Achilles crossed his legs on the shoulders of Solareth as he couldn't help but ask.
"For what reason would the Daughter of the Lunaris Throne, one of the Leaders of an entire Dynasty that protects multiple Colony Cities with millions of people…why would you want to kill your own father, the Lunaris Throne himself?"
The question was straightforward, though the answer might not be.
Achilles knew this, and after he asked, Nyxaria Moonveil Lunaris was silent once more before she turned around and…
Slid off her robe just below her shoulders.
This caused Achilles to frown, his brow turning somber as he saw a glaring, huge scar running down her spine.
The scar was jagged and pulsing with a vile black radiance as if a parasite was attached to the body of Nyxaria, and through it, Achilles could actually sense the coursing of both Evolutius Energy and Primordial Energy.
Disordered. Chaotic. Unnatural!
As Nyxaria Moonveil Lunaris revealed this, she began to speak with a heavy voice.
"My body never showed any talent or power. No possibility of awakening, like the rest of those in my family. I was weak. And even on my eighteenth birthday, there was still no change—no sign of becoming an advanced human. So my father looked at me and told me he would not cruelly discard me. Instead, he would give me the power that my lineage should carry. He cut me open and subjugated me to countless painful, mortifying experiments...until he eventually succeeded in giving me my power."
The words cutting from her mouth turned out to be utterly terrifying, and Achilles couldn't help but turn even more somber.
Nyxaria Moonveil Lunaris pulled up the purple robe as it fell back over her shoulders, turning to observe Achilles as she continued.
"What he did to me was the perfection of countless experiments he's been conducting between humans and remnants of Ancient Ones, between Humans and Evolutius Beasts. In the Colony Capital of Virelux Ascendria, the Colony Capital of the Lunaris Colony Overseers tethered onto Ethemia by Evolutius-Conducting Pylons that suppress any Leyline Fractures of Evolutius Catacombs...many people disappear silently every day."
"Those living in the Seventh Outer Moon Ring of the Colony Capital, which would be the slums if compared to the regions of the Colony City of Neon… they go missing the most. The weak. The old. The poor. In the last few years alone, hundreds of thousands have silently disappeared. It's attributed to lawlessness in the Outer Rings, or the hands of Vagrant Advanced Humans. But it has always been the Royal Colony Guards under my father abducting new experimental subjects for him."
"An unknown number of men, women, and children have died from his experiments so I could have the strength I have today—and so he could empower himself with both Evolutius Energy and Primordial Energy. He has already exceeded the Dharma Manifestation Stage and should have reached the unfathomable power of Astral Core Ascension. He only moves for himself. He is no ally to humans, advanced or not. He… needs to die. He really needs to fucking die!"
She shouted her last words as her rage slipped out slightly, taking a few seconds thereafter to calm down as Achilles held a somber expression.
Nyxaria looked at him calmly, continuing with a heavy undertone.
"His atrocities are not unknown to the Dynasty Keepers. But he is a part of them. He holds one of the High Seats of the Dynasty Keepers… so his actions go unpunished. They even refer to him as the Master Geneticist—the Lunaris Throne, Archaon Sylas Lunaris. With his power and position, I have nobody to go to but myself… and yet today, I find myself in a unique position of meeting someone that could make what I thought to be a hopeless endeavor… possible."
Her words carried tremendous weight as she continued.
"Your capability to augment the powers of others—or even your own power, depending on just what type of transcendent human you are—is the reason I've been so forthcoming. With you, it's from your psychological profile and how you seem entirely new with no connection, and you also seem to genuinely care for the lives of others. And even if your caring for others wasn't enough… there's the Aeonic Treasure I mentioned. So…what say you?"
A high and heavy ask.
Knowledge about the Ruler of multiple Colony Cities and what he was doing behind the scenes.
Achilles wore a thoughtful expression as he went over everything Nyxaria had just said.
And yet this woman did not seem to be done, as she continued, watching his thoughtful expression.
"And if all of that is not enough… I also suspect that for the sake of power, he is not just experimenting with humans and the remnant blood of Ancient Ones and Evolutius Beasts. The remnant blood of the Ancients he obtains comes far too easily and seems to have an endless source. I suspect that he is already working with an Ancient One, or multiple Ancient Ones or their forces. This I say with suspicion only, as I have no proof. But if we are to look at the future of Humans and Advanced Humans across all Colony Cities…do we really want one of their key leaders to be someone who feeds off the blood of his own people? Who grows stronger as he kills hundreds of thousands?"
The Last Daughter of the Lunaris Throne…was making a pitch.
A pitch that meant killing her own father.
And at that moment, Achilles raised his hand as if he had heard enough.
"So there is a madman out there, already killing thousands. Experimenting with the fusion of monsters and humans. Possibly working with Ancient Ones. He tortured his own poor daughter to give her the power she now holds. If such a person needs to die… then they shall die."
It was a terrifying conclusion to the hopes of Nyxaria Moonveil Lunaris, as her eyes fluttered with expectation and brilliance.
If any other man had heard even the idea of killing one of the thirteen leaders of the Royal Colony Dynasties, they would have looked at her as if she were mad and reported her actions to the higher-ups if they could.
This transcendent human…was actually not scared of the glorious distinction of King Archaon Sylas Lunaris, nor of the level of power that was many times above his.
He simply agreed that this being needed to die.
Of course, there was a deal attached to it.
And it would be a bounty of vengeance to the hundreds of thousands of poor humans killed by him.
And revenge…for his very own daughter!