Guild Wars

Edgelord Draco beckoned with a finger, causing the body of another Draco to emerge from the cage that was asleep. His looks were similar to Edgelord Draco, with spiky, unruly hair that was less ’crazy’ and more ’unkempt,’ as well as softer features that made one want to bully him.

Seeing this new soul, even stoic Draco was shouting the impossibility, while Lucifer was just utterly dumbfounded, not understanding how this could happen.

"The existence of this fellow was the major clue that led me to realize your plan, Lucifer," Edgelord Draco said as he made this sleeping Draco float face up, his features clear to all of them.

Edgelord Draco smirked. "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the origin soul of Draco from this timeline!"

Having it being confirmed caused the other two to simply shake their heads as if water was in their ears, as if trying to jostle their brains into activity to clarify the cause and effect of such an impossible situation.

However, it seemed Edgelord Draco was rather happy to clear their doubts on the matter.

"Confused? So was I. I found him down there, floating in the void of the depths of our soul, severely injured and unconscious. When I collected him, I scanned his memories and was shocked to find that for him, everything came to an end on the 21st of March 2065 at 7 am, four years ago."

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"Hehe, you know that date right, don’t you two?" Edgelord Draco folded his hands behind his back and chuckled.

Edgelord Draco glanced at the sleeping Draco soul. "This fellow was suddenly smashed in the head with another soul from another timeline that had far bigger strength and memories than him, so it was likely that he was displaced from this platform, suffering injuries then hurtled down there to remain incapacitated all this time, on the edge of extinction."

Well… how to put this?

It wasn’t that it didn’t make sense, in fact, it did have some logical basis. The bigger issue here was why these three fellows were acting like this obvious conclusion was such a big deal, what was the reason for the theatrics?

"I was the one who came back and at the cusp of death, my cognition was already low. I could barely muster Control back then, much less delve into our soul, so I could not know what happened. When the AI helped us unlock the bloodline chains that our mother put on us, the soul representation that showed was a Black Dragon."

Edgelord Draco smiled strangely. "I always thought that this was the representation of the original Draco’s soul, but no, that was you, Lucifer."

Lucifer’s lips twitched, not saying anything in rebuttal, which was as good as directly admitting it himself.

"After unsealing you, I felt that it was time to let the issue of the past be settled, since Eva already revealed the truth and I had released my shackles, so I created him." Edgelord Draco pointed to Stoic Draco.

"I initially wanted a mentality that would be less cold and heartless like myself but still level-headed enough to seek out goals, and he was perfect. However, the repeated usage of our bloodline made my connection to you stronger, to the point where we became interchangeable. Aside from that, to better fit with our allies like RamButt, we occasionally adopted a more casual disposition like before the reincarnation."

Edgelord Draco pointed to Lucifer. "And so he was born. In the beginning, he really was just a shameless version of ourselves. I initially believed him to be our version of young boy Draco, like Eva’s young girl version of herself."

"But in actual fact, he was always my old personality before the betrayal in the previous timeline, not this timeline’s pre-21 years old Draco. This was all well and dandy until we unlocked our 100% bloodline power and that is when you began to slowly take root, overriding the original shameless Draco to become what you are now."

Edgelord Draco folded his arms with a frown. "In truth, I would have sussed it out earlier, but you smartly chose to suggest that we take a ten years break with good reasons behind it, which gave you even more time to slowly corrupt without revealing your presence."

It was always there, a hidden truth in the background. Edgelord Draco hated himself for ignoring the obvious clues, and there were too many of them to count.

First off, when he used his bloodline at his full power back during the Underwater Wreckage Dungeon and manhandled Eva, he had been pulled into a mental realm with Eva where they saw the first message that Lucifer and Amaterasu left for them, which informed them of the Gerdo galaxy as well as the 100% bloodline plan.

Later, they saw a second message when they shared their virginities with each other in reality, with Amaterasu highlighting the existence of the primordials and the danger they possessed to their existence.

After that, when Eva connected further with her bloodline through the Divine Class, he encountered a crisis where she found that Riveting Night was too incompatible with her bloodline, so the soul of Amaterasu within her bloodline offered to merge with young girl Eva and Riveting Night to form Evaterasu.

Later, they unlocked 100% bloodline and the remnant souls appeared to them again, informing them of Shuangtian’s existence and getting the Evil Duo ready to save Shuangtian.

For that matter, Shuangtian had a Pangu soul avatar that had been with her, disdaining moving to Shangtian. She recently bid farewell to this soul avatar which caused the beauty endless pain, as if losing her father.

Eva merged with Amaterasu, Shuangtian had Pangu’s soul avatar.

So where was Lucifer all this time? Hehe.

