I really have to say that I suck at proofreading and editing when making this chapter, plus my grammar is just way too terrible for this as well, but anyway this chapter is really long so I will divided into four parts and one interlude.
I will not ask anyone of you to like it since I don't think it is that good myself but I will say thanks to you who bother reading my work.
Enjoy
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Part 1
(Narrator)
Have you ever heard about the story of the mysterious floating island in the sky of Grandia?
Of course not! Because it has been created for only 300 years and is hidden by a ‘True Dragon’ and ‘Celestial Phoenix’ magic formation.
So all of you may be wondering why I brought up such a pointless topic that no one knows.
Well, because there is a new being that doesn’t belong to this world and shall come about today, but that is not all because in another unknown location there shall be the 42nd coming off a [World Apocalyptic Being] and this time it shall be different from the rest because the destruction will not be limited to this world alone but other worlds as well.
But this is stuff for the future.
So all of you don't have to care about this yet.
{Current Situation}
In the sky of Grandia, there is a floating object that is the same size of a small island in this world but compare to earth this island is as large as Australia.
The island is flying above the clouds in the sky, but the people below are unable to see this island because as I said before it is hidden by magic.
The island has many environments like deserts, forests, mountains, volcanos, marine, freshwater, plains, etc.
But on the highest mountain of this island, there is a grand palace that is 10 times larger than Versailles and it is created mainly by the divine grade material [Oricankante]. This material is known for its special property of being able to store a large amount of divine energy. Which can produce powerful divine grade weapons if forged correctly, but the residents of this palace obviously don't care about this at all since they are willing to use such material for a building.
The palace is finely crafted by the heavenly craftsman ranked [Dwarves] to the point that one can't help but show almost worshiping admiration for its sheer beauty and wonder.
Inside this palace are great artworks with paintings, jewelry, statues, and more that would even drive the human kings and emperors mad with the greed for just taking one of these great artworks.
The air in this place is filled with divine energy that can turn a regular human into a half gods in just 10 years by just living in this place.
"This place is so low quality. Why can’t we just use that useless chunk of rainbow fairy stone to make this place? -Ah...ha the air is so low quality as well, that it’s making me feel sick."(????)
In one of the hallways of this palace there is a humanoid being wearing a black and red uniform with a great red phoenix symbol. He is complaining about this grand palace that even the true gods in heaven will kill for, but this man actually says it is like a piece of junk found in the slums.
The features of this man are extremely handsome; they can definitely capture any girl’s heart with just a look, but he is not human. That is because he has unnatural pointy ears, sharp talon like fingernail that could slice the hardest metal with ease and unnatural burning colored eyes that seem to almost shoot a laser beam out of it.
"Hehe now Gregory-sama we don't want to spoil the master’s child too much or the child will be arrogant like those pathetic humans."(?????)
The one who said this is a woman wearing a female black and blue uniform that has a similar design but a different symbol that is showing a blue dragon and she gave off a calming aura that can soothe even the wildest beast.
Her appearance is comparable to the man next to her and it can definitely cause the downfall of a nation's capital by her looks alone, but she was not human either because she had pointy ears and glowing deep blue eyes that seem to reflect the ocean within them, but the most unnatural thing is the 2 blue horns on top of her head.
"Well, if that is the case, then I will put up with this Mistilin-sama."(Gregory)
"When will the 'he/she' be born Gregory?"(????)
A man with a cold and callous appearance called out to Gregory. He differs very much from the other two because his uniform is pitch black-like darkness. It has many jewels and decoration that makes a person think it is unreasonable to use such material on clothing and like the other two he is not human, since he has black horns on top of his head, scales can be seen of his face and hands, his eyes are pitch black like that of the abyss that seem to drag your soul right into them.
"Around midnight leader-sama."(Gregory)
"Oh right! I seem to have forgotten, but where is the master right now? I can't seem to find him."(Leader)
"I just saw him panicking in the hallway upstairs before."(Mistilin)
(Scene Change)
In the upper hallway on the 4 floor of the palace left wing, an extremely handsome young male that can only be described as magnificent. His build is not muscular, yet not skinny and it seem to be the perfect blends of both, and he is sending out a unique aura that can make anyone be drawn to him.
He is wearing clothing that would make any king die for, but he is not acting as befitting of those clothing at this moment.
