The Goddess of Life was taken aback to find Gabriel before her eyes. He didn't look Undead. Instead, he simply appeared to be a young man, who was sleeping peacefully.
Unlike Karyk, his body wasn't covered in the dark patterns of Death. Instead, he only had one mark on the back of his left hand.
The Goddess knelt beside Gabriel and examined the strange mark on his hand, trying to determine its meaning. As she studied it, she noticed that the mark began to glow softly, and a feeling of warmth spread in the surrounding that was accompanied by a strange aura.
As the mark of Light and Darkness shone, Gabriel's eyelids flickered. He slowly opened his eyes, feeling a surge of energy flowing through his body. When his gaze met the Goddess of Nature, he realized that something within him had changed.
Before, he at least felt something for the Goddess of Nature, as if they were close. However, now she only felt like an acquaintance. He had some memories about her, but nothing worth the importance. If anything, Jia felt closer than the Goddess of Nature.
The Goddess of Nature stood up, as soon as she saw Gabriel open his eyes. She turned around, asking Karyk. "Who is he?! He doesn't feel like an undead or a clone."
"Because I'm none," Gabriel answered as he pushed his body up. He felt quite strange in this body. It was different yet it was familiar. If anything, it was brimming with strength that he never felt before. In fact that strength appeared to be beyond his understanding at the moment.
On the other hand, Karyk was still sitting with his eyes closed, gathering his soul strength that he had exhausted.
"Then what... Are you?" The Goddess of Nature asked. She was very sensitive to people's aura as she was closer to nature itself. Looking in Gabriel's eyes, she could feel that he wasn't Karyk. If anything, he was closer to how he used to be the first time she saw Gabriel in the prison!
No, he was even more different compared to that since he didn't have the aura of death around him. The only thing that he had similar to Karyk was now his face, and maybe his stubborn personality.
Gabriel glanced in the direction of Karyk, who wasn't paying attention. When he awakened his first element back on earth, he never expected that his journey was going to lead him to such a point where he would be looking at himself in such a way.
"I'm not Karyk," he calmly replied, looking at the Mark of Light and Darkness in his hand. At the same time, the mark of death was missing.
He stepped closer to Karyk, as he continued. "I'm Gabriel."
Hearing his response, the Goddess of Nature thought of something impossible. She was stunned to even consider this possibility but now that she thought about it, it made sense!
Karyk used the method that others with corrupted souls couldn't. He had two souls that led to this Corruption so the only solution was to separate them again.
She finally realized what might have happened! Karyk had separated from his secondary soul, bringing Gabriel back to life!
"Just how much control over life and death does he have now?" She muttered, slightly amazed by his strength.
She already knew a thousand years ago that Karyk was in a different league than the rest. That's why there were many people who were jealous or scared of him. However, currently, he was even more monstrous with what he was able to do.
She was somewhat glad that she hadn't sided with the Goddess of Light. Just facing Karyk alone was difficult but now there was Gabriel as well?
While the Goddess of Nature was lost in her thoughts, Gabriel walked past Jia, patting her head lightly before stopping next to Karyk.
He sat down right before him. At times, it even appeared as if there was a mirror between the two. If only their clothes weren't different, it would've been hard to differentiate between them.
"Are you ready to go back to earth?" Karyk calmly opened his eyes. His tone was without much emotional ripple. "I'll open a portal for you when I recover."
"Who said I'm going back?" Gabriel asked in return, not even thinking about returning back to earth. "I still have a banquet to attend to."
"This matter doesn't involve you. Why do you want to intervene?" Karyk inquired. He had intentionally taken away thousand years of hatred onto himself, only giving Gabriel the knowledge from his first life.
All because he wanted Gabriel to live a life on earth that he couldn't. So there was no reason for this guy to go after the Goddess of a Light or the Upper Realm.
Moreover, in any case, his success or failure wasn't going to harm him. If he succeeded, then the reign of the Upper Realm was over. And if he failed and died, then the Upper Realm was going to consider this matter ended, not knowing that there was another person like him without the element of death.
What scared the Upper Realm was the supreme element of death since in the Upper Realm, only the King possessed a supreme Element. Thus, they knew what a supreme element was capable of.
As for a hybrid element that was a merger of two high tier elements which Gabriel possessed, not many had seen it in the past since they were all killed by corruption before they could even fully utilize it. Gabriel on the other hand was different.
Now that the soul separation was successful, the Corruption was gone and he didn't have to worry about being affected again, unless he was also reborn and merged with a secondary soul which suffered from Corruption.
"If I don't, then who will?" Gabriel asked in return. "You might be the main soul, but I don't consider myself secondary either."
"Our enemies... Are the same." His fists tightened. Even though he couldn't feel the flames of rage and the emotions of anger towards the Goddess of Light and the Upper Realm, he still remembered all those emotions that he felt when he was one word Karyk!
