Chapter 44 God and Multiverse
Chapter 44 God and Multiverse
54 sun cycles later...
It was now the 56th sun cycle in Phoenix's reign, a bright day in Pantheon city as it always was.
Up on the platform in a certain room in the mansion, a figure, clad in a red suit could be seen sitting cross legged on the ground!
He was unblinkingly staring at something in front of him.
His piercing red pupils were so concentrated that he didn't even deign to blink!
In front of him, floating just a few inches away from him, is what looked like strings rotating around each other in a helical dance.
They were six colored each with a different color, blue, brown, white black, light green and dark green! They represented the six elements, water, earth, light, dark, wind and wood!
In their midst, a few of their potions had interconnected with each other to form a stable structure.
'Where should I add it?' Damien was currently moving a red string representing the fire element around the helical structure. He was looking for a position to place it.
If any tiny mistake happened, the entire structure might collapse and he will die in the worst case scenario. In the least worse scenario, he will have to rebuild the helix...starting from a literal zero!
The fire string was being rebuffed every time it tried to approach any point in the structure. Every time it was rebuffed, a few more heads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Ever since the first customer, Pearl, paid, Damien had started to take time off work and try merging the fire element string with this helical structure so that he could become a god. But so far he hadn't succeeded!
It was comparatively easier to add a second string if you only had one, but the difficulty increases the more you add on! So does the danger of death! For all the success stories, there were many more failures.
Even though a frown adorned his face, he was calm. If you acted impatient...let's just say the consequences would be disastrous!
He had gotten used to the string being repelled each time! But there were so many possible connecting points that you had to try each slowly by slowly.
The string itself had many possible ways of being merged with the helical structure and the vice versa was also true making for billions of tries!
Some lifeforms can even take their entire lifetime without finding a connecting point, dying with endless anguish!
It all depended on luck!
As Damien was trying another point, the fire particle string stuck on that point!
His heart skipped a beat! He almost jumped in excitement!
'I need to be calm! Ommmmmmm! Calmness! Ommmmmmm!...'
He played the mantra in his mind!
The helical structure started rotating and the fire particle string started to get integrated in the rotations, one particle of the string at a time.
He maintained an outwardly calm facade but he was ecstatic inside! His clenched fists were the only indication onf his mood.
Becoming a god, even for him, a person who finds most of the other things boring and unexciting, is a tremendous milestone capable of making him lose his composure!
The moment the entire string integrated and rotated in its place as the other strings, the entire helical structure released a beam of seven colored light which couldn't be blocked by the ceiling!
Even the mansion, part of the god emperor artifact couldn't block the ethereal seven colored beam!
All lifeforms on the platform detected the beam and looked in the direction it was emanating from.
The seven colored helix floated back into his body where it heralded new changes!
His blood divinity strings which were originally composed of just six elemental strings gave birth to a seventh when inundated by the seven colored light spreading in his body!
The light receded after a few seconds!
Damien stood up abruptly! He closed his eyes and inspected his body using his consciousness.
'Good! Now am a god! I can create living things! Due to that, some of my techniques and artifacts won't need me to always spare my concentration to control them!' He thought!
The light had even altered all the constructs created by him, like his suit!
With a thought, his handkerchief exited his pockets and rotated around him. He could feel it! It had been vested with a rudimentary form of consciousness! It will require sometime before it grew a soul! But for his other attacks, this rudimentary form would be enough!
'Time to look for a sparring partner!'
He exited the mansion and went towards the palace. The other women were busy!
That started when some god emperor made a declaration which reached the ears of all the lifeforms in the universe.
[This universe is going to become connected to the multi verse! Check the pocket dimensional Pantheon city for details!]
An uproar had been created! For as long as Damien could remember, only god emperors/empresses were capable of jumping out of the time stream, but he hadn't heard anything about the multi verse!
"Chaos is coming! We might not even need to lower the price of the Tavern or even open it to the public!" Dark had said at the time.
And it had been true! In order to travel to another universe, the teleportation formation on the platform created by the God emperor was the only way! The other pocket universes had theirs but it was for the family members of the creator...while Pantheon city was for the public!
Many lifeforms who came to use it also enjoyed the 'entertainment corner' as Damien came to name it. It wasn't as expensive as the residences and since they were only staying temporarily, it was affordable to many!
The Tavern had become a staple place, not only for those of this universe, but also for arrivals from others! The popularity of the residences had skyrocketed!
The highest number of customers came from the other universes. They booked the houses for the duration of their stay in this prime universe.
Yes, Damien and the rest lived in the prime universe...the most popular destination for all the other universes!
But! Not all universes were eligible! Only those who had produced a god emperor or had one protecting them were!
Alternate realities were practically infinite! The number of God emperors in the prime timeline didn't even exceed 20...let alone the others! And apart from the uncaring ones! Those who cared could only protect ten universes each! Too low!
But that low number produced too many god level and god king/queen level tourists!
They had managed to get two other demigod helpers who came from alternate universes, but the workload was still too much!
Even Damien, supposed to be the manager had work as the bartender of the Tavern!
He was heading towards the tavern. As he walked down the main road, he could occasionally hear music, laughter and other sound coming from the waaled residences.
Some had guests over! Others liked to be solitary! All the twenty...nineteen, if you exclude that property which had been turned into the entertainment corner, were occupied!
Even Phoenix had to at least get one visit from an alternate universe's god king/queen in a sun cycle! A feat which would have been rare if the multi verse hadn't been opened!
"Damien! Ma man! Hurry up! I have been waiting...like forever man!"
A voice said the moment he entered the Tavern.
His regular customer! A wine lover who ate in the Tavern, slept in the Tavern, used the Tavern's toilets!...he was basically the parasite of the Tavern...but he had money, so Damien couldn't chase him out!
He was occupying one of the stools at the counter, looking at his garb, he must have just taken a dip in the raised pool.
"Beach shorts and a floral shirt! Please! Your indecency will chase away the customers!"
All the excitement from breaking through had vanished upon seeing this 'piece of boring trash' as Phoenix had named it.
He went behind the counter, hang his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and proceeded to mix some cocktails for the man.
Learning how to mix cocktails had been easy and he had even managed to create new ones.
"The usual?" He asked in a monotone voice. He had learnt that you had to be stoic to prevent the man from going into his psychotic rants.
"Yes, mate!" His white pupils increasing their glow. His entire skin, hair and eyes were white! He had said his race were collectively called the white floaties.
A name which had caused the girls to break into laughter!
His name was Ben Floatie! All the floaties had that as their last name.
Damien first poured whiskey into a glass, followed by adding white sparkling dust, he then added a white looking round fruit.
It rotated around its axis in the now white turned whiskey and produced a soft white glow.
[The moon rising from the whirlpool]...so it was called! The fruit never ceased its rotations creating a whirlpool in the white whiskey!
He passed Ben the glass and went to take stock of the alcohol in the cabinet.