NOVEL NEXT Chapter 158: C158: Integration
C158: Integration
Alt Title Teaser: World Pillar
Overall Word count = 1223 on 11/10/2024.
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Flying high into the gray clouds is the mixed nature of both the true Holy Light of Rhongomyniad and the Cursed Darkness of the Fake Rhongomyniad. Axel quickly regrets his decision. The combination of both the combined laws as well as the conflicting laws makes it a literal hellscape for anyone inside… which is just Axel so far.
To create a safe zone. He first has to use his [Great Devourer] to absorb the unstable or contrasting laws. Luckily he has affinities for both light and dark via his magic but he has only ever learned 1 or 2 spells for them both. As such, he is nowhere near close enough to understanding the actual laws related to such magics or even worse the very embodiment of the actual World Pillar that is Rhongomyniad.
A more experienced magic user otherwise known as Grand Caster, could have gently assimilated the laws to better enhance their own knowledge and magical talent. Yet due to Axel's overall neglect of magic, he can only brute force it like he always does with everything. Within this cloudy region, he is not able to absorb energy like normal but can only absorb tiny pockets of energy from the balanced laws area but that comes with it's own risk.
By taking in the balanced energy, he could cause a sort of disturbance that destabilizes it too and that only adds more to his plate.
As a result, the best course of action is actually to gradually absorb the unstable elements bit by bit from one side then the other, keeping them even but gradually weakening. This gives him some leeway to wear the unstable laws down.
The feeling of absorbing these laws is quite indescribable but we can give it a try: Painful, excruciating, but also liberating, a sort of cleansing experience or evolution. Thanks to [Raphael], Axel is able to better understand these laws and then integrate them into his own [Reality marble]. This means that the evolution of both Blythe and Alaba is progressing nicely as they enhance their first divinities and then begin to spread them out further in local domains.
With Alaba starting out as a Dragon, he can then branch out into fire or magic since Axel shared his magical knowledge with the pet dragon god. Fire is self explanatory, controlling all fire, but what is not so obvious is the level of control with fire as it can be either a weak and gentle flame like that of a caring mother or father or a raging inferno that is capable of bringing about world wide destruction. The magic aspect is instead quite an obscure topic as many things can fall under magic such as a simple card trick to extensive magic circles capable of sealing or killing other gods instantly. Of course power grading is needed to be mentioned to complete such grand feats. Shamanism, Rituals, Weather control, summonings or creating apostles. All such things fall under magic but the apostles' part could be less so unique as all gods would have their own method related to their divinity.
On the other hand, with Blythe, the puppet doctor started with Healing nature but that can be split into 2 different divinites, the first being Holiness, a purity type aspect which is in itself a major aspect that can branch off into every form of holy elements like light, water, or lightning. The second type would be water related to nature, afterall, many early types of medicines were made from plants. This serves as an easy pathway into the Nature Divinity but Axel doesnt plan to have that go to Blythe since it's a vast divinity that branches out into hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of other minor divinities.
Nevertheless, Axel can at the very least create some templates for whoever he designates as gods in the future. He has quite the audience in his territory so he cant outright make Raikou and Syr gods while they are watching. Some rescued immortals are even wandering around but all the houses are locked so that Freya, Syr and Aisha are safe. Florence Nightingale is still with Blythe but their interactions have changed as the former puppet now god audibly speaks with her which increases their interactions and how much information can be passed between them.
Very Far Away from Orario.
"Grrrrr" RIP SQUELCH. Beneath tons of rock and rubble, something stirs, shifting, grinding, snapping away rocks and flesh as it rises from the pit where it had hid when the sun descended upon it. The creature breaks out from it's old useless flesh with a new form. It had memorized the magic signature of the person who did it, and now that it's torment has ended, it can unleash it's wrath upon both that person as well as the one who had forced this soul wrenching pain upon it.
It had gained a natural sense for where the one who caused these changes is. Like a child knowing where their parents are. But it would love nothing more than to lock it's teeth around the being and tear it asunder. Yet its thoughts have also evolved and it knows that such a being is still out of its range but finding the other target is much easier.
It lifts its monstrous head to look up into the sky where its one eye can see a wide gathering of magical energy, one light, one dark and the space in between that is the merger of the two.
"There." click click click. It clicks its long thick tongue as it senses how the original magic signature of the 'sun owner' is gradually growing stronger but more frail as time passes by. It can tell that if this being succeeds in taking all that energy into itself then it would be much stronger than itself yet with its attention diverted. It is likely for the beast itself to devour this being and then take over as an absorbing force for the two conflicting energies. That would surely be enough to take down the greater offender.
But first, it gazes upon it's own new form: a sizable humanoid form of 10 feet tall covered in scales with a draconic head, still blinded in one eye from a powerful blow of a human who it had slain in time immemorial. Its body is no longer pure black but now contains patches of white, the contaminant of the First Offender. He who had unleashed this agony upon it.
SQUELCH more ripping noises are heard as from the creatures back do a pair of wings sprout out yet it does not flap them to fly but instead conjures energies from its surroundings to lift it by it's wings, the flapping would now only serve to change its direction mid flight or provide a minor boost in speed. A powerful blast of fire begins to form within its chest as it focuses upon its sneak attack. Now it just has to get close, its body lifted off the ground and into the murky cloudy sky filled with conflicting energies.
It's destination…Orario. It's target, the man in the gray clouds.
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Alt Title: Evolution, Laws of the World Pillar, Interference.