The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 20 Adina Regains Her Memories and Her Psionic Capabilities

Adina heard Keila’s and the Angels’ speeches witnessing the entire event through a small opening from the dark tunnel down below. In the tunnels, she was safe from the menacing “sun” that was set to fire lasers at her and kill her if she was to come out in the open. Seeing Keila’s appearance filled Adina with rage. Her head was spinning, and she had to sit down to avoid collapsing as she was weak and injured.  Then her memories all came back to her. She knew who she was, and she remembered her powers.

Adina sat down and tried to focus on her psionic abilities. She managed to connect telepathically to her foster father, High Priest Markus and concluded that her adoptive parents were still alive and safe. This was a relief for Adina, but it was not the matter that mattered the most to her. She knew that her real parents were the supreme Archangel Lucifer and an Edenite woman by the name of Sara. Sara had been killed swiftly in the crossfire when Adina was just an infant, as the Archangel Lucifer was trying to protect his twin-newborns Adina and Jeshua from the other angels. Jeshua was secretly taken away and saved by Sara’s grandfather, while Adina was then kidnapped by the Angels and given to Abraham, to keep as his protégé in the hands of High Priest Markus. However, Lucifer was captured alive and had received been exposed to a terrible execution. He had been publicly tortured and executed to show the people that no one could defy Abraham, not even his Archangel.

When Adina turned 10, she had learned that she had an unknown twin brother, Jeshua. She had tried to get close to him, but he had been reluctant to get close to her as she was rumoured to be a strange girl and a magical sorceress due to her psionic abilities. Eventually, at the age of 16, she had saved Jeshua from the Angels and convinced him to form an underground rebellion against Abraham, while she at the same time pretended to support Abraham’s rule while secretly plotting to overthrow him. The underground resistance had failed miserably with all Jeshua’s followers getting killed and Jeshua losing his mind spending years alone in the darkness underground with only wild mushrooms and water to survive on.

The emergence of Keila had changed everything, though. Realising that there were humans outside of Eden had disproved Abraham’s lies and deception about Eden being mankind’s last home, and chaos and anarchy had followed. During this chaos, Keila and Jeshua had found each other, fallen in love and against all the odds managed to kill two angels, steal their equipment, and fly up to the Divine Control Centre to confront Abraham. During this time, Abraham had finally realised the threat that Adina posed to his rule and set his orbital satellites to fire lasers at her to kill her. One of the satellites had fired at Adina and narrowly missed, which had caused her to fall into one of the tunnels hitting her head and lose her memory.

Adina thought about what must have happened since she lost her memory. The emergence of Keila as the new leader of Eden showed that she must have killed Abraham and taken his place. But what about Adina’s brother Jeshua? He was not contactable, and Adina had a feeling that her twin brother had been hurt and died. And what was Keila’s future vision for Eden? Adina was the one who was meant to be the Goddess or the leader of Eden. Adina and her brother Jeshua were destined to lead, not Keila, who randomly took over the rebellion and won the war against Abraham.  There was only one way to find out. Adina closed her eyes to see all the possible divine technology connections on Eden. As she had expected, she found Keila, as the only individual with a god chip implanted.  From what she could see, it seemed like Keila was unaware of Adina’s presence.

Adina hesitated for a second. She needed to find out about Keila’s intention and what happened to Jeshua. But what was the best course of action? If she chose to spy on Keila by trying to read her mind and were detected, she would have put herself at risk of detection, which could be dangerous. If she, on the other hand, tried to openly communicate with Keila, she exposed her existence and risked being fed lies. Adina made up her mind. She would try to spy on Keila through the divine technology. This was her only chance to find out the truth. If she chose to communicate with Keila, she would not be able to enter Keila’s mind at a later stage, as Keila had a god chip, which was vastly superior to the angel chip that Adina had implanted.

Adina sat down and focused all her mindpower trying to penetrate Keila’s mind undetected. To her surprise, she managed to enter Keila’s mind undetected, no doubt because Keila was not as accustomed to the divine technology as Abraham had been. Adina was not able to enter Keila’s deep state of mind and was only able to see what she is doing at the time. Accessing what Keila was experiencing at the moment was easy, but it had no relevance to Adina. Adina had more pressing matters at hand than finding out what television shows Keila liked watching before going to bed. Adina tried to go through Keila’s memories and thoughts methodically. It was a very challenging job as every human’s mind categorised their memories in different layers, so it was difficult for an outsider to find what they were looking for.  It was extra difficult for Adina as she needed to keep her own mind and emotions under complete control to avoid detection.  Eventually, Adina managed to find Keila’s vision for Eden. It disappointed her as Keila saw Eden as a base of operations that she could use in her armed conflict with the Terran Council and nothing more to it. If Keila’s plans were to take place, many Edenites would perish in a pointless battle that they had no initial part in and the world that Adina knew and loved would be in jeopardy. She managed to keep her emotional cool though until she saw the memory where Keila in cold blood, shot and killed Jeshua. Seeing her twin brother murdered in front of her eyes was too much for Adina, and she screamed her lungs out, drawing the attention of Keila before severing the mind connection.