"What?!" Everyone exclaimed in unison. They knew it would not be strange if Elijah gained an mortal and spirit body from the golden gate as even Shadow, who grown up in the abyss as a princess of her lineage and had a extensive education, she did not have an idea about what this gate could be other than a seal that blocked his past live memories and powers.
But contrary to the reactions of Shadow and the other, Elijah was not worried at all. He just laughed and said.
"Why everyone is like this? At least I have one year to find this book, Also I think if I contain myself and not use these three powers at the same time, maybe I can last even more than one year. It's just like the RPG's on earth, If we break some chests and kill a few people I'm sure we will find it..." Stopping talking for a moment, Elijah looked around and noticed that he had not seen this place before and that this one place was covered by a layer of gray smoke, his gaze turned to Shadow, Cassie and the four fairies and asked: "Wait, where are we? I do not remember anything after the teleport to the B region, and then something happened with the golden gate ..." after another pause he continued: "Yeah, I was right. All the runes on the gate has been absorbed by the blood pill inside me and transformed into my mortal body. It seems I can feel each one of them in my head, Fire, Earth, Water and Wind, Metal, Lightning, Thunder, Light, Darkness, Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Luck, Growth, Void, Energy, Space, Time ... and they all divided into several small powers. There are so many of them inside that I can not even say all of them but they do not seem to acknowledge me. Only Lightning, Void, Energy, Strength, Space and an small bit of Time seemed to be moved by me.
After hearing what Elijah was saying about feeling dozens of different powers inside him. Shadow was in deep thought and she could not help but think: 'If Elijah has 99 Runes inside his soul and each one of them represents one main Law and dozens of small laws based on the main one, then means he owns the laws? Wait, he said most of them was not moved by him so maybe he can only use it if he has a certain understanding about the power he is using. Now I'm even more curious about who he is, I remember Ell saying he dreamed of someone calling him Ryn, could Ryn be the Elijah's past life? If so, how could exist someone with domain over all laws, not even that old demon was like this.' While she was thinking about this, her thoughts changed to all the times she has passed with Elijah until now, and Shadow felt warmth in her heart as those few years was the most precious to her. Most of the time in her childhood, she has spent cultivating in a dark and small training room full of Void and Dark Laws or reading cultivation manual, martial art books and hunting Divine Beasts, the most enjoyable moments for her was when the cultivation manual was changed to History Books, Movies and Novels her father would take from the Universe's Mortal Worlds and give it to her. And because no one in her clan would dare speak to her because of her background, her happiest moments was spent alone in her bedroom.
One of the most marking stories she heard was about the origins of the abyss and the first war with the Gods.
At first the abyss was an independent zone located close to the main universe and each of those two place did not knew about the other until a human cultivator in interstellar travel happened to collide with a black hole that send him straight to the abyss, crashing in the middle of a palace. From there, a young female in a flowery dress exited the palace with a dozen guards beside her and walked to the crater, where she saw a young man about the same age as her with injuries all over his body. The female asked the guards to take the young man inside to treat his wounds.
Days later, the young man wake up and the first thing he saw was a girl in flowery dress looking at him with her big purple eyes. During the next six months after waking up, the young female showed him several parts of the abyss. At that time, the young cultivator knew the girl with was some sort of princess in this land so he used most of his time to cultivate in the place as it was a much better than the other planets he had gone.
After ten years, the young girl had turned into a fully grown woman and one day after her birthday, she went to the small wood hut the young cultivator was occupying.
On this day she confessed her feelings for him and she asked if he could go with her to her father to ask her hand in marriage, the cultivator agreed but only if she give him the birthday present her father had given her. Without thinking twice because of how much she had fallen for him, the ran to her bedroom and took a small object out of a hidden compartment beside her bed and walked quickly to the hut without letting her father see her.
Inside the hut, the young girl handed the object to the young cultivator who made a evil smile before hiding it and looking at the girl.
"If you really want me so much, I see no reason to turn you down." As he said those words, he hugged her and with a movement of his hand, he loosened her dress, making it to slide onto the floor of the hut, revealing the young female's immaculate and flawless body.
On the next day, the young woman was found naked in the hut, with a puddle of blood by her side and all the things that belonged to the cultivator was nowhere to be seen.
because of this event, the girl's father locked her in her bedroom for days which she has spent the entire time about that night and why he would go away and leave her here.
All of this lasted only two weeks and the girl was awakened by sounds of explosions and yells coming from outside.
Her door was unlocked and a old woman in maid clothes walked in and taking her out of bed.
"Yann, Yann, get up. You need to run away the entire abyss realm is being invaded and our Lord asked this old maid to take you away from here quickly."
"Wait, we're being invaded? Who are invading us? Another royal family?"
"No, Yann it is the boy who stole the most precious thing from you.He is from another domain outside the abyss and he called people from there that call themselves Gods and that this land is now theirs. Your father are fighting with them right now."
"Really? Oh... What have I done." The girl finally realized the young man's true objective all along.
"No, if this is true I can't go away, this is my fault not my father's"
"Even then, It's not safe for you and you die this would make you father feel even worse."
Boom!
An enormous explosion echoed in the entire palace as the roof on the young girl's bedroom was ripped by the force of the explosion.
"Father!" The girl shouted as she saw the figure of her father being gripped by the neck. The huge creature holding her father was entirely made of fire and as it shot its killing intent towards the man it was holding, his body was burning little by little, changing his gaze to the palace, he saw his daughter looking at him with he saw his daughter looking at him with watery eyes and with his gaze full of love he send his last words to her.
"Live well."
Boom! Boom!
The girl's father entire body glowed with grew and black light as it expanded and imploded with a strong reverberation that shake the earth and killed the creature holding him together with several winged people, but before the girl could even realize what was happening an silhouette appeared by the side cutting the old maid in half with a blade before licking the tip of the blade and with his other hand the body of the maid turned into a pellet that he put on his mouth and swallowed. It was not even possible for them to use their racial characteristics that permitted to form new bodies after dying or in reaching a certain level.
"Good, nothing better than eating someone comparable to a demigod and I'm sure this cute little girl has a even better taste."
Seeing death coming closer, she closed her eyes and waited while feeling despair...
Dozens of seconds passed and nothing happened and when she opened her eyes, she saw that everything and everyone other than her and her people was frozen in space.
Above them, a huge golden vortex formed revealing an androgynous figure with golden hair falling to his/her shoulders wearing a white crown with his eyes closed.
The girl was shocked seeing this figure, in the abyss, most of the people could change their faces so no one would fall for another because of looks as it could always change and this was the reason she fallen in love with the young cultivator despite having seen men much more handsome, but even so she could not take her eyes away from him/her.
In a few moments and figure opened his eyes and at this moment every bad feeling was gone and she felt nothing but warmth as she looked into the figure's timeless eyes that seemed to see through everything and everyone but what made her touched was the pain of loss and knowing more that he should know.