lily looked up in awe at the massive serpentine creature in front of her its eyes glowed like two blazing golden suns and its house sized scales gleamed with a beautiful purple hue despite the lack of light.
and the voice was the most surprising that only now started to register that the voice came from within her mind and sounded like a feminine young lady instead of this massive creature that was clearly was Infront of her
''I'm sorry if this sounds offensive but where am I and how do you know lord Apo?"
The very darkness around them shook violently as the massive serpent laughed ''little child of apo this is the gap a place in the center of space and time I'm one of the pillars of reality just like your lord apo and advert.''
lily had a confused look ''who is advert?''
the snake lady just gave an amused hum as she continued ''let me explain child, this is a space of possibility the shadows in front of you is the future the shadow Infront caused by messing with time while the lights behind you is the future you can possibly make.''
lily looked at the shadows ahead led by the abyssal claw which caused so much suffering and the shadows behind it though more numerous had the bloodthirsty energy around them. While the few massive creatures behind her although scary looking all had this positive vibe... lily glanced at the red bird covered in black flames that gave off a very wrathful energy but also one full of saddens for some reason.''
the massive snake lowered its head to glare at lily more closely ''worry not child your fate although note planned by the universe creates a future that saves millions of lives and changes everything.''
lily noticed as she said the last bit she was eyeing the giant blue skeleton and the green moon with legs as if only those two really matter in the grand scheme of things.
hesitantly lily asked ''so what exactly are you then?''
the snake answered as if explaining something simple to a child ''this land of possibility is my domain you entered when the residual chaos energy inside you touched the abyssal energy in the soul artifact which sent your soul here.''
lily thought about how the red energy that suddenly sparked to life when she touched it as realization sparked to life in her mind, but the snake lady just continued speaking.
''The blue pillar over there is me Argoyo the cold fate, The red pillar is Furor the heated chaos.''
she slowly turned to the two damaged pillars opposite of the blue and red ones.
the cracked black pillar is Advert the pillar of destruction unfortunately he was sealed after killing apo the pillar of creation... you could say despite our physical differences as pillars all four of us are basically siblings unfortunately only me and apo felt that way.''
lily's entire body went cold as understanding dawned on her, the pillar of destruction was the demon that killed lord apo and was forcibly sealed in another dimension.
lily stared at the black pillar full of crack showing how much weaker the demon was now despite its titanic size.
she then turned to the broken white pillar that was now just a collum.
she turned to the snake after thinking for a bit earlier you said you wanted to make a deal but how exactly will I be able to help someone as powerful as you?''
the snake lady reveled a massive grin as if plotting something. ''You only need to do one of three things. the easiest one is keep fighting and let your actions change history about a million years later. or absorb apo's remaining power and take his place.''
lilies eyes widened as she only now realized the broken pillar was also glowing albeit very slightly.''
'Is that even possible' she thought to herself when the next words completely shocked her.
''The final option is to revive Apo by finding his core and a strong enough vessel''
''WHAT!!!'' her mind was racing at this new as everyone thought Lord apo was dead for good and best of all the abyssal claw admitted on camera that Steve origins body was a powerful vessel that was able to hold anything which is why his clones are so powerful.
Argoyo ignored her shock while continuing to speak ''as an anomaly outside of fate. I give you my blessing and the power to steal other fates making you a fated anomaly able to change the future forever.''
a golden flame shot out of argoyos eyes and completely engulfed the still shocked lily in golden flames knocking her out.
the next moment she awoke she saw a worried terra staring at her in shock
terra just pointed at lilies face nervously unable to say any words.
she quickly understood something was wrong with her face when cortex had a nearby drone come over and display a mirror for her to see herself in.
her once lime hair was now a deep purple and her was emerald eyes now had golden irises and purple pupils in the center.
suddenly her eyes glowed a bright gold with purple tint as she started seeing things around her, she never noticed before.
looking at terra and sky they both had a small golden flame at their centers while cortex had a blue flame at his center.
what truly peaked her interest was the powerful black and blue flame coming from the book she grabbed earlier.
she looked afar and saw multiple flaming energies in the distance swarms of small red flames were ganging up on two powerful blue flames while a golden flame battled a blue one above.
that's when she noticed a powerful gold and silver flame blitz past her and head toward two massive black flames clashing above the ocean with numerous small grey flames under them.
