As everyone gathered at the front of HQ, Tiamat and Bahamut were grumbling about having their promised bath ti interrupted.
Then a woman stepped out backed by four clearly ntally broken n.
The woman’s presence inspired an imdiate response from Lillim, Faylorna, Kyubi, Bahamut and Tiamat. All of them began to partially shift into their true forms, ready to go all-out from the start if sothing happened.
"I co in peace!" She shouted, though her tone sounded mostly broken as well.
The defiant woman Carl rembered shouting in Plutinas’ defence was a shell of how she had seed just that morning.
"Relax everyone, I think I know why she is here.... Are you okay? You seem injured." Carl asked with enough genuine concern to relieve everyone’s growing concern about the hatred he had been harbouring for quite so ti.
"Of- Yes, I’m fine, thank you for your concern... I am here to deliver the two who interfered in your relationship, I was also told by the greatest of us to bring those that instructed them to do so in the first place."
Klaire moved over as the portal crackled shut, coming to a stop next to Faylorna and whispering sothing, then after a small amount of grumbling she replied with "Fine... I guess that will be a punishnt in its own right..."
"Thank you for bringing them, though I have decided I should only punish the two who gave the order. I’ll let fear be a lesson to the other two."
The woman dragged the younger two, Matthew and Jas, off to one side.
"Not that I would regardless, but as heir to clan Bashe, I will leave no heartbreak unpunished." For the first ti in her life, Klaire howled with lethal intent, tearing their souls out violently as she opened a portal to Faylorn.
She held the souls in place for a mont as the blacked bone of countless banshee arms reached for them, clawing their souls before Klaire released them and they were forever lost to the hunger of the wailing witches of Faylorn.
As the portal closed, Klaire picked up the bodies of the two n she had just sentenced to the harrowing life of a soulless vessel. She dragged them by the collars to the two who were standing in fear, held in place only by presence of the woman accompanying them.
"They won’t awaken until their souls are full consud, a week or two usually. You won’t need to worry about nursing them, but if they aren’t kept cool, they will start to prematurely decompose. You two can be in charge of making sure they wake up, making sure you all know what happens to those giving orders to get between us." Klaire dumped the two burdens that weighed her down.
"Sorry you ca so far for such a nial task. It seems a sha to send you ho so quickly, but Lugarian heat won’t be kind to them."
"Why not just kill them? Marsian, Jupiterran and our leader are determined to form an alliance, killing them wouldn’t make a difference."
"Not sure what you an by "wouldn’t make a difference". Of course it would, killing people doesn’t change things, it ends things. I want things to change, if you want them to end, just shout Margo as loud as you can and leave everyone else out of it." Carl replied.
"I don’t want to have to kill anyone either, I will if it cos to it; but if I have a way to make people understand the suffering they cause, I’d rather give them that second chance."
"Contrary to what you lot seem to think, the hybrids I know are generally more humane than the humans I do. I’m ready to try talking again as soon as you are, you can pass the eting point along to my mum Leanna. I’ll refrain from portalling over unless I have to, I hope his arm was able to be reattached by the way, I was worried the cauterisation might make that difficult."
"It did, but we aren’t immortals for nothing, it takes sothing special to truly hurt one of us... Is there any chance I can ask you to reconsider, taking a portion of his soul?"
"Unfortunately not, I wanted to put it to use before I let my sentintality get the best of . Co on out Tiamutael." As Carl spoke the chira he had made for himself appeared.
A brief while ago...
Carl stood in the makeshift alleyway, ford by the two dozen long enclosures that spanned either side of him, Carl had an epiphany.
’I wonder if I can activate multiple Neo Primordias simultaneously...’ The thought was suddenly interrupted.
As Carl spoke to Noah and listened to him talk about branching into aquatic species, the possibilities grew imnsely and with it, the desire to see if multiple creations was a possibility beca more and more profound.
"You guys better go wait elsewhere, I’m gonna do so experintation, don’t want you guys getting swiped at if sothing goes wrong. Just get safe then open all enclosures."
"You’re ntal, you know that right, ntal." Gillian had laughed, with Noah, though they knew that worst case scenario Carl would just evade and rge the more passive ones.
