Invoking AKHASHA!

Before the merging process…

"Wait, what?" a phantom asked, dumbfounded. "AKHASHA is a what?"

Serenity sighed.

"You heard me. AKHASHA is a Deity, a very old one. I suppose you can call him the first Deity to ever exist. Me, Void and Emmae don't exactly qualify as Deities. AKHASHA is near as old as we are," she said. "He is the one who established the Common Reality Leagues and most of mechanism under them."

The phantoms were stunned. When they had asked Serenity what ascension meant and how exactly they were supposed to go about climbing up the new power hierarchy ladder, they hadn't expected to hear that the AKHASHA points Serenity had mentioned were necessary to climbing up were based on someone.

"As old as you are?" a phantom gaped. "Hold on. This… this has too many implications."

"If he's as old as you… but then… worlds… how does…"

Before the phantom had an aneurysm, Serenity answered the questions she knew were vexing the phantoms.