Malikhi walked out, looking every bit the child he had the last time Sylas had seen him. Yet, there was an extra glow in his eyes now that felt sharper than ever before.
"Malikhi. What the hell are you doing here?" Akshat asked coldly.
This was a curious change for Sylas as well. Though, unlike the others, he had seen Malikhi in the shadows long ago.
There was little here that could be hidden from his sight. But it seemed that just like himself, Malikhi was able to walk around the void without an external aid to direct him.
Usually, that could only mean one thing... Infinite Void Rune Mastery.
But Sylas wasn't sure if that was the case here. Plus, did he know enough about the world to say that there was only one way to walk through the void?
Who was to say there wasn't another way to do as much?
Either way, Malikhi could, but that left more questions than just the how of it all.
That was because according to what Sylas knew about Malikhi, the man had only made it to the B-tier in his last life before he ended up dying, and unlike Fanelei, he was currently only on his fourth life. Theoretically, he hadn't fully matured as an Analei just yet.
Could it be that he had reached the A-tier in an earlier life? Higher than that?
"I'm stopping the Analei from making an idiotic mistake." Malikhi said coldly. "And I advise you watch your tone with me, little three-life."
Akshat froze.
Not every Analei could live out their full seven lives, only the most talented of them could-Fanelei was one such example.
The only reason Fanelei wasn't as strong as Nobel was because one of her lives ended up being wasted due to her pursuit of Gluttony. This caused her to have to cut off one of her lives from herself, effectively leaving her with just six instead of a full seven like Nobel had.
But even then, there were more tiers of separation between that.
Even if you did have a full seven lives, each one was variable in how much an Analei could get out of it. This was why Fanelei was so enraged when her granddaughter, Leia, wasted one chasing skirts along a mediocre path.
Malikhi might have only ended his last life at the B-tier, but he had reached Legend status in both his first and second life, matching a number that was already the best of the best amongst the Analei even with four attempts remaining.
To reach Legend twice in two attempts... Malikhi's legend spoke for itself.
Akshat had only managed it once.
This gap didn't seem as though it was all that large... except for the fact that Akshat was the worst sort of Analei, the sort that didn't dare to take another roll for fear of not being able to succeed like he had the first time.
So he settled for melding together three complete and four incomplete souls together.
Maybe if three had been his limit, Malikhi wouldn't be bothered to bring this up, but to Malikhi, the worst sort of sin was cowardice.
And it appeared that Akshat wasn't all that comfortable with his own choices, otherwise there wouldn't be such an ugly expression on his face right now.
"What is the meaning of this, Malikhi?" Nobel asked slowly.


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