“Now this is awfully boring…”
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Akhenamen’s blade slices through the bodies of the Fallen abominations rushing toward him, his aspect swiftly shattering and ending anything on his path. He was genuinely annoyed that the System had sent him such a quest.
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He was literally forced to allow the Fallen to live longer and hit him once or twice to make it look like he was struggling a bit when he should have been able to annihilate them in twenty seconds tops.
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But that reward was just too tempting. A Fate’s Chosen Radar? While on one hand, it would obviously be creepy that he could easily track what had to be a bunch of teens 24/7 now, it was also far too useful! Now he’d actually be able to farm his roleplay tab rewards!
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As an old soul, a small part of him even hoped the radar would look like that radar from this old anime he watched when he was younger : Dragon Ball Z. No matter… Let's go back to “struggling”.
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Summoning a massive amount of power, his aspect slammed into thousands of the Fallen’s creations, most having already taken Agamemnon’s strategy of spreading into as many bodies as possible since they simply couldn’t defeat the Hyperfauna Machines boosted by Cygislax.
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Akhenamen had to restrain all his legions, including those he had summoned using his Law, so that the Fallen armies weren’t slain so quickly. Ruby-Khion only gave a curious look at Akhenamen before understanding what was happening.
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“That System is getting deeply annoying and is meddling too much. I’ll talk about it during the next meeting.”
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“I don’t think it is truly needed. I believe it will become far too busy to bother properly watching us quite soon.”
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“You think the players would have that much of an effect?”
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It was truly weird for Akhenamen to hear a Goddess from a Fantasy world talk about the System and players, but since the gods were already aware, it wasn’t a surprise. Akhenamen dodged a blow from a particularly huge beast, not even looking toward it as one of his GALs removed it from existence.
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“We’re talking about billions of people who will suddenly need to be powered by the System, constantly needing to find a quest, loot, get stronger, farm… the System won’t have a single second where it won’t be busy. I almost pity it, honestly.”
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“I guess that’s true.”
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“By the way, even if you increase the continent’s size… how will we be able to house so many people? We’re talking about dozens of billions of players from all corners of our universe spawning in. It will be cramped even if Zenthia is increased to the size of the entire planet.”
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“We’ll increase the planet’s size itself. It will become a Hyper-Planet. As big as some suns. And if needed, we’ll increase its size even more. The System was able to negotiate with some Singularities. If we can’t finish the job, they will do it.”
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This should actually be enough space to house all of Earth a dozen times over and still have a lot of space. Earth’s sun was around 40,860 times the surface area of Earth. And it had been calculated that if the sun had been a planet suited for life, and not a giant ball of plasma, at its lowest estimate, that it could house 405.8 trillions of people.
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If Zenthia’s planet, which he just now realised he didn’t even know the name of, was increased to a similar size, then Zenthia should actually be able to handle a whole universe of players since the System had pre-choosen who would be allowed in Project Rebirth, with a lot of this Universe’s populations being banned from accessing Project Rebirth.
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“What did the System promise you in exchange for this help?”
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“Not much, I’m not surprised you don’t know, as you’re not yet a Dominion. But… I’ll just say you should start thinking about creating yourself a cult and temple. Worship brings many, many benefits to a Dominion.”
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“So I suppose you’re all more than happy to have the possibility of having trillions of potential worshippers appearing on Zenthia.”
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“Exactly.”
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Honestly, Akhenamen didn’t know how this would work with him. As a Cygilites, he supposed he could receive whatever the gods obtained from worship, from other races and mortals… but Cygilites were literally part of him. He doubted they would bring him worship when they were literally a massive AI hive mind.
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“Shit… killed that one too quickly.”
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Akhenamen stared at the massive hole in the ground that seemed to have been carved with a scalpel. He had been thinking and talking with Ruby Khion and didn’t even realise one of his attacks had been too powerful for one of the Fallen, erasing it completely from existence.
