Chapter 402: 402
Draco was about to set a batch of Enlightenment potions up for batch-crafting when he was suddenly ejected from the game . It took him a second to realize that he was back in his pod, and it had opened .
Worried that there was some form of attack or something, he leaped out of it and cast his Control outward, ready to fight off even a legion of foes .
However, what he saw was something far worse . The green lights on Eva's pod that indicated that everything was functioning as it should be had turned red, and there was an alarm blaring from it .
Draco rushed over to her side and gazed into the translucent nanites to see that her body was twitching and thrashing slightly within, something that should have been impossible since the entirety of her consciousness was supposed to be in the digital world .
Draco's heart shivered and he felt weak to his stomach as panic started to overwhelm him . This fellow had few weaknesses in his life, but Eva was undoubtedly one of them . Seeing her suffer like this almost drove him mad, and he almost assumed his True Demon Body to smash the pod apart .
However, he barely managed to control his mind and checked the interface panel of the prototype pod . Before he could understand what exactly was going on, Amber called him on his Holo-watch and Draco quickly answered .
A screen was projected from the face of the watch, showing Amber in her usual lab coat with the AI's 'body' floating in a tank behind her . Her expression was serious as she quickly spoke before Draco could demand answers .
"Eva has entered an extreme state of shock, and her mind and body are trying to… separate themselves . She was in the middle of acquiring the Divine Class the AI had drafted for her, only she failed to meet one important criterion . "
Draco could didn't even have the mind to feel excited or shocked that Eva found a way to pay for the Divine Class . Some part of his mind even felt it was normal, since if he could do it, she certainly could too .
What had him confused was what Amber said at the end . "You mean there are things we have to look out for in our Divine Classes?"
Amber looked at Draco strangely, a very subtle gaze . However, Draco immediately recognized it to be one that a person made when they were looking at someone who had just uttered something incredibly stupid .
"Yes, all things have requirements and criteria, especially the classes the AI has tailored for your bloodlines . They have the most stringent and tight rules of them all . "
Draco facepalmed mentally and realized he was letting his fear and worry cloud his reason, so he calmed down, ignored the blaring alarms behind him, and focused on what Amber had to say .
"Continue . "
"That is, her mind and personality . "
When Amber told him this, Draco immediately understood what she was on about . "Is it because Eva's mind and personality deviate too far from the original bloodline holder, Amaterasu? Is that what is causing a conflict when she tried to perfectly assimilate herself with the Divine Class?"
Amber nodded . "That's exactly it . As you must have figured out by now, the Divine Classes are basically our way of providing you with a means to activate your bloodlines and reach a state of perfect atavism . "
"However, there is a process to it, as you have already experienced now that you are Rank 2 . "
Draco smiled bitterly . "Upon acquisition, we pay respects to the statues - the avatars of our Inheritances - and accept their blessing to remold ourselves to achieve perfect synchronization with our bloodline . "
"We then see 'ourselves' being paid respect to by the avatars, but that isn't entirely correct . What they are really paying respect to are their true masters, our progenitors, which we just happen to resemble as their clones . "
"On the first Rank up, that image is removed and we ourselves must seat upon the throne and command the respect of the lesser avatars, thereby increasing our potency and connection with our bloodline and setting up the foundation for a handover . "
"I assume that the next Rank up will require me… us… to get the greater avatars to do the same and finally achieve rudimentary control over our bloodline . At that time, I guess that our real bodies should have our Inheritances activated to 100% across the board, finally . "
Amber smiled . "Well, you are partly right, but I fear it's not going to be that convenient, but I can't tell you anything concrete until we've researched it further . What you need to do right now is find a way to get Eva to reach her proper state… you know what I mean . "
Draco was incredibly saddened by this, because he understood . It was a problem he had noticed from the very moment Eva told him the truth about the bloodline and when he had reconciled with her .
She was simply nothing like Amaterasu . Amaterasu was a Goddess of Benevolence, Valor, and Virtue, always fighting to purge evil and save the helpless mortals of the world .
She was the supreme Celestial Maiden, the mother of earth, and all livings things . She cradled them with love and affection, and she would make herself present among them for the mortals to bask in her beauty and worship in her magnificence .
Did any of that sound like Eva?
Cruel, merciless, and evil . Willing to kill anything and anyone that stood in Draco's way, even if they were babies or the innocent . Incredibly mad and mentally unstable, having more split personalities than even Draco . Always hiding her face and not allowing the common man to bask and worship her beauty because she wanted to reserve it exclusively for Draco .
Eva was the diametric opposite of Amaterasu mentally . Apart from sharing the exact same face and bloodline, those two Goddesses couldn't be more different .
This was unlike Draco who was 110% Lucifer . He was so much like Lucifer that even the three greater avatars had almost submitted to him during his Rank up, and they even paid some respects to him before he left .
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