56 Interlude - The Sphere of Sight!

"And you are sure that you know nothing of Seria? You had the most contact with her Lada." El Shaddai is walking down a long corridor with me. 

"No? The last time I saw her, she suddenly had something urgent to do and ran off? I never saw her since." I answer truthfully to El Shaddai. 

He nods and we walk in silence until we arrive at a room with a spinning sphere made of crystal in the centre. Amaru is also there. He wears plain clothing and looks more like a university professor. He is polishing his monocle at the moment, which he just does if he encountered a problem. 

At our entrance he turns towards us. "Good you are here! Tjenemit disappeared!" 

"What do you mean …. he disappeared!?" El Shaddai has a dangerous tone in his voice while he interrogates Amaru. 

I purse my lips and listen to the evolving conversation. 

"Like I said. I can't find him with my Sphere of Sight any more. It's like he is..... gone?" Amaru throws his hands into the air. It's rare to see him like that. 

"And Seria?" -El Shaddai 

"I can't find her either. The last thing I know is that both of them went into the void, but no one came out again. Then there was this.... reaction." Amaru ponders over the spinning bubble of crystal. It's one of his greatest creations. 

It's the Sphere of Sight and it is the basis of the Council's power. With it we are able to track the awakening of each god and search for everyone, we want to find. It is the ultimate spying device. 

Unfortunately.... or fortunately Seria's void zone is a black spot on the map. Even for Amaru. 

"What reaction?" -El Shaddai 

"You see. Shortly after Tjenemit entered the void, there was a burst of power. Like hundreds of millions of gods awakened at the same time. It has to be an error in the system." Amaru shakes his head. 

El Shaddai shakes his head. 

"Nooo.... The Sphere worked without problems for an eternity. Why should it suddenly fail us for no apparent reason? Tjenemit was right. Seria really had all those gods hidden away from us. She is responsible for the disappearances. Though she had apparently collected much more followers than we ever imagined. We have to prepare ourselves." El Shaddai scratches his cheek while he looks absent minded into the sphere. 

"Shouldn't we wait until Tjenemit comes back and reports the situation to us?" Amaru asks with a hopeful voice. 

"Bwahaha!" El Shaddai bursts into laughter. "Tjenemit wont come back! Your device worked perfectly fine. He went alone into the void and somehow caused the awakening of Seria's followers. Then they dealt with him, one way or the other." 

Amaru gets a little concerned. "But he is a Council member! Surely he wouldn't..." 

"Could you win against a million gods? Even if they would be weak and just became gods? You would never have a chance against millions of them! And you said the reaction was big enough for hundreds of millions of them!" -El Shaddai 

I look into the floor while I think about it. So I was right. Seria really had that mighty force up her sleeve. 

"What do you think Lada? Still of the opinion that it would have been better to talk?" El Shaddai smirks at me. 

"Like you said. Tjenemit went there and started it. Now there are who knows how many gods from the leash and we have no way to control them. We can't enter the void and apparently they can't leave it. Otherwise they would be already knocking on our door. So you tell me if talking about the situation with Seria could have evolved into a worse scenario." I smile at El Shaddai with a small feeling of superiority. 

But he doesn't answer and leaves the room..... probably to gather an army. 

Amaru has finished polishing his monocle and puts it back on again. "This surely forebodes hard times. I see war on the horizon." 

I raise an eyebrow. Obviously he had the same thought as me. "What do you think would happen if it's true?" 

He shrugs his shoulders while he watches the Sphere. "We control the whole multiverse. The number of gods we have under our command isn't small and amounts to the population of several worlds. But we have the control just because everyone is embedded in the system. What if they suddenly realize that there are sides to choose?" 

After a second of silence he continues. "If we manage to crush those rebels fast, we may be able to keep the control. But every day of fighting without defeating them will give our followers more time to realize that they could just turn around and stab into the other direction. It solely depends on what this new power will represent." 

He turns to me and looks straight into my eyes. "Either way, it surely will be a troublesome time." Slowly he fades away and vanishes. 

I sigh while I look into the sphere and contemplate about the future and my role in it.