Saga of Atlantis

"Hey, Neil."

"Yeah."

As we walked through the lush green road covered with natural plants and branches of trees, Nadya called me, making me look back.

"Why is there Elven language used on that door when there's no sign of elves here?"

She asked, glancing around as she walked close to me.

"Hmm, I'm not sure about that," I mumbled, shaking my head.

And from what I remembered from the game, there wasn't any mention of elves there either.

'Then again, the door wasn't mentioned in the game either, it just said there were more than one entrance for this realm.'

"Something to do with you?" She asked again, bringing me out of my thoughts.

"What do you mean?"

"You know, the god thing," she replied, making an 'H' symbol with her hand.

".....Not this shit again," I grumbled, massaging my temples.

If this is something that the other 'me' has his hands on...

I will seriously be pissed at 'myself.'

I mean, come on. It's Nadya's mother we're talking about. I don't want to have anything to do with her.

'Let's just hope it's not the same case as Emily's mother.'

"Sigh..."

I sighed heavily as I moved towards the tall wall that separated the inner city from the outer city.

The wall covered the inner part of the city in a circular way, its height was enough to block any view of what lay inside, and it was wide enough to drown out any sound.

"... Would you relax, sister?"

I shifted my focus back to Nadya as she patted Elysia's arm.

Elysia's entire body was stiff, cold sweat pouring from her head. Her hand tightly clutched her spear as she cautiously scanned the area, ready to fight anything.

"Y-yeah," Elysia nodded before snapping at Nadya, "How am I supposed to relax? We are going to fight someone who is in Ascension Level!! ASCENSION LEVEL!!"

"Okay?" Nadya's tone remained unaffected as she innocently tilted her head, "I already know that, sister."

"Then why are you so calm!?" She grabbed Nadya's shoulders and shook her,

"have you not seen how powerful beings in Ascension Level are? Have you not seen how Grandma manhandled both of us when we fought her!?"

"...I do, sister." Nadya replied nonchalantly, "but if Eden brought me here, then it means he has something in mind."

"..Urgh.." Elysia groaned in frustration as she glared at me.

"What did I do?" I asked with a perplexed look on my face.

"That's what I want to ask." Walking closer towards me, Elysia replied, "What did you do to my sister?"

"... He fuc—."

"Don't you say that word, Nadya." Elysia's cheeks turned slightly red as she interrupted her sister.

"I am just answering your question." Nadya shrugged as she leisurely walked towards us.

"Why does she have blind trust in you?" Glancing back at me, Elysia asked, "why does she trust you more than me, more than our Grandma?"

'Looks like the pressure of fighting someone of a higher level is taking a toll on her thinking.'

And not to mention, whenever she is close to me, 'Athena's' condition of her bloodline doesn't work.

"Because I love her more than both of you," I replied, looking into her eyes, "because I am the one who truly understands her."

"Haah." Elysia took a deep breath to calm herself down before she looked at me. "You took every part of her heart, you took my part of her heart as well."

"Elysi—."

"I wanted to be a good sister." She whispered softly so only I could hear her, "I always wanted both of us to live like normal sisters but....We never could."

"....."

I didn't reply as I just looked at her standing just a few inches away from me.

I know what is in her mind from the start.

All she wanted from her sister was friendly competition... nothing else.

She just wanted both of them to live happily.

But...They both never could or will because Nadya knows what her darkest desires are, even if she tries to suppress them, hide them, Nadya already knows all of it.

From the start, it was impossible for both of them to have a normal relationship.

"...I don't control her thoughts, Elysia." I replied as I continued my walk, "She is the one who wants to love me more than you."

"Neil," Nadya walked close to me, silently observing her sister's conversation with me as she mumbled.

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

"...Why all of a sudden?"

"Just wanted to let you know."

"Come on, sister, we might leave you alone!" Nadya shouted towards Elysia, who stood in place, leaning on her spear for support.

Her eyes turned towards her as she slowly started to walk towards us.

As we walked towards the wall, a few more blood beasts tried to attack us, but I dispatched them with ease.

[Show off.]

'Shut up.'

It didn't take us long to reach the wall, which only had one way to enter: a large gate and a deep pit between the inner city gate and the outer city gate.

"Neil," Elysia called, pinching my shirt to get my attention.

"What?"

"What's written over there?" She asked, pointing at the top of the wall.

I followed her gaze, looking at the words written in ancient Elven language with... Red color or... blood? At the very top of the wall.

Squinting my eyes, I looked at the words before I translated it for both of them.

"We don't deserve what we got...

We didn't ask to be born like that...

We didn't want to be hated....

We didn't want to wage war...

We wanted peace...

Not extinction..."

As I finished my words, I looked at Nadya and Elysia.

They both had a serious look on their faces as they stared at the bloody words.

"How the hell did someone reach that level and there?" Nadya asked, squinting her eyes.

"...Why are you focusing on that?" Frowning, Elysia replied, "Didn't you hear what it said?"

"It's important, you know," Nadya rebuked, "What if there is something that can actually fly?"

"Ugh... you're right," Elysia nodded her head as her eyes drifted back towards the words.

"Neil."

"Yeah?"

I glanced back as Elysia called me again.

"... Something else is also written there," she replied, making me look back at it.

I also looked back at the place, and there, right below those words, another sentence was written with small words, but I felt a chill as I read those words.

"Neil."

"Neil!"

"Yeah?" I slowly looked back at Nadya as she called me.

"What does it say?" Noticing my abnormal reaction, she asked, looking at me seriously.

"I found you... Alive."

Her expression hardened as she looked at those words.

"Why?" She asked, her tone serious, "Why are those words written there?"

"Wait! Didn't you hear something similar to those words in your dreams?" Elysia, catching up to what we were talking about, exclaimed in surprise.

"You're catching onto this now?" Nadya replied with an innocent smile, "Aren't you slow?"

"Argh... What does this mean, Neil?" Ignoring her words, Elysia asked me.

"I don't know," I replied, shaking my head, "For now, let's just focus on rescuing your mother."

"... Is it safe for you to be here?" Nadya asked with a concerned look.

"... Yeah," I replied before I took out a bow of the legendary hero of the elves from my inventory.

".... The bow you stole from your archer chick," Nadya mumbled, glancing at the bow.

"Borrowed," I corrected her before I nocked an arrow on it, "Anyway, Nadya, did you read any apocalypse stories?"

"Yeah! I did! It was amazing... But why are you asking now?" Her excitement turned to concern as she asked.

"Because," I mumbled as I covered the arrow with Star Energy, aiming at the door, "We are going to face an apocalypse."