Adonis looked expressionlessly at Zero.
"So you mean to tell me your me." He asked in mock disbelief.
"Can you even hear what your saying. Please I've told you if this is just a bad dream, just help me wake up.
Even if it's a prank by an illusionist of the academy, let me go please..
Better yet get the knife and slit my throat, rather than all of this.." Adonis walked completely out of the crimson pool, the last of the mercury-like blood trailed down his glowing body. His 5'10 frame barely went passed the giants knee. That didn't the fool tho, Adonis strained his head to look up at the gaint.
"Don't tell me all that bullshit I went through was to hear this?" Adonis stared at the giant questionably.
"No no, I bet you enjoyed watching be cry, watching beg, watching pray to everyone. I knew you watched me throughout the desert." He snapped, moving towards Zero massive frame, like it would change the height difference. All while Zero just looked amused.
"You could feel my presence?" Zero questioned. Adonis kept silent intensely staring at the 'him'.
"Are all gods cruel, why me? Is there a special about my pain?"
"Boy will you shut the fuck up, hahaha." Zero could help but laugh hysterically.
"Can you hear yourself right now child? Why will I dedicate my extremely important time to ruin your already sad life."
Adonis zoned in already drained out.
"So your me, am I you?"
"No.." Zero answered still looking down at Adonis.
"You say you're me right? Who am I?"
"Adonis Luner Evernight.
Prince of Evore.
Descendant of Oberon and Titania.
Son of the Hades Evernight, Demi-god of death, war, sickness, beauty, victory and future God of Carnage."
...
"My mother?"
"I don't have time to pamper your mommy issues child."
"But you have enough waste my time? My mother is not someone worthy of your recognition." Adonis scorned
"I can't afford to say her name or she will know of this place." Zero replied in a matter-of-fact manner.
"My mother Helle? Don't make me laugh please."
Zero POV
I looked the glowing humanoid soul body in front of me. To me I could never imagine anyone could be this idiotic, your in a strange place, your walking, but somehow yoy oddly have enough time to ruminate about your whorish mother.
'Talk about mommy issues. To think I would be this. Rather than being observant and asking the needed questions, the fool still has time to be a charlatan. I never asked for your sob story fool.' He reasoned internally, judging Adonis as a fool in his heart.
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'But then again, he will crave this naivity very soon. He will crave this foolishness desperately soon.'
I felt the my Esse shard dimming, my time will soon be up.
Seven months!!
SEVEN MONTHS!!!
That was all we had, that's all I could afford. This was millennia after millennia of effort, I couldn't afford to mess up. I looked down on this clown, but I pity his future pain.
Regardless what remains is this fool, I ran the simulation 89 million times with 200 trillion possibility sub set.
89 MILLION REAL TIME SIMULATION!!
All with an average of two days. Two days turn to two months he used to get to here. How could someone do worse than the worst case scenario of three weeks. Now his here, my only hope, our only hope.
I already started thinking about future possibilities, the stakes where so low. And the 'Savior' is the worst possible fit.
"You where supposed to get here in two days. Two day-Not two months. I had to even come get you. We had seven month, now we have less than three months. It would had been lovely if I didn't have to expend my energy to drag your pathetic self here." He turned his back to Adonis admiring the pale gem in the sky.
Adonis lifted his head also, finally taking in his surroundings. Noting the new presence of a sky. Astral painting previously void of anything now had noticeable moon, with clouds hanging below the it.
Possibly wasn't still enough to move the fool. Was it nonchalance? He couldn't seem to explain this version of him at all.
"Now I have three months and I had to sacrifice my only real friend."
I watched as he gulped nervously at the reveal. If someone had told me I'll have to sacrifice my only companion for 3000 thousand years for 'this', I would have... Probably just snapped their head, make them watch their dignity stripped from them, then give them a fate worse than death.
'Eternity' I mused
"The oasis at the entrance, the one you just left. It's called The Wretched Pool, it offers complete purification at a cost.
A life you value...
One life for another to enter the damn city. One needs to be truly be purified to be fully corrupted. The perfect meal for the ghouls of Sodom."
"But we both entered, how did it be for me then? How was it's sacrifice for me then!!"
Adonis argued.
"It purifies only the living child. It's a he not it. He knew the sacrifice he was going to make for a millennia now, I'm sure he died...
Free.
But you can't blame me for my resentment, your the reason my already small life will become more shorter." I couldn't I'm still talking this calmly, I made due to my end three millennia ago. But 'HE' still died, that was what hurts more. Because he died for nothing, for this damn complaining fool. So this is our hope, hahaha.
Our hope...
Ohhh you have ruined us so..