Chapter 658 - Bleak Past But Bright Future?
As the Legacy Orb appeared, the invisible strings controlling the world flickered, and their brightness considerably dimmed.
"Strings of Fate!" Margaret Parcae flinched. "Something is blocking their path!"
She jumped out of the tomb and gazed thousands of miles away. There, she saw the orb floating before Kiba.
It enveloped his surroundings with a sparkling glow. This cut him off from reality, effectively severing his connection with time and s.p.a.ce.
The soul-crus.h.i.+ng pressure enveloping the mausoleum disappeared alongside him, but not the shock of what it signified.
"What sort of Legacy Orb could interfere in the working of Fate?!"
Margaret trembled violently.
Earlier she had looked down on Kiba and Ice Queen for they were puppets despite their tremendous strength. Now she was no longer sure.
"There must be some explanation!"
She tried to suppress her fear and swallowed saliva to moisten her dry throat. With great efforts, she succeeded and then lowered her eyes to observe the treasure she found: two ethereal, white gloves tied with strings.
"I have them! There"s no reason to fear anything!"
She put on the gloves, and energy rippled out of her, exploding everything in its path.
"Yes! No reason at all!"
Extreme raw power flew through her veins, strengthening her connection with the Strings of Fate.
She now experienced what it must be like to be the puppet master, having absolute control over the others.
"Kiba or Zed, he doesn"t matter! He"s just a key!"
Saying this aloud, her body disappeared in a puff of smoke, and she left Infinity Maze.
…
Meanwhile, Ice Queen retracted her vision from the dark orb. She felt its irresistible charm and sensed the extraordinary opportunity it offered.
But it was fire, and she wasn"t a moth to fall for it.
Even if not for that, she has no interest in acquiring a legacy of someone else. Her journey was her own, and she would create her own path without relying on anyone else.
Whish~!
Her body disintegrated into crystals of ice and flew towards the s.p.a.ce tunnel.
"She is leaving!"
The Alphas noticed her actions, and they became furious.
She has put them into a life-threatening crisis, and she was now leaving without even glancing at them?
"Don"t focus on her!" An Alpha reminded his companions and pointed at the corpses that were still here.
With the pressure from the orb gone, the corpses didn"t have anything to stop them. They thirsted for relief from their present state, and they shot at the Alphas.
BOOM
Battles resumed, and explosions followed.
"I can"t believe we worked for thousands of years to see the plan fail!"
The Black Fog bitterly said as unexpected events continued to play before it.
[[Don"t sulk.]] Enchantia responded with a mystic smile. [[Unless you really believe the grand plan of Lord Xeced can be destroyed by some kids with big guns.]]
"!!!" The fog turned towards Enchantia.
Enchantia didn"t say more and looked at the s.p.a.ce where Kiba was.
He might be cut off from reality, but that didn"t matter to her as she knew everything that would happen there and more.
She has studied the contents of the orb…
…
Kiba found himself in a world of darkness.
While obviously shocked by the sudden changes, he wasn"t frightened as Enchantia had said he would find the Legacy Orb he needed in the mausoleum.
He looked at the floating Legacy Orb and tried to wrap it with his cosmic perception but availed no success. This startled him, for other Legacy Orbs never resisted the perception of outsiders.
"Just whose legacy is it?" Kiba wondered.
"Mine."
A voice rang through the world, impossible to know from where it originated.
"Or should we say yours?"
"?!" Kiba was stunned.
He thought of speaking, but before he could, the Legacy Orb twisted and expanded.
"!!"
Kiba shot back and looked at the s.p.a.ce where the orb used to be. It was now occupied with the projection of a dark-haired man.
Kiba"s complexion lost all colors as he saw the face of the dark-haired man.
It was a handsome face he saw for the first time, but it seemed too familiar like it was his own.
It was a sense of familiarity he felt whenever he saw pictures of Extermination or even Zed.
"You are…"
Kiba recalled where he has seen this man. Years ago, in Desolate Blood Forest, the Chronokinesis mutant – Pythia- had given him an opportunity to see days of future past.
In one of those days, he saw the blurred silhouette of a man meeting a teenage girl, helping her, and then remarking that even without his help, she would have been safe.
Back then, Kiba felt the girl was familiar, and now he knew why.
That girl was Agatha, and the reason this man helped her was simple.
"…Me!"
