Chapter 42: Holy yap, but next chap will be true beginning of the story

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"You are quite ignorant, if he had an alternative why would he waste time chasing me?, He cannot personally descend without this"

The figure placed a hand on its chest, its chest emitted a faint light and its hand tightened into a fist.

He brought the fist in front of Rowayne, opened it.

"A pinky?"

"The vessel, only thing that can withstand king’s true power"

"The realisation came late, I was dancing on the king’s hand, I was never free from the king’s influence, neither was the proxy I was creating"

"In the elevator, during the few moments of clarity, I hastily tried to fix everything, I managed to get rid of most of the influence, and somehow you were created, a failsafe set by the king I presume."

Rowayne stood silently for a few moments, then he said slowly.

"So... I am an oops baby?" (unplanned child)

"Technically ye-"

The figure held its chin in thought

"Perhaps not, if it was all according to king’s plan"

"and who’s the father?"

"We have a few more moments to live and you ask that?"

"Hey, it was not my fault I was born curious, I am 6 months old technically"

"ask anything else"

"So to summarise everything, You are king’s clone, and you don’t want king to descend, and you created me, to take your place and stop the king from descend"

"that is correct"

"What’s stopping you from going to the other side of the world, in the middle of a deep ocean and unaliving yourself?The vessel would just sink to the bottom of the ocean floor where no one could find it?"

"That’s not how it works, if either soul or mind were to be destroyed, the vessel would go berserk, attack nearest the target"

"from there, let’s say it attacks a frog, it will become the frog in mind and body, then it might get eaten by a snake, it will eat the snake from within, becoming the snake, but it will have mind and instinct of both snake and the frog, it will continue like that until it is on top of the food chain before instinctively heading towards the king"

"The vessel will always want to merge with the king." the figure stated.

"I see"

"That’s it?"

"Yes, I can’t expect much reaction, I am still recovering from all the lore you dumped on me, after beating my ass."

"..."

"Oh, and another thing, Are we male or female?"

"Our kind does not have an inherent gender, we can switch on our own accord."

"ok"

"..."

"And anything, I need to know that would have been a cool surprise if I had lived?"

"Your gift, It’s the king’s ability, something we can use as his vessel. I, however, swapped the information, what you see on the rune reader, is not the real name of the gift, nor accurate description and I have hidden some information ."

"Why?"

"To survive, humans are curious species, if we want to live, we must not arouse their curiosity. If we were weak, we would have been researched, protected, but we aren’t, we are a threat to humans, they would label us so."

"That makes it curious, how bad was the real name and description?"

The figure waved his hand, and status screen appeared in front of Rowayne’s eyes

(A/N changing [][][][] to ****, you have better symbol, please comment)

[GIFT NAME] ~ ****AL’S SOUL

[GIFT TYPE] ~ Unknown

Activation- Innate

[Description] ~ A fragment of soul split from the sea of **** , contains abilities of sea of ****

[Abilities] -

[Assimilate] - consumes anything and everything that has a soul or contains Mystical energy and makes it a part of the user.

[Dominion] - claims soul and mind of the prey, severing them from the sea of souls and oblivion, preventing revival and reincarnation.

[Shapeshift] - transforms into an assimilated form when certain requirements are met.

Requirements

-Complete body assimilation <the target’s body must be consumed as a whole, and should not have any fatal injuries>

-Complete mind assimilation

-Complete soul assimilation

Available forms

Nightshade Raven

[Partial transformation] - transform limb or grow additional limbs, mimicking those of assimilated target

Everything other than this was the same.

"Interesting, and does this ’king’ have a name?"

"He is called by many names, different people have different name for him, but over time all them are ultimately forgotten.

What he does have is a tittle, Among the kings, he is known as ****** sea"

This made Rowayne notice something, only one word was censored, not the sea,

So king’s tittle itself was not prohibited,

Only few words regarding, their home and species.

Were they the same word?, did the name of the species and the world have something in common?

What was allowed and what was not?

And why was king called ’sea’?

"Well, now I don’t think I have any other question so when are we dying?"

"In a few minutes"

As the figure said that, the ground(the dark waters they were sitting on, well only figure was sitting, Rowayne was standing) vibrated.

This was was different than the tremors, the water started moving in a certain direction

"this is-"

The figure noticed this, and arrived at a conclusion

It laughed

"hahahaahahaaha"

A genuine laughter.

"hahahahahah"

Then it stopped. And said smiling

"It seems luck have not forsaken us yet, but before that."

It stood up and knelt to the ground again, facing Rowayne, it bowed its head.

"Rowayne, I stand here to apologies for dragging you into my mess and not being responsible for you till the end, and I realise I have no right to. But I must ask nevertheless"

"Will you carry the touch I have lit, Will you walk the path I have carved, Will you oppose the king till your last breath, as the my proxy, and my successor?"

"I cannot answer that"

Rowayne began

"its just too sudden for me, you ask for forgiven, but I dont even feel any resentment, I have never in my life have faced any hardships. So I dont know if I will stand up to your expectations, to be what you want me to be."

"but"