1854 It"s Time To Leave.
Meanwhile, in the dimensional pocket, near the universal"s heart, the three rulers were still discussing what occurred in the quantum realm.
"I can"t believe the brat has ascended to a celestial," Amun-Ra uttered snarkily.
"It has indeed taken us by surprise." Medusa shook her head, "It seems like our initial guess of the universe consciousness trying to be reborn through him isn"t too farfetched anymore."
Although the three rulers had been watching Felix"s journey from the moment his soul merged with Asna"s, they still couldn"t believe that he had made it this far.
A feeble human, who could have gotten killed by almost everything in the universe, now, had reached the stage, where he was considered the highest authority below the universe.
Such a story was told only in legends.
"I am a.s.suming that he has achieved this with the help of the stone of reality." Amun-Ra added, "It"s the only logical explanation when considering that Asna"s core remained untouched."
"I wonder why the prophecy tablet hasn"t said anything about this." Medusa narrowed her eyes coldly at the prophecy table.
It was no longer showing any future predictions besides them repossessing Asna"s core and the dark pa.s.sage to the other side. In other words, it left them to do as they pleased.
"Whether he tries to be reborn or not, we are close to the end line." The first ruler said calmly, "After we collect Asna"s core, we will use it to brute-force the universe"s heart. We will reshuffle our cards then."
In simpler terms, if they ended up failing, they would start actively seeking new methods.
As for hunting Felix? They didn"t know why he hadn"t been sent to the eternal kingdom like them after the divine ascension, but they were certain he would not be able to step inside the matter universe.
In other words, there wasn"t much they could do to him besides sending Ares to hunt him down...But, they weren"t sure anymore if he could even take him down in his current state.
Although they weren"t too sure about the full extent of his powers, they had seen what his black flames were capable of.
"With such celestial flames in his possession, he is capable of gathering celestial energy from breaking apart energies and matter." Amun-Ra narrowed his eyes, "We must be ready to take him down the moment he steps into the kingdom."
"That"s given."
The first ruler"s golden eyes gleamed icily, having no more intentions of sitting by and watching Felix run amok.
The day Felix decided to enter the kingdom, would be the day he met with the three rulers at their full strength.
Felix knew this more than anyone, which was the reason he had to perfect his preparation before making his move.
The first of his preparations was to collect as much celestial energy as possible.
...
A few days later in the quantum realm...
"It seems it"s time to leave." Felix commentated with a shake of a head after being certain at last, that the quantum realm was unharvestable.
He barely gathered anything for the past few days and he had no interest in wasting more of his time.
"You have to leave a link behind, so you will return to the same place," Eris said.
"Yes, I already have something in mind." Felix nodded.
Without further ado, Felix summoned the seven celestial dragonic tails around him, creating a mesmerizing dance.
"Will it really work?" Thor murmured.
"Let"s watch and see." Jörmungandr
Then, Felix began to weave the dragonic tails together, guiding them into a single form. A burst of celestial energy was released after the merge, but the transformation wasn"t complete.
The celestial form turned into a perfect clone of Felix with some almost undetectable dragonic features.
"Now, to the crucial step."
Felix reached out with his senses inside his main body and pulled out the five unigin cores, leaving behind the stone of reality and Asna"s core. Then, he embedded them inside the dragonic clone!
The cores immediately took a position within the clone"s chest, each core connected to one of the dragonic tails" consciousness. Although they seemed merged to create one soul, in reality, they still possessed their unique consciousness.
The moment the cores were connected to the dragonic tails, their appearence suddenly changed to match the laws they invoked while the celestial aura around them was gone.
When the tenants saw this, they were left somewhat speechless.
"I can"t a.s.sume it"s this simple to bypa.s.s the universe"s rules," Thor remarked.
"It has always been simple, you just have to land on the loopholes," Eris replied calmly, unsurprised by this.
When Felix told them about his strategy to split his celestial ident.i.ty from his unigin ident.i.ty, everyone was astonished but Eris.
She knew that it was going to work since the universe was quite easy to fool the higher one reached in his status.
In Felix"s case, he possessed all the tools to confuse the universe"s rules and always take advantage of its loopholes.
"The universe accepts me as a celestial, but not my tails."
