The 24th level seems to be entirely made up of beings fusing with whatever they make contact with.
From bodies made up of ground, they reach for the sky grabbing at the stars, and chew, and fuse.
Watching this, Sonika reaches for the hammer Ghrebb.
"System, equip [Node of Primordial Step] to Ghrebb-"
System: "Ghrebb has been equipped-"
The hammer, gripped by her hand, slams into the ground sending streaks of vast distance separating the fusing giants with endless layers of time and space.
"Level 24 completed-
Reward: Space Rock of Invention-
Transporting User to level 25-"
Standing on a cloud, looking down at the flowing network of lava below, and above too, is just more lava.
In the distance is a volcano, the inconsistencies of it's eruptions are much like the design of this realm.
As the volcano erupts, beasts of terrible heat flow into being on all streams of the endless lava.
"System, equip Swigubo with [Chaotic Ocean Rock]"
System: "Swigubo has been equipped-"
As Swigubo, with it's rock like body, dives from the cloud into the lava stream, the rock of it's body emits a resonance that when it comes into contact with the lava, it immediately sends forth tides of pressure crushing down on the eruption beings.
Swimming upstream, Swigubo, diving like a whale out of the lava and straight into the rising wave, as more waves interwove, they form from the network of tides, gigantic lava beasts that as they erupt, from the pressure of the volcanic source, the currents crash against the space, expanding it, breaking down of the finer details which make up the flow of the lava into separation of distance and balance, causing the heat to find pathways to the distant cool, and somewhere between, the various life forms start to spark by a sense of balance, populating the world into parts of earth as the lava hardens, fresh air as the high pressures descend onto the crashing waves that filter through the earth as hot springs form and shapes compress into curves as the warm air cools on the surface of clear water.
Heboa exits the space between her brow, equipped with Seaweed of Communication, dives into the volcano, and with a flash of green and yellow light, all the various networks of streams and current flow along the invisible chords, as do the giant beasts of lava and ocean, and slowly harmonise, forming a curved horizon, an up and down and also a complete evolving round world.
"Level 25 completed-
Reward: Eruption Steed of Clear Lava
Description: A horse born from an erupting volcano that came into contact with an object from the Ocean of Chaos; a good mount phasing between molten lava and chaotic ocean.
Transporting User to The Battlefields of End."
Sonika: "System, what is The Battlefields of End?"
While the light of transportation activates, the voice of System reverberates, "The Battlefields of End is the final battle of the cave where User is required to, with all means, defeat the remaining enemies of End, completing the Martial Cave-"
As the light fades, what comes into view is an entire world made up of automatons, cyborgs, celestial spaceships, and 8 Forgotten Warlords each sitting atop a throne, hovering in the sky.
System: "The first Forgotten Warlord, on the far left, is one that, when she exhales, creations, by her will, reconfigure, and carry out her order, she rules the empire of Nothingness, the Warlord beside her to the right is the ruler of Depletion, beside him is the ruler of Cracking Space, beside him is the ruler of Twisted Concept, beside him is ruler of The Devouring, beside him is the ruler of The Tipping, beside her is The Mindless Ruler of End and above all is The Forgotten Ruler of Disc."
Sonika: "What is the reward after completion?"
System: "After acquiring all the names, user will gain the Cube of Rune, 1000 Origin Red Spheres, 1000 Martial Credits, level up to State 100 100% Completion of Beginner in the Red Sphere Origins Cultivation, System evolution as I will be able to exit the cave with you as a sentient being and access to information you do not currently have authorisation to."
System: "Level End has begun-"
After being informed, Sonika sits down, closes her eyes and relaxes her muscles.
Remembering her uncle, the purple lion Manestream and what he told her, "Remember now, Sonika, wherever you go, what you see is not what is, the only thing you do notice is but a pause in the ripple, time is like reflection- slower than actuality, don't think too much, it distracts you from the path, Haha, you should flow like my Mane in the wind, it need not think, this might be too soon for you and you wont learn it in Origin, but I think you can work with it."
Clenching her fist tightly, "Temporal instinct reconstruction-", mumbling to herself, " Hehe, what does my purple uncle even mean?" Shaking her head, she sighs.