When the enclosures opened Carl was surprised at how easy it was to do, even without his aura the animals seed focused on being his friend and trying to get closer. The only danger was actually them attacking each other to get through the crowd.
Carl managed the simultaneous activation of "Neo Primordia" with little diffulculty, though the burst of notifications was painful and he was blinded by the nurous creation screens.
He put the ones he had a plan for into action and they were created as he worked his way through the nus.
The last two beasts he had created were for Blaine and Noah, when he realised that the beast wouldn’t be up for travelling alongside Noah as it was and nor would one of these creatures be able to protect the ultimately defenceless Blain.
That was when he got the idea to create the chiras, after a bit of thought he realised that their elental control and general abilities would perfectly complint Levi’s, but without the siren and banishing eye he had no way to make another all-seeing leviathan.
’How much would it cost to just make another from the gene-bank?"
[ SYSTEM NOTICE : COST OF COMPLETE REPLICATION DEPENDS ON YOUR BOND WITH THE FIRST OF THE SPECIES. ]
[ IF THE FIRST OF THE SPECIES IS BENEFITTING FROM YOUR "FATHER" JOB SELECTION, THEN THAT COST WILL BE HALVED. ]
[ IF THE FIRST OF THE SPECIES HAS BECO AN ORIGIN ENTITY. THEN THAT COST WILL BE HALVED. ]
[ ALL-SEEING LEVIATHAN COST = 5,000 DIV ]
Carl’s eyes widened, as a new plan ford. "I’ll take three. How much for a gluttonous slidra?"
[ GLUTTONOUS SLIDRA COST = 2,790 DIV ]
"Aweso, can I rge two beasts into a chira before replication is finalised? It seems an to bring them to life just to smash them into another existence."
[ REQUEST POSSIBLE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO RGE THEM NOW? Y/N ]
Carl pumped his fists and thanked his system for the first ti, then he rged two of the all-seeing leviathans and kept the other and the gluttonous slidra as purebreds.
[ SYSTEM NOTICE : ATTEMPTS TO BESTOW REWARDS REQUIRE FURTHER CALCULATION ]
[ IN THE AN TI I CAN OFFER A CHOICE, PLEASE CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING. ]
[ ENLIGHTENED CREATION AND CREATOR CULTIVATION ]
[ LAYERED CHIRA AND CREATOR CULTIVATION ]
Carl was pretty confident he knew what they ant; Enlightened creation likely ant that all his creations would possess a star, which sounded powerful but incredibly dangerous since it might blend with neo-genesis.
Layered Chira on the other hand, either expanded chiras to include more than two pet limit of initial creation or would open up the ability to rge two chiras.
"Creator cultivation" sounded to him like a change to the way he levelled up, but with analyse and his system growing more and more helpful, e wasn’t overly worried.
"I choose "Layered chira and creator cultivation"... confirm."
Layered chira was indeed the ability to fuse two chiras and up to two materials, and Creator cultivation was also as he initially thought, with the unexpected addition of needing to accept level-ups which ant he could maximise his DIV stockpiling.
"So I now grow in level by creating new pets and chiras and synthesising or banking materials." Carl sighed, then continued. "I guess I can at least thank you for making my favourite ability a way for to grow as well Ishtar... Thank you."
Then a smile ford across his face and he pulled a few materials from his quickly dwindling stores.
For the first he marked a few new creatures to get them stored, including a drake eagle, an imperial tiger, an earthen hound and a thunder rattle, with Lugarian ram horns the locals had left for them as thanks for their courtesy during the party and the event with Tiamat.
"I’ll call this species the Chira Primordia, but hold finalisation for instant rger."
[ CULTIVATION COMPLETE YOU HAVE GAINED FIVE LEVELS. ]
The second beast was a swamp hound, bone serpent, a life-eating spirit, a nightmare yearling and a living phylactery. All of which were gifts from one of Noah’s acquaintances who had not long returned from an "impromptu dive into an undead realm".
"I’ll call this species the Orthos Primordia, again, hold for instant rger."
[ CULTIVATION COMPLETE YOU HAVE GAINED FIVE LEVELS. ]
The third was a rock elental, a spined living-statue, a petrifying vine, an explorers bane and a bond-breaker. These were also creatures that one of Noah’s guests gifted him, the story was similar "An impromptu journey into finding out why so questions are better left unanswered."
