Domina Coronam II

For two of the remaining five Crowns, like he had done of the Crown of Stars, Jun was planning on using the two remaining Cradles of Aurea Poculum as their base.

He used the Cradle of Earth as a base to create the Crown of Earth: Potnia Theron.

Potnia Theron was the name an Authority class ability possessed by powerful enough beings that could be characterized as Earth Mother Goddesses, Tiaat being one such example.

On Nasuverse's Earth, this authority originated from an original Earth Mother Goddess called the Goddess of Catalhoyuk or just Catalhoyuk and the creator of all creator deities, the ancestral mother of all mother goddesses.

With time, her powers branched off to other goddesses like Ishtar, the previously mentioned Tiamat, Hera, Demeter and others.

The earth mother is a protector guardian deity revered by the people, and she is the sacrifice that feeds them with the crops born from her body and the beasts of the fields and the forests.

Her true nature is the cycle of life and death, the circle of the food chain where she feeds man with her blood and flesh, kills man over time and absorbs him as nutrition, and once again feeds man with her replenished blood and flesh.

She represents the system of life itself, so those born of the earth cannot deny her authority. Only when they have fulfilled the wish of the Catalhoyuk, leaving the planet for space and ending the infantile stage of intelligent lifeforms, will they no longer be bound to it.

Whereas the male gods ensured Humans they would have war and prosperity, the mother goddess promised them existence and dominance. Many of the mother goddesses' symbols are said to be castles, fortresses, and crowns - things one would expect one's protector of livelihood to have.

This authority over the power of bringing death and giving life, symbolized by holes opening in the earth and the sky, caves and the moon, the whirlpools and typhoons of the sea, the craters of volcanoes, and such, first births evils that bring forth all manners of death.

Once the evils are finished spreading death, they leave the promise of good harvest and fertility. The goddesses that followed inherited this authority, and many were imaged with mural crowns because many were also the guardian deities of cities.

Most used the authority to give birth to countless monsters and giants and posed a threat to the gods and man, or give birth to heroes and became protectors of man.

Tiamat and Gaia (Not the Counterforce Gaia but the Titan of greek mythology) are examples of those who became threats, and Hera is an example of a mother of heroes.

Aurea Poculum's Cradle of Earth was an extremely powerful but incomplete version of this mighty Authority and Jun was seeking to lay his hands on it through it and his Domina Coronam.

He actually had a pretty good shot at it too since his Apokalypsis could be considered an essential part of a cycle of life and death, only on an infinitely larger scale.

With this, Jun had created a foundation for the future him to grasp the true power of life bearing worlds while his previously completed Crown of Stars: Ark was the foundation for him to grasp the stars that the civilizations of these worlds strived towards.

Having se these to foundations in place, Jun's next ambition was laying his hand upon the Divinity which represented the heavens.

Not the starry sky nor the earth that bore mortals, heroes and monsters but the Heavens that represented the Gods and Divine Spirits that became of them.

This not only included small gods that were quite literally owned by the World that conferred upon them their Authority but also large scale Gods like Bodhisattva who were of cosmic proportions and easily capable of governing the entire solar system as opposed to just having Authority over one or more aspects of the Earth for example.

The foundation for this utterly sacrilegious pursuit of trying to grasp the power of the Gods without actually going through the trouble and hardship of becoming one was done by sacrificing Aurea Poculum's Cradle of Heaven to create the Crown of Heaven: Celestia.

Jun had some experience with this power already as True Daemons could be considered beings on a similar scale as a Bodhisattva though Jun himself had lost that power before he could fully grow into it and reach that level.

What he was aiming towards now though, was something far more abrangent, he seeked to accrue the ultimate Divinity with Authority over All Things.

Obviously, Apokalypsis had not been nearly enough to teach Jun about the dangers of overextending and reaching out far beyond his station. And he was far from done.

In the Age of the Gods, the World was divided into the Heavens, the Earth and the Underworld. Jun already had two down so why not reach for the remaining one.

The Underworld, the World of Death. Despite being closely associated with gods and divine spirits that usually managed and/or ruled over it, it could not really be included amongst the divinities of Jun's Crown of Heaven.

It operated by very different rules and rather than representing a part of the cycle of life and death, it many cases, it instead represented an end to the cycle, a symbol of finality.

Though this was not always the case as in Buddhism, the underworld like realm of the Six Realms of Samsara were just a part of a cycle of reincarnation, Jun chose the theme of finality for his rendition of an Underworld in Domina Coronam.

Rather than a place for beings who were neither living nor dead as Dun Scaith was, it was instead a world for the truly dead. The final destination for the souls of those who perished.

If he was being honest, Jun was merely trying to complete a set. He did not fully understand the intricacies of the Authorities related to the Underworld and the nature of the powers he would be receiving.

Additionally, as he had no true basis, it would simply be a conceptual Crown with very little substance, taking use amounts of the power accumulated in Aurea Poculum in order to bring into being as there was nothing for Jun to use as its core.

After all, he had very little contact with abilities, treasures and powers relating to such things. Avoiding death? Revival? Immortality? Eternity? Yes, these were all things he had delved into but welcoming death and afterlife? Yeah, that was not his thing.

Not to mention that after the Age of the Gods ended, people no longer found themselves in the Underworld after death.

Still, Jun felt it was a worthy endeavour and, even should he be disappointed by his personal gains, he was quite sure some of hs future recruits would benefits from having an Underworld to draw power from. Like a certain moe goddess for example.

As such, the Crown of Death: Kur, was established, named after the Underworld ruled over by said particular goddess.

With that done, there were only two of the Ten Crowns to go and Jun was inspired. The next one was also going to be one without anything physical to become a basis for it but it had a much greater affinity with something like Aurea Poculum which was a Holy Grail.

Jun called it the Crown of Paradise: Eden. Salvation, an utopia without death where by physical harm, age or sickness.

Although Aurea Poculum was more of a symbol of false salvation, it was still a symbol of salvation in a certain sense and with some convenient twisting, Jun felt he could make it happen in a way that was far more seamless than his previous Crown.

One of the reasons Jun was so confident was that Avalon was, in some ways, such a place and he once held a physical representation of that very place in Excalibur's scabbard. In fact, using his newly created Crown of Creation: Phantasmal Origin, he could even get a physical basis.

It was a pointless exercise though as he simply pulled the records of Avalon along with Avicebron's Golem Keter Malkuth who could literally create Eden just by existing and used them as the basis for his creation of the Crown rather than simply a vague concept like he had done for the previous one.

Jun's purpose for such a creation was to get a safe haven for his people to relax and a Crown for the non combatants to bind themselves to while scoring some useful boons for himself as the master of the Ten Crowns.

He was going to set it up to give those who did so outrageous protection and denial of harm which erased all wounds, curses and such simply because they do not exist in Eden. However, as conflict did also not exist in Eden, it would result in a total loss of combat ability.

Complete invulnerability, perhaps even more perfect than Jun's own in exchange for becoming completely harmless and useless in battle even if possessing extreme amounts of power.

To achieve this ultimate invincibility, Jun fused the final piece left of his Beyond Nothingness, Shift to Nothing which provided one with the ultimate protection by stepping into the Root itself.

And so, only a single of the Ten Crowns was left . . . But what would Jun make of this last Crown?

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