Chapter 145 Divine Egg

Zero let go of Nova's hand and walked up to Azalea and asked, "What happened?" Azalea then answered, "I don't know what happening to her so I thought to bring my lord there while Dahlia keeps an eye on her."

Zero turned to Yoko and said, "Leave Nova here with Azalea and we'll go check this out."

Yoko had a worried look on her face as she nodded and handed Nova over to Azalea. She quickly opened a portal and flew in without waiting for Zero. Zero then said, "Take care of Nova and we'll take care of this."

Zero waved his hand and created a portal and entered. Zero appeared in his dimension and found a blue gate with runes leading to Yoko's realm. Passing through the gate Zero found Yoko staring at a ball of white ethereal flames that surrounded Valna. Valna looked to be in intense pain as her skin burned and heal repeatedly and her blood burned. Zero attempted to fly near it and try to save her when he was stopped by Yoko.

"What up why are you stopping me?" asked Zero

"Don't get too close to the flames they attack if approached." Warned Yoko

Zero then notice a rather large burn on Yoko's arm that wasn't healing and touched it only to find his hand burned. Zero quickly removed his hand and then said, "This is aether. Pure aether like what Sophia used. I'd know this pain from anywhere."

Yoko then nodded and said, "I see so this is what aether feels like. No wonder my body can't heal itself."

"What do you mean?" asked Zero

Yoko placed her hand on the burn wound and said, "This is the first time I've personally encountered aether so I wasn't sure why my body refused to heal. It makes sense since aether works as a sort of poison to nether creatures such as yourself. Since my apotheosis, my body has gained resistance of lesser elements like light and dark but it looks like aether and nether can still harm me."

Yoko then released an absurd amount of mana into the burn area before the wound started to heal. Zero then look at her and asked, "What did you do?"

"I haven't learned how to create or control aether so I had to forcibly use mana to extinguish it." explained Yoko with a worried look on her face.

"I'm guessing from the look on your face that somethings wrong." said Zero

"Yeah since I don't really understand my powers I can create or control aether or nether at the moment. Just now I had to use my mana to forcibly dispel the aether and the amount required was ridiculous." said Yoko as she turned to look at Valna

"Damn this troubling if we can't touch her and we can't dispel the flames there's nothing we can do. Do you have any ideas." said Zero

"The only thing I can think of is to ask Hel for help." said Yoko without turning back to face Zero

Zero was taken aback by Yoko's suggestion and said, "Is there really nothing we can do besides that? I don't know if we can fully trust her or her father so I'd like to keep her out of our realms until we figure exactly what they want."

"Well there's nothing we can do about and we don't even know anything about what's going on! If we make the wrong decision or fail to make a decision at all Valna could die! This is no time to be worried about things that don't matter at the moment!" yelled Yoko

Yoko calmed herself and took a deep breath and said, "Look I'm sorry for just going off on you it's just…"

"I know you're worried about Valna and you're angry at yourself for being powerless to do anything about it. I feel the same way." said Zero

"Let ask Hel what to do and if she betrays us in the future I'll personally take care of it." said Yoko with conviction

"Don't worry this is as much my responsibility as much as yours. I'll go get her and be right back so wait for me and don't do anything reckless." said Zero as he waved his hand and a portal opened for him to walk through.

Zero appeared in the hotel and began to look around for Hel. He bummed into Soma and asked, "Do you know where Hel is?"

"Umm I think she likes to spend her time at the pool in the basement." said Soma

"Thanks, I gotta run!" yelled Zero as he had started moving before Soma could even finish his sentence.

Zero arrived at the basement pool and found Hel sitting at the poolside with her feet in the water and she looked to be thinking about something. She then snapped out of her daze and turned in Zero's direction and asked, "Hello is there something you need from me?"

"I need you to come with me now." said Zero as he opened up a portal to his dimension

Zero walked over to her side and reach his hand out to help her stand up. Hel then followed him through the portal and appeared in Zero white space that was filled with souls. As Hel looked around Yoko's blue gate appeared in front of them and Zero pushed the gate open and walked through. Hel took a few seconds to finish looking around before she followed and appeared behind where Yoko stood watching over the burning Valna.

Hel walked over to where Yoko and Zero stood and muttered, "Is this a Divine Egg?"

"Do you know what this is?" asked Yoko

"Please tell us." said Zero as he grabbed Hel's shoulders

"Please calm down I can tell you're worried but I can assure you that the person in the flames will be fine. That is the 1st stage of a phenomenon known to the divine forces as a Divine Egg." said Hel