The Eternal Family

The white pupils, clear like crystal gems flickered on his forehead without permission and glared at the skies. Harry could feel his thoughts coming to a halt.

But he didn't panic, and the system screen flickered in front of him.

[A forceful attempt of information infusion is going on.]

"W..what?"

It only said that and didn't elaborate. A cold sensation spread out inside his brain as if a cold nail was hammered into it.

He grimaced in pain and his body sweated profusely. Information from all corners of his mind combined and immediately, new knowledge started to appear in it.

New knowledge that he had been completely unaware of.

The system sorted out all that and immediately added the new knowledge to its ancient database.

The pain vanished and he calmed down, but the white Eye didn't close and was still wide open in his forehead.

Just like the black eyes were wide open in the heavens.

[New knowledge acquired and stored in the database: Origin of Gifts and Disasters.]

Harry's mind cleared and he immediately sorted the thoughts himself in his own brain too.

But hopeful, he tried to click into the system's database, there was much knowledge inside that could help him, but the system didn't respond and Harry weakly fell back onto his bed.

Thoughts started to flicker through his mind.

The two eyes, one black and one white, even thinking of them had his heart rate quicken in fear and excitement.

The White Eye was the Eye of blessings and the Black eye was the Eye of Disasters.

Both were nigh-omnipotently strong but were in a constant and Eternal Battle with each other.

[Reassessing the potential and knowledge about the whole world.]

[Eternal Blood Awakening from its dormancy to keep the stress put on the Pleasure Path in check.]

The system showed many messages but nothing felt wrong in Harry's acute senses. So he focused back on the subject.

The Eye of Blessing spreads all sorts of Gifts and Blessings around the world, all parts of its power, its almighty Power around the world, and the ones who receive them become Gifted people with all sorts of powers.

And this Eye of Blessing's goal was to one day create a creature with all of the powers it scattered in one body.

To create an ultimate Gifted.

While the Black Eye tries to eradicate all of the people that are born Gifted to one day destroy every part of the other Eye.

It was a constant and long battle.

Both of these Eldrich creatures were using the whole universe as its battlefield and the first one to reach their end goal wins.

All of this information was given to him by the Blessing Eye itself.

Harry couldn't help but have cold sweat on his back.

That was not the only thing it told him.

It had also told him something just as ominous, if not much more.

In the Disaster Timeline, the Disaster Eye was trying to feed his thoughts with its own thoughts and assimilating him into its own hoard, it was slowly devouring him.

It was a true Disaster.

And he had no control over his own thoughts at that point, he was slowly losing himself.

Eyes were always watching and manipulating him in unseen ways.

But when a Gift that the Boessing Eye especially leaves behind in all of the Disaster Timelines that its chosen ones will have to go through, [World of the Mind] was absorbed by Harry, it changed.

"No wonder the System said it saw this same ability in all the worlds!"

The Eye was especially spreading this out for helping people pass the Disasters.

His mind had also grown clear after he just got it activated.

In a way, Harry got protection on his mind from the Blessing Eye and his mind left the other Eye's influence.

His thoughts grew crystal clear and he became smart enough to save himself.

"But why does this Disaster Eye focus so much on me?" Harry wondered.

He must be some kind of ant in its Eyes... So why?

And soon enough, the newly added information made more sense of such a question.

The Blessing Eye had infinite abilities, and the Disaster Eyes couldn't blast true, life-like Disasters at every one of the Gifted it created.

If it tried to do so, it will be open for the other Eye's attacks.

So it focuses on others who actually have a chance of becoming the True Chosen One with all of the Eye's Abilities in their hands.

People like Harry who has a Gift that can absorb other Gifts.

Harry could feel his heart trembling in fear at that thought. According to the system, some ordinary people had become Eternal from Mortal, and all of those people were, in a sense, the consequence of this cosmic battle.

And such entities, one was trying to protect him, while the other was trying to devour him.

Were they stronger than Eternals?

[No.]

Answered the system.

Surprised, Harry asked, "Are you awake, System?"

[I am not your System, I am the Eye of Blessing.]

Harry turned utterly silent and his hands clenched. Fuck, this thing was more mysterious than the System.

[Do not worry child, I cannot come in your direct vision. That is why I did this little trick on your toy.]

Harry eas only more panicked.

[Calm down.]

He calmed down.

[This System thing of yours is pretty interesting, and you are the one who got my 'Lustful Absorption' too, so why don't we make a deal?]

"D..deal?"

[Help me destroy the Eye of Disasters and absorb it, I will make you an Eternal with all of my current Ability in your hands. You just have to do what I say.]

"...That black eye is outside?"

[Answer.]

Harry breathed in and breathed out, he hadn't yet had the chance to calm down and everything seemed to be spinning.

He was very...overwhelmed.

Moreover, this Eye had even gotten into his System so easily, what is this thing?

Can it be trusted?

No way!

"Let me ask you something first, Eye of Blessings, will you be in my System forever from now?"

The system flickered and answered:

[I wish, but Disaster is not weak. Even speaking to you like this in between our battle is straining, I will at most have another 2 hours with you.]

"What is it that you want me to do against something as strong as it?"

[I don't want you to do anything now, I just want you to become my ultimate creation, one creature with a replica of all my abilities inside him.]

Harry squinted and asked, "What is the catch?"

[You do whatever I ask until you become my victory. You have to be my slave until you reach that point.]

Harry's dark, black abyss-like eyes shined and he said, "Impossible."

[Without my help, you will die in the next Disaster you will get thrown by him and you will die.]

"I would rather die than be a slave to you."

Harry wasn't against becoming a slave as long as he can achieve what he wants to by doing that, but his Family's life would no longer be in his hands anymore.

That was not possible.

[...Your System seemed like a fun toy against Disaster...what a shame...what a shame...]

Even though the System was silent, Harry felt as if he heard an audible and ancient sigh.

[Well...I had a liking for you because of your luck, you chose to abandon it, so, let the rest hang on your luck...I shall leave you to your luck.]

Harry just kept looking at the System and it flickered for a while and then showed, [Eternal Blood going back to dormancy, (The Eye of Blessing) had been completely scanned. Key data had been protected out of infringement of the Eternal.]

Harry looked on with wide, dumbfounded eyes and turned back to look at the mirror, the Eye on his forehead had vanished.

Confused, he looked at the System, it was glitching and flickering all around. He still couldn't make a whole sense of what was going on...

He suddenly felt as if nothing made sense anymore...

But in his darkening eyes, he could see the system's shift and breakdowns, he could feel it changing somehow.

And it was subtle, but he could also tell without looking into the System that [World of the Mind] had vanished from his mind.

But why...? It could still help him even if he rejected its idea of becoming a slave right?

Their goals aligned! They could have negotiated!

Man...I am confused...

[Pleasure Path shifting order and confirming further details.]

[Eternal Blood Dormant.]

[Shifting Abilities (Gifts) stored inside the Host's soul to outside it.]

[Creating Steps and organizing the Data-Base.]

[The Flowing Blood of the Eternals spreading into your blood veins (Dormant).]

Harry looked on, too confused about what was going on.

[Path to Eternal, confusion cleared. Pleasure Path has taken the Eye of Blessing as a model and created a path to become the closest to its source.]

"What does that mean exactly?" he wondered...

Every time something happens with these eldritch creatures as a part of it, it just turns too confusing.