After the trio left the throne room, Akasha followed up some huge stairs and they entered a room. The room was fairly spacious and didn't have much besides a huge bed and a few mirrors laying around. Everything in the room was a fiery golden color, but it seemed to go well together and not do too much on the eyes.
When they entered Yonna and Jean both sat on the bed and turned to look at Akasha. He raised an eyebrow and simply sat down cross-legged. The room was now engulfed in an awkward silence, Yonna didn't really know Akasha to begin with, so she didn't know what to say. Jean seemed to notice this and was about to speak until she heard some knocks.
*KNOCK* *KNOCK*
After two knocks on the door, the door was opened and through it came Elaine. When she entered, she acted as if everything was normal and sat down alongside her daughters. The three looked at her and she spoke casually.
"Go on, continue with your conversation."
Akasha shrugged then spoke
"I heard you mention something about a gathering, what's that about?"
Hearing this Yonna sighed a breath of relief and spoke.
"I thought you would've heard of this.... but basically, all the ranked geniuses around this Galaxy will meet up at a sort of gathering. Here it will basically us getting to know each other more and possibly build alliances. Sometimes there are even 'friendly' battles."
"And who made this ranking?" Akasha asked because he was sure that nobody was more of a genius than himself. So, he definitely should've known about such things.
This caused the three women to look at him weirdly. Then Jean asked him
"Are you from some backwatered world or something?" She was genuinely curious because every supreme world knew of this. Even the top High worlds knew of this knowledge. Akasha's lip twitched a bit hearing this, but Jean didn't mind it. She then continued seeing him not answering.
"The seer's make the ranking. They are the most efficient when it comes to Karma, Fate, and Destiny. The use these three rules to form a ranking."
Hearing this Akasha immediately understood. He knew of the existence of Seers and he himself had the Dao of Fate and Destiny although he had yet to use it. But he had a title that made him completely invisible to such things.
However, even then his lovers should definitely meet the standards, right?
'Hmm, is Kalpa the issue then?' He thought to himself before he nodded and spoke.
"Right, that makes sense then. Maybe I will find something interesting there."
Yonna looked at Akasha deeply for a moment. She then asked.
"How did you get so strong this fast? Last time we met you were no higher than the Ultimate Core rank, but now you are at the same level as even my older brother."
This caused the others to perk their ears up.
"You know some answers aren't worth knowing. Everyone has their own secrets, right?" Akasha said completely brushing the question off. Then he continued.
"Anyways is there anything fun to do here?"
Hearing this Jean flashed a smile and stood up. She approached Akasha and grabbed his arm while saying.
"Of course, come with me and I'll show you around."
Akasha nodded and went along with her. Seeing this Elaine and Yonna both followed after them.
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While the main clone was busy dealing with the phoenixes and his other clone dealing with Kalpa, the main body had been steadily making progress.
Outside of Existence, in a place that not even light or darkness could exist. Somewhere even the concept of nothingness could not even survive. This place was of course, Non-Existence a place where nothing should be allowed to exist.
Yet, somehow in the midst of all this a bundle of light could be seen shining dimly. This light was like a spec of sand in a vast ocean. It could hardly be seen even if you focused directly on it.
And this was Akasha's soul.
He had been here for so long that he no longer could even remember why he came here. Being here was more than enough to drive a person beyond insane. Imagine being in a place where you couldn't see a thing. There were no colors here, no sense of direction, no sense of self, it was literally nothing.
Hell, he couldn't even form coherent thought to himself. The moment the thought formed it would simply not exist. Absurd right? Not even being able to think to yourself.... this is what it means to be nonexistent.
And with all this it would be impossible to think the same Akasha would return after all this. He was being put through a mental torture like no other. Yet, even through all this he didn't break.... well not completely.
He floated here and did nothing. For countless of years, he sat in complete silence.
No thoughts.
No words.
No company.
But the longer he went through this, the more he began to understand. He began to remember his purpose in everything and above all he had finally achieved what he came here to do.
Well not entirely, but it was enough for the moment.
After an innumerable number of years that spec of a soul began to shine brightly. The brighter it shined the more that spec grew in size.
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Sitting in the sky of her realm Akashi sat watching all of this. For the entire time she never stopped watching him. This entire time she wanted to bring him back because only someone like her truly could understand what he was going through.
From a single glance at his soul, she could tell exactly how many years he had been inside.
and it was eons....
Akasha spent 5 billion years inside of Nonexistence. For someone with a mental age of no more than 50 years this was beyond insane.
And through it all Akashi watched him and finally seeing him make progress she couldn't help but smile.