Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Revia sucked in a deep breath. For the past few days, she had been a hollow shell that only stared at the walls, a particular series of events repeating over and over again in her mind.

She couldn't help but wonder what her role was I life.

Sure, she hadn't believed in the doctrine of the Deities or whatever ever since she was inducted. Even as she grew to receive a Divine Blessing, she didn't see the process as anything to prove how true the teachings she had heard her were but could only derive from it the fact that seemingly anyone could be chosen to hold a Blessing, even if they didn't believe.

That said, what now?

She had completed... no, she had been used to set the stage for a horrendous atrocity only a few months away.

That had been why she was spared by Actuass.

She was no longer needed.

That was what she thought.

Revia clutched her hair and for a moment, she lost it.

She shook vigorously and screamed at the top of her lungs while stomping the floor as hard as she could!

Curse this stupid undying body!

Curse this damned life!

Curse her father!

Curse.... Elita who didn't come to her rescue.

Revia shook.

She broke down into a mess of tears.

It wasn't fair to blame Elita. Even if she somehow found her, there was no way she could help but... for someone as young as Revia, added onto her current situation, throwing a tantrum like this was only natural.

"Would you mind keeping it down? You're not the only one living in this house, you know?"

Revia slowly turned her head to the open door and breathed out several anguished bursts of air.

"It's been a few days. I'd hoped you would have calmed down by now."

The person standing by the door was Fulina.

She held a tray with food on it and walked with it into the room, setting it on a table beside the bed where Revia was seated.

After setting the food down, she turned to leave but stopped when she had reached the door.

"You know, regardless of what you do, you're one of us now," Fulina said with a sigh.

"I'm NOTHING like you!" Revia shot at Fulina with a ferocity in her eyes that bubbled all the way to her hands that trembled as she balled them to fists.

"Right..." Fulina said with a series of ridiculing nods as she twisted her lips and leaned against the wall.

"If you're nothing like us, then what are you? A victim? Someone whom fate has done wrong? What is a Spirit Warden anyway? Do you even know that much about yourself? I'd gladly switch places with you if I could."

This set Revia off.

"What did you just say?"

"You heard exactly what I just said. From the first day you arrived with Actuass, I could see that fragile look in your eyes. You pitied yourself, practically screaming out that you were a victim not given a choice in life. I know a fair amount about you. You had an abusive father, the one whom you got your Warden powers from. He enslaved your entire family to doing what he desired without even realising it. Right? Your mother and brother died of the same tragic disease and you were about to commit suicide when it all came crashing down on you. Hmph. What a tame life," Fulina said.

Huff, huff!

Revia trembled with fury all the more.

"How... do you know that?!"

Fulina shrugged.

"Necromancy is a very useful tool," she replied nonchalantly.

...!

Revia was beginning to foam from the mouth.

"Anyway, there is nowhere else you belong in this world except with us. I'm sure the Purity teaches you that we are villains. It's true. We are. But that doesn't do us justice. We are an opposing side in this unfair world. You should know more than most that we don't all have reasons to be thankful about ourselves right?"

"Fuck you..." Revia said with a harsh emphasis.

Fulina gave a pitying smile.

"You once told Actuass that he was grooming his own killer. What a joke. You're breaking yourself day by day and you won't even accept reality. Maybe you were just a measly pawn in the end."

Revia couldn't take it anymore.

She suddenly growled and lunged at Fulina!

This bitch!

Acting like she knew everything about her!

Acting like she was some kind of enlightened being who had somehow seen the very workings of reality!

She just had to give her one solid punch!

And she did.

However...

It wasn't as she had expected.

Her body had suddenly surged with immense power, everything seeming to stop as if she was suddenly all alone... only she being the one moving, breaking apart the still air, shattering through the calm space...

This sensation...

Her fist dug into Fulina's face, breaking up the bone and boring into it as if it was made of clay!

This speed...

Even though she had a purple core...

Even though she was at the Master Stage...

There was no way Fulina, who was at a similar level of strength, couldn't have dodged her when she was this mentality fatigued.

Then this speed she showed... it was way beyond what she was capable of without her lost Divine Blessing meaning...

Wait.

Divine Blessing...?

BOOOOM!

As soon as Revia stopped, Fulina head exploded and her body slumped to the ground.

The former Paladin Champion huffed.

This power.

How was this possible?

"It's about time."

Revia shot her head to the side in surprise as she heard the voice of the same person she had just bashed with her fist into just now.

Fulina was standing outside the room, in the exact same stance she had been in when she was pummelled just now!

Wait.

Revia turned to the body slumped to the side.

It had the same face and body structure but... it started to leak out wisps of a dark, purple energy!

It wasn't Fulina!

Revia turned to the real version of the individual she had been talking to, her eyes still burning with the desire to beat her down. A certain degree of confidence was now noticeable in her eyes now.

Just now, she was starting to realise why she had regained her speed!

This was exactly as Actuass had said.

Her Divine Blessing, <Hearts of Clarity>, was gone but Blessings didn't reside in the soul. They resided in the body. However, the soul which was a storage for information both old and new, could replicate details about the body with time.

This process would usually be very long for complex things like Divine Blessings, sometimes even being impossible, but Revia's soul wasn't normal. As a Spirit Warden, she was unique!

"I hope you let go of that hypocrisy of yours now. For someone with as much reason to want to burn the world as anyone else, you sure can lie to yourself. You still have the same powers regardless of which side you're on. Only this time, you can't die. Even Direction doesn't care what you do," Fulina said as she turned, slowly walking down the wide hallway.

"Come, let's formally introduce you to the group."

Revia wore a complicated look on her face.

This was it...

Deep within her, the return of her speed brought about a certain amount of joy back to her.

Besides being a prodigy and having Elita by her side, she had had her speed which she was confident in.

Fulina words pinched her.

The crutch that perhaps she was born to make a difference while on the good side with her ridiculous powers was cracked.

Truly...

Maybe...

No one cared from which side she fought.

This slight push back to her normal state of mind, made her take a step to follow Fulina...