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nUsing a massive watery fist, I shot off and connected with three Invisazards, retracting all parts of me as I did. I felt that Beeno had climbed down now and retrieved the last part of myself.

nI was falling, but Nushi started to retreat at high speeds while darting back at me. Once I was whole, I changed aspects and threw Wataluga as she zipped past.

nI felt him connect with them, and I burst with flames, but I was scooped out of the air in the mouth of an Invisazard.

nI grunted, but it was just the pressure.

nI was energy incarnate, I felt no pain, but these creatures would.

nReady? This is going to feel like you're getting hit by a truck and then ripped apart, then back together about three times. Typically you shouldn't be able to do something like this, but this world is thick with energy, so I will force you to overfill and stretch your energy reserves.

n'That sounds painful.'

nSo does dying. This will be like nothing you have ever experienced; prepare your mind for this.

nTwo more Invisazards locked onto me, the first on a leg, then another blocked my vision as it burned its mouth trying to chew my head off. This was not going well, time started to slow down around me, and I closed my eyes.

nI could sense the other creatures starting to head after the other Demons, but Nushi and the rest were with them. They were forcing the Nafa to run, but they were very slow, and there was no way for them to escape.

nAs time kept slowing, my mind started to prepare for what was coming or tried to. The pain was something that I should be able to handle, but the description of what would happen actually scared me.

nTime dilated to the point where the world seemed to freeze around me as I dug into my thoughts. Fear, something even on earth, had never affected me, and I always had this block for all I knew.

n'Do it.'

nCreator of Life, I, The Fire that Creates Light, Seal the Binding Force Pact!

nThe tattoo on my stomach started to grow, and energy started to pour into me like nothing I had ever experienced. The creatures biting me were turned to cinders, but I could only focus on the feeling.

nMy entire body was being filled past the point of full, and I felt like I was going to explode. The pressure made me want to scream, but I was caught in the grip of it all, only a passenger at this point.

nIgnite.

nMy mind was shattered and forced out in every direction as my body fell apart at the atomic level. Nothing made any sense; flashes of two people fighting, a blast of a strange light, something shattering, and I was slammed back together.

nThe feeling of my body smashing back together ripped all chance at digesting what little bits I had seen, and then I was filled again.

nI screamed this time as my burning body was pushed far past its limit, and the Invisazards circled me. It was like they knew this would only last for so long.

nI was able to barely sense that the others had gotten away, which was good. The creatures were all focused on me, and I could feel the pain reach its crescendo.

nThe Fire.

nBlown apart again, but this was worse, and the images were of the same thing. The colliding worlds.

nSomething was escaping me about them as more of the beast died, and others were forced back.

nMy vision kaleidoscoped, and suddenly, as I could clearly see the world from every angle. My mind raced as it tried to adjust to the infinite number of different views I was being subjected to.

nThe more I looked at them, the more they started to look like anything but planets. They weren't around, and there was a divot on one side near the collision.

nThen I was smashed back together, and I could no longer scream; every bit of me held on to my cracking mind as the pain swallowed me. The fire consuming and filling me was starting to rip at my sanity, and a gnawing feeling of failure was trying to creep in.

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"MY SOUL IS NOT DONE YET!

" I screamed with every fiber of my very existence.

nInside!

nThe worlds were apart, but they weren't worlds, but two heads. Then they moved to smash into each like one was head butting the other, but at the last second, there was a flash.

nA light burst, and the right face smashed into the other, shattering it, but then a wave of the same strange blue-black and white light that burned in the first flashes hit them, and they became fused, then began to change.

nThey morphed back into the planets that I had come to know from my visions. I observed it in other visions, but now I was drawn to the face that had smashed into the other.

nI stared at it, but then something unexpected happened; It looked at me.

nBut I was looking at it already.

nBut I was already looking at it.

nIt wasn't looking at me because it wasn't an it.

nIt was me.

nThen, the last part of my sanity that I had been unconsciously holding onto slipped from my grasp as I realized something. It was me.

nI wasn't just fighting to get to the center of everything, trying to stop this all. No, it was so much more than that.

nI was the center of everything, and I was fighting for everything.

nWhen my body slammed back together, there was no pain, and my burning body felt different. Fireden was now more than just my partner, he was now me, and his essence was now a part of me, and my Aspect skill had gained a new tier.

nPact Aspect: Ignite The Fire Inside! Activated!

nTore apart, dragged across galaxies, forced into a fight I wanted no part of. Elemental fury boiled within me like an unbridled hurricane, churning as energy filled me, and hundreds of monsters circled me.

nThis world would know my pain.

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