Do it. I'm not asking.

I limp my way to a corner of the library with Mortigan, hoping this wouldn't be yet more "You're being hunted by someone" or "You're probably going to die" related news.

"So. About your old name being in my list..."

Oh boy, even worse; "Existential crisis inducing information."

She continues, seating herself at a small table near the "Erotica" section; a fantastic place to have a potentially mind shattering conversation about my state of being.

I sit across from her, saying. "Just get it over with."

Clearing her throat, Mortigan continues her thought. "As I told you, the use of your old name indicates that it isn't you or your Others that the list has selected; rather, the whole of you put together."

"And I'm just a fragment of the being I once was, yada yada..."

"Comedy won't fix this situation."

"I can try."

"As you wish. I am here to ask you a question; has anyone asked you to consume your reborn Others? The "New Lords" as I've heard then be called."

I'm surprised at this question, answering. "The twins... when they took me and the others prisoner. They were willing to threaten me with some rather... rancid ****, if I declined."

Mortigan's eyes go wide, and she quickly asks. "Did you accept!? Do you have a binding contract!?"

"What!? No! That's when Haligcarnassus pretending to be Tomoko started raiding the place! I didn't even say a word."

I see the dark eyes of the God Hunter scan me over and over; time and time again, as if too try and **** my words to be lies.

"Good." She says, calming down. "That's good..."

Thinking over my own words, I ask aloud. "Wait, if Haligcarnassus is Carnachias's follower... why did she save us from the twins? Even if she were trying to get to us first for favor with Carn, I'd think she'd recognize not to raid one of her own hideouts."

"Your companions said she was in the city, correct?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Because the fact the town isn't currently in a mass orgy means that a rumor I've come upon is true. She's defected from the Dark Gods, and over to the New Lords; losing her blessings of seduction in the process. Apperently, this 'Lord Naimad' promised her a cure to her sterility; something Carnachias never provided."

Puzzle pieces now sorted in my mind, I ask. "Could we get back to my name being on your list? I feel like we got off topic after the ****."

"Oh, apologies." Says Mortigan. "Now, back to the subject at hand. I've come to a conclusion about your old name being on my list; one you may not like. The list is counting all four of you as a single entity, and combining the raw power of each into a singularity."

"And I'd not like to hear this because... why?"

"Because it means that, should any one of you four consume the other three, you would match my father in power."

I nearly fall out of my chair, stumbling as I jolt to my feet, only to tire my worn body.

"What!?"

Unflinching, she speaks as though the lunacy she had just spouted made as much sense as a children's storybook. "When a Core is absorbed fully, the monster's blessings and skills are distilled into raw power. You, essentially, are a Chosen; more than twice over. Blessed by Melanoche, Carnichas, and Ariel; even as an un-fully ascended God, given time to evolve, you could grow to dwarf the power of Tomoko. Now, take into account that the Lords each were given many unbound blessings by yet more of the Dark Gods before their betrayal; each of the three being essentially an even stronger form of Chosen. The raw potential of that kind of power, mixed with a Core's power to evolve, could result in whichever of you four that end up consuming the others to becoming a being as powerful as a God of ****. Something on that level of power has not been seen since the days of my namesake, when she found the First Ruya... this could throw the entirety of Ruyanei into chaos."

That power... to be God... No! Stop thinking about it!

"I... don't have words. Gods..." I say, utterly dumbfounded at the scale of it all, slumping in my chair. "So, what do I do with this!? You can't just throw this in my face all of a sudden!"

She stands, slowly walking back to the others. "What do you do with this? Simple. Don't get eaten... and don't eat your Other's Cores..."

"...Or I'll kill you; Damian Walker."