Chapter 267 – Awakening Chaos – 7
“Are you saying it’s possible if I share my memories?”
“That’s correct.”
Eclipse nodded.
“Do you remember how that girl you call Nix was able to use True Death?”
“Because she accepted countless souls and understood the essence of death.”
Nix’s time when she was called Flor was literally just before the world was about to collapse, a time when countless lives were lost in the blink of an eye.
Of course, the souls approaching Flor were abundant. Unlike me, Nix, who had no immortal mission, managed to understand True Death.
“It’s the same. If you share the memories of the countless deaths you’ve experienced, wouldn’t it be indistinguishable from the actions of that girl who read the death of the accepted souls?”
It was an unexpected approach. It meant that the difference between a multitude of souls experiencing a single death and a single soul experiencing numerous deaths was merely a matter of quality and quantity.
If Nix could do it, then others could too. That was the essence of that statement.
“However, this method also comes with great risk.”
Eclipse spoke in a calm voice.
“Sharing memories means you would accept all those countless deaths as if you experienced them yourself. That’s a considerably dangerous action. You know the fate of those who couldn’t bear such deaths.”
“…I know very well.”
“The abilities of the body and the mind are completely separate. Just as you were an ordinary human who endured the immortal mission, Nix, also just an ordinary human, became known as the Soul Guardian.”
I already knew that Nix’s mental strength was no ordinary level.
Coming over in a soul state, splitting my personality to withstand the backlash of the magic cast on me, all of it was behavior that one couldn’t do with a sane mind.
Of course, while coming here, her appearance changed drastically from her mental strength, but…
Maybe it was because her mental strength was strong that she chose such a body. The outfits that Eclipse created were all in the same vein, so I let that slide.
“If the children who receive your memories cannot withstand death—”
“You mean their spirits would break?”
Her long black hair shook slightly up and down. It meant affirmation.
I had seen immortal beings who couldn’t withstand repeated deaths and broke their spirits several times before. In the first B’, they must have faced countless of them, and in the second B’, a few remained active.
Thinking that the people I knew might end up like that sent shivers down my spine.
‘…How did I die back then?’
I reflected on the deaths I had experienced.
Some died neatly with heads crushed or hearts pierced, while others were gruesomely dismembered or gradually ripped apart.
‘…..’
Just feeling it, if one isn’t resistant to such things, witnessing them once or twice would be enough for them to check the menu of the day.
Even in the relatively strong and capable second and third B’ periods, that was the degree of hardship I faced. Just how tragically did I perish during the first B’ period, when I was thrown in as an immortal with nothing?
If I couldn’t stand such things, my soul would break? I let out a small sigh internally.
“Understood, Goddess. Since this doesn’t seem like something I can decide on my own, I’ll put it on hold for now. Are there any other warnings?”
“No. Just be cautious of that point. If you can endure your death, everything afterward will be simple.”
After finishing her words, Eclipse began to wiggle her fingers on the bed and observed me. It looked like she had something to say. I got up from the bed and placed my feet in the flower garden.
“Do you have something to say, Goddess?”
“Um… You aren’t going to punish me, are you?”
“Punish? For what?”
When I asked back in confusion, Eclipse added in a voice that was almost sultry.
“I said it’s to release my wrists, but… um, it’s true that I touched your body without permission… so… that’s the punishment…”
There was a hint of anticipation in her golden and silver odd-eye. Her hips began to wiggle slightly. With that look, it was obvious what ‘punishment’ meant.
I recalled the general inclinations of the women in this world: Lize, the Pope Sisters, Kaiquilia, Aurora, and finally Nix. All of them had personalities that liked to be led like Eclipse.
Even regardless of their usual character.
Since the goddess created women based on her own appearance and form, I wondered if she had intentionally or accidentally passed on even Eclipse’s secret preferences.
‘Kaiquilia seems a bit ambiguous though.’
Kaiquilia went overboard early on, putting her mind halfway gone. I still didn’t know what her preferences were in a normal state.
I glanced back at the Wingless Nightmare, who was leaning quietly at one side of the bed. Eclipse was kneeling in position, sitting obediently.
“Punishment… right. Can you come a little closer, Goddess?”
Eclipse, who approached on her knees, looked up at me from the edge of the bed. I moved closer, gently lifting her chin with my pointer and middle fingers.
“I’ve just decided on one. It’s a punishment just right for a hasty goddess, who couldn’t wait a moment.”
Perhaps out of anticipation, the blush on her cheeks deepened.
“After this, once everything is over and peaceful… get ready to climax within 3 seconds as soon as I call your name.”
“T-three seconds…?”
“No matter when, where, or what you were doing, or the situation, if I say ‘Eclipse,’ you must climax within those 3 seconds. Do you understand?”
Asking her to practice climaxing within 3 seconds just by hearing her name in any circumstance was something that would make any sane person jump up in shock.
