Chapter Seventy Seven, Enjoyment.
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Lokreum tilted his head downward looking at the awakening figure next to him. There was a newfound golden luster in his eyes, and a strained look on his face.
"Looks like you finally did it..." Lokreum chuckled, extending a head and patting the mans head. The strained expression persisted on his face as Lokreum watched the man bring both his hands to his head.
"I would assume it's the newfound strength... You are Fate now. You have eyes and ears everywhere. You have power beyond the authority of laws." Lokreum explained, leaning towards the man that had stood to his full height.
Slowly, a finger extended, and Kieron looked forward, letting his hands drop as he attempted to fight the mind destroying headache.
With a graze of the tip of his finger, existence seemed to shift an inch.
Far off in the cosmic sea, the Olden Realm burst with light, elongating and expanding to an astronomical size.
The Apocryphal Domain was still growing and it's size had grown to become equivalent to roughly thirty full sized realities.
As for the change the Olden Realm had just undergone?
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that it was equivalent to half a thousand realities...
But even that didn't respect Kieron's true power as of now.
That was just the power within his origin.
Kieron had access to all the inherent energy of Fate, floating around within existence.
Within almost every inch of existence resided fate, and that Fate belonged to Kieron.
Thinking about it...
Fate was like a prehistoric version of Alexandria that had long proliferated itself through the entirety of existence.
Kieron had become that.
But fortunately, Fate had its grasps on the wall of existence, so even though existence was growing, he did not have to manually enlarge himself, for he was growing with reality.
"I transferred some of the energy within this portion of your soul to your main body." Lokreum smiled, watching as Kieron fixed himself slowly.
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"Looking at the power you hold, you're still within the nineteenth level. You're halfway to the twentieth! But of course, that's only a matter of you transferring some fate into your origin..." Lokreum said.
"Either way... Your authority may be beyond Julius' now as well. You both exist beyond laws. He combats them, and you are just simply separated from the majority of them. Perhaps he could determine whether or not you are allowed to exist, but his mind would have to be able to handle erasing an entity as large and as expansive as existence itself." Lokreum smiled.
"He is surely not that mentally strong yet..."
Lokreum look towards his left, his vision aiming almost straight in front of him.
While his other body conversed with Diana in the human civilization, Revenant and Julius had moved farther down the mountain. In fact, all of the other gods had migrated that way, to spectate a spar between the two Super Gods.
Only Lokreum and Kieron stayed behind.
Of course this was because Lokreum could feel fate itself churning as a result of the events that just unfolded. Kieron could have formed ideas, but he wasn't completely sure...
Yet, Fate had long known about this monumental event.
It had anticipated the day it would be overtaken by a true conscience for countless years, and today it's wish was granted.
Lokreum was only glad that his concept of the Web of Fate and the true Fate Controller had finally come into fruition...
"So this is what real omnipresence feels like..." Kieron muttered, squinting around the place.
For him, he was focusing on controlling himself.
He was feeling everywhere that fate crossed at once, and even seeing countless past and future events.
"I exist right here, back then, and even forward there." His head spun, looking up and down as his body turned.
"I understand it's cool, but reel it in! Your mind may not be entirely powerful enough to handle omnipresence... It's grandeur might drive you crazy." Lokreum laughed...
Looking at his... protégé...
He found enjoyment in it.
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Lokreum glanced back at the clock on the wall. Twenty five minutes had passed since he entered this shop. Kieron had just awakened as perhaps the most powerful entity in existence for a long while, and Julius and Revenant were engaged in battle down on the mountain.
There were quite a few things for him to observe...
He even had the newborn Warlock to continue watching. Even Diana's brother, King Sumer... There were many things going on in the world that he was determined to witness.
But he surely did not want to miss the battle of his sons... His undivided attention would be needed for that one!
"So... You're an unknown age, you have no siblings, no parents, but you have children? Your name starts with an E, you aren't from around here, but you do happen to enjoy this shop..." Diana listed.
"Can I at least ask if you're near me in age?" She questioned, waving around her fork.
Lokreum smiled, pushing forward his emptied plate.
"How old are you, Diana?" He spoke, bringing his elbows to the table as his mouth rested in his interlocked fingers.
One of his eyebrows raised with a playful expression on his face.
In response, Diana raised an eyebrow as well.
"Never ask a lady her age!" She scolded, shaking her fork.
But...
"I am the ripe age of twenty seven!" She whispered, leant forward.
Lokreum had leant in to hear her words, and he nodded slowly in response. He backed away with a smile on his face.
"No, Diana I am not near you in age." He smiled even brighter, watching as Diana displayed a defeated expression.
"Younger?"
"Nope."
"Older?"
"Yup."
"Thirty. Am I close?"
"Nope."
"Thirty five?"
"Nope."
"Forty?"
"Nope."
"FIFTY?"
"Nope. You're pretty bad at this Diana..."
Maybe he could spend a little more time...
The fight could wait a little longer...
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