Chapter 1056: We Dream Together. 2
Just like women change their underwear easily, this ranking could change very quickly too. For example, it has been 10 years since Sasha was in this Dream, and she definitely hadn't sat around doing nothing. She took advantage of the fact that her Power was sealed to review the basics, so maybe she had surpassed her Mother when she returned.
And probably when her Mother found out about this, she would also try to do something to regain her throne as the fastest woman. In general, this whole situation with the Title of the 'Fastest Woman Alive' was just a way for the women of the Fulger Clan to compete in a friendly competition and consequently become stronger.
Even their Daughters from the Fulger Clan were participating in this as well. Ironically, Sasha's Daughter was the most competent in terms of both speed and technique, with Carmila's Daughter and Victoria's Daughter in second place, practically equal in this regard. And in last place are Natashia's Daughter and Naty's.
Now, if you asked who was the most manipulative of the group? The definitive answer would be the Daughters of Natashia and Naty, as the two brats had inherited the worst parts of their Mothers... Well, considering that both women were just one woman at the beginning, it made sense that they were similar in this respect.
"Akasha didn't think it was fair to use her abilities only for the Scarlett group, so she is acting as an information broker." Ruby nodded in satisfaction. She really liked Akasha's attitude since it was clear that even in a sealed state, Akasha held an overwhelming advantage in information. She had memories of several Primordial Gods inside her due to the purpose for which she was created.
And despite Victor's Daughters being exceptional, without a doubt, they still couldn't match the lifetimes of experience of a Primordial God in small manipulations and schemes. It was not as if they had an unfair advantage like Victor who could absorb the memories of other Beings by 'eating' them and had the political cunning of Adonis.
The ability to absorb others' memories was not inherited by any of Victor's Daughters, not even the abilities of the Blood Dragon Progenitor.
Innately, Victor could edit a Soul—he just needed practice to be perfect—, control blood, control Vampires, and deny forms of protection from his Charm against the opposite side like the Inquisitors. It also gave him more 'pride' in being who he was, as well as a broader understanding of things related to war. This was the ability of the Vampire Progenitor, specifically of an abnormal Vampire Progenitor like Victor. After all, the way Victor 'awoke' to become a Progenitor was quite different from Vlad.
Being a Dragon Progenitor gave him an innate ability to alter Reality, better understanding and control over Draconian language and Runes, and extreme affinity with everything in Creation. Dragons were Beings loved by Creation because, despite causing destruction due to their pride, if a Dragon existed long enough in one place, that place would become rich in life. A Dragon enhanced everything in Creation.
The merger of these two Powers made him the Blood Dragon, further boosting these talents. It was a complete fusion of two Progenitors into a new Progenitor of a completely new Species.
None of the children inherited any of these abilities. Yes, they inherited some things to a lesser degree, like some were more talented in Runes, some were very good at being shapeshifters, etc., but they never gained anything innately like he had.
As far as they understood, this was a unique ability of Progenitors. Yes, they could learn. After all, they were still Blood Dragons and Daughters of Victor, but this applied only to basic things. Things that were exclusive to Progenitors, only another Progenitor could do.
This was one of the 'invisible rules' of the world that everyone knew existed, but no one knew exactly what they were. After all, few had the opportunity to reach the highest limit possible that a God could achieve.
"I presume our Daughters did not take this well," Sasha said.
"Indeed, but Pepper's pout did not make Akasha change her mind... She is very resilient." Ruby was a bit surprised by this because even Scathach and Victor sometimes gave in to things Pepper asked for because she was 'very cute'.
'Does my older Sister's Lineage have some Power related to this or something?' Ruby wondered.
Sasha blinked in surprise at what Ruby said.
"She is very powerful..." Violet couldn't help but comment.
"Yes." Ruby agreed.
Sasha shook her head, setting aside the subject temporarily, and asked, "How many years have we spent here?"
"10 years," Violet responded immediately. As someone who had the same Time-related eyes as Victor, she could see these things better. "Only a few minutes have passed outside." She added.
'Thinking about this Power, I need to see if my Daughter has inherited it too...' She had completely forgotten about this matter so far because Valentina had shown no ability to observe the future.
