I wouldn't leave Layla in this situation, at the moment she seems to have lost her physical body, but I also can't say if this featureless luminous body is her Soul, I can't say if she did it on purpose or not.
I walk towards her as all the Fairies walk away from us, I can feel Layla's Aura everywhere since I arrived in the manor gardens, but where I am now it feels different.
"I see..." (I)
It only took me a second to understand that the Aura from before was what I perceived from the Cradle, but now I am directly feeling Layla's Aura.
I sit down in front of her and she stretches out my hand, I can't tell if she can hear my words normally without having a body, I also don't know if she notices my presence, so while I stretched my hands forward I was also using our connection to convey my will.
I felt a slight vibration in her Aura as I transmitted my will, then felt as if her focus of attention was diverted to me as she reached out her hands to touch mine.
I grabbed her hands that were now slightly larger than mine while intertwining our fingers facing each other.
"Let's use our power together..." (I)
I had only sent my will through our connection and how she seemed to react to it I thought for a second that she would be able to hear me, but as soon as I touched her hand I realized her state, what is in front of me is the essence of power like. this like Layla's Soul, but her mind is not here.
I look around trying to use my Aura to mix with the Cradle of Fairies with difficulty, that's when I confirmed that Layla's mind was together with the Cradle of Fairies.
Since she didn't understand what she was saying, I just started to circulate my power, Aura and Authority with Layla's Soul in front of me one at a time.
I started with the energies of the various Pure Elements we shared, I felt these natural synergies running through the luminous body in front of me, and I felt the paths it was passing through as it blended with her own power, so I began to use my power, but only my mana, I avoided using my Spiritual Energy or my Ki since Fairies are beings solely focused on Magic.
After that, I added my Aura and Layla seemed to reflexively do the same, that's when the rings made from her body parts started circling both of us instead of circling just her.
Another thing that happened was the energy that circulated only in her returning to me through my other hand completing the first cycle which was slow, but the energy that returned was no longer just mine, and I was not able to keep my body still for a long time, so I sent it to her once more.
I also felt something forming between the two of us and I realized that it was an excess of our combined power forming between the two of us because of the flow of energy forming between us, it was at this moment that I added my Holy Power, I knew it was moment for it because it was my instinct speaking, as soon as my power passed into Layla's body her colors became even stronger and she feels the sphere of power between us circulating her power with the Cradle of Faerie doing a second layer of energy circulation.
It was then that my Authority seemed to move on its own, I didn't stop it and just let it happen as it joined the flow of power between me and Layla.
Suddenly the ripples in space became stronger, that's because waves of energy spread from where we were all over the Cradle of Fairies, since I could feel the entire area that this Cradle of Fairies occupies, I also felt that with each wave the area became larger and something was changing inside, I could feel the Fairy door in my shadow rise for the first time, they were brutal wooden doors with star bark just like my scales, these doors started to open at the same time as the ripples of space were canceled out by the surge of energy emanating from both of us.
"(Idiot Master...)" (Layla)
"(Layla, can you hear me!?)" (I)
Suddenly I feel Layla speaking inside my mind, but her presence emanated from everything in the surroundings, I kept circulating all that power between me and Layla faster and faster.
The energy that built up between us slowly began to condense at the same time as the door opened, I could feel that something was changing around me, it wasn't just the area of Fairy Cradle that was increasing or the ripples in space getting smaller and smaller, I could feel something completing itself, it took me a few tens of seconds to notice that this feeling of completeness was coming from the Fairy Gate that came out of my Shadow behind me.
I wasn't able to look back but I was still able to feel something flowing from behind me to the surroundings, it took me a while to feel because it was just more energy of the same Elements as Layla, apart from that there was a presence mixed in with those Elements, it was Divine energy with a presence I recognized immediately.
This power blended with the surroundings faster and faster as the Fairy Gate became more and more open, it was only when I felt that this Fairy Gate was completely open that the Divine energy mixed with the Cradle of Fairies.
Immediately, after mixing with everything in the surroundings, the Divine energy mixed with the rings made from Layla's body that are circling around me and Layla.
Other than that, she didn't approach us as expected, I was so distracted that it took me a while to realize that the flow of energy between me and Layla had already sucked all the Mana out of my body, and now it was leaving my body and Layla's as it moved it made a ring of multicolored energy around the energy between the two of us.
When that happened, I felt like all the pieces were falling into place.
At this moment I saw Layla's luminous body of pure energy in front of me release bursts of pure energy like lightning that stopped in the air around her as the energy of the surroundings was sucked into her, I also felt as if her mind returned to her body, I felt two arms growing from his energy body and extending to the sides of the energy between us.
"This is her coronation... Layla of Nature." (Goddess Aine)
I could feel the Blessing of the Fairy Goddess within me releasing the power that mixed with the circulation of energy.
At this time the Divine energy flows from the surroundings into the energy between me and Layla which seemed to be crushed by this power as I became smaller and smaller until it formed a crystalline mass with multiple different colors glowing.
Layla who had this mass between two of her four arms started using her hands to give a specific shape to this mass made of pure crystallized energy.
Layla, with great dexterity and precision worthy of a legendary artist, takes a few seconds to transform this crystalline mass into the shape of a crown that seems to have two stellar crystal horns like my scales while the rest of the crown seems to be formed by crystalline tree roots, The glow of the various stars on the two horns are the colors of the various Elements it has control over.
As soon as this crown of form feels my Aura and Authority being sucked in along with the divine energy in the surroundings, then the crown is above Layla's luminous body floating on top of her head.
When this happens I can feel a pulsation in the space as it has stabilized, then from the crown a swirl of energy forms around Layla.
Right now I feel like I'm knocked out of our connection by a wave of energy that pulls me away from her, but I'm still able to feel the overflowing happiness she feels.
As soon as I looked around the Divine energy and the presence of the Fairy Goddess was gone and the gate that I was barely able to see just at a glance had changed, it was now a crystal Gate ornate with images of nature from various places like forests, mountains, oceans, deserts, clouds in the sky, volcanoes, the sun and the moon.
Even while I was admiring the Gate that looks like a work of art, it started to sink into my shadow once more, I didn't seem to have control over the Fairy Gate, so it just disappears into my shadow once more.
I look over to where Layla is surrounded by energy not being able to see her inside, I try to move forward but am stopped when the space around me freezes.
"You did a good job, now she's going to be fine." (Lorraine)
"What is happening now?" (I)
"This is no longer just a Cradle of Faerie, but it hasn't become a Temple of Faerie yet, at least not until she wakes up." (Lorraine)
"A Fairy Queen's crown represents her Authority, but she doesn't have a body yet and that's what she's creating right now, a new body." (Lorraine)
"How long will it take?" (I)
"If it was a normal case just a few hours, but because of the interference you had to do, I honestly don't know, it could last a few days." (Lorraine)
"..." (I)
"No need to make that worried face, she's more than fine already, you should be doing other things now." (Lorraine)
I look towards the waterfall, I can feel Nix's call, when I look back to where Lorraine was, she disappeared as she wanted.
Sigh
"She comes and goes as she pleases, but she could at least say goodbye." (I)
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