Bab 82: CHAPTER 81
"Y-you're both lying right? Right?!",
Otorine insisted with expressive tears. Although, neither the adult Nassus and Senku react. Instead, Senku just scratched the back of his head and uttered out his calm words,
"Err nope. It's all true. Rather, this whole place is the last sanctuary of Celestia Heavens. As the whole Celestia Heavens has been destroyed a long time ago.".
Once again, Otorine looked around and saw that her friends were still slumbering on their stone slabs. Everything had a runic cosmic divine feel yet, it was faint. Otorine grinded her teeth and expressed with strong gestures at the two males,
"You're telling me that we've all been sleeping?!".
Senku crossed his arms and nodded,
"Yep, all of you had been sleeping and dreaming the good times at Celestia Heavens. By the way, I tried to switch sides but, it was all too late.".
Otorine felt tense and she was flabbergasted once more, as she couldn't believe the words from Senku,
"What do you even mean? That can't be!".
Suddenly, Otorine gripped Nassus's sleeves tight and looked at him straight,
"Please Nassus! Tell me 'tis ain't be true!".
Although, Nassus just looked away with a cold face of disappointment. As soon as she witnessed how Nassus reacted. She had stopped asking, as she already knew the hard answer. The only thing she could do was to look down and pour out lots of regretful tears,
"N-no I don't want to believe it. All this time, we've been living a dream?".
Senku and Nassus just didn't reply but, they were having looks of pity at the saddened weeping Otorine in silence. Later, Otorine had stopped pouring out her tears. Thereon, Senku held his hips and suggested something,
"Since you're awake now. Why don't we show you what Celestia Heavens is now like.".
Otorine felt another chill in her spine but, she just nodded and went with Senku's proposal,
"Okay...".
Nassus gave out his hand. Even though Otorine accepted his hand, she looked lifeless, as her glimpse of hope had disappeared. They moved along the aquatic corridors outside. Though, everything had cracks and crevices of a vast ruined basement. As her sorrowful yet, numb-looking eyes glanced around. She was witnessing the traversing faded spiritual lights that were wandering endlessly. They entered through the vacant elevator that didn't have any presence at all. As soon as they went out, Otorine saw everything that the Celestia Heavenly mall was decimated into a barren wasteland. Shops and boutiques were destroyed into smithereens. More so, the wandering wisps of weak lights were denser than ever before. Last but not the least, the sky was blanketed in crimson hazy aftermath, as lots of worlds and stars were destroyed as well.
"Is this Celestia Heavens now? Have we...lost the battle?",
she said with a mournful look. Senku just looked down while they were traversing,
"Somehow yeah...".
Nassus just nodded with a sad and cold expression. Their scarred journey took longer than expected and Otorine couldn't hold her regrets and guilt. As the hallways was devoid of life and it wasn't bustling as before. While they were continuing forward. Nassus and Senku sensed an atrocious presence. Suddenly, a wrathful spectre from a damned realm emerged behind Otorine. Then, it tried to swing down its scythe behind her back. Thankfully, Nassus and Senku deflected its attack and smite the distorted visage down. In an instant, the spectre's presence disintegrated into nothingness. For some reason, Otorine didn't even react as she was about to be taken down. Since, she was engrossed in her sorrowful and confused thoughts,
"I don't want to believe it yet, it all feels so real. I don't know what to believe in anymore..."
The longer they traversed the hallways of the damned and desecrated, the more monsters from the chaotic abyss appeared and tried to bring her down. Though, both Nassus and Senku were fighting with everything they got and destroyed every fragment of threat approaching Otorine. For some strange reason, Otorine's feet just moved forward,
"I don't know where I'm going...but, I'll just let the winds take me where ever I go...".
Soon, they've arrived at a mass graveyard and she was looking at a white tombstone. The next moment, she fell down on her knees, as hopelessness had eaten her soul, while she was seeing the tombstone,
"Am I...gone?".
There, she witnessed that the tombstone had her name on it written in blood. Senku sighed and crossed his arms once more, but his glitchy statements sound unnerving somehow,
"Well you've failed to save Arca—Celestia Heavens and the others think you're gone so...yeah. But Novu—Nassus found you and let you sleep alongside the other remaining Goddesses of Arcane—Celestia Heavenly system...".
Otorine just shut her eyes, as she doesn't want to witness the endless despair anymore. When she held her hands together, Nassus and Senku's face were blank as the faceless void. At that moment, the two of them brought out their scythes of the damned and readied to smite down the vulnerable Otorine. Otorine let out her final tear for a miraculous wind,
"Please someone...help me...this can't be real, Nassus...".
