The assimilation
Planet Paridae
The world of Paridae was one of the most ancient of worlds in the multiverse. It has seen its share of blood and glory yet like everybody else, they never learnt. The greed of a few caused the world to roil in turmoil. Even the gods descended and fought each other and all of them died. Now, this world was godless, truly and utterly without hope. While all this was happening, an elderly couple held a child in their arms, gazing at it with looks of warmth and love. They knew, that a child has no future in this world so they were preparing. Preparing for the work that would challenge the pantheon and shake the heavens itself. They placed the child in stasis and began. They first started gathering the cores of all the powerful mortals that have been killed over the years in wars. This took a fraction of their abundant wealth. Then the divine mortals, the demigods and finally all the cores of the gods which they spent almost a decade planning and tracking. The lady then went near the baby which was still in the stasis and started the condenser which would assimilate the essence of all the cores into the child and the grieving man started hunting for more knowledge of things to help the child. The condenser took 4 years to condense all the cores even the gods’. This made them amazed as the core of god looked bigger than a man and each of them took at least 3 years normally, yet the kid ate it all up like it was nothing. 2 years later the man came with the compendium of all knowledge in the world and skills from the planet which contained all the knowledge of billion year old world. This was the most unique object protected by layers upon layers of security and a kingdom built solely to protect it yet in these chaotic times where food was costlier than a life no one cared who took it.
This was integrated with the child so that it could help the child learn all things and more in the future. They then added a soul adapter which can make the body and soul adapt to any environment. All these took another five years. Now if the boy grew up normally he would be the strongest being in the world, yet the couple were not done, they wanted the child to be free from any kind of struggles so they prepared for yet another journey which took them to the core of the world. If the gods had existed, they would have erased their soul for what they were about to do. They started condensing the core of the planet, destroying the planet layer by layer killing millions of people each day. The old man stood crying by himself preparing the shell for the boy’s journey to take him away from hear. Far from here.
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15 years since they began preparing the child for the unknown they were on the end of their preparation. They stood next to the shell shedding tears unstoppably. Their grief would have made the gods cry if they still existed.
The lady spoke for the first time in years “Will this be enough?”
“He is the condensed form of 7 gods has their powers and of all the dragons and phoenixes which I could find, he is more powerful than a 10 gods combined and has all the knowledge of our world and our techniques. He is immortal, ageless and nothing could reach his soul. We have done all we could do” The old man spoke in shaky voice.
“I hope at least he will live peacefully and that we’ve done enough”
“So do I”
“Do you want to wake him up?”
“No, I might not bear to leave him if I speak to him”
“We’ve less than an hour. Once the core is completely condensed, our world will be gone place him with the core into the shell” spoke the old man.
After they made the final preparations they stood silently waiting for it to be done. The shell emitted a golden hue as it began its journey into the sky. In just a little time it was just a faint dot in the sky.
“It’s done”
Just after the man spoke the world started blowing up. The elderly couple stood their holding their hands watching their lives’ end yet smiling knowing their legacy continues.
“Live well Aneurin “
And that was the end of planet Paridae.