A bit of panic threatened to blossom in Seth's heart but he crashed it and every other thought in his mind, he firmed his hold on the crystal and then closing his eye went about absorbing its energy once more.
A few seconds of silence passed, and then at a particular time, Seth's hold on the crystal tightened, the pressure he was applying on it quickly approaching one which would shatter it, but before that happened, Seth stopped, a heavy breath leaving his mouth.
At the moment, Seth was fuming in anger, after everything he had been through, he was here at the place which was meant to be his salvation.
Here in this very cave, Seth was supposed to be back on his cultivation journey, he had goals to meet and enemies to deal with, but if he could not do this one task of mending his soul, then he was done for.
"Damn it" Seth growled, he gritted his teeth in frustration, and then with a fierce determination in his eyes, placed his hands on the crystal.
Like before, Seth absorbed the energy in the crystal, and like last time, it flowed into his soul, but never arrived at its core, but Seth did not stop there, he kept on going for a few minutes, and then all of a sudden closed his eyes.
The next time Seth opened his eyes, he was no longer in the underground cave, he was now in a red world with a red sea and a black sun but none of them bothered him at the moment.
"Hey, get out now, what did you do" Seth roared as he stood atop the red sea, causing huge waves to rise, yet he didn't get a reply, but that didn't stop him as he continued screaming at the sea.
Seth was just about to scream for the fifth time when an unhappy and disgruntled female voice sounded in his ears.
"Stop screaming at Sea like it's the cause of your problems and get over here."
The second the first words sounded, Seth knew it was Alexia, he could hear the unhappiness in her tone and wasn't in the mood to deal with her issues, so he ignored her and kept staring at the sea.
"Seth aren't you coming" Alexia's voice slowly sounded, this time carrying with it a trace of hurts, betrayal, and fear, hearing her like this, Seth's heart stung, and with an internal roar of anger at the woman's disturbance, Seth disappeared from his position.
In a flash, Seth appeared before the woman, not at all surprised to see her hurt expression, but when she saw him, her face scrunched up in anger as she then lifted her hands and pointed into the sky.
"Seth was surprised by the rapid change in her expression, but then he followed her hands and looked up in the direction she was pointing.
"That presence, the one I told you I felt when you broke through, it's here" Alexia solemnly said as she looked into the sky.
With a calm gaze, Seth looked up, staring at one of the latest additions to his red sky.
To his surprise, he found out that what had once been a single red light, shining like a star beside his sun was now two, signifying the presence of another of his race, but Seth only glanced at it and ignored it, his attention on the thick dark circle portal like thing which stood in the sky, a good away distance from the sun.
Like a demon, it swirled in the sky, not afraid to make its presence known, and definitely not afraid to show Seth how it went about absorbing the green energy that appeared before it.
The very familiar green energy that Seth had been absorbing in the outside world and trying to get into his soul was instead being absorbed by some damn black circle.
"It's that scary feeling Seth please don't be rash, it could destroy you" Alexia's worried voice sounded from behind and Seth couldn't blame her for her fear and worry.
When he had entered his soul space, Seth had felt nothing, and it wasn't until Irene pointed to the sky and he began looking at the black portal that a feeling of dread came over his body.
The black portal gave a feeling of total power like it could destroy one with just a thought, but immediately Seth looked away from it, this feeling went away.
Seth turned and looked at Alexia, noticing her trembling figure, but then with a wave of his hand she calmed down.
"Don't leave the island," Seth said before his figure disappeared.
While the black portal did contain immense power, it would seem it was thankfully limited in how much it could affect Seth and his soul space.
Unless Seth looked at it, he would feel nothing, and all it had taken was a thought from Seth to also grant Alexia this privilege.
Seth had no idea what force was responsible for the portal, but Irene had been very right to say that he was in big trouble.
Some time ago the entity had taken away Raijin on grounds that it couldn't tolerate another presence, yet here it was allowing some other being to hover in its home, either this entity was working against him or that black hole belonged to someone above the entity.
Seth appeared on the elastic red sea and closed his eyes, trying to fund any trace of the entity, but he couldn't, he kept at this for about 30 minutes before he opened his eyes in defeat.
Before it left, the entity had told him to be ready for consequences, but was this truly one of them Seth wondered.
With the sea having nothing to offer him, Seth looked away from it and to the sky, appearing in it the next second.
Seth stared at the black hole which wasn't too far away, a sense of familiarity shockingly building up in him, and with a breath appeared beside it, wanting to observe it, but yet the second he appeared, he felt a strong suction on his body.
Being in his soul space, Set was not afraid and so moved to teleport away from the black portal, but a second later nothing happened and he found himself rapidly being sucked into the black portal.
With all his might, Seth tried to move and teleport but it was all in vain and then the next thing he knew was darkness.
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