Chapter 303: 068 – Symbol Of Balance
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"Let's run through the plan one last time," Lirian said, it was a day later, and all the necessary ingredients were brought into the cultivation chamber.
"I need to make a clean get away," Izlandi said, "Everyone needs to think that I'm dead, it's the only way to ensure that no one comes searching for me,"
"But you plan on killing your father first, and in order to do that you need to poison him first which is going to be problematic since everyone is currently so on guard against a poisoning," Lirian said.
"That is why I'm going to poison him at a time when he can't refuse a toast, when house Kant comes to take me away in a month," Izlandi said with a smile.
"I'll buy the wine myself and offer it to my father," she said with a devious smirk.
"But that is where two problems arise," Lirian added, "The first being that everyone in the city will be celebrating this event, when you kill your father everyone will know that you're a traitor and the one responsible for his death,"
"He betrayed me first," Izlandi said bobbing her head happily, "But it's a problem easily solved, if everyone…dies," Izlandi said with a racing heart.
"A solution made possible by your cumulated wealth, you will buy out every barrel of ale and drink in the city, and place my poison capsule's inside, then you will distribute it to the people, when you are given away you will call for a toast across the city, at which time the poisoned will be consumed by everyone," Lirian said.
"However that is where the second problem lies," Izlandi added, "Such actions will be seen as out of character for me since I've always shown my detest towards my situation," she said gritting her teeth slightly.
"Which is why you'll be using the next month to show that you've had a change of heart, you'll put on the act of your life time to convince everyone that you are happy about becoming the concubine of Tanicks, and on the day you are to be taken away, you will also get rid of House Kant's delegation which will include Tanicks," Lirian concluded and handed Izlandi a note.
It was something that she requested, something that she would use to put another nail in the coffin of House Kurt.
Izlandi got up and walked to the door, "Remember do not enter the room for the next ten days, it will take sometime to prepare so much of the poison," Lirian said.
Once Izlandi shut the door, Lirian could hear the door get sucked in until it was completely sealed without any flow of air, and then the rooms spell formation started to activate.
[Ding]
[The toxin is no longer present in the world's energy]
'Oh I can't wait to be able to study the spell formations of this room for myself,' Lirian thought in anticipation and started to rip of the casts that were on his legs.
Lirian sat on the floor with his legs in a lotus position, while it hurt, he knew that this was nothing compared to the pain he was about to put his body through.
Then he picked up a knife and cut a small line into his forearm, blood quickly started to flow down his hand, but Lirian didn't care for that, he spread the wound open and reached in to pull out his earing.
After he killed the first bandits he found, Lirian realised the value of gold in this world, and decided to hide the earing inside his body, it was a good thing that he did or the earing would have been long gone, as for the ring that was on the leather cord around his neck.
It looked so old and crappy that no one bothered to remove it from his body, Lirian wondered how much they would kick themselves if they learned that they missed a portal that could take them to a galactic society.
As he thought of that, Lirian placed the two items neatly to his side, if they remained on him they wouldn't survive the process.
'It's go time,' Lirian thought with a grin and entered into his throne world.
Lirian opened his eyes on the silver throne, and glanced around at the throne world, the seats that held all his past selves were perfectly normal with their occupants fast asleep, they had all been like this ever since Edith's death.
Only one was awake number 12.
"So, it's finally time," Number 12 said opening his two snake like eyes to look at Lirian.
"Yes," Lirian replied and walked past him and directly to the soul vault.
"How far do you think you'll be able to go without breaking," Number 12 hissed in a lazy manner as he watched Lirian's back.
Lirian stopped in his tracks and turned back to look at number 12, "I've already lived enough to learn from my mistakes, I won't be repeating them, not this time, never again," Lirian said firmly.
"HAHAHA!" a wild laugh slithered out of number 12's mouth, "For someone who is me, it's quite funny to see how foolish you are being,"
"We both know that those dreams you're having and that voice that keeps coming to you, they aren't real," Number 12 hissed in amusement and climbed of his seat and took simple steps towards Lirian.
Even his movements resembled that of a snake, when he reached Lirian he hooked two of his fingers and pressed it against Lirian's temple, "It's all just here in your head,"
"That voice is nothing but a delusion that you've dreamt, in your hopes at redemption, to try to prove that it was the curse that made us into monsters,"
"You claim to be one of us, so why don't you accept it now,"
"We... were always… monsters! It is simply what we are… we lack what is required to make us noble," Number 12 hissed coldly.
"We do not possess compassion, and we most certainly do not possess MERCY!" he let out a sharp hiss in Lirian's face, "We are merely monsters and that is all there is to our existence," Number 12 said and walked back to his seat.
