Life poured free of the space around her. Seeds giving birth to plants and animals once again as she walked the world, spinning the natural world into place once more as a fixture. Even as the eldest of her current children hovered in place behind and carved them into place. Vines sweeping forth and seeding a new world with life enough to hold it in place.
She poured off more power, letting the other drink it in as nourishment as she carved her way into the world. A tree blooming up into existence and taking form, anchored into the world as a second champion.
In turn she powered the Sun, its radiance touching across the layers of the world and spinning something habitable, warmth returned in something approaching affection. She bathed in it, the recognition of her children wanting her once more.
Then poured even more blood into forming the world for them to live in.
Drunk on the power coursing through the world it grew, filling the void with its own power as it came into existence almost fully formed. Strength and speed and overwhelming power flowing as easily as breathing.
Sinuous limbs clutched firmly to the space within the trees, pulling itself closer as the scent of prey filled the air. Pushing out into the corpse of an age past it felt as much as saw the world around it as it came closer.
And then the other was there. Firstborn champion of the Great Mother resting on its haunches as it watched it move. Glistening white fur shedding a light over the space around it as the little ones gathered. The surface spreading and carved into the world rejecting its presence as it pushed forward and faltered.
It fled.
It watched the monster go, shedding fur at the boundary as it carved a niche into the world. Softening the strength of the world by a tiny amount in its vicinity. The pressure would still rise beyond the boundary step by step, but for the moment it was almost Earth-like.
In the distance the mountain cracked open, the corpse of the dragon tearing apart as humanity returned to this world. Spreading out into the gilded cage
Over the next thousand years this place would collapse had already begun to do so as it watched. But in that time they could adapt forward to the higher spiritual density of the new world. Carve themselves their own niche. For now it nuzzled up to the little demon it now carried. Wandering off into the jungle stretched out across the world to the next little island of humanity. Where it would carve the space open anew that they might survive.
A city stretched free, slowly coming together in pieces amidst the wreckage. They had no electricity, were still working out how to even begin to power everything going forward.
But steam seemed to have changed, the very act of compressing it saturating it with magical power that overflowed from the world. And so the first great automatons had been pulled together with what magecraft still worked and here he now was watching over them build something new under the stars.
"The stars are brighter even than they were from the countryside."
Stolas looked beside him, lost in thought. "Their light has begun to change, the other planets drift in their own motion but in the wake of such a catastrophe they cannot begin to think of them as rocks in space anymore. But the world persists so they shall not fall, it is a mercy for you that you have time to wait."
The temple of time crashed down, back into the world as the remaining pillars carved themselves back through the channels of magecraft. Linking themselves to the world once more. Control exerting itself back over space as it drove back the chaos to fall to the Earth.
The vines grew up to meet it, A mass of foliage and greenery crumbling as it absorbed the impact first. The ground itself buckling a moment later as the world itself shattered its foundations to allow it to rest safely.
Primate Murder stepping in and absorbing its weight as it brought them in safe. Carving the reality marble into the world as a shape within it.
She hesitated. He did not gently patting her on the head as he pulled her in. "I told Kiritsugu once that I would pick up what he set down. I guess that means you too."
She hit him, the blow bouncing of his flesh without hurting in the slightest. Yukika gave him a thumbs up, Kane nodded. So, he let her keep hitting him for a while longer until it left her system. Picking up the now sleeping child as carrying her out.
"She's sweet the rest of the time." He eyed Yukika as she said it, disbelieving it. If she grew up anything like Kiritsugu had she'd remain childish until the end.
"Look after her for a bit longer, I have something to head out to do for a bit."
"Visit sometime, I'm teaching magecraft and you'll need the experience sooner or later." Caster waved him off as Primate Murder lowered itself. Allowing him to easily jump onto the back of the giant monster.
"I'll bring Illya as well. But for now, this guy wants to check out some distortions I guess he can feel in the world." He wasn't quite sure what that meant, but it was the closest to the idea that came across when it looked at him.
They headed off in the direction the blood flowed, a cavernous void that seemed to swallow up everything in the world that approached it, to see what they'd find.
A line passed through her nerves, binding itself into her presence. The image of a technique passed on as the woman across from her shared a thought enough to learn. And also tapped into a fragment of her own powers, an equal avatar to the first allowing her to perform both in time.
