Chapter 22: True Nature

They gestured to us to follow them. We then followed then into a large storage cupboard.

"What do you want?"

"Ah, Pandora always acting so rashly at certain times and so kind at other times."

"How do you-"

"Who are you?"

"Levantes Artrium Volomir. I heard so many stories about you, having destroyed the Chess King multiple times in his domain at the age of six, defeated Shaolin monks back to back after losing against one three times at the age of seven. I also know about your father's way of parenting, what a way to teach your child. They say children's minds are sharp when they're young but who knew that man would take it to that extent, yes I know of the training or should I say torture your father put you through. Some could say he made you stronger than anyone even without magic and some could say he's the real demon, a devil with no hearts and emotions. Funny how even after enduring getting swallowed by a two black holes on either sides of you you still experience pressure that you can't control. Please answer me this Levantes Artrium Volomir, why are you scared of Arachnids? Why are you afraid of socialising? Why are you scared of making friends? Why are you scared of falling on love?"

"Shut the f*ck up!" I said as I watched Pandora look at me with confusion.

"Pushed a button did I?"

"Stop playing games, I know who you are Aether." I growled.

"Aether? You mean the Primordial of Light?"

"Yes Pandora, spot on. That's me."

"Why are you doing this to Levantes?"

"Oh please stop protecting him, we both know he'll never end up with you. He saved you from so many things and you think he actually cares for you? Do you think he killed your mother because of what she was doing to you?"

"Shut up Aether." I snapped while I punched Aether in the face. I was in my Awakened Form.

"Now you're on my level Levantes but what would happen if I turned to my true magic for? You and your girlfriend wouldn't even have the time to escape, so how about we have a nice civilized chat?"

"Fine then, what do you want to talk about?"

"Let's sit on these chairs, before you do revert back to your normal form, I don't know what your charms might do to me."

"You do realise that's pedophilic?"

"Age is just a number." Aether said as she created chairs, most probably with creation magic. As we sat down on the cairs a table appeared with tea cups on it. The tea cups were instantly filled with tea.

I knew I couldn't do anything as Aether was much stronger than me and there's no way to change her mind, I could but it would take much longer than I would want.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" I said while I sipped my tea.

"Im sure you two know about the Archon King."

"You mean the Primordial King?"

"Yeah but he was known by many names, the Archon King is the title given to the person who has complete control over the Eight Kingdoms. Do you know why he was called The Author?"

"Not really." Pandora replied.

"Well, Pandora, he was called The Author because of one of his skills, you do know about skills do you?"

"Of course Aether, passive skills are skills that are always working for an example 'Heat Immunity' which allows the user to withstand 50°C-∞°C depending on the users rank and active skills are skills that you turn on and off like 'Telescopic Sight' which allows the user to see a further 100km-∞m."

"Looks like you have been studying."

"You learn that in the first class of the first stage."

"Well anyways, Yaldabaoth had a skill which allowed him to change the very plot of anything. A story consists of many things: a plot, characters, scenes and a narrative. Being able to manipulate all of those means you basically can change reality, he could do this in his base form."

"What?"

"You didn't hear me, Levantes? Yaldabaoth could change the story of anything in his base form. He could change how an object was created or change the behavior of an object almost making it seem alive while still in his base form. I've only seen him change into his Awakened Form once and that's it, he never went past 0.01% of his power, yet he could split the nonexistence in half and the only time he reverted to his Awakened Form was so that he could reincarnate. I'm sure you two already know about that. For an example, an Author of a novel can change how a character is, their background, their parents and their abilities just by a few words. We don't know what he was capable of doing in beyond his base form. He also used to destroy worlds in his free time. He once destroyed so many worlds that the nonexistence almost became empty even with the infinite amount of world. If you destroy something in the nonexistence it instantly repairs but Yaldabaoth could alter this, he made our world unbreakable so he could live in it. He destroyed our world many times before for fun and by accident so he then made it unbreakable using his abilities."

"How was he so strong?"

"You could say he was blessed or you could say he's not from our world. Anyways what do you know about him?"

"Why did he reincarnate?"

"I asked you what you know, not what you don't know."

