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Aeon of Creation Chapter 12
🕑 Added 2024-10-24 07:00:26 +0000 UTC"It's rather hard on you isn't it Jake." Elysia teased gently as we entered the lounge of the rather fancy hotel the leaders of Belabog let us take over as they didn't want the guests or staff messing with us.
I gave the pink-haired smug 'elf' a flat look and retorted. "I can literally just summon floating meteors made of my Creation mandate and just yeet them at the source of the Stellaron to seal it away... But if I do that, then Himeko and Welt will be disappointed that the others didn't get a chance to trailblaze their own adventure."
A groan rang out from March 7th as she muttered. "I know you want to help... But the thought of making Himeko is like really scary honestly, and leaves an icky feeling in my stomach."
My lips twitched as I thought. 'Yeah... Himeko is basically your mom with how she has cared for you after you lost your memories.'
But either way, I said dryly. "Until someone gets hurt or is about to, I will remain on the sidelines I guess. Honestly, I have no idea why we are leaving up to chance at all. This planet would literally fall if we fail."
Well the Stellaron eventually would destroy the world most likely without us here, this powerful push of Fragmentum monsters was likely going to weaken the Stellaron so if the inhabitants survived this, they could likely seal it all on their own even if we weren't here.
But that requires people to survive this oncoming horde of monsters.
Dan Heng gave a soft hum and I looked over at the only guy here and meeting my gaze he spoke with thought. "Jake, with the wave of Fragmentum Monsters coming, why don't you stay at the surface and act as a distraction drawing the monsters into a killing field? While we go through the Underworld and secret tunnels using Sampo?"
I considered the thought. And I realized if I was acting as bait and flaring my Creation aura, the Fragmentum monsters would naturally be charging for me above all else.
So I slowly nodded but Elysia added firmly. "Then I will stay with Jake to act as long-range support!"
"Well... If I am going to be acting as the bait, then I better get ready for my act." I spoke before I looked to Stelle and spoke.
"Stelle, that lance you got is imbued with the power of Preservation, Q̶i̷l̴p̷o̶t̵h̵'s power he gave you when he glanced at you... Make sure to not forget it when you continue to hit things with your baseball bat." I said with some amusement.
I then held my hands together with the people around me in mind as I focused... And then a glowing golden cross formed in my hand that swiftly flew over into Dan Heng's hand. "Dan Heng that cross is enchanted with the power to expel an extremely powerful barrier growing once the cross is snapped."
"It is also enchanted for the barrier to phase through everyone here, but be careful using it around other people as the barrier with hit them... Lethally hard and fast." I said firmly.
Dan Heng holding the cross carefully put it into his jacket and asked calmly. "How large will the barrier expand outwards?"
To which I told him it would expand out to about twenty-five meters as I was also worried about friendly fire.
After that I said with an evil smile. "Alright, you guys be careful. I am heading out to make my killing field in advance."
I flew up into the air on my throne and I heard March 7th shout out as Elysia and I were leaving. "Be careful Jake, Elysia! Himeko will smack us if you get hurt doing something stupid!"
And with that final touching line Elysia and I flew out of the hotel and towards the walls of Belabog as I certainly wasn't going to do Tower Defense with actual people to protect.
"Well, its a good thing they get to tell the people of Belabog that the random Aeon left the city to go make a heroic last stand," Elysia said sarcastically as she lounged on the large arm of my throne and leaned up against the back.
I sighed and stated firmly. "This is the only time I am going to play at holding back frankly. When issues come up, I am just going to smack them down without messing around."
I took a deep breath and warmth filled the air as my form glowed with golden energy that could be felt even in Belabog as I fully unleashed the infinite core of energy within myself.
I opened my mouth, but words did not come out. I spoke about the concepts of C̸r̷e̶a̵t̴i̷o̷n̷ that filled my mind as an Aeon, and the alien logic to humanity was no different from an eldritch tongue that could change the very reality around me.
Normally I just flash conjured what I wanted in a spear, chains or something enchanted to suit my fancy... Not this, this was to be my first great work of my own that wasn't fixing the Astral Express.