The part of herself that was still her lead the way as the vampire across from her touched upon the world itself and began drawing in power. Her newfound student growing in leaps and bounds as they pushed the boundary forward.
One of her other partitions changed, its form melding away from her own features as muscle melted and she returned to a lithe and beautiful maiden. Michael stepping out into the world from the mud once more. "Go for it."
She stepped up into one pocket of reality held parallel to the world. A line that never crossed over into reality and never quite left it behind and found Ainsel there. Standing on the far side of the world.
In the next she fell into step crossing over through all the pockets left behind, the two of them tying it together such that the boundary stood just light enough that if one needed, they could step through. And just far enough that otherwise they could escape.
A place where the fey could meet humanity, indulge in them on their own terms, but never close enough to devour them entirely. And also, a borderline between the remaining refuges being implanted on the world piece by piece.
Free in the void she waited, a desolate rock floating through space. But there had always been power out here, beings that offered of themselves as long as one would meet the price.
A red sun floating in the void turning this way.
An evil beyond measure in all of its forms.
The one who stands apart and beside all things.
With nothing but time she called upon their names and waited to hear an answer. Because there would be a path back, had been innumerable paths even when the human order was at its strongest. And now at its weakest of course they would gaze in and she would follow their path forward.
Light descended, an existence beyond the laws of the world and she smiled turning to meet it. "So we have a contract then?"
"You made my wife uncomfortable at the end you know. And you disrupted my paradise not even as an intruder you almost destroyed it." With a smile the lady turned, long pink hair flowing even without a wind to carry it and eight tails billowing out behind her.
"I guess not and you're just misguided to try and invade this world instead?" She rose meeting the gaze of her foe even as the world froze in place, time stopping casually under her will.
The intruder kept moving, merely arching an eyebrow at her attempt. "We're not on Earth anymore, no matter how hard I swing I won't hurt my beloved. It's just you and me on a tiny rock floating in space."
She drew asserting her full authority over the moon, the giant supercomputer latched into its core running full power as the world bent beneath her will. Absolute power standing against a single enemy as she made herself the world. "This is my place of power."
The Moon itself swung as the weight of a law crashed down.
It flickered away and collapsed without even reaching her opponent. The strength and overwhelming power burning away a fraction of an instant before it reached her foe. The lady smiling back, "well you're right lets not waste more time talking I don't really care what you want anyway."
Above the Sun reached its zenith.
"Corona Ejection: Solar Flare." From the very heart of the solar system on the layer of a reality which all planets were forced to align and accept merely by right of existing the fires of existence ignited.
The surface of the moon burned for a moment, solid rock vaporising under the weight of the solar wind as it held for an instant in time. The computer at its core spinning up a thousand different defences torn apart like paper under an existence that crushed the very concept of existence.
Scythed through by a flame that stood beyond rules and laws and stood as an absolute transcendental existence and plunged into the core of the moon, flash vaporising the moon cell itself as the idea of a planet burned out of existence in a single moment.
The world flickered as it slumbered, waiting until the world truly ended to reap its harvest. Sleeping as the vines grew firm over its flesh and turned to crystal amidst its dreams.
Monsters reared their heads and called out only for it to roll over in sleep and crush them without thought.
Blood poured in and fell over the event horizon as it was devoured within the midst of the world crafted by its impact as it slowly devoured the infinite. Gnawing at the roots of the world in its slumber even as it grew.
A void, and a hole in existence that even in slumber would one day reach the core.
AN: Ah a weird chapter again. Well epilogues are hard and often unsatisfying so maybe weird will come off well in comparison.
Anyway I have started my new pieces, two of them picked for their… well one of them is popular at least. So now I have to go hurry and make sure that chapter actually gets written for it.
The other one, it is a labour of love. Although I may go and try and find a site where Tower of God is more popular, or get it a different name. It has joined my Age of Wonders oneshots in the less than 10 views total category. I knew AoW was a dead part of the site, why I chose it to try new things. I didn't realise ToG could have even less views.
Well I have a sort of third one opened but well.
Lets see how I do with two things I'm meant to update before I try even thinking of adding a third.