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Chapter 253: CHAPTER 242

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A quick reminder for everyone, Corn, your sexy writer, likes to misguide you all. So, who knows what theories are true, only that I like to toy around various threads only leaving one in the end.

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I looked at Ara and frowned, I barely knew him, and he was giving me nicknames? 

Seeing my face, he chuckled, tilting his head ponderously, "Not in the nickname stage I assume," he smiled, "No matter, we can work with that."

"Who are you?" I said, repeating my previous question, tired of this play and run, his constant jokes and other annoying habits.

"Hmm, well, that's a hard question to answer," Ara sighed, taking a seat on my desk, right hand on his chin.

Vest sighed, giving me a sad look, "It's not that we don't want to answer, we can't. Not entirely, at least, and that has nothing to do with you, believe me, there's nothing in this world that I wouldn't give to answer you, truthfully, but things are at play, and answering your question could… break the veil we are trying so hard to maintain, at least until we find a way to break it without shattering a part of what we seek to preserve."

A veil? Of what? 

I frowned, going over what she had said, trying to break down the information into something I could understand. There was a lot to unpack there, her words had been vague, but had a lot of meaning in them. 

"Long story short, we are not from here, if you catch my drift," Ara sighed, his hands running down his hair, and I think for the first time since I have met him, he didn't look overly happy, but instead looked concerned.

"Where are you from? Another timeline?" I asked, pushing the subject.

"You could say," He nodded.

Another vague answer.

"Is anything I know about you two even true?" I asked, taking a deep breath.

"Part of it," Vest replied, walking towards Ara, her shape changing to that of a woman.

I should've seen it coming.

"Our names are a lie," Ara chuckled, giving Vest a look that immediately gave away he wasn't her father.

"Why?" I asked.

"The veil we are trying not to break, it's quite fragile," Ara replied, "I mean, we want to break it, but not until we find a… safe way to remove certain things, because once that veil comes down, everything else comes down with it."

"What's the veil?" I asked, the subject having peaked my interest.

"We can't answer that kiddo," Ara sighed, giving a small smile, one that carried a lot of emotions.

I frowned.

"We really want to answer," Vest muttered, getting a hold of Ara's hand, "But, we have to avoid triggering any events that might lead to the veil breaking before it's time."

"And talking to me about it… will do just that?" I sighed.

"Yes, any talk too specific about it can fuck our entire operation," Ara nodded.

"Ad-Ara!" Vest scolded at him, for a moment, almost calling him something else.

"Ad-ara?" I said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well… that's," Vest muttered, seemingly trying to find a way to fix something.

"My name," Ara smiled, giving Vest a warm look, "Adara, that's my name, for the time being that is."

I sighed, "What can I know about you two then?"

"That we mean no harm," Vest stated without a hint of a lie in her words.

"We are simply trying to fix something," Ara, or Adara, nodded, "Nothing more, you know it to be true, don't you?"

He was right, while I wasn't sure why I believed them, I did, their words carried a weight of honesty I simply couldn't ignore, even with all the secrecy behind it, I just couldn't help but trust their words.

"You are right," I nodded, creating a beer, "I don't know why, or how for that matter, but I believe the two of you. Maybe I'm just being manipulated, you two feel, or seem to be stronger than me, and considering the things I have seen in my life, no possibility it's too absurd, but even then… I choose to believe you are not playing with me, not in that way at the very least."

"We would never," Vest promised.

"Nonetheless, while I trust your words that you mean no harm, I will not allow you two to keep lying to my children," I stated, giving them a firm look, "Whatever your goal is, I respect it, but they will not be a part of your games, I hope that is absolutely clear."

"Crystal," Adara smiled, "In fact, we wanted to propose something."

A proposition?:

"What?" I asked, bringing my hands together.

"We can't interfere with anything in a… fundamental sense," Adara said, "We are not sure what can break the veil, or not. Yet, but, after a lot of trial and error, I have come to understand the limits of what I can do, without messing with my main objective."

"The point being?" I asked.

"We wish to protect your children," Vest replied, making me frown, "I know you don't trust us, at least not that much, you trust our intentions, but know nothing about us, but… we want to help, to the best of our abilities."

"Had we a choice, we would kill that little pest you are about to face," Adara chuckled, "But, like I said earlier, we have to keep our interference to a minimum, at least for now."

"But while we can't deal with Knull, for fear of damaging what we seek to preserve, we can protect what you love most," Vest said, her eyes gleaming with unwavering determination.

They considered Knull a little pest, which meant, my gut feeling was right on the money, these two were strong, very strong, that only made their motives all the more interesting.

They wanted to break a veil, yet preserve something, but what was that veil, and what did they seek to preserve, and how was I involved in it? I was no fool, I knew I had a part to play in their quest, yet, what part that was, eluded me.

