The Gem of Pride, her hubris. It gave birth to… some annoying round and fluffy birds that imploded at the minimum stimuli.

"Squak!" And one that as soon as Elizabeth stopped translating, the mana waves started squeaking all around while turning into lightning and jumping from place to place on the shadow spire.

Reginald had apologized and promised that he would speak with the stupid birds to get some sense into them, but if they had been born from Elizabeth's pride…She would not hope for much, if they were in some level, a reflection of Elizabeth, then it was a futile effort.

This, however, made her think about something else.

"Nyx." Elizabeth summoned her favorite Shadow Dragon.

"Yes Mistress?" Nyx materialized himself from her shadow. The adorable shadow dragon in his cute form.

This…

"Nyx? Do you have anything to tell me?" Elizabeth narrowed her eyes at the shadow dragon, she had half expected to see Nyx on an Adult Dragon form, or at least his juvenile form.

The fact that the Shadow Dragon came in his hatchling form meant that he wanted to distract Elizabeth by acting cute; she would not be deceived or distracted!

"... I'm sorry about the faults that one of my subordinates caused; I was asleep while the dissident raised her rebels. We will start combing the Shadow Haven to make sure they aren't here; as soon as that is done, we will double the checkups to get into the Shadow Haven and send rangers to explore the surrounding area; we will find the dissident Mistress. This I swear on my honor." Nyx said while doing (a very cute) bow.

"That is fine, let them be. The Valkyrie Girls will act as a royal guard to Rossie after all." Elizabeth dismissed the idea of hunting them down; she did want to hunt them down to try and make amends, but she didn't mind as much the fact that they had been born to hunt her down.

No, if anything she wanted them to grow in power. To be a shield for Rossie and Rena…against her, should the worst come to happen and she turned once more into The Debauchery Dragon.

She knew for a fact that the old Rossie and the old Rena wouldn't doubt even for a second and turn themselves into debauchery with her, but she didn't want that for them, she didn't want for the girls to discard their Humanity only to accompany her.

She would love for them to do that of course, but she wanted them to do it because they wanted it, not because Elizabeth shed her Humanity. She wanted them to doubt, to discuss, to think, and ultimately, to bring arguments against that, should they wish.

If after doing all that they still shed their Humanity…well, it would be interesting to find out how they could live as not human entities.

"...is that….wise?" Nyx said as he left his hatchling form and turned into his juvenile form, "They were raised as Dragon Slayers, even though their base is that of a Shadow Dragon. They are no longer shadows or Dragons."

They weren't?

"Meaning?" Elizabeth questioned, she had thought they were some advanced form of Shadow Dragons. They had been, after all, been born from her.

"They are closer to what Mistress Alice and Mistress Chloe are, or perhaps to Lady Aura?" Nyx said, thinking, "Nay, they are somewhere in between them."

…Aura again? That girl did went to places huh.

"Let me take this one," Aura said, chiming from the side, "So, Beatrice managed to convince your Dragon-self to part with fourteen drops of your bloodline."

Aura started the discussion with that, followed by a projection of Elizabeth naked (With her important bits covered by scales), drinking alcohol and laughing; the image showed her extending a finger and biting into it, and from there, fourteen drops of blood flowed into Beatrice.

The little girl scowled at Elizabeth while taking the drops of blood and disappeared.

"Man I look so hot in there…" Elizabeth whistled, looking at herself, "I mean, I didn't know Beatrice could teleport like that, yeah, that."

Elizabeth blushed and quickly pointed the first thing that came to mind, followed by "How are you even doing that? I assumed you only had space as power," this was important to find about.

Actually, thinking back on it, hadn't Aura already shown a skill to capture images before? That was how she had given her the recordings of Rossie and Rena messing around after all.

"What is space but a memory recording," Aura said, shrugging, "Besides, even if I couldn't show images of other moments in time and space, I was there when it happened, so I could just show you my memories."

Oh, right, it would have been easy to do this if you had just shown memories...

"....you were there?" Elizabeth said, slowly turning to look at Aura.

"Yeah, want to see what you did to me?" Aura smirked impishly while licking her lips.

"Nope," Elizabeth answered at once. She did not want to know, she would not ask, would not think about it, no sir.

"A shame," Aura said with a smirk; Elizabeth wasn't quite sure what to think about this girl; sometimes it seemed as if she wanted her attention, while others it was more like she was just messing with her for the sake of messing with her. "What you did to me during those days was enough proof that we aren't meant to each other, but I did cherish those moments you know."

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"I will not ask for those images; if you want to show them to me, I will see them; otherwise, I'm not going to ask." Elizabeth ended saying, if it was important for Aura then she would look, but she would not enjoy!