'Hmm... interesting gold flames are those favored by fate, blue are those who seem to play important roles, black are anomalies, red seems to be Chaos and grey seems to be the average creatures dull fate.' she thought to herself before wondering about the half silver fate she saw speeding past her
'if this book is an anomaly like me I wonder what information it holds?' but before that thought could fully finish a loud explosion rung out nearby.
when she turned, she saw the countless red clones which was defiantly greys clones being tossed by the green clone as it tried its best to escape.
but the purple in lilies eyes overtook the gold as she felt an almost primal hunger in her very core as she stared at the blue flame growing in size and power inside the green clone.
terra stared at lily cautiously as one second, she picked up a book passed and then stood up like nothing happened only to flash everyone with a powerful golden light and stare off in random directions.
terra was about to step forward to check up on lily when the purple in her pupil overtook her eyes a hungry gleam entered them. the next moment she formed a glyph in the air and walked through a portal without saying a single word.
grey was focusing on keeping the clones in place by having his own repeatedly eating them alive and have the others save anyone nearby who couldn't escape or got hit by stray attacks when suddenly the green clone suddenly started growing larger and more powerful, so he had to send more clones that only seemed to slow down its power up not stop it.
grey was starting to panic as the clone was now the size of a building when a portal opened on its shoulder a purple haired dark elf walked out.
grey was dumbstruck because he has never seen this dark elf before but his connection to his summoner was telling him it was lily and that's when he finally noticed her odd colored eyes.
in less than a second grey and all his clones froze in pure fear as the watched what happened next.
what he could only sense with his now enhanced echolocation was now visibly in front of his eyes, but he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
lily was sucking the very essence of the creature, if he didn't know better, he would have thought his soul was being consumed but the clones don't have souls, and he knew that for a fact.
but there she was eating the very energy that powered the creature and seemingly enjoying it as her purple hair gained dark green highlights.
the giant body of the clone dropped to the ground completely powerless and lifeless.
lily slowly descended to the ground as a green hue surrounded her body as if seeping into her.
'Crap! she seems to be in a strange trace i need to protect her.' grey thought when suddenly he felt a green energy course through his body and enhancing everything
''woah!''
Quinn was moving at his speeds thanks to the electricity enhancement from the demigod core he stole but the moment he entered the water his body seemed synchronize with it as membrane seemed to cover his mechanically body as gel like membrane stretched out his back like countless tentacles.
Quinn sank underwater but instead of feeling panic he felt at home and moved twice as fast underwater.
unfortunately, the farther out into the ocean he went the more resistance he felt as their clashes sent out massive shockwaves.
Quinn could feel the darkness clashing with negativity above the ocean but all he saw around him were dead fish that couldn't make it out in time.
Quinn slowed his speed and power output as he stealthily watched the fighters above in utter awe.
not even a full day ago he was the final boss in a game to study all who entered the city and if they proved too difficult, he could just block their power use.
but now he only had a few options the physical power of his new physical body and the electricity or poison membrane his body's core had.
unfortunately, he still was unable to use his quantum abilities in the solid world yet but that was fine he could mix some of his original energy with his electricity to do extra damage or so he thought as he watched queen furrum covered in a smokey negative energy fighting off what seemed to be an army of abyssal claws that used the power of darkness to eat away at the negative smoke from every direction.
Quinn knew from the records his mother had the although the queen was extremely powerful and gained more power the more negative emotions were in the like the currently panicking citizens.
despite all that her main abilities lied in enhancing others or defending, so he knew all she was doing was holding out.
Quinn went deeper and started charging up a powerful charge whilst lying in wait.
furrum was blasting them away and moving quickly but for every abyssal claw she defeated another twenty took their place and she was not only being overwhelmed but her negative energy which usually makes any other power just cease was being eaten by the darkness he had.
''Give up little rat! join the winning side and you could feed countless souls to your Patreon.'' the abyssal claw echoed out after seeing the queen slow down and
furrum was huffing and panting as although she still had plenty of energy her physical body was exhausted.
the queen glared at the abyssal claw ''Yeah right, my Patreon knows all about you an angry man that time traveled and suffered hundreds of years of suffocation for your crimes now on a quest to wipe out your home so you wouldn't have to go through all that again since your stuck in a time loop of your own making. get over yourself everyone has suffered.''
for the first time ever, emotion could be felt from the abyssal claw pure and unrestrained rage "YOU ALL KNOW KNOTHING OF SUFFERING! being inflated and frozen from the inside while constantly suffocating while unable to die because I wanted to play hero? no this world needs to be cleansed and so I shall steal everyone's fate to save my own that seems fair to me!"