Chapter 34, The Origin Singularity
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"You seem to be stronger most of your companions." A golden armored angel spoke will in collision with an eerie, wicked smiled clown.
"I would say the same for you, but that Julius kid is something else!" Jack said in response to Tyr.
"That is the truth." Tyr said, his celestial sword slicing through Jack's tentacle.
"Ouch!" Jack laughed, the tentacle regrowing in an instant just to be chopped down again.
"You're our natural born enemy aren't you? All of your attacks sting." Jack's head tilted, his tentacles swinging around at rapid velocity, his hands still within his strait jacket.
"[Falling Reign]." Tyr said, his sword dropping down through Jack with a golden light.
Kishck~
It sliced Jack straight down the middle, leaving a clean cut.
"Hmm…" He hummed in confusion.
"Of course it isn't that easy!" He heard Jack's energetic voice sound from behind.
In the same moment, a powerful force was felt on his back, Tyr being tossed through space.
"Hmph, I didn't expect it to be."' Tyr said, bouncing off the walls of reality, and flying towards Jack.
Bang!
Tyr's sword bounced off Jack's tentacles, the two repelling off of each other before they engaged in a vicious combat.
"Your appendages are quite quick." Tyr said, his sword cutting clean through Jack.
"Speed is something I excel at." Jack responded, reconnecting his body with ease.
"Is that so?" A foreign voice came from nowhere, a world shattering force slamming against Jack's mask, cracking it and launching him light years from the battle.
"Mmm… Greetings Julius." Tyr nodded, seeing the entrance of the reality's only other known level 14.
"HOW DARE YOU." A scream resounded throughout a large portion of reality, Jack's aura becoming unrestrained and flaring to astronomical heights.
"THIS MASK IS A ONE OF A KIND." In an instant, Julius' form was disintegrated, a red wave of energy sweeping through space.
Tyr was barely able to react in time, lifting all possible defenses as he could.
Taking the brunt of the energy wave, he was heavily damaged, blood dripping from his eyes.
'What kind of power is this?!' He exclaimed in his mind, watching as a terrifying version of Jack appeared before him.
His restraints had come undone, long and lanky arms hanging next to his sides.
His mask was cracked from top to bottom, a chunk missing where his mouth was.
He had an unbelievably long tongue that couldn't seem to stay in his mouth, and the eye holes of his half broken mask were emanating a corporeal red essence.
"I put my all into creating that artifact. It is the only existing version of it within the infinite realities." Jack steamed.
"I did not go through years of pain and hard work, just for you it to be destroyed by the likes of YOU!" The pure power Jack was letting out…
If they didn't know better, they would have thought he was only a step away from the 15th level.
But how could that be? One needed to amass the culminated faith essence of trillions of their descendants… The only one who could possibly do that as of now would be Julius!
After all, the entire human race had long been his descendants!
In fact, that was a partial reason as to why he was so powerful! He had nearly a trillion humans under his banner, and the amount was only increasing by the day.
The fact he was considered their Emperor, their Ancestral God… He was fairly close to the 15th level!
If you divided the firmaments of power into stages, the first nine levels could be considered the Mortal realm, and the last six the God realm.
Julius was almost at the peak of the God realm!
He was nearly a peak 2nd stage existence!
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"Who might you think, YOU ARE?!" A furious voice sounded, reality shaking as a powerful entity descended upon the region before them.
A presence that evoked fear even into the mind of Tyr, with a spiritual pressure so deep and boundless that it made the armies far off in the distance cease their battle.
"The Ancestral God has truly descended!" A human king shouted.
"Oh great heavens!" Another cried in awe, tears falling from his eyes.
"To be graced with the true form of the Heavenly Father!"
The citizens cried as Julius gazed at the furious Jack.
Both of them were extremely powerful existences, clearly nearing the peak of the 14th realm.
Yet no one understood how Jack was so high within the realm.
Even his very own followers!
It was a well known fact that within Asterisk, of all the Eldratic Gods, Jack had the fewest descendants!
Though they wouldn't get to question any further as in an instant, Julius and Jack clashed.
They took off in hand to hand combat, Jack not caring for defense as Julius plowed his body.
"You're merely an existence gifted power by the Primordial Sage! You do not know what struggle looks like, I will teach you!" A palm reached Julius' face, slapping him so hard that his Aspect trembled.
It was as if…
Jack was powerful enough to slap another's soul out of their body!
"You're right! But it is no matter, as in the end only victory awaits." Julius said, bringing his fists above his head as he pounced on Jack.
BOOM!!
His balled hands smashed into the back of Jack's skull, shattering it for a moment.
