The 10th Heaven was no longer a graveyard. The air pressure had. The grey fog was now swirling around the central platform where Lilith lay. Her body was still shaking from the Sovereigns claim.
I stood at the edge of the abyss my breathing was heavy. I could feel the power of the 7.8 percent burning behind my eyes. The Eye of the Origin was pulsing.
"Master " Elara whispered, stepping through the liquid that stained the floor. She looked at my face with a mix of amazement and worry. "The way you destroyed the Prototypes... That was not just seeing their weaknesses. You used the weight of the Void through your gaze."
"The Eye is changing, Elara " I said, my voice sounded like grinding stone. "Before I used it to find the cracks in the world.. Now my power is so strong that just looking at a weak point can make it collapse. It is no longer just sight it is erasing things by looking at them."
I looked out into the distance where a floating mountain of discarded stone was drifting. I focused on it. I did not cast a spell I just looked at the mountains core. The point that allowed it to exist. A thin beam of light shot from my eye. The moment it touched the stone the mountain did not explode it just disappeared. It was deleted from the world.
"A dangerous tool for a King " Isabella said, her energy stabilizing as she wiped her blade. ". Look at the Void. It is not just empty anymore."
Because of the Architect of the Abyss evolution the black liquid that created Lilith was now responding to my presence. The discarded parts of the failed gods. The wings, the gears, the broken hearts. Were being pulled toward the center of the Heaven.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
[SKILL ACTIVE: ABYSSAL ARCHITECTURE]
[OBJECTIVE: FORGE THE VANGUARD OF THE FALLEN.]
"Lilith " I commanded.
The Original Sin rose from the pile of wings her movements were smooth and deadly. The Brand on her thigh glowed with a fierce violet light. "My King " she said, her hair flowing around her like a living cloak.
"You were the failure the Creator threw away " I said, stepping toward her. "Use your power. Take these broken prototypes. Rebuild them. I do not want an army of ghosts I want an army of Demons."
Lilith smiled, her golden eyes flashing. She put her hands into the liquid at her feet. "As you command. We will take the trash of Heaven. Make it the terror of the Abyss."
[Status: The 10th Heaven is being changed into the Abyssal Foundry.]
[Condition: Lilith is crafting the True Demon Generals.]
I watched as Liliths fingers moved through the air pulling threads of energy from the atmosphere. She was using the deletion I had inflicted on the prototypes as material. Since I had erased their identities their essence was now a blank canvas of raw energy.
"To lead an army of the fallen one needs a heart that has already died a thousand times " Lilith whispered, her voice was seductive and it resonated with the light of my 7.8 percent power.
She reached into the center of the vortex. Pulled out the Cinder Heart of Ignis and the Shattered Logic of the Sixth Heavens mirrors. She slammed them together. The black liquid surged up to coat the fusion.
The ground cracked. A figure rose from the sludge.
He stood seven feet tall clad in armor made of glass that seemed to swallow the light around it. He had no face a single slit of violet fire where his eyes should be. In his hand he carried a halberd forged from the ribs of a Seraph.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
[UNIT CREATED: ABYSSAL GENERAL. DRAKONIS]
[RANK: PSEUDO-DEITY]
[LOYALTY: ABSOLUTE (BOUND TO THE SOVEREIGN'S BRAND)]
Drakonis knelt the sound of his armor was like grinding plates. "My life for the Void. My blade for the Sovereign."
"He is the first of many " I said, my Eye of the Origin scanning his structure. I could see the stability of his power. Lilith had done well. He was not a mistake he was a masterpiece of engineering.
"Master " Elara stepped forward her eyes were wide as she recorded Drakoniss stats into her book. "If we can replicate this... The 11th Heaven will not be a conquest it will be a massacre."
"That is the plan, Elara " I replied. I turned to Isabella. "The 11th Heaven is the source of all power. The Creator will have his guards there not prototypes but his best soldiers. We need an army that does not fear death because they are already born from it."
I looked at the horizon of the Heaven. Thousands of cocoons were beginning to form in the black ink. The Abyssal Army was rising.