Felix smiled as he switched his focus to the dragonic clone, without needing to even use a wisp of consciousness.
"True, while they might emit a celestial aura, it was coming from you." Lady Sphinx nodded, "In reality, their consciousness is still at a unigin level since the universe can"t allow the emergence of seven unique celestials added to you."
In simpler terms, Felix was a celestial and by being attached to him, they become one too. But, while separated, they return to their rightful social status due to their individuality.
If they were 100% part of Felix"s soul and had no individuality, they would be considered mere extra limbs. Felix was further pleased with the former as it gave him infinite possibilities to mess with the universe"s rules.
"Now, to the bestowal."
Felix used his main body to tap into the forehead of his clone. Then, he pushed inked inscriptions into his skin, spreading across his entire body.
Those inscriptions were written in his celestial language, leaving him gazing at them with a nostalgic smile.
"Huh, who would have thought that the kid we bestowed upon with our universal inscriptions would have his own celestial language and start doing the bestowal." Jörmungandr chuckled, recalling the day he pa.s.sed on his inscriptions to Felix.
"Who would have known indeed..."
The rest of Felix"s masters showed faint smiles as they watched him finish up the process. After he was done, the inscriptions s.h.i.+mmered at once and then disappeared in his clone"s skin.
"Now, he possesses some of the stone of reality"s abilities and most importantly, the ability to use the black flames and deconstruct energies/matter to celestial energy." Felix smiled in satisfaction.
Felix"s clone demonstrated to all by creating a black flame on top of his palm for a moment before canceling it.
"It"s like you turned your own clone into a primogenitor," Apollo remarked with a fascinated tone, "Your abilities are getting more unconventional."
"It"s the only way for this to work."
Felix knew that since his dragonic clone wasn"t considered celestial anymore, it wouldn"t be possible for it to use celestial-based abilities on its own.
Luckily, celestial abilities could be bestowed in limits, such as what happened to the primogenitors. If it wasn"t for the three rulers" inscriptions, they wouldn"t have been able to manipulate elements/laws...The limitation was their inability to create law-based abilities, unlike the rulers.
In Felix"s case, since the clone was still linked to the main body through him, he was able to bestow upon his clone the abilities to use the celestial flames even though he wasn"t considered a celestial by universal standards.
After all, Felix was able to use the black flames way before he became a celestial, and the only thing he did with the inscriptions was bestow upon it the upgrade to deconstruct.
"This should be enough." Felix dusted his hands and switched his focus to his clone again after putting his main body in a meditation position.
"Let"s get going." He gestured with his forehead for Apollo and Eris while walking towards the gateway with the infinite amount of dimensional gaps.
Then, he picked a random dimensional gap and used his celestial black flames to burn off the edges. As Apollo said, the flames kept burning off the edges continuously, making it impossible for it to close down! Then, he created an invisible spiritual string linking him and his main body. This was the connection to ensure the possibility of them returning from the same dimensional gap. After all, the black flames would keep it open forever without needing the mixture.
"b.a.s.t.a.r.d..."
Meanwhile, the darkside Apollo cursed him hatefully at the sight, feeling like he had gotten robbed of his dream.
The fact that his idea worked, meant that he just needed a tiny bit of those black flames and he would have already conquered the entire universe and cast it in eternal darkness.
Alas...
"Opse, sorry about that."
Apollo slapped his other sulky cheek, still having difficulty controlling both personas. If it wasn"t for Felix"s support, he would have already gotten overridden by his dark side.
"Don"t mention it, let"s get out of here."
Felix merely chuckled and went through the dimensional gap while being followed by his partners, exiting the quantum realm at last...
With that, we conclude the 20th Volume: The Quantum Realm.
I know the pacing was a bit s.h.i.+t sometimes and with the chapter"s release inconsistency, it made it worse.
Still, I am happy that the volume was concluded with all plotlines closed in it.
The next volume will be the last in the novel and will have all remaining plotlines concluded from the start to the end!
It might be long, it might be short, I still don"t know, but I do hope you enjoy the rest of the journey as we are in the footsteps of the finale.
Thank you for your support!
PS: There is only one chapter released today as a conclusion of the volume. Don"t worry, tomorrow there will be a double release to make up for it.