3182 Mage Towers (Part 2)
Derek's Earth mother had done nothing to protect him and Carl from the abuse while Ezio was alive.
After his death, she had cut her children out of her life, blaming them as the source of her misfortunes and resenting them for taking two-thirds of the settlement that she considered entirely hers.
It was the reason Derek had come to forget her name.
She wasn't a person and as such she didn't deserve one.
On top of that, Derek considered those feelings of love and acceptance like weakness, and weakness was an unforgivable sin.
If not for the hunger, the Void would have never entered Mother's Embrace, no matter how much he needed it. The construct closed its arms, bringing the smaller figure of the Abomination to its bosom.
The spell focused the world energy on Derek while also draining the ground from nutrients and taking fresh water from the stream. Mother's Embrace also sapped the nearby life forces but did it slowly and gently to optimize their consumption without wasting a single drop of energy.
"Mom." Derek couldn't even remember when the last time he had spoken that word was, but surrounded by that warmth, all his grievances disappeared.
He didn't even question what the nutrients and water were for since his body had no flesh or blood.
He wasn't hungry anymore and for the first time since he had awoken out of Vidun's hiding spot, he was at peace. The world energy stabilized his Abomination form leaving Mother's Embrace free to give the human side everything it needed to recover.
After restless days of constant struggle, Derek fell into a slumber that lasted until the next morning. He woke up at sunrise, shocked by how long the spell had lasted and by having avoided the torture of the hunger for the night.
"This is amazing!" He said while looking at his reflection in the water.
His features were much more defined, closely resembling his human appearance back on Earth. The only differences were that his hair was made of flames and his eyes now shone with pure white light of Decay with no trace of red or black.
"I don't know what happened, but I feel much stronger than before. Even the hunger has subsided significantly." With the human side finally healed and all the life forces restored, the Abomination side was stable again.
It didn't need to constantly feed the human life force anymore, greatly lessening its energy consumption. Even Ragnar?k felt reborn. After the whole day of rest, the scabbard was back to being fully red.
The Chaos had been purged and the abundant world energy had brought the power cores of the angry blade and Double Edge back to their peak condition.
"Okay. What do I have to do now? Any change of plans after the power-up?" He wielded Ragnar?k, waiting for the hologram, but nothing happened. "Hello? Is anyone there?"
He asked while knocking on the scabbard.
'No! Fuck no!' The Voidfeather had fallen asleep as well but when he woke up, he had found himself much weaker than before.
The influx of power from the mana geyser had restored his body, but it had come at a price. The three life forces were now crystallized in their current form. The Divine Beast side needed no effort to prevent the shapeshifting because it had become impossible.
Lochra Silverwing stared at her own communicator as if it had betrayed her. She had long since learned how to tap into the frequencies of public announcements of the Awakened Council's network but she would rarely listen to them. freewёbnoνel.com
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