"There are more important things you should worry about."
"Like what?" Asher was only getting more confused every-time he conversed with Pandora
"Sometime tomorrow, the alarm for the God Beast's invasion will ring out."
Asher looked at Pandora with knit eyebrows
'How the hell does he know that?'
"Should...should we help?" Asher decided not to question him and just asked.
"Of course not."
Pandora showed an eerie unnatural smile for the second time in his life.
"Hm?" Asher looked at Pandora curiously, but then said with anger as he remembered something he completely glossed over
"Were u watching me and Jade?!"
Pandora didn't really know why Asher was reacting like this so he only nodded his head and said in his eerie and mysterious voice riddled with Space and Time intent.
"Yes, it was quite interesting."
Asher was about to burst into flames but saw Pandora staring at him like an innocent little child.
"What do you mean by interesting?" Asher asked weirdly
"Ahh" Pandora sighed
"My little brother doesn't stand up like yours, it was a new experience to witness what you guys were doing"
If Asher was drinking something right now he surely would have to spit it all out.
"What? What do you mean?" Asher said, trying not to breakdown from laughter.
'Little brother doesn't stand up? Where the hell has he learned this phrase?'
Pandora said, with a serious look
"When I was born, time slowed and space distorted, the reason Space and Time laws of the world were so powerful at that moment was that I was born with a fourth stage bloodline."
Argent's bloodline; known for their striking silvery white eyes that had Space, Time, and extraordinary comprehension abilities.
Asher's eyes widened
'Fourth stage bloodline? That's what their Father The Star God Emperor, a literal Origin God is at after many years of existence, and Pandora was actually born with it!?'
Pretty much every Argent is born with an unawakened bloodline, the same happened to Asher, but his awakened much faster than others as he was already in the middle third stage of his Argent's bloodline.
"Yes, I'm pretty awesome right?" Pandora oddly smiled again like he was trying to be normal and continued.
"When I was born with the fourth stage of the Argent bloodline I also awakened parts of our Ancestor's memories."
"Those memories told me many interesting things.....and made me unable to live a normal child's life...it was like they were guiding me."
Pandora slowly trailed off as he spoke, but quickly recovered
"From those memories, I learned that if I wanted to reach the 4th peak stage bloodline to awaken more memories it would be impossible unless I used a forbidden technique, I would need to harvest blood essence from a newborn child with the Argent bloodline awakened with a second stage bloodline talent at the lowest."
Blood essence carried an individual's bloodline and natural talent that would naturally fuse throughout one's body as they grew up.
"What? Harvesting blood essence?"
Asher was shocked that you could actually improve your bloodline by taking it from someone else...wait...does that mean...
"Yes, the reason I'm like this is from the backlash of the blood essence harvesting, it has very specific requirements and there is a very high chance of the person using the forbidden technique to die or become crippled."
Taking blood essence from just any random cultivator was an extremely stupid idea since there was a 99.9% chance it wouldn't be compatible with their own body and would result in getting instantly crippled or dying. On the contrary, any God Beast blood essence can be used to strengthen yourself.
But it was entirely different for those of the same bloodlines. You would be able to extract the blood essence, successfully stealing talent and bloodline if they were both in their infancy stage using the forbidden technique in Pandora's memories.
Infancy stage meaning their blood essence hasn't fully integrated throughout one's body which happens to children after the age of 0-1, but successfully extracting it doesn't mean it will meld perfectly, there is still an extremely high chance for backlash and Pandora was living proof of that.
"When I harvested the bloodline from Lexi, it worked, but I had to pay a harsh price and the price I paid was puny compared to the others in my memories. I only became sexually impotent, and as you can see it also messed with my appearance, but in return, my talent and bloodline were raised to the utmost."
"You What?????" Asher stood up, his face burning with anger.
Asher got up like he was going to fight Pandora, he harvested the blood essence from Lexi?!
That was our sister!
Is this guy a fucking lunatic?
Taking blood essence from your newborn sister when you were barely able to even speak?
"Calm down" Pandora coldly said, changing his attitude.
"I would have never reached the peak bloodline if I didn't take her blood essence which meant I would have never fully awakened our ancestor's memories and known we were trapped in this godforsaken place...Lexi and even myself sacrificed for the greater good."
"Trapped.....greater good?" Asher's expression flickered as he calmed down, choosing to listen to what Pandora had to say.
He had no real feelings for Lexi since he never met her, but she was still his blood, he started thinking about Lexi's circumstances.
Lexi, the fourth princess, has been bedridden for all her life, she was only one year younger than Pandora but looked ten years old because her loss of blood essence didn't allow her to grow properly.
She was hooked up to a machine that gave her extremely feeble body nutrition to keep her alive while she was in a coma.
No one was able to help her, not even the Goddess of Medicine.
The Goddess of Medicine was the one who delivered Lexi the day she was born, the same as she did with Asher.
Lexi came out perfectly fine, even more than fine actually, when she was born, extremely vigorous space and time fluctuations appeared, showcasing her gifted bloodline talent, but a few days later she loss everything!
They came to the conclusion that her blood essence that was still in its infancy stage was mysteriously warped from her body, left with no trace...never before seen.
"Yes, we were trapped, but I have a way back home."
Pandora said, bringing Asher out of his thoughts.
"Home?" Asher muttered
"Did you know we rule a realm much larger than this, one not riddled with those damned beasts constantly attacking, one where we don't have to gather together and hide inside a fortress...A magnificent realm with many different races, families and other realms....The Argent Kingdom." Pandora said, clenching his jaw as he spoke with a strange passion.
"If that was true why is there no record of it?"
Prince Asher questioned.
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