"Since they’re all earth elental lifeforms, maybe I should na it after Gaia, I never did think of a way to properly honour the gift she gave and I love my pets, so maybe that’s the best way for to do it at least. I’ll call this species Gaia’s variety and hold for layered chira."
[ CULTIVATION COMPLETE YOU HAVE GAINED FIVE LEVELS. ]
The final creatures present, which he hadn’t already banked, were ones that he didn’t know anything about and wanted to learn more of...
"What the hell? I’ll roll the dice and honour my Loki with this one as thanks for the mask. I’ll call this one Loki’s mischief, full randomisation. rge group one with three and two with four, then rge those two into a chira, but don’t finalise."
"Gillian! Can you go and get Tia and Bahamut for please."
When they ca outside, Carl had all the beasts stay put...
"How can we help?"
"I wanted permission before I did sothing... I’m entering a battle I’m little more than an insect in, I want to rge a mber of Aldra and Odra’s respective species, then rge them with a new creation I only have to finalise. I didn’t want to rge your two flas without express permission though, it seed incredibly disrespectful."
"Absolutely not. I thank you and respect you for asking, but no. My omni-fla is my apex and my pride is already threatened by Odra."
Bahamut seized the opportunity to try and display a more amicable side. "Truthfully, it doesn’t sit well with either. After being bested by you twice however, denying you feels like petty spite, so if you can sohow beat Tiamat’s legendary stubbornness then you have my permission." He smiles, certain in Tiamat’s steadfast stubbornness.
"Deal! Great-Auntie Tia, if you say yes I’ll swear to never use Lillim’s favour to help with boring stuff, build an embassy in your realm at a place of your choice with an all you can use hot spring that’s dragon sized to your specifications and call this five favours in one."
Tiamat made her couterpart nervous the mont she grinned at the title "Great-Aunt Tia" but when she recomposed herself before Carl had stopped, he found his hope renewed and then shattered when she spoke. "Call it ten and deal my adorable great-nephew."
"Deal! Thank you both so much. Unless it’s life or death, na the place and I’ll build the bath imdiately after today. Thank you both so much! I hope this one makes you both proud."
Carl asked how much it would be to create one each of his dragons and the figure nearly gave him a heart attack.
[ COST TO REPLICATE PLATINUM-PRIMORDIA DRAGON 29,000 ]
[ COST TO REPLICATE OMNI-CHROMATIC PRIMORIDA DRAGON 29,000 ]
"Damn... As a thank you, you can stay here for the birth but I need to do so stockpiling and levelling up to even afford this."
Carl set to work, as the two dragon gods waited patiently, concerned briefly when he put himself on the edge of death to make the most of his stockpiling, before breathing a sigh of relief when he miraculously recovered with the level up.
"Right, good to go."
"Are you sure, you looked half dead a second ago. You don’t need to rest?"
"Nope, I’m good and not stupid enough to annoy Klaire that badly." He laughed, though he didn’t feel them with confidence.
Finally he pulled the piece of Plutinas’ soul and the feathers that they had got permission to use as materials.
Then he completed the chira, that was now standing before everyone for the first ti.
It hadn’t been hiding in a way like any of the other pets did, not camouflage, not perception erasure or poltergeist material... This one could simply move into the space between realms.
It’s general shape was the sa as Aldra and Odra’s, except its wings which were made of Aldra’s platinum ice, trimd with Odra’s true omni-fla and celestial feathers that matched its scales.
Its scales followed Odra’s and Tiamat’s pattern, were now included platinum in the mix and also now possessed the elental infusion of Tiamat’s.
It stood at the sa height as Aldra and Odra, and was male like Aldra, the biggest difference with its height was that this dragon was far less mature and had much more growing to do than they still had.
"How can I help Dad?"
"Sorry bud, our guest Lady Venusiah just asked about that material I used in you. I wanted her to see what it was used for."
Tiamutael’s eyes narrowed, it could sense the stark contrast between her values and the factions, but he didn’t want to make his dad look bad.
"And what do you think of Lady Venusiah?"
The lady in question was almost gibbering, her aura shook with distress. "If you had a creature like this why didn’t you bring it this morning? You would have made even Plutinas silent..." She spoke, revealing her growing understanding of Carl’s worth.
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