'thought'
"speech"
(Julius POV)
"And how, pray tell, are you Julius going to be able to gather power of that purity, no less speaking of that amount?" I couldn't help but frown as my name came across as sneered as the beautiful voice spoke, but I became stunned the next instant as a stunning woman walked around the throne.
As I stared as she sat on the armrest of Tony's throne, it looked like her skin was made out of branches weaving in and out of each other. The branches were so thin and weaved so tight that it caused her skin to ripple in waves from her feet as she walked. As my eyes traveled up her legs her dress came into view. Bright emerald leaves overlapped each other in a dress that traveled up her body accentuating her figure showing the outline any man would go to war for. I couldn't help but pause and squint my eyes though as it looked like the straps for her dress her vines similar to what made up her dress yes, but eventually, it wrapped over her shoulders forming a delicate-looking choker around her neck made out of vines and then winding into her hair seamlessly.
A laugh that sounded of running streams and leaves rustling in the wind sounded throughout the ruined house as the goddess smiled at me "Admiring the view child? I admit it's not one many people often get to see"
I sputter and quickly look at the sky to gather back my focus.
"I-I'm sorry Mi'lady it's just that your figure transcends any beauty I've seen before."
"With words like that I can't help but look forward to what you will do but let's stay on topic" She then snaps her fingers, and a whiteboard appears with a marker ready leaning against it. "How exactly do you plan to gain the power you offer and enough to give it to the two of us? Many gods have strived to even gather a fraction of a fraction of a creator's power, and you offer us a tenth?"
I grab the dry-erase marker and slowly draw on the board 3 small circles 1 above the other with a space in-between and a cartoon tree connected to all 3 circles through the center, as I draw these on the board my heart begins to speed up hammering against my chest.
I lean my head against the board as I try to gather my thoughts as my breath speeds up 'I should of listen to my sister more and actually thought this shit out. But who would have thought this scenario would happen, and I just passed my exams for nothing!'
'Focus! The outline of the plan just remember what you both agreed on when outlining the plan'
As these thoughts ran through my head I could feel pressure slowly building from the base of my neck and rising through my head getting worse. Slowly rubbing my eyes as the pressure pools around them urging to get out and push through my eyes, my thoughts begin to run together.
'Don't Lie they'll know. Must tell the truth they'll know'
'Don't Lie they'll know. Don't Lie they'll know.'
'Dontliedontliedistortdontliedontliebenddontliedontlie'
The sound of concrete slowly begins to crack and water dripping begins to echo out. My head jerks and I slowly look around and smile.
'Let the Con begin'
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(3rd Person POV)
"It's all about Consent and free will" As Julius says these words, he traces them out on the blackboard and underlines these points.
"The creators will freely give part of their power because it will be needed as a source for the creation of a universe of its own." Julius then draws a circle containing the tree that spears through 3 horizontal ovals. And then next to that drawing a bar chart.
"You see in a majority of the universes that contain a form of magic, supernatural, eldritch influence free will plays an important aspect of defense and repellent so people can survive. From this point on I will be referring to all of these as the term magic for the ease of understanding."
"As a result, over the years both the use and theory of magic evolved to have a natural defense mechanism as the metaphysical impacts the physical and the physical impacts the material and so on you understand being gods and all. But this results in two different instances when power is drawn from a source of resistance it weakens immensely and if given freely it receives a boost. Thus, I need your world tree seed to connect these 3 universes as a trial run together."
"I will then need the power from as many gods as possible for the universes to stabilize as a trial run and some power from the creators for a barrier thus shimmy a little to you and it'll be fine."
Silence blossomed after Julius finished speaking as the three of them stared at each other. For a few minutes until Julius rocks on his feet slightly and looks at the dry-erase marker.
*tap* *tap* *tap*
Tony sighs and lets out in a tired voice "How long do you see this plan taking? This isn't something that can be done any time soon your lifespan will need to be long."
Julius shrugs "Well I planned to handle that partly using one of my wishes but that was more of a future me problem. Another life I'd at least 100 more years so that's a bit of a buffer zone sire."
His voice eventually becomes slightly quiet. "I do have 1 request that I hope doesn't count towards one."