“HI, THIS IS DADDY!!” “No, no that sound ridiculous...hmm” “Ahh!! What the hell should I say damn it, I should've asked one those damn old geezer with this problem!!” “No, no don't give up you are a ‘True Dragon’, how could you let a newborn that hasn't even been born yet faze you!!”
(Speeds up walking)
The young adult is pacing back and forth while looking quite excited yet stressed with mental burden at the same time.
This young adult seem to be 17-18 but in reality he is trillions of years old and have been here since the 36th [World Apocalyptic Being] event, but today he is about to have his first child and he is quite worried because he and his wife always wanted a child together but was unable to because of the barrier between two different higher order species, that is until that 'Day'.
So he is quite nervous about being a good father. Since he never had parents to look after him or an example for that matter and it’s not like they are dead or anything like that, but more like they never existed, since he was born by self-creation.
In other words, he brought himself into existence and that may sound like bullshit, but this naturally did not take just a day to do so and is actually much harder than just difficult to do so as well.
Since there are so many conditions to be fulfilled and for a dragon to bring itself into existence is so low that it is near impossible to do so, but actually there have been numerous cases of this happening. This is mainly because of how large this world is and that many locations are still unknown in this world.
So he’s never known what a father figure is like and never bothered to look for one. Since all dragons are quite independent, they don't need a parent to survive for long, especially for 'True Dragons' who can bring themselves into existence without help.
He, Argonaut Di Imperial Gaea is one of the highest order of dragons in the dragon race hierarchy a 'True Dragon' that is the manifestation of [Disillusion and Cosmic Law].
Although he is not on the [World’s 20 Most Powerful Beings List] but he is close to the 20th place in rank and his wife is the 20th place. So these two are a very powerful duo together.
“Argo!! Come in already the time is near, so get your act together already, the black flame guards are here already... so... GET YOUR SORRY SCALELY ASS OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!!”
A sweet voice that sound brighter than a morning bird’s chirp resounded next to his ears. Then suddenly it turns into a sonic boom that almost blew his non-existence ear-drums out of his head.
“Yes, Annabelle!”
Once he heard that, he used [Instant Spatial Shift] to his wife’s room.
His wife’s appearance seems to be around the same age as his current appearance, but has the beauty that can illuminate the entire world like the sun in the sky. But he doesn't seem to care and walks to the side of her bed.
“Master!!!”
When the guard leader, Mistilin, and Gregory saw him; they kneel down beside him awaiting his order with devotion.
But Argonaut ignores them like they don't exist and only stares at his wife with his full attention to prevent any mishap from occurring.
His wife looked at him with those bright golden eyes and then took a deep breath to sigh.
This made him get a bad feeling and scared him enough that it causes him to almost let out his power that can distort reality and fiction altogether.
(Wife’s Point of View)
My name is Annabelle Ci Eudora Color-rose and I am a 'Celestial Phoenix' which is on par with my husband’s 'True Dragon' status.
Although me being able to have a child with him at first shocked me, but isn't this what we wished for all those year we've been together? So I'll do my best to grant life to this child, since I am the 'Celestial Phoenix' that symbolize the [Chaos Sun and Annihilation Rebirth].
Although 'Celestial Phoenixes' are the same as 'True Dragons', the way we come into
self-existence is entirely different.
A 'True Dragons' way of coming into self-existence is mainly from inside of super black hole or a place where large amounts of energy can gather to form a core that can continuously produce pure energy until it gains the will to form itself, but even then it is very difficult.
The 'Celestial Phoenix' way of coming into self-existence is from one main source and that is the SUN or the stars in the night sky. For a 'Celestial Phoenix' to form, a star needs to go through supernova 3 times, with each time the same as the last until it finally forms a will of its own and separates itself from the cosmic rules of death and rebirth, and only then can it call itself a 'Celestial Phoenix'.
So the point is that he and I are entirely two different race, no matter how we shape-shift our bodies and change we are still different plus 'True Dragons' are the mortal enemy of my race as well, since 'True Dragons' come from the black holes that devour the stars in the starry sky, that makes our race want to destroy as many of them as possible and the 'True Dragons' feel just the same about us.
So our relationship can never be publicly revealed to anyone because that will only bring the onslaught of both races. That will put both of us and our friends in danger and could cause a war between the two races as well.
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This saddens me greatly since we have known each other all the way back to our early days when we came into self-existence.
