Sarah ran for some minutes with Dai’s body still steaming hot, leaving burns on her and that suffocating air wasn’t improving the situation.

She didn’t know why they were helping each other, even if they decided to not fight they still didn’t know each other, there was no reason to help and yet, they were acting like friends would help each other. It didn’t make sense at first but the answer seemed even simpler than she expected

‘That memory…’ she thought about the memory that appeared when she and Dai looked at each other, it was weird because it disappeared from her mind right after showing itself and she remembered it now…but it still felt like something else was missing.

She had to stop thinking for a moment and slow down her steps because the air started to get heavier, making breathing a lot harder. While trying to breathe slowly, she noticed there wasn’t any smell of things burning, plus the ashes flying weren’t even touching her but just passing through her body and the more she got close to Nysilia and Arismis’s position the more the air was getting heavy. All of this seemed weird, but now, the only thing she could do now was walk and hope she wouldn’t have lost her senses.

———

Nysilia was fluctuating over a giant crater and looking down at Arismis

“I’m surprised. You are still alive, maybe you are not that bad…I would be saying this if you had more body parts.” in fact, Arismis only had the head and half of the upper body, the remaining parts were scattered throughout the crater or had vaporized.

“Do you find this funny?” asked Arismis, really annoyed by her

“No, I find it depressing. The fact you’ll remain like this forever without being able to regenerate is really sad”

Arismis looked even more annoyed for a moment but then smiled slightly

“Stop lying to yourself, we both know what is happening here, Samriel told me everything about it.”

“Oh? Did you need help from someone instead of studying history on your own to understand the situation? Are you that lazy?” she tried to mock him but was completely ignored.

“A long time ago you gods were on top of everything and the Zonnikies were just your eternal servants who were subjected to numerous and useless rules, with the excuse that they would have been independent, but when they decided to riot, what happened? You fought and killed thousands of them, then restarted the world like it was nothing but just a game and, in the end, the same thing happened again, but they won and three of you fell into a slumber, while you, a coward, ran away!” Stopped talking for a moment waiting for a reaction but she was looking at him coldly

“After all of this, I want to ask you a question. Why do you want to stop us? Zonnikies became what you Gods wanted us to be, independent from you…then why stop us? Why-”

“I don’t care about those questions” her voice echoed again in Arismis’s mind “I know what you wanted to say from the start, so go straight to the point.”

“...You Gods are nothing without each other; if one of you, for some reason, disappeared, the three remainings would be weaker than before and that’s why you weren’t able to kill me…because the others are asleep, almost close to death and you were alone for years, with your powers at just one-quarter of their true potential. You all are connected and that’s what made you lose that war.”

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Shortly after finishing that explanation, Arismis, or what remained of him, quickly levitated towards Nysilia and she grabbed him right for the face.

“I really want to be angry with you but…I can’t” She looked at him pitifully “You are just trash that has been brainwashed by its creator, into believing that we are the bad people in this story, so I can’t really blame you for all of this…but you are still trash and because of this…” a smile slowly grew on her face “You must be burned out of existence”

At that point, Arismis started panicking “W-W-Wait! If you truly know everything, you also know that-”

“Yes I know, your creator will quickly know of your death and he will arrive here” She shrugs her shoulders “...but I don’t care. Actually, that’s what I want since it’s been a while since I’ve met him face to face.”

“B-But he’s stronger than you! You won’t be able to defeat him!”

“I know.”

“T-then it would be pointless to kill me, just give up!” small tears started flowing out of his eyes

“Nah, if I do that everything will be more boring; plus, I’m one of the four gods and we never truly lose” She said with confidence and that kind of confidence truly confused Arismis.

“W-What?” he said before strong clear flames vaporized him within seconds.

“You would have never understood since you were just a failed product made from who became a disappointment.” she said like he was still there and then closed her eyes “But it still shouldn’t have ended like this. Things are changing way too fast.” she sighed “Now…let’s wait for them.”

———

Sarah was still walking, at a slow pace, through that destruction and the closer she was to Arimis and Nysilia, the harder was becoming to breathe but she wasn’t without hope and knew she would have made it there right in time-

SNAP

Right after thinking that, something in her broke. She fell on her knees because of a sudden pain, something had changed in her soul, leaving her with a sensation of both freedom, hunger and a memory that the girl had to seal away because of the link with Arismis, which had completely disappeared.

She shook her head “I can’t lose time on this. I have to be fast, something happened to that bastard and this hunger…isn’t normal..”

She tried to recall his powers and while yes, still being able to use them, the lines weren’t appearing.

“You want more?”

Sarah immediately looked around, looking for the person who spoke, only for her to realize it was all in her head but it wasn’t like those whispers she heard before, it was more like something coming from her soul.

The voice continued ‘That guy on your shoulder looks like the perfect snack. He’ll give you the powers you want.’

“No…I don’t need that.” She slowly got up and continued walking while fighting that voice.

‘He’s just a random guy you should have killed, but you didn’t because you’re weak. You’re lucky he’s weak too otherwise you would have died.’

Sarah tried to ignore the voice, it would have been useless to argue and continued to stay silent for a while…

‘Why are you ignoring me? I’m just saying the truth. You are just weak and hopeless without someone that controls you.’

“That’s not true…”

‘Yes, it is. You had everything under control until Arismis’s link disappeared and that proves everything. You are just a weak, pathetic and ignorant bitch…but you have the solution right on your shoulders. How convenient!.’

While walking with her head low, she was seriously tempted to do that. She would have been free from a burden and would have had another power to add to the collection.

“You are right…maybe I should do that.” she said expecting the voice to talk again but it never said anything again and now the air seemed to be lighter, with the ashes slowly becoming white. As she raised her gaze she first noticed a huge crater and then, fluctuating over it, Nysilia. But there was something different, not in her appearance but in her aura, it was like an endless column of white flames going up into the sky. Even a human could have felt it by how powerful it was but to Sarah, there was something weird about it, it felt familiar…