Ep. 68 - Voice of the World, Evolution, Even Further Beyond!
Sol 3
This is the audio log of Guardian Tula aka Origin God of Primordial Knowledge. I found myself unable to see for some reason. I will proceed to inspect the cause.
OK, apart from me horsing around, I found someone on top of my face. I remember this happening with Ais, who slept with her stomach on my face for reasons unknown. I started patting around and found something soft and round. And you know I am not dense and a greatly cultured being, so I immediately recognized it.
I, being the asshole that I am, did not stop or say anything, I just continued fondling Merlin's ass. It's heavenly, let me tell you. This somehow evolved into a full-blown makeout session, before we were very rudely interrupted by Amethyst.
"Tula, I have educated the vampire girl. What should I do with… I see that you are busy, I'll come back later."
"Not cash money, Amy. Not cash money at all." I said, then I looked at Merlin. She had a very interesting expression that just shouted 'I'm in heat!', so we continued as if nothing happened. We were soon joined by the rest of my wives and spent the rest of the day exercising. A very sweaty and enjoyable exercise.
Anyway, after having spent yesterday in a very productive and absolutely necessary manner, I decided that today (Sol 4) I would connect to the 'Voice of the World'.
You see, these systems or higher entities can help people even reach the realm of Gods, but they limit people since they are the highest entity in the world. I mean, here in Tensura, no one should be able to reach the same Realm as the Voice. I will therefore have to substitute myself to this Voice and make it my bitch. Let me rephrase that: I will have to gain complete control of this universe and make it so that I can fully exploit the Voice of the World.
That thought leads us to now. I am sitting on my fantastic throne and surrounded myself in several barriers, since I will simultaneously be using all of my Omni powers and gaining more power through the Voice of the World. I already made a mini-territory around myself where one trillion years inside is equal to a second outside. This will take a while, but I don't really mind.
"Merlin, you are absolutely sure that you want to stay here with me? This might take years, maybe trillions."
"Eh, I can just sleep. Plus, it might cause problems since I would be simultaneously experiencing seconds outside and years inside your soul. Remember that we are connected."
I nodded and started. Substituting myself to the Voice of the World shouldn't be too hard: it should be a sliver of consciousness left by an existence at the level of Ancestor or Creation God Realm, just bugs though they would be sizable. The problem is modifying it to suit my needs.
I started with activating all three Omni powers together. There was a literal explosion of power that actually cracked my throne. I could see that the gang was teleporting to my location, though they weren't worried at all. It was more of a curiosity-driven action. Anyway, after activating my Omni powers, I substituted myself to the Voice of the World. I needed to make it understand that I was the top dog now and it was just a tool for me to play around with. I was basically locked in battle with an ethereal existence that would continue existing as long as this world continued to exist.
Substituting myself as the new 'Heaven' took a few years. I had prevented it from spawning any pesky countermeasure against me and the gang, just to make sure. Well, I lost track of time after the millionth year but I succeeded. Now, comes the modifications. I need to make it so that my gang is not limited in this universe and that we can access the Voice of the World as we please. That alone took me probably around ten billion years? Modifying a system that is literally the overseer of the world isn't an easy thing, even for me. Well, the previous worlds we visited had quite weak or dead overseers, so we could do whatever the fuck we wanted. Now that I am done, I will set it to activate for me first and give me all possible benefits, then it will go to all of the gang members in turn.
I destroyed the mini-territory I created around me and time returned to normal. I saw everyone finally completing the teleport and look at me.
"What was that?" asked Weiss.
"Don't keep us in the dark again, or we will use Omniscience!" said Yang
"It's not nice to keep secrets…" said Ruby.
One by one, everyone said something about me having to tell them when I do something interesting. Fair enough, I can do that.
"Look, chill. You all know that there is that stupid Voice that acts like the 'Heaven' of this place, right?" They all nodded. Well, Luminous was confused but still tried following the conversation. "I simply took control of it and made it my bitch. Actually, it's our bitch now. I also modified it a little so that we could gain as many benefits from it as possible. For now, it will 'visit' us in turn, since we will most likely go through an evolution, so we will be sleeping for a while. It will act on me first, you guys speed up time around me as much as you can." I said and sat on my throne again, this time though, I repaired it and strengthened even more, actually infusing it with the three Omni's. "Now, let's go even further beyond…"
When I sat down, I heard the Voice of the World.
