Chapter 18: Chapter 18: THE TRUTH!
"This reality will most likely be shattered as an outcome of this battle." Spawn turned to Sage, his eyes dimming for a moment.
He appeared within the inbetween , gazing at the small crystals close to each other.
"I made the infinite realities into crystals as I expected to be the only one within the Path" He nodded, staring at the two primordial realities before him.
"Many things are being reworked these days… Maybe it's time to upgrade myself. I'm failing to keep up with the times." According the firmaments of power he had built, Spawn wasn't even qualified to enter the 13th level.
There were few beings who even knew of his existence!
Besides for the Twin Omnipotents, Kieron, and the peak powers of the Apocryphal Domain…
There was not a single soul that was sure of his existence…
"It might be time to change the way I utilize my power…." He nodded, grasping his chin.
"Though I'll save this for the future." He muttered.
After doing so, his gaze returned to the infinite realities around him.
"Hmm…" He hummed thoughtfully, his hands rising as he rearranged existence.
The small crystals expanded, moving farther away from each other.
Their composition changed, turning into nigh-infinite spatial tears, with jagged edges.
Surrounding them thick, turbulent clouds appeared, acting as a shield.
Passing through the turbulent, destructive storm clouds of Law essence would allow one to get close to the reality.
It would still depend on their strength to see whether or not they could actually enter.
Spawn turned his gaze towards the primordial realities, glaring in achievement, seeing as they were two of the biggest clouds in the immediate vicinity.
He raised his hands and transformed them, the Olden Realm turning into a black cloud, parallel to the purple Apocryphal Domain.
"What a change!" A voice came from behind Spawn.
"It is necessary." Spawn responded, Kieron stepping to his side.
"Long time no see, Will of Existence." Kieron smiled, making Spawn turn to look at him.
"You have changed!" Spawn said, looking at the dark hazy existence with a frightening grin on his face.
"You have not!" Kieron responded with a chuckle.
"Correct, but it's definitely time for one." Spawn said, Kieron nodding in agreement.
"Would you like to witness the first coming of apocalypse with me?" He asked, Kieron looking towards him dark Olden Realm.
"Why not, I don't have much to do as of now."
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BOOMM!!
Akatosh was sent flying through space, the layers of dimensionality shattering as he appeared came to a stopping point.
"Haha! You're a powerful one!" He chuckled crazily, kicking off space and flying towards the tall, lanky, porcelain skinned, white haired man.
"I might have slimmed down over the years, but that does not mean I am weak!" Julius exclaimed with a crazed smile, his hand blasting forward as a sword that was hovering over his head shot towards Akatosh.
Clank!
The sword bounced off of Akatosh's forearm as his hand reached out for Julius' neck.
"[Skin of Royalty]!" Julius shouted, the hand Akatosh was reaching with, bouncing off of an invisible barrier.
"I did not give you permission to touch me." Julius said, his gaze darkening.
"You are truly strange! To have the authority of so many powerful laws! You truly are a main character as Jack said…" Akatosh smiled, his hands lifting towards his chest.
"But can you withstand a force that can collapse universes?" He dug his hands into his chest, prying open the cavity.
"I am not a [World Eater] for no reason!"
An dark mist darted out of his body, enveloping Julius.
"Hmph! I am the [Progenitor of Humanity], I have trillions of souls backing me!" Julius exclaimed, his Aspect Crown above his head solidifying further.
"[Indomitable Human Spirit]." In but a moment, the dark cloud surrounding Julius was dispersed, a golden ethereal light pouring off his skin.
"Oh…" Akatosh frowned, "That's a first."
BOOM!
Before he could realize, a fist had smashed into his face, the layer of Apocryphal Defense he had set up, being shattered.
"Ouch!" He exclaimed.
"You broke my face!" Akatosh screamed, stabilizing himself in space.
"Kidding." With these words, Akatosh seemed to disappear from existence.
Julius examined his surroundings, gazing at the collision of trillions of level 11's and 12's combating his elite troop of
level 13's.
"You're people can't even handle the lesser clones of my existence, and you think you will win this war?" Julius announced to the blank space around him.
"I've prepared myself for you demons for years now. I could have broken through to the 14th level almost 10 years ago! Yet I chose to solidify my foundation… I am invincible within the rules of reality!" Julius yelled, sensing fluctuations off to his side through his Fate Sense.
"Use it!" Fate screamed at him with urgency, his eyes widening.
"[LORD OF REALITY]!" Julius shouted, his alarms blaring as he felt a massive chunk of his essence deplete.
"[Apocalypse]." He heard Akatosh whisper.
His Fate darkened, his Aspect threatening to rip itself apart.
"NNGH!" Julius groaned, using his most powerful skill to rule reality in the nearby vicinity, forcefully stopping the invading attack at the cost of vast amounts of essence.
"…[Apocalypse]." Akatosh revealed himself, purple energy emanating off of his existence, his body cracking as Julius struggled against the Law shattering damage he was facing.
"You're perseverance is commendable, but you have simply not lived long enough to face me." Akatosh spoke, watching as blood dripped from all of Julius' orifices.
He was watching the flow of Law essences around him, and it was indeed amazing.
Controlling hundreds of laws perfectly, giving himself dominion over his immediate space was something most would struggle to do.