'If she awakens, I need to warn her to be careful.' Violet felt an invisible slap from her hypocrisy. After all, she herself had not been careful with this Power despite all of Victor's warnings. She only 'matured' about it after hearing the experience one of her Sisters had with the outside Victor.
Messing with Time was something very dangerous. Nowadays, she only used it to observe the future of the present, in this case, a few seconds further into the future, at most 1 minute more. However, she never attempted to view beyond that because, from 1 minute on, the future began to fragment into possible 'futures', which were the choices she might or might not make.
As an older woman, and believing herself wiser than before, she had learned to restrain herself, enjoy the present, and only use it when necessary.
Although the eye ability she received from her father not only functioned as a way to see the future. With the fusion of the Dragon's Eyes, she could observe Time itself. For example, she could look at a Dimension and see the Time difference between them.
It was like looking at a computer that showed the 'correct' data from each place.
"10 years, huh. I hardly felt anything."
"The Time difference is different for us," Ruby said. "For us, not even a year has passed, at least, that's how I think." Although Ruby lived with the inhabitants of this Dream, strangely, the citizens here did not age as quickly, so 10 years seemed like only 2 or 3 years had passed for the Beings here.
"Speaking of which... We've spent so much time without Darling. How are we not dying of longing?" Sasha pointed out. Normally, spending a week away from Victor would make them quite restless.
"... Now that you mentioned it..." Violet had completely missed that point too.
"Hmm, I don't miss him because I feel him everywhere?" Ruby explained her feelings, then looked around and said,
"Every blade of grass, every tree, every breath, even the Humans, everything here reminds me of Darling, but at the same time not... It's hard to explain."
"I understand a bit of what you're talking about..." Sasha said after thinking a bit. It was like a feeling that he was always present, even when he wasn't.
"Considering that this place was created by Darling's Dream Power, I guess it's understandable that we feel this way," Violet explained.
"True, I think Darling made this place exactly this way so that the clingier girls wouldn't go berserk." Ruby analyzed.
"... Speaking of which, how is Yuno?" Sasha mentioned Kaguya's Daughter.
"The last time I heard from her, she had joined The Cult of Jeanne."
"What, why?" Sasha asked, astonished.
"Did she feel like it?" Ruby replied.
"That girl is so random. She reminds me a lot of Victor when he said he was going on his 'walks'," She snorted. Whenever Victor said that she knew someone was going to die that night, or she would have to deal with some nonsense that Victor had caused.
Not even Ruby, as one of her Mothers, understood Yuno completely; after all, she acted purely on feelings. Basically, intrusive thoughts didn't exist for Yuno since she carried them all out.
"Leaving aside our rebellious Daughter... I foresee that the war will reach its peak this year. One of our Daughters must ask for our support, so what are you going to do?"
"Stay in character," Sasha said. "I'm a badass princess who has no ties to anyone, so such a war doesn't interest me... Unless they attack the place that was my former kingdom…."
"Fuck." Sasha just realized a way someone could throw her into the war. After all, the character she was acting as now would do exactly that.
"In my case, it would be whoever paid me the most and if I evaluate who will win or not. After all, a mercenary doesn't just fight for the money, they have to put things into future perspectives." That wasn't exactly how a mercenary worked, but that was how the mercenary that Violet created worked, and practically all of them had the same philosophy as Violet.
Ruby covered her face with the fan to hide her mischievous smile and said: "Fufufu, I'm a greedy merchant, so I'll remain neutral and profit from everywhere, fufufu."
"Evil, you're evil." Sasha snorted.
"Wrong, my dear, I'm smart. I wonder which of our Daughters will approach me with the right proposal, I'm quite interested."
Violet, Sasha, Ruby, and Jeanne had become four important points in the war, and all the Daughters knew it. They were like special characters that a Faction needed to secure in order to have the best outcome.
They would use all available efforts to bring them to their side.
"Fufufu, this is fun. We should do this more often in the future, just with our Sisters next time." Violet said.
"That should be interesting. After all, some of our Sisters are really old…" Ruby said she was particularly interested in seeing how her Mother would act when all the odds were against her.
'Meh, who am I kidding? I know my Mother will face the enemy head on with a maniacal smile on her face, and will somehow eliminate them all.' Scathach was just that badass.
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