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Queese kara dehsta

Sorry folks but it seems the egg MC shall continue muahahah!

Anyway let me clear up what seems to be a common misinterpretation of the beginning prologue chapters especially for you non English speaking peoples.

Only three people appear if you discount the flashbacks. Three people, that is by my definition intelligent life with souls.

The Demon Lord, the 'hero' and our MC.

THE LESSER DEMONS ARE NOT PEOPLE BUT ANIMALS!

That is they do not have a soul and they cannot really make decisions other then eating, emitting waste, flight or fight  and other actions of that tone such as mating.

If you really read through you will notice a mention that these creatures were basically 'created' or got there because of the miasma that the demon lord is creating through his existence.

Thus the MC was not evilly murdering other people but just slaughtering some pests.

Actually they are more like parasites then just plain pests so the demon lord leaving was practically a death sentence for them anyway, so somewhat ironically the MC was actually putting them out of their misery.  

Also I am sorry about my slow speed/lateness but various factors came up, first I was sick and then I was starting school and then I was having a bad time at school...yeah. But luckily for you (prideful assumption based on the fact that you are reading this) I have mostly gotten my problems cleared up and thus you should be seeing more of me in the future :).

Back Into the Dark

(Little Brother on a Mission)

We began by solidifying our foundation. Although all of us had become at least competent there was infinite room for improvement. Or at least that was the way it seemed. While I had learned to do multiple things at the same time if I went beyond a certain point to complexity in actions my clumsy disease would return.

So I and the others worked on various tasks while in our dance. Some were things that Sister had left behind for us but a few were things we made up ourselves through a lot of trial and error and occasionally accident.Peeper had discovered that the limitations put on her and the other seers were not so much as blocking the world from them, but somehow blocking the person from making the choice to see the world.

This actually cleared up quite a few questions. Although I could presumably 'see', for the geas upon me wasn’t quite so strong ,probably as a result of my weak skills in ‘sight,’ Peeper and all of the other ones skilled in that couldn’t help me.

But we found a loophole of sorts, I and the other with weak ‘blinders’ combined our powers together and were able to somewhat see beyond despite still being blocked to a large degree it was better than no access to the outside world so we rejoiced as we were able to gather some information despite our limitations of being unable to see as far.

To my slight surprise the outside world remained much the same as before,  Surprise because though they had no real reason to change before as I was quite used to how everything changed I came to expect it. But I guess as they didn’t know what had happened and they  even didn’t know of her the surprise was illogical.

It took quite sometime to find information, and after the novel of the outside wore off it became quite boring. But after feeding some of what we saw to the others we saw the appeal anew through their eyes and we could always search out a distraction if we got too bored.

Eventually though despite the side  trips we finally we found information relevant to what we wanted. It was a pair of mind mages. Because they were the kind of dragon that Sister said was currently the most similar to us in our mentally connected unborn state, we eventually had logically deduced that they might have what we were looking for, and we were right.

After focusing  on overhearing conversations between the clan's mind mages, we soon got we wanted. It was during a conversation they had about breaking into an enemies mind. Even now I shudder when I recall their viciousness and the cruel way they treated their apprentices made me glad for sister’s protection, and very glad that the protection seemed to be not only firmly holding but seemingly automatic because most of it did not disappear when she did. But as getting past Sister's probable shields was our goal, we listened on despite our fear and disgust.

Even though later on,after I experienced war some of their actions and feelings grew more understandable, they still continued to be the reason that I tend to dislike all mind mages with the exception of those in my group and some of those who came after us.

However when it came to their magic there was no denying that they mostly knew what they were doing. New vocabulary was eventually conveyed by their talking, words like shielding and hacking were defined. It was astoundingly easy to overhear even their mental conversation.

When they tried to teach their clumsy apprentices was the most helpful as they then included specific instructions on how to do what they were talking about. We who ease dropped quickly memorized as much as we could and passed it back to the others.

Soon a  large part of our practice became practicing blocking and breaking past defenses of each other as well as trying to block the attack of the other with shielding and other methods. And since it was no longer as necessary we cut back greatly on our spying.

To my shock, although I had many weaknesses as stated before apparently, breaking past defenses and defending mentally was not one of them. I would instead say this mind combat  soon became one of my greatest strengths.

When it came to both shielding and hacking I was unparalleled no matter how many I took on at once or even how much they improved individually they couldn’t stop me and most of the time they couldn’t even make a dent in my defense and those that could didn’t manage to do it twice .

As this was practice and as they were just trying to learn, as I was trying to learn. After I broke through I would usually tell them their weaknesses. They would soon plug up the holes and I would grow hopeful as I would be hoping for a challenge as the ease of it was starting to bore me.

But even when they plugged all the holes I could still somehow always find my way in and thus was always disappointed. But this was not to say there was no improvement. Those that I taught usually eventually could block out everyone else with the exception of me and some of the stronger 'mind hackers'.

Although no one else seemed to be able to completely block others out with those stronger the invader at least  had difficulties  in getting in.

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After a lot more practice to the point where we were sure that we had perfected near our abilities to the point we felt there at least wouldn’t be a risk to us or sister we decided that it was time.

