son during the times he was all alone."
Then, it hit Velkaria.
This was a gift from Persephone.
Velkaria wanted to laugh. Gift? Being together with Neo?
They had been enemies who fought and killed each other for centuries.
But at that moment, Velkaria couldn’t say anything to Persephone.
Her breath hitched, and tears dripped from her eyes. The fact that she could change back to her original appearance, something she had given up long ago, made her lose composure.
She clasped her trembling hands.
A power pulsed from her chest, and she transformed again.
This time, her human body turned into a translucent energy that looked like radio wave frequencies. She still maintained the shape of a human body.
Six large white wings appeared on her back, and two small white wings appeared on the base of her neck.
A golden halo materialized above her head.
Looking at her hands, Velkaria’s tears burst forth as if a dam had broken.
Long before she was corrupted by Void, she was a ’celebrity’ on her planet. People praised her for her beautiful voice, and her appearance.
But everything was destroyed after a Void Window opened on her planet.
Her friends were killed. The people who praised her disappeared. She became an abomination, and the sole survivor.
She had wanted to die.
She had tried to kill herself.
But she wouldn’t die.
Because she was her planet’s Sacred Treasure. Because she was the cumulation of all talent it could muster.
Back then, the news had brought only despair to her.
But after seeing everyone become eldritch horrors, she had decided to kill them. Her friends. Her people. Her world.
Then, she would die along with it.
Velkaria didn’t want to kill anyone. She wanted to go back to the days where her biggest concern was her bed hair.
However, those times would never return.
Just when she had fallen into the depths of despair, Yaleth had appeared.
’Hoh? I came here quickly because I sensed the opening of a Window, but to think there was a survivor.’
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