So many questions and so little answers, Elizabeth was more fused than ever, she of course khat things had gotten to this point because of her own personal choices.

  Why was her Soulscape turning into...whatever this was?

  Because she never fought against the things that got thrown into her p, the first time she arrived at the boratory/library for example. She had gotten the feeling that this wasn't what her Soulscape should be.

  And had she attempted to seek help or ge it... A single call to her Mother would have solved it.

  Mother would have probably purged the thing and helped her make a new one or even checked if it was really hers.

  But she did not, gra those times she was... a little more mentally challenged, with all the thought rollbacks the system was giving her, it was a surprise she was even funal.

  She still had to deal with some of the bad habits that got ingrained into her for that same reason.

  Namely...Her pent fn problems, but it was so easy...to not deal with her problems.

  "Okay, Mordred. This is your first job." Elizabeth said turning to her ... what was she even? They ended up giving Mordred all of Beatrice's jobs because she was more than a mere Minion.

  "At your service Mistress," Mordred said, bowing to her. Did this girl have a thing for bowing? She had bowed enough for all the minions here. And she didn't even leave the room. Why was she even bowing again?

  "Check where the Shadow Haven influends and what type of e it has with those around it." Elizabeth said summoning a map of the Shadow Haven.

  Elizabeth narrowed her eyes at the thing. It looked big, but with a mere flick of her will, zoomed out, and the Shadow Haven turned small pared to all the dark on it.

  "Do you wish for us to expand the area of influence?" Mordred asked, Elizabeth could see the fire of quest on the girl's eyes.

  "No." So Elizabeth squashed that thought from the start, she didn't want to start a war with...the denizen of her... "*Sigh* We don't want to start a war with the people of...My World."

  It huuuuuuuurttttttttttttt (Not really), Elizabeth really o do this, to leave her bimbo ways behind and look clearly at what was standing in front of her.

  "It will be done," Mordred said without thinking too much about what had happened.

  "Are you well Mistress? Do you have a fever?" Aura suddenly teleported to the side of Elizabeth, pg her hand on Elizabeth's forehead.

  She had some fever medie and a cold pack ready.

  "...I hate you so muetimes Aura." Elizabeth said, gring at the purple-haired girl.

  "You hurt my feelings Mistress, I was just making sure you were okay. Overthinking is not good for your bimbo brain." Aura said with a smirk as she staggered backward, pretending to be hurt. Of course this wasn't believable sihe girl was smirking all the way.

  She wasn't eveending that hard!

  "I came to report that Lady Beatrice's Soul has settled oemporary temple within your Domain," Aura said, raising her left hand and projeg a small ball of energy surrounded by azure and golden light.

  "...thank you, Aura," Elizabeth said, turnitention to the proje; she tried to get a feeling for where it was, so she could perhaps visit it ter Rossie there.

  But she came up empty; no matter how much she extended her senses, she couldn't find the pce within her Soulscape.

  "Sis? Did you find that girl?" And suddenly a voice sounded from the proje.

  "No, how did she eve here? No o us should be able to e here! At least not unless Elizabeth finishes her apotheosis." A sed voice souhis one almost sounded like Elizabeth. The iion was wrong, and this one had a slightly higher pitch than her.

  Aura closed her hand killing the proje atop her hand and acted as if the voices hadn't been there, "So, I assume the new girl going around will take on Lady Beatrice's work?" Asked Aura.

  "...Yes, she will..." Elizabeth said narrowing her eyes at Aura, "Where is that pce Aura? Because I 't feel that within my Soulscape."

  "Of course you 't, there is no way a mortal soul withstand another one awaiting resurre." Aura shrugged as she answered, "Do you really want to know?"

  The atmosphere around Aura ged as she uttered those words, her eyes seemed to ge from the usual purple to ohat looked as if they held steltions on them.

  What the hell was wrong with the people within her Soulscape?!?!?

  "...Yes," Elizabeth answered, brag herself. If something happened she was ejeg Aura from here, she should be able to do it... At the very least she should be able to eject her from the Shadow Haven...

  Even if that left Aura wandering around...Her World.

  "Okay!" Aura said with a smile as her eyes returo normal as if what she had seen was nothing special. "Lady Beatrice's Soul is within your Divinity."

  ...HER WHAT?!?!?

  "...Aura?" Elizabeth said coughing into her hand, "I am Human."

