Neptune's body was still there, against the wall. I looked at him with difficulty, my mind was soon flooded with moments beside him and all the others who were left behind... I felt like it was my fault. Even though it had been the death of him and everyone else for so long, it only made me continue to blame myself even more.
I felt a slight pull on my sleeve and looked in the direction of the pull, and there I saw Mars with a worried look on his face. She continued to have a sickened expression on her face, her eyes gave away that she had been crying.
"-Your general nose... It's bleeding. Are you okay?"
I turned my face and with my finger touched the area below my nose. I just noticed the feeling of picking up a liquid. I looked at the finger, it was red with blood. I felt a slight dizziness in my senses, my vision blurred and I could only see blurs of the figures to my sides.
I can't be weak right now... I can't give in. he thought going to Neptune's body, the way to him was exhausted, my body threatened to give in every second. I could only clench my fists and keep going... All I can do is go on and on. One step at a time I can get as far. What matters is your determination that will determine where the end will be.
I emptied my mind again as I reached the body. I formed a sphere in my mental space, in my mind that was already all empty almost like a late winter fog.
I thought of a trail of fire spreading across the entire circumference and inside the ball.
The circle glowed a reddish hue growing more intense with each minute I formed the trail more specifically and intricately. About to turn completely fiery red, the circumference slightly failed... My mind was giving in to the void of the mental Interior, the risk of losing sanity and my soul and mind grew by the second. Discrimination and thought should not, by the laws of the gods, be outside the reality that surrounds us... And the mental interior was far from the limits of this reality.
About to lose consciousness manage to redo the whole process. the Error in the Transmigration of elements that are not of this reality was fragile and complex, a miser error of thought or intention the connection was lost.
I opened my eyes again slowly and slowly. My body just wanted to pass out right there, save efforts and strength. Who would have thought that my body would corrode so quickly, of course because of my ruthless lust for strength. Necklaces didn't wear out the wearer's body as much as the connection I had created with the other reality... The mental one.
I thought for a minute, these necklaces really are very strong. I can't imagine a battle scenario of Humanity against the Mythologics without their presence.
The fire took my right hand in the same way that I had imagined in the mental Interior. I removed his Body from the sword which was almost a stake. The body was heavy and lifeless.
I laid him on the ground among some rocks and placed his hands between each other. Finally I closed his eyes... They crossed me for a moment, I felt guilty looking at them. Since when losing a friend like this didn't shake me so much. I had already lost so many to a conflict without reasons.
Since when did I lose the ability to cry or mourn... When was the last time I could cry?
Why didn't I shake myself more with all this?
It was a lot of questions, but I knew that the deaths of all of them were behind my back and my fault.
I got up off the ground with immense effort. The dead body lying in front of me stared at me one last time. I lifted my mother who had fireworks swaying almost like a morbid dance.
As you said to me once, Neptune... Fire is the beginning and end of all life. I felt My arm tingling slightly, and there it was. The same flames taking over the body, turning it to nothing but ash.
Who knew that even in the death of a friend I wouldn't shed even a single tear, a trace of pain or regret.
The cremation of the cremation shone through my eyes, all the way to the bottom of them. I turned and looked into the faces of each of them, Venus who was already on her feet but still with the shock showing through her tense and contracted face.
Mars watched my act with an expression of surprise and sadness at the same time. His hair gleamed and danced with the rhythm of the wind.
Uranus had a void on his face. She was standing looking at the whole scene with a blank expression.
"-Earth... Won't the smoke give away our position?"
Mars then approached the fire and stood beside me, Watching the tears and crackles of the red fire.
She didn't expect that eyes watched the approach of Mars with other eyes. Venus watched both of them there side by side, a feeling of anger and above all jealousy...
He made a pop with his mouth just like the bonfire and got up awkwardly still, his knees were shaking and he had a slight blush on his face, a small vermillion of jealousy. His mind forced him to look at the two of them, Earth and Mars lying there next to each other. Just seeing it awakened a side of him he didn't even know existed.
He loved Mars or rather, he loved Roleny and for her he would do anything... Anything at all. He forced the knees to be stable there on that lakeside, in that dark and inhospitable scene.
A few seconds were necessary and there he was on his feet again. He really didn't believe that Neptune was dead, but even worse was the idea that for a few seconds his body would be burning there right now.
("-I'm sorry old friend, you were a good man but better you than me.") He thought adjusting the belt buckle of his military pants that were clumsy and bothering him. With his hand he patted the clothes he was wearing to remove the dust.
He felt a bit of remorse and pity for Neturno. He couldn't stop thinking that a few minutes ago he had been in a fervent debate with him over whether trivial matters, whether the women of the Federal Kingdom or the Seaside County. Neturnus thought that the women of the Seashore were the most beautiful, as he once met the most beautiful woman he saw on a mission for the federation on the Isle of Casacsterys which lay in the south.
When thinking about this same island for a second, it came to Venus's mind that the first contact between Humans and Mythologists had been there. It was supposed to be a friendly contact and a greeting to them, but there was a misunderstanding between the leaders of the two races... Besides, of course, the Fyterin Incident, the trigger of the conflicts.
Why do I have to think about it now? He thought, hitting himself lightly on the head... It doesn't matter why this war happened. What was done was done and nothing is going to change that.
He instinctively grabbed the sword at his waist. An ancient custom that still persisted in these times.
To his surprise, she wasn't there. It only took a second to remember what had happened, he accidentally threw the sword away in the event. ("-Damn where is she?") He mumbled to himself as he bent down and looked around.