“I-I’ll make sure it happens…”
Yet, the goddess before me was neither sane nor human.
Eclipse nodded vigorously with the intent of putting hearts in her eyes. Her body quivered from her side through to her buttocks, and her thighs rubbed together subtly.
“So, Goddess, what must be done to practice the ‘punishment’ I mentioned?”
“You need to make sure you can kill it… find its position as quickly as possible… and stop anything trying to get in here…”
“You’ve made the right point. This time, I’ll give you a reward.”
I pushed the fingers that had been holding her chin into my mouth. Her dainty mouth opened wide, as if waiting for that moment.
“Gag… Ugh…”
I pushed my fingers down to just above her uvula. Eclipse started to gag and drool on her saliva, desperately licking the fingers that would make her choke.
I pressed down on her tongue with my middle and pointer fingers. Eclipse’s body trembled.
Slowly pulling out the fingers that were poking the back of her throat, a transparent thread stretched like a spider’s web from the tip of my saliva-covered fingers.
Eclipse looked at her fingers, now smeared with her own drool, clasped her chest, and opened wide while pinning my right hand inside. Her soft flesh began to move up and down rhythmically.
After wiping all the saliva with my hand on her chest for a while, as my right hand withdrew, she slowly bowed her head with both hands on the bed, in the same kneeling position.
Tap, her forehead touched the bed.
“Thank you for the reward… you…”
Her chest, squished against her thighs, bulged out prominently. Her milky white back was entirely clean except for a strap supporting the cross shape in front of her lower abdomen.
‘This crazy goddess… really…’
I silently suppressed my desires in front of her. Honestly, just not reacting in my lower half here felt like an achievement worthy of a statue.
How much time had passed? Eclipse slowly raised her head. Her golden and silver odd-eyes were half-lidded.
“Before you go down to earth, may I dare ask for one favor…?”
“What kind of request?”
“Please whisper my name with your voice… I beg you…”
I pondered for a moment and brought my lips close to her ear and pressed gently as she wished.
Eclipse shivered and collapsed onto the bed.
“Hehe, you’re here, aren’t you?”
Upon arriving at the Moon Cathedral, Nix, who had changed her personality to a respectful one, ran towards me, her chest bouncing as she came. Floretta and Luna were nowhere to be seen.
“Where’s Floretta and Luna?”
“The Popes are still practicing so that if they fail, it won’t be of no help to you. I comforted them by saying it was natural for me to fail, but it didn’t help at all.”
“Of course, I told you not to worry since it was natural not to succeed, right?”
“Yes, of course, you said that, but human psychology can’t be decided so definitively.”
It seemed that once this conversation ended, I had to go comfort the Popes. I gently tickled Nix’s chin while I spoke.
“I asked the goddess how others besides us can learn True Death. It’s not entirely impossible.”
Nix stopped squirming and looked up at me with a surprised expression.
“A-nd how is that?”
“Just do it the same way you did. But instead of reading the memories of souls, it’s about sharing my memories.”
Upon hearing about sharing my memories, Nix’s expression turned somber.
“…I apologize for bringing this up, but you know it’s not a good method, right? Even ordinary deaths can be shocking, let alone yours…”
“I know. The goddess mentioned it too. If they can’t bear it, they’ll break. I’ve seen those who couldn’t withstand it countless times before. I won’t recklessly attempt something just because they want to.”
This is a gamble with lives as stakes, and I had no intention of attempting it recklessly. It would be better not to do it than to entrust my people to such uncertain chances.
“So, what will you do?”
“First, I must gather everyone in one place.”
“And then?”
“……”
Iris, Lize, Erica, and Claudia stood in a line against a nearby wall, standing still in attention.
It couldn’t be any other way. Each person here was the key and backbone of the Empire and the Holy Kingdom.
The Empress of the Aiternum Empire, Kaiquilia Libanus.
The Eternal Magician, Minerva Skeantia.
The Pope of the Sun, Floretta Evangelina.
The Pope of the Moon, Luna Seraphica.
Even just one of them appearing would be enough to make those around them kneel and worship. It was practically impossible for a mere knight commander to be comfortable in their presence.
Especially since Kaiquilia was blatantly expressing her discomfort, the sound of her finger tapping on the sofa was getting shorter and shorter.
Perhaps the Heretic Inquisitor and Heretic Interrogator, standing against the opposite wall, were in a better situation since they could at least kneel and pray.
Aurora remained calm, her expression slightly stiff, unlike the others, perhaps because she had a strong heart.
‘Delta… What if you left us all here and didn’t come!’
Lize screamed inside. The only man who had any connection to all these women, who had gathered here, had yet to arrive.
If Delta had been here, Kaiquilia wouldn’t radiate such a murderous aura, and the knight commanders all desperately wished he’d come soon.
It didn’t take long for the prayers to be answered. The door to the meeting room opened without a sound at all.