  "Allegedly, yes. You are indeed Human." Aura answered nodding.

  "What do you mean allegedly!" Elizabeth retorted back, " I am human, art of this (Quite geous) body isn't human!?!?!?!?"

  Aura looked her up and down, "I mean, sure. That body is Human." Said the purple-haired girl as she nodded. "But a month ago your body was closer to a True Dragon."

  ....ugh... There was no denying that.

  "No normal Human ge from that into this, hell. I am half sure no normal Dragon achieve that either, and they are usually at the peak of their Worlds." Aura said smirking once more, atop her hand images of cities being razed by giant dragons and civilizations springing and advang.

  Some worlds had swords and magic, others flew through the sky in brooms, and others used metal wings. Of fire, water, wind, and in one particur instance, someone just flew through the sky.

  Had...had Aura traveled all those worlds?

  How?

  Hadn't she just revived retly? What the hell had Aura been doing?!?!?!?

  "So tell me Elizabeth, what reason you ge from something that should put you in your path to being something great...into this?" Aura asked.

  ...She...

  "Well, I just used my Shift..." Elizabeth answered she hadn't...well, of course, she had checked, and the thing's description had grown to aodate her desires. Her wish.

  Oh...

  "Exactly," Aura said, "You used something to ge into something else, but what you used was something special to you... Something that only you have."

  So that was it?

  "That is your Authority. Or one of them anyway, usually the Divine only has one, your case is different since you have three." Aura said sighing.

  No wait, three? How or why did she have three?!?!?

  "The first one is the one you were born with, the ohat you were supposed to achieve on Zaanam." Aura said, raising a finger.

  "The Shadow Weaver?" Elizabeth asked, or well, firmed. Since she was sure it was that.

  "Yes, you were supposed to bee the Goddess of Shadows - The Shadow Weaver." Aura said, nodding, "The oo link and provide, to help the world flourish aend her authority to all the living beings on this pne."

  Yeah...that sounded like too much work, better to let the System that Papa and Mother were sustaining to do that.

  "The sed?" Elizabeth asked, she... hoped it wasn't what she thought it was.

  "The sed is the one passed down to you in that [Heart]," Aura said pointing at Elizabeth's chest. "The ohat put you ih of the Dragon, and the reason you became The Debauchery Dragon."

  ...Elizabeth did not like that title.

  "And the third is the gift that was given to your past life to enjoy on his sed life, the gift Alexanders Saintsworth passed down to you when he decided that he didn't want a sed life." Aura said, nont; even so, Elizabeth caught a glimpse of...regret?

  She wasn't quite sure, but it was as if Aura was remembering something.

  "And that is?" Elizabeth asked, "What, my Shift? That was an authority grao Alexanders?"

  That seemed...underwhelming.

  "Yes, he wished for freedom. And what is freer than someone who bee anything? He was someone who was bound more than anyone, even though he was rid powerful. " Aura said shaking her head.

  He was?

  Elizabeth never got that feeling from him. Granted, she hadn't ied that much with him.

  "And how do you know this?" Elizabeth asked, she... was sure Alexanders hadn't ied with anyone from Zaanam. She wasn't that sure about Alexa for some reason, even though the little girl was mostly just adorable and cute.

  "That...Is for perhaps aime?" Aura said sheepishly, only to be gred at by Elizabeth for an answer. "*Sigh* Fine, I saw him."

  She what?

  "You what?" Elizabeth asked, "How? He was dead. He may have roamed around on my Soulscape, but that wasn't the Shadow Haven, and if what impression I got from him is right... Mostly from the security I have avaible on this spire, then the Soulscape I had at the time he was around was not something just anyone could invade."

  To be fair, her was this one.

  "I didn't see him as in, know him." Aura crified, "Most like...I saw some fragments here and there from some of the nearby [Worlds] that are being born on the immediate reality nodes close to us. Memories of his life as, being shared willingly to nurture new worlds..."

  That...

  He was sharing his life? Elizabeth didn't eve a glimpse of that life! And it was her past life!

  "And?" Elizabeth asked.

  "Well, he was a very unlucky and ed man. Tied by society and w, tied by his own choices and his bad decisions." Aura shrugged, "Overall... I wouldn't reend it, and if anything. It puts into perspective your decision of wanting to just ze around, if that my past life. I would too wish for nothing more than to ze around as much as possible."

