"So this is it" his eyes locked onto Aria, a faint smile that he mustered with all his strength on his face.
"Please live on my dear little sister" she was crying running into his arms as if he was about to vanish at any moment "I promise I really promise Aria will do her best brother"
Tears streaming down her face as she was barely holding herself back from hugging him to death. "Please do not go brother"
His eyes almost closing in as he was trying to mutter something out but couldn't and turned to look at the dead beast that was the cause of his dead while trying to protect his sister.
And also the cultivator which was the reason why the beast was laying there dead, leaving. Then turned one last time to his sister, and with all his remaining strength managed to pat her head one last time "li..v..e". Afterwards everything went black.
His last thoughts were all about Aria wondering if he was just a bad brother not even being able to stay by her side or if she would be even able to take care of herself.
As if he was battling the darkness as he was to scared, not for him but for his sister. 'I can't I can't I can'tttt'
His thoughts screamed and even so he's soul was screaming to not go to stay to protect the last thing he had and loved over anything, his sister.
'Why do I feel so much energy around him, isn't he supposed to be dead, that thing clearly pierced half of his chest' just as the cultivator was wondering.
"Mister please I beg you I'll do anything, please save my brother" the girl was begging him for something that seemed impossible something that wouldn't even make sense.
"I'm sorry, I can't revive the dead" and with his last words he vanished leaving only a huge dead beast, the dead David and Aria.
"I'll stay by your side" said Aria in a sleepy voice as it has been hours since the incident. David was laying on the floor a pool of blood now dried underneath him.
His head on her lap as she didn't even think about leaving him, something was telling her her brother was still there and she wouldn't leave there even if the chance was only one a billion.
As night approached her eyes slowly closed as she fell asleep her body leaning on the side of the bed. The beast was still there not far away from them leaving behind him a 3 meter hole.
The cold wind was sneaking into the small apartment as if enveloping everything giving a chill down one's spine.
"Where am I ….. what am I" blank darkness covering as far as he could see. Then he sow it particles luminously particles all around laminating the darkness.
"Remember" a voice as mystic and ancient as it could get, a call that woke something within him.
"Remember who we are" the voice got more powerful more nostalgic, like a mother hugging her daughter the last time, like a father saying his last words to his son.
"We are HUMANS" something into him snapped "Waahhhhhh" inside the darkness what seemed to be a body constructed by the particles starteted building stretching itself.
"My dear child you are to be the GUARDIAN" David felt pain so deep that his souls was being ripped apart, his limbs were being torn apart every bone every nerve and every cell of his was exploding.
His body floated in the apartment as even his sister woke up scared tears came down her face as she didn't knew what was happening to his brother "I beg you brother please come back"
As a light of hope in the darkness her words reached wherever he was and gave him strength it gave him determination and finally remembered.
"Aria" the pain still inhuman but he beared it as his conscious was battling shutting down.
His body in the air started to become like a vortex but not for wind and for spirit energy. After nearly 1 minute all the energy on earth was being drown towards him. Aria was in shock as even tho tears were still forming she had a felling a not so bad feeling of reassurance. As if her brother was hearing her.
The whole world was in an uproar as all powerful entities felt it. Something that shouldn't be possible as for the whole energy to be drawn to one place it would be something incredible something that would crate a change something very very big.
The light emitted from the place where David was could be viewed from tausends upon tausends of kilometers away and sure it did.
"How can this be it shouldn't be" a huge creature over 100 meters long with features resembling a creature one would expect from hell itself was in a state of shock and fear.
"How can those little things create such a phenomenon" another just as powerful creature was speaking as if he sow a ghost.
"Not even stepping in the Mahayana realm would cause such a scene" his fear now basically showing as he was barely holding onto himself.
"Quite" as soon as the voice came everything went quite and sweat formed on everyone present.
"No creature on this so called planet is beyond the Sovereign realm much less Mahayana" as soon the words left his mouth everyone was feeling relieved.
