35 The Seven Secret Forces Are Mine. Deal With It.

"Oh come on!" Arthur screamed when he saw me sharing the throne with his mother, "Seriously! Already?"

The young man donned his classic orange and green scaled wetsuit, showing that life as a drunken lighthouse keeper is definitely the secret to carrying super physiological amounts of muscle mass and not a recipe for burying your coworker alive and then getting eaten by seagulls.

"Did you at least do the things?" Arthur whined in absolute defeat.

"Notta one." I chuckled darkly down at the poor boy then extended a hand to Atlanta, "Shall we?"

The blonde queen nodded then brought the Trident over to my hand, which wrapped around hers, connecting both of us to the weapon that granted command of the seas, and deeper still connection to the Life Force. My mastered Chi leapt at the cosmic power generating endless life in this universe, pouring into it and rushing back more and more potent with each cycle.

Atlanta gasped as her own life quickly joined the rapid ebb and flow, hijacked thorough our shared connection to one of the Seven Secret Forces that chose the Trident as its font. The pair of us glowed too brightly to look upon with rising intensity until the process finished and the cycling abated.

With the Speed and Life Forces empowering me it won't be long before the Sage, Strength, and Still Forces join too. I am fairly certain I can meditate on both their concepts and imagery to connect to them. Something that I'll do when not holding hands with a woman I just met.

The light show ended and I used the powers of the Trident, Altanta's knowledge of the sea, and my own divinity to stretch my shadow across the dark sea floor and into the primordial blackness of the Marianas Trench and to the pathetic mutants that live within it. Their primitive minds submitted to my will and a horde of Symbiotes claimed their bodies.

They received the plans to fix the oceans, and with my connection to the Life Force radiating across the Klyntar Hive Mind, these agents could both process the trash and pollutants in the waters and seed them with nigh endless life. Like the Speed Force, the Life Force is infinite, so it's all basically free real estate.

"Well, son." I grinned down at Arthur, "The Trench will never again be a problem, the trash will all be converted to usable resources in a week tops, so will all the toxins and pollutants, the coral reefs will all be regrown and expanded, and the plankton population is about to shoot through the roof so on top of all the other problems I just fixed for the oceans I also fixed climate change. And your mom is never going to die. So… you're welcome, dude."

"And you did all that just by holding hands with my mom?" Arthur scowled while he tried to put his hands in his pockets only to realize his Aquaman wetsuit doesn't come with any.

"Yeah." I drawled as I released Atlanta's hand and pulled her closer to my side with the arm wrapped around her.

Arthur sighed then nodded before slowly clapping his hands together.

Clap.

Clap.

Clap.

The courtiers in the room got the memo and soon a dozen more hands pounded together with far more enthusiasm.

"Finally, people who get it!" I exclaimed with my hands raised, "Ever since I got to this damn place everyone has been so fucking rude. Thanks folks, I'll be here till I don't want to be here anymore!"

"That is a disconcerting message." Altanta narrowed her eyes while barely tilting her head to glare at me.

"You'd be amazed by my attention span." I smirked, "I can spend thousands of years in the most boring of places so long as I have a purpose in the staying." then I ran my eyes down her tastefully draped and toned form, "And I feel quite full of purpose right now."

"I'm sure." she agreed as she tilted her head back to her neutral above it all position.

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The solutions for the oceans completed their first phases by the time representatives from the eight polities arrived for the royal wedding and complementary coronation ceremony. We had a Crastinus Lord, a Shayeris First Citizen, a Tritonis General, a Lemuria Prime Minister, a Neptunos Emissary, and two kings - one from Nanauve and another from Xebel.

The King Ryus Nereus of Xebel felt particularly ornery, even more so than the King Sha'ark, due to a long-standing slight from the High Royal family accepting his daughter Mera as a bodyguard. He quickly raised to a new level of passive aggressive hostility when Arthur and Mera announced their recruitment to the Justice League and that they would not only be leaving her hometown behind, but all of Atlantis itself to become superheroes working on the surface with only limited time back under the sea.

Xebel almost seceded when I pimp slapped the man for his disrespect to his Annax - the Atlantean High King - but the man actually didn't have the pull back home to make such a thing happen. The Slap heard across the Seas actually brought back much of the flagging respect for the line of the High Kings. Atlanta had been controversial to say the least, a Crown Princess who bore a bastard hybrid while engaged to marry the son of a powerful vassal, then reigned as the silent figure head during a period of great decline and strife among all the city states.

Not to say someone else could have done a significantly better job. Probably worse actually. It is easy to make things worse.

The sudden end to many of the long suffered threats to the city-states of Atlantis left everyone in a state of disbelief both above and below sea level, but seeing me in person. Seeing the strength of my hand, it settled hearts and minds.

And what strength that hand possessed. I slipped behind the Force Barrier many times while awaiting the crown of Atlantis, the first caused my body to combust in the fire of thought. The Sage Force enhanced both mind and body, allowing physiological regeneration and mental evolution. The Speed Force taps into these fields by itself as the winner of the Forever War, but with the Sage Force proper the effects are ramped up to a similar degree as the Speed Force ramps up speed.

I connected to the Strength Force while sitting at the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor parted and pulled me into the molten core, cocooning me in the power of the Strength Force. I emerged from that red hot rebirth a behemoth, for the Strength Force when first used is similar to gaining the powers of the Hulk at his absolute best. It also comes with Geokinesis and very limited Gravity Manipulation.

Shrinking down from the gargantuan size back to my former build, I meditated a third time. No great transformation came from connecting to the Still Force - the Speed Force's opposite commanding entropy and inertia - just a wispy green aura. Though the easiest of the three bound forces to connect to, it remained the hardest to maintain due to my preference for the Speed Force.

Causing the Universe to stop expanding is a neat flex, but I prefer to see life in motion, the evolution of culture, and the promise of tomorrow. I tapped into it to prevent its use by others against me.

I did not do the same for the Death Force. While the Still Force can be used consequence free, the Death Force turns you into a necrotic pestilence, slaying all life that comes into contact with you. Plus I have the All-Black for god killing so I don't actually need the Death Force for anything.

Anyway, with five of the Seven Secret Forces mine to do with as I pleased, I sealed the Forever Force so tightly that no one would ever time travel again in the entire DC Multiverse without my permission. I then stuffed the Death and Still Forces behind the same seal, cause I don't give a single fuck about the Turtle as a villain, and the Death Force is a damn plot device that I already have.

As the avatar of the Speed, Strength, Sage, and Life Forces I served as the conduit between the Klyntar and these sources of infinite power. To call what has occurred a qualitative leap is a bit of a joke at this point. Through integration with Czarnian DNA the adaptable hive mind species is completely self-sustaining, needing no form of sustenance for survival so even with the four forces increasing the 'metabolism' of the species no harm came to any of the hosts.

I said it before and the matter holds, outside of the Death Force all of the Seven Secret Forces are just free real estate for someone like me. Johnny Quick got the Speed Force because he recited a math equation. Barry Allen got the Still Force by sitting down and meditating. Aquaman got the Life Force because the Sacred Trident liked him. Zoom got the Strength and Sage Forces because he tricked Barry and Wally into running really fast.

As far as powers go they are fucking retardedly simple to achieve and fucking cosmically powerful in effect. And they are all mine.