("-I can't go too far, or I'll end up dying too.") Deeply he told himself moving away from Uranus who was muttering something softly to himself, from Earth and Mars who were already getting ready and exchanging words.
Envy took over his mind again, even as the wind howled dark, malevolent words at him.
They whispered to him ''''Off with his head, hiiihiiihiii. He will steal her from you.""
"" Come on you don't have balls do you??? hiiiiiii. What kind of man are you?""
They sounded almost like a demonic orchestra that was driving him insane. They all repeated to kill him some even said to kill Mars, they called her a whore and a bitch.
""""Kill two, Kill two, Kill two, Kill two, Kill two, Kill two, Kill two, Kill two...
Kill the bitch, kill the bitch, kill the bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch,
bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch... """ ("-BITCH...A.") He spelled it into the wind knowingly.
Unlike Earth and Mars who did not hear the words sounded by him, Uranus had heard it very well, loud and clear with his ears.
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Neptune's body was now nothing more than dust, Mars who was standing next to me was sobbing lightly. I envied her in a way, she at least in this one can demonstrate something... Different from me.
("-Let's continue with our route, we should get there in 30 minutes.") I said touching her shoulders and turning me around to continue, She just nodded and turned around again.
As I turned around I felt a pressure on my mind, I thought it was my body's tiredness again but it was different. It wasn't just a simple pressure, it was like something or someone was here besides us... Someone strong, who knows as much as I do.
I looked around but there was nothing wrong, there were four of us and there was no beast or mythological around.
He closed his eyes, a faint darkness flooding his senses. Earth tried to focus and keep the mental space blank but there were so many concerns catching up with him at the moment, which made an already simple task for him a bit complicated and complex. About 15 seconds were needed and nothing more.
Space became stark white. Unlike when I secured the translucent butterfly it was no longer available as it was destroyed by Obsidian 2. This time I created a metaphorical and complex representation of my real body in my Mental Space.
It was hard work but in about 2 minutes I managed it, Right now in my white space that there was nothing just a few sporadic mists, there was the representation of my body standing in front of me almost like a reflection in a mirror... I mean, it was more like a picture of himself.
Unlike Firming a link and forming the translucent butterfly, what I would do was different. It wasn't molding and forming something external, rather it was very internal... I would change the biology of my own body using Mindspace.
I took a deep breath as the process was uncomfortable and not at all painless. I repeated some processes in my mind slowly, I filled my lungs firmly and felt my body pulsing fast, both the veins and my heart that was beating like there was no tomorrow.
In mental space I fixed my attention on my other body, the Mental. I sucked air into my lungs as well as some of the energy from the environment.
Ambient energy was a force that existed only in living beings. This included trees, plants, animals, among others. She was incredibly fast and was hot, so much so to the point of burning those who tried to tame or use her. Of course, to use them a small detail was needed, outside help was needed... The potions. They are made with three specific and rare ingredients, in addition to the most important and complicated one... Blood of fallen angels.
I had made some potions just in case. I pulled from my military shirt pocket a small checkered dark glass vial. I opened it and the purple-red liquid looked back at me. I didn't even think twice and turned the bottle down my throat. The liquid was almost a paste, it was sour and bitter. It worked its way down my throat and into my stomach.
I continued to pull more ambient energy into my mental space and with it I placed it in the eye region of my mental body, it was almost like surgery but without opening the body.
The change only took a few seconds and just like I had done in mental space. My eyes started to sting and turn red, so much so that my eyeballs almost burst, more specifically my cornea.
Now came the worst part... My eyes felt like they were being crushed by an invisible force, the pain was excruciating. After a few moments the pain passed, I opened my eyes again, now they were completely reddish yellow. But now they could see all the signs of life, both the afterlife and our reality.
I looked around but this time there were not only 3 people around me but tens of thousands of red eyes, the figure of thousands of black wolves surrounded us and they just watched us all.
("-We were being followed for how long?") He thought turning to all the eyes of wolves.
As he turned around he saw something strange... Above Uranus' head was a misty figure, it was surrounded by mist and floated. Her hands were above her head, and some strings were coming out of them... Just like a puppet.
The figure suddenly noticed Earth standing there watching her.
She looked at him for a few seconds with a deep look of seriousness, she stared into his soul through her eyes.
He felt like he was thrown into a lake and that he was unable to swim, he was trapped by something... by some force.
He was sweating in the cold, every cell in his body was trembling in the depths of her eyes that were completely white.... It was like there was a mist in place of her eyes.
In his mind for a few seconds the image of the woman in front of him suddenly disappeared. He couldn't see anything, it was as if he was blind both visually and in the senses... Not thinking or feeling was as if he didn't exist at that moment.
In place of Uranus was a woman in an elegant purple dress, with dark gray details. She had a pointy purple hat as well as her hair which was long and had two braids in the front.
She couldn't seem to see me, I was floating and I got a little closer. I could see that she had her hands raised praying to a white marble statue decorated with jewels of a figure with multiple wings, the figure holding a child in her arms.
The kneeling figure finished the prayer and got up from the small mattress that was on the floor, made a sign that I don't recognize with his hands and raised his hands towards his heart.
She turned and went further down the corridor of what appeared to be a luxurious church, stopping beside a window, the environment was all decorated with traces of nobility.
She turned back as if she'd forgotten something, her face meeting mine for a second.
She smiled.
("-Weird greetings.") She said to me sitting down soon after a small sofa of the hall.