Chapter 78 - Cocoon

A 100 year have passed, Caelum had spent those time with each of his girls trying to strengthen their bonds with some gone exploring the world on their own, mostly Mereoleona who enjoyed the thrill of fighting. He lets them know when they are in danger courtesy of his [ Harem Parameter ]. This time, Caelum had stopped expanding his empire and let other humans prosper yet the support of humans could not contend with him. 

The widespread knowledge in creation of magical tools was progressing rapidly thanks to Caelum guidance and helped them grow. The [ Magic Science Usage ] was a great help in mixing magic and technology which helped the production of agriculture and life much easier. 

In those times, dragons and humans had actually started to produce with each other causing most of his citizens to turn into artificial dragons because of the dragon slayer magic. Fortunately, Caelum changed the space of the empire to be a lot larger than it looked using complex runes and magic. 

The One Magic that had more than 1500/3002 magic collected in his central magic attribute that was expanding within his Sea of Consciousness. it appeared like an archive or record that it gave him countless ways to mix and match magic attributes like water that burns and wind that drowns. A contradicting situation yet the power was beyond expected. 

In those times, Caelum had reached [ Low Xiantian Realm ] that had a flawless foundation capable of fairing even higher realms. He didn't let his responsibility hold him back when it comes to training and kept on growing as time went by. 

His power had allowed him to begin to absorb other energy that naturally produced by the world and acquired the [ Nature Energy ] that could be a higher type of elemental energy while below by large gap with [ World Energy ]. He had developed a slayer style that absorbed any kind of energy be it the moon or flames due the numerous magic that he had. 

'Huh??'

Caelum was busily cultivating trying to perfect his energy that was rapidly expanding which would cause his power to collapse and become unstable if he didn't try to slow it down. He felt something had breached the world that caused it to form a crack. Without moment to waste, Caelum went to investigate and found Selene was heading there as well. 

"Did you sense it as well?"

"I wouldn't be here if I didn't. Still this presence is within the rift between dimensions."

Selene opened a crack in space and instantly felt something was wrong and almost sucked by the portal, however, Caelum didn't let that happen and pushed her back while he was taken by the current of energy from the crack. He soon found himself in a crystallized place with numerous distortions and felt it was constantly in influx. 

Caelum used his Spiritual sense to try and peer at what the place was only to be taken aback by the result. 

'How can this be? A rift in space and time?? Is it because of my presence that it's changing??'

He could see numerous time gaps and possibilities that were constantly changing all at once. Caelum could see that fate was trying to fix itself while he couldn't do anything about it. His presence was like a virus while the verse was the body with an immune system trying to remove him and fix it to how it should be. 

'I don't know why but to think that a few gaps from the canon would seep into this world.'

Caelum could not understand why as the way he was right now and only felt the presence of it because he had reconnected to the world itself. He tried using [ Yog-Sothoth, lord of space-time ] and found that it was refused to work on how it should be. 

'Wait Isn't this the perfect opportunity to gain more insight in time and space?'

He proceeded to take the opportunity to comprehend the dimension between space and time trying to find how it could be harnessed into his magic. At that moment, energy began to violently erupt within Caelum constantly fluctuating that soon washed himself with pure and profound energy that was constantly moving and changing. 

The flowing river and sand of time had been established into Caelum having a more clear understanding of time and how it works. He ended his training and decided to refine the dimension into his being. 

Caelum opened his mouth and soon the energy began to rapidly increase his rank causing it to be purified and refined through the time. He could feel time went like a breath without even noticing the subtle change yet Caelum knew that another hundred years had passed and had allowed him to reach [ Middle Xiantian Realm ] having closer to reaching the Golden Core. 

He soon found himself at endless nothingness that was the gap of dimension for the world of Fairy Tail. Caelum is still far from acquiring the [ Void God Azathoth ] and absorbing chaos and void energy. 

'I should wait a moment before heading out. Mio and Mia would just inform the others that I'm alright.'

Caelum soon took the time to fix any flaws that he could find while the [ Soul Warming Lotus ] was affected by the time influx that had helped strengthen his spiritual sense. Once that was all over quickly opened a portal straight to his empire to find his woman who went to hug him.

"How long have I been out?"

"Few decades or so…"

Cereza said that caused him to pale, feeling saddened that he had left them for that long until he heard her giggling then frowned, realizing that she tricked him.

"Hahaha you should see the look on your face!"

"You!"

Caelum pretended to be mad then tighten his hug since he had felt spending almost a few hundred years from the time rift without knowing what the real time was but fortunately he was able to return without a problem. 

"Do you have a clue who created the rift in time?"( Selene )

"Time rift?"

