Chapter 400 The True Fourth True Ancestor
The night gradually deepened.
When neon lights began to appear in every corner of Genkami Island, Aize had already returned to his apartment with Nagisa Akatsuki.
Instead of taking Nagisa Akatsuki back to Room 704 where the Akatsuki family lived, he took her back to his own home and laid her on the bed in his bedroom before she woke up.
“It’s incredible…”
Looking at Nagisa Akatsuki who was sleeping on his bed, Aize peeked at her several times, but he couldn't see the appearance of Nagisa Akatsuki as she had just transformed into a true vampire. Not to mention the twelve beasts living in her body, she didn't even have a single bit of magic power. She was just an ordinary human being.
Aize watched for a long time, and suddenly turned his hand over, and an ancient stone badge appeared on the palm of his hand.
"What do you think?"
Aize spoke to the stone badge in his hand.
“Buzz…”
The stone badge in Aize's hand immediately trembled, and after a while, large areas of darkness suddenly surged out and completely enveloped it.
Not long after, a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old slowly walked out from the darkness. She was wearing a white one-shoulder Greek-style robe, had short silver hair that seemed to blend into the moonlight, and eyes like black agate.
"You have enslaved me, but you are still planning to borrow my wisdom. Don't you think this is too shameless?"
The Queen of the Trinity stared at Aize expressionlessly, and her attitude was extremely unfriendly.
"Who told you to take other people's things so casually?" Aize said disapprovingly: "This can be regarded as a lesson for you. Don't integrate other people's things into your body so casually in the future, otherwise you will suffer a great loss."
"...That's something I lost." Athena stared at Aize dimly and said, "It's not yours."
"But after I recognized it as my master, it already belongs to me." Aize smiled and said, "If it were you now, you would understand this, right?"
Athena stared at Aize and stopped talking.
"Okay, help me take a look." Ai Ze pointed at Nagisa Akane who was lying on the bed and said, "I really can't see anything, but if it were you, you should be able to see something that I can't see, right?"
Seeing that Aize changed the subject, Athena snorted coldly, but eventually turned her gaze to look at Nagisa Akatsuki who was lying on the bed.
Her eyes became bright and sharp like an owl's.
At this moment, the girl named Akatsuki Nagisa was constantly being analyzed in Athena's eyes.
As the goddess of wisdom, Athena is in charge of the wisdom of the sky and can easily see through many things that are incomprehensible to ordinary people.
There are bound to be few things in the world that can puzzle her, and even fewer things that can be hidden from her wisdom.
In addition, Athena is the queen of the Trinity and the ancient mother goddess of the earth. The sky, the ocean, the earth and the underworld have all been areas under her control. As long as Athena is serious, her vision can even transcend the three realms, not to mention seeing through the structure and secrets of the human body.
So, Athena got the result in just a few seconds, even though Aize couldn't see it.
"I see, is this the relationship?"
Athena murmured.
"How is it?" Seeing this, Aize immediately asked, "What did you find out?"
Athena did not answer Aize immediately, but asked a question in return.
"You know what's inside this girl, right?"
Hearing this, Aize nodded silently.
Of course he knew what was inside Nagisa Akatsuki.
"That is another soul that did not originally exist in his body. It is a being that should have died."
In the original work, at the end of the Flame Feast, the Akatsuki brothers and sisters survived with the help of the twelfth Matrix, and one became the fourth true ancestor, while the other lost her ability as a priestess and became an ordinary person.
In order to help the Akatsuki brothers and sisters and to bring the Flame Banquet to an end, the twelfth matrix finally died with the help of Akatsuki Kojou.
However, the twelfth Matrix did not really die. Instead, before its consciousness disappeared, it was absorbed into Nagisa Akatsuki's body using her psychic ability, and the two became one.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the soul sleeping in Nagisa's body should be the twelfth base of the Fourth True Ancestor, Agurola Florestina, who had a great connection with the Akatsuki brothers and sisters during the Flame Feast and helped them overcome the difficulties."
