Toxic Empress

Nidia's Emergence

The woman fell silent, the requirement from Xena was not something that was easy for her to grant. Xena was still waiting patiently for an answer from her other soul, dazed with doubt in the woman's mind. Xena could clearly read her countenance that the woman was trying to reject the terms of Xena.

“Why are you quiet? Are you thinking of escaping from me. Now that you have no other choice, if you reject it then I will not give you the chance to live in my soul room any longer. Keeping you here will only bring harm to my life,” press Xena.

The woman was scared to death by the strong intimidation issued by Xena, although they were indeed the same soul, but their level of assertiveness was far different. Xena was more unforgiving and cold-hearted, whereas the woman mentally looked weak. As a result, he was currently unable to fight Xena any further.

“Alright, I will lend you my strength, but you must remember what you say. Don't lie to me and secretly get rid of me,”.

A proud smile rose from Xena's lips. “OK, leave the rest to me, I will make you able to talk to Verden without having to go through my body.”

In the end, they make a contract of borrowing power without having to unite their souls back because Xena is worried that she will rampage again like a past life and then slaughter all innocent humans. However, during the process of borrowing the power, an unexpected event shocked Xander and Xavier.

Xena who was asleep suddenly experienced a fierce shock, a flash of red-colored light sparks enveloping Xena's body. The shadow of dark times drowns Xander, she fears Xena will change as she once did and she is forced to kill Xena to save humanity. Similarly, Xavier, he is worried that he cannot save the mother despite having returned to a time where both parents are still unmarried and the tragedy of the massacre by Verden also has not happened.

“Xena, what happened to you? Be aware! Don't scare me. Get up, Xena! Don't let you change like you used to. Xena ...,” says Xander. Over time Xander's voice weakened and sheathed in anxiety.

“Dad, why did you get to be like this? Mother does not respond to our call, what if Iu—”

“Stop you two.” Nidia, the assistant of the goddess of love suddenly came before them. Their voices paused while looking at the source of Nidia's voice, Xavier clearly knew Nidia well because she owed Nidia a debt of gratitude that had previously helped her meet the goddess of love. While Xander also knew Nidia, the woman had helped him turn his back on time.

“What's up, Xander? You seem surprised to see me coming. I just came here to see you guys for a while and accidentally saw Xena lying on the bed.” Nidia approached Xena's bed and checked the blond girl's body.

“Nidia, can you explain the reason why Xena could be like this? I felt signs of red light power flowing from his body. Will Xena's immortal soul be reunited just as it was in her previous life?” ask Xander.

Nidia let out a long sigh, the response of the two of them was too serious in response to the situation that had plagued Xena. It was only natural that they were worried that Xena would have the same ending again, so Nidia would not scold them.

“What did you just say? Xena rejects soul unification? So, that red light was because he had just made a loan of strength from an immortal soul?”

Nidia nodded her head, and Xander and Xavier were able to breathe freely without having to worry about Xena's condition. Unexpectedly this would happen, Xena was able to make Xander speechless. Xander thought that he might have succeeded in changing Xena's past and death.

“Don't be happy just yet, even if Xena refuses the unification of souls doesn't mean Xena's death won't happen. Verden wants the two souls to reunite, he will do anything to take Xena and make her a doll like never before. To be honest the present has changed a lot, Verden gets a memory from the turn of time. We do not know the worst possible future, therefore you must remain vigilant,” explained Nidia.

“So it's true Verden got a memory from before the turn of time, it's worth a lot of events that did not happen in the past happened in this time. Alina's death happened much faster, maybe it was due to Verden,” murmured Xander.

“Yes, that's what worries me a little, that guy might just make a mess again. Now you must prepare for the final battle, if you commit recklessness then Xena's life is in danger. But, no need to worry, the end of Xena's life may just change.”

Nidia gave them some motivating sentences, she could not interfere in human affairs further. So, Nidia could only give them some advice to deal with Verden. His duty here is only as an observer, not a player, he will report his observations to the goddess of love.

“That's all I can tell you, now I'm going home because there's still a lot of work I haven't finished,” said Nidia disappeared in a flash from Xander and Xavier's eyes.

Then the two of them waited patiently until Xena regained consciousness, they no longer needed to worry because Xena could get through on her own without any help from them. Until a few hours passed, Xena also regained consciousness, the power possessed by the immortal soul felt quite stuck in the core of her body.

‘This red light is quite burdensome from my guess, but somehow the level of poison in my body so increased drastically. This way I can more easily defeat the enemy, but I think this alone is not enough to take down Verden, Xena's inner’.

Xena glanced towards the window, she rose up slowly from her sleeping position, there were many things now lodged in Xena's head, one of which was the existence of an immortal soul that was quite tearing her feelings apart. Xena's face was full of seriousness, she gritted her teeth while cursing the selfish Verden. The silver-eyed girl got off the bed, she walked over to the balcony of the room.

“Takkan I let anyone die, I will regain the peace of mankind and eradicate the evil done by the Barbarian King and Demon King. They will both receive a sad ending.”