Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 63 : Aswad 10 of 15 “Unlasting Love” (Part 04)

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[Now, year 2,699 of the Pendulum Calendar]

The wind blew on the leaves of the oak trees, making a rustling sound in the dark silent forest. The splashing sound of the river flow was heard among the trees, then the insects that had been crowded began to lower their rhythm when the day began to rise in the morning.

Deer, wild boar, wolves, and even monsters avoid places near the river. As if they were aware of it by instinct, they understood that the people in the place were not something they could approach or harass. There are only small insects in that place, fireflies near the puddle did not go and become decorators and light sources.

Right after moving them and himself using the Puddle, the Pseudo-God mode that Odo was using instantly vanished from the structure of the magic formula in the Ordoxi Nigrum store. His two pseudo hands began to unravel, his hair turned completely black and his eyes returned to normal.

Fai Fengying who was first moved immediately stood up, leaping away from Odo and standing on a huge rock in the middle of the river. Looking towards the Emperor and the slave girl who were also moved near the trees, immediately one of the Four Directions Generals poured his profound energy into his Jiang sword.

The jade-green surface of the sword instantly emitted a bright light within the silent forest, casting out the darkness and making everyone who had just moved turn their head towards it. Odo glanced back at the Emperor Mao Naraka and the slave girl who stood to protect him.

“Hmm ...” Odo looked at his palm slightly, then in a limp voice the young man said, “If only in Pseudo form it turns out the effect is not too big. I thought my entire internal organs could be destroyed after using it.”

A little blood flowed out of Odo's mouth and nose. Using the manifestation of a high dimensional being was enough to leave a destructive effect on his body. Some of the functions of its internal organs are disrupted, the heart beats faster unnaturally and makes the flow fall apart. Next to the young man's eyes turned red, then blood flowed out because the heart pumped too fast and made his body go into a state of adrenaline craze.

Trying to calm his gasping breath, the young man hit his own left chest several times to force the heart back to normal. But before Odo could stabilize his heartbeat, Fai Fengying jumped straight from the rock and directly used his sword technique.

“Flat Freedom: Green Snake Creeping!”

Noticing the rapid movement, Odo reflexively opened his right palm towards Fai Fengying and activated the storage dimension on the glove using the Activation Element. The speed of dimensional access increased drastically, creating a pseudo magic structure on the surface of his hand and revealing red circuit lines on the surface of the arm.

The slave girl who noticed the oddity at the activation of the magic immediately took out a talisman paper from behind her sleeves. He immediately threw the paper, then immediately formed the Mudra Shield of Shambala and gave rise to a martial arts man who was a Shikigami.

“Tuan Fai!”

The Shikigami did not dart towards Odo, but towards Fai Fengying. The High Officer was startled and immediately stopped the swing of his sword, then kicked the right shoulder of the martial expert to make it a foothold in the air.

But before Fai Fengying could land on the riverbank, Odo instantly closed his right palm and swallowed half of Shikigami's body into the storage dimension. As if cut neatly diagonally with a very sharp sword, part of Shikigami's body disappeared in an instant. Crumpled sounds rang out in that second as well, making the General immediately kick the rest of Shikigami's body and jump away.

Steadying back on the rock in the middle of the river, Fai Fengying stared palely as she said, “A-What happened? Why ⸻?!”

Fai Fengying's words came to a halt when he saw Odo clutching Shikigami's head and swallowing the rest of his body into the storage dimension. In the vision of one of the Four Directions Generals, it was seen very quickly like writing on a scroll spilled with alcohol to remove ink.

Staring into the eyes of the young man with black hair, Fai Fengying's body shivered in fear. Although he often saw corpses or assassinations on the battlefield, but it was the first time there was someone who did not emit any intention and felt so empty like that.

Empty, just kill like reflexively someone swatting a mosquito when his sleep is disturbed. That was what the young man in black hair would do if Fai Fengying attacked him now.

“Dia .. What the fuck is that guy, instead of this being more terrible than the Emperor,” Fai Fengying thought as he jumped towards the slave girl and the Emperor. Joined by his partner, the fear that enveloped the man's black hair, the pigtail tie still did not disappear and made his hands tremble.

Noticing the usually very calm Fai Fengying while holding the sword until such, the slave girl took out some talisman paper from within her Hanfu arm and prepared to put up protection magic. But before the girl threw the paper forward, Emperor Mao Naraka held her shoulder from behind.

“We have come out of a place you do not want to mess with. Can we start talking, my future husband,” said the very long black hair woman.

The slave girl and Fai Fengying immediately stepped aside from before the Emperor, they gave him a path and slightly lowered their faces respectfully. Despite hearing those words, Odo did not change his flat expression and only sighed lightly. The young man in black hair again hit his own chest, set the heart rhythm and adjusted the blood flow.

When he finished, Odo immediately wiped the blood flowing from his right eye, nose and mouth. He stared with a deathly pale face, looked very weak and signs of his internal organs still could not function properly was evident from the mimic of his face.