"....You do really mature huh? I would think the implications of a video of your hot dragon form messing another girl would get you aroused enough to ask for the recordings." Aura said surprised, "Now I feel bad for being taken advantage of."

...What? Elizabeth... did her dragon form take advantage of Aura?

"I'm so sorry for what you went through." Elizabeth said immediately after that, "Never apologize for being taken advantage of, and I promise you that an event like that will never happen so long I have control over my faculties."

"Gosh, you will make me blush." Aura said actually lowering her hoodie to hide her face, "You really will make me feel bad, since you know...I took this chance to make sure of my feelings."

So she...liked her? Or not? What was the deal with Aura?

One couldn't be sure with this girl.

"Anyway, as for what you wanted to know, I was around." Aura said, summoning another projection; this time, it was of her speaking with Dragon Elizabeth. There was no audio, so Elizabeth wasn't quite sure about what they spoke, but the idea was obvious enough. Aura was working with her dragon self.

"So you wanted to make sure what was going around and to check on if I was still myself, right?" Elizabeth said turning to the girl who had hidden his face behind her hoodie, the interior of it somehow seemed to be a black void.

That was a neat use of darkness, because that wasn't shadows. Elizabeth couldn't feel any shadow in there.

"You could say that," Aura shrugged as an answer. "Either way, I was around, and Beatrice seemed to be having a hard time, so I gave her some help."

Aura then sped up the image, and when the Dragon (in heat) Elizabeth in the picture was about to kiss the Aura there, the image glitched away and turned into the projection of a vast underground chamber.

Fourteen Dragon Eggs stood in the center of an array, a complex array of magical circles...

"...A collection array? No, that is a focusing node...that one is siphoning...and that one is...to enhance? No, to purify? To accelerate? To growth? What?" Elizabeth noticed that each Egg stood in a focusing node that had several slave nodes feeding them Mana.

The image then showed Aura and Beatrice appearing, Aura had a schadenfreude air to her as she looked at Beatrice. The little girl was confused, she looked as if she was about to cry, and somehow was hugging a small thing to her chest.

"There, Beatrice found what would be the start of her Valkyrie Order." The image showed Beatrice asking something, well, it was closer to Beatrice screaming at Aura while the other girl just smirked; there was something... odd about Aura in those recordings, "I helped her, granted her the means to achieve what she desired, and only asked but one thing."

Elizabeth turned to Aura, and there it was, why this felt familiar.

"I asked her to be sure of what she wanted," Aura looked somewhat like Crystal, the purple girl, "We prepared the birth, or well, you could say it was closer to Genesis, of a new race of creatures."

The drop of blood got split into fourteen parts, and one drop was thrown at each dragon egg. To Elizabeth's Dragon Eyes, it looked as if something had happened within the dragon eggs.

The original form of a shadow dragon morphed as it started taking in a more humanoid form, and Elizabeth noticed how the threads of Mana that joined the eggs to her started morphing, from normal threads into almost ethereal ones.

She could barely see them, and those that she could see had shifted, from going to her shadow spire into going down, at some point she wasn't even able to see those.

"And so, you could say I helped deliver the first native life to this planet." Aura said with a proud look on her face, "The first Nexians on this little planet."

Elizabeth could see the life beginning to take form within the dragon eggs, each pulsating in synch with the mana waves coming from the planet.

"Also you really need to think about your naming, Terra Nexus? Really?" Aura said as Elizabeth just focused on the image being projected.

It was hard to remember that those girls seemed to mostly hate her as they were being born, especially since they looked so cute and small while growing in those eggs.

The girl that stood forward first, the one that had seemed to hold Authority over the rest, Skuld, was even scowling while being on her Egg.

"So...they are... Nexians?" Elizabeth said as she turned to Aura, "Then what makes that you? The one that facilitated her birth."

Aura snapped her fingers dismissing the projection, "Sorry about that, they are about to take a more mature form, we want to keep this PG13." Aura said, turning to Elizabeth, her hoodie still hiding her face, "As for what I am...Well, I am Aura Di Starbright. The Maiden of Space."

...Yeah, what was expecting Elizabeth when not asking, right.

"No," Elizabeth said as she called upon her Authority, closing and freezing the space, Mana, and everything that she could seal within the area. "Aura Di Starbright is one of my maids, she likes to mess around, to make fun of me and is my main dealer for videos and photos of my girlfriends doing cute and somewhat riske things."

Aura never seemed to be bothered by what she was doing, what she noticed was that as Elizabeth's Authority came bearing down, the hoodie that was hiding Aura started flickering, Elizabeth started walking toward Aura, and as she walked closer to her, the more she was able to see soon she was able to see Aura's face once more.