"Yes we are monsters, but I'll do everything I can to make us into more," Lirian said clenching his fist tightly.
"Hahaha," Number 12 started to laugh a jeering laugh that would make a persons bones ache, "You will only fail, and when you fail in your 'noble' task, do yourself a favour and pass on the throne," Number 12 said and shut his eyes before falling back into a deep sleep.
Lirian grunted and opened the soul vault, he reached out with his hand and three finger sized crystals floated into Lirian palm.
Lirian looked at the three source energy's, first there was genesis the source of all matter, then there was cosmic the source of all energy and finally there was celestial the source of order and logic.
The three energies that made up all things under the heavens.
"Fragment," Lirian order and the three energies each broke into three equal pieces.
"Assemble," Lirian ordered and the three energies formed into three pieces once more, this time they each consisted of an equal amount of each of the three energies.
Lirian smiled and shut his eyes, returning from the throne world, the three source energies also materialised in front of him and hovered in the air, it was as if they were completely separated from the gravity of the world.
Lirian took a calming breath and brought his hands together, "System take it from here," Lirian order as he readied his body for what was about to come.
[Initiating, preparing the symbol of balance]
Once the system finished telling Lirian what it was about to do the three crystalized source energies drifted around Lirian's body and formed an equilateral triangle with Lirian being fixed at the centre.
When the energies fell into place, sparks started to release from the crystal, the sparks started to rapidly stretch out and twist around Lirian forming curved lines.
If one were to look closely they would have noticed a series of symbols were etched into the sparks and as the lines solidified the symbols became more clear, a few minutes passed before the source energies stopped releasing the sparks, but with just a glance it could be noticed that the energy sources shrunk in size.
The symbol of balance was a Keltic knot (Image in paragraph comment).
The symbol was glowing in a bright white light, and symbols gave off a divine radiance and were filled with profound meaning, about the nature of balance.
[Proceeding to next step, Host prepare yourself for the triple fate split]
Lirian took a deep breath with nervous sweet trickling down his body, this next part was one that could easily kill him if even the slightest mistake occurred.
"Begin," Lirian ordered, and suddenly he felt a tight piercing pain, coursing through every fibre of his being.
The pain didn't come from the flesh rather it came from his fate string, currently the system was creating three splits on his fate string.
The rules of the heavens were absolute, all being were only allowed to possess one esper technique, and Lirian's attempts to hold more than one esper technique was a violation of that rule.
Even his 'Body of Nirvana' would allow him to hold multiple esper techniques, it couldn't do anything to prevent tribulation that the heavens would unleash on him.
Therefor Lirian had to find a way to break the rules while ensuring, that the heavens wouldn't unleash a tribulation.
Lirian split his fate string three times, one for each technique he was going to use, the splits would make it appear as if he was three different existences and save him from a tribulation.
Lirian was certain that if he triggered a tribulation currently he would die immediately, after all esper techniques were the methods of gods, there was no way that a tribulation triggered by an esper technique could be handled by a mere mortal.
As the system got started, Lirian recalled that time when Efrideet managed to sever his fate string, if he made even the slightest mistake he'd go through the same process all over again.
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"Let's run through the plan one last time," Lirian said, it was a day later, and all the necessary ingredients were brought into the cultivation chamber.
"I need to make a clean get away," Izlandi said, "Everyone needs to think that I'm dead, it's the only way to ensure that no one comes searching for me,"
"But you plan on killing your father first, and in order to do that you need to poison him first which is going to be problematic since everyone is currently so on guard against a poisoning," Lirian said.
"That is why I'm going to poison him at a time when he can't refuse a toast, when house Kant comes to take me away in a month," Izlandi said with a smile.
"I'll buy the wine myself and offer it to my father," she said with a devious smirk.
"But that is where two problems arise," Lirian added, "The first being that everyone in the city will be celebrating this event, when you kill your father everyone will know that you're a traitor and the one responsible for his death,"
"He betrayed me first," Izlandi said bobbing her head happily, "But it's a problem easily solved, if everyone…dies," Izlandi said with a racing heart.
"A solution made possible by your cumulated wealth, you will buy out every barrel of ale and drink in the city, and place my poison capsule's inside, then you will distribute it to the people, when you are given away you will call for a toast across the city, at which time the poisoned will be consumed by everyone," Lirian said.
"However that is where the second problem lies," Izlandi added, "Such actions will be seen as out of character for me since I've always shown my detest towards my situation," she said gritting her teeth slightly.
