Chapter Thirty Five, God's Favorite.
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"HNGH!" Midas launched himself backwards, kicking off of Ruination to create space. He held the stub of a shoulder he had remaining, the fire of Ruination's essences burning bright.
Despite having control over all organic matter, Midas couldn't even control his own body. Ruination's authority seemed to cancel out his own, and he couldn't regenerate his body.
He glanced over to the right, looking at the bleeding Agustus. She had a claw wound on her stomach, blood seeping out as the wound refused to heal.
His head swung the other way, locking onto Julius. There was a claw mark on his face, rendering his left eye blind. There was another that accompanied it on his chest, his clothes completely ripped through.
Looking around the battle field, there were stray planets floating about, shattered, in the art of war. Stars were dimming, the energies disrupting their natural life cycle. There was blood drifting all about, limbs accompanying them.
Julius was panting.
Tyr was aching in pain.
Agustus was fading in and out of consciousness.
Jack's mind was deteriorating.
Ruination leapt, grabbing Akatosh and ripping his leg off of his body.
Midas was the only one with a clear mind.
Despite all the pain he felt, he was keeping his emotions in check. His brain was functioning at full capacity.
He knew for a fact there was no way they could combat this existence without Revenant...
Perhaps their only other chance stood behind the doorway to the fifteenth level...
He winced, the pain in his phantom limb making him falter.
Unfortunately, it seemed that Revenant was their only hope.
The fifteenth level was not hidden behind a simple restriction. To step into it, one would need to gather energy equivalent to half an entire reality.
Yet, none here had that much energy...
Well, maybe there was one...
Midas glanced at Julius once more, watching as the human charged at Ruination.
If everyone shared their energies with Julius...
"That is a last resort." He shook his head, shifting his attention to his bleeding shoulder.
He still had his right arm, and that meant he could still fight.
"Just have to hold out until Reve-"
"That was awfully long." A pressure descended upon everyone present, making them freeze in place.
Even Ruination was rendered immobile.
A large handed came crashing down past everyone, scooping up the demon.
Everyone turned their eyes as far as they could, watching the scene unfold...
Revenant was towering in size, far larger than any other. He brought Ruination up to his mouth, opening his maw.
With a carefree attitude, he dropped the living deity into his stomach, letting it fall to the very depths of his existence.
The pressure in space receded, as Revenant walked a ways away.
They watched as he approached a massive star. He climbed atop it like it was a rock, taking a seat. He crossed his legs, putting his palms on his knees.
He closed his eyes.
Everyone present had no words, just pure confusion.
"This is the only thing I could think of. " He announced.
"This creature is an entity formed by the power of this reality itself. Not even I stand a chance against it as of now." They all listened to his words. "The best I can do is seal it within my origin. My Living Soul has replicated our environment as perfect as possible. It should take a few moments for it realize it's not here in the true reality."
Midas furrowed his brows.
"So what are we supposed to do once it emerges from your origin? It is clearly to powerful to take on in a fight." He exclaimed, floating towards the towering Revenant.
"That's where I come in!" A voice sounded from behind him, making Midas spin around.
"I didn't think you would be here so soon. I thought I would have to stall far longer..." Revenant's words travelled through space, his eyes opening.
Having turned around, Midas was greeted with a rather strange surprise.
"Seiya?" He questioned.
"In the flesh." The man drifted past the stunned Immortal, appearing before Revenant.
"I bring you our way out." He smiled.
"The Primordial Conscience!"
A colossal wave of energy swept through reality.
An enormous hole opened up in space, darkness seeping through.
Out of it came the hand of a giant. A slim and almost dainty hand, pitch black in color, golden cracks laced within in surface.
The hand extended through the portal, coming into contact with Revenant's stomach. The finger pierced Revenant as if his skin was a puddle of still water, ripples moving throughout his body.
Digging deep, it slowly reeled itself back. A red figure came with it.
The palm opened, showcasing the burning entity to all those around.
"Override." A soothing voice bounced off the boundaries of reality. A swarm of energies erupted from the palm, wrapping around the smiling creature. It was dragged into the hand, melding with it.
