He took in deep breaths, the feeling of slowly being able to sense his body again was somewhat overwhelming, he couldn’t move his limbs yet, but he knew he had returned.
His vision was blurry, a strange beeping sound continued to echo in his ears, while the sounds of his own breathing became louder and louder.
It was low, almost inaudible at first.
It continued to rise and finally,
“NUX!”
A shout that overpowered everything else burdening his mind and pulling him out of the strange state he was in.
“Ah!”
Coming out of his reverie, Nux looked around.
Finding himself in a colourless world, two identical beings surrounded him, beings he knew too well, he just momentarily couldn’t understand why he couldn’t see their features and why everything around him was black.
“Nux, are you okay?”
He heard a question, a question he couldn’t respond to.
Then, as his mind cleared up a bit more, he blinked a few times and,
He spoke his first words after a long, long while.
“I am back.”
“Nux!”
The two women smiled brightly, hugging him together. Nux hugged back, feeling the warmth of his women again filled his entire body with a sense of relief.
A comforting feeling rushed over his head, helping him relax.
He repeated, this time, his voice a little weak.
He tightened his hug, this time however, he didn’t hurt his women because of his increased strength, even though he had just woken up and his mind was unclear, it was as if he had complete control over his body.
While he hugged Lane and Shadow, Nux heard another voice, he turned towards the direction of the voice and his eyes fell on another shadowy figure.
Of course, Nux didn’t need time to know who this figure was, it was his Amaya.
What surprised him, however, was the fact that he had regained his consciousness and Amaya wasn’t there next to him hugging him.
Something extremely uncharacteristic on her part.
Soon, however, he figured out the reason as his eyes fell on another shadowy figure in Amaya’s arms.
A solemn look appeared on his face as he slowly started walking towards Riona and placed his hand on her head.
Then, he looked at Amaya and,
“She will wake up soon.”
Amaya questioned.
Seeing not only her husband but also her mother unconscious was a big blow for Amaya, especially because by the time she got to know what happened, there was nothing she could do about the situation.
For Amaya, who, for almost her entire life, had been in control of everything around her, it wasn’t a pleasant feeling.
“Her body received a Trauma for overusing her Law, which has recovered now, she can even reuse her Law again when she wakes up, not that I am going to let her do it.”
Nux replied. His words sounded casual, however, all three women knew how serious he was. Nux’s biggest nightmare was to see his women get hurt and an even worse case is where his women get hurt for his sake.
The moment Riona was hurt, the women knew, Nux wouldn’t be the same. At least not until he makes sure all his women are absolutely safe.
“Just give her a few more days, I am sure she will wake up soon.”
Nux spoke as he gently ruffled Amaya’s hair, then, he placed the woman’s head on his chest, the woman closed her eyes and all her worries disappeared in an instant.
A few minutes later, after Amaya and others calmed down,
“It is time to leave.”
Nux spoke.
He glanced at Lane and,
“You are not allowed to leave, remember.”
“I have no reason to.”
Lane smiled.
“Mhm, I am not leaving either.”
Shadow nodded as well.
“I will be here till Mother wakes up.”
Amaya was the same.
Nux nodded back.
“Take care, all of you.”
He spoke, then, as he stepped ahead, he disappeared.
After more than a hundred years, the ‘Anomaly’ returned to the Universe, of course, the Universe still couldn’t sense it.
For it, these past hundred years were extremely peaceful, everything was as it should be.
The Universe was glad, what it didn’t know was that the consequences of its actions were going to be much harsher than what it expected.
For now, however, Nux completely ignored everything around him, he created a portal and soon, he entered Yrniel.
His senses covered the entire world, quickly finding the people he wanted to find and as he took another step, he disappeared and teleported right next to them.
“Tsk.”
Rune snorted, even after all the preparations, the fact that she still couldn’t defeat this woman in front of her annoyed her.
Astaria on the other hand, stared at Rune with a solemn look on her face,
“You are much stronger than I expected.”
She complimented genuinely.
“It doesn’t matter, I still cannot defeat you.”
Rune was not satisfied.
“That was never supposed to happen anyway.”
Astaria shrugged.
“Don’t worry, you’ve lost to the future strongest.”
She spoke as she glanced at her master.
“Oh?”
And obviously, the Dragon was provoked.
“Looking for another round of beating, are we?”
“If you are that desperate to lose your title, I don’t mind taking it away,” Astaria replied, pointing her sword at her master.
A wide grin appeared on Vyriana’s face as she disappeared and then appeared right next to her student, with her Law working at full force, she unleashed a punch that could kill almost any Divine Stage Cultivator.
Astaria, however, was different.
Aura of her overpowered Law covered her sword, a sword that could slice almost anything in the world was getting ready to take on Vyriana’s upcoming attack, the women around expected a big explosion that would result from the clash between the two,
But then,
Only silence accompanied the clash.
The women frowned, turning back towards the battlefield to see what happened and their eyes widened in surprise when they saw the man they loved standing between the two women, stopping Astaria’s sword with one finger and Vyriana’s punch with the other with his signature smile on his face.
“Still as feisty as ever, eh?”
Nux chuckled. With a flick of his finger, he sent both the women’s attacks away, forcing them to take a few steps back.
“Nux!”
The first one to react was Skyla, who quickly appeared next to him and hugged him as tightly as she could.
The rest of the women soon followed and hugged him as well.
The only ones who didn’t react were Astaria and Vyriana.
The two women stared at each other, both knowing what the other was thinking.
It would have been one thing if he had stopped their attack using some ability or a law of his own, but both Astaria and Vyriana could sense that he hadn’t.
He stopped their attacks using his physical strength alone.
Yes, he stopped an Absolute Sword that should cut anything and an Absolute Punch that should overpower anything, with just his physical strength alone.
Something that even someone like Azriel shouldn’t be able to do. After all, no matter how strong a being was, it was only possible to face an Absolute head-on with another Absolute.
Even Azriel, without using his Law, shouldn’t be able to stop their attacks, at least not with this much ease.
It didn’t prove that he was stronger than Azriel.
That was a ridiculous concept, at least for now, Azriel was miles stronger than Nux, however, what it did prove was something even more absurd.
‘Absolute’ had no effect on Nux anymore.
When the two women realized what it meant, they felt as if their entire world was collapsing, but then,
“The hell are you two doing? Come here.”
Suddenly, the two of them felt a strong force pulling them and the next instant, the two of them were in Nux’s arms. Their ‘collapsing’ world recovering in an instant.
‘Monster.’
The two thought at the same time, and then they closed their eyes with smiles on their faces.
‘My monster.’
It was almost frightening how similar the two women’s thought processes were.
After tightly hugging all his women for a good while, Nux finally diverted his attention to another woman present in the training hall,
“You are back.”
Seeing that his attention was now on her, Lyriana greeted.
As someone who already knew how the man functioned, she didn’t even bother calling him when he was with his wives, only speaking when he was finally done with his thing. The woman knew it was pointless to try and reach him when he was together with his wives, especially when they were meeting after a long time.
“I am.” Nux nodded.
“Are you finally going to fulfil your promise now?”
“I am.”
Nux nodded.
“But before that,”
Nux turned to a particular direction,
“There is another matter I need to take care of.”
“What is it?”
Lyriana frowned.
However, before she could get the answer to her question,
“Be patient.”
Saying those words, Nux disappeared again, this time, appearing in a certain room that felt much more humid than normal.
“Aren’t you a mess?” Nux commented, then, he looked at the Queen’s face and,
“Why go this far when you have no reason to, huh?”
The woman, however, just smiled and didn’t answer until finally, Nux grabbed the back of her neck and sealed her lips.