  ...Well, she felt as if that should be an insult, a couldn't say anything against it.

  "Fine, so I have these things. Why does having a Bloodline from a Dragon, a Skill that allows me to be whatever I wish and a Fate that I don't want means my Soulscape turned into this?" Elizabeth said, feeling somewhat silly for saying it aloud.

  "Really?" Aura asked, "You have no idea why any of those three things would end up with this?"

  "Mistress? There are no exges between the Shadow Haven and the settlements around us." Mordred chimed up from the side.

  "Thank you Mordred-" Elizabeth was about to dismiss her wheiced the w, "No wait just a goddamned sed. Settlements? Plural? There are more?"

  "Yes, besides the Thunder Settlement, there is some evidence of a Fire settlement being formed, and what seems to be a nomad group of fireflies flying around. Do you wish for us to iigate them in more detail?" Mordred said bringing up the evideo the front.

  "No, not for now. These...doesn't seem to be fully formed yet, we will deal with them as they e." Elizabeth... would o sit down and check everything wouldn't she?

  "Good choice! That is the bimbo we love!" Aura cheered from the back. Earning herself a gre from Elizabeth as a result.

  "I will deal with that AFTER dealing with this, there are many things I o deal with, and going on a ta right now is not the answer." Elizabeth said to Aura, then turning to Mordred, "Good work Mordred, get started on cheg your new job and if you need somethi me known as soon as possible."

  Aura shrugged at the bad waved as Mordred left in a smoke of shadows.

  "The new girl is too edgy Mistress, you may end up cutting yourself if you try to kiss her." Aura giggled as she said that.

  "I am not going to bed her!" Elizabeth screamed back, holding her head as she sighed, "I am not a nympho that jumps on the first cute girl that shows up, I would probably tie you down if that was the case."

  "...you get nothing from fttery." Aura grumbled, "... too te for that."

  "So? You were going to expin this mess." Elizabeth stated once more.

  "Right, well. First of all," Aura said standing straighter, "Your first thing is, your Fate as the Shadow Weaver, this alone would guarahat you would grow to godhood after being born to Eleanore Windsor and Jack Ashcroft."

  "Which I was not," Elizabeth said, "I was born to Catheriarlight and Jack Brighton."

  "Semantics, you have the body made from Eleanore Windsor's Power and the Soul nurtured by Jack Ashcroft." Aura shruged, that sounded like something important that Elizabeth o check ter. "As a sed point, you have a Heart made to take in Souls and refiheir faith and power into Divinity."

  ...Wasn't the Seven Series Heart something to purify Sin Energy? Elizabeth thought it was made to purify Sin Energy...

  "And st but not least by any means...You have the Shift, something that allows you to twist reality into being your Bitd allows you te reality with delusions." Aura giggled as she said those words, "So you have the base to bee a Goddess, the energy source to bee a Goddess and the power to bee anything you wish to be. What do you think your soul would look like in these circumstahen?"

  "...As something normal? Since I did use my Shift to bee Human." Elizabeth grumbled.

  "Yes, this is a VERY HUMAN SOUL looking pce Mistress." Aura shrugged, "It is very normal to have A WHOLE FRIG WORLD stu the pce that your Soul should be."

  "...So? I don't taste any Divine Mana here, or Prana for that matter." Elizabeth pointed out. "If I was already oh to divinity, where is that?"

  "That...is actually fair," Aura said, nodding, "Here it is."

  "SIS! I FOUND HER!" The scream of Alice resounded as a made of shadows tried to fly throught a portal that Aura had summoned. "Oh...hello Elizabeth."

  "...Hello to you too, Alice," Elizabeth said, waving at the bck-haired girl...and the made of shadows that were stuck against an invisible wall. "What...is happening there?"

  "Oh, nothing much. Your ex is just going into pces that she shouldn't." Alice said while gring at Aura.

  It was a good thing that Rossie wasn't around...Or Rena...Or any of the valkyries.

  "My what?" Elizabeth asked turning to look at Aura, she had never been romantically involved with Aura though...

  "Sorry to break it to you Dist Elizabeth, but unlike your progenitor I don't swing that way," Aura said with a mock smile.

  "..." "..." Both Alid Elizabeth looked at each other. her said anything.

