Xen smiled when he felt the aura of his friends or his last family. His smile is full of confidence, even though he has just somehow survived from the death, help of 1st Emperor. But his confidence was on a different level.
"My blood is now calmed after surviving through many battle fields."
His long black hair started ripping as the flow of wind became faster.
Xen understands something is reaching closer to him. Then he slowly turned his gaze at a curtain direction.
While breaking the sound barrier, that gigantic black dragon arrived in front of Xen. Its gigantic body covered the surrounding front of Xen's vision, then the dragon down its head in front of Xen's feet and spread out its wings widely.
As the atmosphere became silent in full of intense, Xen slowly placed his hand over that dragon's head.
"You don't have to apologize for anything, what happened that can't be changed, you break through on another level, that's great."
While saying those words, Xen released his black aura and the dragon started to absorb his all Aura.
Xen smiled as he added that, "Let's seek into the darkness. Ardss, my Night Seeker."
Just after those words, Ardss raised its head and shot an extremely powerful red flame breath. That flame thrust pierced through the deep dark layers of clouds while breaking the surrounding atmosphere.
Xen raised his head, he formed an unknown smile as he noticed the flame became a little bit black at some point.
Xen feels someone's presence, which change the full atmosphere. Everything became calmed and bright. Cold flow of wind covered the full surrounding.
Little bit lightning cracks filled the surrounding areas and along with a thunder strike, Lost Son of Emperor Fray arrived behind of Xen.
His eye was glowing with blue lightning and his another eye is creating too much strong presence which is under the eye patch.
Fray slowly moved his eye, when his eye meet Xen's complete black eyes, he instantly understand.
"So, You are really Xen."
But Xen don't reply instead he was just smiling brightly, his smile is full of satisfaction.
Xen control his emotions, and reach closer to Fray Then he slowly pat his shoulder and asked him, "How was your time in future?"
"Why you think I'll tell you?"
Xen's smile didn't get effected because of Fray's words, Xen looked into Fray's eye as he continued, "Now I won't ask you about your true identity."
"You better don't. But I'll ask you about what happened when I wasn't there."
Xen moved his face, Xen was about to reply his words. But before he could start, his gaze meet with someone's eyes.
Elis was standing on little distance, her eyes are full of sadness and regrets. She wants to apologize, she wants to hold Xen as like before, she wants to talk with him as like before. But she knows her Xen has changed during that much long time.
She was about to move her face away from him, but before she could do it. Xen arrived in front of her eyes even before she could even blink. Xen pulled up her face as he touched her jaw. Then he placed his thumb finger over her lips.
Their eyes get locked, without a single word, they can feel countless words in each other's eyes.
Xen slowly opened his lips, "Sweetheart, your marks aren't present on my body anymore but your memories are present deep in my heart."
"Darling?"
"Yeah I'm your Xen."
Elis felt comfortable by his words then she smiled and asked him a question, "Is that Fiona was the mother of your kid?"
Xen's expression became deep when he heard her name, but then he said to Elis, "No, Fiona raised Ryan after Aurora's death."
They remain silent for a while, that's why Fray moved from there, but then he heard a voice from behind of him.
"Xen, explain everything."
Zyon landed over the ground surface, he spread out his wings widely as he deeply look into Xen's black eyes. Then he continued, "Emperor Xen, long time no see."
Xen take a look at Zyon's appearance as he make fun of him, "Now you are looking like a proper Lyman, little bird."
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Fray was standing in front of many grave, there's around hundreds of grave are present there.
He was thinking about Xen's journey on those past years. Where he became a father but at the end he lost his child. Fray is really feeling sad about it, but he don't know why Xen was pretending so normal.
Unknowingly he feels too much related with those things.
His hair is ripping around his neck and ears. His sparkling eye was deep on unknown emotions.
Suddenly Xen arrived on his side, he slowly placed his hand over Fray's head. Xen was treating him as like a kid.
"How much time you have passed in future with your father?"
Fray look at Xen with narrow eye, "Why you think I'll tell you?"
Xen smiled and moved his face away from him, he was still patting Fray's shoulder. Which is making Fray more annoy. That's why Fray take some steps on side and make distance between them.
Xen's smile slowly faded away, he knows about this hard situation.
Fray moved his eyes at Xen as he said,
"Flow of time is different, everywhere in the vastly expanded cosmos. Where it take only some days for me. But many years has passed for you all, Xen."
Xen nodded his head and slowly say, "Yeah manny years...."
Then he moved forward and passed away side of a grave, Xen suddenly stopped and looked back at Fray.
"Fray, where's the grave of Fiona?"
"We didn't find her body, cuz her body faded away as like sparkles." Instead of Fray, it was Elis who replied to Xen's question.
Sadness and regrets are still visible on her eyes, she doesn't have the confidence to look into Xen's eyes directly. She don't know, is she worthy for him anymore or not?
Xen slowly reached out the spot where she was standing. Then he gently grabbed her hand and tried to comfort her.
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Four of them are reaching closer to the gigantic black tree, their clothes are floating because of wind flow.
Xen's black aura was reacting with the gigantic tree, it was like the tree was absorbing his aura without any effect.
While reaching closer to the tree, Xen was thinking about Lan.
Xen raised his hand and at the next moment countless vines comes out from the root of the tree. Those vines instantly captured Xen's body.
Zyon immediately moved forward, but then Fray,
"Stop Zyon, that's not what you are thinking. Xen is absorbing the entire tree.... No, he is absorbing the information present on the tree."
Along with a huge aura blast, Xen absorbed the entire gigantic tree inside of himself. His black shirt completely ripped off, his heartbeat raised too much, Xen placed his hand over his chest. He can feel his own heartbeat.
Xen slowly released his breath as he said, "Thank you, Lan."