Silence in the room again.
In this room there was an Oracle, and three people blessed by the gods, with one who had three blessings.
"On a personal note she also warned me ...." Hollis took a moment before continuing "that our family might be in the thick of it. Especially our little boy, he might even be at the centre of it."
"We can't let Arc know this. He is just a baby. He hasn't even enjoyed his childhood yet because of those stupid nightmares. He will blame himself for involving our family."
Julia was frantic she couldn't let her little boy be at the centre of a war where gods were his opponents. Eli nodded to her mother's words. She also didn't want he little brother to suffer anymore.
Hollis shook his head " He is going to be the strongest among us and after a while we will not be able to protect him. Only by telling him can we train him to be strong enough to protect himself. Gods left his memories so that he would mature quickly. Not only that they also gave him multiple way to protect himself. A normal soul would have never been able handle the power of a divine spirit king. His soul was strengthened with use of a fruit from the Tree of Rebirth. That is how he was able to handle it."
"What that you just mentioned?" Asked Eli as this was her first time hearing of it.
"When souls reincarnate over and over, they eventually lose their power, unable to continue this cycle. They are absorbed by the Tree of Rebirth and are replaced by the new souls that are burst open from the fruit of the Tree. If this fruit is fed to a soul it can be strengthened far beyond its previous capacity. The first pope was also give this fruit which allowed his soul to go through reincarnation multiple times without cleansing of memories." Hollis explained to the young girl.
"But he will blame himself for involving our family in it." Julia was unrelenting. Gods weren't protecting her boy they were pushing him into the heat of the war.
" He can't because if there is anyone to be blamed for this it would be either the two of you, Albion and Julia, or me" Hollis said with his eyes firmly on the floor.
" What do you mean?" Julia asked understanding what her father meant by that.
"Goddess told me why our family is in this predicament. It started before I was born. Gods were already at a stage where they knew they might have a war at their hands in the future and for that they started to look for strong mortals who could help them with things gods weren't allowed to do. I was one of the potential candidates as I was born with soul stronger than others. As per goddess my soul was probably a merger of three souls. So gods decided to keep an eye on me. As I grew older and refused to leave the elven village they gave up on me but goddess Sara kept an eye on me and I was one of her most devout followers in this era." Hollis stopped for a few seconds and continued while looking at his wife. "Eventually I did leave the village to expand my vision. A few decades later I met Cleo and we fell in love and got married. Few years after that I met Alban and Beryl who although at first were my adversaries but later became my best friends. Beryl had been pregnant with Albion at that time and watching the two discuss about their child made me and Cleo crave our own child which led to your conception. You both were born with two bloodlines each. Later you grew up together and fell in love. You married each other which bought the attention of gods back to our family. This is were you can be blamed. Especially since they knew about the bloodlines of ancient dragon and phonix that were in the dungeon in Lancelot territory."
"Their initial hope was to have one of you get all four of the bloodlines but you both got two each. You are still a potential candidate they can come to for help but then they realised what if you both had a child who had all your bloodlines? That child will have the potential to be the centre piece of their strategies in the mortal world. And that's how they focused their attention on Arc."
"Alban, Beryl I am sorry for....." Hollis was about to apologise to his friend but was stopped by Alban.
"No need to give me that. We are family and we will stick together, so don't say that rubbish ever again. Beside with those four bloodlines in our territory, even if we never met you we would have been dragged into this war."
Julia looked defeated. Her baby was being pulled into the war because he was born to her. As tears ran down her face, Albion and Eli hugged her "It will be fine, with all of us together we can make it through this." Albion comforted her.
"Don't worry too much about Arc. That divine armament of life and death will ensure his safety. As per the old records, although it is an incredible mana guzzler as long as there is mana it is impossible to kill it's wielder." Alban comforted his defeated daughter in law.
"We need to focus on our self too. All us need to get to work and train hard if we want to survive this war" It was Beryl that said these words.
" I will stay in the mansion while Arc is asleep. Once he wakes up, I will help him with his treatment and then leave to meet the pope. I need to go with Patry to tell him about the divine war." Hollis announced his schedule.
Cleo accompanied her husband as he left the room.
"I will continue with my magic reasearch here while I watch over Arc." Declared Alban. This was his training area where he studied and practiced his magic.
"I will stay with father in law and help him with his research." Julia was unwilling to leave her son untill he woke up and she was sure that he is fine. She was taught magic by Alban from a young age. Thus it was not uncommon for them to be immersed in magic reasearch together. They were practically Master and Discipline.
Eli too wanted to stay with her brother and declared she will be practicing her spells in the adjacent training room.
Beryl left for her workshop. She was the best weapon maker in the Kingdom and needed to prepare weapons for the upcoming war.
Albion left for capital of the Kingdom to inform the king about the upcoming war. They were old friends from the time when they were just a prince and a son of duke. He flew to the capital as that would be the fastest way possible.
With everyone divided they all got to work inorder to survive the up coming bleak future.