  "So? Why are you poking holes into Elizabeth's Domain." Alice finally said turning to gre at Aura.

  "Mistress is finally moving past her bimbo behaviors and is asking the right questions, so I wao respect her choices." Aura said while pointing at Elizabeth.

  "...Really?" Alice asked with a surprised face.

  "You found her sis? ...Oh, Hello Elizabeth...We...are a figment of your imagination!" Chloe said as she got into the frame of the window, "Alice! Close that thing before we overwork Elizabeth's bimbo brain!"

  ...Rude.

  Fair, but Rude.

  "Really?" Elizabeth said with a sigh, "I am not that dumb. I know for a fact that whatever or wherever you two are isn't the Shadow Haven. Or within my Soulscape for that matter. Is it also on this p? Outside my area of influence?"

  "...Yes...?" Alice said in a questioning tone.

  "...No...?" Chloe said almost immediately too.

  And finally, but not least, Aura added, "That would be...not quite right." To make it more fusing.

  "...So they are within this p, but outside my area of influence." Elizabeth asked.

  "Yes, they are within this phat you have not named yet." Aura nodded.

  "We are within your Divinity, problem is, you are not a god. So you perceive us, I could be at your side, and you would not notice." Alice added with a smirk.

  "Sinly Gods perceive Divinity. Then how do I have Divinity if I 't perceive it?" Elizabeth was already feeling the headache f.

  "You have a cheat making it for you, something crafted with the blood and tears of a hunk- I mean, of a man at his wit's end." Aura said quickly, correg herself when she mentioned Alexanders. "Like I said before, any of your twifts would propel you to Divinity, it is the third ohe oo you by Alexanders vestige, the ohat gave you the key to trol it. The only reason you haven't beeed by the mortal pne."

  "My Heart?" Elizabeth returo the beginning.

  "Yes, your Heart is sublimating several of the inal Sins of mankind into something pure. What is Faith but the utter belief in something? And what was that thing made for?" Aura said, pointing at Elizabeth's chest.

  "...To el the Sin energy into something usable?" Elizabeth asked.

  "No, that is what YOU use it for, that thing was made to take in the souls of the damned into his host, refihem, purify them, give them hope, and bee a bea of hope in the darkest hour," Aura said snapping her fingers and making a new portal that showed the image of a wastend. A world that was deg, ravaged by storms and dimensional rifts.

  In the middle of this wastend the image zoomed in to the image of a blonde man g while kneeling on the ground.

  Elizabeth could see the ruined city of Aqui at the bad to her eyes, the souls of an innumerable amount of people surrounding this man, Alexanders.

  "It was made to spit into the face of Fate, to get a sed ce for everyone...And while it failed..." The image ged as the souls were siphoned into Alexander as he screamed and cried tears of blood. "Its main use was to usher him to new heights of power. The fact that you followed in his footsteps and started taking Gems of Sin does not mean that it is limited to only those. You are already making a new ht now after all."

  Aura said as the image ged to a new gem, one of golden color.

  "Your own Gem of Divinity." The gem was floating surrounded by others she reized.

  The Gem of Wrath.

  The Gem of Gluttony.

  The Gem of Pride.

  The Gem of Envy.

  ..........................And around them, the open spaces for three more.

  The Gem of Greed.

  The Gem of Sloth.

  And of course, The Gem of Lust.

  Elizabeth...probably shouldn't have walked down that path then.

  "Is it too te to ge my approach to this?" She asked, turning to Aura, who smirked at her, to Alice, who looked dumbfounded, and to Chloe, who shook her head.

  "Yes, Mistress... It is too te, maybe if you had taken some Virtues at the same time, but now you do o finish this thing before it bursts." Aura grinned, "You he Pride to stand tall while reality begets the question of whether you will survive, you will he Wrath to fight against the mortal coil that wants to bind you down, the Gluttony to strive for more than you should be able to take in, the Envy to take that which should not be yours, the Greed to desire and find what you he Sloth to take your time and assimite them within you...And of course..."

  Aura took a step forward her, and an impish smile on her face "The Lust to partake into the pleasures of leaving your mortal coil and step into the Divine, even if it means being the owner of the inal Sin as The Debauchery Dragon."

  ...

  Well, Dang it. Elizabeth...just hoped she could take on a new name as a Dragon. No wait, did she eveo bee a dragon anyway?!?!?!