This last vision truly affects him, showing him that the enemy has prepared to face him. Isabella, who notices it, moves him by the arm and asks him again: "Darling, is something wrong?"
Feicui Long shakes his head and says: "It's nothing, honey. Come, let's pack everything and go to sleep."
Feicui Long starts organizing everything, but Isabella is left thoughtful. She doesn't know what to say or do. She knows he has seen something, but she doesn't want to force him to tell her, especially because it's likely that what he has seen has hurt him a lot...
Soon the day ends and the two sleep together, hugging each other lovingly.
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The next day, they quickly get organized and resume the journey. When they arrive, they are warmly welcomed by everyone. From the girls to Callista and Melina, everyone greets them happily with food. Feicui Long lets his heart rest for a moment.
But that same week, his routine changes. Almost two-thirds of his time he dedicates to entering or cultivating, but he also starts practicing techniques he didn't use before, like the technique his master taught him or even the basic technique of mastery over mystical energies, also the weapon mastery technique. These two techniques he had originally planned to use only at the beginning for their utility and then abandon, but the vision changes everything...
It shows him that his enemies, although he doesn't know how, have developed ways to deal with his main forces, space and time. Feicui Long thinks this would change the vision, since even though he has regained the ability to access them, because of the small amount of energy he has due to his low current cultivation at elemental realm grade 7, he can only observe one and only one brief part, not a year or several years or more to see the whole process.
So he simply assumes that this should stop the visions... But... Oh, how wrong he is, so wrong that the day after that week, the vision changes again, showing how everyone he loves dies and he survives. He tries again to change it but...
It is useless. In the next vision, he dies. Then he tries to change it again, but the same thing happens with his loved ones, all dead including him. Attempt to change, vision, attempt to change, vision. This process repeats for 15 torturous days without stopping. He doesn't know what is wrong. He doesn't understand where he is failing. For the first time, the stress and fear of losing what he loves, of losing everything once again, torments him so much that despite being a cultivator, the dark circles under his eyes are visible due to lack of sleep.
Isabella obviously notices this and it hurts her a lot to see her destined love suffering in silence while she can't do anything. Mariane notices it too, and although their relationship hasn't developed yet, the two agree to ask and question him, but he avoids them like a fox. They can only leave empty-handed.
Feicui Long then returns, tired, and lies down looking at the sky, clear and clean without any clouds. The others are in the house eating, but he is meditating. In the end, he sighs and says to himself: "Master, I... don't know what to do without you... I'm so alone and I don't know what I must do to change the future. What would you do?"
It is then that Feicui Long can feel small arms like a girl's making the effort to lift his head and then place it on legs just as small. That's when he hears a little girl's voice: "Feicui Long, you... are not alone... you have us..."
Feicui Long turns his gaze to see the girl's face. The girl has topaz-colored hair, a face pale white to the extreme, and looks at him with crystalline topaz-colored eyes. She has a sad and pitiful expression. Feicui Long extends his hand and touches the girl's face saying: "Topaz..."
Feicui Long knows it. He knows she has completely awakened, at the very moment he realizes he has seen Isabella's memories and at the moment he saw her in the past. This could only have been her doing.
Feicui Long gets up and hugs her, caressing her back to calm her. After a while, other small hands just as white hug him lovingly from behind. From the corner of his eyes he can see who it is, a girl with amethyst hair and crystalline amethyst eyes. The girl, upon being noticed, says: "Yes! It's true, Feicui Long, you don't have to worry. We will always be with you. Isn't that what you promised that day?!"
Another hand appears, but this one simply hugs him kindly from his right arm. A girl with emerald hair looks at him with her crystalline emerald-colored eyes: "So, are you going to break your promise? You told us that day, that we would never be separated, that you would become the strongest so that could never happen."
Feicui Long can only smile bitterly and say: "All right, all right, I don't plan on breaking my promises, Amethyst and Emerald, even less with you three."
Then the three lie down again on the grass. Feicui Long feels so tired but at the same time so comfortable that he falls asleep, with Topaz sleeping to his left, Emerald to his right, and Amethyst on top of his chest. The three sleep as they used to sleep more than 35 billion years ago...
Their relationship begins the very moment Feicui Long is born. Emerald, Amethyst, and Topaz are... his family... his friends... the ones who know him best, and for everything that has happened after his master, for all the pain he has gone through... they are his supreme divine authorities. Emerald, the supreme divine authority of the dragon clan and power. Amethyst, the supreme divine authority of space and the space clan. Topaz, the divine authority of time and the time clan.
A little later, Feicui Long is awakened by Mariane, who finds them sleeping. Feicui Long looks at her, and she is both surprised and a little scared, not of him, since she knows her master would never hurt her, but because of seeing the three, and that is normal. Divine authorities can have very varied personalities, and Feicui Long's are very withdrawn towards others, but only with him are they calm. They do not tolerate anyone telling them what to do or even touching them. Only a few privileged ones are allowed to earn some trust from them, and most of the time that trust is with Amethyst, the kindest and sweetest of all, although she is generally hostile to anyone who is not him.
In fact, Feicui Long has to intervene more than once to stop Topaz, the quietest and calmest of all, but also the most introverted, who does not even like to be looked at, from killing people in his palace. There is even the case of a bold guest who ends up murdered, body, soul, spirit, and mind, for trying to touch her. Although she is not evil, it really bothers her to be touched by people who are not close to her.
Feicui Long and the four girls go in to eat, into a hall where everyone is distracted doing other things, since everyone has already finished eating, except for Mariane and Isabella, who are waiting for him to eat. As for Topaz, Emerald, and Amethyst, they are also served food.
