The Advent of Creation

This stillness made Jody think of the most famous mountain of his last life, Mt. Everest. Although Jody was confident that his new world would have far more impressive mountains, mount Everest represented the absolute peak of the world in his last life. Nothing was higher. It had an unmovable position in its status as the number one most challenging peak to climb!

The summit of that mountain was so high in the air that the temperature could freeze the blood inside your body in no time. There had been people found in caves or crevices near the peak who had been frozen for decades with their remains in near-perfect condition. Jody wasn't sure why these thoughts were coming to him suddenly, but he felt on the cusp of a realization.

Thus, he continued to board this train of inspiration.

"Stillness…mother says this is the chief faculty of the neon principle…could this be eternal whiteness be…Pure Neo Serenity?" thought Jody, a little perplexed.

Something about these thoughts didn't line up perfectly...

It felt like forever, plus a day, before Jody saw the light slowly fade.

Rather than fade, it would be better to say a tiny dot of golden radiance gradually expanded from within the whiteness. After what felt like hundreds of years, this golden radiance became a mass of golden flames erupting outward with a boom, causing the remaining white light to shatter as blankets of pitch-black space appeared and began slowly overriding the remaining white. The golden flames shot out more white starlights, but it wasn't enough to stop the darkness. Eventually, the darkness overwhelmed, and everything went black.

This made Jody think of the Big Bang theory of his former world. The argument was that billions of years ago, our entire observable universe was the size of a peach with a temperature of over a trillion degrees. The theory was indeed very similar to what he was currently witnessing.

An explosion that created the known universe!

Those impossibly hot golden flames seemed to be at least a few trillion degrees in heat and were initially small and peachy. Merely where did the flames even come from? Could the Big Bang theory be used to comprehend calamity force?

"If I assume that the eternal white is the Pure Neo Serenity, then it was a result of the initial explosion caused by those god-like beings. Master mom said that the universe was born from primal chaos. What if that vast and endless nebula was the primal chaos? This explosion would then be the birth of the universe!" thinking up to here, Jody was in awe.

This may seem a little far-fetched, but his intuition told him he was correct.

"Primal chaos... that thunder and lightning within the chaotic energy streams must surely be the epitome of lightning law. If this was the primal chaos, perhaps that lightning surpasses what would be called laws. So then, is lightning truly the energy of the heavenly void, not the earthen planes? That thunder sounds as if it were playing a beautiful song. Also, what of those god-like beings? Could they be the origin of the universal truth?"

The cogs of Jody's mind started spinning wildly as he surprisingly discovered traces of universal truth. If lady Isis knew how her lecture made Jody instantly ration out these truths, she would be speechless.

What was a genius?

Of course, this was also because Jody had his old world's historical discoveries in science documented in his mental filing cabinets.

"The epitome of lightning can stand next to the mighty primal chaos. The collision of truth and chaos created a new supreme. The music of destruction! The magic of life! A Chaotic Melody of Destruction! The Advent of Creation! So then, if the darkness swallowed the golden explosion born from within the white stillness, then what is the darkness? Unless...argh..."

As Jody thought to here, he received another head-splitting pain.

It felt like he was being torn in two from his skull. Jody didn't know that this was the universe's will attempting to suppress him! He was far too intelligent, and the universal truth was alerted. However, he ignored this pain and tried desperately to hold on to his last train of thought, "What else could be born from eternal stillness? Relentless frenzy! However, does this seem correct? Not quite."

"The relentless frenzied flames of Pure Dawn Calamity, born from within the eternal stillness of Pure Neo Serenity. When they exist in unity, do they summon the laws of creation? The power of the heavens. So then this darkness is…the heavenly void? The manifestations of spatial law? Could this be the birth of the skies? After creation, the nine sky layers gave structure to the world!" Jody was astounded by this thought.

Eureka!

Sudden enlightenment!

This dark void that no light could penetrate through, what if it was the hollowed shell of what remained after the primal chaos gave birth to neo and dawn? Could it be that if Neo and Dawn are in stasis, then they are not more powerful than the heavenly void? Will the void eventually swallow them to become chaos once more? What happens if the calamity produces a bit of serenity? Could he have it backward? That eternal white was, in fact, not so eternal. He saw the white and then the golden flame...wait.

Light.

Flames emit light.

Sudden enlightenment!

The eternal white must be the heavenly void! The light of the skies was so pure it looked white. The heavens were born when order was given to chaos. From within, the first thing to exist was the relentless golden flames of frenzy! This meant that this still white was never still at all! The light of the frenzied flames was so blinding that it blanketed the cosmos in white! This was before the flames even expanded. From within the calamity of cosmic fire came what?

Stillness!

Peace was required to overwhelm the frenzy! The new budding universe was returned to the natural serenity of the void.

"I finally understand...I had it all wrong. Good thing I didn't stop halfway. Who knows how long it would have taken me to correct my error."

This type of mistake could ruin his entire path, as he would have gone the wrong way from the start.

It felt like years and years had passed in the quiet darkness. Countless stars and energy waves were still pouring out of the explosion to form a vast and endless cosmos.

After what seemed like years of pondering in the dark stillness of space, Jody could see millions of tiny lights appear in the distance. Before long, various stars and satellites flooded everything Jody could see. After another long period, Jody could see magnificent and enormous beasts the size of planets gliding through the universe like birds in the sky. Jody saw life taking shape and the elements being created as those behemoth phoenix and dragon-type divine beasts sang their songs.

Melodies that could only be felt and not heard. A wonderful sort of energy that Jody felt was very similar to Twilight but also different. More basic. Intrinsic. He instantly fell in love with these melodies and immersed himself in them.

After a long time had passed, Jody finally saw the two supreme god-like beings once more.

