[Chapter 7] - Brief Respite

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(POV - Y/N)

In all sense of honesty, I was not expecting to retain my consciousness in a dream-like state, the last memories I recall was taking a shot for the girl in that building before the securities arrived.

Now? I'm in some sort of coma or slumber.

Although there was no sense of time or reality here, I could hear voices, distant and quiet like that of an echo which resonated throughout this mind of mine. It was like a very old film being recorded with hazy colours and patterns, but I can see two people.

The first figure was easily recognizable, donned in a traditional Shenzhou hanfu with light gold and brown coloration and with a pair of dragon horns on his head was Morax.

The next figure sitting next to him was a young woman also dressed in a hanfu, but with colours of blue and light gold rims around the edges. Tucked into her grey blonde hair was a flower with light blue and white petals.

Who was she?

"Honestly, Morax. Would it kill you to just smile for a bit?"

Although, I did not know whose voice that was, it held an aura of tranquillity and kindness. There was not a single of any other underlying emotions, just complete gracefulness.

"Smile? For what reason?"

Next, there's the reply of a voice which unmistakeably belongs to Morax, the same god who willingly bestowed his powers onto me for reasons still unclear to me.

Yet, his voice does not retain the former air of authority or grace when I first saw him, no, it was far more... rougher and deeper than his light voice.

"Just because your the Geo Archon doesn't mean you need a stone face all the time."

"...What brought this up?"

"Humans find it hard to even come near you and Marchosius would question if you even like his food so I had to tell him instead."

Marchosius? Another god? I'm assuming Morax also belonged to a pantheon of gods in his own world? Yet it doesn't answer the question of who this woman's identity.

"...Is that so..?"

"I'm sure your friends would be happy if you expressed yourself more."

"Happy... you really think so?"

"You never know unless you try!"

"...Like this?"

"Pft! What are you doing?"

"Expressing myself?"

"I'd give it a 2 out of 10, you look more like a badly moulded sculpture!"

"...What?"

Huh... these two must be friends, especially if the woman is able to casually talk to the god who effortlessly massacred hundreds of other gods and monsters... who is also now making a weird face as if trying to "express" himself better which caused the woman to laugh.

Well, he's failing horribly at it.

However, this doesn't answer the question behind my mind, is this a memory or a scene that is happening right now? If that's the case then were the Gnoses the link that enabled this?

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