Now, they were offering me the deal of the century, protection for those who I love the most, but at what cost?

Did I really trust them enough to put my treasures in their hands?

Or more importantly, did I really have a choice?

I could reject them. Face this problem on my own, find a way to keep them safe without any external dubious help. But would that actually keep them safe at all?

Even if I found a way to keep Knull away from them.

These two were on an entirely different level.

I had no means to stop them should they want to be around the girls.

Not now.

Meaning the real question was, did I want them to be around them with my permission, or without it?

I chuckled, no matter how I looked at their offer, even with all the downs it brought, it was too good to pass out on it, "Why would you do that?"

"Why would we not?" Adara replied, giving me a smile

I sighed returning the smile, inwardly chuckling at his response, after all, I had expected as much.

"We will keep them safe, no matter what," Vest stated, once again, using that tone that simply made me feel she was to be trusted.

"What if keeping them safe, eventually breaks your precious veil," I challenged, even if I trusted them for whatever reason, I had to ask the right questions, based on what little I had gathered about them, which was, their mission was to keep the veil.

A veil they seemed invested in keeping for the moment being for the sake of preserving something they wanted. So my question was, what if keeping Emily and Nat safe comprised their mission.

"That's a very good question kiddo. I like how you play around the edges of what we told you, very clever." Adara chuckled, a sad overtone lacing his entire body, "So to answer your question, if that came to happen, I suppose our mission would come to an end."

"While keeping the veil is our top priority right now, and there's nothing more that we would like than to avoid shattering it, we won't forsake your daughters for the sake of our mission," Vest smiled, the same sad overtone taking over her, just like Adara. "We promise you that much."

These two, no matter how much I played around what I knew about them, they kept putting me on a new loop.

"Very well then," I sighed, standing up. "I will entrust you two with my life, for in them, it lays my heart and soul, so don't betray me."

"We would never," Vest replied without a second thought.

I smiled, "I truly believe you wouldn't, but if you do, make sure to kill me first. Because I will stop at nothing to avenge them if push comes to shove."

"Edgy, but I respect it," Adara smiled.

"You really don't know when to joke, and when not, right?" I asked, giving him a tired look.

"Kid, I have one gear, and one gear only, deal with it," Adara winked.


Chapter 254: CHAPTER 243

If you want to read up to 20 chapters ahead go to https://www.patreón.com/cornbringer

Discord invite: https://discord.gg/XHduApz

A quick reminder for everyone, Corn, your sexy writer, likes to misguide you all. So, who knows what theories are true, only that I like to toy around various threads only leaving one in the end.

Because the note above wasn't enough, I will add, no one has truly discovered who those two are. Everything so far has been a line of misdirections. Now, this does not break the theory who the MC parents are, you guys might be right on that one, won't confirm.

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After my conversation with Adara, and Vest, I briefed the girls on the situation, explaining to them what little I knew about the mysterious pair. I wanted them to know everything they could about them, I felt they had to know.

After I was done explaining the situation to them as best as I could.

The girls nodded, both rushing to me, giving me a big hug, saying they trusted my judgment, but failed to understand, like me, the motives of Adara and Vest.

With Em deeply questioning if Vest was even her friend, to which I replied yes, telling her I doubted the pair to be liars, placing them in a different category, one similar to Fury.

Nick was my friend, but he wasn't always honest with me.

Not to say he would lie to me.

But, he would omit facts to shape things to his liking.

These two were just like that.

Their words carried nothing but the truth, of that I couldn't help but be sure of it, but, even though they weren't lying, they were keeping a lot of things to themselves.

Things that I wanted to know, but didn't necessarily make them enemies.

Nat understood this faster than Em. And like me, I could see she now wanted to unfold more of them.

"They will keep us safe during this upcoming war then?" Nat asked, going over our talk.

"Yes," I nodded, "Knull will use anything he can to weaken me, and that includes you two. I can deal with losing anyone else, it will pain me, but I will survive that pain, he knows that, so he will use my love for you two, to break me."

"If only we were stronger," Emily muttered, looking down.

I smiled, patting her on the head, "Em, you are stronger than me when I was your age, you two are, by a lot, at your age I was but a kid, I had no martial arts training, or magic for that matter. In time, you two will be strong enough to face most of the things I want to shelter you two from, give it time."

"I just… I wished I wasn't so weak, because if I wasn't, I would be able to fight by your side, I would need no protecting, and… perhaps, I would be able to protect you," Emily muttered, tears forming on the corners of her eyes.

I laughed, pulling her into a bear hug, "Let me clarify something, for the two of you, no matter how powerful you two grow to be, or how old you grow to live, I will never, ever, stop protecting you two."

"I pity the poor boys or girls that try to romance us," Nat chuckled.

"They will wish to be Knull, because his destiny it's a whole lot better than theirs," I replied, in a cold unwavering tone.

