Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Tasha looked at Yunan with a weird gaze, this kid has actually been planning on pulling a fast one on a favoured servant of a primordial! Oh well, it was not unlike him to do that.

"So, what is the plan?" although she was curious about what Yunan was going to do to death, she restrained her curiosity, ever since she started following him, her curiosity would be satisfied if only she could wait a little more, she learned that the hard way.

"I'm sending you there to take a look". he said while pondering. Effort, who had just materialized was shimmering behind him, half merged into his body. It gazed at Tasha with a questioning gaze. Making the goddess feel rather uncomfortable.

"I need you to sample the leftover Laws" Effort spoke instead of Yunan. "Analyse them and see which are salvageable and which need replacing, it was your home and you are most familiar with it, even if you did not understand its Laws back then, you are more than capable now. I'll send Cattolu with you, his link to Dreamscape can allow us to foster some new Laws to reinforce and replace the damaged ones if need be".

"You are sending me away?" Tasha was rather reluctant to leave Dreamscape, her habitation with Yunan was a source of constant advancement and comfort to her. Now that she was going to part from both, she was reluctant to just leave, even if it was him who asked her for help.

As if reading her mind, Yunan smiled and presented his palm to her, above it shone a brilliant golden orb. "This is a fragment of effort, it has yet to take in the karmic powers, keep it on you, it will help you be close at all times, it will also function as a connection to myself, through this, I can keep you in the loop, and give you the chance to learn the laws we come across."

Tasha took the fragment and put it in her sea of consciousness, next to her own divinity. "So, it is going to be just you dealing with those karma manipulators?" she was not stupid, sending her away was not just to fulfil part of his mission. If he did not give her a fragment of effort, she would not have thought too much, but now that he did, it meant he was more capable of fulfilling his deal with the witch when Tasha was away from this next altercation.

"Fine. I'll go, but you better be done by the time I get there". She decided that she was not going to be stubborn. She saw that Yunan was thinking even deeper after she accepted being sent away, and for a fleeting moment, she longed for the older days.

Nostalgia was something that she refused to adhere to. her past was dead to her the moment she decided to side with Yunan, but now, it seems that no matter how she ran away from it, her past was going to catch up to her, or more precisely, she was falling face-first into that past.

"Don't worry" a comforting hand touched her face. She looked up to see ignis who had the look of someone sneaking about, the phoenix in her human form radiated comfort. "No matter what, you will have a home with us, there is no reason to be sad about mere memories". A trace of phoenix fire flickered and reflected in Tasha's eyes, then fury surged as she slapped the mischievous bird back into Yunan.

Since when did she, a great goddess with immense power become so easy to play around with, first a cat, now even a damned bird was trying her now, she needed to exert her station when she returned from her old universe.

After Tasha left, Yunan gradually left his reveries and focused on a tiny string that extended from himself to a distant luminous point in the endless void. The light was not real, it was just a beacon that put him on the correct path.

When only the two of them were alone, Effort and Yunan exchanged a glance, both of them could feel it, at the end of the string, something was waiting there, it was not attached to the string leading them to the karmic universe, it was detached from it, adjacent but superimposed on it. it was still there, waiting endlessly, waiting beyond time and the passing of eras.

Effort was the first to shudder, and Yunan followed soon after. What made them shudder was not the strength nor the endless patience IT showed, what caused them to shudder like this was the scale. A divinity on par with Effort was there, as obvious as the sun and as obscure as the faintest mirage.

While Yunan and Effort were contemplating IT, in the karmic universe things were in a frenzy, all beings in the universe felt it, even the deranged creator did. A string of karma attached itself to their very being, the minds, the souls, the bodies, the Laws, the fates, everything was connected to something. As if the entity on the other side of the string did not want to spare any of them.

There was no sense of danger coming from the karma string that attached to the entire universe, but to karmic manipulators, this was worse than death and decay. To never be able to disentangle themselves from a karmic string was what they dreaded the most, after all, severing their attachment to karma was the basis of their entire culture.

Meanwhile old man death met Tasha a few universes down the path. Her old universe was under the hands of Null, she would not be allowed to reach it unless she had the older man with her; otherwise, the minor primordials would slaughter her for just her association with Yunan, being part of his adventure was enough reason for the fearful primordials to eliminate her before she turned into a threat.