’So this is your conceptual region. Why am I not surprised? It’s so like you.’
Michelle remarked as he began to glance around. He was now floating in an infinitely large space that looked a lot like space itself, and all he could see were stars and planets. However, in the heart of this realm, a vast neon-blue ice palace can be seen floating on a massive asteroid in the distance.
The palace is a large edifice, and to be honest, the ice resembled Anastasia’s bones, emitting a neon-blue radiance. And one can almost feel power emanating from its crystallized formations, which was, of course, the Aether energy Michelle was experiencing at the time.
However, he was surprised to see several giant asteroids from the adjacent astrobelt crack into multiple pieces before his eyes and build enormous staircases in front of Michelle, leading up to the crystal palace in the distance.
And the moment Michelle saw this, a bitter expression formed on his face, and he remarked out loud to himself.
"A direction invitation, egh? Tsk!! Well then, if it is a direct conflict you want, then it is a direct conflict you will get... Kali!"
Michelle replied in a serious tone as he proceeded to visit the conceptual realm, where a very strong and ancient creature now dwells within the woman known as Anastasia.
But when Michelle walked up the stairs, he couldn’t help but murmur to himself, his irritation obviously visible.
"Talk about unforeseeable events. I came here to make Merciless’ life easier, so he didn’t have to hide his identity when I made a brief public statement to his team mates. Furthermore, I wanted to speak with Beatrice face-to-face because if something happens during this exam that kills Merciless, Beatrice and I will have a serious chat before I resuscitate him; this entire exam farce was her idea in the first place. The only reason I accepted was because she showed me the end result of what lay beyond Merciless involvement."
"But, as soon as I arrived, I came to find out that treacherous, deceased bitch had the nerve to resurrect herself and utilize my kilde servant as her vessel. Aha ah... that shit ain’t going to work; I need to deal with the insect before it becomes an infestation."
Michelle proclaimed to himself, his voice becoming mute as he finished making his way up to the palace entrance, and as he did so, neon blue lights could be seen glowing all around Michelle’s vessel. But he ignores these glowing vessel crystals as well, making his way to the throne room, where he sees a familiar woman for the first time in five million years since their previous meeting.
The woman in question was seated on a massive crystal throne composed of pure crystalline Aether. She was a stunning woman with deep, dark blue skin and a height of 6’6. She possessed a large, busty physique that made her appear divine-looking in nature, to be honest, she was too divine for a vampire in reality.
She wears a mucus-like garment that is completely translucent, giving her blue body a distinct shine that appears to have been oiled from her waist to her lower breast. She wears a blue armored bra with gold borders around her enormous, bouncy breast, with a light blue pearl in the middle and gold plates beneath it. Moving on to her lower half, she just wore an exposed but equally seductive gold-plated C-string thong that covered her private areas.
A similar enormous pearl, crafted into a gold necklace, hung around her neck, the pearl the same dazzling blue as the one between her breasts. On the other hand, she had long blue hair with pinkish-purple frills, which complemented her neon blue eyes. However, the most distinctive thing about her, without a doubt, was the many hands she had behind her, like extra limbs.
These hands, however, were not connected to her in the traditional sense; they lack any bones at all and look more like a liquid body than actual arms and hands with bones. They were like a shaped universe in the shape of hands; you can even call them tentacles given how flaccid they were moving on their own. Without a doubt, their flexibility was unmatchable.
Looking at the woman in question, she had a total of twelve arms, each of which had a set of rings on them. Making it a total of 96 rings, she ordinarily had a hundred rings in total, but the set of pairs she normally wears on her ankles was currently not with her, but those two were now with Anastasia, thus she was still missing four of them to complete her set of Aether rings.
And at this very moment, this divine-looking vampire was now before Michelle as their eyes met, both of them having a bitter glare.
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"I thought I smelled whoredome in my domain, and it appeared like I was correct... kaka!! So, why are you here?
"Don’t play stupid with me, Kali; I still haven’t forgiven you for the shit you did all those years ago. And to make matters worse, you have the audacity to resurrect yourself in the body of a woman my kilde owns; how vile and sickening; even in death, you are a goddamn awful person."
"Awful, kaka!" That is funny coming from your mouth, you hypocritical bitch! You and that waste of a monarch are the most despicable vampires in existence. Just because you take on the appearance of an innocent-looking young boy doesn’t imply you are innocent in the slightest, and calling me repulsive is absurd if you compare you and me."
Kali muttered in a disdainful tone as Michelle extended his hand, causing a blue light to emerge and a giant, lengthy, blue scythe to appear in his palms. Kalie watched Michelle from a distance, snickering at him, her arms folded, and her legs crossed as she sat on her throne, looking at Michelle and questioning her—well, him at this time.
"Hahaha... at least we can agree on one thing, but don’t expect this to go the same way as the last time we had a battle. In my universe, in my realm, I am god, and you are nothing more than a mere human being in my sight."
"Oh, Kali, I’m not going to let you have your way again; I don’t care what you do with the new life you gave yourself; your fake rebirth is useless to me. What I do care about is how near you are to my Kilde. If you remain here, I’m going to make some goddamn house rules."
