[Individualism.]

Dawn left for the aura guild, but before that she talked to Emilia about the city of Pax, it was a mixed city with no set race and as such, from elves to drows can be found in such places. But sadly, the social division of that city was that there were way too much poor people and the nobles kept on demanding more and more money for the people that lived in Pax city, that also meant that bandits roamed everywhere on the outskirts of the city waiting for weary travelers to pass by and steal their belongings.

Dawn also explained the situation of the aura guild in that location, the situation was terrible because of the nobles that forced the aura guild to move away from the city, leaving that region slightly unguarded of otherwordly creatures. The aura guild was now established a few hundred kilometers away and had built a small post to keep refugees who flee from the city of Pax.

After all that talk Emilia went to her room to sleep and Dawn went to give back Drake's badge.

...

Emilia curled up in a ball in one of the many beds in the castle to sleep but before sleeping, she had checked her to-do list to make and added a few other minor things before finally sleeping.

In the land of dreams, Emilia found herself in a forest filled with exotic vegetation, it took a few seconds for Emilia to realize that she was lucid and where she was to finally move around the place, walking forward for a few seconds led her towards a giant tail burning in black fire and another dragon just like Emilia sitting right in front of the roasting tail, that dragon was Chrono.

"Come, sit by my side," Chrono asked, her tail tapping on the ground signaling where Emilia should sit. "How long are we gonna keep this play?" Chrono asked, the sound of the fire slowly burning flesh was relaxing and the smell of it could make any mouth water, though this was only a dream.

"Huh?" Emilia didn't understand what Chrono was saying. Chrono turned her head to look into Emilia's eyes, Chrono could feel the disgusting feeling of empathy and kindness from Emilia, her core soul essence. Chrono felt slightly weirded by this as well as she had abandoned most emotions so that she could catch up to her brothers.

"Incomplete, aren't you tired of it?" Chrono voice sounded annoyed.

"I am not incomplete-"

"YOU ARE INCOMPLETE. We. Are. INCOMPLETE." Chrono voice filled with hostility echoed throughout the dream, the fire moved as a reaction to her voice, and the trees shook as if they felt fear.

"I am not you, and i will never be you." Emilia replied with equal hostility but with a calm voice instead, Chrono eyes looked once more into Emilia's eyes, Chrono slowly got up and so did Emilia.

"You are me, but you just happened to gain a conscience and lived a small, pathetic human life. You are my core soul essence and you will return to me as i order!" one of Chrono's front paws stomped on the ground, and the whole land shake as if an earthquake had just happened in this place.

"I am no part of you and i will neither ever follow any order of a psychotic little fuck." Emilia replied, unphased by what Chrono just did.

Chrono didn't wait any longer and pounced at Emilia like a wild animal, with her front paw forward slashing through Emilia's chee followed by a tackle making Emilia fall to the ground and finishing with a bite in Emilia's neck, ripping off a part of her neck, yellow blood flew out of Emilia's neck and splashed on the ground forming a small puddle. But this wasn't a one-sided beating as Emilia soon counter-attacked with her front-left claw at Chrono's cheek, the claw grappled on Chrono's cheek and Emilia used this as an advantage ripping off a part of Chrono face, revealing part of Chrono fangs. Of course, Chrono seemed unphased by such severe injuries and her fangs sank deep into Emilia's neck, trying to decapitate her, Emilia struggled until she managed to roll a round and push Chrono away.

Chrono body almost instantly regenerates to its normal self while Emilia staggered in pain, "This is the difference between us, you were born in a nice little world with no threats to your meaningless life, i was born from nothingness and had to pave my way to being able to raze universes to dust, destroy multiverses as easily as breathing."

Emilia staggered in pain to get on her four paws once more but with enough effort, she got up and snorted, "You say that we are the same yet you contradict yourself. Wanna know the punchline of all of this? Even if you are as powerful as you say you cannot beat me, hypocrite." Chrono stomps her front paw with anger and this time, the entire scenario collapses as the landscape of the dream changes to the origin of time.

"Let's see if that statement stays true." Chrono rushed head-on once more, Emilia slashed forward in advance but Chrono stopped abruptly and it was too late for Emilia to notice that it was a faint, Chrono used her two front paws to immediately stop and flip to hit Emilia with her thick tail, smashing her onto the water, after this attack Chronos quickly readjust herself and pushed Emilia head down to the water of time, "Let's see how you hold o-" A sudden force smashed Chrono into the water as well, it was Emilia telekinesis that brought Chrono down to the water together.

The silver water of time wasn't like normal water, it was viscous and heavy, slowly sinking the two time dragons deeper and deeper, but the silver water of time wouldn't stay silver for long as yellow blood came as Emilia ripped off a few scales of Chronos body, Chrono claws suddenly glowed as she did a movement of a swing, a yellow line moved like a whip underwater nearly hitting Emilia as she swiftly dodged to the side, if the water wasn't so viscous it would have hit. But Chrono wouldn't make the same mistake twice as she used her telekinesis to hold her in place, this time it won't miss.