Communicating with her companions through her sense, they expand into a formation. "System, please activate Endless Orb-"
System: "Activated-"
Two Ghrebb hover above her head, phasing through each other, as they pass through, a drop of green liquid forms, it ripples out, drawing in Ghrebb to it's centre, the ripple reverses, forming a sphere from the drop.
Sonika proceeds to send the melted down red sphere shards in her whirlpool, sending it through the rivulets of her skin, causing the air around her to give off a pink mist.
Controlling her sense, the flowing crimson curves as pink crystals from her Individual Sphere surfaces, hair glowing pink.
Deoroc jumps on her head, closing it's eyes, Zebrah the eruption steed melts down into a small pond, flowing under Sonika, Graelz dives into the pond of clear lava, Swigubo climbs into it's cracked pot, closing it with the lid, floating on the pond, Heboa exits the space between Sonika's brow, swallowing the green drop of Ghrebb, enters it's own tail and with a spark, flashes back toward the brow of Sonika.
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From the cloud skin a green mist rises from Deoroc to the sky slowly forming the shape of a big snake, 3km across the sky, the head and tail of the snake cannot be seen, only it's body, spinning rapidly in a circle and as it revolves in anti clockwise motion a vortex starts crackling the air.
Flicking out it's tongue, the air compresses. Out of the raincoat of Sonika jumps a bespectacled cricket, fixing it's business suit, looking upward to the vortex, it start being drawn in to it's core.
With a bolt of lightning crashing down, Deoroc disappears into it and as it slams it enters into the pink mist of Sonika, the mist, like plasma, shatters and as it touches the clear lava pool, a violent pressure quakes the ground, instantly warping the surroundings.
As it warps, a pink spiral of cracks spread out from below Sonika, flowing through the ground. A green eye of fire opens up in the vortex, as it spins, bolts of pink lightning shoot out, crystals rise from the eye, the cricket and Deoroc cocooned.
With a spark of pink, the cricket rises higher above the snake, melting the cocoon then flips a coin.
Deoroc rises above the cricket and as the crystal melts, the pink lightning and green fire enters it's skin of cloud, crackling it, rapidly expanding in size. The clouds, with a boom, puff out into 18 giant wings of steel on it's back as the lightning on it's shoulders rush toward it's head, forming 10 horns spiralling to a red sphere of liquid, beside him, 11 white devils and red angels on each side form from poison cloud.
As Deoroc opens his eyes, Sonika opens her eyes, revealing total abyss of Endless.
As Deoroc spreads his arms, 2km wide, Sonika rises from her sitting position, with a vision of total darkness all around her and only focusing on The Forgotten Ruler of Disc, "Hehehe-", she giggles as the clear lava whips up a storm of heat.
Booooooooom!
Deoroc smacks his hand together and licks out, as he does so, green fire moths shoot out to the Warlord of Nothingness, Sonika sparks of at the sound, the tidal waves of lava slam against the ground, erupting into hundreds of flaming steeds headed at the Ruler of the Twisted Concept, Swigubo in pot and under lid flashes with lightning straight at the Ruler of Space Cracks, Graelz crashes into the head of the Ruler of Depletion, with small vortex eyes, it chomps, roots of lava rush toward the Ruler of Tipping, mountains of pink crystal form as the wave smacks into the ground, reaching up, the mountain grabs straight toward the Devouring ruler, the 22 angels and devils dash out with a storm, with pink bolts of lightning crackling behind them as they head straight to the Mindless Ruler of End and as they do, the Ruler Of Disc utters: "ONV!"
KWWWWwwwwaaaaang!
With an ear piercing sound, a rift of sky descends into the ground, with force of concave, ripping apart the balance of gravity.
Ruler Of Disc: "VAYKZURO!"
Chiiiaaaaaak!
The vertical lines of the space are forced to bend and as they do a large disc of emptiness forms inside the concave.
Ruler of Nothingness: "LAK!"
The 250 000 automatons snap awake, with invisible strings and rush towards the firemoths.
Deoroc licks out in the direction of the firemoths, as the air engulfs them, they form into 50 000 giants of storm wind firemoths, phasing between moving fire and clear lava as the swarm together to make up the lava wind giant, crashing into the 250 000 thousand, kicking up violent storms as the ignite against the tether strings of nothingness and disconnecting the server.
The storm giants open their mouths, sending swarms of exploding moths to the Nothingness Ruler, crashing into the spaces that reverberate when she speaks from her thrown and enter her mouth.
