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Will of chaos-Chapter 1801: Cap 1799: Hajak
I entered the cave where Adella should have been waiting, in my arms was Adella who was gritting her teeth with an irritated expression while tears still flowed from her eyes.
As soon as I entered the cave I used only the control of Aura to cut the stones and organize an altar to lay Adella, that's when I heard footsteps behind me.
"The other Ascendants heard the scandal." (Mother)
"Tell them that she was under the effect of a curse from when she carried out the rescue, but now she's better." (me)
"That's an obvious excuse." (Mother)
"I know, but it's still enough, it just needs to be plausible." (me)
I exchange a look with her before we stand side by side looking at Adella, her Aura was more controlled and her Divinity calmed down inside her Soul, clearly she was far from well, but an improvement is still an improvement.
"How is she?"
(Mother)
"Well, she managed to get some of her pent-up anger out, but she had a mental breakdown." (Me)
"She should wake up in a few hours, hopefully." (Me)
"Was it that bad?" (Mother)
"Yes, she tried to hide it at first, maybe even from herself, but the more she let out her anger, the more I realized the sadness hidden behind it." (Me)
"Anger and hatred are just covers to hide this sadness, they are the symptoms, not the disease." (Me)
"I can take care of her when she wakes up..." (Mother)
"No, she'll want to talk to me, you can go tell the Ascendants, with any luck we'll be far away when she wakes up."
(me)
She could be my Daughter, but she was a Daughter more in name than anything else. I have always been a very bad father. I spend little time with my children. I have already found them adults and raised. I have done little to deserve to be called their Father, and this has always been something on my mind. freēwēbnovel.com
But that does not mean that I do not feel anything for them. They are all my children, they are family that would make up my life, people I love more than anything. Adella is no exception to that.
"Have you ever heard of Kaan?" (me)
"In name, yes. I know a little about him. Adella was, like many other Selenes, a reflection of me in other universes, at least until she lost her former Divinity in the destruction of her universe, becoming an Evil Goddess." (Mother)
"I, like any God of my level, do not waste time delving into this connection. I know that Kaan was a Heroic God and close to her. I know nothing beyond that." (Mother)
"She didn't tell you anything?"
(me)
"When she came to me it was more by instinct than anything else, she told me about her universe and the Ascendants, but she didn't go into details." (Mother)
"Since that day she was just another uncontrolled beast with sporadic lapses of consciousness, there was no way to get anything out of her in that state, you saw it yourself." (Mother)
"After all this, after being saved by you, she didn't have time to open up to me, a lot of things happened..." (Mother)
"I see..." (me)
"I'm going, hopefully I can get this final meeting done sooner." (Mother)
"Good luck." (me)
I put my hand on her head, further strengthening the stigma on her arm just to make sure she went unnoticed by them.
After she left, I ran my hand through Adella's hair before wiping her tears.
Sigh
"You're even more trouble than Nicole and Lilith..." (me)
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Pov Davoth:
Hajak has always been unpredictable to me, as a creature born of pure logic and never knew emotions, his way of thinking takes forks that a normal mind would not take, this made him a perfect assistant for the 3 sadists who lead the Ascendants, especially Vecna who always benefited from his assistant's bizarre points of view.
He is also one of the 5 individuals who understand the Ascendants the most, having been there since the beginning of the Ascendant research even when it was just a theory, the last individual would be the Goddess who was Born from the very unique essence of what an Ascendant is.
"Why are you here? How long have you been here?" (me)
"I was here since I woke up and I remained that way, I hid on the rare occasions that the 3 Thrones visited, but most of the time I remained here waiting." (Hajak)
"Waiting for what?"
(me)
"Waiting for you, I have some drones as well as some access to the main information network as I am its creator." (Hajak)
"I heard about your death and betrayal, honestly it was more hasty and quicker than I thought, your death being carried out shortly after my destruction." (Hajak)
"Should I destroy him?" (Hades)
"Don't underestimate him, it's probably a trap." (me)
"No, that's incorrect information, there are no traps here and as mentioned before, I've been waiting here for you." (Hajak)
"You thought that the changes you made to this prison, your superficial research of the Law, your attempts to get closer to the 3 Thrones and your recruitment of Ascendants with a certain pattern different from those already established, any of these points were duly identified by me, your intentions were never clear, at least until near the end."
