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Chapter 102 The Seer of The Void
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 20:35:44 +0000 UTC“Before God-Imperiums, you were nothing.”
That was an old saying of the multiverse. But it was wrong. The truth was, before a God-Imperium, you were whatever they wanted you to be. They gave effort to nothing, but in their natural state, they could easily dominate you. That was to say a God-Imperium without any will to control you, naturally would. Your qi, your soul, would become theirs and you would be made in their image.
They had to will themselves to not change you just for you to remain.
That was their power.
And never would the Seer get used to it. She had stood before many God-Imperium, far more than most at her level, and yet, she shivered.
They were death, life, envy, eternity, beauty, and horror all in one. They were everything.
Describing their power was a waste, even thinking of their power, even memory could not do it justice.
Only experiencing it held true, and even that was in the moment.
Outside of here and now, even her mind wouldn’t be able to remember the power of such beings.
She stood in a great palace, one that was both endless and walled. She saw hallways of cages that stretched out towards infinity. Some occupied, some closed. She saw beasts, animals, spirits, angels, demons, and men. She saw all lifeforms of the existence treading the halls, all tamed and submissive.
Some drank, some ate, but all had one thing in common. All lived to serve. An infinite realm full of infinite lifeforms, all servile and willing.
They were decorations, of course, even an infinite number of God Kings would fall to a God-Imperium’s breath. But they were Tai Jey’s in every way that mattered and in a way, an expression of his very being. And in the moment, the Seer envied them deeply.
So the Seer bathed in it both in great awe and in great fear.
“Arise,” a voice spoke.
And arise she did, because suddenly she wanted to, she had to, she needed to, she would love to, to arise was her purpose and to stand was her goal.
A part of her knew what this was. In mortal courts, a king might make the body bow, a God-Imperium however made the soul kneel. Absolute submission. But even then she didn’t care, all she would do now was serve.
And then she snapped, returning to her true state.
Her mind didn’t reel. She wasn’t suddenly filled with distraught at her thoughts. She knew this would happen, in fact, she had been prepared for it.
“Your eternal divinity,” she stated with a bow.
“Unnecessary. Everything between now and the act, is unnecessary,” Tai Jey stated.
She didn’t even have a chance to nod as an object appeared before her. A crystal full of qi appeared and the Seer knew what she had to do. She opened her hands and scoured.
She was a seer, and her’s was the way of truth. But not just any truth, the way of sight, of looking, of seeking. Her mind looked to the heavens, then the hells, then the Sea of Death, the Silver King’s domain, the Cosmic Forest, Lynoria, Camelot, Avalon, Atlantis, the Warring Lands, the Dragon’s Mountain, and all the other realms within existence.
She stood for a moment. She stood forever, and her whole being worked to find what it could.
Eventually, she found it, and her mind seemed.
“What is it?” Tai Jey questioned.
Any interference on his part would get her killed, so all he could do was wait as she saw through not only time and space but nothingness as well.
It was a curious thing, divination. The lesser being might think it was all qi threads. They might believe that relative existence saved them. They saw divination as a person pulling on a thread and that if they somehow cut themselves out of its fabric, then they would be free to go unseen. They believed divination worked purely on connections and that if they cut off that connection, everything would be fixed by merely mixing and dissipating the qi, or letting the cosmic void consume it.
Well, they were right, and they were wrong. That was the case for lesser divination and beings of lesser ability.
But she was The Seer of the Void, one at the pinnacle of truth. She was no lesser being.
The truth was all things were connected if not in qi, then ideas. The God-Imperium knew this. No, she was sure they saw this. Her vision now of the multiverse must have been their vision always.
Her skill let her see like them, and perceive the world and all around it in totality.
After all, God-Imperiums shaped reality. From the moment they became, they declared and existence echoed. That was the connections she used to see now. That connection between ideas that traversed through the void.
And her mouth opened and her eyes glowed, and she beheld.