“Speaking, yes?” Odo briefly put up a small grin, raised his hand forward and pointed at the Emperor. While slightly tilting his head, the young man in black hair asked, “If you want to take me to your place. Before I finish my business, I won't go to the empire or any other country.”

Odo again used the Activation Element to access the Dimensional Magic on his right glove, then expanded the range of space distortion that his storage dimensional magic could create. The slave girl realized there was something strange about the space around Odo, it continued to expand and create an oddity in the air.

The cornea of the slave girl briefly changed from azure blue to orange, her Divine Eye mark was active and it quickly faintly could see the space distortion created around the young man. The air was gradually drawn to another dimension, the Ether flow was also swallowed up and until the low-level spirits disappeared as it approached the young man with black hair.

“Your Majesty! Please stop your steps! He …. What the fuck is that young man. She can pull all the space towards her and obliterate the elements,” said the slave girl frantically.

The Emperor's footsteps came to a halt just before entering into the distortion Odo had created. The young man in black hair could not expand the space distortion further than 4 meters. Sighing lightly, the young man gave up on cutting the Emperor's body with dimensional magic and storing it into the storage dimension.

Realizing that there was something special about the slave girl's eyes, Odo immediately lowered his hand and deactivated the dimensional magic. “Honey, whereas I want to see what happens if an immortal is sent to a vacuum dimension,” said the young man as he sighed again.

Scratching the back of his head, he stared flatly and said, “You have good eyes, huh? Are you also the owner of the Inner Eye? What kind of power are you? I hope you don't look at my thoughts ..” The dislike expression began to appear clearly on Odo's expression, as the power of the Inner Eye that Huli Jing had with her had given her some trouble.

“Huh!” The slave girl sniffed violently, gave a hostile look and said, “Indeed who has such a God-level Inner Eye? Don't compare myself to the Fox Monster living in your residence!”

Odo held his own chin, looked away and just remembered that Fiola had talked about the Inner Eye as well as having a level of strength. From that, Odo only knew that the level of Inner Eye Fiola possessed was the highest because it could see the contents of one's mind, tracking the air of life accurately within a dozen kilometers, he said, looking at the flow of magic, life, and ether, then the other forces that the young man had never seen from the Huli Jing.

“Hmm, means your Inner Eye level is even lower, huh? Leganya ...” Odo began to step forward, then stopped scratching the back of his head he again said, “Now I can't install magic to protect the contents of my head. If you have the power to read minds, I'll have to kill you first. Does ... You have that kind of power? Like predicting the future of a word or the ability of an Intermediary?”

“Just relax, Yue Ying doesn't have that kind of power. His Inner Eye is only at the Divine level, nothing more.” The Emperor put on a faint smile, slightly pleased to see Odo's serious expression. Sniffing lightly with a slightly relieved expression, the very long black haired girl said, “You don't need to be that hot, my future husband. It turns out that you can also put on such immature expressions, huh? I think you are a very authoritative figure and will not be provoked easily emotions ...”.

Odo knew that Emperor Mao Naraka was an Intermediary who could predict the future. When he touched the girl's body directly in the city of Mylta, he soon learned about it along with other information from the figure who became the leader of the Urzia empire.

“I think only you have that kind of power here.” Odo sighed lightly, frowned and resentfully complained, “All kinds of Nujum are troublesome, in that kind of strength all my plans seem to be useless.”

The way Odo summoned that type of power at a glance shocked the Emperor. “Why do you call this fortune telling power Nujum? Not Oracle or the Attendant? Or anything else?” ask him curiously.

Odo slightly put on a light smile, his face a little pale from fatigue. Taking a foot closer, the young man stood before the Emperor. Putting his left palm over the Emperor's head, he softly said, “Does that remind you of anything? The First Emperor also called it that? A part you got after becoming Deity ...”

Both the Emperor's eyes were wide open, glazed with a stunned face hearing those words. “You are truly the incarnation of the First Emperor …. Do you also remember our memories in previous life ⸻?!”

“I'm not your Beloved's matan.” Odo raised his hand from above the Emperor's head, then flatly affirmed, “Don't equate me with that sexless creature. I am from body to pure soul of man, loh.”

His words once again shocked the Emperor. Fai and Yue who also heard that started to look confused. In the knowledge of the two Generals known to the general imperial community, indeed in the history of the First Emperor known as a beautiful figure with long black hair.

But in the many ancient records they had, the gender of the First Emperor was indeed not clearly explained. The description of the figure is only synonymous with women because apparently the one described is very alluring and charming.

“Why ... can you be sure she is not a woman?” ask the Emperor.

Odo Luke again sighed fretfully and seemed reluctant to answer. Turning his gaze toward the river, he replied, “I created Artificial Intelligence without a program that could make him determine Gender patentably, of course she does not have a stable nature between feminine and male.”

