BXBX NOVEL Chapter 233: Selfish.
"Sara you are making me anxious!" Ikaris snapped at the maid. "Would you please stop that?"
"Milady, I apologise, everything is prepared but my worry lies outside of this safe haven Alpha has created for us."
"There is a 98% chance that either Ikaris or her newborn will lose control of their power and cause a catastrophic amount of destruction to the surrounding universe wherever we are, it is for that reason that Master Vestic placed me in a barren universe with no other lifeform aside from us, my pocket dimension is merely an extra measure to hide them from the Emporium\'s scanners given that they have developed technology around Vatui lifeforms and can track them from the smallest, most minuscule signatures.
"If it\'s that dangerous then why are we here?" Eris stared at the system, confused. "Why is my home here, with my maids and most importantly my child?" She questioned loudly, and the room went silent.
Alpha paused for a moment and looked at everyone else, and then stared up at Eris again with her eyes slightly narrowed and her posture straight.
"Eris Schneider," She gestured to herself. "If leaving is your desire, I will freely grant you the skill [path] you can take your home your maids and your child with you, the cooldown is ten years regardless of where you are and the skill has no limit to its use other than the ten-year cooldown," She made an offer and Eris froze upon hearing it, she looked up at everyone and then at Alpha again.
"Are you serious?"
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"Yes, it was the skill I originally granted Master Vestic that allowed him to pursue Ikaris to Origin, as long as you can envision your destination, or describe it correctly you will be where you desire to be the most," Alpha explained.
"That\'s a broken skill why would you give me for free?" Eris was taken aback by the offer, and when she looked at the others for their reactions she found them minding Rach others\' businesses and not herding her any attention.
"I have enough supplies to open a hospital Milady." Sara smiled and Ikaris laughed at her comment and then again when Arla used a basic telekinetic skill to carefully levitate her and the bed off the ground and suspend them in the air.
"In that case, I can create a structure and have you move into it immediately," Alpha suggested, walking away from Eris and standing by Arla\'s side. "I have been on earth for the last six and a half months, recreating the most luxurious hospital on the planet is an easy feat for me."
"That sounds like a splendid idea!" Arla chirped, while Dina and Sara were already in the motion of packing whatever was laid in the room.
"Hey-"
*Ding!*
[You have been granted the unique skill: PATH, the details are simple; envision or wish for your destination, wherever or whomever your goal is you will be taken to them as long as they exist within the plain of the living, the cooldown for [PATH] is ten years, there are no consequences and there are no drawbacks to its use]
She got the message and froze.
"Don\'t worry, Eris, we\'ll be out of your hair in a sec, you can go back as soon as we\'re out." Dina looked around at her and then went back to packing their belongings.
"Wh- you\'re not even gonna talk about this?" Eris asked, aloud causing them all to stop. "You\'re putting everything on the line, Usami you have your daughter and your brother on the line here, you-"
"For fuck\'s sake, Eris!" Dina snapped. "When will you ever get a fucking clue?" She asked. "We get it; we get it already, you prioritise yourself over everyone and everything, you and everything that\'s about you come first, your life is the most important in the room it\'s fine, you don\'t need to explain yourself any further."
At Dina\'s words, the silence became shocking.
"I didn\'t mean it like that..." Eris stood at the door after she had already been on her way there before. "I\'m just saying-"
"You don\'t need to explain a thing more, honestly." Usami furrowed her brows before settling on a frown. "You\'re a mother, you want your child to be safe before anything and anyone else, you keep your family safe and we\'ll look after ours." She stared at her.
"You\'re not a family." The healer retorted but received several glares promising violence if she carried through with whatever was intended to come after that declaration.
"I thought you were at least a little bit redeemed, I felt so bad for leaving the first time even though I had all right to hate you, but you\'re not the same, Eris, you\'ve changed so much, you\'ve become the opposite of the woman you used to be, that girl who raised the spirits of thousands of soldiers, the one who used to save lives, the woman who sought strength and looked out for the well-being of her party, her friends, her family..."
Usami shook her head as everyone vanished from the room leaving just the two of them.
"She\'s nowhere to be found, you don\'t deserve that crest on your right forehand, you don\'t even deserve to be in the same room as them, to have your statue next to theirs is a sin, you\'re no hero -you selfish asshole, you\'re just Eris now, the woman who turned her back on everything that isn\'t about her." She finished talking before Alpha summoned her outside of the mansion grounds where she was already constructing a large space and a homey medical facility.
Eris stood at the window, her eyes dried of tears and her expression blank and void of emotion as she stared at the great white space she had been teleported in, thinking; at any moment now this could all vanish in a deadly explosion. "The fuck do you know about selfishness?"
"You isolated yourself and left me just as much as I left you..."
It was a few minutes later that the palace and everyone in it vanished.
[PATH] had been used.
***
"What the hell-" Renia was weaving and dodging attacks from captains and vice-captains like bombardments from every conceivable direction.
"This is not how humans fight, not even Master Vestic at the peak of his insanity fought like this -they are killing themselves!" She exclaimed as the warriors collided with each other as ever so often, smashing their skulls and breaking their bodies into unrecognisable mounds of flesh and bone whenever they missed her.
"They are using their bodies like projectiles!" She spun around one vice-captain and grabbed his leg swinging him like a Barton and killing dozens that came at her afterwards.
"It is the same for me." Adonai was using his staff instead of a weapon made of his enemy, grinding them away and turning their bodies into different elements and objects upon contact.
"Their power has increased a hundredfold but those who are still weaker are using their bodies to buy the stronger ones a miniscule moment to find even the slightest weakness in my armour and attack!" He exclaimed, and right on queue blocked a strike from Fried Jäger, the 4th Captain\'s hand, spinning the weapon so fast that it tore the man\'s hand clean off his shoulder.
"And another thing-"
"I do not know what Project: PowerPoint is but it has enabled them the ability to manipulate their bodies in amazing ways, they have achieved some form of exponential cellular growth since their eyes and blood turned black!" Dr\'ul spoke up.
"As long as the wound is not fatal their body draws flesh from itself to that area, recreating whatever they lost in an attempt to keep them in fighting condition, surely with their bodies remaining human it has a limit, but it is still extremely troublesome!" She blocked and weaved through the dead space full of bodies and red and black blood, still easily dispatching her enemies but visibly wary of the three captains that she was fighting.
"A healing factor like this has a limit, but with the power they possess continuously rising the longer they fight, I fear we might be overpowered with enough time," Adonai buried his staff halfway into the body of an enemy and clasped his hands together forming a barrier around himself that used the woman\'s blood as a conduit to strengthen itself repeatedly.
"I have no choice but to give it my all!" He roared.
His shoulders broadened, and his clean and pristine nails turned to claws and grew sharp and jagged, his emerald eyes became golden and slotted and his face rapidly disfigured and stretched into a reptilian snout while a tail grew from his spine swinging around and finally, his skin hardened I to shell-like scales as he grabbed his staff a second time and roared again.
The galaxy he had found himself in expanded and shrunk several times as his powers of creation began running rampant, forming and destroying new stars as he started wearing against the Drugged-up Emporium Warriors.
"I do not rely on this hideous appearance, it does not suit me well, but I am now forced to rely on one of the powers I have never used and detest, I: Adonai, the god of Creation will send you all to the afterlife!" He roared again opening his long mouth wide and firing off a white Lazer-like bomb which tore through and caused the bodies of his enemies to explode upon being mangled.
"I will hunt you all!"
[THE GOD OF CREATION: ADONAI; PREDATOR EVOLITION]
He continued roaring.
"I WILL SLAUGHTER YOU ALL!!"