CH765 Thera’s Perspective

Thera didn’t know what to say, she was struggling to put any real thought together in the face of the two before her, ultimately ending with only a question escaping her lips.

“What did you do?”

“Really child, at least invite us in instead of leaving us standing out here.”

“Vividus, tell me what you’ve done here.”

“Hmph, I’d think that would be obvious enough.”

It was. After all of that time, her aunt had succeeded. From the conversation Thera had overheard back when she was only a child, it had taken well over a decade but it was clear her aunt had finally succeeded in utilizing the feature of the system that allowed racial hybridization to be possible. Not like herself or the other mortal half-spirit Seren and not like the union of two different sorts of mana-based life that led to Insia, what her aunt had somehow created was a new type of spirit.

“Is… Are they a soul spirit?” She asked, remembering her aunt’s stated goal back when she’d begun her attempts even then, with the great life spirit confirming.

“They are.”

A part of Thera was able to notice that her aunt didn’t sound anywhere near as pleased with herself as she would have expected but that was a small part. All at once, the world had changed. While there had been three examples to that point of hybrids of spirits and other races, that was the first to exist between different groups of spirits themselves.

Something that, in principle, seemed like it should have been far easier to achieve. Each group may have belonged to different affinities but they all viewed themselves as part of the same species who hailed from the same planet, but when one considered the fact that until then, they’d never been able to interbreed, it became clear how significant what happened really was.

And now, after just getting uncle Ogilt, we have another new great spirit on the world, and… This kid is obviously a great spirit but there’s no regular soul spirits. What does that mean then? Infinite hells, what does it mean for a great spirit to be born in general?

Thera knew how new great spirits came to be, no matter how incredibly rare it was for one to die and be replaced. On a species-wide level, if any great spirit were to die then a seemingly random group of regular spirits that matched the lost affinity would merge into one being, becoming the new one and having no say in the matter as to whether they even wanted it, but she knew that wasn’t what happened there. As uncomfortable as it was to think, she knew Vividus and her uncle Nox, the great death spirit, had been experimenting with replicating the way mortal races would reproduce to try and get the system to facilitate their goal which meant the one she was seeing lacked the normal history any typical spirit could expect.

It was all too much to process and it seemed her aunt wasn’t interested in waiting. No longer content to be allowed in, Vividus gave up on trying to be polite and instead took advantage of her existence as a form of mana-based life and simply passed through Thera to make her way to the living room, pulling the smaller spirit by the arm as she did.

Thera didn’t say anything to that though, she had too much on her mind and instead just followed along, watching them take a seat on the couch before finally asking a question.

“How?”

“Hmm? I doubt I need to explain the details of sex to you child, it seems you and your partner enjoy it plenty enough.”

Holy fucking shit.

She took a deep breath to keep from swearing then and there when what she wanted was answers and instead focused on what mattered despite her aunt’s lack of tact.

“You gave birth to a soul spirit. I’m asking how that’s possible.”

“The system really is the most handy tool your gods created, even if it didn’t mold perfectly to my desires. To be honest, I spent the longest time trying to make it work by creating an egg of sorts instead of having to grow and carry anything to term but after Lux’s unexpected success and finding out about Insedis forced me to admit there really was only one way that was obviously succeeding and I gave in, replicating the biological structures I’d need to make in my own form. After that, it wasn’t long at all.”

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“But… But I’ve seen you! Recently too! I saw you when Ben got back and I saw you for your stupid quest and you weren’t pregnant either time! I may not like you but I’d at least notice that!”