"Well that was disgusting." Nyx was in a bitter mood and clearly this was affecting the room.
Her malicious bitterness had seeped into her aura and made her unapproachable. Both Amanises and Dino were sweating buckets, afraid she might explode and kill them as collateral.
"Hi Nyx, I've come to-" Before I could finish what I was saying, I had my head chopped off.
"Shut up old man!"
My body caught my head which layed in my arms, "Thats not nice, how can you kill your father so gruesomely?" I feigned betrayal and heartbreak.
"Just tell me what you want and leave!" It was rare for the mature and reliable Nyx to lose her cool yet Simon could do it effortlessly. He was a savant at being a complete and utter dickhead.
At the moment, Dino and Amanises were sitting in the corner, huddling together to avoid Nyx's scornful wrath.
"Oh cheer up Sweetie. I bet you'll be singing kumbaya when you hear what I have to offer." My head turned to fog and reshaped onto my neck.
" What is it that you have?"
" A new specimen, one that could potentially redefine both our understandings of the world and the wider known cosmos as we know it."
"Oh!" Now Nyx was intrigued. Something that stumped evens her nigh-omniscient father. That was something she considered an impossiblility.
Nyx was the prim and proper type, a mature noble women who always showed a smile and that smile wasn't fake either.
Nyx's mentality was to always improve upon herself no matter what, even when she failed an experiment she would always use it to improve upon the next.
There was only one piece of darkness in her, one ugly desire that had drowned her mind. Her father.
The god she worshiped, her creator and life giver, the father who raised her and taught her, the man she both admired… and envied.
That ugly desire was to outsmart him… no matter the cost. The one thing she respected most was life itself… a respect that went out the window when regarding her father.
That issue when Simon called out her experiment being done wrong might have been a joke to Simon but was a massive blow to her pride.
"I find it disturbing that the only time you want your father around is when I give you the chance to cut me open."
"Just shut up, strip yourself and get on the table."
That made everyone pause and look at Nyx in disgust.
"Yeah yeah, I know what it sounded like, I'll think before I speak next time."
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I got in the table and Nyx began her inspection.
Just as we started, we were faced with our first problem.
"Fourteen scapels and not one could pierce your skin! This is gonna suck!" Nyx was upset but she sacrificed thirteen other scapels for a reason.
Each scapel was destroyed in different ways. One melted and another shattered like glass, one even combusted into confetti.
A short intermission as I create Nyx a scapel from Hihi'irokane.
Nyx had harvested different amounts of cells in different forms, skin, flesh, blood, she even dug out my heart which I had to regenerate.
" You could have been nicer. I bet you enjoyed cutting me open didn't you?" I asked in a genuinely vindictive tone while getting off the table.
Nyx didn't reply, her and Dino were too enamoured by the reactions that my cells were having to different forms of stimulus and contact.
The samples kept on changing form and properties. It was erratic and had infinite possibilities.
It was chaos.
" Dad, What's exactly going on with you. Your cells seem to be in a continuous state of being… everything all at once. Constantly changing and converting."
"I was struggling to analyse the composition of my body after my latest evolution so I had the Void archives do it."
"He found this?" Nyx was still weirded out by the behaviour of my cells.
" He found that my cells contained everything within it. Spiritrons, true dragon magic, you name it and it's most likely apart of my cells."
"That explains a lot. Your cells are in a constant state of chaos and randomness."
Dino was now looking at me with that same reverant look he gave me back at Walpurgis.
"There is one way for the chaos to be controlled and that is if I will it." As my words fell, the samples that Nyx had collected had become uncontrollable.
The samples, that were changing themselves before, were now changing everything around them too.
Nyx, Dino and Amanises had all suffered damage from the sudden rupture.
But they noticed something peculiar about the cells. Everything about the cells were unpredictable… except for the directions.
The cells constantly changed between solid, liquid and gas. They constantly changed between magicules, holy power and natural energy. They constantly created, destroyed and replicated.
But they all desired to return to Simon.
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Nyx already had my cells within her, that's what V.A told me.
I allowed her slight access to the cells… which was a bloody mistake.
The first thing that became apparent was that Nyx had gained access to any and every form of magic and could create new magic in an instant.
"Nyx please stop this already." I said while Nyx was blasting me with… ridiculously cold fire.
"Fine fine. By the way, what are you gonna call it?"
"Call what?"
"This new particle considering your the nexus point. You should name it."
"Well I already know a name, what about chaotron."
"Chaotron? As in chaos particle? A bit on the nose but I like it."
"Thanks."
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"Hello Dino." I approached Dino who was kneeling before my throne.
"Hello Simon, is there something you want?"
I analysed the angel before me without a word, my gaze making him slightly uncomfortable.
"Dino, you know, for creatures who have nearly zero desire, you are quite easy to read."
"Oh and what have you read about me." Dino was uncomfortable to be under his analysing gaze but not when it was mentioned to him directly.
I tried to ease the moment but all I could muster was a smile filled with pity, " Dino, you have to stop with this. I'm not who you think I am."
" You can't fool me. You're clearly him, you're clearly-"
"I'M NOT… Veldanava. I'm not his reincarnation. Dino, you're just causing yourself more pain with this."
Dino was staggering, he didn't seem stable at the moment. His kneeling form had fell down to the floor and collapsed into unconsciousness.
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Dino had woken up sweating, he was heaving heavy breathes and couldn't make any coherent thoughts.
He felt a hand on his shoulder, a hand that was so warm and soft and gentle. Dino eventually calmed down, his breathing easing up, "You know that your just like him."
"I guess from you that should be a complement." There I was sitting at his bedside, trying my best to comfort him.
"You're gonna keep denying who you are, aren't you?"
"Yes, cause I'm not him and frankly there's no way for either of us to prove otherwise."
Dino then looked in my eyes with conviction, "Simon I promise that one or another, I will prove who you are."
That conviction in his eyes, it was everything that I stood for.
But it wasn't for a good reason, Dino was simply too desperate.
"Simon, for now you shall be my master." Dino got out of bed and on one knee, "I know it's probably not what you wanted but please, even if it's not under you, at least allow to me stay here."
All this… for a master that didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
"Stay for as long as you like Dino."
(A/N: hundred chapters people! Didn't think I'd make it this far.)