The first steps to accomplishing my goal were easier since, unlike the first time when I had to first form a divine ball and then separate it, now I could just...
CRACKLE
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The spark flashed over my right arm, illuminating the area around me. While I had no intention of scaring the False Lifes they still stumbled back from the sheer pressure exuded by just my arm. I stared transfixed at the pure power blitzing over my arm. It was the first time I had activated the spark with my arm. It was more than I had expected.
Slowly I pushed the spark to the palm of my arm where it crackled and spat out dangerous sounds while getting compressed into a ball.
" Focus" I chided myself before moving on to the next part. Here was where I made something different. I concentrated with my left hand hovering above the energy filled with sparks of lightning, golden light spilling out slowly and encapsulating the energy as I directed it. I didn't halt just there though as I mentally activated my speaker title while at the same time, aetheric mists drifted up my arm to my palm and join the dance of powers.
"For destruction and death, a hold of corruption and infectious intensity. The chilly burn of the frost and the glare of fire. With the core to hold and ever grow, everlasting until unneeded."
I added the last part because by me I would not want such a thing to go rogue. The spark, divinity, and aether reforged into one another. It shimmered as the aether and divinity followed my will. All the spark had to do was serve as a pillar, a core to hold all, just like the black sun of the Taursa. I watched the once golden orb lose its radiance. Slowly it rotted like dead flesh and took on the eerie green glow of corruption while the spark aided in converting the divine energy to miasma. I exhaled as I noted the little creeps of ice crawling up my arm.
I let go of the ball watching the green with hints of blue fireball ascend slowly, while it attained height so did its size increase. From a little orb to a fist size ball, and on to a basketball-sized light. The fire seeping from the growing mini sun chilled the air, the green heat smoldering the land. I watched awed as the white city slowly turned a hue of greenish blue.
A roar echoed far from the distance beyond the city and far into the white forest. My head whipped to the side as I could hear the sound of this cracking and leaves crunching under my feet as something burst through the forest. I first tried to use my eyesight to see far by changing my intent but I felt it would be too slow. So I just spread Om (AUM).
As fast as the vibration of creation was I had still released it too late. The forest parted as a figure swept through the air. I reeled AUM around it as a smirk lit up my face. One, two, three steps back I halted and watched as the creature struck the earth creating a cloud of dust. Green eyes locked on the mini sun that was less a mini sun and more of a radiating ball of heat. I exhaled.
The Navedalk stalked around me as it sniffed like a dog checking its master out. It halted its long two arms poking at me before it turned to eye the ever-growing sun. Something had changed in the few moments I had left the Navedalk. It seemed more intelligent. Less reckless and ferocious. More... I eyed it over.
"Bigger".
It had gotten bigger. Its body size had doubled and its musculature increasing. My eyes traveled to its chest where I found the culprit. Or rather the cause, the Navedalk was the main culprit.
The shard in its chest visible to just my eyes was the same size, but qualitatively denser and thick. It released energy into the false life faster and in double the previous amount. Intent swept over the creature and I almost jumped at its level.
" How did you already get to level 10.". I blinked in surprise as I checked it out. The Navedalk sniffed at me before strutting around for a while and then collapsed to the ground. I checked it out over again and finally saw what was different. But it wasn't something I expected to see. Among its perks was a new description.
[False Life] - [Navedalk]
[Lv 10] - [ADVANCED]
A destroyer corpse powered by a Shard. It obeys only the purifier of its shard while animated.
[PERKS] - [Aptitude] - [Life kinesthesia] - [Sonic Scream] - [Necrotic Flames] - [False Life Evolution]
[Aptitude]
[By consuming an Alpha Destroyer's shard the inherent ability to learn and grow has been gained. All things shown and with close affinity to its abilities and perks will be picked up on.]
[Life kinesthesia]
[The sense for all life. All movements and all reactions with that pure energy are unhidden from its ears and sense. Able to detect and follow all living beings]
I wasn't so surprised about its swift evolution more so the time it had used to evolve and the amount of prey it must have taken or the power foes needed. There were only one or maybe two possibilities. Either the Navedalk had gone cannibal or... there had been more angels than the group I slaughtered.
Speaking of the angels they too had arrived. Their wings had given silent beats though the sound of the frozen fire on their wings was a bit audible. They too hovered in the sky staring at the mini SUNNN.
The ball of fire, a miniature sun I made to simply boost the reanimated angel's divine miasma had grown so large and ascended so far that it was now almost the sun. Almost simply because the fella didn't manage to break out of the bounds of Mistrelon's atmosphere I watched it grow big and rising even higher taking its place in the sky. Not past the boundaries but right there in the sky.
[Celestial Event]
[Boundless]
[A sun beyond yet within. A pernicious ball of freezing fire that scalds the region for Creator 79. As a sun made outside your universe within a no man's land, you have laid claim to all that the light reaches. Beings unable to withstand the Sun's aura will seek your blessing or flee. Creators will be adversely affected by the divine fires of the sun as well]
[Rewards - Region Claim]
[Penalty - ?????]
[The penalty for this already completed event is uncatalogued and as such will be marked as whatever adverse effects gotten from this action]
My grimoire floated up to my side as I stretched and with a flick of a finger, made sure that all I had done was recorded in this book. I did wonder by who and how my works would be found. But for now, I had more things to do. Things like honing my skills and leveling up. I'd been stuck at level four of the first tier since my first milestone.
*
CAIN'S POV
My golden boots set foot once more in this waste of a plain, this barbaric field of death with the enormity to test the strength of a creator such as me. To the right lay the Destroyer that had dared to make such a mistake. Its skull was separated and adorned as a souvenir to show my strength.
The clamor all around me ceased as my beautiful creations were made aware of my glorious self. I made my way from the monolith to a well-reconstructed manor for me. In all directions my angels bowed, their wings folding before them. Something was different though I could sense it. Their fear. It was like a putrid odor besmirching their beauty which made me frown. What would make my beauties have such emotions?
I stood by the crumbled gates of the former city, my eyes locked to the west of me. Another Creator had dared to contend with me. One who commanded disgusting beings of necromancy. It was a shock to me that necromancy even existed in this game. Hearing that some of my angels who had been sent out had been spotted with green flames for eyes and burning wings while looking like death on wheels had shocked me before. Now, it just angered me. The audacity to befoul my precious angels.
'That creator, whoever it be would pay. And when I'm done with him.' I shook my head. "First, to meet Faora and Desne. They might have more suitable plans to defeat this new creator without attracting other creators, especially that female." I frowned at the thought of her even getting a whiff of what was happening here. A part of me was excited to see her reaction while the other part knew we were not ready as such dulling my exhilaration. Still, I couldn't help but smile at my plans and the little creators I had
"Fools tbe both are. Once this is done they won't realize what hit them". I smiled as the soft rays of a green sun ascended gracing my features and grabbing my attention 'I've never seen that one before'.
It was beautiful. Yet I felt a sense of suppression from it. I stood there for a full minute watching it ascend before turning away. It was time to bring Desne and Faora in. Three gods against one was a sure win. I couldn't help but chuckle at the ignorance most Creators had for this white world. How even the acclaimed number one had gone for long without realizing that this place had more to it than what met the eye was beyond me.
There was a reason why this plain was accessed before the Tartarean rifts. A reason the Destroyers were on this plain. A reason every creator's points here got you access to the other plains. The first question to a long line of answers for all this was simple. What was this place and why was it called eye of the worlds?
" It's a burden to know." I chuckled. " Eh, it's not. If it was, I doubt I mind. Hahaha," his laughter rang through the city.