Emilia was tired, she had been fighting for a dozen of hours, definitely more than a day, but since there was no sun wherever she was, there was no way to know exactly how long she had been there.

  I miss dad...

  No matter how mad she had been at him, she truly missed him.

  “Fucking finally!” Emilia said as she sat down on one of the floating rocks she learned are called asteroids, she had been killing enemies over and over again for the last hours or days, absorbing their bodies, the asteroids seemed to have a high enough... [Gravity Resistance] to not crumble right away after touching them, but now she didn’t have to worry!

  “System! Show me my core status!” She screamed.

  “I know what the first one does, but what do the other 2 do? I never actually asked before” Emilia said, actually curious what the other 2 abilities did considering the first one absorbed everything.

  “Gravity manipulation sounds hard to use... tell me how matter conversion works”

  “Interesting... and... I heard of hidden bosses can leave their designated zone and even the dungeon... you think I could escape?”

  “Uh? What do you mean by that? A new quest? Those rare quests that can make someone much stronger that with levels?” But she didn’t get a real answer, just the description of the quest.

  Oh

  “Cool and all but... how do I go to the rest of the dungeon?” Emilia asked the system; the random weak space goblins couldn’t get to her because they didn’t know how to jump from asteroid to asteroid.

  “Not really?” Emilia was confused why would the system ask that.

  Suddenly, one of the goblins tilted her asteroid by throwing a spear, and she fell from it.

  Fuck. You.

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  She then started to fall quickly, and no matter she didn’t have organs now, she would die when she landed.

  She stopped falling so quickly, and within a few minutes, she managed to land on a castle on the middle of four biomes, the biomes filled with spears, even the castle wasn’t saved.

  I will fucking kill you if I ever found how you work system.

  “Where even am I?” Emilia asked to no one in particular.

  “Thanks... I guess” She looked around, she landed on the window of a room destroyed by spears, it looked like a good room, and the sun entering make it look comfy, she walked towards the door leading out of the room, but the handle wouldn’t budge.

  “Guess I will go to the jungle then... It will be easier to talk to Rakikas...” She said while looking out the window and activating [Gravity Manipulation] once again to slow her falling.

  She started falling slowly towards the ground below, and she would be lying if she said she wasn’t scared the whole way down.

  When her foot landed on the ground, she felt safe now that she wasn’t an error away from dying crushed into the ground.

  She looked around her; she had landed on a road that would take her to the jungle if she followed it, but she saw soldiers nearby that had probably heard her not so quiet screams when she fell from the asteroids above.

  Stupid space goblins... but why are there soldiers inside the dungeon? Was it discovered already? I though adventurers would find it first

  Before she was found, she hid behind some rocks, watching them, she wanted to know if they were friendly, or they would kill her the moment they saw her.

  “I’m pretty sure I heard screaming from the sky!” One of them screamed while looking at the sky.

  “Stop that, Bony, general Ironheart will be mad with us if we go missing for so long” The second guard said.

  General... Ironheart?

  Just then Emilia recognized the armor, it was the armor that only the soldiers of her father used.

  Dad... is here?

  She quickly got out of her hiding spot and ran towards the soldiers, who all quickly turned their heads towards her, and grabbing their swords.

  “M-My father! Is he here?!”

  Iko was inside a black void, there was nothing except herself in that void, there was just nothing, and her own body looked weird, when she looked down at herself, she saw her body as if it was a broken mirror, as if she was cracked.

  “Oh but you are~” Iko turned around as she heard someone talk.

  "Technically speaking, we both are” The voice said, and what Iko saw behind her confused her to no end.

  It was her, but different, this version of her had no spears, it had cracks, but no spears, it was also wearing a long black dress, the type of dress Iko would never wear even if they payed her, well if they payed her she would, but that wasn’t the point, the clone also had white hair, but it was as if it was turning black, and some kind of system window blocked her eyes.

  “Who are you...” Iko asked while taking a step back.

  “I’m you, and you are me, but a more specific explanation would be that I'm one of your powers” The clone said while walking towards Iko, slowly but steady.

  “I’m your corruption, you sealed your hate not long ago in your S.E.A and your dragon side is right there~” The clone, no, her corruption said while pointing behind Iko.

  As Iko turned around, she saw not a clone of her, but a dragon, a fucking huge dragon, it was easily thrice the size of the black dragon, not that he was that big in the first place.

