Some sights are not to be seen

"Scrambled eggs my love?" Aki murmured to the sleeping beauty, who reached for a completly diferent set of eggs. Rolling his eyes, he proceded to gently play with her left ear, appreaciating her every shiver.

Time was irrelevant in this newly MINTHED hiperbolic chamber, but he'd decided that after two weeks lazing around they should start focusing on the job again, so he took her by the waist and towards his lap.

"I made some food, would you like to eat it or do i need to eat you first?" He wispered to her ear, lightly bitting her neck. This seemed to wake her up, so he stopped and gave her a good morning kiss.

Cultivating didn't mean your morning breath was perfect, but when you're a spiritual being, there's a clear diference. Meaning Aki went some laps around to properly get the minty taste on his tongue.

(The jokes are staying as long as they are dating, and if you didn't like it then you better hope they don't have children.)

"I could get ussed to waking up like this." She yawned while clinging to his torso as he gently massaged her back.

"I could always imprison you to bed then, i'd be sure to take care of my hungry bitch." He grinned as she bit his chest, the pointy teeth easily penetrating his skin. "Seriouly though, i made eggs." He showed a dozen perfectly golden eggs, a small mountain of turkey meat, some air-fried potato chips and guava and orange juice.

"Since when can you cook anything?" She blinked, only now noticing the great table of black wood holding these definetly not breakfast themed buffee.

"Since i spend the last two hours learning. Never tell my mother this, but i just hate the idea of cooking for myself, so i promissed to learn to cook for someone i loved and wasn't family, because i'm basically the only one who can't cook and i actually don't fell very confident in letting them near anything i make." He admitted.

"That is ridiculous and so like you." She sighed. "But never call me like that again or i'll make you my bitch." She threathed before bitting his lips with some force.

"Don't threathen me with a good time." He licked her nose, making the angry ginger blush a bit. "But we should really get up, we've been here for two weeks." This greatly surprised her, and she was about to go on a tirade about her work, but seeing his shit eating grin she remenbered he said the chamber had a 1:1000, meaning they'd been inside for a great half an hour on the outside. Seeing his girlfriend, the word made pure joy course through his spine, was not going to fall for it, he decided to accelerate things up. "So, do you want to sit on my lap and snuggle while you eat or do you just want it the borring way?"

*****

An hour and snuggles later, a satisfied couple finished dressing up and went their separate ways.

This left a certain god of hell very confused on the point of letting two of his most important employees have half an hour breaks like that.

Not so far away in the galaxy though...

"You're telling me a guy like that is not being actively targeted by every damn chosen? Even if it is harder to advance in the spirit realm, he should be able to rapidly surpass all of then in talent exactly because he keeps increasing it!" Complained a four armed and blue skinned humanoid while wildly gesticulating at the filtered image of Aki ussing Empire's state sized rocks as orbital projectiles. "With all that death energy his affinity has definetly reached a new level, nevermind whatever treasure he finds in the ruins he left behind." He complained, barely registering the billion murders.

"I'm not so sure he did that for the energy, but yeah, from the time i met him it was kind of hard to remenber to be angry or plot against him."

"Even Commander Avos was affected, so there's no way those people are not under a similar effect. Such powerful effect is most certainly derived from either the blessing of the Ghost princess or the Torch bearer, so it was inevitable." Sighed a giant in power armor.

The woman didn't hesitate in reafirming their assumptions for even a moment. While Aki had not been the only one to offer a cooperation, he'd certainly been the best to partner up with, even if just because of his future prospects.

"It would not surprise me if the little fucker had already comprehended a couple or several profound truths though." She pointed out, causing all on the room to look at her with a myriad of expressions.

"No way someone can be so premature, right? His breakthrough hurt him, but there must be a better explanation for that." Weakly complained the blue humanoid, green with envy at the realisation that no, there was no better explanation within his knowledge.

One must understand, while the mortal stage is the refinement of the body, the spirit stage is the refinement of the soul and it's connections. To reach it, one must at the very least open their upper dantian and begin the cultivation of their soul ocean, further linking their body and soul together. Foundation collapse means making and strengthening the pillars of your soul realm to your maximun and at the end fuse them, so one can reach the core formation stage, where the core is formed and then strengthening to your maximum, the next stage being the completle integration of said core to body and soul before it is refined into a nascent soul, which then receives the same process.

"If he gets a good enough hyperbolic chamber than we will need a lord class to contain him on first contact." Said a specially rough and tall individual.

"Considering he is not preventively killed by anyone, I still don't think it would be necessary. As I said before, he is quite unlikely to directly break laws and or turn hostile without provocation. Besides, how the fuck are we going to get a Lord class anywhere near here? Those fuckwads don't look farther then their crotches or cultivation!" Complained Avos, trying to lower the tension on the room.

No one liked to be anywhere near someone talking about lords, nevermind active mercenaries. It was a well known fact that something on that level simply had the ability to listen in when intent was directed at then.