Even tho they had even more powerful people inside they're plane and not just by a bit they couldn't cross over as the protective barrier of this plane was way too strong and only they were here.
"They're probably trying to scare us, I beg commander to let me show them what fear means" the over 100 meters huge giant from before kneeled before him.
"As you may please but remember even tho we're stronger this civilization is quite strong not letting us push trough even as there's infinite minions pushing in"
"I will make sure to let them taste dispair" he was determined as his face reveal a cruel smile. "So be it"
Inside the apartment the beast corpse laying on the ground has already desintegraded as the particles also flew inside David. "Come on brother come on"
Aria was praying at this point hoping for a miracle and just at that time shadow after shadow came pouring into the apartment.
"Who are you" she asked scared they may have come wanting to do something bad to his brother.
At this point over dozen figures were sitting inside the small apartment radiating powerful energy fluctuations. "Could it possibly be"
One of the people present said and all others understood looking shocked. "When Humanity shall be lost, he will arise and so will Humanity" one of them said as hope could be seen in her eyes and so it did in everyone's else's.
"Could what Elizabeth said before she died actually be true" the man at the front seemed a bit skeptical.
"She was the one closest to the bloodline, her words can't be misleading" the women said as she was looking at what they believed to be the last hope of Humanity.
"What do you guys all want from brother" Aria's little persistency as if trying to protect her brother let all others a bit heartbroken.
As they already guessed by everything in there aswell as her legs and knees that she stayed by her brothers side even after he was supposed to be dead.
At that point a hand reached the girls head patting it "your a very, very good sister" the little girl holding herself back.
"Aunty can you please save brother" her small face covered in tears.
"I'm sorry sweetie but I won't be able to help your brother" Aria barely holding herself from collapsing as if all hope was about to be gone just like that.
"Your brother may not need any help as we would be the ones needing his help" the voice of the women softened somehow hopeful.
"Syvilia stop talking nonsense without even the bit of proof" a tall build man looking like a mountain said as he was worried the girl may hang on to that hope.
"Brother I believe in you" before the ma could even think further Aria said something that may have been the last drop.
"Woahhhhh" a power that made everyone barely hang on kept pouring in like crazy. The energy that came from all over the world was being pulled upon David like he was forcefully taking it.
"How can this be, making Sovereign realm cultivators barely hang on" what shocked the most was that Aria was still holding without any problem as if nothing affected her.
As she looked to his brother nothing could be seen anymore as the whole energy covered him illuminating him so much that he looked like a start from up close.
Then it came "buahhhhhhhhh" a shockwave that made the whole earth tremble sending all the energy back at speed impossible to see.
When the light that illuminated the world disappeared and one could see David again, the hole in his chest completely healed. His body looking more refined bis already handsome face now almost indescribably beautiful as even the most good looking man would be considered ugly next to him.
As soon as he touched the ground his eyes opened and what seemed like suffocating pressure almost enveloped half of the Hope Empire.
"Bro..ther .. it's .. a .. bit har..d to brea..the" Aria even tho feeling like the suffocating still had a smile on her face.
Then the pressure vanished as if never existing and everything came back to normal. His crimson red eyes turned directly to his sisters voice ignoring everything else.
"You silly girl I told you to go" his eyes looking at her sister seeing her legs and knees felling regret in his heart as his sister waited there for his the whole time.
"You remember brother when we were on the run from that big monster that I told you I will never leave your side" her eyes still watering tho this time they were happy tears.
He patted her head hugging her felling bitterness as he could barely protect his only reason why he was still alive.
At that moment a single thought came into his mind "Protect". And at this time he made his mind to protect at any cost it may take.
"It's alright now brother is here, I promise I'll never let you alone again" at that point she cried like a little girl that couldn't hide her emotions anymore.
After she calmed down he stood up and turned to look at the over a dozen Figures that gave of a way to powerful pressure, still he didn't fear them as he could somehow feel like they didn't have any bad intentions.
He then turned and walked towards them standing just a few meters from them.
"What do you want"