The bystanders watched in utter awe, shock, fear.
Seiya only smiled.
The wormhole started to close, the hand disappearing into it.
With a small blip, the hole closed, leaving no trace of the previously rampaging entity.
There was a deafening silence.
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Though of course Seiya was still beaming with delight.
But, in the next moment.
"You will follow through with our deal, Immortal." The same voice resounded, reverberating through all of those present.
They all felt a strange pressure on their origins, a... presence? Strapping onto their soul.
"Haha! Of course! I hope to speak with you again in the future... I will break through the fifteenth level soon... Maybe we can chat then!" Seiya happily waved his arm, as if to say bye.
"What the hell, was that." Julius appeared in front of the ecstatic character, his eye very much still bleeding.
"Who are you talking to?" Seiya replied, his smile dropping in an instant. "It surely, isn't me." There was a fierce look on his face, his arms crossing.
"I-" Julius started.
"Look. What I just did, was save all, of our asses." Seiya cut in. "I made a deal with reality itself. To guarantee that we will not destroy it, under any circumstances. Otherwise, we all wouldn't have lived beyond this day." He explained.
"It has agreed to our concept of the shattering. We are looking into the future, and this event will bring a prosperity to our Apocryphal Domain." Seiya smiled. "It is now up to all of us to get along, as inhabitants of this reality. I think we need to come to a compromise of some sort..." He turned back to Revenant, the massive behemoth only nodding silently.
"But, I think you are all rather exhausted from this strenuous battle..." He looked past Julius, specifically at the disabled Midas.
"So how about we take a small break to recover? Is that something you can agree to? Sir Human God?"
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"This won't be easy." Alexandria muttered, her voice slightly strained as she flew about at speeds faster than light.
She had let her form grow to it's maximum size, becoming countless gigaparsecs in size.
Though of course her Quasi-Deified Law stopped any prying eyes…
She flew about reality, releasing trillions upon trillions of cells into space.
Considering they lived in a higher-dimension, most quickly died while some conjoined with another, trying to regenerate a new body before it died.
Alexandria herself was living hundreds of thousands of years in a day, giving her the ability to soar throughout reality in less than a few minutes.
She left her spores everywhere in reality, replacing a majority of the universe with her matter, becoming extremely powerful in just a few moments to the outside world.
Her lifeless matter absorbed energy from celestial bodies, filling their Origins and even returning energy to her main Aspect.
Majority of her attention was used on assimilating the entirety of reality, but there was a small fraction doing something just as important.
She stalked Seiya, the void Immortal, trying to conjure a way for her to smoothly enter herself into this battle.
She just prayed that her reading of fate was right...
She had no idea what Ruination truly was. But fate was telling her that, with a single touch from her, the entity would cease all combat.
That too, she didn't understand, but she would surely welcome the thought...
Even with the might of an entire reality, the thought of battling that creature made her nervous.
In less than 10 minutes to the outside world, Alexandria had gained access to almost all sources of energy within the universes. In the process, she had actually found another path to the fifteenth level.
She had been able to break through using radiation and ambient law essence instead of just Faith!
This alone made her strength quite exaggerated within the 15th realm!
Of course it was because Faith essence was inherently weaker than other law essences, due to how easy it was to acquire...
To top it all off, Alexandria senses had spread so far, that she was effectively all-seeing and all-hearing within the Apocryphal Domain! She was only a small way from becoming all-powerful within the Apocryphal domain!
"My [Quantum Aspect Level]…" A smile filled with pure excitement was plastered on her face.
"Level 13.1!" She yelled in her mind, shock filling her bones.
According to the amount of matter she had converted into her body, that meant that at least 50% of reality had a hidden origin with energy corresponding to that of a level 13!
Though, because of her Deified Law, no existence would even be able to sense it if she did not desire.
With such power, she was able to quickly glance at Fate, divining the best route to take.
In the process, she discovered incredibly valuable information.
"The All-Father?…" She muttered, shock hidden behind her eyes.
Having read through the history of the 5 Eldratic Gods, Julius, and Tyr, there were valuable secrets not even they knew!
"The Will of Existence!" She yelped, thoroughly examining her body the fullest extent.
