“Similar to when condensation of significant amounts of any base particulate matter causes a state change for particles of a particular substance. Accumulation and Condensation of Aether to the twelfth layer will result in the change of that aether’s state.This pattern has been found to repeat. Continuing throughout each realm with the twelfth-layer accumulation required for progressive state changes. The anomalous effects of the condensed aether growing more potent and dramatic with each change.“
-Excerpt from a tome on accumulative properties of Aether
“While we do possess weapons and a military assets that can handle entities and forces of the fifth realm and below I’d like to remind everyone that existences beyond the fourth realm should be approached with caution. Let’s all try to learn from to the loss of Mariglen-Beta and its people, and avoiding pissing off any more world eaters, yes? We’re not the biggest things in these waters anymore.”
-Memo from the Head Administrator Laurelei Echos to the First Council of Seven and the High Generals of the Argus Imperium
Listing of Realms of Anomalous Nature
* Particle
* Gaseous
* Liquid
* Solid
* Plasma
* Red
* Orange
* Yellow
* Blue
* Green
* Indigo
* Violet
* White???(Unproven)
* Black???(Unproven
* Gray???(Unproven)
* ???
* ???
* ???
* ???
* ???
*E.G. “Particle Dandelion, Gas Dandelion, Liquid Dandelion, Solid Dandelion, Etc…” Repeating in a cycle of twelve identical big steps with forty-eight small-steps. Either Continuing forever or until some hypothetical perfect peak of condensation is reached. Researchers are unsure of which eventuality is most likely.
Accompanying Table
Realm
Layer Equivalence/Avg Aetheric Level
1st Realm
Particle Dandelion
1st / 1
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2nd Realm
Gas Dandelion
13th / 237186584173035648000
3rd Realm
Liquid Dandelion
25th / 56257475711672524548634199478779904000000
*While Realms Six through Twenty have been hypothesized. All records and scientific studies in pursuit of these realms will be halted till proper investigation of the Black-Nine Event, has concluded.
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Edna looked through her notes. Happy that the training sessions hadn’t stopped Billy from continuing with his writing of the little educational guides she’d grown to rely on. The only change between then and now was that he now sometimes sent them to her phone as documents. It was hard to read, or at least it had been till she discovered that she could make the phone project a larger screen.
She looked down the list of rankings and realms and then looked within her own core and found that the living aether from the forest lord Gorirath was just enough to help her break through to another rank. Floating within her like molten wax inside a lava lamp. Or magma traveling down a lava flow. Bright and mesmerizing.
Elena’s words echoed through her mind as she meditated, refining the living aether and using a combination of it, the world aether around her and the river of glowing darkness that flowed through her, from the AWs and Billy, to push through to the next rank.
Thinking about it now, it made the world feel unbearably scary. It was bad enough being a small fish in a world of sharks. It was unfair to up and find out that you’d just been plankton, after all. Now when she was finally supposed to be turning into a ‘fish’ of moderate size, she was being told that she was in a sea of monsters. She felt herself growing weary, her thoughts growing disordered, the flow of the aether in her core reaching another bottleneck. With a sigh she opened her eyes and looked through her notes again.
*****
“You can do it.”
“Focus.”
“I believe in you”
“Eyes on the Prize.”
“Hurrah!”
*****
“There is far more than the realms and the ranks and the layers, the universe is much...bigger. Too big to keep in orderly little tables, and I’d like to show it to you one day...Don’t worry about rushing. Don’t worry about what each realm brings. Just worry about getting stronger at your own pace.”
-Billy
*****
Edna read his words over again and felt a mixture of curiosity and warmth. The guides were always a bit of mystery. She always found herself wondering where he’d learned all these things. Since he clearly had a profound understanding of everything he wrote about. Alluding to some first hand experience. Extensive first hand experience. Deep in both quality and quantity. Still, unless he was willing to share the details, she wouldn’t press him on it.
Enda wondered when it was that he started putting all those little notes in his annotations. The ones that were obviously directed at her. Randomly breaking the educational tone of the work that surrounded them. Always seeming to pop up at the right point.
They were little words of encouragement that’d show up right when she was about to give up. Generally trite, and very generic but somehow always managing to ease some of the worry and tension that were building up inside her, as she worked.
“Mhm…Billy.” she mumbled, closing the document and then closing her eyes again. A small smile on her lips.