Adolin moved into a shaded area on the plains and enjoyed the light winds ruffling his hair as he leaned against a tree.
"Well go on then,", he sighed and waited for Kalatis's explanation.
"You could at least sound a bit more optimistic.", grumbled Kalatis as he rolled of Adolins head and took on the shape of a man sprawled out in the grass.
"I've already considered splitting the link with multiple people, but it won't work, it will pass on to me because our blood link exists but as for anyone else, they may be able to take a sliver of it but that's all, even if we have your control of vital essence by splitting it between me and a none blood linked person, too much of the curse will stay inside him."
"Well thanks to you we are all linked to him aren't we, to revive him you utilised essence that belongs to all of us, through that, I can use my primordial essence technique to build a link between all of us that will be just as effective as a blood link.", said Kalatis with a smirk he glanced at Adolin as if saying it's alright to start praising me now.
Adolin however wasn't having any of it, "That will leave us with over twenty cursed gods Kalatis, do you realise just how dangerous that would be without a doubt each of us will become hunted, I will be fine but what about everyone else, what about you, once we are cursed it may take some time but we will eventually lose control and began hunting ourselves."
"I'm the greatest controller of pure essence, while I can't stop others from hunting us, I can at the very least ensure that we won't attack each other, that way we can band together to keep ourselves safe, the prophecy says that the calamity of the gods will last for no more than a million years so we only need to protect ourselves for a million years."
Adolin looked at Kalatis with wide widened eyes, "How did you…"
"None of us here are idiots Adolin, don't insult our intelligence, When all gods willingly surrender their purity, the god's calamity shall begin," Kalatis recited two of the verses from the prophecy, ", we all put it together you were obsessed with taking everyone's purity but you never forced anyone to do it, and this curse is what will bring the calamity but that's fine after all you have done for the other gods you deserve to be selfish for this once, which is why we all willing to help with this old friend."
Adolin sighed, "Looks like you guys won't let me win this argument," he said with a gentle smile on his face, ", then tell me how you will stop us from trying to kill each other?"
"When we are all linked up I'll pull up my essence inside your son with it I'll be able to draw a little bit of spiritual essence from everyone in the link and with that essence, I'll forge a few soul avatars and it will be bound to everyone's soul, so we will always be in each other's presence so every time we split up and come back together it will be as if we never left each other's side, it will hold so long as we come into contact with each other every 100000 year's so we should be fine."
When Kalatis saw Adolins contemplating face he let out a little sigh and immediately jumped up and floated in the air before shouting in a booming voice, "Everyone in position," he shouted enthusiastically not giving Adolin any chance to change his mind.
His mouth curved into a smirk as he stretched out his hand and blue ripples stretched across the plains it wasn't very often that he would get to display his might like this, as the ripples spread out the laws started to squirm and crumble all around them. When the world settled down a great runic circle had formed and all the wild energy waves vanished, Kalatis stretched out his hand once more and twenty rods of a strange black and blue color shoot out at each of the gods present.
The gods grasped onto the strange rods that had thousands of tiny runic flows built into them and began moving around the array once they located twenty points in the array that looked like a little hole in the fabric of the world they simultaneously planted the rods in the holes, one-half of the rods seemed to vanish while one half remained it was clear to all that that was an array that utilized the powers of both the plain and the void, everyone positioned themselves slightly behind the holes and began pouring their energy into the rods.
Each rod trembled violently as space tried to seal itself, but Kalatis was waiting for this and immediately the runic flows began to glow sucking the energy from both plains and merging them together. All twenty rods emitted an azure beam, the beams split into two flows one that entered the gods and one that flowed towards the centre of the array, and just before the flows meet a new force acted on it twisting the beams to spin furiously in a circle.
"Adolin the bridge is ready, when you begin so can we," Kalatis spoke calmly and used his energy to place Samsara in the centre of the ring.
Samsara watched the process carefully from his cradle he was slightly disappointed by what he saw, the god Kalatis was merging Celestial and Genesis energy together from the void and material plain, whilst it was his first time seeing someone other than himself capable of harnessing and merging the two energies, he couldn't help but sigh at the fact that this god that held more power than any of his incarnations still needed tools to do such a simple merge of energies.
Kalatis frowned, for a second it felt like the child was looking down on him and his essence manipulation technique, but a second later he shook his head, no that can't be what would he know about the difficulties of source energy merging, one day when the brat was older and understood what source energy was, he would surely come begging him for lessons on how to use a single source energy let alone merging two different source energies, just like half the gods out there.
Samsara quietly watched as Adolin began placing items while chanting a spell, once more surprising him, because the words he spoke were the chants of heaven, these words are always hidden to cultivators, it's impossible for a cultivator to learn them without the retribution of the heaven, the only other way is to become an equal to the heaven, in that way you can take parts of the heavens hidden knowledge, but
Adolin was definitely not equal to the current heaven, which meant it was impossible for him to be alive.
Samsara eventually shook his head and calmed down there was way too much that he didn't know about the current heaven and its occupants. When the heaven chant was completed the spinning, vortex descended and wrapped itself around him like a cocoon, the energy slow ate away at him and penetrated his entire being, his spirit, body, and energy were undergoing a baptism as the curse was being ripped from every cell of his body and soul.
It was an excruciating pain but not a single gasp let alone a scream left his mouth, it had been a long time since pain was able to affect Samsara. He endured through the pain, racking havoc on his every cell and for the first time ever he felt the release of his curse, the vortex slowly left his body it had taken on a murky and distorted color and shot outwards into the twenty surrounding gods, the distribution of the curse was even across all the gods a twentieth fell on each but due to their varying power, the intensity of the curse differed.
Chastytas, the fire and ice phoenixes, Virtutous, Kalatis, and finally Adolin had the most intense auras and for the first time Samsara got to experience the fear and hatred that so many people had shown to him, and for the first time he could understand why they always showed him such hostility, it was like their very presence was eating away at his sanity his father's aura in particular, despite it being toned down by twenty times, it was slightly stronger than his was, a moment later a piece of his spirit was mixed with all of the god's spirit and split between them embedding a mark on all of their souls.
Samsara felt a jolt of fury and jealousy at this, for all his many lives he had always been alone with just a single exception, he would have given anything to have just a single companion through his life but here all of them were in it together from the beginning, two tears silently made their way down his face, it was always like this the world always made fun of his suffering, what he would give his everything for, others would obtain from the very beginning.
But at least from now on, he would be free from the curse that plagued his very existence, he silently consoled himself with that though.