Everyone exclaimed about hearing something that was new to them. The concept of time wasn't new but the term of travelling through time and distorting the river of time was new to them. 

"It's where time was disrupted and caused a ripple of distortion in time. Though, I don't know anyone capable of travelling through time."

"This meant that another timeline had gotten into the streamline in this world."

Caelum had felt it but couldn't be certain what the cause of it or who. He just needed to wait until he was able to access the memories of fairy tail. 

"Okay you already lost me."( Mereoleona )

"You girls don't need to worry, I've already absorbed the Rift."

"I feel like I shouldn't be surprised but here we are."( Selene )

"You know me."

Afterwards they head back to relax, and soon Caelum began exploring the Time Rift within his being and peered through every corner for his body only to find that it was completely gone however he could see his blood ahd completely turned into gold yet had stellar light radiating from it. 

'Did it cause my blood to advance from the time distortion?'

He analyzed his body and discovered that through age it was getting stronger and richer like wine. Caelum couldn't exactly pinpoint why but the rapid aging caused his body to be stronger than before. 

'How long exactly did that time rift distort my flesh to have a noticeable effect?' 

Caelum spent 100 years and never noticed it because it was overshadowed by his advancement in Essence Gathering Cultivation. Now that he had taken the chance to peer into his flesh found that it was ideal to rapidly age his flesh to refine and temper it. 

'Still I might be ageless immortal I'm unsure what kind of time could enrich my body…..wait!!'

The moment it happened was when Caelum instantly could feel the violent reaction of the life and death energy began to churn, whirling within his flesh began to age yet the constantly rigorous energy of life balances the two. He could feel the age was refining his flesh that every fiber removed the flaws that it once had. 

Through the constant tempering of being aged and healed by the energy allowed his physical body to be at its prime. Caelum Dantian exploded slowly expanding, turning into intense pure essence that soon condenses into orbital sight like atoms with energy surrounding the center of life and death. 

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At the Earthland Divine realm. Ankhseram grew frustrated feeling his grasp with his authority over life and death was slowly being stolen from him by an otherworlder. He flared his power that spread violently that shook his servants that were kneeling in fear.

'Why are those gods refusing to help me!!'

He exclaimed in anguish having been abandoned by the other gods for his frequent intervention on Earthland. They have already severed their connection to the world and remain in their domain with only few who always take action in the world. 

'No, perhaps I can use humans to my advantage…no, It's better to prepare and confront him!'

The desperation was clear in his eyes observing Caelum while waiting for the opportunity to fight him. He couldn't be careless and send his servant that would likely lose. His only option was to plan and prepare to fight him.

'I might be able to confuse those battle orientated gods to join me and defeat him together. His cunning young man knew about my curse and turned it into a blessing. I don't know how he did it but his movement shouldn't not be taken lightly.'

Though he was desperate, Ankhseram is still a being who has lived for countless years and knows how to control himself when the situation arises. 

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"Achoo! I wonder who's missing me."

Caelum sneezes which would be impossible considering his immune to any ailment to Mia's skill to give him instant regeneration and immunity to any ailment. He finished his new insight regarding his flesh and newfound ways to strengthen his body. 

'I didn't plan to get the curse and eat those emissaries but hey, free lunch I guess.'

He jokingly said having felt the life and death had aged his flesh enough to notice the growth happened. Though, it was slow and tedious still gave him a new way to temper his flesh. He was already at the bottleneck of his first gate that a few more years would finally unblock it. 

Caelum ended his training and went to join his lover who happily welcomed him. His true age was now a few hundred thousand years after mixing the effects of [ Maveth, The True Death ] and [ Yog-Sothoth, Lord of space-time ]. 

Though, it placed a strain in his mind because his perception was affected by the tempering.  Regardless, it was not a negative thing but beneficial for his mind and heart. 

'Hmmm let's end this for now.'

Caelum drew out his Consciousness back to the real world where his strength had reached several fold than before. 

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Another 100 years had passed, Caelum was now in the mountains far from his empire having almost completed The One Magic collecting over 2500/3002 magic and researching them to create numerous magic theorems that combined the attributes of the magics. 

At the current time, he had made sure that his family was informed that it would take at least another 100 years to reconstruct his body from the rebirth. He had taken the 100 years to create the methods that would safely make him a natural born dragon rather than just a bloodline. 

'I should not let them wait for long.'

Caelum finishes creating the runes that contain many spells that he combined to form the process. He needed a long time to be sure and the result was certain that it would work without fail. 

The key component was his mind's presence from all time and once the spell activated began to deteriorate his flesh yet still preserve it then soon started to form a cocoon around him that appeared like an age. After a while the whole mountain shook violently then caused a pillar light to shine and created an egg at the center emanating a powerful energy.