*huff…,ugh!* a heavy breathing and a deep frustrated sigh "kael! Do something!" Aki yell and struggles around, the still dazed-Kael just look in the air . The guardian red eye alight with a terrifying look, she ignore aki and Kael and walk towards the unconscious child god.
"Oh my, take a look at this!" She poke his cheeks and squeal in happiness " a true living fragment of the first purity created" she touched his hand vital " reduced to this!, got shrink to become the architect vessel, such a waste of beauty" she kneel next the child god .
Her expression shifted, no longer suspicious, but a alarming excitement, her desire to explore got stronger by minute she start with the hair touch the soft blonde golden hair "the elegance, the softness of his hair!" She smile evilly " his divine matrix is intact but simplified and the raw essence that was never meant to be separated with the host,so much ressource for a endless study!" She squeal way too loud .
Ali breath hitches as he struggles " don't touch him!" He struggles and coughs a bit of blood again " he isn't a study experiment he is dying!" . The guardian glances back , her sarcasm returning " oh my so much noise, of course he is dying! But I can't stop imagining a bl fantasy with this angelic face" she almost drool in her own fantasy. Then shake her head " he is been turn into a very expensive battery," Ali want to say something but the guardian cut him off.
" don't insult me champions. I can see your little half-god side and energy! Do you really think saving him will fix his beautiful, broken divine body? It will take decades of painful, tedious effort, assuming I don't accidentally destabilize his essence trying to analyze this purity." She tapped the orb. "And I have the only safe place left in this dimension to do it."
Aki watched helplessly then the guardian speak up again "Give me one good reason,"
She touch the child god face .
"why I shouldn't just take him now. I could discover the ultimate truth of the divine spark. I could... well, let's just say a deity of my caliber needs a new power source, and this one is utterly unique."
Aki sigh deeply. "Because you can't contain the war!" Aki roared, ignoring the pain. "The Architect's malice is still on Kael! He's tracking us. If you take the child, the Architect will destroys your sanctuary and takes him back! You'll lose your specimen! But if you help us heal, if you use your power to purify Kael, you gain two allies and a very complicated shield! You get to watch the war, Guardian. You get a front-row seat to the final act!"
With a disgusted sigh that sounded incredibly sassy, she withdrew her hand. "Ugh. Fine. You're a mess. And your plan is offensively simple. But I hate the Architect more than I love a good dissection." She clapped her hands, and the elemental roots that bound Aki and Kael immediately released them, receding into the mossy earth.
"Get up, you two messes," she snapped, she rolled her eyes as she surveyed their bloodied forms. "I wouldn't touch that broken doll with a ten-foot pole until I can figure out how to stabilize him without my entire forest exploding. But I'll heal your mortal wounds—not your ridiculous existential ones—and then you'll tell me everything. Consider yourselves temporary, very contagious, guests."
She turn to walk away then stop " and for the record if that ' architect' thing even dare look at my land I'll sell the both you to the next inter dimensional space demon trader I see, now follow me and don't dirty my good moss with your blood" she flip her hair in the air and walk away.
The roots-chain bound to Aki and Kael free both them , aki cough a bit and get up. The guardian tape the orb slightly it start floating on the air and flying following the guardian lead.
" now I'm a on a debt with a terrifying being, why can't my life get slightly normal?" Aki think deep inside him.