The Hero of Hypnosis

Chapter 559: Build a star

"You know, space isn’t as grand as the movies depicted it to be. It’s so...empty." As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but darkness all around Kai, Leo, and Clarisse. Well, kind of. They were all primodials, so they could see differently from mortals, so Kai was actually able to see distant stars and planets.

The only issue was that they were still far away, and the space around him was still empty. It was like looking at an oasis at the opposite end of a desert. You know it’s there, but you have to cross the entire desert just to reach it.

Leo raised an eyebrow. "I assumed you knew of this already."

"I did, but when you go your whole life knowing and expecting one thing, it sucks when you find the truth about it."

"Dude, that’s stupid. Your civilization sent probes into space, and you had telescopes that could see hundreds of millions of miles away."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m just talking about the sci-fi aspect of things, not actual science. Besides, if you wanna talk about probes, it took around 30 years just for ONE of them to leave our solar system and enter interstellar space."

"Pfft!" Clarisse couldn’t hide her laughter upon hearing how backward the civilization Kai grew up in was.

"What’s so funny?" Kai squinted his eyes.

"Sorry, it’s just that it took thirty years for a spacecraft to leave your solar system from its launch? That...so slow."

"Well, yeah. On my old planet, civilization didn’t have magic or any type of dark energy that we could harness. I still can’t believe Dark Energy and Matter is Mana, by the way, insane. Anyway, for hundreds of thousands of years, around two million if you want to count the first ever ancestor of our species that we know of, we had to build our society without any mana or dieties."

Clarisse knew about civilizations like that, but in her long life, she had never been to one before.

"Seriously?" She couldn’t believe that Kai, the son of Nemean, grew up in such a world when he was the son of the most powerful being in existence.

"Yeah. I’m sure you know about ’modern’ technology, right?"

"I do. I’ve been to plenty of technological worlds before."

"Great. So my world only had advanced technology for around, let’s say, 200 years. If we’re being technical, then it’s less than that because it hadn’t even been 100 years since the first object was sent to space, well, from the time I left the planet."

"WHAT?!"

Now that was something she didn’t expect. "Wait, so your world’s humans existed for around two million years, but only for the last 200 years, your technology advanced to eventually lead into space."

"Ehh, kind of. Evolution is weird. Modern humans have only been around for like two to three hundred thousand years. And even then, it took around a solid 150 thousand years just to evolve again, kind of. More like adapt. And finally, as far as my world’s history can track, ’Modern Civilization’, I’m using quotation marks because it’s only classified as modern due to having a common spoken and written language, and even then, that was still in its early stages."

"Incredible!" Clarisse now saw Kai as a walking and talking fossil, which was ironic when compared to how old she was, being at least 500,000 years old, minimum.

"We’re here." Leo stopped, looking around and feeling the energies of the area.

"We’re nowhere." Kai ’corrected’ his father.

"Well, nowhere eventually becomes somewhere, and we’re here to make this nowhere, somewhere."

"Okay, what are we going to do then?"

Leo smiled. "We’re going to...no, YOU’RE going to create a star. Then after you make a star, you’re going to make a solar system."

Kai looked at Leo with a smile on his face. "Build a star, huh? Seems easy."

"Indeed. When one becomes a primordial, they have the ability to create stars and planets. Most of them create their own civilization to rule over." Clarisse educated Kai while touching the remains of a star that had gone supernova.

"I thought creating shit like that was exclusive to us." Kai pointed between himself and Leo.

"Nah, that’s creating a universe and life from scratch. Primordials can create life using existing materials in the universe. I’m sure you understood how people were created in your science class."

"You know, that does make sense. Okay, let’s begin."

Kai closed his eyes, focusing his power on his surroundings. Without being told, he realized that he was in a region of space that once held a star, and the matter all around him was the material needed to create a star once again.

He touched them with his hands, gathering the material and forming it into a core. He knew the elements that stars were comprised of, so he focused on creating one out of those rather than thinking of a star and hoping it would be created.

Once that process was done, a small, glowing core started pulsing in his hand. Upon feeling this, Kai moved on to the next step. He remembered creating a spell that was akin to a miniature sun in his hands. While the two were fundamentally different, the feeling, on paper, was the same.

Using that feeling, he added fuel to the star, giving life to it, and watched it start to glow as a star should.

"Heh. Piece of cake." Kai then took the star, tossed it a good distance from all of them, then had it expand to that of a yellow dwarf, even though that shit was white when looked at.

But that was only the terms human scientists gave them because stars look white when viewed with the naked eye, also emitting all the waves of light. The classification of other stars, besides their size, came from the type of light they emit the most, like infrared, ultraviolet, and visible.

Since Kai lived in a solar system that had a yellow dwarf, he created a yellow dwarf; it was what he knew. Even the planet he currently lived on was one with a yellow star.

"Done. How’s that?"

Leo nodded. "Good, very good."

Even Clarisse was impressed. "You did well for your first try, almost full marks."

"Heh, that right...wait, what do you mean by that?"

"Well, you made the star with the materials here, which is good. But you failed to take into account the star’s lifespan."

Kai raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? Stars can live from hundreds of millions to tens of billions of years. I made a yellow dwarf, so it should have a lifespan of around 10 billion years. Right?"

"On paper." Leo nodded

"Well, how about you sound it out for me instead because I can’t read."

"Where’s the fuel?"

"What?"

"The fuel."

Kai paused. "It’s...It’s itself, no? Stars basically eat themselves before blowing up, which is ironic because you would typically get smaller upon eating yourself, lol. Oh god, I said ’lol’ out loud."

"Again, you have the right mind, but you didn’t create the star the right way. You formed this star as if you were casting a spell. Spells use YOUR energy as a fuel source. But stars use their own."

Now Kai was finally understanding what they were talking about.

"Oh. So basically, I created a star in its dying phase."

Leo shrugged. "Pretty much. But it’s worse than that."

"Explain."

"The star was fueled by your power, reaching this state because of you. When you let it out on its own, disconnecting it from your mana, it had no energy to draw upon. And because there was no nuclear fusion going on, the star had no idea what happened to it."

"Ohhhh! So I didn’t just create a star in its dying phase, that shit is just going to blow up now."

Clarisse smiled. "Exactly.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

A massive supernova released all of the energy Kai had put into the star, causing the darkness of space to shine bright as if it were some kind of diamond...reflecting sunlight.

The explosion did nothing to the three primordials; maybe a slight gust of space caused their clothes to flap, but other than that, they were okay.

Some distant planet would soon see a star appear in the night sky, only to then watch it disappear not too long after, wondering what the fuck happened to their constellations.

"Well, that was a bust." Kai spat out sun matter.

"More like a boom." Leo joked

"Don’t worry." Clarisse placed her hand on Kai’s shoulder. "It happens. No one gets it on their first try. In fact, you did it the best out of everyone I’ve taught, and I’m a billion years old."

"Oh." Kai thought she was in the 500k-plus range, not older than a couple milion years old.

He looked her up and down, admiring her beautiful appearance. "You’re fucking ancient."

Kai was punched in the face.