BXBX NOVEL B4 | Intermission 3
If the System was going for a motivating speech to make the users fight the corruption, then it chose the wrong person.
Her smile falters when she senses a quantum disturbance nearby though. At which point she turns her attention to look at the rift that she finds behind her. Only for her to quickly transform into a massive dragon and gobble up the dark witch in an instant to assimilate her Class S illusion magic.
"Was that necessary, devourer?" the Quantum Architect, Zaltros Vel Dar Exerian Vlake Rule, asks as he steps through the rift.
"I don\'t know, was it?" Crystal asks with a brow raised after returning to her humanoid form. Albeit with wings growing from her back.
Wings of pure darkness made out of illusion magic. The very magic she just assimilated from the Class S dark witch.
Zaltros sighs before glancing to the side for a moment, then returning his gaze to Crystal again as he asks, "I know you wanted to speak with me. Otherwise you wouldn\'t have let me find you. So speak, devourer. Unless you\'re just planning on devouring me just like you did with my predecessor."
Crystal grins at his words.
"I wouldn\'t gain anything from devouring the same species of creature twice, so there\'s no point," Crystal says, refuting his sarcastic words without verbally acknowledging the sarcasm within them. "But I would like to know when you and your dear old dad will stop messing listening in on my daughter\'s thoughts. It\'s really starting to piss me off."
"Your daughter?" Zaltros asks while narrowing his eyes. "I\'m sorry, but if you\'re speaking about her actual blood, she\'s now more my daughter than she is yours. And with your absence, I don\'t think you have the right to claim mother rights now."
A brief spark of fury rises within Crystal\'s eyes before she quenches it just as quickly as it appeared. Then she smirks at Zaltros and says, "Is that so, Zal?"
The Quantum Architect flinches at the nickname Lexi gave him.
"Your stalking of her mind should make it clear just what she thinks of the two of us, so would you like to repeat that in front of her, Zal?" Crystal continues while putting her hands on her hip and getting rid of the illusion of wings on her back. Only to make an illusion of blades growing and then vanishing from her elbows as she tests out the magic more.
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Meanwhile the Quantum Architect just flinches again.
Then Crystal goes in for the killing shot as she floats up into the air while summoning forth several screens around her using the quantum magic she\'s finally managed to figure out thanks to her watching her daughter practice from time to time with her own energy manipulation. And the sight of that makes the Quantum Architect\'s eyes fill with rage.
Rage at the sight of someone else using the architect\'s quantum magic.
And at the sight of that someone else not being bound by the universe like he is. Even if said person is also being hunted down by the universe at the same time.
"You want to know something I find hilarious?" Crystal continues talking as she messes with the screens around her to make a chair of glitching quantum energy appear beneath her that she proceeds to sit on. "The fact that the universe is merely trying to punish me. Not kill me."
Zal flinches again at that statement, clearly understanding her meaning.
He can\'t just ignore that fact. It\'s undeniable.
Crystal knows full well that the universe should be calling for her head for what she\'s done. But instead it\'s merely calling for her imprisonment and nothing more.
Which means the universe needs the last remaining devourer.
For one reason or another, it needs her. So it can\'t have her die before then.
It also means that Crystal won\'t have to worry about the universe marking her as a target for her own daughter.
Not that she could ever see Lexi trying to kill her, regardless of how long she has been away. Much less simply because the universe told her to do so.
Crystal knows full well that Lexi would just ignore the universe and continue doing whatever it is she was doing. Which right now is ignoring the System.
That reminder almost makes Crystal let out a chuckle, but she holds it in because of the infuriated quantum being in front of her.
Eventually Zal regains his composure and asks with a scowl on his face, "What is it that you needed to discuss with me?"
Crystal taps her finger on her chin a few times before answering honestly, "Well, part of it was to gloat about my learning to control your magic." The Quantum Architect\'s eyebrow twitches with his irritation. A habit Crystal remembers Lexi sometimes having as well. "But I also wanted you to pass on a message to your father. The Quantum Ruler. Since I can\'t freely enter the quantum realm without that bastard finding me."
Zal calms down again after hearing the second matter before he mutters, "Why do you never act this rudely around Lexi?" Only for him to speak again, acting like his muttered words weren\'t said as he says, "Very well. What message do you want passed on?"
This time Crystal narrows her eyes at his first words. At the Quantum Architect\'s response to her own pointed comment. Then she sighs and rests her arms on the armrests of the seat she is in while stating, "I would like you to tell him that I\'m calling on the favor."
Her words make the Quantum Architect freeze in place. Which doesn\'t surprise Crystal.
Because very few people would ever suspect the Quantum Ruler himself to owe anyone any favors.
But Crystal needs his help. Otherwise she will never find a chrono for its time magic.
"Very well," Zal states before stepping back through the rift without another word. The shock about his father owing a favor seemingly too much for him to bear talking with her any longer.
Crystal just disintegrates her throne with a sigh and resumes her search for a chrono.
Someday soon, I\'ll be able to deal with that bastard\'s punishments and break out on my own.
She smiles at the thought of spending time with her daughters after that.