Chapter Thirteen, The Fourth Immortal.
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Reality around the two entities cracked as Lokreum successfully infiltrated Seiya's mindscape.
The space that truly powerful beings would be capable of forming after comprehending the Taboo Law of the Mind.
Seiya's mindscape was an endless white domain, with nothing in it besides himself.
Well, previously there was nothing inside it besides himself…
Now, Lokreum had hidden himself behind the veils of many powerful Natural Laws.
"Damn it all!" Seiya yelled in frustration, his aged voice seeping with anger.
Hearing the way Seiya spoke, Lokreum took note of his new appearance.
In fact, he was incredibly different.
He had become a true god, in both power and appearance.
Instead of his draconian human form, he was now looking rather changed.
His skin was paper white, with equally white hair that was rough and long. Strangely though, there seemed to be some sort of black and red birth marks all over his body. Looking at him, it would seem that he had consumed Immortal blood, and it had visible affects.
The smooth white skin was very similar to the three Immortals.
Lokreum took note of this and moved forward.
'What is wrong with the way you're going about this…' Lokreum questioned, peering into the intricacies of all Seiya was doing.
Within his mindscape, all of Seiya's thoughts were portrayed in reality.
Within the area before Seiya, who was floating in the lotus position, was a construct.
It was a ball of condensed essence, a ball of Apocalyptic essence to be exact.
Opposite to this ball was another orb, an orb of pure fluctuating black and red light.
It was the manifestation of his soul.
"To fully assimilate a law…" Seiya muttered, bringing the two orbs together.
"The assistance of both Natural laws and Taboo laws is necessary." His hands floated around the orbs, strings of essence shooting from his fingers.
"The Natural Laws of Order, Control, Balance, The Mind, and The Soul." The essences of these Laws left his finger tips as their Runic Ecritures appeared, floating around the two orbs.
"Essence of Ruin…" He murmured.
A powerful Taboo law essence invaded the Runic Ecritures around him, dismantling them completely.
The law of Ruination was a powerful destructive force, more damaging and precise than even Apocalypse.
"Fusion Essence." He said, the broken Runic Symbols flying around the two orbs of light.
"And, The Taboo Laws of Fusion, Connection, Binding, and Assimilation!" With those words, more essence left his hands, and more Runic Ecritures floated around his body.
Seiya watched as the essences formed a gaseous mist that seemed to pull the two orbs together.
"Ruined Essence…" He dismantled the Runic Ecritures of Fusion, Connection, Binding and Assimilation, damaging his mind and deleting his comprehension in all of these Laws.
The Taboo law of Ruination was powerful enough to even dismantle fully comprehended Runic Ecritures.
He used these Runic Ecritures, wrapping them around the two orbs, bringing them together.
Lokreum confusedly glanced into Seiya's past, and saw that if he did not have the Taboo Law of Replication in his arsenal, he would not freely destroy such important Runic Ecritures.
Without that law, he would have severely damaged his existence, and had to spend vast amounts of energy to rewrite the scriptures into his soul.
"Now…" Seiya inhaled, watching as the orbs became closer and closer as the runic symbols orbited them.
"To do something I have yet to try!" A newfound light shone within his eyes.
It was as if he was finally sure of his success.
Lokreum's eyes widened, feeling the essence of a Supreme Law manifesting around Seiya.
"I name this technique, [Assisted Assimilation]!" Titular Essence gushed out from the veils of reality, increasing the effectiveness of Seiya's process alongside it's chance of success.
Thanks to this, a skill formed within his System, showing his victory.
{Congratulations, you have defied fate and walked down a path thought impossible! Thanks to your achievements, despite already having a System to assist you, The [Primordial Sage] has deemed you worthy of its praise.}
{Your system has been upgraded to, [The Defiant System]!}
{You have successfully assimilated a Supreme Law! You've ranked up.}
A vast amount of blue screens appeared in front of Seiya before they changed their color to black, though he did not pay much mind to it.
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Instead, he was focused on his origin.
Within his origin were 8 universes that he had forged with the vast reserves of essence he held, and at this moment, one universe was undergoing a change.
The entire construct was being filled to the brim with purple Apocalyptic essence.
The essence embedded itself into every single star and planet within the universe, and interlocked these stars together, forming an unshakable network of Apocalyptic essence within his origin.
{You have been granted the Absolute skill, [Apocalyptic Authority].}
The black panel appeared before his eyes before fading away.
Yet Seiya ignored it.
He could feel the changes within his existence on a different level, and he instinctively could tell the differences.
Before, when the Law of Apocalypse was fully comprehended, Seiya received many powerful benefits.