"Which is why you'll be using the next month to show that you've had a change of heart, you'll put on the act of your life time to convince everyone that you are happy about becoming the concubine of Tanicks, and on the day you are to be taken away, you will also get rid of House Kant's delegation which will include Tanicks," Lirian concluded and handed Izlandi a note.
It was something that she requested, something that she would use to put another nail in the coffin of House Kurt.
Izlandi got up and walked to the door, "Remember do not enter the room for the next ten days, it will take sometime to prepare so much of the poison," Lirian said.
Once Izlandi shut the door, Lirian could hear the door get sucked in until it was completely sealed without any flow of air, and then the rooms spell formation started to activate.
[Ding]
[The toxin is no longer present in the world's energy]
'Oh I can't wait to be able to study the spell formations of this room for myself,' Lirian thought in anticipation and started to rip of the casts that were on his legs.
Lirian sat on the floor with his legs in a lotus position, while it hurt, he knew that this was nothing compared to the pain he was about to put his body through.
Then he picked up a knife and cut a small line into his forearm, blood quickly started to flow down his hand, but Lirian didn't care for that, he spread the wound open and reached in to pull out his earing.
After he killed the first bandits he found, Lirian realised the value of gold in this world, and decided to hide the earing inside his body, it was a good thing that he did or the earing would have been long gone, as for the ring that was on the leather cord around his neck.
It looked so old and crappy that no one bothered to remove it from his body, Lirian wondered how much they would kick themselves if they learned that they missed a portal that could take them to a galactic society.
As he thought of that, Lirian placed the two items neatly to his side, if they remained on him they wouldn't survive the process.
'It's go time,' Lirian thought with a grin and entered into his throne world.
Lirian opened his eyes on the silver throne, and glanced around at the throne world, the seats that held all his past selves were perfectly normal with their occupants fast asleep, they had all been like this ever since Edith's death.
Only one was awake number 12.
"So, it's finally time," Number 12 said opening his two snake like eyes to look at Lirian.
"Yes," Lirian replied and walked past him and directly to the soul vault.
"How far do you think you'll be able to go without breaking," Number 12 hissed in a lazy manner as he watched Lirian's back.
Lirian stopped in his tracks and turned back to look at number 12, "I've already lived enough to learn from my mistakes, I won't be repeating them, not this time, never again," Lirian said firmly.
"HAHAHA!" a wild laugh slithered out of number 12's mouth, "For someone who is me, it's quite funny to see how foolish you are being,"
"We both know that those dreams you're having and that voice that keeps coming to you, they aren't real," Number 12 hissed in amusement and climbed of his seat and took simple steps towards Lirian.
Even his movements resembled that of a snake, when he reached Lirian he hooked two of his fingers and pressed it against Lirian's temple, "It's all just here in your head,"
"That voice is nothing but a delusion that you've dreamt, in your hopes at redemption, to try to prove that it was the curse that made us into monsters,"
"You claim to be one of us, so why don't you accept it now,"
"We... were always… monsters! It is simply what we are… we lack what is required to make us noble," Number 12 hissed coldly.
"We do not possess compassion, and we most certainly do not possess MERCY!" he let out a sharp hiss in Lirian's face, "We are merely monsters and that is all there is to our existence," Number 12 said and walked back to his seat.
"Yes we are monsters, but I'll do everything I can to make us into more," Lirian said clenching his fist tightly.
"Hahaha," Number 12 started to laugh a jeering laugh that would make a persons bones ache, "You will only fail, and when you fail in your 'noble' task, do yourself a favour and pass on the throne," Number 12 said and shut his eyes before falling back into a deep sleep.
Lirian grunted and opened the soul vault, he reached out with his hand and three finger sized crystals floated into Lirian palm.
Lirian looked at the three source energy's, first there was genesis the source of all matter, then there was cosmic the source of all energy and finally there was celestial the source of order and logic.
The three energies that made up all things under the heavens.
"Fragment," Lirian order and the three energies each broke into three equal pieces.
"Assemble," Lirian ordered and the three energies formed into three pieces once more, this time they each consisted of an equal amount of each of the three energies.
Lirian smiled and shut his eyes, returning from the throne world, the three source energies also materialised in front of him and hovered in the air, it was as if they were completely separated from the gravity of the world.
Lirian took a calming breath and brought his hands together, "System take it from here," Lirian order as he readied his body for what was about to come.
[Initiating, preparing the symbol of balance]
Once the system finished telling Lirian what it was about to do the three crystalized source energies drifted around Lirian's body and formed an equilateral triangle with Lirian being fixed at the centre.
When the energies fell into place, sparks started to release from the crystal, the sparks started to rapidly stretch out and twist around Lirian forming curved lines.
