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Ceph's eyes narrowed as he focused. Attempting to grasp at the wind as he always would. But he had nothing to hold on to. There was no mana for him to manipulate. How was he supposed to grasp the wind if he had no mana to hold it with?

"This isn't the physical world. That, " she paused, pointing towards the raging storm just a few meters away, "isn't actual wind. And there's no mana here. But everything here is a part of you. Focus on yourself. Calm your mind, and imagine a world at peace. Imagine the glade of Avgi. Conjure the spring into your mind. Remember what it felt like bathing in it the sun one a warm summer day..."

She continued, guiding Ceph into a meditative state. Soon enough, the raging winds surrounding them died down.

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"Perfect. Now just continue focusing on that feeling. When I get started, your going to experience a pain unlike anything you've felt before. I am going to be tearing your soul apart, and that is sadly as painful as it sounds. So focus hard!" With a cheerful shout, she started skipping towards the tiny void in Ceph's soul. Her cheer was in stark contrast to what she was about to do.

Despite her odd mannerisms, Ceph followed her instructions as he watched her go. While he wasn't excited by what was about to happen, he wanted the pain to end. And while he knew his hope might be misplaced, he wanted to help Eldrian. Vitoria needed to help him, even if her interests weren't actually in helping any of them.

"Righty ho, you sure are a little thing." Vitoria commented, looking at the tiny black hole at the edge of Ceph's soul. The tiny whirlwind of energy was about the size of a copper coin (or penny coin on Earth). "Still, if this one is this big, just how massive is the tunnel, that, this Eldrian boy created?"

She couldn't help but smile. The idea of a void ten times, no, probably a thousand times bigger, excited her. The tear that the gods were inspecting was around the size of a person. The one in Eldrian had to be even bigger than that.

How utterly shocking that this could result from a young human. His talent evidently measured up to the rumors. But more excitingly, his luck was the perfect mix of good and bad. He got into plenty of binds, but always made it out. Maybe not completely intact, but he remained alive. And that was the definition of luck—at least according to her.

"Siblings! I haven't felt this excited since I was a youngling being scolded by my older sisters." Unlike most other creatures, the Ryu did not have parents. They were born concepts. And while their powers had some overlap, their true selves—and the ultimate form of their power—was limited to only themselves.

Some of them have sired children, but even the children of the two Ryu did not become a Ryu. Instead, the child was a Ryagon. With the body of a normal dragon and the abilities (albeit weaker) of their parents, they were existences equal or above the Legends like Athtar and Amnur. But like typical children, they got into plenty of problems. Too inexperienced, they always join the wars.

"I want to touch it so bad...." She whispered, her finger a mere inch from the void. The pull, from the vacuum it formed, was so powerful at this range that she could feel her bones creaking and cracking. Since she had come here as a physical being, she had all her strength. But she understood that even that wouldn't be enough to save her from such a reckless act.

Touching this little ball of swirling energy without preparations would certainly kill her. Just as the reckless AI had had their split egos torn apart and consumed. No, to survive contact with it, she had to first prepare.

"But I want to touch it so bad..." she mumbled. Her rationality won out, to her luck, and she started preparing to extract the connection from Ceph's soul. It wouldn't be the same as experiencing the void physically, but she had to be happy with what was possible. Dreaming of the impossible was entertaining at times, but only when the crushing weight of reality wouldn't break her dreams.

"Right, can't wait to meet the fellow!" Changing what she focused on, she gleefully started cutting chunks of Ceph's soul. Manipulating it as easy as a child playing with a lump of clay.

Using Ceph's soul (an energy/matter that was attuned to this penny-void) she built a small cage for the sphere. An arcane looking spherical device with rotating parts. Its appearance was much like an armillary sphere.

The process took a while, but that was far too long to satisfy Vitoria's curiosity.

"Come on, that has to be good enough! I don't want to take more than I need. Right, yes, this will do!" She spoke more to convince herself than anything else. Wanting to skip proper process and dive right in.

What she was about to do was crazy. But she just had to try it. She was bubbling in exhilaration at the mere thought. To physically jump between the realms had always been a dream of hers. To escape the confines of her birth dimension.

"Well, see ya Ceph! Say hi to your parents for me!" She shouted, grabbing the floating armillary sphere and sending a burst of her own power into it. "Let's call you the Void-Time-Armillary-Spere. V-TAS... That sucks!"

As she shouted this, the sphere slowly floated over the penny-sized void sphere. Its rotating arms allowing the black mass to fit precisely in the center. Where it started rotating faster and faster.

