Lily sat down while Immortal's soul was tied up " Let's see this is how Death taught me " Lily created a flame and a screen opened from it " Oh looks like my body is pretty active in destroying things a bit uncontrollable " Lily watched as everyone had their life taken .
" It even has that ability " Lily smiled looking at the figure " That's not death " Immortal said " Makes sense since Father said that I can't create any death because my body is too complicated , so must've gotten something else which is just my soul and what's left is my body "
Immortal looked at Lily , who remained unfazed by the screams of the deaths he took which failed to penetrate her defense " How can this plan fail ? " " Honestly , it would've failed if I hadn't bought that much time " Lily said .
' I sound like a third-rate villain explaining my plan , but I am understanding how nice it feels to win and explain how ' " Those mythical beasts should be rewarded for stopping you and I overestimated your ability , which is why I walked into your stupid trap with so much confidence "
She smiled , seeing his surprise at how far her influence has reached ' I can't believe I was so blind ' " Now , just hold still so I can find the way out " Immortal prepares to self-destruct " Are you sure about killing yourself ? if I don't get out here , that thing will rampage "
" It won't matter you are an enemy " Immortal directed his self-destruction towards Lily but she stopped it by tying his soul to hers " What " " You're still useful , don't be a hero . Especially the ones who blindly follow a duty that's just a clean up for someone's mistake " Lily removes his knowledge of self destruction .
" You can prove more worth through living " Lily learns the way out ' So it's hard now that I'm part of the building ' Lily hears some footsteps and sees Death come out " I told you you'd be stuck here " Death said .
" Come on dad you know I don't know this place as much as you do " " Hehe you don't have to worry about being stuck all day . Life already thought of a solution and is gathering some blood that stayed inside the resident's body , we're just making a clone out of you for you to use and those mad scientists are making some theories about that thing that comes from your body , They say it's unstable "
" Already thinking of what it is this early huh ? " " Yep I've had the reapers do some damage control by saving the souls " Death looked at the underworld " " Are you planning to take this with you ? "
" Can I ? " " No , it's dangerous enough that you have this holding back , why not leave it to Immortal ? I can seal their knowledge of how to operate this prison "
" Sure it'll keep him caged " " Then I'll take care of this " Death replaces Lily with Immortal and imprisons them " Life will help you get your body back " " Okay Dad " Lily leaves the underworld ' Heh she called me dad '
Life guides Lily to her body and she wakes up inside a pod with Life around " Here are some clothes " " Thanks mom " " You're welcome , Now what are you going to do with that thing "
" I'll leave it alone , I get more credit if it takes all the life of all the deathless in the planet " " Then you'll have to keep people from knowing that you are free " Life said " I know , For now I'm gonna have lunch with Labyrinth , tell the fam I said hi "
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Lily sat outside bringing a lunchbox for Labyrinth " Hello dear , I bought you some food , you don't have to worry about me , I'm alive and well " Lily sat down and Labyrinth's lunchbox sank into them .
" It's so nice to see them die , isn't it " " Yes " " I knew you'd agree Hopefully , you'll forgive me for bringing them back , cause they aren't just being killed but slowly too " Labyrinth thinks of how Lily had helped them and they opened up the ground she was sitting on .
' I wasn't that hungry anyways ' Lily's fall slowed down and she floated down on a chair inside a strange space " Wow this place is amazing " the room had sliding doors to access the adjacent rooms and those extended much further "
" Do you like it ? " " Love it , how do you do this ? " " Collecting memories " " So this is like an underworld " " Yes " " Lovely " " How could you not tell me I was so scared when I saw that thing again "
" Sorry I had to make sure you weren't gonna make any signs because it's easy for them to realize if you showed a hint of awareness " some food appeared in front of Lily " Oh thanks " Lily ate the food while she feels like the space was enclosing on her ' It feel weird but this is technically a hug . '
" Want a kiss " Lily felt something or nothing go close as she blew a kiss forward " this feels nice " " I know Veda is researching how to solve your size right now " " Like that lizard ? " " And Solaris too , but I'm sure you want a body similar to Rate because you and him have the same thing a world as a body "
" Don't worry , I can make it easy to see each other " Lily wondered what they meant and felt the room shake " Is this a surprise " before she knew it Labyrinth disappeared .
Lily felt a shadow loom over her and turned to see a giant whale " Wow that is huge " " It was from one of the creatures that came into me , but this is still too big " their voice echoed " it's the smallest I can go " Labyrinth said .
