Chapter 244
After breakfast we retire to a room to simply meditate and refresh our minds for the upcoming day. It still feels like we’ve been apart forever, despite having spent the entire day together, and just relaxing in Karl’s arms and mediating is the best thing I can think of right now.
The room is perfect for it. It can go from completely dark to fully daytime lit, with a wide variety of mood lighting colors available. Besides the bed there are recliners, a divan and even soft cushions that rival our mighty beanbag chair for comfort.
That’s where we decide to spend the next few hours. At our level of cultivation, there isn’t as much need to sleep or meditate, a few hours every other day is enough, but I’m just feeling mentally drained for some reason. Like the integration of the Domain into my spirit ocean has sucked up all the excess energy I had.
It’s not a physical thing, as far as I can tell, only a sense of afterlife or cold eternity, but it fits the shrine perfectly. This is the first chance I’ve had to really explore it in a while, so I let my mind wander, acclimatizing itself to the conditions here and letting them sink into my very being.
The copy of the relic is on a pulpit at the front of the shrine, where one might expect a preacher to stand, giving me glimpses of the Death God’s majesty as I approach. Sights of mighty abilities, ending and creating entire worlds, sending the dead back to live again in the world made just for them. The true nature of a divinity that rules death. Not just killing, but every aspect of Death.
As I watch, I see a man begging for time to avenge the wrongs done to him. See his impending death stop as his body is granted Immortality, then watch it warp into a half life filled with blood lust as his darker instincts take over and he worships not the death God, but the Demon gods. The creation of the first vampire.
Then a sure and certain knowledge seeps into my bones. I can do that, it is within my abilities and my rights. To preserve the life of the dying until their death can be sorted on their own terms, even if they turn away from the Goddess and become something they never could have imagined.
These new revelations are changing something inside of me, and I can feel my Domain and Cultivating Core slowly beginning to merge with the indistinct Nascent Soul that was birthed with my ascent to Immortality. The combination of the two empowers it, turning it from a vague feeling into a ghostly apparition within the shrine, the very beginnings of the Origin Soul that becomes a Deity’s Divine Body once it is fully formed and empowered enough to become corporeal.