Chapter 157 - Approaching the End(5)

"What is it?" Miyuki worriedly asked Tatsuya. She stood in a completely dark void, covered by the Amalgamation. The protecting layer surrounding them was the only thing that hadn't been consumed. No, from what she could tell, it was the only thing that was Amalgamation couldn't. Probably that was why it needed Tatsuya to agree before merging.

Tatsuya glanced at the shining eyes in the darkness that were staring at him.

The voices that had been speaking to him. It was calm and collected, nothing like anything before.

The voices sounded like a human, hollow, dragon, Pheonix, and thousands of other beings. Coming as one, sounding like one, speaking at once.

"I understand what you are trying to do. But, can you imagine the end result? You are nothing without me. You were a puppet without emotions, then you changed and became the puppet of emotions. Just give up, so we can become one."

"Onii-sama..." Miyuki frowned after hearing that. She still didn't understand what Tatsuya was trying to do.

Miyuki took his face between her hands to make him face her, "Onii-sama? Tell me what it is?"

Tatsuya's eyes wavered, "Miyuki..."

"Yes, Onii-sama? Miyuki is listening."

"I... before I had... these emotions. My life revolved around you. I lived for you..." He held Miyuki's palms that were on his face as his eyes looked down.

"And then... all of a sudden... there were these emotions...too much of them...too many of them. I asked Yueru about it... my life was around you, then this new self... started budding. The two centers of my universe started colliding against each other. They still do... and because of that...I can't imagine... me."

Miyuki breathed with Tatsuya, her breathing matching his, leaning on him, she said, "Onii-sama...I have loved you. Since I first saw you. I might didn't realize what that feeling was...for a long time."

She opened her eyes and gazed at him with a soft smile, "I belong to you...everything I have, everything I am... it's for you. You don't need to fight your self... not for me. I am here for you, no matter what. As long as it's you, I will love you...because you are the center of my universe."

Tatsuya looked into her eyes as their lips touched again. Her touch, her lips, her heartbeat resounding in his ear, it seemed to melt the world away. Even in a situation like this, he was at peace.

Tatsuya closed his eyes, feeling her in his arms, "thank you for telling me that."

Miyuki started disappearing, "I will be waiting outside."

"Yes..." Tatsuya whispered.

The thousands of voices spoke again, "do you still want to foolishly try something? or have you said your goodbyes?"

Tatsuya looked up at Amalgamation, "You know what I plan to do."

"That is foolish...You will only kill both of us. Miyuki can't defeat the Sage Emperor. She would get killed too... Do you want that? Think of everyone you love, don't you want to protect them? Keep them safe?"

"I'll protect them."

"You are just a puppet without me. Merge with me, become one with me, gain a self."

Tatsuya had a peaceful smile on his face, "I have a self..." He looked at the symbol of the sun on his right hand and the moon on the left, "I am..."

Outside,

Miyuki opened her eyes; her duplicates had already disappeared. Yu Yan's shadow clones had also disappeared. The Six of them were pounding at the Golden Barrier, protecting them. Yu Yan had started sweating as happiness appeared in her eyes when Miyuki opened her eyes.

Her barrier was barely holding, and the space barrier Tatsuya created had been nearly devoured.

On the other side, Sage Emperor was covered in Heavenly Energy, fighting against the dark black mud. His arm was destroyed, armor had cracks in them. He was barely able to keep it at bay. If Sage Emperor was in that condition, it made her dread what would happen to them once the Space barrier is gone.

"Miyuki!"

"Just a bit longer..." Miyuki whispered.

"We don't have that much time?!!"

Miyuki shook her head, "don't worry, we have enough time."

Her eyes were staring at Amalgamation. Her sight seemed to pass through layers and layers as it reached deep inside.

Seeing Tatsuya's back in front of her... slowly Tatsuya's face appeared in front of her eyes.

She watched as Tatsuya slowly opened his eyes, as his lips moved, as he murmured...

"Re-create..."

*BOOM*

Sparks burst forth from gigantic Amalgamations body. Numerous sparks, of different colors, seemed to do something different to the Amalgamation.

Black Sparks, Voilet ones, indigo ones, azure ones, cyans ones, green ones, yellow ones, orange ones, and red ones... each doing their own job.

