My Space-Time System

Chapter 633  Traumatic flashbacks

"It's my pleasure being an instrument of use to Lord Cassius." Jaeger Nyx bowed in return.

"…" Damon who was standing right beside his father didn't know how to react to any of these.

He has no clue his family were moles in the Synder empire, or at least he hadn't yet come of age to know. What made it even weirder was the way his dad was being so zealous.

His dad's interaction with the late Emperor back then had seemed perfectly normal, but seeing Jaeger's reaction to Blake's Dad made him feel a level of distrust. It wasn't that he had reacted in the wrong way, it just felt alien to him.

'Everything else I have known since remains the same, but…' Having advanced in the art of hiding one's facial expressions, Damon was going through an internal turmoil without anyone noticing.

'But a lot of things now make sense.' Damon now seemed to understand why the Nyx family always possessed darkness-related artifacts and resources even though more than an ancestral family should have had.

"Now the introduction is all over, it's time for us to get to the reason for your assembly." Cassius turned to the other people in the room and said. "Excuse us for a moment."

Darkness surged out of Cassius' throne and wrapped around members of the group as well as Damon, before teleporting them to an empty room.

Still sitting on his Crystal mana throne, Cassius spoke. "Thank you for heeding Blake's call and agreeing to join him in his quest to free the human race from this prison."

"The southern continent, although smaller than the others is tens of times more dangerous. As you all know, the last joint expedition led to the mysterious death of a Peak Angel on the very first day, thus leading to the abrupt end of the expedition."

"This isn't to scare you but to paint a picture of the challenges that you'll be facing in a matter of months. You will be dealing with even more dangerous situations as you will be transversing the cursed lands to make it to the heart of the continent." When Cassius was done with his explanation, he was surprised to see the unwavering determination on the faces of the five youths, which left him impressed.

"The first agenda is to increase your power levels because even though Gods and Angels shouldn't be going there, it still doesn't mean weaklings can survive there even for an hour."

Having already read their files and seen their strengths and weaknesses, their training was to start immediately.

The training consisted of two simple things; the first was cultivating in a high mana-dense room to quicken their advancement, while the second was being taught by true masters of their different pathways.

They were simple, but also extremely effective as these were most of the things they needed. As for Blake, his training was a little bit different.

Since he was already in the Angel realm, there was not much use for him to focus on cultivating especially since there were better things for him to do.

While the others were to begin their training, Blake was tasked to gather a lot of information concerning the southern continent. The reason for this was that even though no one knew what was waiting for them there, Blake's locator spell and keen intuition would be able to help him locate relevant information. All he had to do was ask the right questions.

"You all may now leave, except for Blake." Cassius said to the rest of the group.

Brian would have loved to remind the God of Darkness that this was their first time here and he even made it worse because they also had no clue of where they were teleported to. However, he didn't dare to bother such an entity for such minuscle things.

"What's up Dad?" Blake asked for a status update and the reason why the reason why he was asked to stay behind while the others all made their way out of the room.

"Nothing too serious except I have a request." Cassius said causing Blake to slightly furrow his brows.

'Normally he would spill the beans immediately, but he is delaying.' Blake was now worried about what the request would be.

After a few seconds of contemplation, Cassius finally spoke. "I want to transfer a part of my consciousness to your mind."

"…"

The request made Blake experience flashbacks that left him so stunned that he couldn't form words in his head.

During his early days in Infinite realm, Blake had formed a connection with Valerius who had posed as the system. Discovering that he was being used left him scarred and a bit traumatized, especially after seeing how he would have died helplessly like Castiel.

"I was reluctant to tell you about this because of your history with Valerius, but after continuously searching for other solutions without any success, I had no other choice than to ask you." Cassius explained as he saw fear being emitted from Blake's body.

"Solution for what?" Blake managed to compose himself and ask.

"In the southern continent, there will be unexpected situations the five of you won't be able to solve due to lack of experience or knowledge or even both. That is where I come in; my consciousness will act as a guide, that way there will be no consequences for being a high-level entity." Cassius explained.

"That makes sense. So how do we go about it?" Seeing that it was a request that would only improve their chances of survival, Blake wasted no time agreeing to it.

"First I have to split part of my consciousness, before transferring them to you. The former will take some time, so you just need to continue with the training until I am ready." Cassius answered.

"I have no problem with the arrangement."

After confirming there was nothing else to talk about, Blake began making his way out of the room to meet his friends.