THE BELL OF SEPARATION

THE BELL OF SEPARATION

"There is and will be as a matter of free will and choice. You'll just have to choose it when the time comes", he replied to me.

Then I remembered what Hanuman the Ayen god told me before.

"I will need to find the old man at the foot of Heaven", I said to Delirium.

"No, when the time comes, the old man will come find you", Delirium replied to me.

"The Dark Angel souls will prevent me from meeting the old man", I told Delirium sadly.

The Dark Angel souls of the previous Dark Angels were still residing in my soul realm, and they became sentient and aware. They were aware of all my actions and would stop me from doing anything not sanctioned by them.

"I have a solution to that for you", Delirium told me before wearing a chain on my neck with a familiar bell on it.

"Why did you give me your cat bell?" I asked him.

"This is the Bell of Separation. I created it when I was under the Curse of Delirium. It would separate me from the influence of Lucidity. The Bell will separate your experiences from the experiences of the souls of the Dark Angels in your soul", Delirium told me to my excitement.

"Bell of Separation"

"So, I can shut out those damn Dark Angel souls with the Bell on me?" I asked Delirium.

"Yes, the Bell will be effective for some time, until the Dark Angel souls in you fully recover their magic", Delirium told me.

"Damn, I'll have to find the old man at the foot of Heaven before that", I said to him.

"Or find a way to stop those bloody old souls first", Delirium added.

"Is that possible? To stop the Dark Angel souls from controlling my existence?" I asked.

"That is up to you. You are after all the Incarnate of the Dark Angel", he replied to me.

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We waited a few more days until Rinna woke up again.

"Rinna what happened to you after you took the seed from me? You shouldn't have done what you did for me", I told her angrily.

"It was the only way to save you, and it seems to be something that I should do. The seed was looking for me actually and thanks to you, it found me", Rinna replied to me.

"What happened to your soul realm?" I asked Rinna.

"Nothing much except a large, withered red tree took up most of my realm. My serpents became the branches of the serpent tree, and they seem to like it there", Rinna said to me.

"Your soul realm became like mine, but instead of being possessed by the Dark Angel's souls it is possessed by the Serpent Mother's", I told Rinna my observation.

"There is still much I don't understand about what happened but for now, the Tree in my soul does me no harm", Rinna said to me.

"You should be careful with the Mother in your soul. If something seems too good to be true, it usually is", Ratatouille advised Rinna in a rare act of concern.

"Thanks, I'll remember", she replied to him.

Soon, it was time to leave Delirium, and it would be many years before the portal to this Dimension would open again.

"Goodbye Dark Angel, we will meet again", Delirium said to me.

"We will meet again," I replied to him.

"As for you my lady, I have something for you", Delirium said to Rinna suddenly before he summoned a cube.

"It's a Tesseract", Rinna cried out loud in excitement.

"Tesseract of Chaos"

"Take it now", I said to Rinna as she quickly summoned her Serpents.

Instead of a multi-headed python, what appeared was a withered treant of sorts whose many branches transformed into the heads of serpents.

"Serpent of Nehess"

Nehess was one of the serpents on Rinna's tree with the appearance of Jormungan. He had powerful maw and fangs that quickly ate the cubic Tesseract that Delirium gave to her.

"Why did you give me the Tesseract of Chaos?" Rinna asked Delirium.

"Because you will need it. Your fates are entangled, the Dark Angel and you. You will do your part in Revelation if you choose to. The Tesseract will give you a choice to choose your own path", Delirium replied to her.

Suddenly, the withering, red, mother serpent tree in Rinna's soul started to grow again. Rinna sensed the change in her soul realm almost immediately and became interested or concerned about how it would affect her.

"What part do I have in the Revelations? The Serpent?" Rinna asked Meera.

"I'm only knowledgeable with the scrolls of Revelations that pertained to the Dark Angel but there will be more scriptures in the Temple of Dragons that relate to the Serpent", Meera replied to her.

"What is the endgame of the Revelations?" I asked Delirium.

"I cannot tell you that. You will have to discover that yourselves. Farewell", Delirium told us before he disappeared.

"Why is Delirium so helpful to the Revelations?" I asked after Delirium had left.

"Delirium was the ally of the Dark Angel during the Revelations. That was the reason his Black Heart was entrusted to him", Ratatouille told us.

"Damn, I even asked him to filter my mind from the Dark Angel. What if he had snitched on me?" I asked with concern.

"Delirium seems to be placing his bets on you now rather than the old Dark Angels since he gave you the Bell of Separation", Ratatouille said to me.

"Hopefully he is a friend and not a foe", I replied to him.

"What shall we do now?" Melroy asked.

"Well, we leave this damn place of course", Sara replied to him.

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Although the outer realms of Delirium now were bright as day, there were no longer magic clouds in the sky that prevented us from leaving the place.

Delirium removed the clouds from the outer realm after he defeated Lucidity.

"Where are we going?" Chash asked us when Delirium Castle disappeared behind us.

"What the hell, how do we get out of here?", Sara cursed to us.

"Delirium could have just summoned a portal for us to return to the Ten-Kingdoms", Cassandra said to us.

"He could have done so", I replied to her before I thought of something and added, "Perhaps, there is more to be done here in this realm".

"What more can be done here? I have enough of the scenery", Melroy said to us as he hugged his four wives who looked bored with the scenery.

We tried to return to the point of origin when we came to this realm. However, along the way, Sara scanned the realm but found no people there.