As we were eating our food and concluding the meeting, another revelation came about, "I'm going with Simon to visit Eden." Milim had declared abruptly.
No one in the room reacted, "ok then, but I'm setting some ground rules when we get there."
"I'm also going!" Ramiris chimed in.
And just like that I had three demon lords coming with me to Eden.
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"Wooooah, this place is amazing!" Milim had stars in her eyes, Dino was equally amazed, his lethargic nature didn't show it that easily.
"Lord Dino would you please come with me now?" Nyx gently guided Dino to follow to his new station.
Dino had shivered at the prospect of doing work but Nyx had gently cooed him with luxurious food and comfortable reception.
Immediately Dino became much more receptive to the idea of working under Nyx. And that's the story of how we lured Dino in with free food.
"Hey! Simon, you're gonna show me what you're doing right!"
"Yes but first ground rules. You will not hurt anyone here and you will not destroy any structures here, you are to be on your best behaviour. Do you have that?"
"Absolutely, I will not hurt a soul!" Milim said while doing an exaggerated salute.
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We had traveled to Solcarceris first. I had decided to let her meet the dragons first considering her heritage.
I got up close to the base of the massive nation-wide tree and knocked on it, " Hello, is anyone home!?"
A section of the roots opened up and what was there was a being of light and a prismatic multicoloured eye.
The roots closed up again and the ground opened up to reveal a staircase into the roots.
The scenery before us was dazzling. The roots are vast each one the size of a mountain range, twisting into caverns, tunnels, and vaulted hollows. Within this labyrinth of stone and bark thrives a civilization of dragons.
These beast weren't mindless monsters but civilized creatures. As we were walking through the hollows, we could see dragons enjoying geothermal baths, melting down metals in giant forges and evens recording history in massive libraries.
"This… is… so… COOL!" Milim ran off to play with the dragons.
"She's quite the energetic one, isn't she?" I giggled at Milim's actions while talking to Ramiris.
"Yeah, she can be so rash sometimes, it's nice to see her so… unburdened." Ramiris didn't have her usual childish stubborn and arrogant attitude.
"You know Simon, just this area alone is nothing short of an achievement, you're quite the impressive visionary."
"Are you talking about the tree or the city? I created the tree but this underground city… well this is all Necrozma's work."
Ramiris caught a strange glint in my eyes and voice, "You sound quite proud of him."
"Why wouldn't I? Like you've said, this is nothing short of an achievement. I do wonder what they're doing at this moment."
While we were walking Ramiris posed an unexpected question, "Why do you always refer to Necrozma as a plural?"
"Oh well it's because Necrozma is actually three souls in one."
Ramiris was stunned by this but she didn't question me further, 'I guess she realized that most things I do can't be explained.'
When we got to the hollow heart, the resting place of Necrozma, they were doing exactly that. Necrozma was sleeping surrounded by hundreds of their children who were cuddling up to their massive blinding form.
Their resting place is actually the sun held up by the branches but she gave that up to stay with their children.
Milim came from behind, " Simon, this place is amazing."
" I agree, should we go and see some other places? Have you gotten your fill of this place?"
"Do we have to leave?" Milim became downcast.
"We don't, do you love it here so much?"
Milim wanted to retort to this but gave up, "No. Let's go."
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The next place we had to go was the black hole that houses the elementals.
Black haven.
The home of the elementals, governed by darkness and space that connects and blinds worlds.
Black haven had the structure of a black hole that could easily be seen as entropic. Its accretion disk is vast beyond comprehension, a blazing halo of torn matter spiraling in elegant ruin.
Yet what makes this place truly uncanny are the Foundations.
These are not natural structures, but immense, country-sized platform that drift in perfect, impossible balance around the disk.
On these foundations house millions upon millions of elementals. Beings of fire that flicker like lanterns, beings of water flowing through suspended canals, beings of air gliding between structures and beings of earth shaping the very ground beneath them.
Despite these inhabitants being on the precipice of annihilation, they were in a stable orbit and their life was completely tranquil.
The elementals have adapted to the spatial and gravitational distortions. Rivers that curve towards the sky, fire burns beneath the earth and gravity connects the foundations together.
But what was truly a spectacle was what was in the black hole.
Against all natural laws, the inside of the black hole contained a town folding inwards into itself yet still remaining intact.
An inverted world that subverts realities expectations.
It appears rural at first glance: winding dirt roads, wooden houses with sloped roofs, lanterns hanging from posts, fields of softly growing crops.
There are barns, workshops, and quiet streams. It feels peaceful, almost nostalgic… yet that's what it looked like on the surface level.
From lanterns contained miniturized stars, the wood was reinforced with a new never seen before divine alloy.
Looking up at the sky was a lattice of dark elemental energy.
This place was undoubtedly far more technologically advanced than it appears to be.
There were fire elementals that appear that tend to forges, wind elementals that tend to the atmosphere, water elementals to purify water and transform them into potions etc.
"Wow, this place is so cool." Ramiris was enamoured by the physics defying structure.
She had seen Black haven before but only from outside. She hadn't seen the inverted world before.
Milim looked to the left and saw what could only be described as an outside classroom.
An earth elemental was teaching a class of Juvenile dragons about wilderness survival.
For some reason, Milim had felt a melancholic but happy feeling.
And in a whisper, "I wish you could see this Gaia."