Aize uncovered the origin of the alien soul in Nagisa Akatsuki's body.
"Sleeping Beauty?" Athena sneered and said, "That's quite appropriate."
Athena stretched out her onion-like fingers and slid her fingertips across Nagisa's delicate face. While stroking Nagisa's face, she slowly spoke.
"As you said, there is a foreign soul sleeping inside this girl."
"This foreign soul is usually in a dormant state and will only wake up when the girl is in danger."
"When she wakes up, her power and essence will surface along with her consciousness, overwriting the girl's existence and appearing in the outside world."
Athena glanced at Aize and said lightly.
"So, if she hasn't woken up, this girl is just an ordinary human being, not the world's most powerful vampire."
"This girl did not become the so-called fourth true ancestor as you know."
"The real fourth primogenitor should be the number 12 you mentioned, Agurola Florestina."
At least Aize understood what Athena meant.
To put it simply, unlike the original work where Agurora gave the power of the Fourth True Ancestor to others before his death, in this world, Agurora did not give the power of the Fourth True Ancestor to others, but died with this power.
After her death, Akatsuki Nagisa, just like in the original story, absorbed her remaining consciousness into her body, merged with it, and coexisted with it. However, because Agurora had become the fourth true ancestor this time and had not handed over his power, this power entered Akatsuki Nagisa's body along with Agurora's remaining consciousness, and she fell into a deep sleep.
Akatsuki Nagisa herself did not actually become the Fourth True Ancestor, she simply merged with the Fourth True Ancestor.
The real Fourth True Ancestor is still Agurola, so the power and essence of the Fourth True Ancestor will disappear when Agurola falls into a deep sleep. Only when Akatsuki Nagisa, the host of the Fourth True Ancestor, is in danger, the real Fourth True Ancestor will wake up, and his own existence will replace Akatsuki Nagisa's existence. The essence and power of the vampire True Ancestor will also be overwritten on Akatsuki Nagisa's body, making the real Fourth True Ancestor appear on the earth.
This is the same concept as a séance.
When faced with danger, the shrine maiden Akatsuki Nagisa summoned the spirit of the Fourth True Ancestor, allowing the spirit of the Fourth True Ancestor to possess her body, making herself the Fourth True Ancestor.
When there is no danger, Akatsuki Nagisa has no reason to summon this power, so she is just an ordinary human. Only when Agurora's consciousness surfaces will she become the fourth true ancestor.
"No wonder I can't tell why she doesn't have any magic power at all." Aize said as if he suddenly realized something: "And the reason why she lost her power as a witch is probably because she used all her power to maintain the remaining consciousness of Agurula, right?"
"It's like the memory is occupied, and there is no extra space to store things." Athena said lightly: "Although she is a priestess with excellent qualifications, she is still a human after all. The so-called Fourth True Ancestor is no less powerful than the God of Disobedience. It is almost impossible for a human priestess to fully accommodate her existence."
"If it weren't for the fact that the Fourth True Ancestor had no ill will towards this girl and had even been protecting her, and had actively fallen into a deep sleep, restraining his own strength and essence and not showing any of it to the outside world, I'm afraid this girl would have collapsed long ago."
Just like Seiakiin Ena, who is a necromancer herself, even if she only borrows a part of the divine power, she will fall into a weak state afterwards. How much more so for someone like Akatsuki Nagisa, who completely contains a being comparable to a disobedient god in her own body?
In this situation, the fact that Nagisa Akatsuki simply had all her power taken away and turned into an ordinary person instead of dying on the spot afterwards was already a result of her excellence and the cooperation of the Agurora in her body.
If Agurara had not cooperated in the slightest, and if Akatsuki Nagisa's own qualifications were also slightly lower, both of them would have died instantly in the Flame Banquet, with no chance of survival.
"Why did it become like this?" Aize frowned and asked in confusion: "Compared with the original trajectory, the situation is really far worse."