[L̸i̷f̴e̷ ̵b̴e̸g̴e̴t̷s̶ ̵d̶e̵a̴t̶h̴--l̸i̴f̸e̸ ̴i̵s̸ ̸a̶n̵ ̵e̶n̶d̴l̸e̸s̵s̴ ̵c̴y̸c̵l̷e̸ ̷o̴f̵ ̸r̴e̶n̴e̷w̸a̵l̵ ̶a̴n̸d̷ ̷d̶e̴c̸a̸y̴--T̴h̶e̵ ̵T̵r̶e̴e̷ ̴o̸f̶ ̴C̷r̶e̸a̶t̷i̷o̴n̸ ̷i̸s̴ ̴b̴e̴y̶o̸n̵d̷ ̶t̶h̸e̵ ̵c̵y̶c̸l̵e̴s̷ ̵o̶f̵ ̷e̸n̴t̸r̷o̴p̶y̷]
Outside the city of Belebog were large sheets of ice that were filled with massive glacier valleys and long-abandoned ruins where the people of Jarilo-VI realized outside their walls, it was impossible to live.
But amid the endless ice, the rugged rocks bore no life. A single sapling broke cracked a mile wide sheet of ice as it broke to the surface with a mighty groaning noise.
My form flared with more power as the sapling grew, feet turning into meters per second of growth and in but a minute the sapling had grown taller then the very walls of the city of Belabog.
The tree's trunk was a bright shining gold as was the color of Creation. And the tree took the form of a great massive Willow Tree, with over a million wrist-thick branches that fell down the canopy with a gleaming emerald glow.
My consciousness filled the divine tree I created and I filled its mind with only two objectives. [Protect the humans and robots of this world and otherwise help life flourish. Destroy all signs of D̴e̷s̴t̵r̸u̷c̷t̷i̶o̷n̴.]
And I smiled softly as I looked upon the Divine Tree of Creation as it still grew off my power with its countless branches being covered in thousands of apples of ore of all kinds imaginable.
The tree was of C̴r̷e̶a̵t̵i̶o̵n̴, it would outlive this very planet and would be able to guide this planet just like the living planet that Yoashi made... But mine won't eat other planets. No, mine could simply bask in the energy of the sun and live eternally without hurting anyone by competing for resources.
"Fuck you Y̵a̸o̶s̸h̶i̷, my creations will instead fill the galaxy with more matter than what is consumed," I spoke with my words escaping into the void.
By now, more than half an hour had passed. And the tree could now be seen from space without a telescope, the nest of the millions of branches of creation had encircled the city of Belabog itself.
As a glint of something showed in the sky, I smiled wryly as I knew Himeko and Welt could obviously see my tree from up in the Astral Express.
"The tree will be taken care of by the humanity of this world, it will protect, nurture, and keep humanity from the predations of the other Aeons as well," I spoke as I felt a soul-deep exhaustion in me at having basically made my own Emanator.
Elysia finally broke her awed silence at seeing my will at work and she asked quietly. "How will humanity take care of such a thing?"
To which I smiled and said. "It will be a symbiotic relationship... Humanity will trim the tree's branches and from the branches, all forms of ore and materials can be gathered. And when the matter is used and they want to throw something away, they merely throw the waste matter into the tree's roots to be recycled once again, regardless of the tree manifesting more matter from the energy it naturally accumulates."
And then Elysia asked the pressing question. "How will the tree protect Belabog then?"
But just as she asked, the heat radiating from the divine tree unfroze one of the eternally frozen fragmented creatures, and it roared at being free after centuries of being frozen eternally.
An emerald vine, thicker than the Astral Express was wide made an ear-popping cracking noise even from three hundred meters away, and as the vine broke the sound barrier as it smacked into the fragmentum monster...
"That's how," I said with a wide grin.
Comments
Orchamus
Super whomping willow😅
Loghead101
I did not think Jake would go making a tree of life yet, figured he’d disassemble the Stellaron for the energy to do that. Maybe that’ll be used to reset the planet. Completely purge the frost or set the entire planet back on course to heal. After today Belebog will have two Aeons to worship. Is that heresy? Can’t remember if there is any society or group in Starrail that follows and worships more than one Aeon. Either way, love the chap as always can’t wait for the next chapter.