'Crackle'
Suddenly I hear thunder roaring outside the palace and an increasingly large amount of deconstruction energy coming near us.
“It can't be that type of storm, can it?”
I mutter in a low voice and look at my husband, but my husband definitely has felt what is coming as well and the guard definitively have traces of fear in their eyes since they know this better than anyone since they also have experienced this extremely rare phenomenon personally.
“You guys hurry up and move her to the altar now!!!”(Argonaut)
“Yes!”(Unison replied)
The guards immediately use magic to teleport me on top of the altar.
The altar is located in the [Ends of the Immortal World] and that is extremely far from where were just now, but they set this up beforehand, so there is no problem using teleportation to come here in an instant.
The altar gives off a very special feeling that is mystical and unique at the same time because of a unique material that is good only at absorbing a large amount of energy and storing it.
[Disillusion Barrier]
My husband also uses his own special barrier on top of the altar we are on.
I also want to use my barrier, but I need to use my remaining energy to bring our egg out of my [Core Space], so I can't use my strength right now and can only concentrate on giving birth at this moment.
My husband also felt this and mutter something under his breath, but I did not care about what is happening outside right now because I am focusing on bringing the egg out of my [Core Space]. This process requires a lot of my mental energy to do because our bodies are nothing more than a mass of concentrated and condensed energy with no blood or any type of organ except our [Core], so this made us very unsuitable for giving new life at all.
Oh yeah, not to mention that ‘Celestial Phoenixes' only mate with another ‘Celestial Phoenix’ to give birth to a new sun in the sky and it will have to go supernova before becoming a new [Solar Phoenix] but what I have in me is a hybrid of a ‘True Dragon’ and a ‘Celestial Phoenix’. So I don't even know what I am giving birth to right now or how to give birth to it at all. Since the different races on our level have their own methods for reproduction and besides there were no known cases of dragons and phoenix's mating together. So normally I would have no idea, but as luck would have it, the ruins I went to with my husband had the method written on a tablet that we thought was just a piece of junk.
We are still skeptical since we never heard of this method in billions of years of travelling.
So I'm not even sure that it'll work but we have no idea either and neither does anyone in our world. So we just went with it because we ran out of other options and I don't want to fail just because we didn’t believe in a method we never heard of.
So the method is this:
First: Cultivate the new [Life Core] in the dimensional space that you have in your own [Core] until it becomes an embryo for several billion years and make sure it does not have any impurities from yourselves or get damaged by your energy and when you felt the embryo form you can move on to the next step.
Second: Feed the embryo with both parents pure energy and make sure that both pure energies are in balance with each other, so to not cause a disruption in the embryos energy. Continue to do so until it becomes a fetus and when the embryo becomes a fetus move to the third step.
Third: Only feed the fetus with equilibrium pills and your pure energy and nothing else because if you don't then the fetus will start to become unstable and will die the instance both energy destabilize.
Fourth: When you see the fetus outer cover start to become an egg shell then your job is to only continuously feed it with your pure energy until the newly formed egg is complete.
Fifth: When the newly formed egg hardens to point it can withstand your energy then it is ready to be born.
Sixth: When you are giving birth to the egg, make sure to protect the outer shell no matter what from your own energy that will try to damage it, so to make sure it will not disrupt the fetus and cause it to die.
Seventh: When you hear a thunder sound in the sky get ready to take out the egg from your body and try not to damage it by your own power and begin placing it below the [Tribunal Storm] to be baptized.
Eighth: Put the egg on the drawn [Baptism Ceremony Formation] somewhere outside or inside if you want property damage, but it is recommended to be drawn outside and when you are done activate the formation before the cosmic storm strikes down on the egg.
Ninth: This is the most important step and it only needs you to use the strongest barrier you can make to protect the egg from getting destroy and NO MATTER WHAT DONT JUMP IN TO HELP IT BECAUSE IT IS JUST GONNA MAKE THE TRIBUNAL STORM STRONGER AND ANGRIER.
Tenth: When the tribunal storm baptism ceremony is finished, the newborn will hatch on its own and the moment it hatches give it a name immediately within 24 hours to finish the ritual; otherwise it will become nameless which will lower its potential by QUITE ALOT SO MAKE SURE!
Right now I'm on the seventh step and trying hard to make sure the egg doesn't touch my own energy when coming out but it is really difficult since my entire body is made entirely of energy and that means I am having a hard time controlling my celestial energy that is holding by body together and the cosmic storm above me IS NOT MAKING ME FEEL ANY BETTER.