As the power stabilized I felt a sharp pain in my left temple. The 7.8 percent power was beginning to feel like a cage. My body, with its dark scales was reaching its limit.
"Alaric?" Isabella reached out her hand was cold against my burning skin. "You are leaking power. Your eyes... They are bleeding violet."
"It is the price of the Architect " I hissed, leaning heavily on the Sovereigns Spine. "The more I build the more of me is required to hold it. I need to stabilize the core before we move."
[Status: First General Drakonis born. Abyssal Army 15 percent complete.]
[Condition: Alaric is suffering from Divinity Overload.]
The pressure... It is too high " I gasped, the Sovereigns Spine cracking the floor as I leaned my weight into it. Violet smoke began to pour from my mouth. Every tear that fell from my eyes was a drop of burning power.
"Master!" Elara and Isabella rushed to my side. The heat from my skin forced them back.
Lilith, the Original Sin stepped forward. Her golden eyes were calm possessing knowledge. "He is becoming a sun in a jar of glass " she said, her voice was a balm against the roar in my ears. "If he does not release this energy into his anchors he will erase himself and the Tenth Heaven along with him."
I collapsed onto the platform my body jerking. "Do it... Now."
The Infinite Bedchamber exploded into existence creating a reality where the three of them were pulled into my field. Lilith took the lead her black hair stripping away her modesty as she pressed her body against my burning chest.
"Isabella, the cold of the Sixth! Elara, the records of the Fifth! Drink from him. He dies!" Lilith commanded.
I was stripped bare in a heartbeat my cock surging to its full height. Darker than the abyss and veined with light. It was not desire it was a pressure valve.
I grabbed Lilith by her hips. Drove into her with a savage thrust. The moment I entered her the excess power began to flow. It felt like a dam breaking. Lilith arched her back her golden eyes turning violet as she absorbed the power.
It was not enough. The 7.8 percent was too vast for one.
"Isabella, now!" I roared.
Isabella moved behind me her body pressing against my back while her hand guided me into her own tight entrance as I pulled out of Lilith. The transition was a blur of friction. As I impaled Isabella, the frost energy in her womb met the heat of my power creating steam that filled the room.
Elara did not wait her turn. She knelt before me her breasts swaying as she took the head of my dick into her mouth between my thrusts into Isabella her tongue working to draw out the discharge of my power.
The ritual became a cycle of survival. I was rotating between them filling their wombs with the scalding slurry of my power. Every time I erupted the 7.8 percent would dip slightly only to be stabilized by their branded bodies.
"More... Give us more!" Lilith cried out her legs wrapped around my waist as I claimed her again. The three of them were now glowing, their skin becoming translucent as they became storage batteries for my power.
The dark Brand, on their thighs pulsed in sync with my heartbeat. I could feel my heart slowing down the pain receding as the energy was distributed across the four of us. The Architect was no longer a pillar I was a network.
Finally with one huge burst of mana that covered the whole dais in a thick glowing purple liquid the pressure in my head went away. I fell forward inside Lilith, my forehead resting on her shoulder.
[CURSE STATUS: 7.8% DIVINITY (STABILIZED)]
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: TRIPLE-ANCHOR SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETE.]
[NEW TRAIT: DIVINE DISTRIBUTOR (Ability to share damage and mana with branded followers).]
The air in the Heaven became quiet. I opened my eyes. The bleeding had stopped. The black scales on my arms were no longer cracking they were shiny and harder than ever.
I looked at the three women lying around me. Isabella, Elara and Lilith. They were red their bodies had the marks of the Sovereign their eyes were filled with a complete clarity. They were no longer my followers. They were parts of me the three women, Isabella, Elara and Lilith.
"The core is stable " I whispered, my voice now a perfect calm sound.
I stood up looking up at the ceiling of the Void. My army was rising below. My body was finally ready, for the ultimate power-source, the ultimate power-source that I and the three women, Isabella, Elara and Lilith needed.
"Prepare yourselves " I said, my gaze turning toward the Heaven. "Next we take the breath of the Creator the Creator that the three women, Isabella, Elara and Lilith and I are going to face."