When Solstice woke up he was in his bed and it was in the middle of the night. All was normal until he heard someone unfamiliar speak right next to him.

“Geez you slept a while, didn’t realize what i did actually exhausted your body that much.” Said Victor in an almost emotionless voice. Ever since he died, he had become incredibly apathetic since he didn’t really have to deal with anything anymore. Solstice sat up and tried to piece together what happened before he passed out. The main thing that stuck in his head was the image of Bela completely nude…. Great time.

“Hey, watch what you're thinking. I got to listen to that shit now.” Said Victor in a slightly flustered voice. Now that they were linked to each other's souls, they were able to speak telepathically.

“You can still think to yourself, just kind of turn off our connection? I wasn’t listening to Bela too much honestly, more of a you problem pfft.” Laughed Victor. Solstice hadn’t pictured the man who was heralded as being one of the best martial masters to be so damn lazy!

“Are you actually Victor? Or some random homeless guy Bela picked up because she felt bad?” Jested Solstice. He knew of Victor's exploits but it's a harsh reality when you meet someone who's kind of like a hero, and he's just this…. Bum.

“I can feel your disappointment, but even now I couldn't care less Haha. You should be grateful I am fully fused with you now though.” Said Victor who switched to becoming serious.

“How come?” Said Solstice, perplexed by his sudden attitude change.

“Do you even know why I was famous at such a young age? Look at your left eye.” Pointed Victor to a mirror.

When Solstice got to the mirror, he saw both of his eyes had changed, each different kind of like heterochromia. The left eye looked normal; it was baby blue colored minus a single white ring right outside his pupil. The other eye was pulsating between looking like a normal baby blue eye to an eye that looked like you were staring into outer space with all the colors it had. It had blue, violet, red, purple, you name it and you could see the color. Solstice was deeply unsettled by this and almost began to freak out before Victor yelled at him.

“Get a hold of yourself idiot! We have no idea what your right eye can do, if you freak out something could happen!” When Solstice began to calm down the pulsating of his right eye slowed down and settled to a mixture of blue and purple. Only after his eye went back to a moderate normal did he pick up on what Victor just said.

“What do you mean by only my right eye? What's up with my left?” Questioned Solstice.

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“Oh, that's my bloodline I passed down to you. You’ll figure it out, also good luck with your mom, she's going to destroy you when she sees that seal was lifted on your right eye. Thank God I'm dead Haha.” Laughed Victor as he laid down on Solstices bed and pretended to be asleep. It was only now that Solstice realized that he was screwed. As soon as his mom sees his eye, she's going to beat him to the brink of death and Bela is going to follow right behind him.

After a few moments of pondering Solstice looked at Victor and asked something he should’ve when he first met Victor.

“Do you have any regrets? You died at a pretty young age considering your strength.”

In Aevis the stronger you were, the longer you lived. A basic human being lives only around 80 years. But with each increase in rank, you get an additional hundred years. But once you hit S rank? Nobody really knows how long you live, they either die prematurely or are still kicking thousands of years later.

When Victor heard his question, he opened one eye and stared at him for a few moments.

“When you get stronger, I'll think about telling you. Till then just get stronger, as you’re right now. Way too weak. So don't bother.” Said Victor before fading out of view.

Solstice looked around and got worried for a second before he felt his connection with Victor not change at all. Victor couldn't stay materialized indefinitely yet. Not until Solstice had actual mana that could sustain him a little bit at least.

Solstice finally got up and walked to his door. He had never known fear like this before. Ariel was one of the most doting and loving mothers ever. But also, the most terrifying existence he’s ever seen. He finally understood why his father acts the way he does around his mother, pure and unadulterated fear.

He begins to walk down the steps to the house before he sees Bela sitting on the couch next to his mom. As soon as they both lay their eyes on him and see his differently colored eyes, they froze. Bela immediately tried to turn into a bat to run but Ariel was faster and grabbed her by the neck and slowly looked at her with a deadpan face.

“What. The. Fuck. Did you do to my son?” Questioned Ariel who was basically the embodiment of bloodlust.

Bela was clawing at her hand around her throat trying to free herself to no avail. She finally just gave up struggling and accepted her death. Right before Bela was gonna pass out from lack of oxygen Solstice ran over and grabbed his mom's arm.

“Mom stop, I'm fine, she didn't hurt me. Just a good opportunity.” Pleaded Solstice. One of the only things in this world that could calm down Ariel was her son. So finally, after seeing her son ask her so deeply, she let go and waited for an explanation from the two perpetrators. Bela just looked over at Solstice and smiled before explaining what she did. Before Solstice could recount what happened in his room Ariel got up and put her hands on Bela’s shoulders with a wide-eyed expression.

“You mean to tell me, that you fused Victor’s soul to my sons? When did you even manage to get that strong with soul magic? Oh god! What if Solstice becomes a complete bum like him!” Ariel began remembering how lazy Victor was and got worried for her son. While she was doing this Solstice heard a chide from Victor in his head. “Fucking cunt.” is all he heard and laughed. Ariel heard Solstice laugh and looked at him confused.

“Sorry Victor said something funny.” and shrugged his shoulders. As soon as Ariel heard what he said she freaked out, as did Bela.