Chapter 210

: Remaining Power
 
<…Since when did you come into my body?>
Sian asked grimly. He heard that the Connector of Aksarai would lose control over its body once the body became an Alpha. But Aksarai laughed it off.
<Don’t worry. I would’ve taken control a long time ago if I could.>
<…I heard that the Connector of Aksarai will become you when it becomes an Alpha.>
Aksarai scoffed.
<Aren’t you an Alpha? Why are you still okay then?>
<…>
<They’re all lies. If taking control over someone was that easy, it’d be better if I just took it in the first place and did it myself. Why would I wait until you become an Alpha? It’s even harder to take over.>
Yet, Sian could not believe it to be true. The Lukras’ concern against the Connector of Aksarai was real after all.
<Then why are the Lukras wary of the Connectors of Aksarai becoming an Alpha?>
Aksarai answered.
<Well… it is true that I can come back alive if the connector becomes an Alpha. I don’t take control over him but that priest added some lies.>
Sian then asked the biggest question of all.
<Then why now? Why did you show yourself now? It’s been a while since I’ve become an Alpha.>
Aksarai answered plainly.
<Because you’re not a connector.>
<…I’m not?>
Aksarai laughed.
<Hah! You’re only able to speak with me because you are at the place where my power remains. It’s helping the power within you to allow you to speak to me. My portion of the spirit within you is smaller than the portion that Lorvall or Conrad has.>
<…>
Sian looked dumbfounded, but Aksarai chuckled.
<Don’t worry. You can’t use any of my powers, but you did inherit the most important power of all.>
<Huh?>
<Maybe because you have the blood of Broxian… or Lukra. You know how to become strong and fight. My spirit also came into the power that befits you.>
<Hmm…>
<It’s so small that it won’t give you any of the other special powers, but that alone had come in pretty handy.>
Then, Sian realized what his mysterious path was. The way to become strong. The way to victory.
<Was this your power?>
Aksarai agreed.
<Yes… it was my most trusted power of all. Congratulations.>
Sian then realized how long Aksarai’s spirit had been with him. The path had been with him since the beginning.
<So… you’ve been with me all this time.>
Aksarai answered,
<Well, I was with your ancestors to be specific. Your family had been a carrier.>
<Why our family?>
Sian asked. If he had chosen the human race altogether, it would have been better. Aksarai responded,
<Huh? I didn’t send it specifically to you. My spirit was just sent over to you, the <Ro> race when it exploded while I fought against those fools Gran-Ra and Broxian. It’s not because you’re special or anything.>
<…>
<But… I guess it did affect your family. If my spirit was handed over to the next generation, it would need to gather many human traits and characteristics together with the blood. That’s why your family did not have many children, and if a child was born without the spirit, then any remaining trait it had been born with should’ve been taken away by the one with the spirit, killing it in the early stages. Yet it did make your family strong. It’s more complicated but I won’t go to details.>
<But Father or Brother do not see the path like I do…>
<I told you. It’s not your family that’s special. It’s you who’s special. The reason your family was strong was not because of my spirit. It was because the transfer of the spirit to a newborn required the transfer of all the power and traits to one child.>
Sian nodded. The reason why he could see the path was because the Lukra’s blood helped him withstand the spirit.
<Your family will become normal now since you absorbed my spirit within you.>
Sian then found something weird.
<I’ve found evidence of your lie!>
Aksarai then became intrigued and asked,
<Huh? What is it? I’m so proud of you.>
<…It doesn’t make sense. If that was true, my brother would’ve been dead or something. But he’s well off.>
Aksarai laughed.
<Who said it was you who took the powers? Your brother took all the power that had to go to you even without the spirit. If you did not awaken your Lukra blood, you would have died a long time ago.>
<…>
<I have never seen a man lucky as your brother. He only took the good things.>
<And I’m the unluckiest of them all.>
Sian mumbled as he thought about himself. Things never went well for him, not even once. Then Aksarai spoke.
