Chapter 42 Opening Ceremony Part 5, Secrets of the Multiverse

Chapter 42 Opening Ceremony Part 5, Secrets Of The Multiverse

"Of course I have been watching, daughter!"

A voice formed ripples in the space around them. They distorted their forms when they passed through them.

The void above them cracked and spread into an eye, a pupil manifested in the middle.

Its appearance caused the entire space to light up.

They all averted their visions and even when they tried to view it through their consciousness, it still appeared bright.

It was warm but for some reason the ocean body of Waver started boiling.

"Daughter! You have gotten weaker!" The voice originated from the owner's pupil.

The other god kings and queen became meek once that sweet voice appeared.

Waver's ocean was vibrating intensely.

"Mother! First eliminate these troublesome bugs!" Phoenix shouted.

Even if she hadn't, she would have been heard.

"Evil! I do know you are watching! Stop the little prank!"

To her it was a prank, actually all people at their level viewed it the same! When they took things seriously...that ended tragically for any alternate universe they chose among the many in the multiverse!

"Don't worry about it, Light!" A gloomy voice created another rippling in the space.

A humanoid being so large, he rivalled the largest black hole in the universe was occupying a throne of equally epic proportions.

Only its red eyes were viewable through the darkness. The gravity near it was so strong that currently, it was pulling an entire galaxy and absorbing it into himself! Of course all this was happening in a timeline separate from the one with Pantheon city...a branch timeline to be specific.

Light had followed the trace left in the organisms to that branch.

"As expected! You are absorbing the energy of this entire universe!"

"You can simply move your main body away from the dark parallel battlefield and come challenge me! Hahahahah....but you can't!" Evil's gloomy laughter echoed in this space.

"Besides! You were the ones who led me to become like this!"

The humanoid's anger made the space explode into shards but it was careful to protect the galaxy it was absorbing.

But mere space shards couldn't trouble Evil or Light's consciousness as they were controllers of both space and time.

"Don't whine to me! We cautioned you about challenging [The Variance Anomaly]!

The voice which came from the owner of the pure white pupil which had brought warmth to this otherwise gloomy space answered calmly.

"Oh! You watched it! You treated me like your guinea pig to test their power!" The humanoid's red eyes narrowed dangerously.

"He was an error in the operation of the universe. You jumped out...so who can you blame...really?!?"

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Imagine the universe as a single sheet of paper with a drawing of a person's face.

The multi verse is a stack of infinite sheets containing the same drawing but with some variations to it.

When a branch universe...in other words, an alternate universe is created, it copies almost everything in the prime universe.

The only exceptions to that are god emperors/empresses and all their creations, be they artifacts or lifeforms!

Now, when a god king/queen breaks through, all their alternate versions in other universes are erased from the timelines. They simply vanish and are forgotten by everyone.

Now here is where [The Variance Anomaly] comes in...

Two variants of the same life form in different alternate universes broke through the god king threshold and became god emperors at exactly the same time down to the smallest unit of time. A miracle! A coincidence!?

An error which shouldn't have happened! The universe failed to correct it since it couldn't affect lifeforms which had reached that level!

They even had completely different divinities.

The universe doesn't have any awareness but it operates on something like an instinct! In order to try to rectify the error, it weakened one every time the other used his divinity and the opposite was also true.

It also provided information about the other as the cause in their minds.

It was trying to sow discord!

They pretended to go along with it and met in the prime universe. The other god emperors had also gotten information through their own channels about the anomalies.

It had been the first gathering of the highest grade beings ever since the multi verse came into existence.

Evil(that hadn't been his title at the time) had just ascended to the ranks of god emperors.

In their eyes, he had been a junior. Arrogant and prideful, a youngster who had just broken away from the shackles of the universe...he had wanted to make his mark by getting involved in the two's duel. He had even tried to ask the others to join him, but they refused.

When the variants had shown up, he had launched an attack thinking that it was going to be a three way battle but instead he took the blows of both and was instantly wounded seriously. His impulsiveness had led to his downfall. A being whim everyone mocked, well...all who mocked him were his fellow god emperors/empresses.

The variants smirked at him and travelled to the edge of the expanding spacetime.

Both of them somehow found a way to merge their power and blasted a hole through spacetime and ripped it apart.

They vanished never to be seen again after jumping through the hole.

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It had been a stain in what...otherwise what would have been his glorious life!

The rip in spacetime had shook the entire prime timeline and every life form had felt the tremors.

Now, Evil was absorbing and converting the energy of this universe towards his recovery.

"Anyway, I don't have time for chitchat! Get rid of your bugs!" The sweet voice of Light reverberated in this space.

"Okay!" He answered. He knew that if he enraged this woman and she attacked, he would lose. He hadn't even recovered to 50%.

He pointed with his hand and created a fissure in the space surrounding him.

The devouring bugs passed through the fissure and went into his body.

All the fallen guests had the organisms drilling out of their bodies and passing through the fissure which had just appeared under the sphere of water.

"You were tricked, so your sentence could have been imprisonment but, you involved my daughter...!" The sound increased in volume with every word uttered and the warm light which had been illuminating the surrounding space converged into one beam which annihilated the entire sphere.

There was no evaporation. Waver had been annihilated and his elemental body had turned into elements which started scattering.

All the other god kings and queens still had their heads lowered.

Phoenix was pouting but she knew her mother had been right.

"Phoenix! After you complete your time here, you will once again join me on the dark parallel battlefield!"

Light said as the fissure closed up around the white pupil.

All of them breathed in deeply once all traces of the god empress and emperor vanished.

"Well, Waver has been taken care of, so you can all return where you came from!" Phoenix made a shooing gesture.

This had been a long day and she didn't want to keep entertaining these people.

They all turned into blurs and shattered the spacial membrane of the pocket universe and went their ways, except one.

"What do you need?"

"Don't you know that I am going to stay here?" Pearl asked as she looked into Phoenix's narrowed golden eyes.

She blinked as she said that as if she was puzzled why Phoenix was asking.

"I know your goal! But you better not try to get my manager to leave here!"

Phoenix said calmly before flying off towards the mansion.

People were starting to wake up here and there.

"Did the parasites die?"

"Who cured us?"

"Shit! My strings! Its going to take plenty of resources to replenish them!"

Some cursed, some were puzzled and others simply wanted to race back to their homes.

They had the thought that disaster might strike again. Leaving Pantheon city at the fastest speed was the solution.

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"Now I need to recover my strings!" Damien woke up and stood up.

He straightened his suit and patted it. No dust existed here but you never knew.

He looked behind himself and his eyes lit up.

The trio of women had at least some of their parts exposed, mostly the thighs.

They were still groggy and hadn't noticed the issue with their clothes.

"If I was a normal guy, I would have jumped on the three of you!" He said as he put his hand on his chin and admired the beauties.

The green long dresses really suited each of them.

They were startled awake!

Itetia was the first to stand up and fix herself while Dark and Lino took sometime.

She was brought up in a very strict home, so exposing any skin was seen as inappropriate by her.

A blush was even slightly tinging her cheeks.

Lino simply didn't care as she had been through worse while Dark had wanted Damien to look at her more.

Heart had separated from them.

'Oh! It seems most of these people are in a rush!' Damien thought when one of the guests almost bumped into him as he rushed towards the teleportation formation.

They had all been moved to the middle road which led to the palace by Phoenix.

"Let's go to the bar and get drunk!" Damien suggested.

One of the properties, after careful consideration was turned into a place of entertainment and it had several establishments with a bar being one of them.

It was stocked with beer and wines guaranteed to make even the gods drunk with no way of purging the alcohol from their bodies.