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Chapter 390: A New Guest
The silence that followed the dissolution of Deimos was not empty; it was thick with the weight of unsaid things.
Sunny stood in the cooling embers of the Negation Domain, his violet gaze fixed on the girl who called herself Allegra.
She looked fragile now, a slip of a girl with ruby eyes and starlight skin, but he knew that within her lay the power to hollow out a group of multiverse with ease.
"Allegra," Sunny said, his voice dropping to a low, resonant frequency that vibrated through the very fabric of the dark. "Before I tell you more about the man who disturbed your sleep, I must speak to you of the cliff you are standing on. There are truths about the Real Void that your centuries of slumber have hidden from you."
Allegra blinked, her youthful face tight with a sudden, instinctive tension.
"What dangers...?" she whispered, her throat bobbing as she swallowed.
"To be plain," Sunny said, stepping closer until he was a mere shadow in her vision, "if we were to combine our strengths right now, my Laws and your Negation, and march upon his doorstep, we would still lose. We would not just be defeated; we would be erased. He is not merely a man. He is an architect of the Abyss, a High Royal whose power has fermented for eons while you were still not born."
He allowed a ripple of his own Nihilium authority to leak out, a cold, predatory pressure. "The realm he has carved for his children is called the Demonic Realm. It is his territory, his body, and his law. To enter it uninvited is to commit suicide. He would snuff out your existence before you could even think to open your domain. I am a royal of the Void myself, Allegra; I know how effortlessly a Sovereign can destroy a being who dares to breathe within their inner world."
Initially, Sunny's intent had been cold and utilitarian. He had viewed this Beyonder as a chaotic weapon, a tool to be pointed at the Demonic Capital and detonated.
If she died taking out a few Demon Lords, it was a net gain for his expansion. But as he looked at her now, seeing the Description provided by his Divine Eyes, the story of a child mocked for her simplicity, a girl who had hidden in the dark because she didn't feel the love she wanted, his calculations shifted.
Sunny was many things: he was a conqueror, a thief of multiverses, and a man whose greed for power knew no horizon.
But he was not cruel to the innocent. And in the grand, twisted tapestry of the Void, Allegra was perhaps the only innocent thing he had encountered in a long time.
"What do you think I should do?" Allegra asked, her voice trembling as her ruby eyes bled into a deep, angry crimson. "He broke my streak. Do you have any idea what that means? According to my talent, the longer i remain undisturbed in my darkness, the faster my primal strength compounds. I had a stack of centuries, centuries of pure physical evolution, and that coward shattered it just to see if I was awake. I want his heart on a plate."
"Anger is a sharp blade, Allegra; it cuts the one who wields it just as deeply as the enemy," Sunny offered, a small, genuine smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Why don't we try a different path? My inner world is anchored to my soul and runs at a time dilation ten times faster than this void. A millennium passes there in the span of a single century here. You can enter my world, find a quiet corner of the deep vacuum, and restart your streak. You could achieve in decades what would take you hundreds of years out here."
Allegra froze, her eyes shining with a light that wasn't quite starlight and wasn't quite fire. No one had ever offered her a place to stay. No one had ever looked at her Negation and seen something worth protecting rather than something to fear or mock.
Though she was technically over a thousand years old, her social development had ended at twenty; she was a creature of pure impulse and raw, vulnerable emotion.
"You know my name," she whispered, looking up at him with wide, searching eyes. "But I realized... I still don't know yours. Who are you, really?"
"My name is Cosmos," Sunny said, his voice softening. "And I am someone who values a good investment."
But as the alliance solidified, a gnawing worry remained at the back of Sunny's mind. He looked around at the trillion-mile sphere of blackness. "Allegra, what happened to the multiverses that were in your path? The worlds that were swallowed as you expanded your search for the Coward?"
He expected the worst. He expected to hear that they had been digested, their billions of souls turned into fuel for her domain.
Allegra bit her lip, looking genuinely contrite. "When that man poked my domain and fled into the rifts, I grew... frantic. I expanded the domain hoping to catch his scent, but expansion requires a terrifying amount of energy. I had to take it from somewhere."
Sunny sighed, his heart sinking. He began to prepare a eulogy for the lost civilizations.
"But I didn't kill them!" Allegra added quickly, waving her hands. "I took enough energy to sustain the expansion, and then I used the Negation to freeze them. I stopped their time, their biology, everything. I... I actually forgot I had them stored in the sub-dimensions of my domain. They've just been sitting there, waiting."
The relief that washed over Sunny was so physical it made his knees weak.
"They're alive," he breathed. A miracle. In his quest to save the Old Gods, he had accidentally stumbled upon a graveyard that was actually a waiting room.
"I can release them now," Allegra said, her hand glowing with a dark impulse.
"Wait!" Sunny barked, stopping her mid-gesture. "Think, Allegra. You've drained their energy reserves to fuel your domain. If you release them from a frozen state into the vacuum without any energy, they will implode. They are far more fragile than we are."
Allegra paused, her brow furrowing. "I didn't think of that. I just thought... they'd wake up."
"I can help them," Sunny said, a new, opportunistic light dawning in his violet eyes. "I can refill their cores and stabilize their atmospheres. But for me to do that, they must be recognized as part of my territory."
"How do we do it?" Allegra asked, leaning in.
"Simple. Release them into the darkness, but keep the Negation thin. When I give the signal, disperse your domain entirely. Let me handle the rest."
Allegra nodded, her trust in him absolute. With a sweep of her arm, she released the thousands of multiverses from her sub-dimensional pockets.
Immediately, the void was filled with the groaning sound of shifting tectonic plates and the frantic, silent screams of dying stars. Billions of lifeforms suddenly felt the crushing weight of reality returning to their energy-depleted bodies.
"Disperse!" Sunny commanded.
The darkness didn't just fade; it shattered. Allegra pulled the Negation back into her body in a single, violent inhalation.
In its place, a massive, vibrant wave of emerald and gold light erupted from Sunny's form.
The lifeforms across thousands of multiverses looked up at their respective skies. They didn't see the stars they remembered. Instead, they saw a singular, titanic figure that seemed to span the entire horizon of their reality.
A being made of pure starlight and cosmic intent, looking down upon them with eyes that held the wisdom of eons.
Sunny funneled his vast Faith reservoir into the dying worlds. He wasn't just giving them mana; he was giving them hope. The light filled their energy-starved bodies, reignited their suns, and mended the cracked crusts of their planets.
"God Cosmos..." a single priest on a distant, primitive world whispered, falling to his knees.
That whisper became a roar. Across thousands of multiverses, trillions of voices began to chant a name they had never heard but instinctively knew.
Sunny hadn't told them his name, but Faith is a bridge that carries its own information. The gratitude of these saved billions surged back toward him, a tidal wave of energy that refilled his depleted reserves ten times over.
"It is done," Sunny said, leaning back as he faked a heavy, tired sigh.
"Are you alright?" Allegra asked, rushing to his side, her eyes wide with worry.
"I will manage," Sunny said, giving her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. He snapped his fingers, opening a portal to the Inner World. "For now, I have work to do in the Void. But my 16th Clone, the Overseer is waiting for you. He will guide you to a place where you can sleep in peace, protected by my Laws."
With a final, grateful look, Allegra stepped through the portal. The Negation was gone. The Beyonder was a guest. And Sunny stood alone in the void that now contained thousands of newly integrated multiverses.
He looked at his hands, feeling the pulse of the billions of Old Gods he had saved earlier, currently being treated in the medical wards of Veridia. He looked at the vast, newly acquired territories singing his name.
"One step at a time..."