The Love of a Mother I
[Richter's POV]
I had departed that place and teleported along the Primal Chaos into the only spot that caught my attention. In that same 'God Realm of Absolute Beginning' there was a region filled with an endless expanse of void. It resembled a singularity... a black hole, but it wasn't quite it. A black hole suppresses energy and swallows everything around it. I have shattered some during my fight with Crush.
But this one is not sucking anything, moreover... it is also released what resembles a 'leak' of Profound Energy, which means that on the other side of this thing, there is 'something'.
"You're treating this world as if it was your backyard, don't you?"
Jie Yuan appeared in a gust of darkness beside me, likely having finished her deal.
"Did you sort everything out?"
"He didn't tell me where my daughters are... his consciousness scattered," She said with regret, a pity... but it is not like I can't do anything. He confirmed they were alive, so should be able to help her find them. Sadly, his daughter... or 'daughters' don't have any gold on them or are surrounded by gold at all.
"I thought you said you only had a daughter".
"It is a long story... I can tell you as you help me find them".
She stated resolutely, it seems she's willing to make me work as her handyman for a while. It can't be helped, she's powerful but her daughters were concealed by her husband who from what I can tell, was even more powerful.
"I know where your daughters are, but first, you should solve this" I pointed at the endless void, and once again she ignored me and gasped, coming really close to me with tears in her eyes.
"D-Do you? do you know where my daughters are?!"
"As I said, I can sense way more things than possibly you can... after feeling your and his aura, it shouldn't be difficult to find your daughter. However... don't you want to solve this feeble world's aura first?"
"I don't care about this world, Richter... please tell me where my daughters are"
I released the urge to laugh, just like I am a Primordial of Helius, a synonym of balance, she should also be a person with the same status in this world. Yet she doesn't care... there seemed to have been more like her, but they're all gone... as a consequence, this world is dying slowly... and she, the only one that can repair it, doesn't care either.
It seems this world is doomed, I sighed at the guy, Ni Xuan, who seemed to be determined to fix everything despite his dead status.
"Very well... I have a lead, in that planet where we just were... there was another concealed space beside the one I took you to, we should go there first."
I intended to teleport, but instead, she took us on a flight across the Primal Chaos.
"I told you I'd tell you... although I don't completely trust you. I also don't see you have any ill intentions. You should have noticed he and I are incompatible existences. I'm darkness and he is divine. When Ni Xuan and I married... his peers the creation gods and my peers the Devil Emperors... were not so much up to it. Among them, there was this particular bastard who was determined to break us apart... his name is Mo E. Or was... I doubt that bastard is still alive".
When referring to this 'Mo E' individual, her gaze seemed to contain endless wrath. By the way, people here have very odd names.
"We fought our way into keeping this marriage together... eventually we had a daughter and named her Ni Jie... she was a particular existence... a half-breed between a Devil Emperor and a Creation God. Something that Mo E and the whole community were against... I wanted to fight in order to keep her. But Ni Xuan dropped his arms... h-he allowed it to happen".
"What?"
"My daughter was split into two souls and bodies with secret sword spirit arts... my race and the sword spirits are very similar, just... we're homologues. We are able to turn into swords".
"Oh, can you turn into a sword as well?" I have never seen that in my life or heard of it... to think such a lifeform exists and she's this powerful as well. I wonder what kind of powerful sword she would turn into.
Jie Yuan nodded but glared at me as we flew as if to tell me to not even think about her becoming a sword right now.
"Her right side was my darkness while her left side was my husband's divinity... then she was taken from me, Wanhu was taken from me and given to Li Suo, we kept Ni Jie".
"Is that why you still hold scorn for your husband?" A part of me felt immense disdain for that man, he had been so strong yet yielded in front of the pressure of the 'council'... I can't blame him for I yielded as well and stopped plundering realms left and right, however... if Horlein's life had been on the line. There wouldn't have been any negotiation.
Jie Yuan remained silent for a few moments before looking at me with dull pitch-black eyes.
"If you were in his position... would you have done the same? would you have allowed our daughter to get split and separated from us? even if we had to turn our backs on the whole world?"
"... no, I wouldn't have allowed it" I don't know why she's asking me that question, her husband and I are completely different... I would have never done it, but I'm a Dragon and he isn't... we Dragons are quite reckless when dignity is involved. I'd rather die than have my or my family's dignity stepped on. And believe it, before I die, there will be fierce retaliation. The council knew that much, that's why they didn't piss me off... instead, they politely asked me to stop my ventures and with Ether and Destiny on their side, I could only relent.
Nevertheless, my answer only seemed to further trigger Jie Yuan.
"I know... that's why I still hold hatred... it would have been us against the whole world, but I was willing, why wasn't he?!"
Her rage decreased as fast as it popped up and it was replaced by mockery as we took a sight to the war-stained world, dozens of devil gods fighting, killing each other and destroying planets in the process.
No one here could stop them as this world was just too weak.
"In the end, look at this world... the same world that devastated my family... devastated in chaos and withering like falling leaves... what a joke... all I want to do is retrieve my daughters, Richter... that's all".
"And then?"
"And then... maybe I will go somewhere else and give her the love I couldn't for a thousand- millions of years".
"I see, it is not a bad plan, but then what? what about your daughter? what life will she have?"
"Huh?"
"Will be together with you for eternity, never achieving anything of her own or even coming to know the home that gave her birth? regardless of whether it is a big fish or a small fish, they both need water and space to live. A lake, a puddle... or an ocean. Without it, they'd just die, Jie Yuan".
"That... for a youngster you're quite wise, Richter".
"You're going to keep up saying that, hag?" I growled, this million of years old woman is calling, ME, a hundred thousand-ish Dragon God, as a youngster.
The audacity.
"You- If you help me find my daughter... I fight you".
"What makes you think I thrive to fight? I'm merely interested in strong individuals".
"You're indeed a dragon..."