The dance temporarily speed up creating more energy and power we could use to direct to the support group which would amplification and send it to the ones who would form the ‘bridge’, a large mental pathway that we would aim to wards sister and use as a ladder to reach her.

My job was to use the bridge like a  ramp and propel myself towards the place the seers estimated sister to ‘be’ or at the very least find an access to her mind. I would then use my ability to break in and find her.

The dance reached it's peak speed and the energy was flawlessly handled and formed into the bridge. I and a few other jumpers then immediately rushed towards the bridge and used the inertia it gave to fly out into he darkness.

After a brief trip where the plane of stars became a colorful blur of streaking lights. I sadly reached the darkness where Sister's light had been. Despite the fear and painfully remembered sadness I felt, I now under my own power as most of the energy the bridge had given had faded, forced myself to move  forward anyway.

I soon found myself blocked but I somehow managed to feel my way in through this first barrier and was then lost in a strange kind of darkness. That while still dark also had an strange tinge to it, that made me feel that the color wasn't quite what I was familiar with.

Endlessly It seemed I moved in a random directions in that strange dark. Hoping and not hoping. Just when I was about to give up and use my connection to the others to attempt to got back. I noticed something.

It was a dim barely there glow so unpredictable and hard to discern that I first thought it illusion. But when it continued to remain within my 'vision' I grew tightly full of unspeakable emotions. For as the only one in this empty place besides myself who else could it be but her?

Realizing that this ember had to be Sister I moved towards it, and suddenly faced the difficulties of a strange pressure pushing me away. But thanks to the support of the others and my own dim memories of my first time facing the darkness unknown. I managed to overcome not only my fear but the pressure and slowly make my way towards her.

I wasn’t even close to it when I felt it.

Pain endless unrelenting pain.

There was only some of  this horrid emotion that I could identify. But it included such flavors as frustration, self-doubt incompetence and the sharp biting pain of fear of the unknown

The pain and various other emotions battered at me and seemed endless like they would go on for ever. It was bad, but it wasn’t as if I had never felt anything like it before. The things I had felt when sister had vanished had been much worse.

So using those memories for comparison I was eventually able to overcome it to the point that I could think again.

Where was  this coming from I asked? But though I greatly didn’t want to admit it, the answer was once again obvious as who else could it be but sister?

Sister currently felt this way? I was filled with a mixture of various feelings including grief and  I soon  felt ashamed for I started to wonder, while I had been caught up in myself had sister been feeling even a hint of this already?

No wonder then that she had been unable to maintain the links, no wonder then that she had gone.

What was amazing  was not that she had left but that she had somehow had the capacity left despite the pain to block this off from everyone else. With my experience living  as a almost purely mental being, where everyone could feel what the others were feeling I could somewhat understand what she was doing and why, and I was filled with admiration.

How brave, I thought. Most of us never even bothered to hold back anything. Thus when one of us was sad we soon all became sad and when when one of us was happy we all became happy.

I realized then that we never had that problem with Sister before, I only knew her emotional sates from the 'tone' of her 'voice, but without hearing that I  felt nothing from her, and as usually I was normally the only one that heard her, essentially we usually knew nothing about her emotional state.

I shuddered, with sudden realization. What if Sister hadn't been like that always holding herself back and blocking us from feeling what she felt. We would have all been feeling 'this' and perhaps we probably would have died from the shock of it if we had felt this from the very beginning especially the weak among us.

Instead although our stint in the darkness had been slightly bad we were able to handle it quickly and thus recover from it nearly equally as fast, thankfully so and only  because we had the assistance of Peeper and the others with long reaches.

But if what we had felt was had been 'this' instead that? To give you an idea of the obvious result I say with strong belief that  we probably couldn’t have been able to handle even a fraction of 'this.' Especially if like with the darkness we hadn't been prepared for it.  

Another thing to keep in mind was that Sister was probably stronger then all of us combined and if even she wasn’t able to handle it, how could we have possibly stood  a chance? That's right. I then suddenly more fully comprehend the current  situation. What I had just felt was probably not even the entirety of what she was really feeling. So she must be protecting us from the worst of it.

At this stunning revelation, I felt wonder but more shame.

But instead of letting my emotions overcome, I instead  use them as tools to shock and motive me into feeling my own emotions more clearly. The more I focused on myself the less I felt Sister's pain and the clearer I could think.

I  wanted now even more desperately  to help her.

I recalled fondly how although they had been shy of most of the others they had often personally talked and taught me.

I also reflected on how although sister was stronger there were also more of us. Especially that I had experienced being on a team It came to me that sister was only on her own team.

I had the backing of everyone behind me

I steeled myself and then stubbornly tried to move past continue despite the still exist pain. It was quite difficult but when I got into  a rhythm similar to dancing but without the without partners, as most of them were supporting me from a distance, it became possible. I continued to move towards her.

Suddenly I reached a wall a wall even I couldn’t get through and I felt helpless and near disrepair.

What now? I thought, and if in answer the dim glow of sister became too slowly strengthen.