Walking past the throne he climbed up the steps heading into the deep dark. Each step had its own environment each was a significant memory that awakened Odin. Each was different having different beliefs and dreams this made them also have both brutal and peaceful personalities.
Odin passed through oceans of blood, burning deserts meadows of flowers, and many other scenes. He has climbed a thousand steps before the environments were soon covered in dark fog. He felt as if he was being watched but he already knew that it was an illusion caused by the fog to drive him away.
As he got closer to his original self the fog tried to drive him away using hallucinations. He persisted until he walked past the fog and was met with many more steps but they were blocked by a transparent barrier.
Odin looked at the step he was on and was shocked by the architecture of the environment. he had already seen this room but seeing it once again was still as shocking as ever. The pillars in the corners stretched towards the very heavens and we're engraved with profound calligraphy.
Each letter radiated immense power they were made of an unknown metal that would constantly increase in strength if one were to attack it. the sight of seeing the metal shaped and formed was already a grand sight to anyone. On the floor many formations were engraved they were all high-level formations that could easily destroy a universe once activated.
At the center of the formation was a pedestal that held a woman who looked to be asleep. Her beauty was equal to perfection maybe that's why she was killed in the end. But even after trillions of years, her body stayed perfect as if she wasn't dead but just in a deep sleep.
Odin saw the faint imperial runes that protected the body daring anyone to try to touch the woman only for them to be dragged into the very depth of hell. Odin slowly walked toward the woman and placed his hand on the woman's pale hand.
The runes started to glow and wrap around odins body. In a few seconds, Odin was replaced with an old man in tattered black robes. His body looked like it would drop dead any second but his eyes shined with such vitality that even young men could not compete with.
The old man looked at the barrier in front of him starting towards the distance of the dark steps. Even if he was considered the most unstable and hardened Odin there was always a bigger fish and that fish happened to be another him just much older.
The old man saw the many chains and runes that bound Odin to the steps of the palace. they contained such power that just a centillionth of that power could erase the very abyss they resided in.
The old Odin sighed before leaving the palace he didn't have much time as Odin wasn't strong enough to use all of the older odins power. His body and soul were still inadequate to use any power above the 100th step.
Appearing back in space he saw many cultivators surrounding them a few hundred thousand light-years away. Some were wondering and had sensed the energy and had come to scavenge loot. others were old ancestors taking their descendants to learn about the higher realms in hopes of increasing their strength.
Some had already realized his identity by his energy fluctuations and were here to see if someone could finally kill him. others just wanted to see the opposite and were waiting for the sorry being that had decided to commit assisted suicide.
The older Odin raised his hand and snapped his fingers and the berserk Odin appeared looking confused but shortly set his sights on the old Odin and attacked. berserk Odin launched another similar punch as he did before and quickly struck the old Odin.
The punch reached him and a huge tear, in reality, appeared shocking the spectators. The old Odin was nowhere to be found even after using his searching abilities the berserk Odin didn't find the old man.
Soon he felt the energy fluctuation above him and he quickly looked up and was met with a golden tree that held all of reality. On a branch that held the universe they currently resided in berserk Odin saw the old man raise his hand and cut off the branch.
Berserk Odin's hair quickly returned to white and he spoke in a terrified tone.
"You got to be shitting me 9th imperial magic cast that fast?"
At the mention of imperial magic, the spectators became horrified and it wasn't first level but ninth.
Imperial magic was considered the pinnacle of any magic standard as it was the magic used to create a universe that was the first level. Ninth was below being able to create reality and anyone at this level could create an infinite amount of multiverse easily but the energy and casting time was enormous.
It was joked that at the first level to make a universe you needed the power to make ten and so on. Even then the casting time was so long that by the time someone finished a universe would already come into existence by quantum fluctuations.
Many would say even if it was the peak of magic why struggle for it when a true immortal can already create and destroy a universe. but in reality, even if they had the power to they couldn't every universe that was destroyed would return again in mere seconds and those that we're created would be consumed by the abyss.
Having access to imperial magic was a sure way to truly kill anything at the cost of energy and time. The old doing being able to do this proved he could always create realities in mere instants even if he was just one percent of the real Odin he was already very strong.
"Sak unfk otres."(suffer in anguish)the old Odin said as he watched the universe fade into nothing.
The old Odin touched the chopped branch and started to chant. In his mind many universe were born and died in seconds and he finally stopped on the seventh cycle restoring the universe he had erased.
"Alright, the only difference with this cycle is that instead of being in order it's now filled with randomness so be careful." the old Odin said as he returned control to Odin.
"Better than nothing I guess?" Odin said as he landed on a flying ship in the middle of nowhere.
Odin took out the girls and covered them in his energy so they didn't die in the vacuum of space. The girls were covered in different armor miseria was wearing a black set of knights armor that was one of odins dragonslayer armors.
Eleos was wearing a battle maid dress he was struggling to lift up a small dagger even in space. Odin smiled and took the dagger away from her and placed it back in his warehouse.
"So how are you two doing?"