Ch. 154

"Is it similar to my?" Xyrus said, gesturing towards his glove who surprisingly was back on his hand.

"Yes, like the time, space and mind stone, the reality stone is similar to them." THS said making Xyrus nod his head.

"So, how am I supposed to use this? I'm already dead." Xyrus said.

"No, this is why I gave you the reality stone. You'll be making your own body and I'll help send you back." THS announced, shocking Xyrus greatly.

"I could create my own body?" Xyrus felt like this isn't true especially since he just recently acquired the reality stone.

"Of course not." THS said which made Xyrus confused.

Seeing his confused expression, THD chuckled and continued.

"Which is why you'll be training here, with me." Xyrus could feel that THS just grinned as he said this.

"Right now?" Xyrus said, he was worried about his world, he's afraid that once he went back, everything would be different.

"Don't worry, I'll halt the time of your universe, so you can train without worries." THS said making Xyrus sigh in relief.

"Shall we start?" Xyrus asked.

"It has already started." THS said and before Xyrus could react, the white space around him suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a cosmic space full of shining bright stars.

"Where am I?" Xyrus asked, his gloves also disappeared making him powerless.

"This place is where the Space Concept was first created and it is called The Void, which is the evolutionary concept of Space itself." THS explained making Xyrus feel like he's a student learning from his tutor.

"So, this is where I'll train?" Xyrus asked.

"Yes and no. This is where you'll train your Space Stone but not the other stones." THS said.

"That means once I mastered the space stone, you'll transfer me to a different area where I could practice the respective stones?"

"You are correct."

"Alright then, so how do I start?" Xyrus asked while thinking if he would master the infinity stones through meditating and such.

"Someone will be your teacher in this." THS said and a flash of white light appeared behind Xyrus.

When Xyrus looked back, he saw an all-black being, similar to the color of the void itself.

"This is one of my son's, who is also a Primordial God, Aether." THS introduced the newcomer.

"Hello there, I'm Xyrus." Xyrus offered to shake his hand.

Aether looked at Xyrus's hand before accepting it.

"You must be the Sixth Chosen One. I have great expectations on you, I hope you won't disappoint me or my creator." Aether said.

"I hope so too." Xyrus muttered.

"Alright then, let's start."

***

"The time is near. We need him to get strong fast." Veneleva spoke with a worried tone.

"How much time do we even have left?" A man in a golden robe and a huge head asked the little girl behind them who was staring idly in front of her.

The little girl was wearing a simple oversized white t-shirt however, what's noticeable was that her eyes resembles a ticking clock.

"1,000 Prime Years until the Eschaton." She uttered making them sigh in despair.

"I don't know if we could really rely on such a guy?" The man in golden robe commented as Veneleva replied.

"We don't have a choice, he's our only hope."

***

When Xyrus first started training, he didn't expect that he would be forced to become one with the space.

How you may ask? Well, Aether first threw him on a blackhole without any sort of protection, only his soul. It might sound like it won't have an effect on him but the blackhole isn't a normal blackhole, it is a blackhole not made by space but the void itself, meaning, not only it is more potent and stronger than a normal blackhole but it can also affect everything in it's surroundings, and that includes the souls and such.

Xyrus could still vividly remember the searing pain that he felt when he was first thrown to that blackhole.

It's like ripping every pieces of his soul but the pain is enhance thousandfold.

Whenever he felt like dying, his soul would suddenly adapt and then reduce the pain he is feeling.

This continued for a few years until Xyrus could already sleep on the blackhole without feeling any kind of pain.

After this, Aether came and fetched him.

And just when Xyrus thought everything was over, Aether suddenly ordered him to defend himself as Aether would literally throw Universes at Xyrus and he must control these using only his soul instead of relying on Space Stone as Aether made it clear that he despises those people who treat space as if it could be easily mastered through external means.

It took him a while before he managed to finally control one. At first, it was very hard as he doesn't even know how to control space without his space stone.

However, this taught Xyrus a lesson that he has become so reliant on the infinity stones just like when he was cornered by the Bat-God. He was left defenceless the moment he lost his Infinity Gloves and if it wasn't for the Tome of the Chosen one, especially The Heavenly System, then he wouldn't probably be alive right now and would become similar to the other Chosen One's where he would be collected by the next generation of Chosen One.

Xyrus could now control space at will but instead of using the space stone, Xyrus was using his own soul to manipulate space.

After the throwing universes practice, the next practice finally became calm as Aether would just teach him more about the fundamentals of space, their uses, and everything about them.

Xyrus is naturally a fast learner so it didn't take him that much to learn everything.

"You are now ready." Aether said to him.

"Ready for what?" Xyrus asked confusingly.

"To master the Void." Aether revealed making Xyrus gulped in excitement.

Aether always told him about the Void and it's capabilities and why it is more superior than Space.

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