Back inside the gate, I looked at the screen along with Janus and the others as it played out everything that had happened before. Didn't know Lucia wasn't unconscious back then, had I known that I….
"What are you? And what was that energy? How did you do it? Man, you are a lot more interesting than William, far more than I could imagine. Why not take me along with you?!!" I saw the white-haired, winged guy standing in front of me with a smile as big as it could get. He observed me making a slightly agitated expression at his sudden words.
-Ah!
and he took a few steps back before speaking.
"Ah! Haha! I should have introduced myself first. My name is Lucifer, the Angel of Light. The Guardian of Light, and the ruler of Spirits and Angels… well, theoretical ruler since I had been missing for so long. Haha! But don't focus on those minute details."
For a few seconds, my mind went blank as I looked at this guy standing in front of me all over again, this time more carefully… Guardian of Light? Lucifer? Rulers of angels and spirits? This guy?
Observing the look of doubt on my face, he made a slightly irritated expression as he sighed before speaking,"look man! It's fine if you are not gonna believe it but you-
"It's not just that," I cut off his words and spoke as I looked directly into eyes and answered,"I thought it was Lucas who was the Guardian of Light."
He looked seriously into my eyes before looking at Janus and then pointing at me and asking,"how much does he know?"
He had a slightly irritated expression on his face, though he then sighed before speaking,"forget it I might just as well kill him, no point in keeping unknown things that might alter the future…"
-BOOM!!!!!
And he kicked me… well almost kicked me as there was someone standing in front of me, blocking his attack, with a really irked expression.
It wasn't Janus or Dolos… it was someone I felt like I knew, but wasn't sure if it was really him or someone else.
The figure of a completely white coloured child that held Lucifer's foot came in front of me. That child observed all of us with a really annoyed expression before Lucifer jumped back hurriedly as a grin began forming on Lucifer's face.
Janus and Dolos also took a cautious stance against that white child, and finally that child turned to me as he spoke.
"You should trust me a bit more sincerely. We are basically partners in this whole ordeal."
"I wanted to this one done on my own," I said as I looked at that guy, that child… Amon, in front of me.
Though…
"How did you get here? I did my best to not let you know anything about it, even going as far as blocking my own thoughts so that you couldn't know about it," I spoke without hiding anything about my intentions. Well it looks like I had been caught… though the real reason I didn't want to do it with Amon was because I wanted to make a deal with Dolos… whom Amon would desperately try to kill.
"That, huh? Your urgency kind of gave it away, so I observed you through other people's systems. While I used the opportunity when you opened the gate using your rejection fragment to enter into this dimension without being noticed. Didn't know you were like that," he answered my doubts as he sighed before continuing,
"Making a deal with those primordials, especially like Dolos, will only result in you being killed."
"You got me on that too, huh? Well, I just wanted to try to make a Primordial dance on the palm of my hands, that's all. Is that too much to ask for?" I spoke, shrugging my shoulders as I looked at Dolos, who was narrowing his eyes at me before looking at Amon.
'Still… Rejection fragment, huh? Guess it does fit in with the reasons for my being different from other beings,' I thought as I looked at Janus.
-Clap! Clap!
Amon clapped twice as he looked around with a smile on his face as he spoke,"now… Who do we have here?
Lucifer Morningstar, the Guardian of Light. Janus, The Guardian of Space.
Dolos, the Second Primordial.
I myself, Amon, the Guardian of Breath, and finally
The rejection fragment that used to be a part of Janus, the Guardian of Space, Zero.
How fascinating the collection of special people we have got here… now… what shall we do?"
I looked at Amon, taking one step at a time towards Janus who was standing there, making a slightly twisted expression as he looked at Amon. Amon simply spoke as he looked at him.
"Janus. My brother… you are already dead. Can you let your previous life be done with and reincarnate already? You disbalancing the threads of fate will only make things more complicated for you. Why not just try to accept that you are dead?"
I couldn't even blink at the words of Amon as he began telling more and more about Janus.
"Amon… don't-" but before he could speak anything, Amon looked at him with a piercing gaze and he shut up.
"Don't… interrupt," Amon spoke dominantly before looking at me as he continued,"listen Zero, Janus had died quite a long time ago with his consciousness traversing throughout the universe searching for the newer fragments that would help him reincarnate without losing his memories.
