85 - Factions, Fortuitous Encounter?.

STATUS

NAME - Velces Erlezos

FORM - God Body/True Form

AGE - 3 months 4 days.

RACE - God (???)

RANK - Greater Godling

EVOLUTION - SECOND SUPREME

ORDER CORES - 0/100

ASPECT - Sun Titan Sovereign

ABILITY - Divine Regen, Firegod, Forgemaster.

SKILLS - Hammer descent, Pound, Smash, Flamewave. Smith. Craft.

DIVINITY - 1000/1000 units

SUBORDINATES - Eternals >100

At first, he was peeved at the godling rank he still had. Like how long did it take to get past the godling stag?

Sighing he looked further down completely ignoring the skills now registered after his battle at what had been named the Purge of Morgado, Velces focused more on the last input.

"So I get subordinates now." he scratched his flaming head.

"But apart from obeying me. Are there more benefits?" he wondered. Thinking about it for a while he concluded some things.

Gerasmine had told them all to get as much as Conscription merit tokens as possible. Why?. What was important about hoarding the Eternals?

"Could it be? "he mused.

Pulling out the token he used up the last bit of it. The card disappeared again and just as earlier Eternals stepped out of the whirlpool. Completely ignorant of them he watched as his subordinate number increased.

" No obvious benefits. Unless." remembering something he had learned from Berus he nodded.

"That has to be it." It was quite simple. By introducing the powerful Eternals into the picture. Erizos aimed to give them all incentive and purpose.

After all what was life without purpose? By enticing them with the concept of having several Eternals under them he would get the Heralds, Azkolve,s and soon other gods that were to come pushing earnestly to accomplish things. Even more, were the extra benefits they would get. Things that would undoubtedly improve his multiverse and aid the development of everything.

By creating these factions he could have several powers to handle things while he focused on building his multiverse.

"Very well then father. I'll help you". With the comment it was obvious that Velces now understood his role. His purpose. He felt a spark in him that wasn't there before. A warm feeling. It was something humans were familiar with. The feeling of being needed by someone, the thought that he was someone important to his father.

After all, having seen the Azkolves and their capabilities he knew that he wasn't very important. Yes, he was the Sun God. But Erizos could always make another. It wouldn't be that hard, right?

But now it was obvious he had been allowed to prove his worth and also been told he wasn't made for nothing. While Erizos might not have had such thoughts about Velces it was just as he thought.

So with a smile, heart full of warmth, eager to please, and a fist tightened with resolve he began directing the new Eternals to different positions, shouting several orders and commands to get their work done. The sound of various hammers and pounding could be heard within the white sun.

Slowly the new set of constructs would take shape into something legendary.

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" Ah. What are they?" a scream pierced through Beleza's ears as he watched the beings crawl out of the still-spinning Whirlpool.

"Our rewards from father it seems." his hands rubbed his pointed ears as he sighed from the loud ring of Ausal's scream piercing into his ears.

Not that he could blame her after seeing the entities that came out of the whirlpool.

The Eternals were indeed very scary looking especially with their single eyes and forms. They looked more like Eldritch entities than anything else. The creepier part was the turf of hair which was so blended into their features it was hard to notice. Waving around due to the spatial distortions their bodies kept releasing.

After accomplishing their missions both Ausal and Beleza who had teamed up to watch an area closer to themselves had decided to put rewards together.

It hadn't taken long for everyone to discover what Erizos wanted. So the Azkolves were already teaming up. Dumdriel and Syrin had been an obvious team-up, Tarin and Juju had also teamed up though the dark flame user had begun regretting it due to Juju's annoying mannerisms.

Then there was Geral, Beleza, and Ausal. Tepes refusing to team up due to his hot-headed behavior and belief that he could get it done alone was the only Azkolve to remain on his own.

Beleza inspected the Eternals that floated right next to him. Just like Velces he too could see their status.

After going through their abilities he nodded to Ausal and Geral. Each of the three had at the moment managed to get their hands on just five Conscription Merit Tokens.

