Death… And Me

Chapter 3231: Duereʼs Past

Rifindio didnʼt know whether to feel happy or sad with those words. Duere wanted to get rid of him but also believed in him in a twisted way.

”Continuing,” Rean didnʼt stop there. ”His plan was to wait for you to finish and report your findings. Even after your report, you would still need to wait a while to receive an answer from the Supreme Palace, after all. His plan was to use that gap in time to get rid of you, wiping out the only black spot in the Camazotz Bats from his generation.”

Rifindio closed his eyes after hearing that. ”Sigh... Naturally, things didnʼt go as he planned, right?”

Rean nodded. ”Obviously. That day, when you tried to kill me, I used Sister Orb to make your Spatial Formation collapse. Then, we were all dragged into that Black Hole. You already know this.”

”After we were gone, the area was investigated until the Inquisition Hall reported our disappearance and probable death. Duere came over to check after that,” Rean recounted the memories he got from Duere. ”After you disappeared, the Supreme Palace found Duere here in the mortal world, and as you can imagine, he was punished by coming here without any orders.”

”To make things simple, the Supreme Palace ordered Duere to stay here and investigate further into this case. Duere, naturally, couldnʼt go against those orders. He was forced to stay in the Mortal World for longer than he wanted, even though he also couldnʼt find any trace of you.”

”Yet, it was during this forced investigation about our endings that he ended up checking a place near that Fragile Dimensional Realm. There, his bloodline was detected by the Abyssal Soul, and a passage to the outside was opened. Duere, who was in the Void Tempering Realm Late Stage at that point, didnʼt really feel any fear from a Dimensional Realm of the Mortal World. He entered to check it, assured that nothing could pose any real threat to him. Besides, perhaps he could truly find something useful in there after being forced to stay.”

”During his investigation inside that Dimensional Realm, he noticed the presence of Chaos Energy, although it was just barely available. Nonetheless, for him, that was like winning the lottery. Everyone wanted a source of Chaos Energy for themselves in the Supreme Palace, and he wasnʼt different. He couldnʼt use that place yet, but he was confident in his talent and high Camazotz Bat bloodline concentration. He was sure he would get strong enough to use Chaos Energy in the future.”

”He went further into that Realm, looking for the place where the Chaos Energy was coming from. Finally, Duere found that Purple Crack in Space. Thatʼs where his luck ended. Just like it happened to you, Ridinfio, the Abyssal Soul caught him. Obviously, Duere didnʼt have us to save his ass. It first robbed him of his bloodline, weakening his body.” Rean then pointed at the Abyssal Soul Shard. ”With his strength and bloodline gone, it sent this Abyssal Soul Shard into his Soul.”

”What happened next was pretty simple. Once the Abyssal Soul took complete control over Duere, it gave Duere back his bloodline and even used the Chaos Energy there to force Duere to have a breakthrough into the Peak Stage of the Void Tempering Realm.”

Zangeshu couldnʼt help but ask. ”You mentioned before that the Mortal World laws would keep pushing those at the Void Tempering Realm and above back to the Higher Realms, right. How come Duere stayed here for so long?”

Rean nodded. ”That was exactly why the Abyssal Soul forced Duere to have a breakthrough. It used Chaos Energy instead of Divine Energy, and above all, the Soul Shard connection with his soul. I donʼt understand the principle behind it very well, but the Abyssal Soul was able to hide Duere from the Mortal World laws by doing that. I believe it created a forced connection that impeded the Mortal World Laws from separating the two, but it is just a guess. In any case, with nothing pushing Duere back to the Higher Realms, Duereʼs body could stay here for as long as needed.”

”The Abyssal Soul then used Duereʼs authority as a member of the Supreme Palace to take control over the Inquisition Halls all over the Solar System.”

Kentucky raised his wing. ”What about the Supreme Palace? Duere stayed here for over four hundred years. Considering his talent, Iʼm sure the Supreme Palace noticed his delay and asked why he hasnʼt come back yet, right? After all, even if they punished Duere by forcing him to stay for a while, I doubt this ʼwhileʼ was four hundred years worth of time.”

”They did,” Rean nodded. ”But Duere simply answered that he believed Rifindio wasnʼt really dead, and he would not go back until he resolved this issue. You see, Duere was indeed a very talented Camazotz Bat, and he had a high concentration of the Camazotz Bat bloodline. However, he was far from the only one like that. The Supreme Palace had many others.”

”Besides, this is nothing but a simple mortal planet and a mortal solar system. Even if the Supreme Palace thought Duere was doing something here... why bother? The Supreme Palace has an entire Universe to take care of. There are billions, trillions, maybe even more similar solar systems in this Universe alone. Whatever Duere was trying to do here, it mattered not to the grand scale of things.”

”Since Duere himself didnʼt want to go back, so be it. They gave him permission to return, and that was all they had to do. Not to mention, it was still somewhat considered part of the Mission passed over by the Werdlem Main Universe. Duere had all the excuses he needed to stay, and no one in the Supreme Palace would waste their time coming to the Mortal World to check on him. You see, four hundred years might look like a lot. Yet, to the higher-ups of the Supreme Palace, who have probably been living for at least a few million years, this canʼt even be compared to a blink of an eye.”

Rean shrugged. ”With that out of the way, Duere... or the Abyssal Soul, to be more specific, started to put its plans into practice.”