But as the yellow time element whip is about to hit Emilia it suddenly slows down until it stopped, Chrono noticing Emilia's sudden increase in speed also reacts by accelerating herself as well but Emilia had the advantage, she quickly broke the telekinesis barrier that Chrono used on her by using her telekinesis, not missing the opportunity Emilia made it's the way toward Chrono with a speed 70x faster than sound and uppercut Chrono out of the water and straight into the sky, the shockwave of the punch was so great that the water around Emilia had formed a gaping hole which Emilia used to fly up toward Chronos.

As soon as Emilia started to fly upward Chrono had already disappeared from her field of view, "Your stupidity knows no bounds, you fight like a monkey and think like a rat, humans as a species were just a mistake that the transcendent law of nature created." Chrono voice echoed through the skies, Emilia looked up and her eyes widened as she saw a perfect yellow sphere coming down towards her if she were to guess, it as big as the moon, and at the center of that sphere was Chronos continuously expanding the yellow sphere with the time element. "Destiny, continuity, reality, cosmos and everything is below me and always will be below me." Chronos rushed down, and the huge yellow sphere decayed all atoms and matter that it came into contact, vaporizing everything and destroying everything.

BOOM!

The yellow sphere of time element suddenly crushed itself and exploded, destroying continuity and creating a void in which time didn't exist, the explosion could be compared to a supernova in size.. A few seconds later the endless ocean of time and space recovered itself, Emilia could be seen slowly sinking into the silver water again, her body covered in her yellow blood as an arm and her tail missing, all her scales had peeled off and she was completely blind.

"You can't kill me even if you wanted." Even so, in all the pain she felt, her vocal cords were fine enough to speak, Emilia spoke as she felt her body sinking to taunt Chrono, after she was right, Chrono couldn't kill her because if she did, all memory that Chrono had of who and what she was would inexistent, that was comparable to death.

Chrono slowly descended from the sky and used telekinesis to maintain Emilia afloat, Chrono looked at Emilia with hatred and spoke, "I don't have to kill you, eventually you will give away, and you will become one with me." Chrono raised her paw as she prepared to skin Emilia alive, not that there was any skin at all. "I will break you over and over again."

"A weird figure that had a pumpkin on its head told me that she found someone that matches your soul frequency." Emilia suddenly brought the topic up, Chrono instantly stopped and asked, "Who?"

"I can't tell you in this state." Chrono grunted and said, "I won't heal you."

Emilia weakly replied, "Then i won't tell you." Chrono snorted and stood there silently before sighing, "I could torture it out of you."

Emilia replied cockily, "I could die in the middle of that torture." Chrono spoke calmly, "I wouldn't let you die."

"But i could, it's a possibility." Chrono grunted once more before raising her paw, Emilia's body and scenario reverted to when they were sitting back on the burning tail.

"Tell me who it is." Chrono sounded impatient, Emilia grinned and looked spoke with a smile, "I don't know~"

"You-" Chrono was ready to destroy Emilia once again but Emilia quickly spoke, "Pampkin said for you to behave and help me."

Chrono abruptly stopped and looked at Emilia with hatred, "Lulu would never ask for me to help you."

"Lulu?" Emilia asked curiously but Chrono didn't seem like she was going to answer her question, Emilia coughed and spoke, "It is what that Pampkin or Lulu character said."

Chrono sighed in defeat, "What? Is that thing more powerful than time itself?" Emilia said jokingly.

"That thing you just mention is a Soul Creator, 10th level of Creation, someone like that can destroy the infinite universes, multiverses, hyperverses, the entirety of the omniverse and the higher realms of existence with a thought." Chrono angrily replied, Emilia simply shrugged, "Like that is my problem."

"But out of curiosity, where are you in all that creation nonsense?" Emilia asked.

"17th level of soul understanding, that is level 0. and anyone at the 17th level can destroy and create great cosmos, or as your pitiful humans say, multiverse." Chrono proudly replied.

"Wow, for someone so strong to lose to me." As Emilia said that, Chrono didn't even try anymore.

"..So what do you want help with?" Chrono asked in defeat.

Emilia smiled and said, "How do i progress to the next stage?"

Chrono sighed, "It's the omega system of mana right? So the next stage is the Ethereal Point?"

"No, body strengthening stage."

"Delta system then, you should first know how to fight like a dragon, not like a dog." Chrono replied nonchalantly, "You are terrible at combat prowess, you only landed some hits on me because i didn't care about the damage i took."

"Pfft, there is no need to combat training, if what Dawn says is right i should be the strongest and only dragon on the planet, plus i could almost fight on equal terms with you by only relying on strength." Emilia replied

Chrono spoke and snorted, "If i went all out with my fighting style you would beg me and say that you would forget me."

"Never." Emilia replied.

"You already did it twice." Chrono affirmed

"That was past me~" Emilia shrugged it off, Chrono sighed and decided not to pursue this topic.

"There are 4 existences that would beat you in a fight on the planet you are, and for actual dragons, you are nothing but an ant. Let's talk more tomorrow and don't forget, i hate you with every fiber of my soul." Chrono said and closed her eyes, preparing to sleep.

"So you love me~" Emilia reply received Chrono's tail slap sending her face crashing into the ground, "Just get out already, the small time we spent here was already nearly 9 hours outside."

"9 hours?!"