Voices

Axio must have reacted in some visible way to the sudden voice in his head as the old man looked at him weird.

"Hold on, I am speaking with someone in my head" he simply said, the crystal in his hand but still hidden in his clothing.

'What did the Abyss do?' he tried to ask.

"Nothing that interests you actu-" the man with the nice voice was interrupted as someone else began speaking.

"Oh hey, what's happening over there?" Axiolypito recognised that one.

'Vlasfimia?' Axio didn't have time to think because yet another voice came and then another, some he recognised, others he absolutely didn't.

"Ah, a venator! Never had the occasion of fighting one of those guys... Though, what is this one doing here? Pretty sure Axio's doesn't have them" that was Slaughter Lord, who clearly, deliberately ommited an important word.

The wretch couldn't try to press him for it since it was speaking nonstop in his mind.

"So that's the new guy? What a pathetic mana reserve" another new voice and an irritating one at that.

"So the Abyss can even do this sort of thing? I should head back to a world to check this out..." Axio felt like he hadn't understood a single word of that and yet comprehended the meaning perfectly.

For a few more moments, Axiolypito kept hearing speakers after speakers, responding to each other and talking over one another, making remarks about his situation or things that clearly didn't concern him in the least.

It was like being a child and being stuck in place, forced to listen to your mother speaking with her friends endlessly about things you couldn't care less about and slowly entering a state close to coma from sheer boredom.

"Shut up!" yelled the monster, startling the old hunter a bit with the sudden outburst.

"Not you, yet" he told him directly before coughing a bit and bringing his attention to the ones that had all invited themselves at the same time in his mind.

'Alright guys, what the hell?' he asked and the first to speak was Dramentia, who absolutely disregarded the question.

"We just got compared to gossiping old ladies" he informed everyone else with his typical, maniacal tone of voice, seemingly on the verge of breaking into laughter.

"Fucking unbelievable..." for once, it was a feminine voice that spoke.

"Also, dear Axiolypito, didn't you forget something? Something, around you neck?" Dramentia continued, the wretch could feel him pointing at him just by his tone.

Axio's pupils dillated instantly and his mouth took the shape of an 'O' as his jaw dropped, as if struck by a revelation that had shaken the very foundation of his very being, before reverting back to normal with a slightly confused frown.

'I had completely forgotten this madman, this he fell off when I was fighting Sir Solitar?' he wondered, he was talking of the sealed zealot, the guy infected with some of Dramentia's flesh, the man had been turned into a necklace and was to be used as an emergency.

However, his entire existence had slipped from his mind and it wasn't like the fool would have been much help but still, he was a formidable pawn.

" 'Fight' " the annoying voice from earlier, which was actually quite sophisticated and somewhat regal decided to be despicable again.

'Anyways, what are you all doing here? At once! When I am trying to have a conversation at that! You couldn't have chosen a worst moment to start filling my head with your meaningless words!' he complained, he hadn't heard anything from the crystal in a long, long while too.

He believed that it was because nothing stimulated any of the apostles enough for one to be able to communicate, however, they could clearly come in as they pleased!

"I suppose only The Lord Of The Hunt was supposed to be pulled in here but he just brought us along, since he never speaks" the first voice spoke again.

"Is that right Venny?"

"..."

"Seems right"

"Since he won't speak for himself, let me do the talking, basically, he just wanted to explain what a venerer was and also the venators" explained man, Axio remained silent for a little while.

'That's all? You started a party in my head for some explanations? I didn't even express any need or want to know!' Axiolypito looked at the old man in front of him, who now definitely believed that the wretch was the craziest out of the two of them.

"So basically..." ignoring Axio, he began a very short and unnecessary explanation.

"So the apostle is the one with us, he is the original venerer but, he splits himself into various forms to test things, the fragments he disperses are pseudo-apostles and were once used as hitmen for divergent worlds but not so much now..."

"Venator's are seen as the opposing force by default of the venerers" the part on the venators was exceptionally short.

"Anyways, the first pseudo-apostle split from the original went on to fall in the Abyss and evolved accordingly, an exploit, even for a creature of its caliber, so the Abyss became tied in a sense to venerers"

"A basic venerer is incredibly dangerous, the Abyss is incredibly dangerous too, so the both of them together should be lethal to most, this guy managed to survive and your world is still standing"

The man struck one of his palms with his fist.

"Understand what I am getting at? The venerer was either stopped, or killed"

"In short, you better put on your britches bitch! You get out easily!" Vlasfimia was the one to speak last before the connection suddenly died and Axio was once again left in silence.

"..."

"When you got there, were you and the venerer alone?" he asked the old man, who had definitely been quite patient to not try and murder him during the last few minutes.

"Well, I was already blinded by the dastardly bastard but I did notice two other people after we came out from another breach in the Abyss, for some reason though, instead of just falling to the ground as I came out, I was suddenly teleported here" he explained.

"Before I was taken away however, one of the two other men present lunged at the venerer and was nearly instantly struck by something, I have no clue what became of the other one-" without a change in tone, the venator finally went in and tried to cave in Axio's skull with sneaky strike.

Unfortunately for him, it was dodged casually, making the old man shake his head disappointedly.