Cosmic Emperor nodded without displaying any emotions.
Kiba closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Meeting his future-self wasn"t something he ever expected or even thought of. Such a possibility was not only completely unexpected but also impossible.
So despite his strong personality, he was shocked beyond words and lost his ability to think.
"Then Claudia was right…" Kiba said after a long time. "It was indeed me who ordered her to manipulate Agatha"s pregnancy records."
Cosmic Emperor nodded again.
"It must be related to why I --- you slightly changed Agatha"s past."
Kiba received another nod but no vocal or facial response. This irked him, and he said, "Has the future suppressed my ability to speak and express emotions?"
Cosmic Emperor didn"t respond.
"…."
Kiba let out a sigh.
His expression turned serious, and he said, "I a.s.sume everything you did was to protect Hope?"
Cosmic Emperor nodded.
The world"s darkness flashed, and multiple visuals emerged out of them, like scenes from a movie. They rushed at Kiba and swirled around him.
Kiba was taken aback.
In each visual, he – as Kiba – was the focus. But these visuals contained scenes he never experienced, at least till now.
"This is from my future?" Kiba asked.
Cosmic Emperor shook his head.
"??"
Kiba was bewildered, and he again looked at the visuals. So far, he only glanced at them without actually observing the contents.
Each visual contained a scene like they were a short movie on their own.
Kiba focused on one visual where he was in the depths of an ocean. The ocean had a gigantic city, covered by an invisible bubble, filled with various forms of lifeforms he hadn"t seen until now.
"Atlantis."
Kiba easily identified this city even though he was looking at it for the first time. As he recognized the city, the visual scene jumped forward with Kiba being in the royal palace.
The Kiba in the visual had a hearty conversation with King Poseidon and enjoyed a royal feast on his honor. He shared drinks with the king and thanked Queen Anthea for the lovely feast. He even had a brief conversation with Princess Melina.
The scene once again jumped forward, and Kiba was now meeting with Holy Seer – Rhea – in the temple. Sitting on the blue throne, she showed-off her powers, showing him how frightful a mutant with the ability to manipulate time could be.
Maybe she showed him her powers to expand his horizons, or perhaps to deter him so that he would never target Atlantis.
It was unclear by the fast pace of the scene.
Maybe it didn"t even matter, as after the scene once again jumped forward by a few days, she was screaming.
Kiba has impaled her!
With his c.o.c.k!
She screamed, cried, and writhed in pangs of pleasure. Soon, he washed her blue body with his glowing c.u.m.
It was a divine sight to behold, suiting a cosmic being like her.
The scene again fast-forwarded, and this time Kiba was in the royal palace, taking Anthea on the throne.
He spread her legs and rammed into her sweet p.u.s.s.y, filling her royal depths.
BANG!
Poseidon blasted the palace door and rushed in, catching his wife mounting the c.o.c.k of a human and uttering celestial m.o.a.ns.
Shocked and enraged, he grabbed the trident and charged at the a.d.u.l.terous pair that was soiling his royal throne.
Unfortunately, he slipped when his feet touched the dais that was coated with glowing c.u.m. He fell down, his face smas.h.i.+ng into the c.u.m.
"Your hospitality is truly praiseworthy, great king!"
Kiba praised as his c.o.c.k continued to slam into the queen"s royal c.u.n.t.
"You provided precious delicacies for my belly and now even gave me the best c.u.n.t to warm my c.o.c.k! Thank you!"
Poseidon"s body shook in anger, but before he could rise, his wife cried, and a jet of liquid sprayed out of her c.u.n.t, raining down on him.
"I guess this must be the Atlantian way of saying we have a deal!" Kiba guessed. "And yes, we have a deal!"
Kiba"s c.u.m signed the deal in the queen"s c.u.n.t.
The visual ended, and it once again started from the beginning.
"Wow!" Kiba from the present exclaimed. "This is indeed my future!"
He loved the things he has done and wished he could teleport directly to Atlantis and do them in real.
Even though he wasn"t the type to pray, he clasped his hands and thanked the Creator for being so generous.
"My past might have been bleak, but my future sure is bright!"
"Sighs~."
Cosmic Emperor shook his head and let out a soft sigh.
"What you saw was my future, something that couldn"t be yours."
"What?!"
Kiba"s face fell, and his heart broke. His state was like that of a mortal pushed from a cliff.