Hmmm… Fragments can be people, artefacts or perhaps it could be anything. There are various ways of reincarnation for a Guardian, but the most natural way is for the death of other fragments or perhaps their combination…
To explain it in a better way would be to simply tell you that there are 5 to 7 fragments formed, which are dispersed throughout the universe, each time a Guardian dies that could help him reincarnate. Though the Guardians can also reincarnate through one fragment only … but the reincarnation doesn't happen until only the last fragment is left alive while the others are gone completely, or maybe when the other fragments are brought together by any means.
Janus here is searching for all the fragments he can, absorbing their energy and getting his energy back. In the end, his goal is to get his energy back so he can return to his original form without losing anything and continue from where he left off."
Amon paused as Janus kept gazing at me with a kind of complex look on his face before he spoke,"I just… want to save them from there… I just want to save them…"
Amon sighed before speaking,"you know the way you're doing things, absorbing or destroying the rest of the fragments isn't right? Just leave that to me, will ya? I am already trying my best to do that… can't you trust me, for once?"
This means that you don't need all the fragments, huh? As long as you have the remaining fragments while the others are gone, reincarnation is possible, I guess?
Janus' face said that he couldn't trust anyone other than himself on this task. Though, I wondered who he was trying to save.
"His wife and children," Amon spoke with a sigh as he read my thoughts and suddenly realising something, I narrowed my eyes at Amon and spoke,
"Didn't you say that you did not know about any other Primordials or anything about the other Guardians?" and he just made a slightly awkward expression.
"I… haha… kind of forgot that…" he spoke with a slightly apologetic face before he spoke,"but hey! You too did come here without telling me anything… aren't we equal now?"
I couldn't help but sigh at him before speaking again,
"I guess…. I can't really complain about that line of thinking."
Amon nodded before looking at Janus again as he spoke,"So? Did you find the other fragments?"
Janus looked at Amon and sighed before speaking again,"only one. In this place, there is a gravity fragment deep inside this place. Though, I haven't found it yet, well… because I was busy stopping Dolus from trying to get it."
Amon narrowed his eyes at Janus before thinking about it and then looking at me as he asked,"Hey Zero, do you have any idea about your fragment?"
"Eh me? I didn't had any idea that I was a fragment until a few minutes ago, at least let me digest that fa-" I tried speaking, but Amon glared at me and I closed my mouth shut before speaking again,
"I think my rejection fragment allows me to reject anything I want as long as it's my will. It also stops anything harmful from reaching me. No wonder I was unscathed even in the most potent curses… though I wonder… why was I still under some specific charms and curses despite being the rejection fragment?"
Janus spoke this time a bit taken aback,"aren't you really shocked to know that you're a fragment?" he was really surprised at my attitude and I answered honestly,
"Been through enough sh*t that nothing can surprise me anymore at this point… at least as long it is with my own body. Did you know I used to think I am an alien or something, because of all the freaky differences between me and the others?" I spoke in a self-dejected tone, and he looked at me with a slightly stupefied face.
"Well.. you are the previous Guardian of Space, Janus. Tell me, what do you think about what I said just now?? I asked with a curious mind and Janus pondered a bit before speaking,
"Must be because you were fighting multiple curses at once? Like your rejection fragment was against the System and then there was this deadly atmosphere of your planet while also dealing with that girl, Lucia's curse, for so long that you might have run out of power to reject?"
'Makes sense, I suppose,' I shrugged before recalling back the idiotic me and I sigh before asking,"About my low mana in the beginning… Was that also a side effect of the rejection fragment?"
This time it was Amon who answered as he looked at me,"It wasn't that your mana was low, but more like the others' potential was unlocked without any efforts using the System. While the system was a type of bind, it also provided you with benefits. You are unlocking mana channels manually through conscious efforts, right? The System can actually do that without any effort…"
I looked at him with slight jealousy at his words. While I can unlock all the channels with hard work, only I know how hellish the training it requires to unlock one channel at a time. It is during these times; I wished I had a System with which I could just use some stat points and increase mana without really doing anything.
"Well, the potential would have been limited though," Amon spoke as he looked at my dejected face with an amused expression, and I shook my head before speaking.
"True, I guess. No point in crying about things that aren't even there."
Amon then smiled before moving towards our next 'friend' here… Lucifer Morningstar.
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