I was now sitting back on my Throne, my actual Throne in the Tower, while looking at the essence in my hand in deep thought.
Once I used this, there would be no going back, I would have someone by my side even when time ran out, I even already had some ideas as to who or what my other half would be.
If my recent cultivation escapade taught me anything, it was that I did not want to be alone, watching as everything passed by me.
Making up my resolve, I swallowed the essence in one gulp. This was more of a ritualistic gesture than a necessity, I could just snap my finger and make it so I consumed the essence but that felt too dull for such a significant moment.
The moment the essence fully settled, I could feel great changes happening everywhere. Existence itself was changing in form and structure to accommodate my fated companion. I myself became a paradox, even more so than I already was but more to that later.
I could feel where my companion was and I was certain she, or better said it, could also feel my presence. Despite us being aware of each other and being eager to meet, neither wanted to make the first move.
And so began our first game with each other.
She, I will call her she as I consider myself male, was sitting in her reality of birth and waiting, I was sitting in my Tower, waiting.
We probably spent the next few decades watching each other, waiting for the other to make a move. Despite the odd nature of our game, I found it quite entertaining, was this perhaps the effect of a soul mate?
At some point I gave up, I would never get bored watching her but I wanted to meet her for real.
She was born in a union of Nyx, the Primordial of the Night, and Tartarus, the Primordial of the deepest pit named after him, sometimes also called the Abbys. This world of Mythology was not like the PJ reality I visited but a naturally born reality with gods thousands of times more powerful.
The gods were so powerful that only one pantheon could exist in one universe, making the universe she was in the sole Greek pantheon.
My entry into the new reality was not unnoticed as I was in no mood to care right now. I appeared in some random green plane. Just as I was considering how to make a good first impression on my soul mate, I heard grunting behind me.
Not too far from me, someone that could only be Zeus was fucking a white cow. I knew the story of Io and might have used this opportunity to mess with Zeus if I didn't have my own lady to find.
But Zeus had other plans.
"WHO GOES THERE?!" his voice thundered, scaring the poor cow behind him
Sigh, judging by the sudden smell of ozone in the air, he clearly had no intention of letting me go after witnessing his well-known infidelity.
"Just ignore me, I have my own lady to go to" I said tiredly, I just wanted to leave
"Another lady?" Zeus suddenly sounded interested, no longer caring about the cow he just fucked
"Tell me where she is and I will make your punishment merciful"
Whatever he had planned for me, I was certain his twisted sense of mercy would not allow me to meet my lady anytime soon. Time to end this, and yes, it might be a bit more brutal than necessary but who told him to lust after my soul mate?
"Fuck off, you light bulb"
The moment I said that, a lightning strike descended from the sky at a speed that far surpassed the speed of light and had more power than the Immortal Tribulation lightning. Yet despite that, the moment it came close to me, it just disappeared. The fact that his lightning was negated without even him knowing how scared Zeus.
Before he could become paranoid again and call the entire pantheon as backup, I just cursed him and left.
"From now on, instead of pleasure, all you will feel from an orgasm is pain. Each time the pain will be worse than the last time" and then I was gone.
This was probably the worst curse anyone could give him and there was no way to break it.
I appeared in front of a familiar yet at the same time unfamiliar cave. This was Nyx's cave that even Zeus didn't dare to enter, my soul mate was inside, spending time with her mother.
Time to make an entrance they will remember.