"Finally! It's been so long since I've felt truly whole." Tiflos lamented on the past 3,000 years that she'd been separated from her genesis flame of power.
She still had the full abilities that the flame had offered, but its physical form was akin to being her child, and not being allowed to retrieve her child had torn her heart to pieces. She had since been watching over her child since the day Tyros had betrayed her trust with the genesis flame.
Since Tyros had offered and bound the flame to his own kin, the dragon's kin, she had been unallowed by Septimus from intervening within the mortal world more than she already had. The genesis flame was never meant to be introduced to the mortal realms.
It was only when Tyros had managed to enter into her primordial realm that the genesis flames even came into contact with a mortal being. The primordial realm of fire was the godly realm of fire that Tiflos calls home, and the source of all fire transmuted mana in the universe.
Tiflos had been tasked by Septimus and Seraphemus, alongside her siblings to reside over primordial realms that generated the specific transmuted mana for the different universes. It was when all mana re-converged in the universes that would cause impurities and chaotic mana to be absorbed by mortals.
However, when Tyros had managed to gain access into her realm, not only did it shock her, it piqued her curiosity about the beings her parents had created. Through the eons, Tyros was the first and only of the mortal races to ever force his way into a godly realm.
This feat shouldn't have been possible under normal standards, but it was found out by beings that, as they cultivated to higher standards, they would be able to undergo fundamental changes to their body and soul. Tyros had cultivated to such a high degree that he had been able to enter near godly levels of control over universal laws and mana. He was the universe's first demi-god.
Tyros was the first mortal to converse with a god, and as they began to know one another, Tiflos had begun to indulge herself in the matters of a mortal's life. After countless years, Tiflos had grown to care for Tyros and offered to share her power with him as they had grown close.
Tyros had cared for Tiflos as well, but Tyros still held his thirst for a higher power, and gaining a genesis flame from Tiflos was something that instigated his greed. His greed for the future growth of his own kin, and the greed for his own growth. Gaining the genesis flame allowed him to reign over his Alterra, his birth home with ease.
The flame held the capability to burn through all things, regardless of their resistences to fire. The genesis flame held godly might after all. However, when Tyros left the primordial realm of fire, Tiflos had been saddened by his leaving, because she could not physically leave her realm to follow him.
The gods have all been both content with their realms for eons, it is their perfect habitat, however, they were also unable to bring their physical being to the mortal universes lest they were to destroy them. As such, Septimus and Seraphemus had created unbreakable universal laws that prevented the gods' physical being from entering mortal universes.
Yet that only prevented their physical beings from entering those places, they still could hold influence over them from through their souls, and spiritual interventions in the universes. This is what had prevented Tiflos from retrieving her genesis flame from Alterra.
She couldn't physically interact with the space, but she could spiritually interact with things. The barrier created around the genesis flame had been special as Tyros had managed to gain partial control over universal laws to seal the flam in place, that even Tiflos couldn't retrieve it.
But when the seal had been broken from the salamandras attack on the dragonkin, Tiflos was able to pull back her flame from Alterra by creating an opening between the primordial realm and where the genesis flame had been.
The tearing of space between the primordial realm and Alterra, coupled with the release of the genesis flame created an excess of mana to flood the world. The release of the flame itself created the mass destruction of the area in the forgotten woodlands, while the spatial tear absorbed the destructive power the flame created and flooded the world with mana in the brief exchange.
The torrent of mana came flowing out of the primordial realm like water moving from a full glass to an empty one trying to equalize the amount the two glasses held. This event that seldom happens was going to be the nexus point of history that was going to change everything the current era holds.
The influx of mana meant there was going to be a period of mana-rich areas in the world, that would slowly permeate through it, effectively increasing the world's mana reserves.
Inside the primordial realm, Tiflos reveled at the fact she had been reunited with her child. As she held her long since separated flame, she reminisced on how she had lost her child, and more precisely, who had taken it from her.
As Tiflos pondered on the past, and on the interactions she's had with Tyros, she look at the memories fondly. But his betrayal was something that couldn't be overlooked. As such, she had begun to weigh her feelings against each other.
Her feelings of friendship towards tyros and the care she grew to hold for him over 3 millennia ago; and her feelings of hatred against Tyros for stealing her child away from her and the responsibility she felt for her child.
