Time returned. In a moment, years past. One world, a religion formed, in another time kept still.
"I do, I belie–" Hou continued the sentence, he believed that Araxis would do all that he could....then he noticed.
He flashed a look to Hamar, and raised a finger up over his mouth, "shh" he said silently with his eyes. Hamar eyes wavered for a moment, then he nodded and distracted himself with Zhou Tian.
Only a moment had passed, their conversation still it went on. About the fighting sometimes, about life, about feelings. It was a lot, yet not much really.
Hou smirked slightly, 'Thank you' he spoke to Araxis with no expectation of a response. A few years had likely passed for him, Hou needed to harness that help.
Before he contacted Araxis he had a thought, a possibility.
"Some laws can be falsified...but that is only possible due to the specific nature of this world." He laid it out within his mind.
"The Solar Lands were once apart of this false world now apart of a new forming True World. If even that False World had something...unique to it, a power of it's own...falsifiability...'
Two points formed within his mindscape. The two points close by to eachother yet seperate, he put them together with a final unifying thought.
Hou sat up, he spoke aloud this time. He held his weight on his feet, rocking forward. He looked to Zhou Tian in his eyes, with unwavering confidence, and spoke clearly, "Bring them in."
Zhou Tian followed Hou's vision. It was staring right at him– no! It was staring past him, to them. His voice started to come out from instinct, "N–"
As he continued to maintain eye-contact, his heart wavered. He would not take no for an answer. Zhou Tian waved his hand and the veil separating them dropped.
The figures, a group of five, turned. They locked eyes with Hou instantly, sensing his hostility. They wanted to move but–
Around Hamar's head, a crown formed. His Royal Authority. It was a special 'law'...a force given by the Sea of Worlds for use in *that* world, Araxis'.
But he had created the false world they now lived in, and despite the vacuum created, they lived in it's shadow.
Not Hamar's sword, not the one that lay by his side, a golden blade formed in his hand. He repelled them, a few moments prior:
"Hamar, I want you to use the Royal Authority. When I tell you." Hou spoke through their Causality connection.
"Now? What about the plan? And the Causality, why did it spike?" He had felt the change when time resumed, he held back for Hou. The plan, why was it changing?
"It isn't important. I'm going to get him to lower the veil, stop them. If it doesn't work...well, we'll figure it out if that's the case. Just stop them. I have a plan."
"Won't Zhou Tian stop us?" Hamar cautioned.
On the other side of the table, the silent Hou shook his head and answered verbally. He asked him to remove the veil. Then in their causal connection, he answered, "No, he'll be our greatest help. By doing nothing."
Back to the present, the Royal Authority manifested. He spent it upon those figures, restricting them on an instant after Hou's command.
Zhou Tian snorted, but he did not move. Hou, however, did the opposite. He pushed his foot of the 'floor' and dashed to the now-frozen figures.
A vacuum. The lack of something. If there is nothing, only something can fill it's space. Hou pulled on the reserves of Causality that had flowed into him from Araxis' formed religion.
Their, Hamar and Hou's, world. That True World. It had only just formed, only gotten a sliver of land and people.
It's fate had not yet been set, it was malleable. Hou took a deep breath in and using his Celestial Ink body as a conduit, moved the Inner World outwards.
Celestial Ink, which his body was made of, could be used to change the world slightly. It was enough to allow his world to form in this Vacuum.
The white void collapsed and in its place...a sky, grass, mountains, fields, caves, rabbits, cicadas, wolves, a world formed in the space that had been left.
It was the Solar Lands. Hou shouted, "Protect the people!"
Hamar's Royal Authority ran it's course, the crown and sword vanished. Instead, he grabbed his real sword and dashed away.
It was likely a fight of a grand scale would occur, if the people were to live they needed someone strong to protect them. Someone like Hamar.
Hou's Causality dropped significantly. Beside him, Zhou Tian stood calmly in the air. He rolled up his sleeves, showing off strong muscles.
Rolling back his shoulders, he tapped Hou on the shoulder. "It's a good plan, you did well."
What had happened though? While releasing the Inner World, he used a massive amount of causality to change a little thing. Like in the False World certain Laws could be Falsified...so too in this new world would certain laws be able to be Falsified, and nullified.
The contract that bound Zhou Tian to the mysterious figures dissolves with the littlest resistance form Zhou Tian himself.
He chuckled, "You surprised me. How did you know I would join your side though?"
Hou cracked his neck, "I didn't. But I couldn't afford you not to, so you better have." The logic was wavy, but he was commited.
The figures stood up in the distance, though they had been closed before when the world had stretched out, they had been moved away.
Hou took a deep breath, "What can they do?"
Zhou Tian cracked his knuckles, "A better question would be 'What can't they do?', though they gave me much of their power...I wasn't sure, if I could, that I would have the strength to kill them."
"Causality?"
"Exactly, they know how to use Causality. Really use it. The way you used it just then, I predict they could have done it with half of the Causality."