"Oh? And what would that be Julius hopefully you are not too presumptuous."
"Since I will be beginning my new life, I have the hope that I will be able to design what my new body will look like…"
Tony raises his hand and rubs his chin thinking for a second before nodding "Ok. That's a fair request; it's not much skin off my back and your body will have to be recreated anyway since you are dead."
"I just have one important question for you Julius, as a base for your body what race do you select do know that this will influence which universe you reincarnate into."
Julius nods his head "That's a fair restriction to have on a choice like that but it's always been one choice for me I select the Fae. More specifically of the chaos courts. If there is such a thing as a specialization, then I wish it to be of universal birth and the chaos in those moments."
The Female goddess placed a hand on Tony's shoulder and seemed to lean some weight onto him. "It seems the selected is truly ambitious let's hope they will be able to survive their choices." She then turns and faces Julius "I accept your deal I'll give you a seed from my tree to do with what you wish If you survive this outcome."
A laugh echoes out as Tony snaps his fingers and a black dome covers Julius preventing view of his body from both gods. "A little privacy for yourself for a new remodel I understand it's a bit delicate it is your soul. I will also soundproof this, so you have silence." After stating that Tony snaps his fingers again then turns to the only other occupant in the room.
"The boy lucked out there is a there is a Symposium coming up in a few years. I need you to call an emergency meeting so they can hear a speech from Mr. Confident over there. You can use my name to get all of them to show up. "
The woman side-eyes Tony and then turns around and begins to walk off. "It seems you are interested in him…fine I'll do it but how big of a noise do you want me to make"
"Enough to ensure everyone at least hears about the meeting afterward but not enough to piss off the higher-ups. We need them to be in as good of a mood as possible.
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(Julius POV)
I saw a Black dome come out of nowhere and completely block my view of everywhere creating a void as Tony spoke.
Before the horrors of the void truly became comprehensible an exact replica of my body appeared in front of me along with a holographic creation screen in the center of my eyesight, the body was still visible through the screen but the hologram looked to be a combination from Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 with a copy of my body on a small pedestal in the center.
I moved my eyes slightly so my apparent body double and the screen could both be seen easily before trying to press the rotating right arrow, but my finger ended up going right through the screen.
A shiver can't help wracking my body as I look at everything. "I know what I asked for, but this entire process is creepy"
I then look at the screen again and picture clicking on the rotate right arrow mentally with a mouse. The moment this happens I flail my arms slightly as I float 3 inches off the ground and the clone begins to slowly rotate to the right at a slow pace.
The moment the body begins to rotate it begins to distort as the body begins to change. Wings unfulfilled from the back in cascading layers, splitting into smaller iterations of itself that seemed to spiral endlessly into themselves. The central feathers appeared more solid acting as a base for both the wings and the body, while the outer layers of feathers seemed to shimmer and float slightly apart from each other each cascading layer leaving a larger and larger space in between, each feather showing the appearance of a fractured pane of glass making the edge of the feathers looked more jagged and crystalline then soft as normal feathers appeared. Soft white light reflected from the cracks in the layers leaving the appearance of light glowing through a window but as a result, the wings gave off an empty feeling as if it was waiting for something to fill it.
After the wings appeared the body slowly grew a few inches at first but sped up as it grew more until eventually the size of the clone reached 10 feet tall, once the growing stopped the body almost seemed to shrink slightly into itself as muscles lost their definition and the entirety of the body seemed to become thinner.
I tilted my head as the process seemed to come to an end but as I did so my breath couldn't help but catch. "Wow, the Fae truly are beautiful but they do look slightly off-putting."
I pressed the button on the panel as everything, On the first press the head became twice as large while the nose shifted down and the fingers became as long as needles, the next press those changes reverted while the chest became concave and the arms shrunk but the wings and size of the body never changed and continued to stay static with each press of the button.
A smile crossed my face as I sped up pressing the button. "let's see how weird this gets before we really start."
Next Chapter title: Choices and their Consequences.
Chapter will Include:
-Intro to character who will be sharing the MC's body
Warning for content in this chapter will have:
-Body Horror/torture
- Gender Change for MC to Intersex/Hermaphrodite