In the original work, Akatsuki Nagisa only took in Agurora who gave the power of the fourth true ancestor to Akatsuki Kojo. But now, she took in the entire Agurora who would become the fourth true ancestor into her body. The situation is indeed quite different.
"Also, when Agurora showed up, she said that I was the one who woke her up, and there is an inseparable bond between her and me. What's the reason for that?"
Aize has always been very confused about this change.
Unfortunately, Athena could not give the answer to this question.
"I can use my wisdom to see through this girl's true and false, but I cannot see her past." Athena raised her bright eyes, looked at Aize, and said, "If you want to know the reason for everything, you can only peek into the past through the remaining consciousness sleeping in this girl's body."
"Peek into the past?" Aize was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's actually very simple." Athena said calmly: "I will use my power from the underworld to establish a spiritual connection between you and the remaining consciousness in this girl's body, allowing you to enter this girl's body and meet the Sleeping Beauty."
"Then, relying on the spiritual connection, you will be able to see the girl's past and that period of time."
"How about it? Want to try it?"
Hearing Athena's words, Aize did not hesitate.
"Come on then." Aize sat down on the bed, looked at Athena, and said, "What should I do?"
Athena didn't say anything, but just moved closer to Aize and held his face.
"Go to the bottom of the dark underworld, which is the supreme territory of Mother Earth and the country of the queen who controls life and death."
Athena chanted the Word Spirit as if she was talking to herself.
"Earth, know my resolve."
"Darkness, understand my high feelings."
"The goddess Athena, a descendant of the Great Mother, is the queen of the underworld."
"Respond to my invitation and draw down the curtain. I am the ruler of the cold underworld who summons winter, who controls life and death, and is the queen who is unrivaled in heaven and earth..."
As ancient words were chanted, Athena kissed Aize's lips without hesitation.
The soft touch was transmitted to his nerves. Although Aize was a little stunned, he accepted it with peace of mind.
He knew that Athena did this not because she wanted to get close to him, but because he was a godslayer and possessed extremely amazing resistance to cursed power. If the power was not injected directly into his body, even the power of God would be bounced off by Aize's current body.
That's why Athena kissed herself, wanting to inject the power of the underworld into her body, avoiding the surface resistance to spell power and allowing the power to take effect.
Sure enough, when Athena kissed him, a burning force passed through both of their mouths and directly injected into Aize's body.
By the time Aize came to his senses, Athena had already released her lips and kissed Nagisa Akatsuki who was lying on the bed.
“Ah, this…”
Looking at this scene, Aize was speechless.
What is this?
Indirect kiss?
When Aize was feeling strange about this, he discovered that his consciousness had left his body and entered the body of Nagisa Akatsuki.
Under the power of Athena, his consciousness continued to penetrate deeper into Nagisa Akatsuki's body and entered the deepest part of her consciousness.
Just like diving, Aize continued to go deeper into Nagisa Akatsuki's consciousness, and finally touched her soul and the other consciousness existing in her body.
"Aguerola Florestina..."
At this time, Aize was standing in a dark space, and a ball of light appeared in front of him.
In the center of the light was a girl who was curled up as if floating on water.
The girl was petite, and her height and apparent age were similar to Akatsuki Nagisa's. Her skin was fair and clear, and although her face was a little childish, it was too regular to look like a human's. She had lightly pigmented blonde hair that reflected light and shone like a rainbow.
She hugged her knees, curled up, completely naked, with her eyes closed, falling into a deep sleep. Her appearance reminded people of a fairy sealed in transparent amber, and one could sense some kind of holy aura.
This is Agurola Florestina, the twelfth base of the Fourth True Ancestor, the final winner of the Feast of Flames, and the new Fourth True Ancestor.
Aize looked at her for a while, and then he realized that he was also naked.
Then, Aize floated in front of the fairy-like girl and reached out to touch her...
(End of this chapter)
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