Immediately after Seth had spoken his last words to Minuha, everything had changed, it was like he left from being in the snow to being in a volcano.
The safety which he had previously felt completely disappeared only to be replaced by the feeling of pure danger, a danger that went to the very core of his being, one that made him feel helpless, reminding him of when he had been on the brink of receiving a soul attack from Minuha.
Seth wasn't exactly sure how Minuha and Alexia had felt, but to him, he felt like the clouds above were a group of ferocious beasts that all had their attention on him.
In that moment of transition from safety to danger, Seth's body had frozen still and he had been sent falling from the sky before he quickly regained himself and landed on his feet.
At that moment, Seth felt impending death, one that sounded like more of a decree, and in a declaration of his refusal and rebellion, Seth looked to the sky and roared, flames that carried his defiance leaving his mouth and soaring into the sky charging at the clouds which had now become covered by lightning.
With majesty, Seth's flames soared into the air, burning pure red with grandiose, proudly climbing atop the air, yet before they could meet their target, bolts of lightning fell on it.
The sound of raging fire and screaming lightening filled the sky for close to a minute, several explosions resonating throughout the air and lighting up the sky, and then just as a minute was over, the raging fire ceased to exist while the screaming got louder, dozens of lightning bolts dropping from the Sky and hitting an exhausted Seth who was already down on his knees.
At first, Seth's flames had hit the lightning bolt and actually held them back, making Seth think he actually had a chance against the so-called punishment, but then he felt his qi begin draining and knew he was doomed.
The qi reserves which Seth had once been proud of, believing his dantian to contain near infinite qi was now being drained at a rate that saw Seth's dantian empty before a minute was over.
Using his dragon flames had always been a massive drain of Seth's qi but this time, in other to keep up with his strengthened flames and the lightning bolts, his drain was 10 times the previous one.
"Stay in me," Seth told Alexia just before his qi ran out and he was bathed in lightning, well more like his ashes.
Seth had envisioned being struck and then screaming while his body was burnt and destroyed, but none of that fortunately or unfortunately happened.
The lightning attack was a strike that saw his body instantly being turned to ash, an attack that went straight to the point, but then again that wasn't all that happened as a power that he thought had abandoned him after putting him in a lot of trouble stirred and that was all it took for time to pause.
"No, not pause," Seth thought correcting himself and reassessing his quick conclusions on further observations
Looking around him, Seth could see leaves and grasses slightly swaying with the clouds in the sky still rotating, albeit at a slower pace.
Time hadn't paused, the thing that has paused was the several lightning bolts that had struck him and his closest surroundings.
They hung around him like ropes that had been extending from the sky to the ground touching his ashes which at least told that he once existed.
All of this Seth observed with his soulsense, his soul being the only thing about him that still existed, his body having been turned to ashes.
It was a strange world for Seth because the lightning had struck him when he fell to his knees from exhaustion, and that position was the same one he was currently in, and unable to move.
It was like he was held in place by the three bolts that had hit his body and were still currently on his ethereal soul.
"Ahhhh, a heavenly tribulation, I haven't seen this stuff in ages, all your predecessors were so useless, they almost made me forget this stuff exists" an ancient familiar voice sounded in Seth's mind, shocking him for a few seconds.
"You bastard" Seth immediately raged.
"You should be happy I'm here, you would have died" a voice that could only belong to the entity within Seth sounded.
"tch, First are we in any immediate danger," Seth asked completely going off-topic, feeling vigilant as he checked his surrounding and most especially the clouds in the sky.
"No" it replied.
"Good," Seth said taking a few minutes of silence, and then he raged.
"What the hell did you do to my soul, you put some old geezer in it and then run off,"
"Is this really the best time to bring this up" the entity drawled in an unconcerned tone.
"You said we were safe and I'm sure we have time" Seth pointed out.
"True, I guess, given the circumstances."
"What circumstances," Seth asked, not wanting any more surprises.
"Ahhh come here," the entity said ad the next thing Seth knew he was standing on the floor of the red sea and looking at a pitch-black cave.
"That was a heavenly tribulation" the entity began, its words aligning with Alexia's.
"A heavenly tribulation is controlled by no one but the heavens, its purity, and essence untouched by no one, with its presence, I am undetectable making this the best time for us to talk."
"In that case, you have a lot of explanations to do concerning the idiot in my soul."
"Ahh, him, he is an idiot I picked up back in hell, his main purpose is to…"
"Before I answer your question, I have a question for you," the entity said, the boredom and amusement in its voice gone.
"What is it?" Seth asked a little apprehensive.
"Would you rather be the favorite son of the world or rule the world?"
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