To take out the egg from my [Core Space] I have to split open myself from the area around my chest.
The egg is emerging slowly from my body and its shell has a unique design that I have never seen before, but now is not the time to fantasize, since I have to prioritize its safety with full on concentration and not let a bit of my celestial energy touch it.
For a mortal, this may be a very painful thing but we don't have any biological nerves. So we can't feel any physical pain when giving birth or any physical pain to be exact.
Although I can't feel any pain, but it is mentally exhausting to control my celestial energy to this degree.
I have managed to take out the egg from my dimensional space quickly by expending more of my mental power.
When my egg finally came out, I was mentally exhausted to the point where I feel the need to go into a deep sleep for a while, but I suppressed the need with will and looked at my egg that I have taken care of for so long inside of me.
The egg is about 1 meter tall and 2 ft. in width and it is giving off a golden rainbow radiance that can make a normal human bend on their knees to kneel in front of the egg, but if one look at it closely. The egg actually gives off a pitch-black aura at the tip and the aura seem to destroy space around it.
It was only a second before the aura was gone like it was an illusion, but I know it existed and felt a bit of fear rising in me. This surprised me because I am a ‘Celestial Phoenix’ that is rank 20 in this world. So I am usually afraid of very few beings that exist in this world, but an aura that can cause fear to rise up within me by just glancing at it, gave me an incredible feeling.
But this made me feel a bit happy because in this world, hybrids are heavy despised upon by all species. Since they believe pure is superior and only purity of their race makes them the best. The hybrids are believed to be tainting the purity, so they are usually disposed of immediately when found.
If my phoenix clansman finds out that I had a child with our race’s mortal enemy, they would definitely do anything to dispose of my newborn child along with my husband and me as well.
You may think that I am very powerful and strong since I am rank 20 in the world, but in truth there are many others on the same level as me or stronger than me in this world. Since the [World Most Powerful List] only cover those who made a proper appearance to all races and not the hidden ones that barely show themselves to other people. We have many of those hidden people in our race as well. So if I was to revolt, it wouldn't take a single second for the hidden powerhouses of my race to destroy me and my family, but luckily those hidden powerhouses don't care about anything unless it is an emergency that needs their attention.
Even my status as a ‘Celestial Phoenix’ won't save me because the laws of the phoenix race are quite strict and applies to all phoenixes without exception to anyone and that is almost the same for the dragon race as well, but the dragon race is more loosely united than the phoenixes since they are very powerful individually and will only care if there is some type of emergency.
So luckily they won't care if we go anywhere individually. as long as we don't do anything that is consider a disadvantage to our species, but it will be problem if I was gone too long outside of the [Phoenix Territories] because the phoenixes of my status are still very precious and there are more than enough of us that we won't be in any danger of an attack, but we still don't want to lose a comrade unlike the dragon race that don't care for their own kind at all. if one of us is killed however especially me who symbolizes the chaos sun than it can really anger the entire phoenix race and in the elders eyes I am nothing more than a 15 year old girl that has not yet become an adult because for us adulthood means that we have to go through the Nirvana Rebirth and only at that time my power will mature and become an adult.
A ‘Celestial Phoenix’s' time of maturity is when they become 10 trillion years old and I am only 3 trillion years old with my husband. So by the ‘Celestial Phoenix’ race standard I am not even an adult yet, but there are ways to mature faster; like you can try your own luck on going to the [Forbidden Realm] and obtaining a special treasure that can help you mature faster, but that is not a good idea either because even the top 10 most powerful beings in this world wouldn't dare to go to the [Forbidden Realm] and only the [Dimension Rulers] that are above the so called strongest in this world will go into the [Forbidden Realm] and leave safely.
'Now that I think about... didn't our race have a clan meeting on this very issue and something about an expedition to the [Forbidden Realm] and something about the chosen ‘Celestial Phoenixes' have to go... in about 315 years... wait... me and my husband made this lousy island in about 300 years… so how many years do I have left before I need to go... wait isn't my husband gonna go as well with the dragon race and on the same date no less... so minus 300... the time we leaves is in... is in... 15... years'
'crackle'
When I was still lost in thought.
The sudden boom of thunder broke out and I realize the baptism ceremony is about to begin.