Opticon Universe
After deciding what to do about Xue Mo's situation, both the Dark Bright Parasites and the Shadow Light Parasites agreed on a meeting to discuss a situation concerning them and their creator.
"Poison Tail, it has been too long, how have you been lately?" An old man with a goatee said to the golden-haired man.
"It indeed had been. How have you been, Mono?" Poison Tail as always was spirited and easygoing, talking to the Shadow Light Parasite in front of him as if they were friends, and weirdly enough they were.
"So Poison, why have you called me out here and so secretly at that?" Mono also dropped formality and talked to this frenemy of his, while directly going to the point.
"Reason? Can't, I just miss a friend and want to inquire about his situation?" Poison Tail played dumb, however seeing that Mono isn't indulging his act anymore, he knew that he is serious this time, which means that Xue Mo was probably found.
Poison didn't play around anymore. Hardening his expression, Poison looked at Mono with utmost seriousness before asking: "Do you want to ally?"
"…"
Seeing that Mono wasn't responding, Poison thought he might have been rejected, but before he could say anything more, he heard Mono let out a voice that showed surprise.
"….eh?" Mono was truly surprised and taken aback.
Since he didn't expect that question, Mono was dazed for a while before carefully eying Poison Tail in front of him, but seeing that he was earnest, he knew that what he heard was right but still wanted to confirm if they are on the same page.
"When you say alliance, you mean…." Seeing that Mono hadn't finished his sentence, poison Tail knew what he wanted to know and answered him. "I meant, allying. No more just Black Prime and Shadow Light Council."
After clarifying his meaning, Poison Tail waited for Mono to speak, but what he heard next confused him, as he didn't expect to hear, "Why, though?"
Mono's question was in order. After all, the hostility between Black Prime and the Shadow Light Council went way back. For Poison Tail to suddenly want to end it, there could only be one reason, Xue Mo.'
Being birthed by the same creator, the Shadow Light Parasites and the Dark Bright Parasites didn't feel hatred towards each other or any hostility in general. They were harmonious and lived with one another peacefully. It was only after an inevitable accident that these two races split apart, and started regarding each other differently.
In either case, for the usually arrogant and unruly Dark Bright Parasites, to place their pride down and suggest an alliance, was weird in Mono's view. In short, they were proposing to go back and be one tribe again. For a moment, Mono even thought that the one in front of him wasn't Poison Tail, but an imposter.
Nevertheless, Mono knew that it was the real him. Deciding to ask directly and not beat around the bush, Mono looked at Poison Tail and questioned, "Poison, we have been friends for a long time. So I can tell that you mean what you say, but I need you to tell me why."
Poison Tail stayed silent for a few minutes, seemingly deliberating and hesitating. His face had a complicated expression.
However, knowing that he was the one asking for something, he had to give something first, making Poison Tail's ashen and pale face harden as determination flashed in his eyes.
"What I will tell you now will be between me and you, no one else should know." Hearing the serious words of his old friend, Mono nodded severely before conjuring a forcefield that shielded them completely, isolating them as if they were in another dimension.
After Mono put this dome-like shield, Poison even took it further and released a bluish gaseous air, which acted as reinforcement surrounding the shield.
After putting every anti detecting and spying method in their possession up, Mono and Poison Tail relaxed. They should be safe from anyone who wants to eavesdrop on them.
"Now, could you tell me what's happening?" Mono asked Poison Tail, who nodded his head before saying, "It's about Master, and 'Mistress' death." Although Poison Tail, like everyone else, didn't like that Lu Yao stole Xue Mo's heart and attention from them, he still treated her as his mistress and his Master's wife.
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Back at the Ash Expanse
Two people landed near Westeros; these two were Proud Monkey and Kul.
"Big brother, do you feel them? These auras, although incomparable to their previous selves, they are still the same." Proud Monkey announced excitedly before starting to walk to the ruined underground where the dungeon that Xue Mo and the others are currently resting.
While two monstrous entities were slowly approaching them, Xue Mo and Lu Yao, who had still not awoken even after two days of sleep, were starting to worry both Delvin and Hesroth.
Since they had nothing to help them check what's happening to them, Delvin and Hesroth did nothing but wait silently for their masters to wake up and maybe give them an explanation of what happened to them.
Fortunately, Xue Mo and Lu Yao as if on timer opened their eyes. After a week of being unconscious, Xue Mo and Lu Yao regained consciousness. They quickly got up and hugged each other, startling Delvin, and Hesroth, whose back was being used as a bed.
