The Eternal Family



[The Eternal Blood has gone back to dormancy.] Harry's heart skipped a beat as the ancient temple door creaked open.

A wave of musty air flew past him, rustling his hair and making him close his eyes instinctively.

Also, an echoing sound of silence seemed to ring out from inside.

Harry's hair rose a bit but he acted decisive and looked in front of him with gritted teeth. Focused eyes. And calm but calculative mind.

As his vision cleared, he looked in to find a huge hallway. It looked ancient and timeworn but the statues that adorned it's two sides were the ones that made his gaze focus at first.

They stood gigantic and far beyond his own normal size. Each being 50 meters or bigger. Their intimidating draconic snake-like bodies oozing out majesty.

He looked at them and didn't immediately move in. The several dragons all had one particular attribute that he found especially intriguing. They were all black-scaled, had red-tinted black horns, and were all extremely big.

That meant each of them, at first glance, he could see were — Seven Sins Dragons. Not one of the lower kind with only one of the seven emotions like lust or greed.

These were the real ones!

The same kind from which his own bloodline emerged from.

The Eternal Dragon Race.

He walked into the hallway with an alert gaze and prepared himself to act in case any dragon statue suddenly moved. He had seen far too many weird things in this life to trust in life-like statues to not move.

Especially in some eery place like this.

Hello, System, can you hear me? He asked in his mind.

[Yes Host]

'Can the Eternal Blood only come out of Dormancy for that long? Why is it so weak?' he asked, half curious and half cautious of this Eternal Blood's excessive intelligence.

[It is not that the Eternal Blood is weak, but the blood coming out of dormancy hurts you – the host's – body. So it can't stay active for long and will have to go back immediately. You have to be an Eternal to keep it active forever.]

Harry nodded and walked around. His gaze roamed as he soon reached the end of the hallway. In front of the biggest statue.

He briefly looked up at it and felt as if his blood was quietly stirring. He then looked back down and saw a small door.

Taking a deep breath, he opened it without much thought while his soul sense spread around to keep the surroundings in check.

It was a long stair heading downwards. Harry looked around with his senses before entering quickly. The dark stairways, the green rails, and the rust all went past his senses as he looked down.

Without any pause, he ran downwards after seeing no danger.

...

Reaching the bottom of the stairs, it was dark but Harry's senses were superior, so he could see well.

Seeing another doorway, he opened it and his heart slightly calmed down. It was the open world.

He did a quick look around before moving out and immediately, his vision and mind cleared up. He was in the outside world, and looking in front, he could see a huge forest stretching in front of him with trees as wide as a hundred of himself towering to the skies.

"Sigh..." Harry sighed. "To think I could easily leave through the right path..."

He walked around and found out that he was no longer trapped. He chose one random direction and headed there with a curious mind.

If it was someone stronger than Evis who brought him here, he can only see it where it comes. If it was someone weaker... That was not a possibility.

Then it can only be Evis who sent him here. If so, it was either some ridiculous prank, or something extremely important.

Harry smirked.

***

In the outside world, Isiah Continent, in the Academy's room.

Harry's clone groggily opened his eyes.

I can feel the main body's thoughts and share my own thoughts, but I can't see or feel around.

It was as if he had lost an eye. An ear. It was a disgruntling feeling from both sides. He walked out of his bed as the Sloth path started to make him lazier.

But burning the Energy inside himself, he kept himself sane and walked towards the outside world.

"Evis, can you hear me?" he asked.

A shadowy gateway opened up in front of him and with a brief second of hesitation, he entered inside. His perception shifted and he was back in his room in the castle.

Evis, Lilly, and Emma were seated on the bed with the kids while Anna was dozing off.

"Where is Grandma and what is going on?" he asked.

Evis' voice rang out in his mind instead of through sound.

"Dad, calm down. And don't come too near us. I might hurt your clone."

"Why that extreme?" Harry frowned. What the fuck was this girl on?

"Sorry, I just threw your real body into danger and that makes me quite sick in the stomach! Fuck you! I hate your clone, so don't come, I might hurt it."

Harry's frown deepened and he sat down on the ground. "Explain."

"Speaking out loud might be dangerous if any Eternal hears us. Speaking in the mind is also dangerous but much lesser."

Harry's frown only deepened.

"Dad, I knew your Disaster was soon. Maximum of two to three years more. I checked on our possible routes and the best way was this. To grow inside where you are."

"Explain clearly for fucksake!" Harry said angrily in his mind.

"Dad, you are at the moment, inside the Royal Battleground. Don't you remember the battle with that Monkey Prince? The same place where it happened."

Harry blinked. Yes, that place was indeed weird.

A battleground of unknown origin that can heal any injuries happening above it. Something that Gifts or Gus can't explain.

Something left behind by the Eternal Dragon Clan. "Inside that is a place as big as where I am?"

The clone couldn't sense the world but it still could know what the main knew. So, it knew how vast that world was.

That was why losing the major part of the connection only felt disgruntling. Had it been more unclear, it would have been a totally lost feeling.

"Yes Dad, that vast world is the real home of the Seven Sins Dragons from the highest echelon of the Eternal Dragon Clan. The sin dragons like Lust Dragons were merely servants that they left to roam this world."

Harry took a deep breath. "So what happens now that my main body is in that world?"

"The Disasters can't find you. As of now, you are the only one who went in. But within a day or two, I will send some of us. We cannot let the Eternal Eyes notice. So massive energy fluctuation is a no-go."

Harry nodded.

"The Dragons came here to this world for a short time in the ancient past and left after the Eyes told them to leave. But this thing is a tool that can hide us! It is something that will give us a chance."

Harry nodded. While Emma and the others looked at them chattering curiously. Especially Harry's clone's bald head.

"Why are they talking mentally?" Lilly grumbled, knowing nothing.

...

"So, Dad. Just wait where you landed till I come, I don't know if there is some danger that is still there. But the landing place will be safe. Just stay where you are."

Harry nodded and his main body immediately went back the way it came. Closing the door and entering the temple.

"There, we will be finally free from prying eyes. And I could finally clear your doubts. But I don't know the situation there, does Gifts work?"

"No, the gifts don't work. Ah, wait, I just learned, It works outside the temples."

Evis pondered. "Then there might be some mechanisms inside. Today, I will send the babies in. Tomorrow Lilly and Emma. Then Valeria. I will join you with Anna right after."

Harry nodded. He didn't ask about the rest of the women. They were unimportant since they were not targeted by the Eyes.

Only his other daughter, the adopted one... She was also not targeted but he still wished she followed them. Even though she had announced he was no longer her father and left.

"Evis, abduct your... Sister to that place too... I have to apologize to her."

Evis looked at him with an intrigued smile, so indeed, something seemed to have happened with them that she didn't know. "Sure, but I am against you apologizing to her."

"Just bring her there. It's been months since I saw her and my stubborn self finally feels guilty. I really am the one at fault."

"Oh?" Evis raised an eyebrow.

"Well, they say Eternals have eyes and ears everywhere. Let's hope we are jot caught before everyone shifts into that inner world."

Harry nodded but his heart couldn't help but grow anxious. He hoped all of them reached there safely.