CHAPTER 227

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With Operation Thanos Prime officially on the go, it was time to focus on my next item, conquering the earth, but not really, the quest of the day, or week, who knows how long it will take me, as there were many things to consider, details more than not.

So I had the Ancient One taking care of that, at times I feel like I should have her on a six-figure salary, maybe a seven-figure salary. Anyway, in the meantime, I was focusing on other matters, like planning for Knull's arrival. What can I say? My agenda has been quite busy this week, but back to Knull, as I planned for him, I sadly realized I was more unprepared than I first imagined.

My original plans were simple, rather straightforward so to speak, and that was collecting the infinity stones, and using their power against him, unfortunately, I soon found out, that would not be possible.

Why? Well… allow me to explain.

At the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, at the forge of creation. The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals hurtling across the virgin universe. These crystals were known as the Infinity Stones with each controlling an essential aspect of existence.

Now… where is the problem in all that?

Well, the problem is that Knull existed before… existence, he was there before the dawn of the universe, he was there before time, space, anything for that matter.

He existed before everything, including life, for life was created later, through the hands of the Celestials.

Knull existed before the very fucking concept of life and death, meaning he's older than one primordial beings in creation, which also means he's immortal, well, technically the term with him is amortal.

What's amortality? I'm glad you asked voice in my head.

Amortality differs from any form of immortality in a fundamental essence, which is defined as a living being who cannot die, while amortality means entities who cannot die because they were never alive, to begin with. Almost like a ghost but not really, because ghosts were once living beings, and Knull was never that.

To put it on better terms, Knull is forever frozen in a state of unbirth, rendering him unable to die due to not being alive at all, to begin with. Meaning he essentially lives in a state that's considered neither dead nor alive.

Meaning, that not only that the stones can't affect him, because he's a being outside their realm entirely, but death as well.

Which explains why they sealed him instead of killing him in the first place because the latter was impossible to achieve.

But, fortunately for me, even amortals can die, which… on itself, it's a paradox.

"I will get a headache with that," I sighed.

While ammortals were certainly the closest thing to true immortals I knew for the moment being, that they were not invincible, with them still susceptible to certain things, like for one, being erased which came in handy with my skill, or being given life.

What do I mean by giving life? Well, exactly that, giving life to him. Granted, both ways required me to be well above his level, which I wasn't, but it was good to know there were solutions.

"I suppose I can do the Knull time walking dungeon for training," I mused at the idea, I mean, fighting against Knull, or at least a copy of him, would give me a general idea of what to expect.

Then again, I could also save myself the hassle, and use the time stone to see him, but that would open the possibility of being caught, which would not be ideal.

Bottom line is, that I have some options.

Dangerous options, but options nonetheless.

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As I dwelled on the Knull subject for hours without a clear path to take, I started to experiment with powers I had obtained after absorbing Tiamut, if anything to pass the time amongst them, there was the ability to create sentient life, from humans to Eternals, how cool was that?

Of course, I wasn't quite ready to create my own species, and the implications that brought, so I decided to create something simple, a dog.

Sure, it wasn't an adventurous project, but it was good enough for me. Needless to say, the dog I created wasn't a normal dog, let's just say to short the story up, that I got creative while playing around with my bible like powers and ended up creating the marvel's version of Krypto the dog.

An Eternal-based dog, using a golden retriever as an aesthetic base.

[Fernando De La Vega Walker - Eternal Dog - LV 244]

He… he picked his name, I'll be honest… I have no idea what went wrong with him, like, for some reason he acts like a telenovela actor, from Spain.

"It is! Fernando De La Vega Walker! Primero!" Oh yeah, he talks and barks.

"Didn't I tell you I was working and I wanted to be left alone?" I asked with a sigh.

"Indeed you did, but since then, two whole long painful minutes have passed! And I! Fernando De La Vega Walker! Primero! Can't leave my honorable owner alone! It is my duty to protect you! It is written in the code of dogs! A CODE I uphold with my life!" Code of… he has been alive for ten minutes!?

I sighed, maybe next time I'll test my powers with something… less excitable, a turtle maybe, "Wanna go for a walk?" 

"A walk, I knew doing my duty would eventually bring this poor dog his reward, to think I Fernando De–" At this, I glared at him, his name thing was getting old, which was to say something, he was ten minutes old or so, "I apologize, honorable master, I shall refrain from saying my caliente name!"

I snorted, hot-name my ass, "Sure, by the way, I have a cat," I added.

"That's no problem! As the superior pet, I shall protect that inferior being! Loving him, or her, with the love only a superior pet can offer!" Fernando barked wagging his tail, as he put one paw on his furry chest.

"Hmmm," I should warn him about the tentacles, but I kinda want to see how this unfolds, "Sure."