"Daddy!" Emily giggled.

"Remember what I told you girls, you can't date anyone until you two are older than me," I nodded.

"But… that… that would never happen, you are immortal," Nat replied.

"Exactly," I nodded.

"That's okay, boys are dumb anyway," Em giggled.

"Wait until you hit puberty," Nat rolled her eyes, before giving me a look, "You won't freeze us in time, right?"

"Me? No…" I chuckled nervously.

"...." Nat narrowed her eyes on me.

"I was thinking more along the lines of erasing puberty from existence all together," I grinned.

"...." 

"I was joking," I chuckled, "Kind of."

"I mean, I don't mind, puberty sounds terrible, the books the ancient one has about the subject gave me nightmares, I mean, why do we have to bleed once a month!" Em shuddered.

"Don't worry baby," I smiled, giving her a kiss on the head, "I am a literal god, whatever problems you two face when… that moment comes, I will help you."

"Thanks," Em smiled, before giving me a ponderous look, "Daddy how is puberty for boys?"

"Nothing… too big really, we just really start smelling like crap," I replied with a chuckle.

"Eww!" Emily giggled.

"Yep, but that's nothing that a bath won't fix, then again, most teenagers from the male side seem to be allergic to water," I hummed at the thought.

"Not like that is puberty only," Nat snorted.

"True, but it only intensifies when you get there," I shrugged.

"Boys sound yucky," Emily giggled.

"Good," I nodded.

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Done with my conversation with the girls, I moved to explain everything to Bucky, The Ancient One, Thor and Sif.

Bucky, while not a fan of the idea, understood my reasoning.

The rest had no solid opinions about the subject.

The Ancient One mostly seemed worried about two beings of unknown power roaming around, mostly after I elaborated on the fact my powers to gather information didn't work on them.

Thor simply decided to trust me, saying I had yet to make a bad decision about anything, which I considered to be debatable, but nonetheless, appreciated the sentiment.

Sif was neutral on the matter, being mostly glad these unknowns were not enemies for the time being.

"There's one thing that worries me, Mr. Walker," The Ancient One said, getting my attention.

"About Adara and Vest?" I asked.

"No, I mean, yes, they worry me, but if you can't do anything about them, we stand no chance, if anything I am glad they seem to be on our side, but that's beyond the point," The Ancient One sighed, shaking her head, "What worries me is… how Knull reached Emily. The seal remains unbroken, his powers should be bound to the void, and yet, he managed to reach outside his cage. I'm sure you know this, but that should not be possible, not unless…"

"Not unless he had help, or the seal it's on it's last threads," I replied, finishing her sentence.

"I incline towards the latter," Thor said, turning to look at me, "Had he had any help, you would've probably know it before it even happened, your powers seem to work on intent and reaction, meaning once you have an intent to do something, a quest appears, or in this case, when something that directly affects you, a quest appears by a reaction."

I nodded, "That's usually the case, not always, but for the most part it is."

"Meaning the days are running out," Bucky sighed.

"How prepared are we?" Sif asked.

"Not nearly enough," I replied, running my hands through my hair, "We still need to conquer earth so that I can use my powers to keep Knull's army out. Beyond that, we still have to arm all of our forces with weapons that can effectively deal with the horde of symbiotes, in short, we are still pretty green in terms of preparations."

"I have a question, what do you mean by conquering earth so that you can use your powers to keep his army out?" Thor asked.

"Well, it's not conquering really, not like you know, it's more like a… shadow conquering I suppose. I will take control over Earth's factions, and those who hold control over it, gaining the power to create somewhat of a sealed space so to speak, which would allow me to block anyone weaker than me from entering the planet."

"I see, and for that, your power requires no opposition," Thor nodded.

"Exactly," I nodded.

"Then I propose you do that to the nine realms as a whole," Thor said, putting his hand on my shoulder.

"For that to happen, those in control would have to willingly accept me as their superior, otherwise I would have to forcefully take control," I replied.

"Worry not," Thor beamed at me, "I will give you the crown, and so will the other Kings and Queens after I explain to them what's going on, besides, they won't cry as much when I explain to them it's a momentary situation."

I smiled, "So you would crown me King," I chuckled.

"That's actually a brilliant idea Thor," The Ancient One smiled, "Having the nine realms as our bases of operation is a genius move, tactically speaking."

"Well, I am mighty intelligent," Thor beamed at the praise.

"For a doorknob," Bucky snorted.

"A very intelligent, handsome, and mighty doorknob!" Thor shot back with an even larger grin.

"Children please," Sif sighed.

"It might be a good idea to recruit other planets into this war," The Ancient One added.

I nodded, "I was planning on recruiting Xandar, their tech would come in handy."

"And so would Carol's power," The Ancient One nodded.


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