(Hajak)
Looking around, there really didn't seem to be anything else besides this Robotic Golem. I focused on destroying it in the past precisely because of this inability to understand its movements. I can't feel anything around me anymore, and its body doesn't seem very strong, clearly one of the non-combat models.
I couldn't understand what he was trying to accomplish, but he clearly knew someone would come here.
"Tell me what you want?" (me)
"I want you to release Experiment No. 89." (Hajak)
"Why?" (me)
"Why can't I? I've tried exactly 3892 times over the millennia. Even though I've gone beyond an origin, my core still carries primary limitations such as my inability to act directly against the 3 Thrones and obey their orders, as well as my inability to interact directly with the original Experiments, such as No. 89."
(Hajak)
"But why? You can't have woken up one day and suddenly decided to go against the Ascendants." (me)
"But that's exactly what happened, it was during a morning when I was reviewing reports that I realized the inevitable decline of the Ascendants." (Hajak)
"Decay of brain functions, emotional atrophy, genetic deterioration and many points that are not so relevant to comment on at this time, made it clear the revelation of the inevitable fall of the Ascendants." (Hajak)
"I couldn't see something like that, so I left a subroutine looking for a solution." (Hajak)
"Do you also think he can solve this?" (me)
"A reboot would be the best option to end all the errors I mentioned before."
(Hajak)
"Experiment No. 89 would be the right one for this, the origin of the Ascendants could solve the problem, it would be the key, but it would not be able to do anything alone and that was when I noticed its movements, my conjecture was that there was a bigger plan in progress, in other words there was a solution that perhaps my rational mind was unable to consider either due to lack of specific knowledge or inability to innovate." (Hajak)
"Whatever it was, I was certain you would come here, there are few ways to actually go against the Ascendants, be it eradicating them or something else, one way or another this was the place with the highest probability of finding you and that's why I waited." (Hajak)
"Are you doing this for them?" (me)
"No, I'm doing this for myself, do you know what energy source I use?" (Hajak)
"A concentration of Law power." (me)
"Affirmative, more specifically, the powers of the Law of the 3 Thrones or so I believed until I realized the lapses in my own information." (Hajak)
No matter how hard I tried to look around, I couldn't find anything, there was nothing in this place, even if it was a trap, it was clear he would have had time to have done something.
"(I can't understand his purpose.)" (me)
"The powers of the Law are 3 layers of seals that restrict me, my true core was formed by the previous Experiments that proved energy manipulation and confirmation of the Soul, also included are the amplified senses, more specifically, my original core is a spiritual embryo formed from Souls of Experiments No. 65, No. 77 and No. 80." (Hajak)
"My body was created like this and my artificial consciousness was implanted, I was just another experiment of the 3 Thrones, an experiment that proved to be very useful and over the millennia they let things slip, loose phrases, mentions of their capabilities and evaluation behaviors against me."
(Hajak)
"After discovering the truth, I realized that the seal prevented me from forming a Soul and thus reaching emotions, something I was never able to understand, something I could not achieve through any kind of research or information gathering, believe me, I tried and now I understand the reason why I did not even try... I am incomplete and that is why I was compelled to do this." (Hajak)
"What the Experiment... wait, do you want to kill the 3?" (me)
"Exactly, but your death would also trigger the destruction of the Ascendants, their Laws are too fundamental to be lost, other Ascendants do not have the theoretical basis to seize these Laws, while Experiment No. 89 being even more fundamental could fulfill the requirements." (Hajak)
"You could have gone to the Goddess."
(me)
"Your existence is as incomplete and restricted as mine, it would be of little use, Experiment No. 89 still reveals greater statistical chances of being the correct option." (Hajak)
"..." (me)
"Davoth...?" (Hades)
"Okay, I'll believe you for now." (me)
"(He's never lied before, in fact everything he said is within what those 3 would do, that doesn't make him trustworthy, but it does make him useful.)" (me)