They were covered in different colored light halos that masked their features, but Jody could make out fashionable crowns on their heads. Jody instantly recognized these crowns because, to his shock, they looked about 90% similar to his own [Pharaoh's Law]! The supreme beings flew to different corners of the universe, creating life! One was making planets, Great Worlds! The other created terrifying monsters from hieroglyphics, starting with divine dragons and what looked like mighty winged-behemoth elephants.

This continued for only the gods knew how long until they got into some kind of heaven-shaking dispute over a particular blue planet that looked like a super-earth.

"Could it be? Are they the real True Gods who created the universe as we know it?" wondered Jody as he observed the deities.

They were not quite as massive as before, but they remained the largest existences he had ever seen. They stood in opposition, the tension feeling like a war would break out between them at any second. A conflict between such creatures would surely be devastating.

Out of nowhere, they both looked directly at what Jody could only surmise was himself.

This left him bewildered, as he thought he wasn't even really there and that this was just a scene playing in his mind. Despite his thoughts, Jody felt like these two illusions had locked onto him through space and time. This totally scared the shit out of him. Both supreme beings released their force at this moment, causing the cosmos to shake from the power!

. . .PROMETHEUS. . .

[Imp: The True Pharaoh of Twilight is watching you.]

[Imp: The True Pharaoh of Origin is watching you.]

[Imp: The True Pharaoh of Death is watching you.]

[Imp: The True Pharaoh of Destiny is watching you.]

[Imp: Eternal War is watching @%X&.]

[Imp: ETERNITY SEEKS TO BEHOLD YOU. WILL YOU EXCEPT?]

[Yes/No?]

The scene that seemed to last for hundreds of millions of years ended here.

Jody stared at the seven-colored prompts in puzzlement. Too many things were happening. All he knew was he got a terrifying feeling when the prompt about Eternal War appeared. Then there was a crazy distortion before the entire format of the prompt changed. Jody was once again locked in time until he answered. But this time, he didn't even consider it much.

'No.'

[Imp: A portion of unknown authority covers you.]

Jody noticed that all the watching True Pharaohs were the ones who had given him boons. Well, all but the True Pharaoh of Destiny. Jody had originally presumed destiny and fate were the same thing. Seeing this True Pharaoh's title, he knew he had to reconsider.

Still, only the True Pharaoh of Twilight could distort the system like that.

He didn't know what happened, but remembering that vision, he felt unsafe. What exactly was ETERNITY? What was Prometheus? This wasn't the first time powers beyond his knowledge had referred to him in this way. After more than five days, Jody opened his eyes, which briefly glowed with radiant golden light!

To Jody's shock, the origin gem had already turned into powder in his hand and blew away in the wind when he opened his clenched fist. His source artifacts were deactivated, and even Eureka was forced to return to the [Cosmos Revolving Grimoire]. He saw twilight prompts appearing but could barely focus.

[Imp: Time for....]

Totally exhausted in mind, body, and spirit, the little guy finally passed out.

Isis floated down to her son, giving him a doting and warm smile. She remembered being utterly shocked when her son told her he had contracted a twilight beast, the Twilight Sphinx. She couldn't believe it until Jody told her that this truth originated from his source artifact!

This was incredible to Isis for two reasons.

First, this meant that an artifact spirit lived in her son's source artifact. This was super rare. The boy may not know the real significance of this, but Isis definitely did. This meant that the boy was indeed in possession of a fusion legacy! He really didn't need a mental energy guide at all.

Second, since he had chosen to fuse with a dragon, who knows how much knowledge is hidden within that artifact spirit? This was the soul of a divine creature like a dragon. Its knowledge likely far exceeded her own! This treasure vault of knowledge was something Jody could only discover for himself as he grew.

Isis found herself slightly jealous of her son's great judgment.

With the way he idolizes his father, she was confident he would choose to fuse with the Sky Wolf combat soul, even if he found out he had a dragon type combat soul. However, he had selected the dragon instead! The wolf was his companion now, just like how her own Dragon-type combat soul was now her symbiotic companion.

Of course, technically, it was her companion who made this choice...

Isis had two combat souls but chose to fuse with her Ten-Tailed Fairy Foxx combat soul on the Destiny platform. She had her own reasons, but she finally felt some regret when thinking of her son's potential. They were initially so similar! However, the boy's path would be filled with far more exciting adventures than hers if he managed to survive until he grew strong.

It was her duty as both his mother and his master to ensure he did just that.

Well, anyway, it was far too late to change her own or Niagara's fate.

"The Twilight Sphinx kitten is the real treat…" Lady Isis' eyes grew hot as she thought about the little kitten.

A baby Moonlight Sphinx, while unusual, was not as shocking. A Moonlight Sphinx was a mere origin beast and was a weaker variant of the Still-Heart Lunar Sphinx. It didn't have any distinctive traits, and its flames were of a lower tier. As for what a Twilight Sphinx was? That was the ancient ancestor of the Still-Heart Lunar Sphinx, a twilight beast!

The boy had a baby ancestor-level creature by his side.

If her clan knew about this, perhaps she may even have a chance to return in glory. Then, she could definitely pack up her best friend and their kids, escaping this backwater country full of evil perverts and wicked plots. With such talent and luck, this child had the weight of destiny on him! Not only that, but the Twilight Sphinx could convert energy stones into serenity diamonds. She could convert top-grade materials into twilight material.

Isis had never even heard of an ability like this before!

This boy had just given her a shortcut to the next realm.

"With a dozen S-Grade serenity crystals and some twilight materials, I simply won't need to continue this farce. What did Jody call them, trilliants? I can take my son, Omotolani, Milly, and leave. Alas, even then, this goal can still be considered far in the distance…time is of the essence."

Isis sighed, looking up into the clouds.

"Time...if only we had more time."