Beast Evolution System: Devourer of Heaven-Chapter 281: Strongest Images

Ved and Naledi found the house empty, on the bed laid a woman they recognised. Sarah.

She looked peaceful in her sleep but there was no breath on her body, she was dead. Next to her bed was a burnt out candle.

Ved touched it, " It’d been cut." The candle was shorter than it should’ve been. ’ This is why my dream mist ran out of her system.’

He felt anger bubble inside him, for a moment he thought somebody else had done it but immediately dismissed the idea. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Nobody had broken in before them meaning she was aware when she lit it up. Then a new wave of guilt hit him.

" I should’ve explained things more clearly." He whispered. What he did was send a message that everybody should light these candles at night.

While he did briefly mention that the herald of nightmares was involved he didn’t delve into it.

He should’ve done better and maybe she would still be alive. He suddenly felt the temperature around him drop.

" I promised her." Naledi whispered. " I promised her and I failed her." Her image bloomed behind her.

Clouds covered the sky and snow fell over the world like a blanket. Winter came in seconds.

Her image grew more solid, drawing her closer and closer to the manifestation realm. Ved watched all of this with gritted teeth.

He too blamed himself but for a different reason, he felt it was because of his weakness that Naledi felt this way.

’ If I had been strong enough, if my dream mist had been vast and strong enough.’ Since this was his true body, his image also appeared behind him.

The massive tree and dragon stood facing an empress. The world around them shook from the pressure.

However he didn’t even realise the anomaly here, after all, his image can only manifest when he’s in life threatening danger or that should’ve been the case.

For Naledi, things were simple, she was an empress who sought perfection, her word was everything and she gave it to the girl.

A failure of this level shook her very soul, not only did it ignite her moniker of Mourning Snow it touched her very beliefs and desires themselves.

While Naledi truly believed she could attain perfection, in reality perfection was an impossibility.

However this did not serve to bring her down but gave her more reason to strive for more. Because of that her desires were endless.

Her will and therefore image could grow endlessly. Right now her desire was to be the greatest sword and shield of humanity.

The heavens listened and the heavens answered, her image kept getting more and more real and tangible. However that was not merely it.

She was also gaining another power, to be more specific she was gaining better control of her divine flame.

Because to be the perfect warrior she would need a power that can hurt anything and defend against anything and what better weapon and shield than a divine flames that can hurt laws themselves.

The pressure of her image made the entire continent sink a few centimetres. Everybody felt an earthquake on top of the falling snow.

For a moment they thought it were the occasional disasters that still happen but realised it was not, the entire world and every creature in it felt her desires and pain like a whisper of old.

His situation was similar, Ved’s will was one born of desire to survive and the dragons cursed belief in absolute strength.

He personally redefined his idea of strength to match that of his desire to survive. However this setback ignited the long forgotten pride of dragons.

While it was Naledi who made the promise, she was his and he was hers, her word was his own.

Having said word broken touched his very core, it made his ancient bloodline boil with rage.

The eyes of the dragon image shone with blinding golden light like stars. It silent roar echoed across the world.

Mountains and seas shook but that was the tip of everything. His image was born of his desire for survival.

And gaining strength through said survival, at first it was born out of selfishness, he desired to live, he and he alone.

However her presence changed everything, after spending so many years next to her, his passion for her reignite like a flame that would never burn out.

She reminded him of values he had long forgotten, a life lived alone is a life not worth living. His desire for survival still burnt strong like the stars themselves.

However it was not merely for his own, he now desired to survive alongside those he cared for.

In this instance, in the time of peril where his home is constantly under threat, he deeply desired the survival of those he cared for.

The heavens responded to his will, reality bent to him, the world itself was bathed by his own will.

Trees and grasses grew stronger gaining the vitality of dragons themselves. The dragon image roared.

It golden light spread through the entire world bouncing off the snow Naledi had created.

Everything touched by it felt itself grow stronger. Everybody human and spiritual beasts with the exception of a few grew stronger.

The hardships they had faced paid off, strength through survival. They all felt it and they all knew it origin.

The light went through walls themselves as if nothing could stop it. This caught the Librarian by surprise as nothing should be able to pass through the walls of her library

The world was bathed by two wills so powerful the heavens themselves move with them.

The grew stronger, the very wills of it denizens grew stronger. The two perpetrators had no idea this was happening.

Both were lost in their minds, one wallowing in sorrow at her failure while desiring the power to never fail again.

Another drowning in his rage, seeking to regain his pride and survive with all he holds in his heart. Their images kept becoming more and more tangible.

However such a rapid growth of will was not something easy to bear for a soul. Before long they both lost consciousness.

Ved fell first and Naledi followed an hour later. However by then, their wills and images had grown significantly stronger.

When they fainted the seer came in with her guard who appeared like darkness. She brushed their faces gently with a caring smile.

Ved’s body started changing back to it true form slowly. He couldn’t maintain human form while unconscious.

" You did good my little ones, I just hope this is enough, rest now."

She took them both to the Library. " Was this really necessary?" The librarian asked. " This would’ve happened either way, I don’t see why you had to advance it, especially at such a cost."

The Librarian continued while raising her glasses. The seer just smiled but said nothing.

" I really hate it when you do that." The Librarian whispered.