Chapter 728: Outsiders (1/2)

”...right, so now that you've stabilized, we can get rid of your life support.” Raven muttered as he slowly landed on the outer crust of the star.

He pondered over his options for a bit before he eventually waved his hand and retrieved the massive runes that he attached to the star before and placed it to the brush, for safe-keeping.

These runes are no longer needed since the star already stabilized. If anything, leaving it here will be more risky since they might overload the star with energy.

”There's some semblance of Laws here, the pulse is strong and steady. The space is a bit fragile but that's to be expected and time flows already. The atmosphere is ready and can hold up on its own, life is also starting to appear. Even if I leave it like this, it will grow into an Independent Star on its own. However, it's going to take some time. I might as well do something to accelerate that process.”

Although Raven has no idea how much time he had spent here so far, he's still trying to finish this trial as early as he could. Thankfully, the difficult part is over, once the star stabilized, it's no longer on the verge of dying which in turn doesn't threaten Raven anymore.

What follow this is just helping the star mature. At this point, Raven can only provide support for the star. There's not much he can do since exerting influence over this star might cause it to stagnate or worse die instead. He had to help the star become independent, and he can't do that if his influence over its growth was too large.

Weighing his options for some more, Raven eventually decided on the method he will use.

First, he will create a rune that will serve as a 'Library' for the star. This rune will scan the star and will record all of it's parameters as well as the keep records of all lifeforms that was created by the star itself. The purpose of this rune is to aid the forming sentience of the star.

Raven named this rune 'Acacia'.

Next is another rune will allow the star to recycle is longevity. Since creating lifeforms costs the star's longevity, this rune will allow the star to recycle the longevity it spent from its creation so that it can create the same thing or something way better.

He named this rune 'Gaia'.

And the last rune he was planning to create was something that will act as guardian of the star. Something that it can use against other stars or colony that tries to threaten it's existence. Since the star is fairly young, the rune will just isolate the star for now in order to hide from potential threats. As the star grows in the future, the rune will improve and will form natural defenses against outsiders. Raven made sure that this rune can never used offensively. It's exists just to protect the star.

This rune is named 'Aegis' by Raven.

'Acacia', 'Gaia', and 'Aegis' are runes that exist to serve this young star. It doesn't answer to Raven at all but he did leave an 'off-switch' to them just in case. When the star gathers more sentience, these runes will be its initial tools to help with its growth. Raven created them all at the same time, fused it with the star and left.

What comes after this is was a long wait.

Like what was mentioned earlier, Raven can't recklessly do anything at this point. The star is currently at its most crucial time for growth. In order for it to be completely independent the star needed to learn things on its own.

Raven had already done everything that he could at this point. Any more than this will be poisonous to the star. Therefore, he can only wait and observe from afar.

As he waited, Raven decided to train on a nearby asteroid. He knew that it's going to take a very, very long time before the star makes another breakthrough, he didn't want to sit idly somewhere and wait for the transformation to occur. He wanted to use time wisely so he focused on cultivating.

Just as well, he's at the vacuum of space. Laws here are Chaotic since he's too far away from the Divine Realm. Due to that, the Laws are mixed and the insights he's receiving at quite all over the place. This serves as a challenge to Raven. Risky, since if he comprehended the wrong thing, he'll be stuck in a bottleneck, nevertheless it has it own charms too.

Due to the chaotic mixture of Laws here, everything is non-linear unlike when he's at the Divine Realm. The Heavenly Law Order is stiff, linear and predictable. It is perfect for keeping up the structural integrity of the Divine Realm but it is troublesome for those who are trying to transcend it.

This why many people who are striving to become Empyreans or Divinities ventures out of the Divine Realm to experience the Chaotic Nature of the Outer Worlds. Many believed that the Chaotic Nature is the original structure of things, therefore searching for the paths they chose to follow will be easier here.

These people will only return once they're about the breakthrough. Those who are born from the Divine Realm and its subsidiary worlds aren't meant to become Empyreans or Divinities to the Outer Worlds, if they do, the Heavenly Laws of the Divine Realm won't allow them to return. They'll be tagged as Outsiders.

Raven of course has no desire on making a breakthrough here. He just want to observe now the laws interact here and gain some knowledge that he can use. He using this chance to broaden his horizons per se.

'Hmm!?'