Unlike Velces token theirs had a one value rating. With ten being able to grant a hundred Eternals and five granting just fifty.

With their five, one rating Conscription Merit Token they had managed to get just fifty Eternals to their side.

For Tarin and Geral theirs were pretty much higher as they had managed to get even up to seventy Eternals. Just twenty higher than Beleza's group.

Then there was Dumdriel and Syrin who turned out to get higher numbers. At least a hundred of the Eternals floated behind them while they sat atop a new rock spire tower that Dumdriel made.

Standing guard was the most boring if not uneventful work they could ever do. The Heralds to them were having more fun than they were. Plus with the Heralds out there it was far harder to get Fragments that reached the edges of Mitawas anyone.

The 4th Wall had already expanded past its previous location and was continually expanding. And as it expanded pulling further and further away from the galaxies that made up Mitawas the Azkolves had to leave with it. With their long sight, it was still easy to spot the galaxies behind, their slight shimmer in the far distance a bit visible.

Alas to tackle their boredom the groups made various games or fought each other. Both as training and also to pass the time.

Slowly time went forward and so did the 4th wall. If anything, the Heralds we're truly efficient. Even more with the aid of the Eternals that they all got after repeating their quests over and over again.

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It was almost a week later when the Azkolves finally received a notification about their mission completion. Their relief at not having to stay at the 4th wall border anymore was obvious.

Yet they couldn't lie about the various gains they had made with their idleness.

For one. Having nothing to do makes the mind try to come up with something. With two of them or three or in a certain hothead's case one. Each of them practiced and trained their use of rulerunes.

Slowly and surely their proficiency with it and their knowledge of the archaic symbols grew thanks to Berus' help and knowledge.

Unlike the Heralds who were celestials, the Azkolves as divines were capable of using more than one divine rulerune and also celestial rule runes.

But none of it came close to the real profits of their arduous long stay. With the few fragments that managed to find them at the 4th wall somehow, the Azkolves learned something important.

The fragments could generate order and chaos cores from just hitting the 4th wall. The Azkolves didn't understand the process of this and for once Berus hadn't tried to elaborate on it for them.

Either way, the cores they had gotten from all of the fragments were sent off to Erizos. While they all wanted to use each of them to increase their bodily strength and perhaps grow to the third ascension body form, they could only hand it over since they were yet to be instructed as such.

But the encouragement they got from delivering several of these cores and fragments was enough to have them constantly gathering the precious white and black energy stones.

The orbs gave off a sense or spike of energy that was already familiar to all of them. A spike that made it easier to find and gather them wherever they were formed around the 4th wall.

It was this spike that Tepes and his group of Eternals felt calling to them from a distance away. At first, Tepes barely acknowledged it since he and his Eternals were yet to move towards it. It was best to let the 4th wall move and then follow. On the way, he would just pick it up.

In a few minutes though he froze as the spike could be felt again.

"This spike. It feels different from the rest. It's more dense and lively than the other cores" An Eternal accessed. Tepes at first had a frown etched on the side of his snout then he remembered something he had heard from his former life.

There was a norm about humans back then on that planet he once lived on called Fafnir. Those who were usually stronger than the others were said to have done so by one of the following.

Being a genius, training and working hard, or the last. A fortuitous encounter. Of course, some beings had all three. Even those who had blessings from gods.

But it was a fact that finding things or tools of power was also advantageous. A smirk lit up his face. He didn't know what lay ahead. But he was sure of one thing. It would be no normal core or fragment.

Either something he could use without offending the All-father. or even better something he could get for a greater reward from him.

Either way, it would surely push him ahead of the rest.

Slowly but surely the entire Azkolves as well as Heralds were already getting ambitious. Something that Erizos wanted from them.

After all, ambition led to the effort which led to more good things for him.

So with a growing smirk on his wolf-like features and a now growing sense of urgency fueled by his ambition to be better than his siblings he rushed forward followed by his Eternals his nose twitching with excitement almost like he could already perceive the glorious prize that awaited him.