The next moment, Nassus and Senku had a glimpse and flash of a white aura around their whole bodies. Their expressions weren't cold as the darkest abyss anymore. Instead, they had their own self-aware consciousness and list of emotions somehow. Since, they were looking at their own hands and own bodies for some reason. Senku made a grin. He patted Nassus's shoulder and left elsewhere,
"Now do what you have to do, hero. To end this altered nightmare...".
Nassus gulped as he felt tense. Strange thing is, Otorine's aura was visible but, it was turning darker and darker similar to the likes of miasma. As her pessimistic vibes were coursing throughout the atmosphere, while she was crying in silence.
Nassus grit his teeth, twisted her whole body around and hugged her suddenly,
"Believe what you want to believe...".
Otorine's growing aura of negativity had stopped flowing instantaneously. As she felt the embracing warmth of her beloved. As she opened her eyes, she witnessed that Nassus was hugging her tight. Nassus looked at her straight,
"But let me tell you this my Goddess Ori. This may become the state of Celestia Heavens if all else fails. Just like what happened to the other heavenly realms as said by Senku.".
Otorine's eyes were widely surprised,
"What do you mean?".
Then, Nassus replied expressively,
"Please wake up! Ori...".
That sudden moment, Nassus kissed her without any warning. Otorine had stopped feeling down in the gutters. Instead, her whole body was filled with relieving warmth aided by the breezing petals of licorice. The air around them wasn't filled with dread anymore. Otorine accepted his offer and their internal heat of their tongues entwined, while her eyes were shut. Their trance of dancing flowers of soothing fragrance made Otorine to calm herself down. Rather, she felt a glimpse of cloud nine, removing all of her tensions away. As soon as they had stopped understanding each others hearts of passion. Otorine caressed her lover's face and made a heartwarming smile of a thankful maiden,
"I see...I understand what you mean, my dear Nassus...".
The skies of malevolence started to shatter. Everything else started to disappear. Though, she saw the smile of a guardian angel from Nassus before he faded away,
"The future lies in your hands now...my Goddess...".
For some strange reason, she saw that a white starry light ascended from Nassus's body. Soon enough, the walls of a distorted and rippled plane was revealed to her eyes. There after, an echoing voice from the depths of the coursing indigo abyss uttered out its statements,
"So...do you believe in the truth I had bestowed upon you? Will you abide by the guidance of Distortion and not go against its will?".
Otorine took a step forward and held her lower chin,
"While the things you had shown me had some truth in it...".
She brought out her fanblades of dazzling grace and pointed her weapons with a fierce look on her face,
"Yet! I still believe in the Celestia Heavens that I know and we will succeed!".
The distorted voice started to react with a pissed-off tone,
"Why! Why won't you believe thy visions!".
Otorine exclaimed,
"It's because...we're given a choice on which path we should take! We shall not succumb to your catastrophic prophecies!".
The next moment, everything trembled and the loud menacing laugh of a demonic growling beast was heard throughout the whole enclosed realm of chaos,
"GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAH! You're the first one to defy my words little Goddess. Even though, I tweaked those PAST VISIONS OF THOSE OTHER HEAVENLY REALMS into your favor...".
It seemed the distorted entity tried to imprint false prophecies and altered visions from the other realms in order to manipulate Otorine's mind. After that, the grimacing menace blurted out more,
"AND IT SEEMS THOSE CHOSEN ONES OF OMEGA TRIED TO DEFY THEIR FATE AND DESTINY! Yet, let us see if you can truly SAVE EVERYONE'S BE DAMNED FATE!".
It seemed there was an interference from an external force, as said by the voice of distortion. Soon, Otorine heard the snap of the fingers and her senses saw a bright flashing light.
As she opened her eyes, she was in a different place. As she gotten up. She saw an ethereal throne decorated by various spheres filled with malicious energy at the highest peak. More so, Senku was standing right next to her,
"Yo!".
Without wasting any time she pounced away and brought out her fanblade weapons in a dazzling way. As she glanced around cautiously, she saw that the whole cosmic and runic throne room had the air of pinnacle divinity. Not only that, she noticed that the little Nassus was out cold at the nearby corner. Moreover, the kid was also encroached on a thick blanket. Otorine wasn't quite pleased when she saw the sad state of her young Nassus. In turn, she threatened Senku with her cold and brave stare,
What did you do to Nassus? Senku!?".
Senku touched his own forehead and sighed with a sinister grin,
"I don't know if you were to believe me but, BOTH OF US just tried to save you.".
Then, he made a thumbs-up,
"And here you are, good as new. Oh yeah, the kid's just out cold. I didn't do anything to him. Since, I don't want to pick on a kid.".
After he was done with his statements, he revealed his flamethrower gunblade of burning glory and overflowing demise. He pointed at his weapon at her and he made a fierce look of a sharp-eyed tiger,
"So...let's get this show on the road. Let the divine battle begin!".
Status Power Mingguan
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