1480 Eldraeths.
“You are finally here.”
Faustina chuckled as she glanced at her son and her daughters-in-law standing in front of her. Her eyes lingered on Vyriana a little longer compared to the rest of the women, the Dragon Woman blushed.
Faustina’s smile turned sadistic when she saw Vyriana’s reaction. This was her first time seeing Vyriana acting so… ‘tame’.
The woman turned towards her son, her eyes shining brightly, it was as if she was asking, ‘What did you do?’
Nux, obviously, understood what she was trying to say and smiled playfully. ‘It is a secret.’ That was what he wanted to say.
Clearly, he wasn’t going to reveal any details.
After all, this wasn’t something Vyriana wanted anyone else to know about, not until she got her revenge.
Nux would obviously respect his wife’s wishes, he knew that getting the revenge part was impossible so he would need to keep this secret for the rest of his life, however, that didn’t matter.
It would be their little secret.
A side of Vyriana Leander only he knew about.
Nux smiled, Faustina on the other hand, just shook her head in disappointment. She couldn’t believe that her son would betray her like this.
In the end, she turned towards her disciple and seeing the hard-working and always self-doubting girl standing in front of her with a satisfied smile on her face, she smiled gently.
“Master,” Felberta called out as she walked towards the Mother of all humans.
Faustina patted her head, then, her face turned serious.
“Do you know why I called you here?”
“You have prepared something for me.”
“That is correct.”
Faustina nodded. Then, she waved her hand and the area around them was sealed. No one, not even Azriel, if he didn’t bother trying, would be able to see what was happening inside this sealed area, and considering that the man and his daughter were still inside Yrniel’s Core, Faustina knew Azriel wouldn’t bother checking anything.
This was the perfect opportunity.
The ring on Faustina’s finger shined brightly, then, a wooden box appeared and suddenly, the air around the area turned heavy.
Faustina slowly grabbed the floating box, then, she stared at Felberta who was staring at the box with a lost look on her face.
“Aurelia Starweaver.”
Faustina spoke.
Hearing the name, Felberta came out of her reverie and glanced at her Master.
“This is the name of your Predecessor.
The one you inherited your Law from.
She was the only Progenitor of a Race called the Eldraeths, a race that had the power of creation. It was a ridiculously strong race that had the potential to rule over this entire universe, the only problem was that the world this race was born in was only a middle-level world.”
“What difference does that make?”
Nux questioned with a frown on his face.
Faustina glanced at her son and,
“This is only a theory we Progenitors came up with, however, as more time passes, this theory only gets stronger and stronger.”
“What theory?”
“The extent to which a race can develop depends on the level of the world they were born in.
We Progenitors were always against Aeliana and didn’t let her send her forces out and spy on other worlds, however, this didn’t mean we Progenitors didn’t move on our own.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, when we Progenitors barely had any will to continue living because of extreme boredom and simply existed because we had to, was when it happened.
They appeared for the first time.
Beings who threatened our world and wanted to devour it.
By then, we Progenitors had long gotten used to standing on the peak and crushing everyone with pure might was something we had gotten used to. However, for the first time after a long while, we couldn’t crush our enemies like we were used to.
The enemies were strong, the first few waves were simple to deal with, however, as more and more beings appeared, things got complicated.
The enemies were so strong that we, who had gotten used to easy victories, had to take battles seriously and investigate the enemies.
It was then we learned about the worlds outside Yrniel.
And it was then that we first realized how weak we truly were.
The enemies we were facing weren’t even the main forces, they were merely scouts sent by them.”
“The scouts were stronger than you…?” Nux was surprised.
Despite living for a long time, he didn’t know anything about the universe outside Yrniel.
“One-on-one, they weren’t, however, there were simply too many of them, if the enemy worlds continued to send their forces, we would have been overwhelmed eventually.”
“Then how did you survive?” Vyriana questioned.
“How else? We revived him.”
“Revive…?”
“Azriel Ruinous, or previously called Azriel Origin, was the strongest Progenitor, however, before the otherworlderers attacked, he had killed himself because he didn’t wish to live anymore.