"We know little, so could you answer my question?"

"I can't."

"Okay then we're gone."

"Bye then!"

Pandora and I rose from our seats and left the storage cupboard.

"Levantes."

"Yeah."

"Let's see your mother."

"Okay then." I said as I teleported both of us to Yggdrasil.

As we looked for my mother's house we found a river. A river made from something we didn't know, it flowed backwards as if time was reversing.

"You found the River of Youth."

"What?"

"Hello Aunt Hemera."

"Hello Pandora and hello Levantes."

"Hi, so can you explain?"

"The River of Youth is a way of obtaining immortality but not the type of immortality like the Primordial King."

"Okay then let's go." Pandora suggested.

"Where?"

"Obviously to Aunt Hemera's house."

We all then walked towards my mother's home. I then noticed a silhouette of a person quickly disappear but was too slow as I saw them.

"Knowing you Levantes, you must've come for something."

"Pandora asked to come."

"Oh then, forgive me for assuming that you only came for something."

"Aunt Hemera, what do you know about reincarnation?"

"Oh. Levantes, what did you teach her?" My mother asked me as she looked me dead in the eye.

"Nothing."

"Well anyways, if that's why you came I'll answer. Reincarnation is when a soul finds a new vessel. This can be done with a spell or a skill such as, 'Second Chance' which reincarnates the user as soon as they die. It is not possible to reincarnate into the past and the era you as are reincarnated in is not fixed for an example you can reincarnate a few seconds you die or a few hundred billion galactic years."

I then looked at my mother as I noticed something.

"What do you know about the Eye of Reincarnation?"

"Eye of Reincarnation? Well there's no way I can fool you so I'm gonna say it. You're right Levantes."

"That's good then. Anyways we're going now."

"Bye Pandora!"

"Bye Aunt Hemera!"

As we walked through Yggdrasil we spoke.

"You figured it out didn't you." I said.

"Took me some time."

Titania Alpharius Silva. A girl who acts dumb with the others but is actually a genius with an IQ of 6,714. When I first met her I new instantly that she wasn't your regular elf. She went through a training similar to mine but her training specialised in absolute intelligence. Her mother's training made Pandora's IQ and EQ increase significantly. Her BIQ is no joke as well. She's a genius who can successfully manipulate multiple intelligent groups in about a few days. She doesn't fake her personality but in certain situations she fakes some emotions. She also learnt how to have full control over her body. She has 100% control over her brain. She memorised every digit of pi at the age of seven and became a rank beyond grandmaster in chess after a week of playing. She can analyse any situation and can implement the best results for each circumstance. She can find out every possible result in a matter of a few seconds and with 'Thought Acceleration: Level 15' 1 Galactic Year of thought time equals to one attosecond. Her actual rank is High Complex Akyros rank.

"The plan's on motion then."

"Yes, Levantes."

"Only a matter of time then."

The true nature of Pandora scares even me. To a normal person she seems to be a kind person who is a bit dumb at times but to me, she's a kind person who'll do anything for a friend but if that friend's not careful their life could be ruined in a matter of seconds.

"So what happened with Athena when she fought Eris?"

"What do you mean?"

"She couldn't breathe without oxygen but she can breathe in space. Why is that?"

"I thought you realised that Eris removed her ability of 'Zero Oxygen' then amde it seem as if Athena didn't have it in the first place."

"Thought so. Anyways let's go home then I have three days until my match."

"That's true, you're gonna have to plan out how you're gonna win."

"Well that's the easy part, right now I wield the title of 'Queen' and because of that title people will have more expectations for me so I'll show them a little of my true power."

"Okay then, I'll do the same." I said as I flew into the vast cosmos, heading towards home.

A few million galactic years ago:

I found a bench in Pandora's garden.

This'll be a good place to seek refuge from those children.

My eyes were then locked on to the roof of the castle. The castle was gigantuous and so was the roof and looking at the stars which were thousands of light years away is a hobby of mine. I then jumped high enough so that I could land on the roof with ease. I looked at the web of stars which stretched out across my peripheral vision. My peripheral vision was 360° so I had no blind spots, I could also control my peripheral vision at will so I could choose ,if I want, a peripheral vision of 220° but I was stargazing so I put my peripheral vision to its limit. I watched the stars with 'Telescopic Sight' and searched the vast cosmos of stars, planets and black holes.