Michelle stated as both of his hands gripped the massive scythe: The Scythe of Conceptual Separation, Divine Arm Elaine. This was a scythe forged with the flesh, blood, bones, and soul of one of Hector’s daughters. This weapon demonstrated his unmatched loyalty to the Michellian clan, and it was one of Michelle’s top 100 divine arms out of the 68,958 divine weapons he presently has, with Elain placing at #87.
If Michelle so desires, the scythe can literally cut through multiple layers of existence, up to realm fifteen, allowing it to obliterate countless platospheres within the Divider realm, where his true form resides, with nothing more than a single swipe at maximum power. As its name suggests, it is a divine weapon that specializes in splitting concepts from one another or utterly destroying them.
Kali, on the other hand, proceeded to draw out a strange weapon: a gigantic purple man catcher, which was meant to restrain men in the Middle Ages and it had numerous blue spikes within its collar. Michelle looks at the weapon; it won’t kill him since progenitors transcend the sea information as a whole.
However, the man-catcher was worthy enough for him to exercise extreme caution. As he was well aware of what Kali Divine Arm can do, it might be among the center point of the strongest and weakest of the 100 Divine Arms she possesses, but this thing was no joke.
Michelle looked back at Kali, not letting his guard go down for a single second, as he commented with disdain.
"Divine Arm Calesto-Makia, eh?! A weapon that is said to capture the origin of anything—even an infinite number of universes isn’t safe from its grips—and place it all under the absolute control of its wielder. You are as vicious as ever."
"Oh, please, you blue-haired slut. Both you and I know your Ichormancy is complete bullshit, so I can’t just come at you with any weapon. Even your weakest Divine Arms are a million times stronger than my strongest ones, and as much as I hate to admit it, your equipment is far superior to mine."
"But there’s something you don’t understand, Michellian: I possess years of unmatched combat experience. I’ve spent my entire existence defeating alien gods, long before vampires were even a concept among humans. I am Yimhacnog, the former goddess of planet Hakvistos, Queen of Hankovistos, the Arbiter of Space and Time—the one who betrayed her own race for a king unworthy of her grace.
"I am Kali, the first of the seven progenitors who ascended to an Arbiter. I’ve been vanquishing the most formidable foes long before vampires existed. Now, yet again, as fate may have it, I stand before you; Michelle Okelix Vinter Cain Elderblood."
Kali yelled as she teleported in front of Michelle, her dominant right hand thrusting the Calesto-Makia directly at his neck in an attempt to seize him in place. But her effort was in vain. Before she could even reach him, Michelle had begun employing an incredibly advanced teleportation technique using his psionics—an approach similar to the one Kali had used to reach him earlier.
This technique, known as quantum teleportation, involved breaking down the atomic structure into its most fundamental components, protons and neutrons, slipping into the quantum field, and then reassembling them in a new spatial position.
As a consequence, Michelle was able to avoid Kali Calesto-Makia and retaliate with his own assault. His scythe started to emit a sinister purple and black energy from its curving blade, and Elaine vibrated with extreme ferocity. As Michelle swung the scythe toward Kali, a crescent moon energy blade soared and screeched through the air at incredible speed.
However, Kali’s Calesto-Makia outperformed even the most powerful weapon currently wielded by a high-ranking church official. Her Divine Arms surpassed those of higher, undiscovered rankings, even among superhuman entities. Despite the conceptual properties of Elain’s blade, Calesto-Makia was an ideal match against most of Michelle’s arsenal.
When Michelle’s attack struck, it was intercepted by the weapon’s heads. With incredible skill and a grace that resembled a dance, Kali deflected Michelle’s conceptual assault with Calesto-Makia. The force of Elain’s conceptual separation was absorbed by Kali’s Divine Arm, rendering the attack ineffective.
However, this god-killing weapon can do more than just capture objects within its head. Calesto-Makia featured three omni-base powers; these features been: omni-capturing, omni-amplification, and omni-redirection.
As a result, Kali aimed Calesto-Makia toward Michelle, who stared at her with disgust; on the other side, Kali smiled sadistically, despite her fears regarding this small shotas powers. She was known as one of the proudest creatures in all of existence.
So much so that the Demon King of Pride, who lives in the underworld, once declared her arrogance was much above his, to the point where he questioned the fundamental notion of it, which he represents. On the other hand, Calesto-Makia began to shine, as Kali said to Michelle.
"Fun fact: the last time we met, I held back a lot when using Calesto-Makia because if I didn’t, all of existence up to the fourteenth realm of our universe would be wiped out."
"Your point is?"
Michelle retorted.
Kali’s wicked smile widened even more when she heard this as she spoke to Michelle, not holding back her negative intent towards him at all.
"This is a conceptual plane, and while you are above me in that sense, conceptual planes are an interesting thing; they are one of the universe’s secrets we have yet to grasp, just like the sea of gifts."
