The stars rotated their worlds, fifty years passed in the blink of an eye.
The humanoid Apexion sat on his majestic flaming throne,untless ideas and schemes flashed through his starry eyes. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed as he noticed a mysterious energy appearing outside of his domain.
He sensed that this energy was attempting to enter his domain and fuse with him.
His gaze penetrated his domain and landed on the energy; he scanned every fiber of it. It was formless butlorful, at least in his eyes it was, and it radiated an aura that he had often sensed from the creatures of his realm. Worship yes, it radiated the aura of worship. Pure and unfiltered worship for him.
"The physical manifestation of worship that all the creatures of the realm had for him… how fascinating!"
He muttered as he nfirmed what it was, after which his eyes flashed as he granted it access to enter his domain and,
Shoooosh!
It flooded inside and toward him like a tidal wave. In almost an instant, it arrived a few meters from him and,
"Halt!"
Hemmanded, after which the energy came to a standstill. It would be unbming of him if he allowed a relatively unknown energy that had just appeared to fuse with his being.
His will enveloped the energy, giving it a deeper scan. A snd later, his eyes flashed,
'Polluted. Polluted with the thoughts and needs of trillions of creatures.'
Yes, the energy was stained with the desires of all the creatures inside his realm, and he deduced that if a creature were to absorb a large enough quantity, they would eventually berroded by the thoughts of the creatures that produced the energy, bming nothing more than a puppet of their wants and needs…
Countless ideas flashed through his mind, and an instant later he came up with a method to remove this pollution, and that was just to simply,
"Separate!"
He ordered. After he spoke, his crown flashed, and then the energy started to twist and turn, as thelors began to separate from it. Soon, the two had divided into two masses of energy.
One floated on his right was mass oflored energy, this was pollution. The one floated to his left was a mass of transparent energy, the pure and unpolluted…
Apexion gazed at the pure one with hunger; his being was urging him to absorb it, but he resisted and waved his hand. An instant later, four creatures of different ranks appeared before him.
One at the body limit rank, one at there, one at the spirit, and one at the first stage of the world stumper rank. Their bodies shivered with extreme fear, for theyuldn't perceive their surroundings, and they alsouldn't move their bodies.
Apexionntrolled a tiny bit of pure energy to enter inside the body limit rank, and, splat! An instant later, the creature's body swelled and then exploded.
'Body too weak to withstand.'
He took note of that and thenntinued to the next creature there rank and splat! It also exploded. Hentinued to the next, and the result was almost the same. Before this creature exploded, its body started to reform, attempting to bme stronger, but at last, its body also wasn't strong enough…
Splat!
Hentinued with the last creature, a world stumper rank.
'Good!'
Unlike the others, this creature didn't explode and hadmpletely advanced to the organ runification rank.
'Strengthening and digging out hidden potential within creatures.'
He thought as he gazed intensely at the creature, when suddenly he frowned, and, splat! The creature exploded just like the rest…
His eyes flashed with many ideas; those without divine tier attributes are just not qualified to interact with this energy…
'Let's see.'
He thought as he allowed energy to seep into him; he needed all he needed to know about the energy to determine that it was safe for him to absorb.
The moment he absorbed the energy, he felt a warm andmfortable feeling, similar to when he was in his mother's womb, wash over him.
'This feeling… Mother, how long has it been since your death?'
All the memories of his early days resurfaced in his mind the memories of his time spent in theld burrow, him nestled in his mother's warm embrace.
"Mother was the only creature I have ever felt anything akin to love for. If only…."
He whispered to himself in anfusing tone laced with many unfamiliar emotions he thought he didn't have…
His eyes burned as he incinerated those emotions and cleared his thoughts… He noticed that the quality of his law had increased slightly not by much; the difference was almost nonexistent… His eyes flashed,
'I see, so this is one of the methods of advancing through the 7th tier.'
He thought with slight excitement.. for at this level, ascension particles no longer had any effect on him. He had outgrown them.
His urge tonquer more realms grew even stronger, for more realms meant more creatures to worship him, and more worship equaled more of the energy that he decided to name belief energy…
He then glanced at the polluted energy, and right as he was about to burn it out of existence, his eyes flashed with an idea.
'What would happen if I…'
He grinned as he gained one more weapon in his arsenal, one that had the potential to be his strongest weapon.
After which, his crown flashed, and a flaming metal-likelumn the size of a mountain materialized at the bottom of the flaming mountain. Thislumn had the ability to filter the pollution from the belief energy.
All the iming belief energy was pulled inside thelumn like a black hole, and a snd later, pure belief energy shot out toward Apexion. As for the energy pollution, it stayed inside thelumn…
Apexion then decided to restart a life of gluttony, but before that, he plucked 100 strands of hair; his eyes flashed, and the hairs expanded to 500,000 kilometers long. His crown then flashed, and,
Beng! Beng!
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