*Howls*Scream*

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Screams of Amalgamation resounded, dark muddy energy poured out its body, carrying the sound even in the void.

Layers and layers of dark muddy energy from the humanoid started peeling off like skin. The dark energy turned blue. If anyone got a closer look, they could see the numbers inside it. The Amalgamation was slowly tearing apart, turning into pure information. The blue energy became more and more... it surrounded the Amalgamation, circling around it.

Soon, the size of Amalgamation became smaller and smaller, and the blue energy became larger and larger.

Slowly, the Amalgamation covering Tatsuya had disappeared as if it was never there.

A naked Tatsuya was floating in the air covered by blue energy revolving around him. The massive energy covered thousands of miles, revolving around Tatsuya, slowly merging in his body, in his cells, in every atom.

Everything inside of him that he wasn't born with was changing into simple data. The bloodlines that get bought, they too, had turned into data.

Now, they were merging with his whole being, with his original blood as its core, his blood at its core, data were filling up his cells. Making them stronger, in between, the information became too much for his cells to takes, and they died, but sparks would appear and recreate them stronger than before.

In ways, his body was changing and becoming something new; at the same time, it turned back to how it originally was.

More and more data poured into his whole being, his body, his soul.

Yu Yan gazed at the whole thing in a daze, "...it's beautiful..." The energy covering... revolving around Tatsuya was too beautiful. She had never seen energy like that. So, beautiful, so complex, so...complete.

Miyuki looked at Tatsuya, her eyes filled with immense love, "he always is."

She watched the energy pour into Tatsuya's body and turned her eyes to Sage Emperor. He had gotten back on his feet, preparing to interfere.

She narrowed her eyes and glanced back at the six general apathetically, "Come forth! Cocytus!"

Limitless fog appeared and covered the whole Ancestral Demonic Saint Land without touching Tatsuya or the data surrounding him. It seemed to be protecting him. A shadow of a giant tree appeared in front of the limitless fog. The size of three was so massive that the Ancestral Demonic Saint Land looked like a speck of dust in front of it. Its branches passed through the dimensions themselves, covering thousands of worlds.

In Tiny World,

A woman with ginger-colored hair was staring at the crystal branches. Branches broke the barrier of the Tiny World the moment they appeared. They covered the whole sky.

"Miyuki..." She murmured.

"So it's time..." A woman with red hair standing behind her spoke.

Two purple-haired women spoke at the same time, "We will protect the Glory City."

As if on the cue,

Inside Myriad Painting,

Xiao Yu and Yang Xin were standing with Ye Mo, Ye Zong, and Ye Yan, "It's time we prepare to fight as well!"

Xiao Yu put her hand on her chest, her parent's aura surged around her, "It's time...Mom...Dad."

Draconic Ruins Realm, Divine Feathers Sect, A Valley,

Ying Yueru, sitting in meditation, opened her eyes to look at the branches of Cocytus. She looked down at her pale hand, "I might not be able to wait for you to come back..."

Inside the White World,

Long Shuyun stood over the corpse of the old man watching the branches in the transparent sky, "Take care."

Dragonseal Family,

Long Yuyin stared at the branches with a displeased expression, "We will meet again. Next time we meet, I would be ruling the Draconic Ruins Realm."

Xiao Yu's Courtyard,

Lu Piao jumped up as he looked outside, "Nie Li!! Nie Li!! Come look, What is that?!!"

Nie Li slowly walked out of his room after hearing Lu Piao, "What happened?"

Lu Piao pointed upwards, "look that!!"

Nie Li gazed upwards as his eyes widened, "what is that?"

Gu Clan,

Gu Lan peacefully looked at the branches.

Gu Bei looked at the branches in amazement, "what is that?!"

"A good omen."

Somewhere,

An old man with a silver goatee and yellow eyes stared at the branches with a smile, "the outsiders sure are powerful." He sighed, "Oh... I am becoming old."

Demon Gods Sect,

Mu Yue had stood at the broken branches of the tree, staring at the destroyed sect. Her eyes turned to the branches as she stared at them coldly, "after destroying my Sect... you better win."

Ancestral Demonic Saint Land,

Miyuki seemed to able to see all of them through the branches. She understood their feelings, feel their prayers, their hopes. She walked towards the Sage Emperor, "You will not lay a finger on him."