"I have to say, you were really smart. You placed a minor portion of your soul into my sister Gremory, which deceived me into thinking that you had never reincarnated with me but within Gremory due to the bloodline switch we had as babies." Edgelord Draco pointed out the critical deception, which made Stoic Draco’s face change.

Lucifer sighed. "I wasn’t supposed to take over you. Like Ama and Musclehead, I was only supposed to guide and protect until you were suitable to take over."

Then Lucifer raised his head and glanced at Draco with disdain. "However, who knew that you could be such a failure? Look at the results of the previous timeline! Had some power not reincarnated you for fun, it would have ended in complete and utter defeat!"

Stoic Draco’s expression became ugly, but Edgelord Draco was not bothered because he had long accepted the fact that he failed. Otherwise, would he, despite being the most mature and the strongest, pass the reins onto other souls to take their life forward, even going to the extent of locking himself up?

Rather, Edgelord Draco was curious about something else.

"Wait, it wasn’t you or Amaterasu who reincarnated me? You have the space-time branches together, so you could theoretically achieve that feat." He asked with confusion.

Lucifer was speechless. "Brother, you also have 100% power now. I dare you to take any powerful soul and let it go back into the river of time by just a single day, much less a year, and see what happens."

Edgelord Draco and Stoic Draco shared a look. Eva did mention that she could do that, regress any soul, but the consequences they would bear would be too heavy, so they never did so. Even when they altered time, they usually cut out a pocket space using Draco’s power so that only a tiny area was affected, and even that area did not impact the actual time.

Otherwise, once again, it would have been simple to go back in time to smash Lingtian and Shangtian to death, allowing Litian to raise Shuangtian, link the lineages together, and prevent the tragedies of their birth from occurring.

"Huh, then that’s a big question which still needs answering. Whatever the case, it doesn’t matter the cause and effect of all this, and I certainly don’t care as to why you supposedly changed your mind and chose to invade my life."

Edgelord Draco appeared right before Lucifer, standing above him with a look of absolute menacing coldness in his eyes. "Unlike Eva, Unlike Shuangtian, I don’t need anything from you to become better. I am the best just the way I am."

Lucifer’s pupils constricted to needle points. "Wait, Draco we can discuss- URK!"

Edgelord Draco lifted Lucifer by the throat and shook him slightly, invading his body with the same black miasma that he used to destroy the Horned Deer Apparition. Lucifer thrashed in his grip and would likely have been screaming in agony were it not for the fact that Edgelord Draco held him tightly.

Just like that, for about a minute, Edgelord Draco watched with a cruel coldness as Lucifer was slowly worn down until he became nothing but wisps of non-existence, eliminated along with Draco’s former shameless personality from the previous timeline.

He then opened his palm and glanced into it silently before calmly running to look at the stoic fellow who was hesitating on what to do.

"No need, I don’t run a dictatorship like that guy. We’ll each take the reins for the very purpose that we exist, starting with myself. In the meantime, use your ability to heal that fellow and see if we can get him up and working again." Edgelord Draco said as he angled his chin towards the original soul of Draco.

"Alright." Stoic Draco responded simply.

Meanwhile, in the time that had passed, the two beauties had already rushed Draco to the underground pocket space belonging to the AI. As the situation was critical and they didn’t know the story behind it, they could only rely on the only ally they had that was arguably on their level.

Amber took one look at Draco and her expression became severe. "Put him on the operating table."

She pointed to a nearby table made of sleek metal that she usually used to run various experiments and fine-tune for the android warriors the AI was secretly mass-producing. Amber unhesitatingly cleared everything off the table as Shuangtian carried Draco onto it effortlessly, both she and Eva standing nearby with dismay.

Amber immediately connected some devices to him which were connected to the central terminal in the room. While she was working, Eva couldn’t help but ask the obvious question.

"Why not just put him into one of the custom pods here?"

Amber continued working even as she answered. "This isn’t an issue she can solve, only I can do something about this. The two of you, come here and help."

Amber casually instructed Eva and Shuangtian on various things, but the two proud beauties didn’t even show any dissatisfaction as they hurried about. At this time, Draco’s brows furrowed as he spat out a mouthful of blood, as this was the moment the Horned Deer Apparition unleashed its full-force attack.

The faces of the three women changed as Amber quickly bound two tubes to Eva and Shuangtian’s temples. "The two of you, channel all of your soul power to him. Remember, only soul power, not mental or psychic power!"

Amber said this and connected some to herself as well, moving to stand beside a central terminal while reading the data that was fast flowing through its monitor with a hawkish gaze. Her eyes were glued to the terminal, so she missed the fleeting expression of shock on Draco’s face as well as the slight leakage of blackish miasma from his temples.

At this moment, the two foes that lingered within Draco’s soul space had been cleared. As it were, the two beauties and all those affiliated with Draco were blissfully unaware that a turning point in their lives and futures had occurred right at this moment.

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