“Yes, you can. I don’t know how though.”
“Are you making fun of us–”
“Listen to me first,” he said, cutting her off. “All of the Divinities Neo created – the Firmaments – are unique. This is why I said I don’t know how you all can grow strong, but I do know the general method of making Divinities rank up.
“If my theory is correct, you all can use that too, and it should work better for you than normal since all of you have your own energies.”
Yaleth proceeded to tell the Firmaments about everything.
Apparently, since they were energies created from Spells and Concepts, they had to complete the process needed to evolve their Spell or Concepts.
It was simple in theory.
As for if it was actually simple, they would find that out after practicing.
“What about us?” Velkaria asked.
“The condition of you two is a bit different,” Yaleth said to Velkaria, and Obitus.
The Firmaments had left to train, so only the three of them were present.
“Velkaria, you said you are from Shadow World. Since you left that place, your connection to your God – the me from Shadow World – broke and now you are a Fallen Angel.
“Obitus, you are technically a Spirit, so you need your host’s existence to act as a medium for you, or else you can’t exert influence in the material world. So without Neo you can’t do anything,” he explained.
“So I can’t grow stronger?” Velkaria asked.
“For now? Yes, it’s impossible for you.”
“Wait, what do you mean by ‘for now’? Is there a way to do that later?”
“There are only two ways I can think of: Neo makes you his Avatar, or I get out, get my memories of my research and find a way to remove your status as a Fallen Angel.”
“What about me?” Obitus asked, her normal confidence nowhere to be seen. “I really can’t do anything?”
Yaleth stared at her pitiful expression and said the words he didn’t want to say. “There might be a way for you to train.”
“What is it?!” Obitus reacted instantly.
“The World Core. It’s an object that replaces Cores for Heavenbreakers and for planets their Core. So just like normal Core, it has a part of existence of their original being inside them.”
Yaleth did not want to explain such a dangerous training method to Obitus, however, he could not see her sad either.
“If you can connect to Neo’s existence inside the World Core, or better yet, if you can devour it and make it yours, you will be able to grow stronger like you normally did–”
Obitus was gone before he could complete his words.
He massaged his temples and sighed.
“I hope she does it carefully.”
“Why are you being so kind to her?” Velkaria asked, having noticed the special attention Yaleth gave to Obitus.
“Because she, and her siblings, are Spirits that I grew using my part of existence after creating their Spirit Seed. She is like a daughter to me – the daughter you sold to The One Above All along with my other children.”
“That wasn’t me. It was the Velkaria who was with you.”
“And you would’ve become that Velkaria in the future.”
“But I didn’t.”
Yaleth sighed again.
He slowly stood up and said, “Come with me. We need to look after this place and make sure it is growing perfectly.”
“What about leaving the Cosmos? I thought that was your main goal.”
“If Obitus can devour the part of Neo’s existence stored inside the Cosmos, she will become his Avatar. Then, she will be able to open the Cosmos even if it is sealed.”
Velkaria nodded, and followed behind Yaleth.
They looked over the society that had come into existence inside the Cosmos.
“How do people die here, and on what principle does time work?” Yaleth asked.
“Huh?” Velkaria blinked. “…I don’t know?”
“Sigh, I guess Neo implemented elements in the World Core in their basic forms. That must be why light, darkness, and other things exist here.”
The absence of Elementals irked Yaleth since the objects belonging to those Elementals existed.
Seeing light without Light Elementals, and shadows without Darkness and Shadow Elementals was weird.
But things made sense here.
Neo had used Elements as a basic foundation of his cosmos.
The Elements were the ‘bricks’ that built his ‘house’, which was why bricks existed in his house, however since he had not used talking bricks (Elementals), they were not present in the Cosmos.
“We need to do something about the people who die here,” Yaleth said, biting his lips. His mind churned as he tried to think of a solution.
“A physical death kills people, but their soul will linger. Without a body their souls will twist.
“Even if we destroy their souls, and Cores, their Seed of Existence will remain, which – while it won’t mutate – can create problems over the years of deaths of trillions of people,” Yaleth muttered.
“Aren’t you worried about birth? People need to be born too.” Velkaria asked.
“Not really,” Yaleth said. “If I’m not wrong, there was something called Spell-born children in Neo’s worlds. He must have knowledge of it, and with that knowledge fusing into the Cosmos, people will be born automatically.”
“So everyone will be Spell-born here?”
“If Neo did not know any other method of birth? Then, yes. Anyhow, I want you to help me do something about death. We need to create a proper end.”
Yaleth was already thinking of Spells that could erase Seed of Existence when someone died a true death.
It was hard to implement that over the whole Cosmos, but Yaleth might be able to create it if it was only for the ‘planet’ that existed inside the Cosmos.
As for things like reincarnations, Yaleth was not a Death God and could not create a cycle of nirvana (cycle of reincarnation), so he was planning to make everyone die a true death on their first death.
What Yaleth did not know was that in a corner of Neo’s Cosmos, a mechanism of END was being born from his experiences and ideals being fused into the Cosmos.
It was a simple but efficient form of END that Neo had been thinking of implementing but had no time to implement.