Although both Mariane and Isabella want to talk to him, they are unable to do so. Mariane knows it is not good to do so in front of all of them, especially not to ruin the moment the three of them are having with Feicui Long. Even Isabella has to stop because the supreme divine authority of the beasts, Lina, tells her not to approach the strange girls who come with him without caution.
Besides, the scene is highly endearing, since one, the amethyst girl, is sitting on Feicui Long's legs eating, and the other two are on each side, emerald on the right and topaz on the left. Also, Isabella can feel a certain familiarity with the energy and aura emanated by Topaz.
It is then that Gloria, curious and watching from a distance, says: "Who are these strange girls? Are they perhaps…"
Mariane, at lightning speed, covers Gloria's mouth, looking at her with a serious expression and says: "Please, if you value your life, measure your words."
Feicui Long laughs and says: "It's fine, it's fine Mariane. As for the question, they are Emerald, Amethyst, Topaz. They are both: my family and my divine authorities."
The whole hall falls silent. From the projection and what Feicui Long explains to them, they understand how great a supreme divine authority is, and now there are three, in human form, here?
Gloria, who is a little upset, immediately calms down. One, because she knows she can handle Mariane even if she surpasses her in cultivation, because this girl is a monster in combat power. And second, the most important, because if she dares to say that three supreme divine authorities were picked up from the street… who knows what could happen.
Feicui Long looks at them all and says: "Stay calm, they won't do anything to you. From now on, from time to time they'll go out, or I'll let them go out. The only thing I ask is that you don't try to go too far with them. In the case of Topaz, as long as you don't try to touch her or stare too long at her, nothing will happen. Amethyst is kind, though she is really hostile to anyone who isn't me. As for Emerald, she's the most rational of them all, although her pride can be a bit overwhelming."
After saying this, he touches all their heads, caressing them, except for Amethyst, which she doesn't like and pouts, forcing him to caress her head with his chin. As for Emerald, she turns her head embarrassed by how he describes her, and Topaz just keeps her normally expressionless face, smiling.
When they finish eating, Feicui Long takes them to a room with a big bed. He will have to arrange the room later, but he is not worried. As for why they need a room if they dwell inside him, it is because divine authorities can take a physical form outside their real body, like some types of artifacts.
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After this emotional reunion, Feicui Long locks himself in, not because of the visions that keep tormenting him, but because he wants to figure out once and for all what is happening with all these visions. It is then, one night, in his improvised study which he furnishes with a leftover table and chair, along with light stones he brings from the town of Skylion, and which is above the library.
On the walls of the whole study and on the table, which is quite large since it is the original dining table he built when he first built this house, everything is full of papers with writings, images, lines, and so on. He is trying to find what all of them have in common, aside from him dying, or his loved ones dying, or everyone dying outright.
His afternoons pass here, with his previous experiences from the last 15 days. Preparing or planning without knowing what the flaw is results in a change in the vision in which the way things happen might change, but the result is the same.
Changing that result is incredibly important to him, since he has changed since his first life. He no longer wants to be alone ever again like he was after the war… nor to see the ones he loves die. These visions have awakened something he never thought he would have: a desire, a desire for power, a power greater than any other to protect the ones he loves, but at the same time to have them by his side. That's why he is willing to go even further so that they become stronger and stay with him.
When he is about to shake his head to clear his mind and focus, that is when a word echoes in his mind like someone whispers it, being alone. He wants them to accompany him. Alone-accompany? That they become stronger so they can accompany him and he doesn't fight alone...
Eureka, that's it! He has noticed it in all the visions. Either he is fighting alone with the others divided, or all together and that's it, at most using golems, undead, puppets, and some beings tamed by him, Mariane, and Isabella. Nothing more. If all of them are analyzed properly, the common factor in absolutely all of them is… the overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy.
What he needs is to find a way to eliminate it. But with his current strength and until he reaches the earthly divine realm, he won't be capable of becoming a beast on the battlefield who specializes in combat against huge numbers. So that method is discarded. It's also not enough to just make the others strong, since in the visions that didn't work either...
Then the only possible option is… to establish and gather a force. It can't be one already established, one because of Adolf's spies, two because the closest forces of the dragon clan, the space clan, and the time clan are very far away and also separated by very dangerous territories that with their current strength they would die easily in. They also can't wait since the most recent vision takes place in the earthly palace realm. So the only realistic option is to start from scratch...
Feicui Long laughs madly and with irony "HAHAHAHA". In his past life he never wanted a temple or an empire, although he got one. He never desired more power or strength for himself, only for his duty. He never felt ambition or greed… but now, in this moment, here in this half-empty room, he finds himself wanting power, strength, an empire… yes, to protect his loved ones, but for the first time it is an ambition that comes from his heart. He wants to be so strong that no one can ever hurt him again, nor anyone he loves, nor this universe.
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Feicui Long then, in the following 15 days, continues going into the improvised study, not to try to understand the visions, but to create an elaborate plan. A plan to build a force. A plan to give birth to something entirely new.
He begins with the blueprints of some structures. Then he proceeds with the writing of some laws, the system, the functioning, the type of economy, the development plan, and all the options and backup plans in case something goes off track and not how he wants it.
Because his goal is not only to evade this approaching calamity, but… to conquer. Conquer this world, conquer this galaxy, conquer this universal sector, no, conquer the very universe of his master. Only then can he protect it, and protect the ones he loves, and only then will there be peace for him and his own.