The relationship between the two sisters was convoluted from the start.
Their birth was not a mistake.
In reality, the Divine Emperor had a plan in conceiving them.
His relationship with the Nox had completely broken down by the time he made it to Apeiron. Because he didn't want to be their slave, he used the universe as a safehouse to get away from them and build a life for himself.
Unfortunately, they found him early and he wasn't able to establish the foundation he wished for, but he was able to leave two contingencies for revenge.
They were named Zara and Alwa.
Originally, they were supposed to be born at the same time, and at a point where his existence wouldn't be unknown to them.
He hoped to create a chance to strike the Nox through them, giving Nox lineage to universal denizens and giving them a chance to conquer the very power that oppressed them.
However, life was not kind to him.
Nothing he planned for took place as he wished. He died before he could see out his plans, and knowing her connection to him, the Nox targeted Zara's mother and forced her into the First Dungeon.
This part of the story had been unveiled to them by Damien years ago.
But what about the rest?
Zara and Alea were unconscious, hanging on the border between life and death, but this experience wasn't entirely bad for them.
Not only because of the work their mothers were doing to aid them, but because their minds entered a mysterious state.
They were connected.
And the history that evaded them for so long started to become clear.
Their mental avatars stood together in the mysterious space, two women standing before them.
They were polar opposites as Zara and Alea were, and despite their humanoid appearances, it was undeniable that they were the very Divine Beasts that they called their mothers.
There were no words exchanged.
The two sisters couldn't speak in their current state, and their mothers didn't have the capacity to explain everything while facilitating the massive procedure that was taking place outside.
Therefore, they transmitted their knowledge through other means. Specifically, through bloodline memories.
Zara felt her mind open to something mystical.
A massive black wolf surrounded by shadowy flames that held more similarity to darkness than fire stood among a lonely plain.
She didn't need much time to realize.
This wolf was her ancestor.
Knowledge of it began pouring into her head almost instantly.
Infernal Wolves.
They were a species descended from the Godbeast Fenrir, a wolf that was said to have devoured the stars themselves.
As its descendants, they possessed a high affinity for darkness and other concepts in the same vein, as well as monstrous physical strength that couldn't be compared to their peers.
As expected, they were an extremely rare race. There weren't more than ten of them ever born in the history of all worlds.
But…alone, this didn't mean much.
They were a powerful species, but at the end of the day, that was that.
Their true value lay elsewhere.
In Alea's mind, conversely to Zara, she saw a great holy wolf that could utilize the power of Heaven itself to its will.
This was her ancestry, the Celestial Wolf.
The Celestial Wolves were a species descended from the Godbeast Tianlang, a wolf who was born from a star and had a natural capacity to control worldly forces.
With their minds connected, Zara and Alea saw not only their own ancestry, but their counterparts as well.
Even from the Godbeasts their species were descended from, they were direct opposites in every way.
But, again, their differences were something they already knew.
However, these facts needed to be reiterated for them to understand their true purpose.
The Celestial and Infernal Wolf races were always intertwined in some way.
Anytime they showed themselves in the universe, they would do so together. One could never find them by themselves.
But why was that?
Zara and Alea's unnatural births, which separated them in different dimensions, made this truth unavailable to them, because to realize it, they required the connection of their birth.
At least, that's how it should've been if Damien never intervened.
When Damien contracted Zara, he became entwined in this connection. The Void within him influenced Zara and latched onto that connection, reinvigorating it when Zara finally came out of the First Dungeon.
It needed time to grow, but it was once again present.
Alea's strange feelings towards Damien when they got close to each other were caused by this very intervention.
Because what she should've felt towards Zara, the unmistakable pull towards her, was felt through Damien.
In a sense, he both muddied and supported their growth with his presence.
He only came to understand this after peeping into their origins when they fought on Apeiron, and when he did, he immediately extricated himself and left them alone together.
From that point on, it was only positive development.
The two women got closer and closer, and their power got stronger and stronger the more they worked together.
And eventually, they reached this point.
A point where their minds were connected as the truth flooded into their memories.
It was simple, really.
Harmony was a concept present everywhere in the universe, and considering the push and pull of the relationship between their species, a relationship that was a direct representation of yin and yang, the conclusion was evident.
Their power wasn't complete alone.
It would only be complete when both halves were in conjunction.
It was quite comical. The Divine Emperor didn't even realize what he was doing when he birthed them, only thinking about revenge, but he unknowingly created a miracle.
A Celestial Wolf and an Infernal Wolf who shared a bloodline connection through him…
The level of synergy they could possess far exceeded what their races were originally capable of.
But they hadn't reached that point yet.
Because there was still one last step for them to take.
Knowledge poured into their minds.
Techniques from their beast ancestry and truths from their Nox lineage melded into a single picture that encapsulated both of their minds.
And slowly, they were pulled together.
Unconsciously, their mental realms started to combine.
It was not a fusion that erased one and replaced it with the stronger of the two, but one that took the greatest of their strengths and established a perfect balance between them.
VOOM!
In the outside world, a mysterious phenomenon began.
The suppressed dark beings and the souls of their mothers watched as the bodies of these two women were covered by a film of light and pushed together.
Light and Darkness, didn't Damien comprehend them only recently?
They couldn't create the "space" in his galaxy unless they worked in tandem.
They were two sides of the same coin.
And Zara and Alea, who personified these elements, were the same.
From the start, they were never meant to be apart.
From the start, they were never meant to be "two."
In this separated reality, far beyond the perception of any being living or dead, a massive event occurred.
Zara and Alea merged into one.
To become the perfect self that they were always meant to be.