If one were to look closely they would have noticed a series of symbols were etched into the sparks and as the lines solidified the symbols became more clear, a few minutes passed before the source energies stopped releasing the sparks, but with just a glance it could be noticed that the energy sources shrunk in size.
The symbol of balance was a Keltic knot (Image in paragraph comment).
The symbol was glowing in a bright white light, and symbols gave off a divine radiance and were filled with profound meaning, about the nature of balance.
[Proceeding to next step, Host prepare yourself for the triple fate split]
Lirian took a deep breath with nervous sweet trickling down his body, this next part was one that could easily kill him if even the slightest mistake occurred.
"Begin," Lirian ordered, and suddenly he felt a tight piercing pain, coursing through every fibre of his being.
The pain didn't come from the flesh rather it came from his fate string, currently the system was creating three splits on his fate string.
The rules of the heavens were absolute, all being were only allowed to possess one esper technique, and Lirian's attempts to hold more than one esper technique was a violation of that rule.
Even his 'Body of Nirvana' would allow him to hold multiple esper techniques, it couldn't do anything to prevent tribulation that the heavens would unleash on him.
Therefor Lirian had to find a way to break the rules while ensuring, that the heavens wouldn't unleash a tribulation.
Lirian split his fate string three times, one for each technique he was going to use, the splits would make it appear as if he was three different existences and save him from a tribulation.
Lirian was certain that if he triggered a tribulation currently he would die immediately, after all esper techniques were the methods of gods, there was no way that a tribulation triggered by an esper technique could be handled by a mere mortal.
As the system got started, Lirian recalled that time when Efrideet managed to sever his fate string, if he made even the slightest mistake he'd go through the same process all over again.
"Let's run through the plan one last time," Lirian said, it was a day later, and all the necessary ingredients were brought into the cultivation chamber."I need to make a clean get away," Izlandi said, "Everyone needs to think that I'm dead, it's the only way to ensure that no one comes searching for me,""But you plan on killing your father first, and in order to do that you need to poison him first which is going to be problematic since everyone is currently so on guard against a poisoning," Lirian said."That is why I'm going to poison him at a time when he can't refuse a toast, when house Kant comes to take me away in a month," Izlandi said with a smile."I'll buy the wine myself and offer it to my father," she said with a devious smirk."But that is where two problems arise," Lirian added, "The first being that everyone in the city will be celebrating this event, when you kill your father everyone will know that you're a traitor and the one responsible for his death,""He betrayed me first," Izlandi said bobbing her head happily, "But it's a problem easily solved, if everyonedies," Izlandi said with a racing heart."A solution made possible by your cumulated wealth, you will buy out every barrel of ale and drink in the city, and place my poison capsule's inside, then you will distribute it to the people, when you are given away you will call for a toast across the city, at which time the poisoned will be consumed by everyone," Lirian said."However that is where the second problem lies," Izlandi added, "Such actions will be seen as out of character for me since I've always shown my detest towards my situation," she said gritting her teeth slightly."Which is why you'll be using the next month to show that you've had a change of heart, you'll put on the act of your life time to convince everyone that you are happy about becoming the concubine of Tanicks, and on the day you are to be taken away, you will also get rid of House Kant's delegation which will include Tanicks," Lirian concluded and handed Izlandi a note.It was something that she requested, something that she would use to put another nail in the coffin of House Kurt.Izlandi got up and walked to the door, "Remember do not enter the room for the next ten days, it will take sometime to prepare so much of the poison," Lirian said.Once Izlandi shut the door, Lirian could hear the door get sucked in until it was completely sealed without any flow of air, and then the rooms spell formation started to activate.DingThe toxin is no longer present in the world's energy'Oh I can't wait to be able to study the spell formations of this room for myself,' Lirian thought in anticipation and started to rip of the casts that were on his legs.Lirian sat on the floor with his legs in a lotus position, while it hurt, he knew that this was nothing compared to the pain he was about to put his body through.Then he picked up a knife and cut a small line into his forearm, blood quickly started to flow down his hand, but Lirian didn't care for that, he spread the wound open and reached in to pull out his earing.After he killed the first bandits he found, Lirian realised the value of gold in this world, and decided to hide the earing inside his body, it was a good thing that he did or the earing would have been long gone, as for the ring that was on the leather cord around his neck.It looked so old and crappy that no one bothered to remove it from his body, Lirian wondered how much they would kick themselves if they learned that they missed a portal that could take them to a galactic society.As he thought of that, Lirian placed the two items neatly to his side, if they remained on him they wouldn't survive