Will of chaos

When I regained consciousness I still couldn’t open my eyes or even hear anything, I wasn’t able to use my Aura either, every part of my body was hurting and my mind was heavy.

The only thing I felt besides the sensations of the precarious state I’m in, was feeling like my body was floating in a warm pool, it was very nice and relaxing.

Another thing I felt was the smell of blood and from time to time someone was throwing blood in my mouth, the taste was a mixture of the blood of Vanessa, Natasha, Alice, and Karina.

Their blood has always been the most nourishing to me, my two Saints probably because of their position, Vanessa for being a Saint of the Blood Goddess who is my mother, and Natasha for carrying the Authority of healing.

Maybe it was because of this blood that I smelled this all the time, I felt that this blood was charged with Holy Power and life healing my body from the inside, meanwhile, the pool it was in was carrying all kinds of energy that my body absorbed to replace what I lost.

I was being fully nourished, but I was still too weak, I didn’t know how much time was passing and none of that made any difference to my mind that wasn’t getting better.

I couldn’t tell the state of my Soul and I decided to put it aside temporarily since it wasn’t something I could take care of now, as my body was receiving some kind of treatment, I decided to take care of my mind by myself and for that, I decided to meditate.

I tried ignoring all sensations and emptying my mind, which proved easy as I wasn’t able to use half of my senses at the moment and soon fell into a meditative state.

I don’t know how much time has passed, but my mind is becoming lighter and lighter, so I was able to think more clearly, which allowed me to take short breaks in meditation to check the state of my body.

After an unknown amount of time, my mind and body were in a slightly acceptable state, that means I could at least stand up and walk or even open my eyes, my senses were also coming back, but beyond a few footsteps I hear sometimes, I wasn’t able to hear anything else.

My energy reserves are also completely full and my Aura was in acceptable condition, in fact, it was in the best condition.

Sigh

When I took a deep breath, I tried to lift my head and open my eyes little by little, it took a while to get used to the brightness of the place, but soon I could see that I was floating in a pool of blood in front of a statue of mine. 𝘦𝘯.𝘰𝘳𝘨

It only took me half a second to realize the situation looking around confirming that I’m in the Hall of Statues of the Temple Communal and that blood I’m floating in belongs to me.

The only thing I don’t understand is why they left me here, there were some people kneeling on the edge of the pool of Blood, they were 2 Lamias, 6 Lizardman, and 1 Elf.

Everyone was kneeling and with their eyes closed with some with their foreheads against the ground, maybe it was because I was my blood or because I was still here, but I felt a slight trace of energy flow from them into the blood of the pool before I came to me being absorbed into my body, that trace of energy even carried a bit of Holy Power.

I calmly stand up, I don’t remember how deep this pool is, so I try to use basic non-elemental magic to float without lingering over these people who were clearly praying to me.

Soon I felt the space around me double and I realized that the surroundings changed, this time I was in a room on another floor of the Communal Temple, inside the room there was a Layla looking at me upset while eating a slice of pizza while in her Human size, there was also Vanessa and Karina who were talking to Lilian with their children.

Lilian and her family got on their knees as soon as I appeared, I greeted them before leaving to do some errand at Vanessa’s request, then Layla returned to her small Fairy form and left saying that she would warn the others.

I was left half-sitting in the living room with Vanessa wiping the blood from my body and Karina giving me her wrist to feed on.

“How long…” (I)

“2 days, but shorter than we expected.” (Karina)

“I received an oracle from the Goddess Selene telling you what to do, we brought you to the pool of blood where her statue is enshrined in the Communal Temple and we fed you a mixture of blood.” (Vanessa)

“What happened to him?” (I)

“…” (Vanessa)

“…” (Karina)

The two exchange glances with my question, I don’t understand the reason, I know he’s fine because during the breaks in my meditation, I check the connections I have with my Family and others, that includes him.

“I don’t know, there is a barrier around him, one of his sisters said that he built the barrier himself and since then bizarre energy fluctuations have been happening in the place.” (Karina)

“Did he put up the barrier to protect himself or to protect others?” (I)

“That was the same question his sister asked.” (Vanessa)

“For the time being we thought that was the case, his Aura was wild and large amounts of energy were colliding on the first day to the point where Ragnar was injured trying to pull you away.” (Karina)

“Before you ask, Ragnar is fine now.” (Karina)

“If he’s trying to control his power, then how did he create the barrier?” (I)

“We don’t know, but if our theory is correct, his progress is phenomenal, no energy is being emitted from within the barrier since earlier today and his Aura seems under control.” (Vanessa)

“Unfortunately those are the only things we can assume about his situation.” (Karina)

“…” (I)

I still don’t have the strength to use my connections, but I can still feel if those connected to me are fine, the connection I have with him is strange being made purely of Holy Power and Authority, but I can still say that he looks fine.

I don’t feel any turbulent emotions or out-of-control power, but I can feel a consciousness on the other side that senses my probing, unfortunately, I can’t reach you through that connection.

“Take me to him.” (I)

“With all due respect, you’re in no condition…” (Karina)

“I can stand and walk, plus I’m not that bad.” (I)

I wasn’t lying, I’ve been in much worse situations and with injuries that couldn’t be seen just by looking at me.

The two looked at each other once more, but the truth is that their opinion doesn’t matter this time, I decided to go there and I hardly change my mind when I make a decision.

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I found that I woke up after the biggest day, in the early afternoon, to be taken on Orion’s back with Ragnar seconds at my side with Sakura on my back as my other Familiars followed flying around me, Nix the only one within my shadow.

Apart from my Family members, only my 2 Saints and 3 Heroes came with me due to insistence, my sisters weren’t around, but I suspect I’ll find them where I’m going.

As soon as I got to the floor where I performed the Hades Ceremony, I could see the barrier, it was the exact size of the area I created for the ceremony.

“The barrier was smaller than that, it’s been expanding to this size just last night.” (Orion)

“…” (I)

My Aura was fine, but it still couldn’t extend there, so I waited to get close enough to feel this barrier with my Aura, it had a similar feeling to the area I created by accident that time, but it was still different as if it was some kind of copy.

The barrier was filled with Holy Power and Authority that were almost identical to mine, but it wasn’t achieving the last step of bleeding into the surroundings and becoming a part of the environment in harmony.

The barrier was black in color with red and white energy flows running through all corners, the shape of the barrier is also different from the area I created that time, the area was circular with me in the center, but this barrier was triangular.

“You woke up fast.” (Elizabeth)

I turn my head in one direction and see my 3 sisters flying towards me, just like I thought, they’ve been keeping an eye on him this whole time.

“Were they watching?” (I)

“Unfortunately yes, that shouldn’t even be possible at your current level of strength and you even used a Dragon Seal so out of the ordinary that even I wasn’t sure what could come out of it.” (Elizabeth)

“I’m curious, the Aura I felt before was pretty cool.” (Caitlyn)

“If you take away the murderous desire, hunger, and boundless ferocity, then I guess it could be considered cool.” (Natasha)

“I think I felt traces of the energy of hell…” (Elizabeth)

“…” (I)

The 3 don’t fool me, I can see the spark of curiosity in each of their eyes, they just want a peek at him and that’s why they’ve waited until now.