No one spoke as Xue Mo and Lu Yao kept hugging each other. The scene was almost comical, as a large man hugged an above-the-average-sized white fox. Taking in her scent in Xue Mo looked at Lu Yao with an expression of grief. His hands were trembling. His heart beat faster, while a murderous aura was being suppressed in.
While Xue Mo was slowly taking whiffs of Lu Yao's scent, she instead had been burying herself in his chest, as if not wanting to leave him ever.
Although Delvin and Hesroth had no idea why those two were acting this way, both Xue Mo and Lu Yao knew what they experienced was real. What they had seen in each other's memories made their bond stronger, as if they were now, attuned to each other's brainwaves.
Lu Yao suddenly broke free from Xue Mo's embrace and jumped onto his shoulder, burying his face into her small frame, while slowly whispering, "You will never suffer like that again.
As long as I, Lu Yao, live, I won't allow anyone to make you go through that again." Lu Yao's words indeed elicited a reaction from Xue Mo.
Even though he had been apathetic and lonely all his life, Xue Mo never cared about that. Ever since he met Lu Yao and felt a connection to her, his emotions buried deep inside him, started to bloom.
His miserable existence and her sad life were so much alike. It wasn't that hard for them to find solace in each other's company, and it may have been this bond that connected them. Yet, after seeing the last scene in each other's souls, Xue Mo and Lu Yao started to doubt that. There may be even more to their story than they currently know.
While Xue Mo's face was buried into Lu Yao's chest, he wasn't idle. He held Lu Yao tightly, afraid that letting her go would mean eternal separation.
Xue Mo remembered the scene of that woman dying back at the end before he left Lu Yao's dream. He somehow knew that it was Lu Yao. He didn't know what that was, or what happened. It might even have been the future. A crazy idea came to Xue Mo. Nevertheless, he was sure of one thing, and it was that he didn't want to witness this scene before.
"Lu Yao, I will never let you go. Wherever I travel, you go, and wherever you go, I will go." Although he didn't explain much or talk anything sweet, Lu Yao felt the warmth his words exuded, and even the emotions they conveyed. She felt the confusion, love, and additionally, something she had seen on his face only once. The thing that he truly felt when he had been a child. Before becoming apathetic, calculative, and an actor, she saw fear.
Although she didn't know what made him afraid, she could tell that it was directed at her. 'What happened.'
Lu Yao had some ideas. At the top of them was that he might have seen something at the end of her memory just like she had at his. She recalled the scene that she saw. Two people seemed to be making vows. What appeared to be a marriage ceremony. Contrarily, to the happy and sad memory, he might have seen something else, something entirely different. This is the reason he was afraid.
While Xue Mo and Lu Yao were digesting the information and memories that they have seen, they had missed that something inside their bodies was changing. Not just their bodies but deep inside their Souls, something like a small lock or a glass had a crack suddenly appear in it. But because they were too engrossed in the present and still disoriented, Xue Mo and Lu Yao hadn't noticed this.
Delvin and Hesroth didn't know what happened to their masters, or why they were suddenly embracing each other after waking up, but either way, they didn't disturb them. They found the scene harmonious, so they kept quiet something they got used to after all that happened.
Suddenly a voice of something heavy breaking rang out through the throne room and reverberated through the dungeon. This made Xue Mo and Lu Yao, who enjoyed each other's company flair up as someone or something had disturbed their emotional time.
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Xue Mo and Lu Yao's current new shortened stats
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Infinite Darkness
Name: Xue Mo
Points 1690 SSP energy points
Cultivation:
Energy:
Realm: [Foundation Opening, early Phase, level 1]
Technique: Ultimate Fundamental Racial Technique
Soul:
Realm: [Rank 1, level 3, (Soul Understanding)]
Technique: Boundless Soul Control
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Infinite darkness
Name: Lu Yao
Points 4000 points Chaos energy (New)
Cultivation:
Energy:
Realm: [Qi (Arch) Foundation Opening, early phase, level 1]
Technique: Nephilim Void Sacred Sense
Soul:
Realm: [Rank 1, level 3, (Soul Understanding)
Technique: Boundless Soul Control
Body:
Realm: [Body tempering first stage] (No ranks or other things it can Infinitely be upgraded. no limit. Only Technique's grade is the only limit)]
Technique: Real Body Cultivation Technique
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