Tiflos had begun to think very hard about what she should do with Tyros and the rest of the dragons she had imprisoned in the universe of chaos. Eventually, Tiflos had come up with a solution that she had been satisfied with.
Entering the universe of chaos itself, Tiflos tore space and time again to converse with her long-forgotten friend. Tiflos had appeared before Tyros who was floating through space with a bored expression. Tyros had been banished in this universe for the last 3000 years, he's grown bored with it.
"Tyros, I am going to assume you know why I have come before you again." Tiflos had just stated with a blank expression, devoid of any feelings.
"How should I know? We have been banished here for the last 3000 years. Nothing to do but float and ponder on things of the past." Tyros responded with indifference.
"Don't play coy with me child. I know you found a way to commune with one of your descendants. I don't exactly know how you did it, but you caused quite the commotion on Alterra." Tiflos said with a chuckle as she finished speaking.
"Hmph, I'm no child, and I guess I really can't hide anything from you can I? Not that I know how I was able to speak with one of my kin, it just seems someone has inherited a rather great amount of my blood." Tyros began to speak but then he thought of what Tiflos had actually said, she loved to twist her words with him.
"What do you mean I caused a commotion on Alterra? Had to have been rather significant for you to humble yourself and come all the way here to speak with me." Tyros questioned Tiflos on what had happened, but he didn't miss an opportunity to throw a verbal attack at Tiflos, himself being a demi-god, he knew just how prideful deities were.
"Bah, I'd never need to humble myself in the midst of a being such as you, you who sullies the names of mortals to betray those close to them. I'm here to just toy with you, and maybe make a deal with you."
"Ha that's a laugh, you say you're not here to humble yourself, yet you're still here to make a deal with me, that's kind of weird now isn't it?" Tyros joked at her snide remarks, but he knew that it would be something important should he be faced with Tiflos again.
Tiflos had started to grow impatient with Tyros, his personality had certainly changed over the last 3000 years. "Whatever, I can make this deal towards your favor, or I can make it to your detriment. We gods aren't inherently vengeful, I told you that 3000 years ago, you mortals are what changed that fact."
"Just tell me what the deal is, I have lived a rather long life as it is, but I know that it will be just as long if not longer before I die. I have grown to appreciate the virtue of patience." Tyros just rolled his eyes towards Tiflos as she conversed with him, he'd grown accustomed to this universe that offered him nothing but time to think on things.
Tiflos began to think she'd had gotten an upper hand on Tyros' condition as she tried to provoke him but to no avail. The mortal she banished here in a rage 3000 years ago wasn't the same being to fall for such easy provocations anymore.
As such, Tiflos resigned herself to just finish what she'd come to the universe of chaos in the first place. She then tore open space again and pulled the Genesis Flame of Power out in front of Tyros.
"Fine, fine,I assume you remember why you're been banished here in the first place." As Tiflos spoke, Tyros' eyes flared with remorse over his past actions. He had never intended to have the dragons banished here with him, he was only trying to experiment with sharing power amongst his kin.
"My offer is for your return to your original universe, be with your kin, and live out your life to the fullest. But you will be stripped of your cultivation achievements, you will no longer be a demi-god, and will probably die with the scarcity of mana Alterra has to offer in your aged state.
My other deal with you is for you to lose your body and become a spiritual being. You will still hold your power in all regards but you will no longer have a physical body, you will become a true kindred spirit for that little mortal you conversed with.
These will be your two options, there will be no negotiation on this matter." Tiflos finished telling Tyros his options, but they were definitely not in his favor, but he would be allowed to return to Alterra in one way or another.
"And what of my brethren that had no connection to our fall out, to begin with?"
"Ah, well they are free to return after you decide on how you will return to Alterra, I have been reunited with my child as you can see, they have been here as a consequence of your actions, and I have been separated from my child as a consequence of my actions.
These offers are my conditions to earn my forgiveness."
After a long while, Tyros had finally come to his conclusion on how he'd like to atone to his brothers and sisters, but offer the greatest benefit to his descendant. "I will become a true spiritual being, but you have to promise to return my siblings to Alterra as well, with out this kind of deal applying to them."
"Don't worry, I am a goddess of my word, I will even let you see them return before you are changed to a spiritual being."