Logging back in after a much-needed rest and a lovely mum's day I tried focusing on finally separating the spark from the corrupted energy.
Spawning into the fourth realm though I had an epiphany.
It was a given fact that my spark existed in all my creation. It was the littlest amount in them but it was there. It was what enticed the divine and daemon to want to absorb my core.
Now according to Bali and what I knew. Devils were once gods. Beings who had been corrupted by themselves or someone far more powerful.
'Probably another creator God or creator devil.'
How did this being or people corrupt or get corrupted? With their distinction of the spark within them.
Having the thought I went to work once more. I created a divine ball of energy. Separated and held the spark in hand while probing it with my will turning and observing it.
I was there for a long while trying to glean something out of this. I willed a seat to form behind me and almost tripped on finding nothing formed.
'Thinking about it. It has been a while since I last created a chair at a whim. I think that was right before I descended into Vaustaris for the first time. What was different then?'
I frowned as I thought.
'Body'. I almost let go of the spark which almost bolted too at the chance.
"Stubborn child" I chuckled at the spark which just calmly floated there in my grip.
"I had no body back then. I was just floating with my form but unable to see it. I could hold and touch Haero, but I could not see myself. Was that my Aether form?" my forehead creased.
"Sol split from my body when I made it before Haero went all midday snack on it. What would happen if I made another one but different from the first? "
"Aghhh. Too many what ifs". I sat on the ground this time uncaring for my cloak or armor still on me.
" Alright. First things first. Let's say I don't corrupt the spark, that might be dangerous and I might have no control or power over it. Can't risk that." I shook my head.
"So the spark holds the energy together. Even corrupted energy would be hard to release, since, well, it's bound to it." I surmised while forming another divine ball. I repeated the process of splitting the energy from the spark. "Why was it bound to it? Why was it bound to the divine energy too?"
I created yet another ball and slowly separated the energy. With each part of the energy, I watched for something different or anything new. Initially, I saw nothing. Until at the try of the third ball. Here I noticed how the spark while not actively doing anything emitted some sort of heat or static energy that the divinity absorbed. The divinity while absorbing the energy from the spark lost bits of itself which the spark pulled and converted through the heat into little tendrils that got reabsorbed into its body.
"Confusing as shit. But I can work with this".
I released the extra sparks into the realm watching them destroy things before focusing on the two sparks I had left.
My mind could feel the strain from holding unto the entire sparks. Fortunately, I had less to use now. Slowly I pushed both sparks together with my palms while my eyes glowed green creating a wall of earth around the balls and me.
The sparks crackled furiously with more tendrils of white sparkles across them. My will shook as the sparks released little tendrils that protested their imprisonment.
The reaction grew more in intensity as the sparks grew more brutal. At this point, a tendril or two managed to escape and hit the ground a mile away from me.
As both finally conjoined the reaction became stable. The spark wasn't little anymore. Growing from the size of my nail to half my pinky finger.
"Tiny thing but dangerous."
Next, I slowly but surely forged a new divine ball. Only this time it was bigger and I kept adding energy to it to increase its size.
"Here we go" I gulped before my eyes glowed green creating a large boulder spire that took me off the ground 100ft away. I didn't trust my concentration to fly.
Exhaling my eyes shut as I focused on what I wanted. First was the imagination. Right?. Then I desired it to be. Finally, I spoke it.
The realm shuddered as I muttered. My eyes were still shut, my lips moving but the words were unheard.
"Let there be a dark, a burning gas of disruptive flame, to weaken the divine and corrupt, to empower what will be. To exist for and by the here!"
The words were silent but reverberated in the realm. My eyes opened as they turned blank white lacking any pupils. From my skin mist was slowly secreted. Gathering around the mist bore into the divine ball that was constantly getting corrupted.
The spark held in my hands by my will moved into the mix of corrupted divinity and Aether.
It was the wrong choice.
BOOM!!.
The lightning that erupted from the sparks tore through me like a hot knife through butter. I barely noted the speed at which I was flung off the realm.
Mellifluent came to the rescue as the sea of primordial water emerged from my body like the Aether and wrapped me up in its comforting embrace. My limbs shook with pain as the water ball slammed into Feyryire and rolled through the soul realm destroying hills and lands for miles.
A group of daemon gods managed to barely dodge my crash and avoid getting pulverized as I smashed through their position.
Probably hit a dungeon area.
I stopped when I smashed into a large mountain and almost broke the thing. Mellifluent vanished and I dropped to the ground with spasms.
'F*cking piece of lightning". I mumbled as I tried to heal myself from the injuries.
I pulled the cosmic energy and wrapped it around myself continuously making sure it emitted off my skin. Slowly my cells healed and the spasms halted.
I pushed the energy out of my body while still continuously channeling it to my outer skin. I noted a weird vibration or distortion around me like one visible around a flame. The distortion increased as I pushed out more energy from within me to my skin which and then outside me.
Levitation.
'I could totally fly with this.' I could already do so in my universe. But now I could do it on my terms and learn how to use it, especially when in other universes or planes of existence.
My body rose off the ground slowly and I rose above the mountain I just crashed into.
I grabbed a huge ounce of energy and sent it out to my skin where I then released it from my lower body and mostly from the soles of my feet. The force propelled me high into nothingness leaving the soul realm behind and the group of gods that came to see what crashed into the mountains stared up at my golden form as I rose into the dark space and then vanished below the realm.
'I wonder what I looked like to them'
I kept exerting the energy to flow out and around me keeping me stable while a greater force kept pushing out from my soles to increase my speed.
By the laws of physics, I should have broken the sound barrier by now but it seemed there was no such law here in the nothing.
I agreed. The moment I slipped into the fourth realm, the first shockwave of the sonic boom happened. It was deafening.
My body lowered as I aligned my feet first to the ground before crashing with my legs spread out to place my weight as I slid on the terrain crushing the ground under me while skidding to a halt.
"That was cool but..." my eyes found it. Man was it glorious.
"It's. Actually. Black" My palm went to my mouth as I gawked at the black ball of blazing fire. My will subconsciously spread out to entangle it. Heat sparked in my brain making me frown.
"Ah right, weakens divines." I shook my head before pushing the cosmic energy back and away from the surface of my skin.
While I could power through since my cosmic energy could generate enough energy to contend with whatever corruption effect a sun had it would be just uncomfortable.
As I stared at the Black sun I noted it releasing fumes into the environment. It hung up in the nothing and the only reason it was even visible was due to the mixture of black, silver, and red corruption flame burning off it. The fumes it released spread through the realm.
Unlike Sol that hung in the nothing and gave light to all three realms though the mortals didn't see its light, the black sun was trapped within the fourth realm giving its noxious fumes and light only to the fourth realm.
I could already see the effects on the realm. Here and there purple flowers and trees grew, red grasses, and corroded mountain tops. Streams of liquid silver flowing like waterfalls and forming ponds and bodies of fiery water.
The air was thick with what I would now call miasma. In all this, I was awed at the fact that the spark within the black sun remained unchanged. Incorruptible.
The energies and miasma of the black sun bound to it for this sole reason as they formed a cycle of burning off the heat the spark gave to add to themselves while the spark burned up the corruptive energies to fuel itself.
An eternal loop.
'This is totally demented.' I always said this.But this called for another saying it. "This game is awesome".