  The dragon seemed to be deep in a slumber.

  But Iko had another question.

  “Sealed my hate inside my sea?”

  "Yep, look under you, you will see it, and it’s not “Sea” its S.E.A” She said correcting Iko even though it sounded the same.

  Iko looked under her just as the corruption said, and there she saw an endless abyss, and deep below, she saw black chains wrapping around a singular black figure, a never-ending hatred that seemed to slowly devour the chains.

  "S.E.A stands for “Soul Endless Abyss” and if you wonder how i know but you don’t, well, you forgot about-” She suddenly stopped talking and she seemed to freeze for a moment "I'm not allowed to say, my bad, but whatever, what I wanted to say, choose one, I'm the only one that can present you with the options since Hate is sealed and Dragon is sleeping, but your body can't handle the three of us right now, you probably didn't notice, but the time limit for your quest went from four months to three days left” Iko had indeed, not noticed.

  “Your body keeps summoning the 3 of us, but can't handle it, and I know you will ask how your soul can, and I will tell you, wait a moment” She said as if stressed, and Iko was in fact about to ask that, the soul is supposedly fragile, so how did it hold the 3 of them but her body can’t?

  “So with the heart of the dragon you just got, you can take hold of dragon, but hate won't be hold by those chains for long, it has grown a lot by now, and I was not sealed since the start, so choose one, use the heart to control dragon, use it to reinforce the chains containing hate, and don't even try to detain me, I????'??????L??????L??? ??????A?????L???W???A????Y?????S??????? ??????B????E??????? ????A??? ??????P???A??????R??????T???? ????O?????F???? ???Y????O????U???"

  Iko soul trembled the moment she said those last words, she could feel some kind of... possessive intentions coming from her.

  “So, as to explain why your soul can handle the three of us” Iko felt the hand of Corruption fall on her shoulder and the breathing of her on her ear, she quickly jumped away while covering her ear.

  “How shy... well, Dragon is like the mold of your soul, if you look at yourself right now, your soul looks like a dragon in human form, and with your soul broken and all, it’s quite easy to change, I am in between the fragments of your soul, holding it together, and Hate protects your soul from external threats that attack the soul” She said while pointing at Iko with her claw, and when Iko looked at those places, she noticed she was right, her soul had the form of her body, but with no spears and chains, she had cracks though, on her whole body, and in between those cracks, there was corruption holding her together, she wasn’t able to see Hate though.

  “How can I talk to you if you are... here?” Iko asked while pointing in between the cracks.

  “Oh, because I’m more special than you think, but enough of me, choose either Hate or Dragon to control, and I will find balance with the one you don’t choose, easy right?” She said while starting to float like if she could fly without using wings “At least until you find a way to control the other”

  “Dragon, I want to control Dragon first, I have no idea if I’ll be able to find a dragon heart soon enough after I wake up, and I don’t want to die because my body can’t handle the powers of a dragon” She said remembering that Corruption said she only had 3 days left to complete the quest.

  Corruption smile became bigger than before and she snapped her fingers, the next moment she could feel she was slowly waking up.

  “Try to find something to stop Hate, or I’m afraid I’ll have to take control once again”

  Iko woke up in the middle of the desert, and just as she guessed before going... there, she was covered in sand that stuck itself on the blood on her body.

  Ew...

  She quickly got the sand off her clothes by unsummoning it and summoning it again quickly.

  “How do I clean my skin now? My face is full of sand and blood... ugh” Iko tried to take the sand off her body but stopped the moments she felt something strange around her neck next to the collar.

  “Are this... scales?” Iko touched her neck once again just to be sure, and as she though, she now had scales on her neck.

  “Cool... I guess, I’m even less of a human now...” She said while opening the system quest.

  “Error messages really are common lately...” She said with a sigh.

  “What else is new? Because the skills clearly didn’t give me the new scales” Iko said while scratching her neck.

  Motherfucker...

  Iko then heard different kind of sounds coming from different directions, but when she looked over to where she heard one of the noises, she didn’t saw anything.

  Weird

  She touched her ears, and noticed they were now pointy, she moved her fingers around them to be sure, and they were pointy.

  I didn’t know dragons had pointy ears?

  Iko decided to leave that for later, and the moment she was about to transform into her “True Form” she saw 3 carriages coming her way, one had her brother with Rainari on it, and the other 2 had demons and elves.

  What the fuck? Let me transform into a dragon in peace!