Boooooom!
"UFI-"
The body of the Ruler explodes outward into the forming body of a firemoth giant.
"System update, Nothingness Warlord UFI defeated-
Warlord Name acquired-
System update: 300 looted items of User have been converted to replenish User's stats-
250 looted items remaining-
Update completed-"
While the igniting firemoth giants explode against the remaining automatons, Deoroc, licking out it's tongue, sweeps up the remnants of metal into a storm giant, with shifting metal, crashing against the others and absorbing them.
Meanwhile, Graelz has his teeth sunken into the Depletion Ruler, the ruler opens his mouth: "EFV!", as it utters, the void in front curves up then abruptly forces the current downward.
Graelz closes his eyes, melting into the centre of a spiral, exiting behind the warlord from a dark vortex, his body attracts dark streaks and like lightning, opens his eyes, reaching toward the head of the warlord, "Corrode-", melting the body of the warlord-
"EVF"
"System Update: Acquired Name of Warlord EVF-"
Twisted Concept Ruler: "LEY-"
As the warlord speaks, the sky distorts, twisting electrical air currents sending out electrical beasts of turbulent forcefields crashing into the steeds of clear lava, fighting the tides with lightning, sparks flash and the steeds erupt booming against the turbulence.
While Sonika dives through the endless dark forest towards the Ruler of Disc, the Ruler of The Tipping removes it's blindfold, as she does, the lava roots points edge toward her, "EHT-", the sharp points miss her, and passes by her face, curving around her, with eruption, at that moment, constricting around her body and ripping her down from her throne into the ocean of lava-
"HET"
"System update: Warlord Name acquired-
Name: HET-"
22 lightning bolts flash across the sky thrashing into the Mindless Ruler of End, "REA-", before they can smack the ruler across his face, he went and opened his mouth, and with an utter, the air swirled, the rocks of the ground flew up and sent forth smashing into the 22, and as it does, "This land has been purchased, your assets are frozen-", one of them reaches out towards the chest of the warlord as it blankly stares at the 22 and continues, "You are lucky we are willing to take this off your hands-", entering with a claw and ripping out it's core-
"IFU"
"System update-
Name acquired: IFU-
Converting looted items to replenish status-
50 items remaining-"
The storm beasts of metal, lava and fire rise up into the air, inside the eye of the storm, they absorb ocean, as Deoroc flies out, streaking across the sky, spreading it's 18 wings, coming to an abrupt halt before the Twisted Concept Ruler, extending it's hand in a smooth motion as the force of wind from it's flight collect at it's claw, distorting the steeds backward and with a bang, the steeds pass through small spaces of air exploding out through holes of the warlord's body erupting-
"YEU-"
"System update-
Acquired Warlord YEU-"
The storm giants rush towards the Devouring ruler as Swigubo smashes into the body of the Cracked Space ruler, from under the lid, pincers appear, grabbing at the space cracks, twisting it and pulling it, along with the warlord into the cracked pot and closing the lid-
"EKH-"
"System Update: Name acquired-
Warlord: EKH-"
The giants explode into shrapnel, spiralling, they enter the space surrounding the Devouring Ruler, severing it's rule with every eruption, and through a gap, blasts forth with a gigantic storm canon, shooting forth with a pressure so high at the warlord, it shatters into floating pieces of paper as all the air of it's body bursts out instantly flattening whatever textile structure along with the throne-
"GWU-"
"System update-
Warlord Name acquired: GWU-"
At this moment, entering through the dark forest of Endless, both Sonika and Deoroc enter the space rift surround the ruler of Disc.
Ruler of Disc: "OKVHE-"
Shwwwweeeeeeng(sfx)
The spaces start flashing lights of corruption, reflecting against reality, projecting something else.
Reaching out through the void, with the darkening forest still in effect, she reaches out, grabbing at the chest of the ruler and as she does, Deoroc licks out, the moment she clutches at the ruler, the space in her grasp shatter with pink dust as she grabs out the core of the ruler-
"AKUVEFYHI-"
"System Update: Cave Completed-
Reward: Cube of Rune AKUVEFYHI
Reward: System evolution-
User must name the first part of my name-"
Scratching her head, "Coby, because from now on you will follow me, hehe"
Coby: "Updating information-
Name: CobySei, Sei for sentient entity intelligence-"