" It's okay , you'll eventually get much smaller , but if you shrunk doesn't that mean that " Lily looks at Blank for any alerts " I'm sure your home is fine " " Yeah but what about the descenders ... Oh wait they do have to deal with that thing I left and most of the commands are probably cut off by now but if you have a smaller body like this then maybe I can smuggle you out "
" Will that thing work ? " " Sure it will , Veda is making good progress with it already . You can go to them with this form and they can narrow and focus the spell to your current form "
" Okay " Lily called Veda to cast the shrinking spell on Labyrinth and returned to the rest of her family " Hey did you miss me " Mother tackled and killed Lily .
" How could you make me go through all that and ask if I miss you !? " " She's dead " Solaris said " She'll be fine !? " Mother shouted and Lily repaired her body " Dear that was so strong " Lily moved the mouth while her body put itself together .
" I did say I'll be coming back for dinner , so did you cook anything ? " " We did but why did you take so long " " Because I had to visit Labyrinth , also they're coming with the disguise of Mother maybe ? But if you could can you teach them how to contain their world but they might look like you ? " Lily said .
" You think I'm more preferable than her ? " Rate asked and Lily suddenly stopped " No , it was just a random suggestion because I thought they could imitate you because you are very alike , since you have an entire world inside you know "
" Is that so " Rate said " So what's for dinner ? " " You can answer that by helping me " " I will dear " Lily helped Rate after remaking her body " So now that everything is done properly , you don't have to fight more people anymore ? I heard from father-in-law that Immortal is stuck inside the prison now and you just said that you can relocate Labyrinth now " Rate said .
" True , but there's still Keymaker , I sent them away because I want them to alert the homeland of descenders . I had to make sure that I cleaned everything up or tied all loose ends " " Did you have to do it so quickly ? "
" Of course not dear , this one will be the last descenders , I'll be clearing up once I clean up my corpse's mess , I can get rid of the last bit of resistance " " Tsk then I'm not cooking enthusiastically now " Rate said .
" What ? " " You're gonna be busy anyway , so why should I make it a celebration ? I'll do it when you finally get everything done " " Ehh , but I was looking forward to it " Lily said " You can have it once you're done with everything , I was going to call mom and dad to celebrate "
" Fine I'll do everything , can you at least cook me something nice just to send your dear love some motivation ? " " Sure " Lily smiled and the next day .
" I'm off to work " Lily went back into the seal and looked at the changing figure , which had already taken all life aspects and was trying to find stability .
She walked to it and they took her body's life while she hitched a ride with it ' Finally back home ' she takes control of her body stabilizing the fetor that were attacking each other and causing the possessors's powers to go haywire .
She puts some clothes on and calls Argus through Blank ' Make a broadcast " Lily sat on the wreckage of the place she triggered the trap in " Suppliers of the battle against the Labyrinth . I want to apologize for the lack of communication with the direct supporter . We had encountered a lot of problems and I'm sure you have heard of it already , as you did agree to the immortal's plan to trap me with all your deaths "
The broadcast started to show wreckage and what occured yesterday " this is the result of the plan from yesterday , because they took my soul , my body went out of control relying solely on instinct and started killing everything alive , but do not worry about your relatives in here I still have their souls but resurrecting will take time "
Argus shows Death " This is going to take a while , so I'm going to have to compile their information , but do expect them to be okay " Death said " Thank you for saying that , Father , now I apologize for having everyone deal with the news they've been hearing over the past hours . But you will be in good hands as we slowly resurrect everyone "
The broadcast ends " So we'll resurrect the important people first " " I know I will read their memories to match their identities but are you sure those people in that exit won't like it ? " " They gotta pay for it eventually , just like how that empire chased after me nonstop "
" You think Labyrinth did the same thing ? " " No I doubt they wanted immortality , they probably wanted knowledge and to discover what Labyrinth could do , so we're dealing with a different kind of empire "
" How can you tell ? " " Cause I checked " Lily left Death ' Guess , She's not gonna elaborate ' Lily went to the smart tower " Hey Boss , looks like you bought your body back here's what me , Birch and Sermin think of your body "
Scyan handed sheets of paper " To summarise , we assumed that your body taking the Life aspect of the descenders was something it had to do by instinct , we had to find the reason and with the data we found that it grew much more stable "
" How can you tell ? " " We watched it intake more and more Life aspects from the citizens and it did leave a weird trail , which Sermin says are grounded abstract essence , so they left a lot of things behind , but that trail grew thinner and thinner "
" So it's unstable , but from what ? " " We think it's because you weren't there , I talked with Death a lot about why you could stabilize it . You weren't there , so all that poison , superpowers like the ones that you gave to all residents , erupted and is causing that much instability until you fix it "
' So just some chaos then ' " I have it back so that's the end of it , how is the research with Sermin ? " " Maybe because he's so into the abstract that he's calling your body the change abstract entity after we explained how you had to withstand death all the time "
' Not bad , death is the change and I have been consuming poison so that I could use it , but I never thought it would stack up so much that it would become something abstract '
" Then I'd better figure out this change myself and since you already told Sermin about me I'll have to tell Argus to prepare all the information about the distributors "
' I'll make a statement about it later , but for now , let's leave it to Birch's black text to give the descenders a teaser , he already spread it on his own anyways '
" What about the Labyrinth's disappearance ? " Life asked , appearing in the room " We can keep that under wraps and why are you still here ? " " Because I like the service " Lily looked at Scyan " What ? " " Sure enjoy it , I'm gonna work on moving the base to that world "
" Isn't that big ? " " Not if Labyrinth brings it with them " " So you're planning an all-out war ? " " No more like I'm going to deal with them myself . " " But their technology is great " " It is , which is why I'm thinking of finding out how to put a debuff on them "
Lily showed the time trigger device " What's that supposed to mean ? " " Time , since I already have abstract powers from my body and the possessors don't have something like this , so I intend to investigate this ability " Life stares at the time trigger .
