Sunny collapsed on the nest, he felt like his whole being was tearing apart.
Pain was unbearable, but he somehow bore it.
He felt that two powers were fighting inside his body.
Shadow lineage and Blood Weave.
Because of it, the pain was more harrowing than before. Those two were fighting equally. Without [Bone Weave], [Blood Weave] didn't overpower Shadow lineage completely this time.
But it slowly, slowly pushed the dark energy back.
'HOW IN THE WORLD IS [BLOOD WEAVE] PUSHING IT BACK!?' Because [Blood Weave] is just that guy.
Sunny concentrated on his supreme will and channeled it toward the dark energy.
Suddenly, the dark overpowered the intruder. It pushed back [Blood Weave] to a corner. But Sunny stopped it before it could fully destroy it.
Sunny's supreme will represented the concept of death. And Shadow God was god of shadows, but also god of death.
So with death will and help of [Prince of Shadows], he could manipulate shadow lineage.
He commanded it. Dark energy slowly went into [Blood Weave], though past it, and carried it too while traveling through his entire body.
[Blood Weave] trembled, it traveled through the body with it, mixing into it, and slowly mixing into Sunny's cells.
Minutes passed.
Two lineages slowly mixed and stabilized.
Sunny, who was still collapsed on the nest and covered in sweat, finally took a breath of relief. The pain also slowly vanished.
The plan worked.
The Spell's voice resounded in his head. It spoke as if it said nothing, as if everything was completely normal.
'...Spell...I don't even know what to say. Like...what was that?....Why was that?..Pookie little shadow!?...Seriously!?...Who do you think I'm!..Stop saying those weird shit!'
[You have acquired a new Attribute.]
[You have acquired a new Attribute.]
[..Your Memory has been destroyed.]
Sunny pushed himself from the ground and slowly got up to his legs. He looked around, eyes sharper than before.
Shimmering runes appeared before him.
Attributes: [Unseen from Fate], [Ember of Divinity], [Prince of Shadows], [Mystery of Death], [Blood Weave], [Heir of Dual Divinity].
Attribute: [Heir of Dual Divinity].
Attribute Description: [You had inherited both Shadow God and Weaver lineages. You're the heir of both Death and Fate.]
'YES!'
A breath of relief escaped him.
Then a devilish smile formed on his face, though he was a bit confused.
'Shouldn't I get the [Nephilim] attribute?'
Nephilim are the ones who are created by the union between divine and profane. Gods and void creatures were different even though they were both born from void.
And from what he knows, Sun God did...something with a void creature. That's how Nephilim came to actual existence. So the Dream God was trapped in the void with void creatures, so Dream God also got corrupted.
And Weaver is basically the son of it. So how did mixing with Shadow God blood not give him [Nephilim]?
Sunny pondered for a second before realizing it.
'Daemons were born before Dream God became corrupted.'
Yes. Just before sealing, Dream God sent its seven parts into the world. So Daemons are not corrupted, instead, they are divine.
'So because of it...or because of Daemons only having just a part of Dream God, the corruption is so little that it doesn't even matter.'
With this, he turned around to leave. But suddenly, a thought appeared in his mind.
'...I have Shadow God blood, plus I'm gonna become a Daemon, while being dead in the future. And...Neph is a Nephilim and also the last heir of Sun God. So...'
A sudden hot blush spread on his face.
'...So what our...chil-child...gonna take?'
He quickly sent the thought back in his head.
Though this is not the first time he thought about things, like Nephis, after coming into a relationship with her, he thought about this often but never actually took it seriously.
Because the world is literally ending, they had zero time to think about this, plus...Nephis has her own goals, so he's certain that she won't want to start a family now.
...
Nephis was looking at his runes while creating a boat with the help of Serpent.
"...So he succeeded huh?" She took a breath of relief.
She herself knows how important Weaver lineage is. Even though she doesn't like Weaver at all, because...of him, how many of her people died.
But she currently can't help but be glad that Weaver had a backup plan and left his lineage behind.
Seeing his [Heir of Dual Divinity] attribute, a sudden thought entered her mind.
"...What...our children...gonna take?"
...…
Sunny went down and started helping her craft the boat. He sent Serpent with Cassie to a distance where the tree wouldn't be able to manipulate her.
Though their minds were breaking apart, fog slowly consumed their minds instead.
"Hey Neph, did you try to use [Heir of Dual Divinity] and [Blood Weave]?"
Nephis turned her head toward him.
"I tried using [Heir of Dual Divinity], plus even tried to mix that with [Prince of Shadows]. But it was futile, and using [Blood Weave] is...too risky."
He nodded, understanding the risk Weaver lineage carried.
If Nephis tried to use [Blood Weave], it could consume Sun God blood in seconds, she would lose her soul flames and essence potency, or if any drop of blood stayed then it would be a problem. Her domain connects with entire humanity. If everyone knows about her and if she had any drop of Weaver blood...the Forgotten One will rise from slumber and...
"Hmmm...it didn't work because it connects with my own unique aspect, I think."
"Unique aspect?" She doesn't know that Sunny is the only divine aspect user whose aspect directly came from Shadow God.
And Sunny explained this to her.
'So he is the only one whose aspect is connected with a God....is he main character or something?'
...…
They finally finished the boat, only one day left before they had left this area in the previous time.
But they decided to do something before leaving.
Killing the Soul Devouring Tree.
Sunny had tried his attribute [Mystery of Death] on it. And it didn't have too much effect on it, because of their rank and class gap.
It still had an effect on it, the mind hex got weakened.
It seemed like...it was killing the mind hex of it, literally killing its ability!
And mysteriously, it didn't even realize that.
So they had activated the attribute while creating the boat. And now they were gonna kill this Awakened terror.
But he had killed it in a past life and took revenge already, but Nephis didn't have her share of revenge.
She stood before the tree, Serpent tattoo on her torso, giving her a bit of essence boost, plus she had Sunny's two shadows supporting her.
She summoned [Blessing] and applied her soul flames and will to it.
Suddenly, the sword was covered in pure white flames, melting everything but her, the intensity of her flames bending the wind, fluttering her silky silver hair.
The mind hex got a bit stronger, but pain washed that away. She held the flame sword with both hands, shifting her hips, and slashed vertically.
Where the sword connected, it instantly melted away. The Soul Devourer got desperate, its mind hex grew stronger, but it was futile at that point.
She changed [Blessing]'s shape and its tip became sharper. It pierced through the tree and stopped at the center of it.
Using will, she spread the pure white flames inside. Tree branches started to shake, leaves slowly falling down, it created a sound in the wind like it was crying.
After a few minutes of doing it like that, slashing and spreading flames, she finally stopped and collapsed.
Before she hit the ground, someone's hands gently held her and placed her head on something soft.
Her consciousness slipped away, before she got fully unconscious...
[You have slain an awakened terror, Soul Tree]
[You have received a Memory: Last Soul]
[...Your soul shines brighter!]