"You right now are something else, you have this...feel of being different," Elizabeth said pulling down Aura's hoodie down.

The face of the purple-haired girl was one of worry, but her eyes stood firm looking at her, a constellation of galaxies present on hers, somewhat different to her usual starry eyes, these seemed...ancient.

" *Sigh* I am am...Aura. I was before Aurelia Vitelius..." Aura started saying, this Elizabeth knew of course, so she nodded, "And before that..."

ANOTHER REINCARNATOR?!?!?!

"I was...something else, I am not entirely sure what, who, or why. But I...get these glimpses, sometimes I am an expectator..." Aura snapped her fingers, and Elizabeth felt a somewhat...shy was not the word, but it was close enough to the feeling she got into her Authority, allowing the Mana to move a new projection manifested, it was of a planet taking form, "...sometimes I get dreams of whole civilizations rising and falling, then I see worlds collapse, and I get heartache...then there are times I see from the point of view of someone...someone I don't know, but I know on my heart of hearts that whoever it is, it is suffering."

The image changed once more and this time, she could see...someone, she couldn't identify the person, its face was distorted, the voice was garbled, the place was impossible to recognize, but she felt as if the image was someone she knew, there was this...

"You get it too?" Aura asked turning to her, the eyes of the girl had tears on them, "I don't know who that is, but I get this melancholy feeling from looking at them. You remind me of them you know,"

She did? Elizabeth? Why?

"That was part of why I didn't do anything to try and get you back till this point," Aura said with a grimace, "Sorry about that, but the memories started becoming more annoying, more frequent, more strongly, the more your power flowed into Terra Invicta...The more the planet became alive, the stronger they became."

They did...?

"I needed to know that you and the man on these were different." Aura turned to the projection, Elizabeth couldn't even be sure that was indeed a man... "And I felt nothing, you are a good kisser Elizabeth, you know how to pleasure a woman, but there was no spark. I was only left feeling disgusted at myself for what I had done, so I helped Beatrice. It was too late for me to help you, but at least I could help your servants and perhaps preserve the love of your life."

And so...Aura helped the birth of these.

"So...you ever discovered why you got these weird memories?" Elizabeth asked, she had some inkling about why already.

"Yeah, whoever I was before being Aurelia Vitelius. It was linked to Terra Invicta, big surprise." Aura shrugged, "It matters not, at best I can only do these things while being within this space. As soon as I leave it, the echoes disappear, with most of these things I am able to do."

So then...

"Yes, if I leave this place and never return I would probably enjoy a normal life, I would not wake up crying. I would not miss something I can't remember. I would probably be quite happy, I do have a nice body thanks to being born from one of your doppelgangers after all, a few years of growth and I will probably get better assets too." Aura said hitting her chest with one of her hands.

"But?" Elizabeth said, releasing her control over the space within the shadow spire.

"But I would miss this," Aura answered raising her finger and making a small model of a galaxy, at first one may think it was another projection, but Elizabeth knew better.

Those were real stars, somehow.

"The amount of control I have over space within these confines is incredible. Outside, I can teleport and maybe stop things, make attacks themed around space and such, but here?" Aura extended her arms sideways as much as she could, "I have power for days; I could probably populate the nearby space around Terra Nexus with ease..."

Not that she did.

"You are akin to a goddess, so you don't want to leave? That is one superficial reason to not leave." Elizabeth shook her head; she had expected a cheesy line, to be honest.

"No, not a goddess." Aura shook her head, "Maybe an assistant? Yeah, I know this power is not mine; it is more like I am fulfilling someone else's role, like how your shifts are managing your Goddess side of things."

Right, "So you will stay then? I'm supposed to scold you now? For raising a group of assassins to murder me?" Elizabeth was not even sure what to think anymore.

"Of course not," Aura smirked, "I'm cute, and so they are. So everything is fine."

"The hell it is!" Elizabeth retorted, "The only ones who can get away with things for being cute are Rossie and Rena!"

"And speaking of which, you may want to go there; they are about to finish making out, I mean, soothing your psychotic girlfriend," Aura said, opening a portal to her house on Avalon.

The portal landed in the living area, so Elizabeth couldn't even see Rossie to make sure she was okay.

"Right...any advice?" Elizabeth said, turning to the girl with starry eyes.

"...Try to kiss her? Show her your boobs? I dunno, if she was a man that may work. The hell would I know about how to soothe your girlfriend?" Aura deadpanned.

Right, no help at all.

To think that this girl may have been The World of Terra Invicta, no wonder Alexanders failed.