"But did you know life exists on these planes? Of course, you do; there are those out there whose conceptual plane does not have life; however, it is quite unusual to discover one like that, because a person with that sort of plane is the most exoteric creature that cannot be defined by any definition, and as such, their concepts are nigh impossible to truly destroy or effect."
"However, yours isn’t one without life, and as such, you are very vulnerable here. And since you are in my conceptual plane, your concept is vulnerable to my attacks even more. Sure, I can’t kill your true form."
"But me being even the slightest pain in your ass is enough for me. That avatar you inhabit, I can tell you have been working hard on it, so I will take it up upon myself and possess you instead of this girl, after I damage the concept of that avatar enough, of course."
Kali stated; however, Michelle gave her a dumbfounded look as he laughed at her and said:
"You damaged my concept? My-My... hehehe...how ludicrous of you to think so, my dear! Even the tiny pieces of it I left in a lower vessel like this one are much too much for the likes of you to comprehend—much less damage—and I don’t want to hear that from someone who was slain by one of my weapons that the 1st Keziah used to kill you back then."
"To be honest, I’m astonished you’re still alive; Laplace should have obliterated you from existence; not even memories of your existence should have survived, as only I the weilder of Eos former desire ichormancy and the weilder of that wepon should know you once existed, and yet you’re still here after being pierced by that spear; how is that even possible?"
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"You are a fool, Michelle; it is obvious that I had the assistance of a higher power that allowed me to survive one of the Grace series; and unlike you, I have traversed countless omniverses, met, killed, and been defeated by many exceedingly powerful individuals in my time, long before I even became a vampire as well."
"So don’t you go and imagine for a second that you are the strongest being in existence? I know many people who are infinitely superior to you in every reality in which you exist."
"Is that so? How interesting to think that there is someone out there who can undo the effects of my Ichormancy ha? Hehehe... well, in the end, that doesn’t matter; a fresh competitor simply means new meat to slaughter in the long run."
"Please, as if you can defeat that creature, the black mother who swims in the sea of gifts is a being you, or your blasted king, will never be able to approach. Unlike you, I have seen the truth: "The oldest memory alive" and "The One Before The Beginning And After The End," To them, we are nothing more than a result of their fucked-up twist on the concept of natural selection. You and I, as well as Eos, are nothing more than test subjects for their so-called hiers to be perfected, and beside as long as the keepers exist we are fucked otherwise if they are not perfected."
Kali declared to Michelle, who gave her a puzzled expression as he murmured to himself.
"Hiers, ’The Oldest Memory Alive," "The black mother who swims in the Sea of Gifts," and what the hell is a "Keeper," along with these so called Hiers. What the hell is she even talking about to begin with as a whole? She is starting to sound a lot like Eos and Beatrice, and I don’t like that at all; it’s a recipe for disaster."
"Tsk, does this have anything to do with those so-called spawns that the House of Ghal generally utilizes to avoid Eos control? I’m really puzzled right now. But, again, the main reason I wanted Merciless to become a spawn despite knowing so little about them was that I did not want him to be governed by Eos, as I and the others are."
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"That was the only reason I let Beatrice have her way with my precious Merciless, but what the heck are you doing, Beatrice? This is starting to sound a lot more dangerous than you explain to me."
Kali, on the other hand, looked at Michelle and continued to speak!
"Oh, you appear perplexed, but it should be obvious that the world you and I know is nothing more than a minuscule piece of a larger, multilayered set of higher infinities. And what you perceive as godlike entities are insignificant in the grand scheme of things."
"In any case, I’ll see you soon, Michelle, after I take over your body you so foolishly offered up to me, we will settle things one last time before I leave for the garden, a location you know nothing about, and when I get there, I’ll kill Eos immortality personally, once and for all, omni-locked be damned, and only then will my vengeance be complete."
Said Kali to which Michelle replied.
"You will never reach Eos, you deluded fool. The one destined to kill him will not be you or anyone else but me. What he has become is truly abhorrent, and it pains me deeply to think that the king we serve sees us as nothing more than troublesome children to be tamed or discarded if we dont follow his twisted laws. That burden falls solely on me, but not yet. I will not end this nightmare until I see him become strong enough to confront the true me on the 15th. Until then, this nightmare will persist, and both you and I will fall into place before the king."
"As such, I reserve the right to use whatever force is necessary to maintain the balance of order established by Eos. By the end of the day, he is my king just as he is yours. I’m not sure what higher power managed to reverse the effects of the Spear of Laplace, the second weapon of Grace forged from Eos’ spine, using my Ichormancy."
"But I know what is best for all of us. In the end, all things will come to an end—Eos will reign supreme, but that time is not now. Therefore, Kali Underblade Sephiroth, erstwhile 7th Progenitor and 2nd Arbiter under the king, I, Michelle Okelix Vinter Cain Elderblood, sentence you to death for your treachery against the king."
Michelle announced as he began to back away, his breathing smooth, and his focus enchanted to the abolute as he began to chant.
[Open up... the 5th Gate of Apocalypse, the hand that holds the sword of order that destroys all things that dare trample over the path of balance; I call forth the lady of the lake Nimuë!!]
