Some of them noticed a change but others felt exactly the same. The dragon clone was going bonkers though. It seems that whatever they had gone through affected their souls but they don't know to what extent. They can't even control or influence the black orbs.
Aeternus grumbled to everyone else, "I hope that isn't everything it can do or it won't be worth it. We almost died because of it."
He knows that the freedom that Legion-7 experienced is good and that what Legion-8, the dragon, is going through is epic but he isn't satisfied with the black orbs yet.
Legion didn't hear most of what the four consciousness said because it was killing Legion to listen to them. The three consciousness had to shield Legion from most of the conversation or they would have died so all they know is that they almost died. They were very careful too. They did everything they thought would help prevent such a situation but it happened anyway. He believes that what they've gotten is not worth what they experienced.
Most of Legion agrees with him. Legion-7 is whooping for joy though but his opinion doesn't really count. His situation was so bad that death would have been a blessing so something as little as freedom is very much worth it to Legion-7. They would all feel it were worth it if they had been in his situation but they aren't. Aeternus is a demon king, not a slave so it will take a lot to impress him.
"I'll just work on my sin abilities." He said to himself.
Aeternus decided to practice after poking around and finding nothing. Even their stats screen showed nothing. It seems that they have not changed in any visible way. He decided to wait for Helios to finish rebuilding his body before he leaves for the abyss. Meanwhile, he will work on his sin abilities.
He has not gained control of his mark of sin but he has been able to modify his abilities to some extent. The one he was working on last time is the DIVINE AVATAR. He was trying to create avatars with power without using the Godhood of gods or his crowns before he was interrupted by the liberation army and the attack of the GodSlayer.
He chose avatar creation because it should be the easiest. He wants to base the avatar on his soul energy and Chaos energy instead of Godhood. He has been trying different methods to create a strong avatar but he has failed. His practice didn't come without benefits though. He got a lot of data from it. He was also able to create the reaper attack from it. The attack that decimated the liberation army and marked the gods was the reaper attack.
He tried creating an avatar now to practice while he waits for Helios to heal. Chaos energy and Soul force came out of his hand and formed a ball. He began shaping the chaos energy with his soul force. The ball fell from his hands and began to morph. It expanded and became a thin outline of a translucent red shadow. The shadow is in the form of a flat wraith. It has arms but no legs.
Then he funneled Chaos energy into the shadow. The red shadow thickened and grew. It became three-dimensional as it grew. Its features became clearer and clearer. The arms grew thicker and its eyes opened to show a golden light shining from within the wraith. It is like its red body is a shell containing a light source.
"Hmm?" Aeternus muttered when he noticed something different.
He could feel chaos energy still funneling into the shadow. It ought to have stopped. This is the limit of what he used to reach. The avatar will awaken and then stop growing. So it has always been weak. But this time it isn't stopping. It kept filling up and solidifying.
"This is strange." He muttered as he watched the shadow grow.
The red shadow became life-like. Its red skin seemed as if covered by red blood. It became three-dimensional. It lost its hollow look and changed from being a shell for the light within to become a statue with a torch in its head.
The outline of a black scythe began forming in one of its hands. The outline also solidified but this time it took soul force from him instead of chaos energy. The shadow itself is formed from chaos energy fused with soul force but the black scythe is formed purely from his soul force. It should not be so. It is confounding to Aeternus that it is so.
"Well, this is very odd." He observed with the look of someone that has seen something shocking.
Soul force comes from the eternal soul of an Origin god. It exists as a result of an eternal soul pushing against or pulling the world. It is not energy or matter. It is power. It is a force. A force brings about change. A force can not exist isolated from the world. A force should in fact become apparent because of its interaction with the aspects of the world.
It is like isolating the forces of pull and push or gravity and pointing at saying "That's the force of gravity."
No, it is not done and that's why he is shocked. The force of gravity is perceived through its effect. Like a fruit falling from a tree. Not by a round ball of gravity that can be seen or interacted with. And yet, it is happening.
The black scythe that he used to make before with the divine avatar and with his attacks was made with Godhood and chaos energy as the base or chaos energy and soul force. Nothing should be formed by soul force. It is a force, not energy or matter.
His confusion and perplexion didn't change or affect what was going on though. The avatar finished its growth with a scythe formed with soul force.