HPDBC Chapter 273: Returning to the capital - Source of Everything
Chapter 273: Returning to the capital - Source of Everything
Asura's body appeared back in his carriage, the moonlight shimmering down from the window while he noticed he was alone.
Time flew by in a blur after the announcement of Asura's engagement to Princess Vela. On the day he learned of his fate of becoming the crowned prince, a mysterious woman appeared, bearing a request. She had a reward, a temptation that Asura found hard to resist.
"Haa..."
'I guess it's only proper etiquette to keep Vela and me apart because of our wedding. They want to avoid people gossiping, but that also means they keep the others away from me.
For the first time, he felt lonely, with all the Royal knights staying in the south until the last minute to help finish the construction of a teleportation device from Silvara to the new fort constructed from the ruins of Romantica's former city northwest of their capital.
'To think the queen is that sly and intelligent.'
"Lorem, Lucia, are you both alright?"
While leaning against the soft backrest, Asura felt a sense of change in himself for the first time. Since he broke away from the other shards and the previous monolith's control, he felt more desires and wanted to have more.
In the past, he didn't care about his rank or title, but now he wanted to stand above all. To have the power to control Silvara or the world to protect those he felt dear.
"I should have stayed with the princess."
"Oh, which princess?"
"Celine, the third princess of the elves... Hmmm?"
The voice seemed strange, but it was almost familiar, like someone he must have met before. However, Asura's mind didn't register the person before she appeared beside him, wearing a black and silver robe and long silver hair tied in a messy ponytail.
"So you've even tempted an elf princess into your bed? That's my Asura for you."
A pair of powerful golden eyes narrowed while gazing down at his face. The woman seemed to be taller than him, with an erotic yet muscular build.
"Hmmm, who are you, and when did I become your Asura?"
"I'm the one you love and care for the most."
"Is that so?.."
The woman was full of confidence, and the sight of her smile reminded Asura of something, but it wasn't until the woman grabbed his head, easily overpowering any resistance he tried to give and placed it atop her amazing thighs while stroking his hair.
'I should know this woman, yet a thick fog fills my mind.'
Despite using multiple lines of thought and engaging in his entire parallel thought process, his mind still returned with nothing.
"Mmmm, mother knows best."
'Mother? This woman? That's impossible.'
"Who are you? And what do you want from me? I can tell you're not human or demon."
Asura found himself still calm, though he didn't resist and fell into the woman's embrace. He wanted to believe, but this woman, her face and body, were too young and attractive as if created to suit his desires perfectly.
This woman could never be his mother. His heart and mind screamed in unison while resisting the conflicted thoughts and feelings inside.
"What kind of son forgets his beloved mother? Do you not recognise my face?.."
A pair of eyes stared into his own with a fierce and intense gaze, yet Asura could only feel both his hearts throbbing, their beating irregularly as their noses touched. He felt deep embarrassment and confusion.
'Never has a woman done this to me!'
"Enough with the games! I won't listen to a single word you say unless you prove you're my mother!"
"Hehe, you were always like that, not believing in words and following your desires. Ignoring other people's judgment and creating a path when you couldn't even use magic."
"That's who I am! Of course, I didn't give up..."
'How does she know!?'
"In the end, you became a human and enslaved by the monolith. The disgusting sub-humans that enslaved you made you do things that would have killed an ordinary person's mind. My poor Asura."
"Maybe if you went to another universe, then returned. You might meet yourself as a baby again?"
"No! That's impossible... Or is it?"
"Does it matter?" Freyja brushed his cheeks gently, her lips almost touching his own. "Tell me, Asura, do you love me?"
'What is love? And why do I feel so confused but attracted to her?'
"I-I don't even know you, suddenly coming out of nowhere as my mother..."
"Haaa..." The disappointment in her eyes was as clear as day. He noticed how her arms circled his neck.
"I gave you so much, and you refuse to give me an answer... But it's okay Asura~ you don't have a choice. You will love me, or I will destroy another world and watch you grow from a baby once again until you accept me."
Asura froze, his two hearts beating in unison. 'If she does that, I would lose Mu Xue and everyone I care for!.'
"Very good." A pair of hands caressed his chest and moved lower down his stomach. "You understand what's at stake, right? Your mother loves you enough to shatter planets and wipe out entire races."
"Why?.."
"Because I've seen who you will become and need you to become the being that will transcend the tyranny of the upper realm. To end the cycle and madness, even if you become the god of destruction and kill me too~ at least I will forever live as part of you."
'She's insane, more than Mu Xue in the past... this woman is sick!.'
"Why do you speak like that!?'
"Like what?"
"You talk as if you have lost your mind."
"Silly boy, haven't you realised? I'm desperate, desperate enough to use your world, universe, even the deities themselves to bring you to my side and get what I want."
"And what is that? Love and devotion? From a child that barely remembers his past and the pain you put me through?"
"Perhaps."
Asura sensed the madness inside the woman. Her grip and lustful smile while staring at his face were enough to make him shiver.
"But most of all..." Her lips leaned close to his ear, whispering the most horrific words a mother could say, before the carriage door suddenly opened, with Mu Xue rushing inside in her lovely black nightgown.
Freyja's figure as if a ghost, vanished, while Mu Xue lept into Asura's chest.
"I felt you were crying out in fear that you didn't know where to turn."
Asura held her tightly, not realising how she felt his true feelings, only knowing that his first meeting with his so-called mother led him to feel such intense feelings of all types and too much to consider it made him feel sick.
'What kind of twisted mother says she will destroy universes for their son? No... to have their son become theirs.'
Asura shook his head, instead wrapping his arms around Mu Xue tightly; he felt a comfort that had long escaped his grasp, those cold nights in the past, where Mu Xue would hold him gently in the night.
"Asura?"
Mu Xue's hands rested on Asura's chest while he calmed down. He no longer felt fear and found the desire to become even more powerful inside his chest.
'She cannot control me!.'
'I won't let anyone control me like that. Not even as her son!'
"Asura? Are you alright? Did something happen?"
"Just a crazy woman who wants me too much, nothing important."
***
Outside the carriage, hundreds of miles away in the capital, a beautiful woman's eyes opened, and with a flicker of light, she awakened from her momentary dream.
"A crazy woman, fufu. My lovely Asura, you just know how to make your mother more determined."