" You don't have to investigate it , just ask Death about it " " Is that okay ? " " Of course it is , it's not that hard to resurrect people , you did it without him , you just asked him to do it because you want to show credible sources of the information on the distributors "
" I know right , I'll see you later mom " Life smiled and Lily shows the time trigger to Death after finding him " So you want to absorb it ? " " Why can't I ? " " It's a bit incomplete but I guess I could find the other part for you "
Death searches through the souls of the descenders " Head to this location and we can complete it after you got what is inside " Death said while intending to safekeep the device ' So it's an incomplete device huh ? ' Lily moved to the location with a door and entered the facility .
' He didn't say anything , so it shouldn't be hard ' Lily looked at the interface and wondered if this could attack her because of Immortal's lies . She prepared Argus just in case and registered her information " Welcome commander there are a few messages given to you "
Lily fast forwards the apology videos as they died out , which granted her permission ' It's a good thing I told Dad to slow the resurrection speed down so I could take advantage of this ruined place ' Lily opens the facility and looks at a tiny dot ' There's some power in that thing '
She walked in and felt her body change reverting to the unstable state where her soul wasn't present ' So they separated the person's power from fast forward, which is the time trigger and this tiny dot should probably be a zygote ? '
While time was reversing her body , she was resisting by forcing her body to change forward rather than backward ' I thought he'd be worried sending me here but I guess he's confident in my abilities . How nice to have some faith in my abilities '
She walks towards the dot and grabs it ' A fetus , maybe this is caused when they tried to separate their power , maybe the old descenders thought that having power concentrated on one person was too much just like back home . Their politics are good but they should at least improve the other areas '
Her soul envelops the embryo , stopping its power ' Wonder what I'm supposed to do ' she walked back to Death and showed him the fetus " Looks like you did it " he took out the time trigger held his hand out to get the fetus .
" Are you sure about putting these two things together ? It is time you know " " I know , but the basis of this power is still close to the spiritual world , hence why I can handle it " Death stitches back the spirit together and hands it to Lily .
" What about the person with this soul ? " " They've been dead for a while , probably swallowed up by Labyrinth " " So Labyrinth is like the underworld of this world ? " " Could say that , they've got a lot of souls inside them "
Death hands Lily the power " Since you could resist the change it caused backwards , you should be fine " " Should be or will " Lily absorbed the power and received memory of using it " they've got some history back in their old world . "
" I know right , I didn't think the bootstrap paradox would lead to this kind of power . Even though I see it a lot like being your own father by time traveling and eloping with your own mother " " I wasn't referring to that and do you have to phrase it like that ? "
" Why not , it's a stupid paradox that births any form of object or data out of nowhere " " I don't like that concept of time " " Why does that matter ? You can choose between your youthful forms or much older ones " Death said .
" So , What am I ? " Death thinks for a while and gets back to ressurection " Not sure , but it looks like you got stronger letting your body change as much as it wants and letting yourself experience stillness by having control over the change "
" So change and unchanged ? " " Kinda like that how else do you stay alive for so long " " It's so weird I thought the power I would get is Life and Death " " You already have us kid " Death said " I know " Lily proceeded to search the ruins so that she could gather more information to use against the original descenders and their descendants .