The tricky part about all this was breaking its connection to Ceph's soul (and thus Ceph and Eldrian's soul bind). Without accidentally killing Ceph in the process. As eager as she was to break the rules of physics, she didn't want to hurt anyone. She did, in some twisted way, consider Ceph one of her many grand-grand.....grand-grand godchildren. Okay, a part of her thought it wouldn't be too bad if he died.

But she wouldn't let it happen unless she couldn't avoid it.

Luckily, like most things, if you pushed its circumstances far enough, it acted weirder and weirder. And the soul binding between people had fixed rules to remain in existence. The connection (an ethereal one) and maintenance keeping the connection 'linked'.

The penny-void was the where. And Ceph's soul was the object maintaining it. She didn't need to erase the latter, simply momentarily cut off contact between Ceph and the 'link'.

Vitoria's plan was, sadly, just as simple. Encase it in the V-TAS cage made out of Ceph's soul. Then have that cage overwhelm the connection by feeding it an insane amount of energy. Tricking (if the word could explain anything) the connection into thinking the V-TAS is Ceph's entire soul world.

That is where the genius part of her plan comes in. The void for one simple reason. Ceph still had a body holding his soul to the world. Which was the caused of much of his pain—his soul was being pulled in two directly, while some of it was being consumed. The latter had been painful, sure, but the former had caused him the most pain.

That explained her plan, but why was the V-TAS spinning? Well, the energy had to go somewhere. But this was more a byproduct of her feeding the connection to Eldrian's soul. Like how electrical devices generate heat.

In basic terms, the connection could only take a certain amount of matter and energy. And she was feeding it far in excess to expand the connection to a size she could traverse.

Simple and reckless, but because of her expert handling of the exceedingly dangerous matter, everything happened as she had planned. The V-TAS device spun with incredible speed. An untold amount of power contained within it, it started releasing sparks (literal lighting bolts) into its surroundings. Breaking through the edge of Ceph's soul and the void beyond.

Once it was ready, she gave it a final push. Tearing open a physical tunnel between the now (etherically) disconnected V-TAS and Eldrian's soul.

Immediately, Vitoria lost control. The power pulling her along too much for her to contain. She was taken along like a leaf on the wind. Or more accurately, like water in a raging stream. She did not even have the right to argue she wasn't "water".

...

Ziraili, hard at work keeping Eldrian's ANW soul world "alive", suddenly felt a terrible premonition. She immediately called all her egos to her. Kicking all the players from ANW in a panic.

She just barely managed to save their lives as the next moment, a girl appeared before her. Holding a strange, but extremely dangerous looking device.

The girl was in a terrible state, but her smile was terrifying. She was grinning from ear to ear as she laughed in glee. Blood leaking from her ears and eyes.

"I can't believe it worked!" She shouted, only to vomit blood in the next second. All the while the V-TAS was absorbing everything in its surroundings. Which, obviously, was now Eldrian's soul. The V-TAS tried to absorb her too, but only managed to pull her air into the air. Despite her horrible condition, Vitoria wasn't about to let her own invention devour her.

Seeing this, Ziraili tried her best to stop what was happening. But the current phenomena was beyond her abilities. At this point, the only entity who would possibly be capable of containing things were GAIA.

Ziraili could no longer save Eldrian. She could only pray that this woman wouldn't cause his death on Earth.

Thus, Ziraili turned a hateful glare towards the source of this new misfortune.

"Yo! This soul world is wack! Can't believe it belongs to a young human pup." Vitoria shouted, wiping the blood from her lips. She had to admit how dangerous this was. This wasn't even been the dimensional hopping part of her plan... and she was already coughing up blood.

"Vitoria!" Ziraili shouted, seething in anger.

"Yikes. No hard feelings bud, but I've got a date!" Sticking out her tongue, Vitoria actived her V-TAS again. Up until now, it had passively been consuming everything within its reach (a few hundred meters around it).

Upon giving it free rein, however, it expanded near instantly and consumed the entire soul world of the player known as Eldrian.

And with that, a tear in the fabric of space surrounded her. No, it consumed her. Pulling her into the void. Leaving behind an insane amount of energy with nowhere to go after imploding.

The resulting explosion sent Ziraili nearly to her deathbed. And destroyed all the players' souls within ANW. Luckily, for most players, this simply meant losing their characters. But there were some who had formed a link between their real soul and that of their player character—like Eldrian. They experienced some real life danger.

For these players, the experience ranged from mild headaches to collapsing from pain comparable to a spike being driven into their minds.

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