"Temporarily?" Everyone voiced out their confusion. The Lord obviously implies that they are to leave the Holy Temple "But, Lord Zenithal, where should we go now? The universes are now in ruins."
"Are you going to restore everything to how it once was?" One of the divinities, Jeremiah Eleison, asked with hope. His question also aroused the hopes of the other gods.
"Those that were devoured by Nothingness are now Nothingness. They can only be restored in form, but not in substance." The voice responded.
Hearing that, everyone's hopes got dashed, causing them to be saddened.
Without them noticing, a faint light zoomed its way out of the Temple and floated in the middle of space.
Unbeknownst to them, their "Lord Zenithal" was now outside of the Holy Temple, looking at the ruination that was happening outside.
Although only in the form of a light, anyone that would happen to gaze at him would see a majestic person with an indifferent stare despite what was in front of him. As if the deaths, fall, and sickness here had nothing to do with him.
To those who knew what truly happened, they would find it laughable yet enraging. Of course, no one would really dare to be enraged.
Or rather, no one has the ability to be enraged.
Lord Zenithal stayed still for a long time. Out of all the races of this world, it has to be mentioned that humanity was the one who stayed mostly loyal to him.
Their forte is that they are the best at following the hierarchy, knowing what must be done and what must not be, having their laws and treating them as absolute. Unfortunately, it is also their weakness.
They were easily manipulable through authority.
Despite having punished the traitors, Lord Zenithal knew that in one way or another, humanity would be influenced by them to do things either to please him or antagonize him.
It seems that humanity should now be his priority.
And therefore, it began; Genesis. But not the usually known Genesis where God creates the world. Instead, the first thing to be done was not to create, but to annihilate.
"I declare that all the Eldritch that are within my Expanse are to be expelled under My Authority. All that stays shall be brought to existence, given a soul, and tortured forever."
After He said this, all the abominations that were wreaking havoc within the Expanse began squirming like crazy, hurrying to leave Existence. As said by Him, those who did not fear His words and stayed suddenly shuddered and shrieked, squiggling like a worm poured with salt, suffering pain eternally.
Now, with the Eldritch erased from creation, He sighed. Despite the ruin that the Eldritch had caused, there still are remnant worlds that remained, albeit almost devoid of living beings.
Because of the devastation, all remaining worlds that remained became barren landscapes. If there were living beings that remained, they would have already been on the verge of extinction.
Of course, some defy the odds.
The different universes have one thing in common, having been created from one origin; His origin.
It was from an era long, long time ago. Even the Three Princes had only spanned a quarter of the previous universe's entire lifespan despite the fact that they are already billions of years old.
The structures of the different universes only differ in their ruling causality. In every universe, there exist different events and realms that make them distinctive from each other. Parallel Universes, as one would call it.
For the restoration of the universe, He began by gathering all the Earths from all the parallels, turning them into a singularity, merging them to become one for His grand plan.
Of course, although the merge seemed so simple on the outside, on the inside, it was a full-blown Apocalypse. The land splintered, the skies sundered, and the seas boiled. The old structures that still stood after the Eldritch War couldn't handle it anymore and collapsed. Some lower-level buildings survived, but as for the towering grand buildings, all of them fell like dominos.
Before there were at least hundreds of thousands of humans remaining in total for the countless universes, but after that.
Hah.
Anyways!
After casually merging thousands of universes' Earth into one, the next thing to put work into was the entirety of the universe.
With a click of his fingers, everything forcefully merged into one atomic singularity. Like a released spring, the singularity expanded crazily, spewing out different masses of cosmic bodies such as stars, infant worlds, infant cosmic entities, an incredibly large space ship filled with living survivors from different mortal species, black holes, white holes…
Wait.
An incredibly large space ship filled with living survivors from different mortal species?
"Hmm?" He looked at the huge ship floating aimlessly in this blank universe. He then let out a short chuckle before waving his fingers with elegance befitting of a God.
In an instant, the ship, as huge as it was, vanished off the face of the universe. No one would know what happened to those inside.
"Anyways.." He clapped His hands, as if nothing even happened.
As the universe expanded itself, He sent Earth flying together with it.
Observing the universe, He began to notice that specks of the universe began diverting from their original course. Without Him doing anything, the parallels have already began reappearing. Of course, He had no intention of returning those diversions and would, instead, let them develop. Existence is interesting that way.
He then looked somewhere in the cosmos before reaching out. A small, quark-sized thing, suddenly flew into his fingers. If a person can visualize what it looks like, it is similar to a thread that holds together other threads.
While He was inspecting the thread, chaos suddenly erupted on the other side of the universe as all of existence suddenly moved and flowed like water filling an empty space.
"The String of Eternity." He muttered to himself, "The only catalyst suitable to be my vessel." After saying that, he poured his energy into the string. With the string as its core, flesh, bones, muscles, and blood began to form as it gradually grew into a normal-looking human being. (A/N: The "normal human" He's talking about is 7 foot tall, blonde, lean, handsome, charming, basically perfect.)