<Oh, I’m sorry about that. I wanted you to become strong. It’s a shame for a man like you to try to shy away from danger. That’s a loss.>
<…Huh?>
Sian could not believe what he was hearing.
<No, I wanted you to become strong fast, but you didn’t want that. So I had to push you in.>
<…What did you do?>
The voice answered plainly.
<Nothing much. I just… made the other connector put you into Apental… and made you feel that you must destroy that husk of Dragona. You could’ve run, but I didn’t want you to. Think about it. Do you think it makes sense that you would know who to beat up naturally?>
<…>
<Oh, and I made you feel that you should go to the place where Apental reopened. That was good work on my part… oh and I also made that Lorvall kid to make you into an Alpha.>
<…>
It wasn’t much, but all those events almost got Sian killed. It looked like all those happenings weren’t because of Sian’s misfortune. He could have avoided them all but Aksarai had dragged him in.
<Well, that Lagaope made many plans and failed, but I’m Aksarai. I don’t fail.>
<…>
<Hey, relax. You can’t do anything to me because I’m inside you. Besides, I helped you a lot too.>
<…What.>
<Wasn’t it weird? That you felt it was dangerous to go over the Great North Wall?>
<…>
<As you know, there was nothing that could bring danger you over the Wall when you were seventeen years old, besides Dragona or Chrona. You didn’t know about Chrona’s existence, but you felt it was dangerous to go there. Why do you think that happened?>
<…>
<I also helped you to find that Stiel girl. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t find her that easily even with that Veronica.>
<…So that’s why it was so easy.>
<Isn’t it great to know every truth? You wouldn’t have known everything if you didn’t come in this way.>
Sian felt the strong urge to beat him up.
‘So many people… deserve a beating…’
But there was no way to beat him up and there were other things to worry about at the moment.
Even now, the barrier was probably getting rid of, and when it was done, the Lukras would control the Harijans such as Dragona to attack the Drakuns. Sian had become stronger, but he wasn’t strong enough to fight against Dragona, Liona, and Chrona all at once to keep the balance.
Sian sighed.
<Did you bring me here to tease me?>
Aksarai answered,
<No. I did bring you here to save you, but I also did it to tell you how to solve this.>
<How?>
<You destroyed the barrier, so you must make it right.>
<But how?>
<Well… what do you think you need to do to deal with the fools? Just beat them up.>
<…?>
<You should become strong and beat them up.>
Sian then became confused.
<That’s not easy. Doesn’t it take like 100 years for barriers to go off?>
<No way. It will take about a month. That’s when the Lukras will start coming out.>
<So… I need to become strong enough to fight Dragona, Chrona, and Liona in a month?>
<Yes. And stop thinking you want to snap my neck off. It’s your own neck.>
Sian then asked Aksarai just in case.
<Can you… distort a dimension to make a space that gives me more time inside?>
Sian thought about Apental when he asked. If he could train within such place, one month in this world would be enough. Aksarai agreed.
<Yes.>
<Oh! Then…>
<A piece of cake if I was alive. But you can’t.>
<…Can I make something close to it at least?>
Aksarai scoffed.
<You should just focus on your sword skills. You have no talent in anything else. Just focus on what you know.>
<I can’t do that. There’s about four that I want to beat up right now, but I can’t even beat up one.>
<Does that four include me? Anyway, you won’t get strong with such a cheat. The space isn’t hard to make, but someone as strong as you will destroy the entire place or make it disconnect it from this dimension. If that worked, I would have trained within myself.>
<Right.>
<I’ve prepared the best for you. Well… it wasn’t for you originally, but take it. That’s why I brought you here.>
<Huh? You mean…>
Aksarai laughed.
<Yes. Consume my blood that I left here and digest my power. You can become… a bit stronger that way.>
‘…I have to eat this?’
Sian became dumbfounded as he looked upon the red sphere he was in.