[New existence detected. Proceeding with identification… 'Origin God' race, 'Primordial Knowledge' variant. Proceeding with creation of suitable Skills…
Divine Skill - 'Origin God of Primordial Knowledge' - created
Divine Skill - 'Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence' - created
Divine Skill - 'Wandering Heaven' - created
Divine Skill - 'Limitless Existence' - created
Divine Skill - 'Self-Evolving Body and Mind' - created
Divine Skill - 'Devious, Benevolent, Wrathful, Curious Existence' - created
Ultimate Skill - 'Heavenly Tula Cultivation Techniques' - created
Ultimate Skill - 'Origin God Weapon, Movement, Healing, Magic, Profound, Primordial, Knowledge Techniques' - created - renamed to - 'Origin God Techniques'
Ultimate Skill - 'Origin God Synchronization' - created
Ultimate Skill - 'Personal Scribe: Amat-Mamu' - created
Unique Skill - 'Akashic Engine' - created
Extra Skill - 'Law Comprehension and Utilization' - created
Extra Skill - 'Energy, Material, Knowledge Absorption' - created
Extra Skill - 'Self-Updating Status' - created
Extra Skill - 'Spirit Integration' - created
Extra Skill - 'Familiar Integration' - created
List of Skills continues… Calculating… Error: too many Skills. Searching for solution… Solution found.
Divine Skill - 'The Voice's Master' - created.
Skill granting ended. Proceeding with Magicule calibration… Error: impossible to measure…
Proceeding with Evolution… Calculating possible evolutionary paths…
Existence: Tula-28 - Reincarnator, Exo, Guardian, Master of Soul, Magister of Magic, Adventurer, Mechanical God, Origin God of Primordial Knowledge… Current race: 'Origin God'
Best Evolutionary path found. Proceeding with Evolution.]
And I blacked out.
While I didn't know about this, a multicolored cocoon appeared around me and my throne, since I was seated. Then, Merlin heard the Voice as well.
[New existence detected. Proceeding with identification… 'Divine Spirit' race, 'Servant' variant. Due to being the Spirit of the Voice's Master, proceeding with creation of suitable Skills…
Divine Skill - 'Mage of Flowers' - created
Divine Skill - 'Proto Version' - created
Calculating… Error: too many Skills. Searching for solution… Solution found. Due to contract with the possessor of the 'Origin God Synchronization' Skill, more Skills will be obtained.
Divine Skill - 'Limitless Existence' - created
Divine Skill - 'Self-Evolving Body and Mind' - created
Divine Skill - 'The Voice's User' - created
Unique Skill - 'Akashic Engine' - created
Extra Skill - 'Law Comprehension and Utilization' - created
Skill granting ended. Proceeding with Magicule calibration… Error: impossible to measure… Finding cause… Cause found. Due to connection with 'Origin God of Primordial Knowledge', Magicule calibration is impossible.
Proceeding with Evolution… Calculating possible evolutionary paths…
Existence: Merlin - Prototype, Half-Succubus, Mage of Flowers, Hero Creator, Master of Magic, Servant, Grand Servant, Divine Servant, Divine Spirit… Current race: 'Divine Spirit'
Best Evolutionary path found. Proceeding with Evolution.]
And she disappeared.
Ruby and Freya were the most worried, being connected to the law of Love much more deeply than the others. Well, they all knew that nothing would happen to me. After all, how could I ever die? Right? Please tell me I'm right. Anyway, they used the law of time to accelerate time to the highest degree they could. Individually, they are not as strong as me. Together? They can give me a run for my money. In the end, I was put in an area where a second outside was equal to a googol of years inside.
Good thinking, because I stayed inside for 3 fucking days! Do you have any idea how many seconds that is? 259200 seconds! It's a lot! In particular if it's not seconds but googols of years
At any rate, three days after the beginning of my evolution, my cocoon cracked and I could be seen still sitting on my fabulous throne. The first thing I heard was the Voice.
[Welcome back, Master of the Voice.
Evolution complete. Current race: 'Origin Empyrean', 'Original Knowledge' variant.
New Skills acquired due to race change.
Empyrean Skill - 'Origin Empyrean of Original Knowledge' - created
Divine Skills fused - Empyrean Skill - 'Empyros' - created
Divine Skill - 'Virtuous and Sinful God' - created - fused with Empyrean Skill - 'Empyros'
Ultimate Skill - ���Heavenly Tula Cultivation Techniques' - evolved into: Empyrean Skill - 'Empyrean Cultivation Techniques'
Ultimate Skill - 'Origin God Techniques' - evolved into: Empyrean Skill - 'Empyrean Techniques'
Ultimate Skill - 'Origin God Synchronization' - evolved into: Empyrean Skill - 'Empyrean God Synchronization'
Ultimate Skill - 'Personal Scribe: Amat-Mamu' - evolved into: Divine Skill - 'God's Right Hand: Amat-Mamu'
Unique Skill - 'Akashic Engine' - evolved into: Divine Skill - 'God's Heart'
Extra Skills - 'Self-Updating Status', 'Spirit Integration', and 'Familiar Integration' - fused into: Divine Skill - 'One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand'
Extra Skill - 'Law Comprehension and Utilization' - evolved into: Empyrean Skill - 'Empyrean of Law'
Extra Skill - 'Energy, Material, Knowledge Absorption' - evolved into: Empyrean Skill - 'I am Everything'
Skill granting ended.]