Since we were overwhelmed, we and the Will of Yrniel worked together to revive Azriel and the current Azriel Ruinous, who was much stronger than Azriel Origin, was born.
Only after he appeared did we finally manage to resolve the threat.”
“How did you revive him?” Nux was curious.
“We had our ways.” Faustina smiled playfully.
“Then why not revive his wives as well?” Nux questioned and in an instant, Faustina’s expression changed.
She could sense the negative emotions coming from him.
“If you did that, Aeliana wouldn’t have to live like she did,” Nux spoke.
“That is not possible, Nux. You think Azriel wouldn’t have done that if it was? Now that his worries are resolved, the man has completely abandoned everything for his daughter’s sake, I can already hear Yrniel wailing in pain because of how he is acting.
Do you think a man like that wouldn’t do everything possible to revive the women he loves the most in the entire universe?”
“…” Nux was silent.
“Anyways, as I was saying, the extent to which a race develops depends on the level of the world they were born in.
Take Dragons for example, since Yrniel is a Low-Level World, the Dragons born here are weak.”
Vyriana narrowed her eyes when she heard those words, Faustina however, completely ignored the Dragon and continued, “The Dragons from High-Level Worlds are different. There are thousands of them and any single one of them could easily destroy any of the Yrniel Progenitors except Azriel.
The same is true for other worlds and other races as well.
Even if a race has a strong ability, if they are born in a weak world, they would lose out to a race with a weak ability and born in a high-level world.
It is a repeated pattern all of us have seen in our countless years of investigation.
The Dragons you see in Yrniel and the Dragons you see in the high-level worlds basically have the same traits, yet the difference between their strength is enormous.”
“Then what about Lord Azriel? Are you saying Vampires that live in high-level worlds are stronger than him?” Amaya questioned.
“That man is an anomaly.”
Faustina shook her head.
“No Vampire in Yrniel is as strong as Azriel.”
Nux nodded in understanding.
One meeting was enough for him to truly understand the difference between Azriel and other Progenitors, they couldn’t even be compared.
“And Aurelia was the same.”
“What?”
“She was an anomaly as well. The world she was born in limited her strength, however, the way she faced her opponents and dominated them in the battlefield was so impressive that in the end, High-Level Worlds got involved and she was eventually defeated.
Even then, she was only defeated because she was surrounded.”
Faustina revealed and Nux couldn’t help but be impressed, the more he heard about this woman, the more he realized how powerful she was.
But…
“Why are you telling us about her?” he questioned.
He knew Faustina wouldn’t mention her friend and recalled those painful memories for nothing. There had to be a reason.
“Don’t you find it strange?
Why would Elites of High-Level Worlds come together to fight a single woman?”
Faustina questioned and a frown appeared on Nux’s face.
“They were after her blood,” Faustina answered.
Nux and his wives glanced at the Human Progenitor and the woman continued,
“She was only Progenitor of the Eldraeths. There were no other Eldraeths in any lower or higher level worlds. Those people wanted to extract her blood and raise another Eldraeth Progenitor, this time, without the restriction of a Middle-Level World.
The High-Level worlds moved because the abilities of Eldraeths were simply that strong. They couldn’t resist the temptation.”
“And the High-Level worlds failed, didn’t they?”
Nux guessed.
Faustina raised her eyebrow, surprised as to how Nux was able to predict what she wanted to say.
“I have known you for a long time, Mother.”
Nux replied as he looked into Faustina’s eyes. The Progenitor stared at Nux in silence, she could tell that his words had a deeper meaning.
Once again, she couldn’t help but think about what Nux had been through inside the Illusion, right now, however, the priority was different.
“Yes, they failed.
Even if they killed her, they couldn’t get her blood, because…”
Faustina spoke as the Box in her hand opened automatically and suddenly, a drop of silver-red blood started floating in the air.
“She never fought her last battle at her full strength,
She extracted her Blood Essence before battle and sent it to me to find a worthy heir.”
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