11 Higher Planes (1/2)

Lightning.

Dang!!!

And Thunder.

Boom!!!

Dang!!!

The ocean roared, as if taunting the stormy skies to strike it harder. More lightning struck the violent sea, like heavenly arrows being shot at an army of water soldiers. As they strike the sea, waves would split and water would scatter as droplets. Beneath the rough waves, a plethora of new creatures swam.

Giant squids with cones, tadpole like fishes and what could only be described as sea scorpions roamed the ancient sea. The reef had diversified and expanded over the last fifty million years. All manner of ancient sea creatures lived around or within the massive reef whose size could encompass singapore completely. The reef was like a cross between a labyrinth and a dungeon, with hundreds of layers of rock, reef, flora and fauna.

The reef reached down to three hundred meters below thanks to mana empowered corals and other reef flora and fauna. Thanks to that, a diverse ecosystem of open ocean and reef creatures thrived within the vast reef. As for the great titans of the cambrian age, their numbers have reached the hundred thousands for the trilobite titans, the early thousands for the anomalocaris titans and barely ten thousand for the opabinia titans.

Near the massive reef, a cloud of dust rose from the ocean floor like a rising sandstorm. The water around the area began to swirl around a point as most creatures begin to swim away or follow the water's movements. A large crystal of ice stands at the epicentre, with the silhouette of a woman inside. The crystal begins to crack as the fifty two million year sleep has ended. Quickly, the crystal completely cracks and then shatters before dissolving into the sea water.

When the dark haired goddess opened her eyes, a blue pulse was immediately released, moving like a wave of light crossing the smooth terrain of the sea bed. The true ocean goddess immediately transformed into a mermaid and shot off towards the reef. Like in the last era, she explored the ancient seas. However, she created a tablet made of what looks like normal, transparent glass.

Thanks to the immense intelligence stats that he has in this incarnation, he could read and completely understand a one million word book in a microsecond. Thus, he thought of this whole idea in several tens of picoseconds. The tablet is a very advanced camera capable of catching a picture with the resolution of a human eyes and can even perfectly capture images of things that are moving at the speed of several mach. With the 'glass' camera tablet, she took pictures of the ordovician age.

There were many creatures during this age. Notably the sea scorpions, orthocones, early clams, armored jaw less fish and ancient sea snails. She took many pictures and even hour long videos during her exploration. The creator had planned to one day show these videos to the people of this world's modern age to explain the world's early ages. After a month long exploration time, the creator began the birth of the ordovician titans.

These titans start out with one pair less of a population than their predecessors. After that, the creator left the waters and walked to land. Right after he placed the last titan pair, he was struck by inspiration. He thought of the creation of higher planes and worlds, a concept inspired by hindu and buddhist mythology which entails the existence of higher realms of gods and lower realms of mortals.

From this, he planned to create many higher planes and has thought about laws for all the realms. Higher realm beings are always far stronger than lower realm beings depending on how much higher their plane or realm is. Second law, the law of suppression and rejection. To prevent higher beings from easily conquering and entering lower realms and to prevent unusually strong lower beings from exploiting the resources of higher realms, this law is created.

When higher beings enter lower realms, they will be rejected by the realm itself. This rejection will either prevent entry, cause a time limit in appearance and or greatly reduce the effects of abilities sent to that realm. Example, the god of time sends a spell that would make a whole world immortal, the spell that arrives would only make one person immortal. Another example, if someone in a lower realm becomes a higher being, they would eventually be rejected and expelled from the world once their power reaches a certain point.

The only exception to this law is for the dead or spirits belonging to an underworld, who will not be suppressed or rejected when entering any underworld. However, living things would be massively rejected and suppressed regardless of origin if they attempt to enter any underworld. Unless, the ruler of the underworld in question permits it. Then, I applied these two laws to my universe and all its current realms.

Next, I transformed into the Chaos Heaven. In the place of the dark haired ocean goddess, a majestic angel of light and darkness appeared. Her long, silky black hair swaying in the gentle breeze. She had seven golden angel wings and seven black wings, signifying the union between the powers of order and chaos. Her clothes and armor are a cross between a fallen angel and the holiest seraph.

As the Chaos Heaven, he flew up into space and began configuring a series of higher planes. First, he placed heaven as a higher plane where all angels will be rejected to if they use a certain degree of their power in a lower realm. As a higher plane, lower beings who are not dead would face a 99.99999% suppression in all stats if they managed to find entry. This suppression to lower beings also makes all the angels in heaven right now have all their stats multiplied by ten million times.

With that, all heavens shook as all angels began to rapidly increase in power. Even the now infinite Seven Heavens have their powers vastly multiplied. Now, they could wipe out thousands of universes in a single attack, becoming stronger than all the primordials right now. After the shaking ended, the higher ups of heaven began their first major meeting since their creation in order to understand what happened and react accordingly.

As for the creator, he fashioned more planes and changed a few places. The Archaic Lands are turned into a higher plane with 60% suppression and all of its inhabitants have their stats and abilities multiplied by around four times. Hell is turned into a higher plane with 50% suppression and its lingering sin energy would slowly corrupt things into demonic forms before becoming a bona fide demon. Hell would be connected to a new plane I call the Abyss, a realm where the sin energy is so strong that it forms a bluish or white mist.

The Abyss is an endless chasm with layers upon layers of cursed stone and condensed crystals of darkness and evil. This is the homeland of the Abyssals, the more primeval, violent and twisted version of demons. Unlike others, the Abyssals are not rejected by lower realms but have a limit to how many can be present in a realm at a time. An Abyssal is at least ten times stronger than the average demon and, the attacks from a wicked entity would only heal and strengthen them.

Also unlike their more civilized and ordered counterparts, Abyssals cannot battle physically as their true forms are incapable of leaving the Abyss itself. They could only manifest as whispers, thoughts and grant power through avatars or vessels. However, the Abyssals are also trustworthy and straightforward. They possess a degree of pride that prevents them from doing tricks which are perceived by them as the actions of lower beings.

Demons will become Abyssals if they are consumed by their own power and darkness or by staying in the Abyss for two long. The suppression in the Abyss is 99.9%, making all of its inhabitants naturally a thousand times stronger. Else than the Abyssals, darkness or evil corrupted flora also thrives within the eternal dusk. Rare materials for darkness related things are so common that even pebbles are harder to find.

At the bottom of the abyss would be Tehom. The primordial void that is under Nihilo's command is the bottom of the abyss. Else than the Abyss, there is also the Shadow Plane. The Shadow Plane is a realm between Sheol and the Abyss. Only Shades can exist here and only evil shades and animal shades are sent to the Shadow Plane. It's suppression is at 35% and because of that, its inhabitants are naturally almost six and a quarter times stronger than usual.