Hidden deep within, was an entity. She was just barely able to grasp the presence within herself.
"You found me." A voice whispered in her mind, excitement laced in it's voice.
"You're truly my favorite!" It said, before the presence disappeared.
Alexandria was quickly left on her own, completely dumbfounded, with countless thoughts running through her mind.
"I…I can use this!" A smile appeared on her face.
In an instant, she deduced the most optimal route to take. She used half of her focus to finish assimilating reality, and the other half to toy with Seiya.
The Primordial Conscience!
She would take on the role of an existence reminiscent of the All-Father, but on a much lower scale.
If he was the will of existence, she was the mind of reality!
She made a deal with Seiya, requesting just a few more moments to wake up.
In truth, she just needed more time to completely finish assimilation...
That way, when she presented herself before the age old existences, they would not question her authority.
The infinite power she seemed to hold was half true! She became present everywhere within reality, and she held so much power she was sure there weren't many she could lose to in the entirety of existence!
Reeling her hand back in through the wormhole, she felt fate tap her on the shoulder.
She turned, her vision finding itself locked onto the center of reality.
Onto an isolated space above the Primordial Heart.
It was the only place within reality that she had failed to assimilate...
And at this moment, Fate was churning!
Slowly, the isolated space opened, a golden light shining from it as three figures stepped out.
One, a women of grandeur presence. She had an aura that seemed to hold the embodiment of age, and her beauty was unparalleled.
Next to her, was another... boundless deity.
It held so much power that just glancing at it made her legs tremble. She could not fully comprehend it's void image, but she could clearly see the bright smile on it's face...
Standing in between these two, floating ahead of them, was an... indescribable entity.
She could not tell where he began, nor when he ended. She could not perceive where his eyes were, nor where his mouth was. All that she could understand, was the fact that he was the...
"All-Father..." She mumbled in distraught.
Coming from the three before her were indescribable auras, auras of endless power.
"You are... The naturally formed Primordial Sage." He spoke.
"A much more powerful version...." He finished, the woman beside him actually nodding in agreement.
"You are an incredibly talented existence, with a vast and unbound imagination. I have come to you, personally this time around, to give you your rewards."
As he said this, a panel appeared before her.
{You have received 100% comprehension in the [Deified Law of the Lord]!}
In an instant, 10 Nomological ecritures imprinted themselves within Alexandria, as another 15 integrated with reality.
{Your [Quasi-Deified Laws] have been elevated by a realm!}
47 more Nomological ecritures formed in under a second.
{You have inherited the position as [Primordial] of the Apocryphal Domain!}
A reality shattering phenomenon took place.
The beauty before her, the Primordial Sage, floated into her body.
She actually fused with her existence!
Before she could even realize, she had perfectly inherited all of the sage's memories, and even her ability to rule over the Primordial Heart!
She had most definitely become the strongest existence in the nearby realities!
"The power…" She muttered, gazing at the space before her and noticing the absence of the grandeur woman.
"I approve of how you have dealt with things. Continue to entertain me and your power will only grow."
Faster than she could register, the two super existences had vanished, leaving her alone.
She glanced at the isolated space above the Primordial Heart, realizing she had become able to enter it.
Then her gaze shifted to the Primordial Heart itself, feeling its weak consciousness, and understanding it held great respect for her.
"Primordial Sage. Alexandria. Primordial Conscience." The conscience spoke through broken words.
What she was hearing... was the true, Primordial Conscience...
"Primordial Heart. Creator of Reality." Alexandria responded, vigor coursing through her veins.
'With the authority of the Primordial Heart, my Deified Laws will become much more powerful than before!' She thought, instantly using droves of energy to condense countless [Nomological Ecritures of the Lord], forming a stone that embodied the Deified Law.
"Primordial Heart… would you mind consuming this gem?" Without much hesitation, the Heart thumped in reply, the small gem floating towards it.
Thoom!
A wave of energy, that only Alexandria could sense, spread throughout reality.
She could feel her power increase drastically!
She now ruled over every existence physically present within reality, no matter if they were her descendant or not!
It was an incredible power.
A power many could only dream to have.
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