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Chapter 4 - The chased(2)

*Pant pant pant*

Information knew that even if tired and exhausted she still needed to run, still needed to escape.

In the midst of all her muttering she heard a gigantic explosion that made even those gigantic trees shake, this together with the blinding light that reached even her made her realize what happened, her husband sacrificed everything for them.

Still stunned by what just happened she remained there, motionless, the tears made their way to her eyes, urging her to just cry all her pain away.

Said that she started sprinting again in the forest, oftenly turning her head to the sides as if searching for something…

What she just found is a cave… well maybe it's better to say that she found a tree. This tree is way smaller than the other trees but you shouldn't underestimate it for that, even if smaller it gives off a feeling of sturdiness as if, even subjected to the strongest natural forces, the tree won't budge an inch.

This tree is a –Pathway tree–, a type of shepherd tree with roots that go so deep in the gods' realm soil that they can serve as a passage to the mortal realm, this is exactly what Information needs.

Entering a hole big enough to let in only a person at a time she put the egg down on the tree trunk's floor and started to write something on the top of the egg itself, without taking it out from the backpack.

This something is a seal, she's sealing the inborn divinity of the egg to prevent it from being discovered by the gods' messengers. The work isn't proceeding as fast as she wants, after all she is the goddess of information, not formations.

Alas, she isn't omniscient, if she were she would have known about the betraying thoughts of her own messenger , she wouldn't have needed to run so much in the forest to find the tree, maybe if she knew everything her husband wouldn't have died like that.

While mulling over what she could have and couldn't have done the sealing circles was completed, now she just needs to draw the transferring one under it and the egg will be able to start its new life.

Unfortunately these two processes siphon so much neutra from nature itself that its flow becomes visible to the naked eye, now if Information had more expertise in this kind of thing she could have easily hidden said flow.

Obviously this did not go unnoticed and so, not much time later, the battered duo composed by Secrecy and Shadows found the tree and saw the silhouette of a woman crouched on the ground, scribbling something.

As you may have understood that silhouette is Information, she just successfully completed the two circles and now only needs to wait as they gather sufficient energy to activate.

said smugly Secrecy even when badly bruised.

Meanwhile Information turned around, anger and resentment are clearly seen on her face.

Secrecy started to chant something, and as she continued more and more neutra started to head towards her instead of being absorbed by the transportation circle.

Said that Information changed the shape of her hands in two shortswords and, after a quick chant that seemed to turn them into a stone like material, she charged straight to Secrecy.

<-Twin slash->

It was none other than Shadows who blocked her skill right before it hit Secrecy's head.

In the aftermath of the explosion some of his bandages got damaged enough to give us a glimpse of the pale, wrinkled skin on his hands.

But Information still didn't surrender, if she couldn't attack them then she just needed to defend the egg.

The problem is time, because the flow of neutra got disrupted the circle would need much more time to completely activate.

She retreated to the tree hollow and blocked the hole by pressing her back onto it, chanting the same thing that hardened her hands only, this time, she targeted her back.

After doing this she started to pour neutra directly from her nucleus to the circle on the ground.

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At that the neutra she started to pump out from her core increased drastically, the only problem is that this technique burned her life to do it.

She was reaching her limit, both her body and mind. Being attacked constantly by a mid-grade god, even if injured, without being able to defend is no easy feat.

But the circle is now completely charged and the egg is getting encased in roots, ready to start its new journey.

The last words of a loving mother, before dying under the blows of Shadows.