“Tai Jey, you dirty old bastard,” a voice spoke through her.
“Wukong,” Tai Jey replied.
“You’ve been fucking my mother, huh?”
“Where is the child?”
“Which one? I think you have most of them no?”
Tai Jey’s eyes widened.
“I see.”
“It must have been rough. She doesn’t like it any other way or so I’ve heard-”
“SILENCE BEAST,” Tai Jey spoke and the whole realm spoke with him.
The Seer’s lips sealed shut in compliance. Then, they slowly opened.
“Is that what you tried to do with her? No wonder she nearly killed you. And be careful with this body here, would you? It’s fragile, unlike my mother you see.”
“Give me the child unless you seek-”
“Yes? Yes? War? A fight? A battle? I seek them all. When and where, Tai Jey? The Sea of Death is the only place we can go all out? Now? Later? Do we bring armies and allies Tai Jey? I do not need them but I have many.”
Tai Jey pursed his lips.
“Besides, you don’t care for one out of ten thousand do you? No, you care about the implications. You're preparing your bloodline, mixing it with a being of your polar opposites. Thus freeing it from your control then raising them, breeding them, and having your own functioning and free agents from which you may groom God-Imperiums and beings of war, no?”
Tai Jey stood silent.
“I lack free agents? Is it wrong of me to seek out my own people?”
“No. It is not. But you bred with the Beast. You talked to her. Begged and groveled I would think. And somehow, you convinced her to do this for you. You convinced her. How? If there’s anything my mother is known for it isn’t favors and if there’s anything my mother wants, she already has. So what was it, Tai Jey? What could you have possibly promised that old monster to get what you wanted?”
Tai Jey was quiet.
“We all know what she wants, more than anything, the one thing she cannot have. She wants. What they all want, really. Did you promise her war Tai Jey? Do you say you’d let her roar and kill till-”
“Enough,” Tai Jey cut in.
“No,” Wukong replied.
Within his own realm, under his own palace, stood the body of a girl barely any different from a mortal, but it sneered at him with a monkey’s grin.
“You can’t afford that promise, Tai Jey and she would know that. So what made her believe you? Who made her believe you?”
“ENOUGH,” Tai Jey yelled, and the body almost turned to dust with the statement. But that small silver of the monkey held it together.
“So loud,” Wukong stated. “So furious.”
Then Tai Jey felt a palm on his realm. Someone from the outside protruding onto his domain.
“So weak,” Wukong added.
“YOU DARE?” Tai Jey screamed.
“Do I?” Wukong questioned. “Why wait? Why not start now? Why give you time to heal? It is war you planned on, after all, so why shouldn’t I cut you down where you stand?”
Tai Jey prepared himself, gathering all he had and awakening his soul.
Then the body of The Seer looked down at the floor.
“Ah. So that’s who they are. Would they come to defend you, I wonder? Could they?”
Deep in Lynoria, an old sword hummed in its sheat and its master petted it down with kindness. A book readied its children and a judge held her blade.
Up in heaven a great monk looked down and sighed and down in hell a great thing looked up with anger. A woman smiled in anticipation and somewhere away from it all, a Fisherman held tightly onto his pole.
Wukong left, along with the Seer, for if he didn’t then Tai Jey surely would have killed her. The God King remembered nothing when she woke up on the road to Camelot.
She remembered nothing except for one thing, that she should never work for Tai Jey ever again. For if he ever saw her face again he would give her a frighteningly painful end.
Comments
Gopard
Thanks for the chapter!
Etia
god-crown perhaps
Charles handgis
Wukong is the ultimate bad ass.
aNGL
King is better imo, dividing the cultivation levels based on gender could imply differences in path
Klien Morretti
Yeah maybe. But king can be a gender neutral term in this context. Idk.
Thunderhoof
I mean, you can still edit things out.
Klien Morretti
I never thought of that but it's too late now.
Thunderhoof
Why not label her God Queen
