The Eternal Family

The room was silent, the windows were wide open and the wind was whooshing against the white curtains.

Yet, the sound from outside the room, the noise of birds, bees, and carriages coming and going. Even the iron knight armors\' creaking.

But all of that, even Lilly\'s presence in the room was currently not in Harry\'s mind, all of his focus was on the thing that rested in his hands.

A Gu that he had been wanting for a while. Something that could supposedly heal souls and give a third eye to the one who got healed.

Something the enigmatic Mad Hooligan gifted his Mother.

But that was not the only thing that intrigued Harry about this jade-looking Gu. He was much more interested in its other aspects.

The ones that Valeria explained to him just after he decided to go through the Duel.

Mainly, it was the capability to allow a person to go up a Stage in their Gift if they used it before Stage 4 – as long as they were completely healthy.

It could help you easily reach Stage 4 from Stage 3, but it could never go from Stage 4 to 5.

Yet, even that was not the main attraction for Harry, for him, he was much more interested in the fact that it left a Third Eye in the forehead of its user as a mark to show that it was used. He was very, very interested in this.

In the Disaster timeline, two Eyes, one on his forehead and the other high in the heavens were the catalysts of his return to reality. 

Even though the one on his forehead was a closed slit rather than a true eye.

He closed his eyes and pondered for a last time. He could see that by trying what he had in mind, he was being rather impulsive. But he had many securities and reasons.

For one, if something ominous happened, he had a feeling that his System might come to use in emergencies.

And second, even if he died, he had a clone outside.

Breathing out the turbid air inside his chest, he said, "Lilly, go out of the room and lock the door. Don\'t come in or let anyone come in till I say to do so."

Lilly reluctantly nodded and then did exactly that.

She didn\'t know about the deeper details of the Third Eye or his Time Traveling since he nor Valeria had clearly explained everything, and even though Harry had once briefly mentioned it to Emma, she hadn\'t truly understood anything.

In her mind, Harry was just going to use the Gu to go up a Stage and she had no problem with it. She wasn\'t much interested in strength and Harry seemed too fixated on this Gu, and he had worked hard for it – so she didn\'t consider or expect anything ominous.

Unlike Harry who was expecting a dark, humongous eye to pop up out of nowhere.

So she simply left and locked the door on her way. Harry also calmed down quite a bit since she was out of danger.

He breathed in deeply, and wondered, \'Should I start?\'

There was a very important reason he chose to do this inside the castle too. Anywhere else, the movements would make him a very conspicuous mark. But here, he was protected inside the magical walls of this magical castle.

By now, he was sure the castle was indeed made by the ancient Eternal Dragon Clan who lived in Mystry millennia ago and the Lust Family had just inherited it after it was abandoned.

Even though the current mechanisms worked in their favor for unknown reasons that he believed only the First King knew why.

Anyway, inside here, he had something of an Armor against that Humongous Eye if it ended up being some sort of enemy.

But he was still rather dubious of the whole thing too, after all, he had been still attacked by Eternal Omnipresence inside his own room regardless.

What if the Eye was something as strong as that?

Nevertheless, he had to do this.

Evis, Eva, and even that woman whom he still couldn\'t understand anything about, Verma...

What happened to them?

He wanted to know.

And he also wanted to get that Gift Stage boost.

\'For now, let\'s first activate my [World of the Mind] Gift.\'

That was one of the Gifts Evis had.

He calmly closed his eyes and a bit later, a small slit slowly carved itself on his forehead and he opened his eyes.

Fuu... the black screen of the System immediately opened and he checked his stats. Am I being somehow influenced?

Anyhow?

[World of the Mind: ???????]

Harry\'s eyes widened.

what was going on?!

He looked around, but nothing was around him. He turned and looked towards the mirror; it was the same black-haired handsome young man he knew, but with a slit on his forehead.

His heart kept beating out of his chest and his mind kept screaming in adrenaline, but he didn\'t lose his shit and calmly looked around.

Nothing was happening out of the norm.

The System blurred and changed, [World of the Mind: the gift that exists similarly in multiple worlds. Why is this Gift in all the world data the System knows about?]

What? 

Harry couldn\'t understand whatever it was trying to say.

But it didn\'t mind and showed him another tab.

[Coninent of Mystry has World of the Mind Ability.

True World of Mana has this same Ability.

Eastern Great World has this Ability.

Great Beast Heavens has this same Ability in their world...]

It continued for a long time and Harry dumbfoundedly looked at it. 

Then it hit him. The System had always shown him what it knew, it had always had its own database that he couldn\'t access.

And its knowledge was vast.

It knew many, many things.

And today was the same, it was showing him what it knew, and all it knew was...

The same Gift, [World of the Mind], existed in every world it knew.

And this world was not any special, every single world it knew had it.

This was the first time he had activated this Specific Gift after he came back from the Disaster Timeline and it had seen something in this Gift that existed in every world it knew.

The existence of many worlds was no news to Harry, since he himself came from another, but still... His head got pounded with confusion and he could feel a headache coming on.

But nothing ominous had happened until now.

No eye had come.

He breathed heavily and took the jade-like Gu in his hands, then with gritted teeth, broke it.

He was resolved to find out what will happen. He wanted answers.

The Gu started to take effect.

An electrical current, like a snake, started to vibrate through his whole body and especially his heart — his hair all over stood up and his whole body trembled.

He started regretting everything for some reason, \'I...I should have let the clone use the Gu and waited to see what happens!\'

He didn\'t know why till now such thoughts were blocked from his head, only now could he finally have a clear head and think along those lines.

Why?!

What was going on?!

He should have immediately decided to give the Clone this Gu and see what happens. If the clone had his Gift level up to Stage 2, the main body would have gone up too.

If it died, it died. There were almost no losses, only benefits. Whereas if his Main body died, he will lose the System!

This was the same thing that happened to him in the Disaster Timeline after the Third Eye appeared; his mind suddenly turned clear and he decided he was not going to pretend like someone else...

Why? What was going on...

He didn\'t know.

At the same time outside the castle and high up in the sky, the clouds started to churn and the lands started to turn dark like night. 

It was about to rain.

An ominous atmosphere settled in everyone\'s hearts with themselves unaware. 

Drip.

First, it was the gentle drop on a maid\'s cheek and soon, that transformed into a heavy downpour and every maid and butler rushed back into the castle.

It was just Rain, nobody even noticed anything bad.

But among the dark clouds and hidden from all of mortal vision stood a Majestic Dark eyes, its pupils as Dark as the abyss and glaring with red veins all over its face.

Harry\'s breath calmed down and his hair stopped standing.

The electric shock sensation had vanished.

But his whole body was wracked in sweat and a terrible nausea was coming on.

The world was spinning.

Many questions, the ones he had asked himself and ones that had laid dormant in his mind all started to run rampant.

His head was extremely clear.

The eye in the center of his forehead opened abruptly...