"What are you doing here?"

"Why is it that it's you who always ruins my peace?"

Pandora then brushed the back of her skirt as she lay down next to me and looked up at the stars.

"Maybe it's fate."

"It's not."

"Of course it is."

"You know you can't fool me like you do with them."

"What do you-"

"Don't try it. For a person that's so smart you're pretty dumb to think you could fool me."

"Looks like you're on a whole different level of intelligence compared to me then."

"14,786."

"What?"

"That's my IQ, now tell me yours."

"Oh, mine's 3,654."

"That's pretty high."

"Pretty high? I don't even know the last person who got that level of IQ. How about we work together?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know exactly what I mean, me and you can work together like two geniuses working side by side."

"We're nine."

"Doesn't matter. So what's your goals?"

"You don't need to know that."

"Please tell me."

"Fine then, I would probably want to control the Nine Kingdoms from a distance."

"Like manipulating law and order and controlling them?"

"Basically, yeah."

"Considering how smart you are, it's possible. So can I help you?"

"Well you would make a good rook."

"I'm not a piece on a chess board for you to play with."

"What else are you then?"

"We could be friends?"

I almost burst out laughing after hearing what type of absurdity came out of Pandora's mouth.

"Friends? HAHAHAHAHA! You're so funny, fine then, we can be friends but I'll use you as my rook for my accomplishments, you're smart enough to work your way through it so if you help me I'll help you."

"Deal then." Pandora said as she held out her hand in a form of a handshake.

I then held out my hand to handshake Pandora.

"Deal then." I said.

"So what do you want to do now?"

"Let's read books and stargaze."

"Okay then. What's your favorite genres?"

"Probably mystery and thriller."

"Thriller? You're psychotic you know."

I didn't answer as the work itself reminds me of him, a true devil. I then put my hand into my spatial storage and pulled out multiple books.

"What's that?" Pandora pointed as she saw the most thickest book she'd ever seen.

"Oh this, this is the longest book in history. It amounts to about a quadrillion words and there's about 12 billion or so pages so they gave parts to the book. I haven't read it but apparently it's good. It's called Secretum Diavolou, it translates to-" I said as I then opened the book.

"Yeah I know Latin and Greek."

"Finished."

"Wait...WHAT! HOW DID YOU FINISH A BOOK THAT LONG IN UNDER A FEW SECONDS?!"

"It's easy. After you read a few hundred thousand novels a day it gets easier."

"Fine then, if you're gonna flex your reading skills then I'll try to do the same." Pandora said as she took 'Secretum Diavolou' out of my hands and looked at the pages with absolute concentration. After a few minutes Pandora then quickly announced,

"I've finished it!"

"Nice." I said as I finished the book I just finished and added it to the pile of novels behind me.

"How did you finish all of them in the time it took me to read a quadrillion words?"

"Experience."

"So you read mystery books to help with your perception, analysis skills and manipulation, not bad."

"Only child, hard childhood, bullied from the age of six and bored with other kids, not bad yourself."

"Your perception skills doesn't falter does it?"

"Nor does your reading skills, I just excel at it more."

"I memorised a whole library!" Pandora said with a smug look on her face.

"I memorised and corrected grammatical mistakes of the Library of Alexander."

"WHAT!"

"In less than ten minutes at the age of five."

"Forget this, I can't compete with you."

"You're right, you have many ultimatums."

"Levantes, what am I in your eyes now then?"

"Hard to tell, I've never felt some emotions before."

"Oh then-"

We then heard a crowd chanting something that even I couldn't understand.

"What the hell."

We both then looked down at the ground and from the roof you could clearly see a cult of some sort has entered the Elven Castle without being detected by the guards.

"Looks like we're gonna have to help."

"Not yet Pandora."

We both watched as the events unveiled themselves. My mother then came to the front probably worried about me and Pandora. I could feel my mother's rage as she saw the group of people.

"WHERE'S MY SON?!"

