Second Darkness: Beyond Power-Hungry Designs

by Torlek

Amara and Chuck have made their immense changes to celestial existence. The former's intelligent creation, the most powerful created being in existence, has realized certain power-hungry designs in response to those changes and has additional dark designs. (Set after Second Darkness: Power-Hungry Designs and Time Out, as well as set before From Darkness To Darkness)

26. Near-Divine Mastery

Near-Divine Mastery

As Sefira gazed upon the primordial substance of dark matter, she remembered that, despite her newfound near-divine mastery, she could ill-afford to diminish this, regardless of its abundance. The fateful commitment of the Lesser Darkness to reconsidering this substance had come about as a consequence of first-hand encounters with both the primordial blood of divine darkness and the primordial blood of divine light. After all, she had caused into existence substances, beings, and transcendental changes, all derived from the first bloody substance, and had been thwarted only divinely from doing something similar regarding the second bloody substance.

"I know something from here can be produced, like all the primordial blood that I saw," she made a statement of faith, not yet considering the divine insurance of her everlasting life.

The curious one knew that both bloody substances could be produced within her mother and her uncle in a manner similar to blood cell production within a living body. Now, she looked at what was before her in all its dark glory. She saw the entirety of that part of her own life force which, from the onset, her mother had dispersed into the very fabric of this substance.

"Perhaps the part of my life force within the primordial basis of dark matter can be induced to produce primordial blood that I can call my own, for my own use," she speculated about this one portion within, "Surely, this would not be dispersing my own essence!"

Remembering the motherly yet strict prohibition against any dispersal of her own essence, save for basic procreation of offspring, the Dark Herald concluded that the production and use of excess amounts of the proposed primordial blood would not fall under the definition of dispersing one's own essence.

Subsequent to that conclusion, the created dark essence teleported momentarily from her abode and appeared personally before the greatest concentration of her objects of attention. She then drew only from her innate power and channelled a blast of constant power towards the objects.

Satisfied with the protracted exertion, the Lesser Darkness teleported back to the Darkest Domain, to the top of her dark tower, the ominous sphere atop the Dark Gateway of Divinity.