Chapter 1805 Complete Hopelessness. "What just happened...?" "Where did she go...?" The Progenitors questioned as they turned towards Nux's wives for answers. "To the man who put her in that state." Astaria shrugged. "What...?" Dagahra tilted his head, the temperature around him fell as his eyes turned cold. Saphira's expression was similar. It was quite an intimidating scene to look at, Astaria, however, just shrugged and, "The man who attacked her and put her in that state, Nux knew she would want to see him when she wakes up, so instead of killing him, he captured him instead." The Sword Girl explained. "Wait, wait, wait." Saphira shook her head. "I was told that it was a Primordial who attacked her." "Yes, and?" Astaria tilted her head as she stared at the Dragon Progenitor, Saphira's frown deepened, she turned towards Sylvara, who knew more about the situation, and the Elven Progenitor nodded with a wry smile on her face. Saphira understood what that smile meant. 'She is telling the truth...' It wasn't just the Dragon Progenitor; the rest of the Progenitors who didn't know much about the situation widened their eyes in disbelief. The Progenitors weren't fools, they could tell what this meant. "So instead of running away... that man faced a Primordial and captured him alive...?" Dagahra couldn't hold himself back and questioned with a shocked look on his face. "Five of them, actually." Allura chuckled playfully when she said those words. Aisha understood what her sister was trying to do, so she jumped in as well. "Well, there were around 30 Complete Divines as well, but I guess they don't really matter at this point, do they?" Allura's smile widened when she saw Aisha understood what she wanted, so she continued, "Right, they barely did anything anyways." "Nux did want to capture a few of them though..." "Tsk, can't believe they just died just from the aftereffects of the battle, couldn't even survive before Nux could capture them." The more the women talked, the weirder the atmosphere got. It didn't take long for the rest of the women to join in the conversation as well. The Progenitors stared at them in disbelief. "A-Are they bluffing...?" One of them couldn't help but question. All of this was simply too unbelievable. Even Sylvara, who had heard the entire story from Evane before, had a doubtful look on her face now. "They are not." Azriel, however, shook his head. The Progenitors all turned towards him and, "Don't underestimate that child. He is training with Lia, and he is forcing her to use quite a bit of her strength." "He is forcing A-Aeliana to use most of her strength?" The Progenitors were in disbelief. "At his current strength, he can probably take on all of Yrniel's Primordials at the same time." Azriel commented. The Progenitors turned towards Aeliana, wanting to confirm those words. Aeliana, however, was thinking about an entirely different matter. "He knew she would want to get revenge the moment she wakes up, so he captured him instead of killing him..." She muttered, her face red, her thoughts running wild. The women who saw the looks on her face smiled. Allura, of course, couldn't hold herself back and walked towards the Vampire. "Sister Aeliana~" She called out. The Vampire turned towards her and Allura's smile widened. "I heard something quite interesting happened between you and Nux, mind telling me what it was?" In an instant, Aeliana's face turned red. The instant the rest of the women saw her expression, their smiles widened as well, and they surrounded the poor Vampire. Azriel, seeing the flustered look on her daughter's face, wanted to save her, but there was nothing he could do. Nux and Vyriana stepped inside Core. "Where is he?" Vyriana questioned. Nux smiled as he then took her inside their mansion's basement. In there, inside a cell, Vyriana's eyes fell on an unconscious body that was bound by cold iron chains. "Why does he look... like that?" Zyros's body was no longer pulsing with the radiant hues of blue light. It now appeared dull and lifeless. His eyes were dark and sunken, looking like hollow, shadowy orbs. His core that once shimmered with bright blue energy had become hollow as well. It looked like all of his energy had been sucked out of it. He looked brittle and weak, unlike a fearsome entity before, he now looked like a cluster of withered vines grouped together. Of course, Vyriana knew she wouldn't find the man in one piece, especially when she was hurt and didn't wake up for such a long time. She had seen the crazed, desperate, and horrified look on Nux's face when he realized that the attack was targeted at her. That little moment was enough for her to know that Zyros's future days were anything but peaceful. But this...? 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞 Even Vyriana was taken aback by his current condition. Hearing her question, Nux's eyes shined with a cold glint. Soon, however, he glanced at the ceiling and saw Zyros's soul floating above. He was expressionless, despite being fully conscious. He didn't react even though Nux had appeared in front of him. Why? Had he overcome his fear? No, completely opposite of that, in fact. Zyros was broken. In these past few years, he had gone through so much agonizing pain, that too, without a single break, that his very will to live or even die had been erased. He had gone through so much pain that his very emotions were erased. For Nux, this was a common sight. It was similar to how the Souls the Umbrasol Progenitors experimented on gave in to their fate. This was how complete hopelessness looked like. Nux was familiar with this sight, Vyriana, however, was not. "W-What is that?" The Dragon was in disbelief. "His Soul." Nux answered calmly. "No, even if that is his soul... Why... What are those pins inside his soul...? Wait... how many are there...? Ten... no... Hundred thousand...?" Yes, that agonizing pain that crushed Zyros to his core and filled him with endless fear, Nux made him go through that pain more than a hundred thousand times.