"Doesn't matter where he is because we're gonna tear up this place."

"Tell me where my son is!" The ground shaked from the sound of my mother's voice.

Her anger only increased as the "cult" provoked her. My heart suddenly shaked slightly as I felt uneasy. Fear. I was shared of my mother right now because I could feel her malice. Being a demon I can sense any maloc from 100m radius-∞m radius depending on my rank.

"How about now?"

"Have patience Pandora. Now."

We both jumped down from the roof with our weapons in our hands. My suit and Pandora's skirt fluttered in the cold night wind as we stared at the "cult".

"Levantes, where were you?"

"I was reading a book."

My mother sighed. I could tell it was a sigh of relief considering her malice decreased.

"What are you going to do child?"

"Don't-" I stopped Pandora by holding her shoulder.

"You shouldn't have come here you know."

"And what is a nine year old child going to do, I'll tell you now I'm a High Asura rank."

I then brought my katana infront of me. The "cult" then looked at my katana with horror. Their fear was far greater than anything I have felt before. Their fear empowered my demonic abilities.

"W-W-Where did you get t-t-that?"

"Oh this?" I said as I was getting ready to unsheath it. I placed my finger upon the sheath and slowly started to unsheath it. You could only see a bright reflection but it wasn't fully opened.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US ALL?!"

I looked at the man with confusion.

Kill? I'm only unsheathing a katana.

I continued unsheathing the katana, I finally pulled the whole thing out. The blade of the katana was blood red and there was a black coloured dragon on the sides of the katana and there was a Psi symbol near the hilt. Suddenly, a bright red light illuminated the darkness.

"F*CK! YOU DID IT KID!"

"There were multiple large crater in the ground."

"Levantes-"

I looked back to see everything stop. Time stopped. I then practiced with the katana and sliced the air. The buildings about 50m radius were all cut. I then channeled all my mana into my katana. The katana grew brighter. Suddenly, dark shadows emerged from the sword.

Shit!

I then put the sheath back on my katana. The shadows were gone and time moved like normal however, the "cult" were frozen in time with blood spilling from their cuts on their bodies.

The Present:

"Remember back when I first used it."

"Oh yeah, you almost killed us all. That cult was so scared when they saw it."

"The Blade of Absolute."

"That's the name isn't it."

"Yeah. The katana of Yaldabaoth himself."

"Archon grade's not it's actual grade is it?"

"Obviously not."

"What is it then?"

"I'm sure you know the answer to that."

"Arcane. That powerful."

"The rank of Yaldabaoth. A rank given to anything on the level of Yaldabaoth. We're home."

"How about we play chess and this time I'll go full out?"

"Seems like an easy win."

Absolute intelligence, one of the most powerful traits to ever exist. Intelligence, strength and magical affinity, in this world these were the most powerful things. Have balanced stats in all three and you are the strongest being to exist. If you have intelligence but lack in the other two you could lead a whole kingdom but you are a vulnerable target. Have all but intelligence and the power you have is certainly in the wrong hands. A person with great intelligence could easily beat a person with great strength in terms of IQ, EQ and BIQ, in a fight the person with great intelligence would be dead in a matter of seconds, however if their timing is right they could easily beat the person with strength. Math is the language of many worlds, master math and you will easily surpass anyone other than people on the same level as you. Pandora is a being with great intelligence and great magical affinity but she lacks in strength, Arthur fills that hole and adds on with his intelligence and his abnormal magical affinity. Arthur doesn't know the full power of Excalibur and nor do I, I don't even know the full potential of my own weapon. The rest of the group helps in terms of strength as more intelligence isn't necessary with Pandora. Control society and you control reality, many people know this subconsciously but do not know what it means exactly or how anyone can bend reality. Reality is not based on facts but purely on what people think, that is the truth of the society we live in, so I tried controlling multiple kingdoms: Elves, Valkyrie, Humans and fairies. Absolute control over society is literally absolute control over reality without having omnipotent abilities. My true goal is having control. I don't know why but I have a thirst of having control, maybe it's a plan my old self has done that even I haven't realised, who really knows what lurks in everyone's dark minds?