Chapter 124 - ENUMA ELISH! (1/2)
After a very awkward morning, with Jasmine waking to see Mesa and Ophis kissing, while she lay n.a.k.e.d in the bed with them. In the end, Mesa was forced to agree to let Ophis sleep with him in the same bed and let her switch places with Jasmine every other day. After all was and done, Mesa cursed himself for being such a spineless coward that he couldn't say no to Ophis. All it took was just one single angry pouty look from her and he relented. When Jasmine accused Mesa of cowardice, he challenged her to say no to Ophis, when she gave her the same angry pouty look. In the end, she apologized to Mesa, for even she was unable to say no to her. Ophis, the Infinite Dragon God, the most powerful being in the Primal Chaos Dimension, getting her way using nothing but her charms to worm into people's hearts and take away their ability to say no.
In the afternoon, after they all had filled their bellies and had a few rounds playing Call of Duty Warzone, they took off towards the Heaven Secret Basin Realm. Or rather, Mesa used Yamato to slice open a portal towards it. Coming out of the portal, the three of them arrived in the same winter wonderland that Mesa was 14,5 months ago. Giving the Yamato to Jasmine to hold on to, he takes out the golden key to the treasury, Bab-Ilu, to retrieve Ea from the deepest parts of the Gate of Babylon.
But before he used the key to retrieve Ea, he jerked his head to the left and looked far into the distance. He felt multiple presences in the distance. And from the feel of it, they were in the Divine Stage. Jasmine too was looking in the same direction as Mesa and felt the same presences he felt.
With a deep frown on her face, she asked the question that was on their minds: ”Those presences. They are from the God's Realm. No doubt about it. But why and how are they here?”
”I don't know, but let's go and hide somewhere. I'll use the Mind Stone to read their minds and find out why and how they got here.” Said Mesa urgently and led them all to hide in a nearby cave. Sitting down and activating the Mind Stone, he started to read the minds of those presences he felt. And from the looks of it, they were here on a mission.
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14 months ago
It was during the Lich King's appearance. His appearance in the Primal Chaos Dimension had sent shockwaves through it. In the Heavenly Mystery Realm, a special Realm in the God's Realm that is famous for making predictions about the future through divination and the most famous seekers of knowledge in the entire God's Realm. They are famous for giving prediction that are always spot on and as long as they are paid their price, a very steep price, anyone can come and get the information that they want. Unlike other Star Realm in the God's Realm, they are not powerful at all. But because their information is always accurate, everyone in the God's Realm treats them with reverence and respect, even the God Emperors of the King Realms are respectful towards them. At the top of the Heavenly Mystery Realm are the three Old Ones.
When the Lich King appeared, they were suddenly vomiting blood and shaking in fear. The malevolence and aura of death and destruction that permeated the Lich King was unlike anything they had ever felt. His intrusion into the Primal Chaos Dimension was felt by them, and his mastery over death had broken anything they thought they knew over the power of darkness. And so, they went and called the God Emperors to come to them, stating that it was an emergency that could decide the fate of the God's Realm as they knew it.
As their messages went out to all the God Emperors and they waited for the assembly, they kept all their senses trained on this intruder and they could feel the sinister presence of whatever it was. But to their great surprise, this sinister presence had soon faded away. But they couldn't determine how this sinister presence had faded away.
Days later, when all the God Emperors had been assembled, they told them that they felt the sudden emergence of a presence of death in the Primal Chaos Dimension. They told them that this sinister presence had a mastery over death and darkness that outclassed anything the Devils had ever managed. They were able to determine that this sinister presence had emerged in a pocket dimension, a left over pocket dimension from the Age of the Gods. But just as fast as this sinister presence had emerged, it faded away. But they had no idea how. Surprising absolutely no one, every God Emperor present was shocked and had pledged that they would keep this information a secret at all cost and they went to work trying to find a way to reach this pocket dimension. It took them more than a year of concentrated effort to finally crack the shell that kept this pocket dimension hidden from the rest of the Primal Chaos Dimension. Once that was done, they sent out a team of elders and disciples from all over the God's Realm to investigate what is going on. What they found there, were Profound Beasts at the pitiful low Mortal Stage level. With just their aura alone, all the Profound Beast ran from them, and since they more important things to work on, they ignored all the Profound Beasts.
Looking further for the source of the sinister presence, they came upon a throne of ice. But the mere looks of this throne gave them the creeps. The four stone obelisks carved with runes of powerful dark magic surrounded the Frozen Throne. Bridges of pale blue, translucent energy stretch from the obelisk platforms to the Frozen Throne. Jets of frost periodically spew blue flames into the air, and there are glyphs carved into the rocky ground surrounding the Frozen Throne.
It wasn't much later that a tear in space was opened some ways away from the Frozen Throne where they all stood, that Mesa, Jasmine and Ophis came out.
Opening his eyes, Mesa had read all the minds of those present and knew the entire story of why they were here. Sharing the story with Jasmine and Ophis, they had debated whether to continue on with their plan. If the Heavenly Mystery Realm could detect the presence of the Lich King, then it would be certain that they would feel the destruction brought on by Mesa using Ea. And if they could detect Ea, then there was a chance that it could lead them to him and the Blue Pole Star and bring everyone in danger. Granted, with Ophis present, that danger wouldn't be very great. But it would bring the Blue Pole Star in the crosshairs of the God's Realm and that was something he wanted to prevent at all cost.
And this back and forth went on. With on the one hand leaving this dimension intact and the God's Realm practitioners as well, but inviting the risk of them discovering the Blue Pole Star. And on the other hand, destroying this dimension using Ea and having the Heavenly Mystery Realm catch on to it and also risk the God's Realm discovering the Blue Pole Star.