While looking at the ruins of Indus's star factories , she gets a call " Dear are you done ? the children are bored " Solaris said " Yep I am , right now I'm just scavenging for some trash in the ruins " " Can you take the children with you ? Also about that thing that made me like this , are you done with it ? "
" I have it with me . Do you want to use it for anything ? " " I want to use it so that I can try to absorb one of those things " " Sure I'll help you after dinner and you can send a spacecraft to bring the children to me . "
" Alright , see you soon dear " the call ends and Lily thinks " Now , how should I watch the kids , there's no corpses , so I won't have to worry about it but then there are a lot of things I have to watch out for like the nuclear power plants , bio research facility and etc. "
... ' Nah it should be fine , they're my kids after all ' she brings her children to several facilities ' " Daize try this " Aurora said , showing some uranium while Beryl dunked his head in nuclear waste " This tastes very funny " ' So that's what I would be like if I had that level of resistance as a youth '
" Dad big sis and bro are scary " Carrie said " It's okay , you don't have to imitate their behaviour " ' I'm sure Rate and Labryinth will beat me up if that happens meanwhile , Mother and Solaris wouldn't mind '
" Dad why do you feel different ? " Daize asked " Dad just got a lot of things while today , wanna see ? " Daize and Carrie nodded while Lily grabbed a wooden plank and broke it and reversed time " Wooohh "
" I have other fun things too " Lily creates a sphere of light giving it shards of mirrors as it creates a light show . She played with it around , creating a light show , getting her children's attention " Now for some shadows "
She takes a wooden plank and takes control of the shadow " How do you do that ? " " One of the possessor types is shadows , they can control people by staying in the shadows , which is why I can do a lot of things with shadows too "
She made more tricks for her children " Well would you like at the time let's go have some dinner " a door appeared and they went to see their parents all together " Mama " Daize ran towards Labyrinth who took Rate's appearance .
" Huh ? " Lily picks up Carrie and hands her over to Rate " How is having a doppelganger going ? " " It's very strange , I kept thinking I placed mirrors in the most unusual places " Rate said .
" So I had to change the colors a bit " Labyrinth said " How did it go with the descenders ? " " I'm still telling them to calm down there's not a lot of people asking questions since most of them are dead and nobody really wants to come to that planet "
" Where should I put your house ? " Labyrinth asked " Oh forgot about them , they're still inside , aren't they ? " " None of the descenders were inside " Labyrinth said " You ate them ? " " No they weren't in there "
" I thought you ate them " " I didn't do it before " " You couldn't do a lot of things before " Lily said and Labyrinth continues to argue with her as she is starting to think that Labyrinth is just another Rate with a different personality .
" Lily stop thinking like that , Labyrinth isn't another me alright " " I know I know " " I'm fine with you using my appearance as a base but you could at least put the effort of making yourself look more different than me " Rate told Labyrinth " Now don't be so harsh on them " Lily said " Are you done talking I'm eating a lot here "
Lily looked at the majestic dinner " But I haven't done all my work yet " Lily said " It's not for you , it's for Labyrinth since now Daize won't feel lonely when the kids talk about their parents " Rate sets Carrie on her seat ' I guess Labyrinth coming to live with us is worth celebrating '
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" Here we go dear " Lily uses the time trigger and causes Solaris to burst into flames . The flames seized some of the dust from the nebula as they absorbed back their power " How do I look ? " Solaris asked .
" Hmm much more whiter especially with those constellations coming out of you " Lily said " I think it's an improvement it's not too hideous " Lily sighed ' My not so feeling Solaris has turned into some beauty obsessed princess ' " I heard that " Solaris said .
" I still love you dear " Lily said to save herself the trouble " I know you do " Solaris smiled ' It's so nice to see you smile instead of just a sun ' Solaris kicks some dust and sets them aflame causing them to burst in front of Lily's face .
" Ow " she said taking the hit like it was nothing " Lily come to bed " Mother yelled from the bedroom " Coming " Lily said and finds her " Beryl told me a lot of things how do you do all those things ? "
" It's something I worked hard on " " Well I also worked hard look " Mother took a deep breathe and breaths out on a glass of water . She watched the water turn into a crystal " Look it's a rock " " Huh a lot of science I'm thinking ? "
" I don't know anything about that . I just saw how little dots can make a giant building , which is called a crystal and I thought the patterns were pretty " Mother said " It is pretty " " Soooo ? " " I'm not sure how else to compliment "
" Come on , say I'm smart " Mother said proudly , hitting her chest with her claws " Guess you are smart but not in the traditional way " " What is that supposed to mean ? " " What I mean is if you take a written test , you would fail but when you do the real thing you would pass "
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