A less well known fact was that this sense had many a way to be turned off. People plotting against that kind of powerhouse would always have ways to mask or bypass this detection, so cases where speaking ill of said lords actually had consequences were those where a specially irritable criminal was nearby, if the offender in case was cheating on these lords, or did not know they were addressing a lord that had, most likely, just been cheated on.

"The Skywalker civilization would gladly disponibilise such force if need be." Pointed out a prideful humanoid with eagle features and feathers instead of hair.

Basically everyone at the table stared at him for a moment, though the thick skinned diplomat flinched only internally while wordlessly backing down.

"Worst comes to worst we all suck his ass till reinforcements arrive, the boy has as much finesse as me, but he knows his place in the grand scheme of things. I'm more worried about 'Aphrodite', 'Odin', 'Sawasala', and the possibility of a class 3 or higher breaching reality through the ruptures." She pointed out, the respective chosen in question all ruthless conquerors with armies bearing endless loyalty, each one respectively appearing on the holographic table, then she pointed outside, at the shreds of space still reforming in some parts as the land moved turned from planetoides to... Criss crossing pieces of reality that made eyes and brains hurt.

It'd stabilize after around six months, but before that there was no way anyone bellow spirit rank could even look at the patchwork the gods were doing without going into a coma or passing out.

The details of the current physical state of how Amazonia and the equivalent to the Grand Canyon of the fairy world were asside, that ment only a squeleton crew of decision makers on the region were physically near the thing, their small fleet mostly made put of robots and a couple of A.Is tasked with maintaining and constructing a mechanical satellite and star gate for the new cluster world, hopefully avoiding the orbiting star rings, dust clouds, universal beast nests, that one black hole and the mass of metal that made everything around it basically stop functioning.

"None of then listens to anyone but themselves and are all prone to corruption that might bring the birth of a new fringe world if not take care off. I recommend instant elimination at first contact." Pointed out the examiner.

"We are currently reviewing their profiles, but besides that zeus character, i do not see how either of the other two would be easy to convince or corrupt." Mentioned the tall guy, making the army commander sigh. She'd be the one dealing with those later, so of course she cared.

Pulling up her hand computer after leaving the conference, Avos that Aki was currently inside of a heavily enchanted and protected for... nope, he just started dragging all his oponent's out, all of them by the entrails, most of them unconcious and the rest screaming in pain as his blackened and sharp hand talons pierced their leaking intestines and injected them with a black liquid dripping from them, completly stopping their bleeding and sometimes waking up his victims.

"It's fucking hard to convince people that you're not a psicotic tyrant, you know?" She murmured under her breath before tucking herself into her bed to look for memes. Thank the quantum network for actually making it possible to get signal in the middle of fucking nowhere during a space storm.

"Now that he has clearly started shagging that nymph, i wonder if he will even remenber me though. Man are so strange sometimes i wonder if i just walked around with testicles i'd find out how they think at some point." She sighed again, frustated from the unending amount of work that made her fell like months had passed without having treated herself to anything.

She, as everyone else around, could very well just go and ask about anyone for the sexual kind of relief, the perks of being a genius at spirit realm, but at the same time she just felt lonely.

Money, competent employees that could make her company run by itself, a bigger than average area of activity, great progress at cultivation and no walls in sight, fame, she had it all, and damn did it fell good. Till she noticed she was, quite literally, not loved by anyone.

Sure, she'd done the responsible thing as an adult and put her career before her emotions, sucess speaking for her actions, but she now found it quite hard to actually find someone to even like recently.

The mere fact someone as 'unapealing' as her had a hundred pages filled with marriage candidates the moment she tried looking for them was actually a shock, mostly because those pages were bassically only filled with first and second names, all leading to a related link about said candidate. Turns out everyone with lower cultivation wanted her as a backer and everyone with higher cultivation wanted her as either a trophy or as a bed warmer.

Really, working as a mercenary she kind of expected that, so after a hundred or so tries she gave up trying to arrange anything this way, instead looking into doing things in a more 'organic' way and just going to bars and parties to meet people, even trying that one app, giving up after six cheaters, one nympho, two controling bastards, three kidnapers, one cult leader and that one guy that baked so much he just didn't even seen to register she was there sometimes. His strange dick was completly compensated by his baking skills, reason she did not dare break up with him after their first time.

The mere fact she'd found at least five people who seemed like they'd actually give a shit and not cause some strange scene in case things didn't work made her question if she simply lived in a specially shity part of her galaxy or if she had just stopped looking too soon.

'I mean, i didn't even get to find more than one person that just wanted my body!... That's worse, somehow it's worse. Why do i only get weirdos...' She grumbled and threw her face at her pillow, deciding she'd give that 'Artemis' girl if she didn't start a giant lesbian procession focussed on pleasuring her or... *Beep*

"Have i become profetic or something?!" She complained more loudly.