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He ignored and put aside the notification from his EXP gain…
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“Still no loot… Am I really that unlucky? Not even one profane spell?”
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He looked toward the other Fallen; he could see they were starting to form themselves a true and proper body. Frowning, he decided to stop this farce now. He knew that if they kept going, they would be able to form and create some “main body” like Damocles had done.
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Akhenamen genuinely didn’t want to relieve the rather unlikeable experience of having to fight and destroy millions of souls. However, just as he lifted his hand in the sky, ready to snap his fingers and erase the existence of the suffering souls within the Fallen. Finally giving them peace… he remembered Ruby-Khion’s words.
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“Cults… temples… worship and religion… not a bad idea.”
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And just as his idea came to his head, he heard the System finally validate the completion of his quest, making him sigh in relief.
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“Time to end this, this has lasted for too long.”
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His fingers, which were about to snap, instead opened wide as a massive green tri-astromath construct shaped as a cube appeared around the Fallens, not just the main body being built but every single one of their creations all over the battlefield.
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They were instantly locked, frozen. While the Fallen’s main bodies were able to struggle, Akhenamen’s power was too great right now, and they were unable to resist, ending up trapped within the construct, cut off from Zenthia and with a heavy silence, every Fallen and their creations disappeared, being brought back into… wherever Akhenmen’s tri-astromath constructs went.
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The Cygilites legions soon disappeared, their green bodies vanishing as if they had never existed. Oleron’s fauna started to go back under the sand, even Ulgatoth’s childrens which had taken their “true” form, started to melt back into the sand alongside their progenitor’s summoned sand arms.
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In a single instant, everything had ended. Ruby-Khion, who had been about to eliminate one of the Fallen’s main bodies, saw it disappear after struggling for a bit to not be contained once more, but clearly, the stats of a rank twelve being were impossible to best for a being that had yet to reach the peak of an Authority.
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Akhenamen was impressed by his own strength, and while this was mainly because he was in Cygislax, it was still satisfying nonetheless. But… he would have to be very, very careful if he ever went to another nation’s Origin Point, as even with his stats being at the level of a Dominion, a Throne alone would be able to fight on par against him, and an Authority or even Dominion would absolutely slaughter him.
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A race’s Origin Point was genuinely far too difficult to take and attack. This explained why so few races had genuinely disappeared; it needed an all-out attack from another faction, and maybe even factions, to ever have a chance to take over an Origin Point.
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“What will you do with those Fallens?”
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“What do you mean?”
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“I doubt you killed them; you must have trapped and kept them somewhere. I wonder why.”
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“I will find a way to help them.”
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“Helping a fallen? You’re truly a weird and peculiar one, Akhenamen.”
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“You asked me to reduce your sister’s breast size.”
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“That’s just healthy sister rivalry, let’s call it a draw.”
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Akhenamen scoffed and turned toward Sapphyra’s floating body. She was still acclimating to this new body and fighting whatever trial the Universe was putting her through to earn her resurrection.
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“When will she be done?”
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“I don’t know… but at least there shouldn’t be anymore Fallen who will dare to get close after that stunt you pulled. You can go to your people; I will make sure she’s fine and safe. Got a few things to tell her, too.”
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Akhenamen nodded; he understood.
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Seeing the sister she had believed dead or permanently lost for millennia would be a moment where she’d like privacy; it was better to just let them have their talk together first. He didn’t wish to intrude, as he himself would be deeply annoyed if some guy he had seen only once or twice was there, silently watching while he had a tearful reunion with his own family.
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And he had a few plans to put in place now…
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“Ascylla… I want a part of our resources to be used toward the construction of an underground gate that would bring us toward one of the Prothean’s caches. Make sure when you’re able to connect and infiltrate it that the planet isn’t already fully dominated by another race.”
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Akhenamen could now only wait in Cygislax for Sapphyra to be resurrected and his World Quest to finally be over. Then he would be able to concentrate on himself and Cygislax for the next five months before his promised meeting with Valencia.
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