I opened my eyes and saw everything. Remember when I said that Spirit Sense allowed me to see everything? Yeah, I knew shit back then. I was as good as blind back then. I stood up and saw that I actually became a bag of flesh. What happened to my beautiful robotic body? Oh, I see… Evolution. So it can actually change me to that extent…
"Wow, I feel great!" I said, not knowing that my voice could be heard all throughout the Multiverse.
However, there was something strange: where is Merlin?
"Merlin?" I said to the air. She didn't appear, so I checked out my Soul. I found another cocoon, which meant that my dear little Spirit was still evolving.
I decided to meditate and check out my new powers. First of all, I am a bag of flesh now, though I am indestructible. I am literally immune to the concept of damage, death, sickness, and other such things. Well, I kinda was even as a God, though I am much… More, now. Laws became my bitches and I can literally do as I like with them. I can even generate water with the law of fire, which was impossible before. Even 'Nothingness' and 'Everything' became just a joke to me. I have literally all possible Skills at my disposal and my old Skills evolved. Basically, my Skill 'Empyros' is the representation of my power. That is not to say that I would be powerless without the Skill. The power is mine and mine only, this world recognizes it as a Skill for simplicity. To be honest, apart from rising a few levels of 'Omni', nothing much changed. Basically, if I was 'Omni Lv. 3' alone and 'Omni Lv. 4' while integrating with Merlin, now I am 'Omni Lv. 10' at the very least. That is probably severely downplaying my power.
I stayed seated for a few googol years until my dear Merlin was done evolving.
"You're done. I was getting lonely by waiting." I said to the air again. I then heard a voice in my head.
"Well, you wouldn't have been lonely if you had gone out of this time-dilation territory."
"Hm… Come on out, I miss my dear Merlin." I said.
A beautiful woman materialized in my arms. She was obviously Merlin, just much more mature and beautiful. I could see a tattoo in the middle of her chest, even though it was covered by her robe.
"What's this? Did you become a rebel or something?" She didn't answer but kissed me instead. Her tattoo changed color into pink, then sunk into her skin.
"Idiot. I became the 'Origin Goddess of Love' and an 'Origin Empyrean Spirit'. Oh, and I am a full Succubus now. That was the proof that I love you. I have literally given you my life now, my very existence…"
"I see. Then, we'll have to spend eternity together, don't you think?" she nodded and kissed me again.
I broke the time-dilation territory and returned time to normal. Then, I rose from my throne. It's been so long since I heard my bones pop into place… It feels so good! Well, I am going to ignore the fact I just caused a few earthquakes and restart my integration with Merlin. I once again wore my white robe and fantastic staff. I got used to them in the three days I actually spent with them.
The rest of the gang soon arrived and saw me. I noticed their confused faces, so I pulled out a mirror. I was pretty much Merlin incarnate now. What the fuck? Also, why do I feel pity for my friends? Empyrean bullshit?
"What the fuck? Oh, did I let that slip?"
"It's him." said Ren
"Definitely." said Jaune
"Oh, very funny, fuck you. Voice, take care of them." I said. Then, the Voice was heard by everyone.
[As you wish, Master.]
In the following days, one by one my friends all evolved. Strange thing is that they didn't become Origin Empyreans, just normal Empyreans. Their Spirits also only reached Ancestor God Realm and became 'Empyrean Spirits'.
[It's because there can only be one Origin Empyrean and Origin Empyrean Spirit per reality, Master] said the voice. [I am not the Voice of the World. I am your Skill: Amat-Mamu.]
And so, I discovered that my Divine Skill has a consciousness. Cool.
Oh, on a side note: every time a new Empyrean was born, the world below us got a little more destroyed, so I fixed it every time. Luminous went from shocked, to worried, to curious, to jealous, and finally to resigned. Did I not tell her that my maids need to be powerful and that she would receive some cultivation techniques? No? I think I forgot. Oh well, it wasn't too important either way.