“He is not the only one,” I explain. “Urteos was just the last person to be born during the eclipse. But there were others before him, too. And they all brought some type of disaster to Tartareia.”
“I still don’t see why that’s relevant.”
“Because there is a law in Tartareia that whenever an immortal is born during such an eclipse, he is to be put on a registry and be forbidden from ever cultivating. As you can imagine, without cultivation, the body cannot consume or store energy, thereby wasting away. This was the case for Nykander, too, was it not?”
“Yes.” I press my lips together.
“It is an offense punishable by death to instruct in cultivation anyone on the registry,” Lis continues.
“But that would mean you—” Moe points towards her, but she merely waves her hand.
“I do not care for such things so I do not count.”
That in itself is an odd thing to say, but I am so tuned to Moe’s reaction to this situation that I can’t pay attention to Lis—or, perhaps, I’ve stopped questioning things about her.
“All right, so it’s illegal for him to cultivate. But that’s only if someone catches him,” Moe quickly chimes in, putting on a smile. “No one has to know.”
“That will only take you so far,” Lis comments. “But we are not here to discuss that. As I said, the circumstances of his birth are merely the baseline.”
Both Moe and I frown at her words.
“What happened today,” she continues. “You awakened a second domain, did you not?”
“How… How did you know?”
Her lips curl up. “I know,” she states simply. “But no one else must know that.”
“Why?”
She places her teacup on the table before looking straight at me.
“Double domains are almost mythical, they arethatrare. The last known person to have double domains was Urteos, and he supposedly died a madman.”
I blink. Her words awaken some memories. That book I retrieved as my first mission from Utopiya… What did it say about Urteos?
“Supposedly?” Moe echoes.
Lis’ eyes are still on me.
“I read once in a book that Urteos died at the hands of one of the Seven, because he advanced the same domain as that Primordial and he took note of him.”
“That is part of the story.” Lis notes. “Urteos had two domains: Shadow and Flame. Although he awakened both around the same time, he did not care much about the Flame domain and decided to only advance his Shadow one.”
More memories surface from that book.
“If you have two domains… You have to level up each domain separately.”
“Correct. With you as an example. Your shadow domain is around a level five but your new domain is only a level one.”
“Abyss,” I mutter. “That is my new domain.”
Moe’s mouth opens in awe as she whispers, “That’s so cool.”
Lis doesn’t have any reaction—she already somehow knew about it.
“Urteos decided to only advance his Shadow Domain, which, as you know, already has a Primordial. Each Domain may only have one Primordial, and once one reaches a far enough level, they become a threat to the title holder. Urteos was very close to becoming a Primordial himself, but the Shadow Primordial was never going to allow that to happen.”
“But aren’t the Primordials locked away in Tartarstasis?” Moe questions.