the process.'It's go time,' Lirian thought with a grin and entered into his throne world.Lirian opened his eyes on the silver throne, and glanced around at the throne world, the seats that held all his past selves were perfectly normal with their occupants fast asleep, they had all been like this ever since Edith's death.Only one was awake number 12."So, it's finally time," Number 12 said opening his two snake like eyes to look at Lirian."Yes," Lirian replied and walked past him and directly to the soul vault."How far do you think you'll be able to go without breaking," Number 12 hissed in a lazy manner as he watched Lirian's back.Lirian stopped in his tracks and turned back to look at number 12, "I've already lived enough to learn from my mistakes, I won't be repeating them, not this time, never again," Lirian said firmly."HAHAHA!" a wild laugh slithered out of number 12's mouth, "For someone who is me, it's quite funny to see how foolish you are being,""We both know that those dreams you're having and that voice that keeps coming to you, they aren't real," Number 12 hissed in amusement and climbed of his seat and took simple steps towards Lirian.Even his movements resembled that of a snake, when he reached Lirian he hooked two of his fingers and pressed it against Lirian's temple, "It's all just here in your head,""That voice is nothing but a delusion that you've dreamt, in your hopes at redemption, to try to prove that it was the curse that made us into monsters,""You claim to be one of us, so why don't you accept it now,""We... were always monsters! It is simply what we are we lack what is required to make us noble," Number 12 hissed coldly."We do not possess compassion, and we most certainly do not possess MERCY!" he let out a sharp hiss in Lirian's face, "We are merely monsters and that is all there is to our existence," Number 12 said and walked back to his seat."Yes we are monsters, but I'll do everything I can to make us into more," Lirian said clenching his fist tightly."Hahaha," Number 12 started to laugh a jeering laugh that would make a persons bones ache, "You will only fail, and when you fail in your 'noble' task, do yourself a favour and pass on the throne," Number 12 said and shut his eyes before falling back into a deep sleep.Lirian grunted and opened the soul vault, he reached out with his hand and three finger sized crystals floated into Lirian palm.Lirian looked at the three source energy's, first there was genesis the source of all matter, then there was cosmic the source of all energy and finally there was celestial the source of order and logic.The three energies that made up all things under the heavens."Fragment," Lirian order and the three energies each broke into three equal pieces."Assemble," Lirian ordered and the three energies formed into three pieces once more, this time they each consisted of an equal amount of each of the three energies.Lirian smiled and shut his eyes, returning from the throne world, the three source energies also materialised in front of him and hovered in the air, it was as if they were completely separated from the gravity of the world.Lirian took a calming breath and brought his hands together, "System take it from here," Lirian order as he readied his body for what was about to come.Initiating, preparing the symbol of balanceOnce the system finished telling Lirian what it was about to do the three crystalized source energies drifted around Lirian's body and formed an equilateral triangle with Lirian being fixed at the centre.When the energies fell into place, sparks started to release from the crystal, the sparks started to rapidly stretch out and twist around Lirian forming curved lines.If one were to look closely they would have noticed a series of symbols were etched into the sparks and as the lines solidified the symbols became more clear, a few minutes passed before the source energies stopped releasing the sparks, but with just a glance it could be noticed that the energy sources shrunk in size.The symbol of balance was a Keltic knot Image in paragraph comment.The symbol was glowing in a bright white light, and symbols gave off a divine radiance and were filled with profound meaning, about the nature of balance.Proceeding to next step, Host prepare yourself for the triple fate splitLirian took a deep breath with nervous sweet trickling down his body, this next part was one that could easily kill him if even the slightest mistake occurred."Begin," Lirian ordered, and suddenly he felt a tight piercing pain, coursing through every fibre of his being.The pain didn't come from the flesh rather it came from his fate string, currently the system was creating three splits on his fate string.The rules of the heavens were absolute, all being were only allowed to possess one esper technique, and Lirian's attempts to hold more than one esper technique was a violation of that rule.Even his 'Body of Nirvana' would allow him to hold multiple esper techniques, it couldn't do anything to prevent tribulation that the heavens would unleash on him.Therefor Lirian had to find a way to break the rules while ensuring, that the heavens wouldn't unleash a tribulation.Lirian split his fate string three times, one for each technique he was going to use, the splits would make it appear as if he was three different existences and save him from a tribulation.Lirian was certain that if he triggered a tribulation currently he would die immediately, after all esper techniques were the methods of gods, there was no way that a tribulation triggered by an esper technique could be handled by a mere mortal.As the system got started, Lirian recalled that time when Efrideet managed to sever his fate string, if he made even the slightest mistake he'd go through the same process all over again.
