chapter 354 - Cosmology

Mia was completely silent after hearing his words as if a burden was lifted from her chest and made her gaze moist looking at him. Even in the beginning, he genuinely tried to help without any hidden intention. 

His smiles after he said those words made her fall into a daze bringing back the maiden heart that she lost after being tainted. 

"I-I...I'm grateful to hear that, Mercer."

"As I said, you just need someone to talk to and I'm always ready to listen. Anyway, I need to get ready since I still have work to do. It's been nice talking to you again, miss Woo."

Caelum said before heading back to his apartment to take a shower then was pulled by Mia before her lips tried to take him but to her surprise was blocked by his hand.

"What are you doing? If you try that then know you'll never escape me, be a god, Devil, Saint, or anything that goes against me will be trampled."

His eyes crack open within open revealing both his eyes shimmering in blood soak red while the other still had the cut made by Miyamoto. 

Mia couldn't understand how a man could resist her. Unfortunately, Caelum was not a man rather than that and capable of controlling himself. Furthermore, unlike his former self, he had matured enough and did not take advantage of women's weaknesses.

He could see what she was trying to do and if she did then Mia would only treat it as a one-time thing which Caelum despised.

"Think about the action carefully. I'll get going now, it's nice talking to you, miss woo."

Caelum left the frozen girl heading back to the apartment where he took a shower and entered his Jade Pagoda. He took that moment to explore his Dao that focuses on Desires. Despite All the Divine Dao integrating with his being did not mean he was unable to access it.

He is only unable to draw out its true power to affect the world. Caelum split the Desire of Six Desires and Seven Emotions before using the western part to further explore himself. 

Those who understand their desire and emotion would truly know themselves. Caelum's mind seemed to collide and intertwine that started to reforge himself. His aura grew that would allure any woman that he had set his eyes on. 

He opened his eyes, shimmering a new profound understanding of himself. Caelum stood up and could feel his strength increase several folds due to having less strain with his emotion.

Caelum took out his blade that instantly became one with him removing his emotions and desire into one point. It was completely different from his singularity technique.

He did a practice swing and found how swiftly it sliced through the wind as though the concept of drag vanished. 

"This should be enough for now, I better try reconnecting myself with my inner world and Yggdrasil world."

Caelum muttered to himself sheathing the blade into his waist as the land in front of him was reformed and sliced cleanly. He sat back into the lotus position and concentrated his mind to its zenith state.

His discovery about controlling the specific desires and emotions had made it easier for his chaotic mind to subside instantly than before. 

Before he needed the concept of time to enter the state but now it was thought he was always in the Zenith State. Caelum immediately began to sense his yggdrasil world.

It was easier said than done due to the complexity of his inner worlds and being has become. However, he is able to slowly feel it, the thread that connects himself to his Yggdrasil world. 

The branches started to reach out to him and felt the infinite wonders of his yggdrasil world. It was then he was able to open a gate and quickly went inside to quickly find his family. 

He didn't waste any time arriving where his wife and children were. The first one that saw him was Liliena who was shocked to see his appearance and quickly went closer.

"What happened to your eyes!? Tell me what happened after you broke through the dimensional plane!?"

Caelum smiled hearing her voice for almost a month of being separated. He may sound corny and cringe but that long time without being with them was difficult despite not showing it.

He could feel her hand caressing his scar. Caelum held her and embraced Liliena into a hug smelling her precious senses.

"It's gonna be a long story…."

"Then lie down as I call everyone!"

She exclaimed, forcing Caelum to lie on the bed as his wives started coming and taking care of him. He chuckled that they were spoiling him and decided to indulge himself with fun in the bed.

After a restless night of nonstop pleasuring his wife. Caelum went and concentrated on investigating his Yggdrasil world to see if anything had changed.  

He couldn't be sure when he was only able to share his senses to this world and could be completely different if he were present and personally gone to every corner of the world.

"What is this?"

Caelum being the center of it all was able to find that the world had changed into something much more than nine realms. To describe the current Yggdrasil then it became a silver-barked ash tree. Its leaves were blue-black and oval-shaped and its rough bark resembled flaking gray clay.

It was made of a type of divine wood that was immune to fire, although fallen branches and leaves could be safely used for cooking fires. Spiraling along the main trunk, planks, and sets of steps were carved or mounted onto the tree to facilitate traffic. The tree was surrounded by cosmic sky in all directions. 

The entire tree was 23 miles (37 kilometers) tall, with a 15‑mile-wide (24‑kilometer) canopy. Its trunk was 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) in diameter at the bottom, but tapered down to a diameter of 1,200 feet (370 meters) at the point where it started to branch.

All branches of the tree resembled enormous trees themselves, extending for up to 10 miles (16 kilometers).

Though it seems small, Caelum was looking at the tree from the perspective of an entire galaxy. It connects to every place and could feel the connection to other places. 

[A/N: D&D based World tree Cosmology]

'This is...I never heard something like this in any myths!?'

Caelum was baffled from the sight looking at the branches that seemed to disappear and connect to something. Its humongous cosmic structure. 

"Hmmm, hold on, let me try something."

He sat in the vast empty void beside the World Tree trying to find an answer and see what this unusual place was.

Caelum was unsure how long he sat beside the cosmic structure but it was starting to open up realms that shouldn't exist. 

'Raphael, can you hear me?'

He called out within his mind trying to get his answer from the system. Caelum usually won't rely on the system but it was part of him now and didn't hold back.

["....Answer. I can now fully assist, master."]

'Oh good, you're functional again!'

Caelum felt relieved to hear his system was again but oddly thought she sounded different. He tried recalling his past system and found something strange.

'Huh? I'm confused for some reason?'

He felt disturbed that something was wrong but unsure what. Caelum only shook his head and let it be. 

'I'll surely know eventually, for now, Raphael, can you tell me what happened to my Yggdrasil tee?'

["Answer. It had changed into World Tree Cosmology, one of the three cosmology."]

'What is World Tree Cosmology and the other two Cosmology?'

["Answer. It is a structure which connects planes of existence and the other two cosmologies are Great Wheel Cosmology and World Axis Cosmology.]

Caelum felt dissatisfied from the answer, however could vaguely guess it similar to how the structure of the Upper Cosmos that he vaguely remember. It was far too complicated to comprehend but with the help of the newly established World Tree Cosmology that Caelum had understood that the three Cosmology is the sub-class of the upper cosmos.

'That's it huh? Well I think it's enough for me to guess that my Inner world had become one of the cosmology.'

Caelum planned to recreate the upper cosmos and perfect it unlike the one who made Apothoesis verse. Whoever made that place failed to accomplish their goal.