He could utilize Apocalyptic essence which was an incredibly destructive energy that could birth chaos within an existence until it faced complete destruction.
When creating, participating or even experiencing an apocalypse, his power would be amplified by many times.
Yet now, after assimilation, of course these abilities still worked, but there was a major change.
"I can create apocalypse!" Seiya chuckled, glancing down at his hands that vibrated with essence.
Though the meaning behind his words were not perfectly clear...
He could create apocalypse! And by this, he meant, he could interfere with reality, and guarantee the end of an existence.
If he wanted to do so, he could freely defy the Natural law of fate without even using Apocalyptic essence.
He could simply wish for apocalypse on an entity, and unless his target too had an assimilated Law of similar strength, they would have no chance at salvation!
A comprehended law could never stand up to an assimilated law!
And considering he had just created the method for law assimilation.
"I'm unmatched!" Seiya chuckled to himself, fiddling around with the upgraded essence of apocalypse for a few moments.
"What an achievement." A multilayered, fear-instilling voice sounded within the mind of Seiya, his mindscape receding in an instant as he returned to reality.
His eyes were wide open as he stared at the space before him.
An ever altering figure stood before him, forcing his mind into a strange state of fear, reverence, and nostalgia.
"A-All-Father…" Seiya murmured, quickly moving to his feet and stepping towards Lokreum.
He arrived near him, and bent a knee, bowing to the life form before him.
Over the thousands of years he resided within Asterisk, Seiya had built up quite the name for himself.
He had become known as the one Old God, The God of Disaster.
He had walked the lands for thousands of years, spreading some of his DNA, creating children that followed his image and roamed Asterisk.
Once they reached a high enough power, they would unlock their bloodline and transform into what he had called, New Gods.
Lokreum could sense these New Gods the moment he stepped foot in this place. Feeling them, he was determined to do a small test.
He wanted to see if these creatures were fitting of their title as gods.
On the side, he also wanted to see how far the Eldrids were from being capable of overstepping the boundaries of the River of Apocalypse.
Considering time moved different here, millions of years had passed since the implementation of the Gateway.
"I am here to evaluate the strength of your kind. Specifically these 'New Gods' I have seen so much about." Lokreum said.
He couldn't help but have gleamed at their existences with his omnipotence...
Seiya lifted his head as he heard Lokreum's words.
"As for you…" He started, gazing deep into Seiya's soul.
'Let us have the Primordial Sage quantify your power.'
[Status] [Name: Seiya] [Race: Apocalyptic God] Titles: [Devourer], [World Eater], [Old God]... Origin: 8 Universes Rank: Cosmic Ruler
[Lesser]: Wind (100%), Water (100%), Earth (100%), Fire (100%)…
[Greater]: Devouring (100%), Poison (100%), Healing (100%)….
[Supreme]: Apocalypse (100%), The Ruler (100%), Reward (100%), Enjoyment (100%), Titles (100%)…
[Taboo]: Ruination (100%), Limitbreaker (100%), Willpower (100%), Absorption (100%), Fortune (100%), Passion (100%)….
[Natural]: Life (100%), Limits (100%), Fate (100%), Control (100%), Finality (100%), Space-Time (100%)
- Apocalypse
[False]: Essence of the Limitbreaker, Willpower, Essence of Absorption...
[Natural]: Life Essence, Essence Limits, Fate Essence, Essence of Control...
- Apocalypse
- Power Evaluation: A being within the Cosmic Ruler realm. With the assimilation of the Law of Apocalypse he can easily erase an entire universe or two. He holds the power of hundreds of laws and had used this to further his origin. He has 8 universes, which correspond with the possible assimilation of 8 Laws.
"Your power should be unmatched within this Realm of Power as of now, but Midas will soon come to learn of your achievement." Lokreum said, commending Seiya.
The Realms of Power as of now, went as so.
Mortal, Monarch, World Destroyer, Star Forger, Solar Soul, Galactic Origin, Universal King, Cosmic Ruler, and then much higher above lay the Omnipotent Emperor.
For the average soul, even if they spent ages comprehending law after law to accumulate their essence, it would take millions of years to reach the Galactic Origin realm.
Seiya was quite unique. It only took him one hundred thousand years to reach where he was now.
"Y-Yes All-Father..." Seiya responded to Lokreum's words.
Lokreum held his stoic demeanor, turning towards the entrance of the cave.
"You are the fourth Immortal." He said, making Seiya who was trailing behind, smirk, as he knew of the Title. "…And maybe one of your... 'Children', can become the fifth."
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