“Hmm?”

Odo looked back at the Emperor. The young man's bangs came down until it slightly covered both eyes. He briefly put his lips into his mouth, then accompanied by his breath added, “If you want him to be able to act like a man, then if you want him to be able to act like a graceful woman.”

“Men ...create?”

The Emperor was surprised to hear this. He immediately held Odo's hands tightly, toed and stared palely at the young man. With a trembling body, the Second Emperor asked, “Actually what are you? Why is he so eager to meet and live by your side? O-If you are the creator, do you know the name of that Unnamed figure?”

Highlight the Emperor's eyes really looked curious. Odo slowly began to understand the relationship between Deity and the Unnamed figure he meant ⸻ Something that resides in Odo's Soul Realm and always watches over the young man closely.

Odo also quickly understood, the reason why the Emperor wanted to go all the way to look for him to the city of Mylta. The look in his eyes changed, realizing a very strong determination within the Emperor. But at the same time, Odo felt that determination had something wrong in it. So save up to make the owner blind to the reality around him.

In the mind Odo at a glance felt a little guilty and very regretful Emperor Mao Naraka had to meet the Unnamed figure. He understood the reason why one of the Special Codes of power to manipulate life and death could fall into the hands of the Emperor.

“Special Code ⸻ Curse full information …. Why would the boy use this girl to make her Deity and give her the title of Emperor like this? Clearly there was something strange in the history of the empire, there was no way such a country could survive for thousands of years without the Construction Information Package embedded in the Special Code as the foundation of its governmental system, he said,” Odo's mind in a regretful expression.

The young man immediately knelt before the Emperor so that his height was the same as his. Flip tightly grasping the two little hands of the girl, he in a slightly soft voice replied, “The name of the creature is Mahia. You should have heard that name, too, right?”

“Mahia ..?” The emperor immediately remembered the name of a system of technology used by the kingdom of Ungea. He immediately let go of Odo's hand, then stared intently at his eyes and confusedly asked again, “Why can he have anything to do with that metal-filled kingdom? To me, they are just a kingdom that just appeared a few hundred years ago. Then why ...”

“From the beginning of the land is where it is.” Odo stood up again, looked away from the Emperor and began to explain, “Something that wanders with you is just the information. Mahia's Raga is a Living Laboratory that is now the source site of the Ungea kingdom's technology. Mahia is the name of a Life Program I created.”

This fact made the Emperor so confused. For hundreds of years he had lived with the Unnamed figure, he had never heard of such a thing. Breathing in tightness, the Emperor steadied his mind to ask.

“What ... now he is also there? ON the Ungea kingdom's website?”

Odo shook his head. The smile that appeared on his face was hollow, his eyes half-opened and looking increasingly pale. As if he was indeed pitying the Emperor for something, the young man limply said, “Honey, what was there might just be his body in the form of the Living Laboratory. The soul of Mahia is now attached to me, residing right in this Realm of My Soul.”

The Emperor's expression immediately looked very happy. He reached out his right hand towards Odo, then hopefully said, “May I meet him ⸻?”

“Tak can.”

“A ⸻?” The emperor flinched, a happy face instantly faded from him. The girl lowered her hands disappointedly and looked so empty. He raised his face again and looked at the young man to make sure. But at a glance he was stunned, the young man's expression looked so gloomy that his eyes seemed to have no light.

“Ke-Why? It's inside you, isn't it?” the Emperor asked doubtfully.

Odo briefly only fell silent, looked away and immediately turned away from the Emperor. Taking a few steps away and stalled on the riverbank rocks, the young man glanced sharply at the girl and replied, “If I let her appear, it is certain that the boy will put my soul to sleep and make me his.”

Odo sighed again, looked up at the trees and looked so grimly talking about it. Looking back at the Emperor, the young man asked, “Do you know why he wanted to stay with me?”

“Not ...” The emperor slowly trembled. The longer he talked to Odo, the more he felt like he knew absolutely nothing about the Unnamed One who gave him so much. Walking towards Odo, the Emperor panicked and replied, “He said nothing about it. She ... did not tell me anything about you other than just wanting to be with you.”

“She just wants me to be next to her.”

What Odo said did not sound strange to the Emperor at all, but it brought the girl's steps to a standstill. When someone loves, it is natural for him to want to be with the person he loves despite having to do heavy things though. But when the Emperor saw the grim expression of the young man from the Luke family, he, he immediately knew that the young man did not love the Unnamed figure at all even after the many things that figure did to bring him to this world.

The emperor felt disbelieving about it, anger slowly began to grow in his mind and wanted to snap at him immediately. But before the sentence rebuked out of the mouth of the Emperor, the young man of hair more quickly said, “While I am only a rotten fruit that fell from a tree, surely the boy will still love me. Mahia is like that …. He was created that way. Always the kids who want to be with their parents. Mahia ⸻ The boy is one of my faults.”