"WEAK!" An phantom palm appeared above Julius, another manifesting below him.
"[DEATH CLAP]." The two palms collapsed on Julius, hundreds of essences trying to overpower him.
"[Indomitable Human Spirit]!" He cast the skill for the 3rd time within a short span of time, the toll starting to take affect as one could see the soul essence seeping through cracks in his skin.
"[APOCALYPSE]."
"[INFINITE MADNESS]."
"[LORD OF INSANITY]."
"[MADDENED DESTRUCTION]."
Jack cast multiple powerful skills, a haggard expression appearing on Julius' face as he tried to combat them.
"[LORD OF REALITY]!"
"[INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT]!" He cast some of his most powerful skills once again!
He forcefully called upon the willpower of the human race requesting their existence.
Their essence flowed through him, the faith essence they were producing making his realm slowly climb.
The gathering of energies made the weaker existences back away, their Aspect's churning as if they were facing impending doom.
For the space the two were battling in…
Reality had become unstable!
Tyr was off to the side, gathering his energies as he could barely bear the power of the two super-existences.
The ambient laws around them started to crumble, reality trembling to an unbelievable point.
"This is not the ideal outcome." A dark and decrepit voice said from beside Tyr, making the alarms in his mind ring as he had never even sensed the presence.
"You…" He stammered, sweat dripping down his face under his mask.
"Distasteful. I am the Oldest God of Asterisk, I'm sure you know of me." Revenant said, his aura slowly coming into existence.
"The battle of these two will result in a hole being pierced through reality. This is not what I desire." He said, his hand raising.
"We aim to shatter reality, this is fundamentally different from destroying it as they are doing." He sighed, his palm fully stretching out, his other hand behind his back.
"[Rule of the Dark God]." In a moment, darkness plagued Jack and Julius, the two of them losing the ability to move.
Their attentions turned towards Revenant, who had the two beings within his grasp.
With the pull of a finger, the two floated towards him.
Anger filling the face of the two.
"REVENANT. LET ME GO." Jack screamed, writhing around in the grasp of the dark shadow.
Revenants eye's squinted, examining Jack and Julius.
"Control yourself." He said to Jack, his gaze fully turning to Julius.
He eye's squinted even further, his head tilting.
Using Fate, he could sense something was off with the existence. As if he had planned something, or had another powerful trick up his sleeve.
"You wont find what you're looking for." Julius mumbled, Revenant perking his ears up.
"Is that so? What might I be looking for?" He asked.
"My leftover advantages? The tricks up my sleeve? You won't find them." Julius clearly stated, a smile appearing on his face.
"Though I can give you a hint to one of them!" He exclaimed, making both Jack, who had slightly calmed down, and Revenant, listen.
"You called me the main character. I agree! I have long divined Fate, and God will not let me perish."
BANG!!
Off in the distance, reality seemed to warp, folding and collapsing in on itself.
Revenant and Jack swung their heads over, feeling the overbearing presence.
"Father?" They both whispered, feeling the boundless, unidentifiable aura reminiscent of his.
Their eyes flared, space near them churning as Agustus, Midas, and Akatosh appeared.
"We appreciate the revival Revenant…" Midas said, before his head too snapped towards the materializing entity.
All of the present existences started to panic, fear filling their hearts.
The Eldratic Gods could sense the similarities the existence had with the All-Father, but they could also tell it wasn't him.
"An existence reminiscent of the All-Father?" Agustus mumbled, glancing at Revenant who was too staring on in awe.
"What do you mean, 'God'?.." Revenant questioned Julius, Julius smiling a crazed smile.
"The singularity spawned at the beginning of time within this reality." Julius spoke. "The most powerful entity. God!" Julius exclaimed!
"An entity that will only appear before you once it has been observed! A being older than the Laws existing among this reality." His words got louder.
"THE TRUTH." He screamed, a large explosion sounding off in the distance as the existence fully materialized before the watching parties.
It was a hazy bright figure, a pure white body that was thousands of light years long.
It had white hair that fell down to its shoulders, and it had no defining features, sitting perfectly between the realm of male and female.
It's bright white misty eyes slowly turned towards Julius, locking onto his existence.
"You are the one that has summoned me?" It asked, it's voice sounding throughout all of reality, reverberating off of it's walls.
"Oh great deity! Yes, I've summoned you!" Julius said ecstatically, Tyr and the Eldratic God's turning to him with a frightened gaze.
"What is it you wish." It asked.
"I wish for the most optimal outcome! Victory!" Julius yelled, the Laws of the universe shifting gears as the Eldratic God's minds spun in turmoil.
"…Your wish may be exchanged."
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