Using so many Law essences at once? Even Akatosh was afraid his origin would crumble.
"Your time has come. [Apocalypse]." With this final activation of the ability, Julius crumbled.
His origin cracked, his eyes turned lifeless, and his soul dispersed.
BOOM!
His form exploded, nearly a thousand different Law essences flying out in every direction.
"Aw man-"
Akatosh's body was already under severe strain, having activated one of his most powerful skills…
The bombardment of Law essences put him over the edge.
Akatosh was knocked away, his consciousness slipping as he faced severe damages.
It was an incredible battle.
Turning focus towards the battle nearby them, the billions of lower existences fighting the level 13 clones of Julius…
They had lost the battle, just before the clones of Julius dispersed!
The bodies of trillions floating in space before they were completely destroyed by the remnant essences of Julius.
The entire region of reality, the nearby universe superclusters…
They were all tainted by his energies!
That region would forever be altered, the Laws of reality functioning differently…
1/10th of Reality would never be the same!
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Hundreds of billions of lightyears away…
"Your friend has lost." A voice announced to two creatures before him.
"Akatosh was it? He called himself a World Eater…" He spoke, the two before him widening their eyes.
"Akatosh lost?" Midas glanced at Agustus, worry filling his mind.
"Unfortunately he is still living, but he is definitely on the brink." The tall, porcelain skinned, white haired young man spoke.
"He held out surprisingly well, he even managed to defeat my weaker clone! I commend you guys for being so strong." Julius praised, a smile on his face.
"Though I'm sure i'd be much stronger if I had millions of years to progress like you guys…" He pondered.
"Enough talking." Agustus said, a green Aspect sword manifesting in her hand.
"[Mark of the Demented]." She said, a dark essence shooting out of the tip of the sword.
"[Skin of Royalty]." He said, the dark energy dispersing before it could reach him.
"It entertains me to think you people assume you have the authority to touch me as you please." Julius smiled, his head tilting while his arms crossed.
"[Fireball]." An arm came uncrossed and a small particle of fire levitated above his fingertip.
"This is one of my stronger bodies, so I'll refrain from going all out." Julius said, watching as the two charged their Law essences within their origin.
It amused him, seeing they thought he would be unable to do something as simple as glancing at the circulation of their energies.
~A Time Skill is it?~ He chuckled in his mind, letting them proceed.
"[Amplification]." He spoke, the small particle growing slightly and burning hotter.
"[Condense]."
"[Poison]."
"[Empower]."
He cast many amplifying skills, increasing the strength of the fireball as the two watched.
"Well, I hope this feels good." He smiled flicking the fireball towards to the two.
But as he did so, everything in the immediate area froze, even him.
"He talks too much." Agustus said.
"Hurry, his ability to control time is not as deep as mine, but im sure it wont take long for him to awaken." Midas responded, Agustus nodding.
"[Pressure]."
"[Spatial Rip]."
"[Age Acceleration]."
"[Multilayered Inner Turmoil]."
"[Destruction]."
"[Apocalyptic Ruin]."
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Countless skills were cast, many essences paused in time, aiming towards Julius.
Unbeknownst to them, the skill had never even worked on him.
~Did you truly think i wouldn't have become proficient in the Time Law?… You underestimate me.~ He spoke in his mind.
He was preparing to reveal himself when he felt an over abundance of essence circulating from the both.
~I know this one!~ He smiled mentally, casting multiple Skills silently.
~[Lord of Reality].~
~[Indomitable Human Spirit].~
~[Mortal Right].~
~[Lawful Erasure].~ With all the skills cast, an incredible amount of energies welled up within his origin, the two Gods feeling the fluctuations at the last moment.
"[Apocalypse]!" They both yelled, the dark energy shooting towards Julius as he broke free of the shackled time, his attacks firing off.
BOOOM!!
The bombardment of attacks collided with Julius' spirit, disappearing in an instant as an invisible wave of essence completely obliterated all their attacks.
"My apologies, this might have been too much." As Julius said this, the powerful wave of essence ran through Agustus and Midas, destroying their origins.
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The two died in an instant.
"Hmm… Three down it seems."
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In another corner of reality…
"You were a powerful one." Revenant stood on a corpse of Julius, his battalion standing far behind him as they had never even made a move.
Revenant's gaze pierced through Julius' existence, examining him and the army of trillions he had just slaughtered.
"A clone are you? Well played Shiva." He spoke, turning back to his army.
"Though it is no matter, you are not the only one with this ability." Revenant tossed the severed hand he was carrying, a black smoke twirling from his finger tips.
"[Apocryphal Devouring]." The smoke absorbed every piece of Julius' level 14 clone, and all the lesser level 13's.
"The rest of you, dig in. I am moving out, you will all go assist the God of Sanguine Madness once you have finished." Revenant said, the army of trillions flying towards the sea or corpses now that they were unrestrained.
"It seems I alone was overkill."
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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 didnt 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 viscous 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 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.
He 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 five the God realm.
Julius was almost at the peak of the God realm!
He was nearly a peak 2nd stage existence!
"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, while Tyr built up his energies…
Reality had become unstable!
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 whole 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 has 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 then churning as Agustus, Midas, and Akatosh appeared.
"We appreciate the revival Revenant…" Midas said, before his head to 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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