diff pov
at the moment i was cursing my luck. to think the bloody mantra sect would find us so close to safety. i listened to the conversation.
"OK boys were out of their territory. our current location is the sword against heaven. i will advise you all to look only touching the sword brings heavenly tribulation instantly."
at least they aren't stupid. *sigh* that just makes it worse for me. i look over to see a charred corpse with its posture hinting he touched the sword and recently too. they break into formation suddenly distortions appear filling all near with a sense of dread over the unknown it begins to take a human shape and 15 breaths later i look intently at the strange naked mans face its staring intently at the sword. nobody makes a sound or moves.
it begins to speak unintelligibly, it walks closer to the sword hand out. i scream into the rags binding me. it looks up flabbergasted suddenly a dark grey bodysuit appears on it. its face flies through emotions staying on an ecstatic grin with his eye brows raised. he doest have ears like anyother race no horns or wings not even a trace of ether as if you closed your eyes and it wasn't their. the leader charges him in a second he punches the person to pieces. but backs up as the distortion reveal the strange teen again except with a twitching scowl. it stretches it limbs and begins to speak again in an unknown language.
"what the hell is it saying"
distortions cover the body and it near instantaneously appears at the leader grabbing his head with its hands slowly. he begins to scream and tremble. Eventually the hands twist his neck. I'm stricken with fear he 'could' have moved but didn't which means he was locked down.
"i see you speak a language unknown to me. it was expected, but what wasn't was his malicious mindset. I'm not sorry at all for killing such a beast and its apparent to me you are holding her hostage, release her and i will advise you to not live so selfishly or your life has been in vain".
nothing happens but he speaks again "fine i will do it myself" i feel my clothing pull me forward to him. once I'm a 3 steps away the thrusts out his palms and then straightens the palms to be parallel to the ground. i then feel the remaining people's ether fade away into the surroundings. in front of me he staggers and falls to a knee. his palms look mutilated and his eyes are bloodshot as blood runs out of his nose, however it fades back into his skin and his hands heal i 3 breaths as he stands. he looks at me intently and reaches to my head with a hand i try to run but realize i cant move or use ether. it feels like I'm in a dream without control. he grabs my left ear and feels it between his fingers. a shock runs through me as a sudden wind blows it. i fall to my knees. 'my control is back!' i rip the cloth out of my mouth, he speaks and i halt out of fear.
"interesting indeed, you see where im from your race if purely imaginary and there were many different portrayals of elves. they all had one thing in common though the ears are special to elves i some way. from its their source of power to only their family or lover can touch them the list goes on. so i tell you what, since these guys I've learned about from the guy who's neck i broke. you don't seem malicious i will either leave you alone or i will grant a wish within my capabilities if you satisfy me." he spoke in an unnaturally calm tone.
"satisfy you in what way?" i spoke 'please don't be my body please'
"knowledge of your people i will ask questions and based on the details or how useful i will be satisfied perhaps in a very short time"
i thought about it. "ok but i can decline to answer is that acceptable?"
not even a breath passed "yes, so princess of the elves why did they want you, it wasn't a hostage situation." i hesitated "i see they wanted to use you to improve their power and your scared to say it because its probably likely in your mind that i would want you to do the same. yes?" he smiled looking pleased
i wasn't feeling fear anymore but terror.
"OK. from what i know its very suspicious if i have no ether and i lack the traits of any race. i will choose elf. all you need to do to get your wish is leave a ether signature on me. make me normal in the eyes of your race. do we have a deal?"
i thought about it and decided to leave a death mark signature on him. "deal, but if you die it will disappear but you reviving will be stranger than the lack of ether. my wish is to have you guard me in a life or death situation 3 times i also want to know of your capabilities. so i can not die from the fighting and can even assist you within my capabilities. you will however guard me to the capital. and not enter with me in fact don't even come from the same direction"
for the first time he didn't speak immediately. " I will give you a locator with it i can appear near you in a half breath if your vitals become erratic such as extreme pain, adrenaline spike, blood loss. My capabilities in combat are well... I'm godlike compared to those chaps i killed but the problem is ether, it pushes back against me equal to the force i use outside of my body. but remember i can repair my body indefinitely, and my power doesn't dwindle no matter how long i fight." he said
i felt a pinch in my chest i scanned my body with ether and found something unknown in it. nothing changed and it had no reaction to my ether as if it wasn't their.
"OK curl in a ball in the ground and i will wrap around you from behind and transport us to outside the capital but first give me a talisman of knowledge on proper action around elves."
i did as told i made the talisman then approached him and spoke. "i will put the signature on your ears now. while you absorb the talisman, it works with ether so i have to activate it for you." i put it on his forehead and activated it immediately his clothing and stature changed to where i couldn't tell him not an elf. i washed away my thoughts and put the death seal and ether signature on him. it cost me a chunk of my cultivation and made me dizzy. i hugged my knees on the ground he wrapped around me and put his head on mine. i was then in a white metal room that felt strange he was gone. the walls turned transparent and i beheld a massive city of lights and moving parts on a white gray surface. the sky was black as night and there were no people or animals or plants anywhere in the distance.
"welcome to my body. i was once a person a mortal in every way. however my body was sacrificed to transfer my consciousness to this massive machine. i can process information with multiple selves the slowest self works at a speed of 500x a average person. the total speed is 17.89 trillion the average person. or 5673 centuries in a second. however the part of me, the main one talking to you. my consciousness to be exact operates at 600x the average person. so a single second is 10 minutes for me. oh and this is only the main section of me, my mind so to speak. the size is equivalent though i estimate my mind to be 1.3x the size of your capital princess. making my whole body a machine the size of all the elven cities in your kingdom combined." he spoke slowly so i could digest the information.
my mind was reeling i was blanked out. 'what have i done... what if it becomes hostile... its not even in our dimension... which means its abilities are limited in our world'
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