Another few years have flown by, maybe 5 or 10? At this point I have stopped caring, time, I have learned, is something mortals who have a fleeting existence focus on. I, on the other hand, with my immense lifespan, now see time as a trivial thing that I do not really need to worry about. A lot of that effort and energy could be spent on furthering my agenda, which is what I have been doing.
Under my instructions, Vert has been busy setting up the information network using her descendants as 'agents' to gather information from all corners of Hell. Rouge and I during this time have been in a 'cold war' of sorts, trying to get one step ahead of each other, without directly confronting the other.
However, the one thing he and I have in common, from my personal experience and the information gathered so far by Verts agents, is that we are both, at this moment in time, are focused on personal strength, and training. Which makes sense now that I think about it, in the original timeline he was already a walking disaster at the point in time the novels covered, and right now he and I are powerful, however, we both still have a lot of room to grow considering our age and the fact we were both born at the start of the world and only a few centuries have gone by. For instance neither of us have our Ultimate Skills yet. And you could say we are having an 'arms race' to achieving that first, before the other can.
In other news, the rest of the Primordials seem to have come to a truce of sorts, expect Noir, I do not know where that inquisitive fellow is. An interesting bit of information Vert learned was that Bleu and Blanc seemed to have taken this whole 'truce' a step further and have made an alliance. I am not too worried, they were my next targets for conquest anyway, teaming up makes my job less exertive and time consuming. I still stand by the mentality of not really taking the Primordials, except Rouge seriously, power wise. Rouge is really my only threat, maybe Noir too, however, he seems even more whimsical than in the original timeline, and also, he will not go against me, call me arrogant or presumptions, but I know he is too obsessed over me to want to damage our relationship by being hostile.
Now I am currently in a wide expansive, rocky terrain, within my territory and have been for the past few years, Vert will come or sometimes Kali and fill me in on the important happenings, nevertheless, I have been closed off from everything, just spending all my time training with little rest. My philosophy in this life is to follow the path of power, I can have everything in this world, as long as I am the one with the biggest stick, and I am going to ensure I have that stick. The sense of satisfaction when I take or conquer someone or something, is just... euphoric. I think I know what that feeling is, that has been bugging me, on earth due to some trauma... I became what I am now, well, I think now it has compounded and got worse since I became a primordial, it is almost my main identity as a primordial, even my colour is 'grey' and my main 'power' is anti-magic, which is at its core a netural and negative force, a big cosmic joke. Although, there are a couple of things that get me 'feeling' something and one of those things is taking from others. Twisted I know, I am not that dense to not understand that, however, I simply do not care, there is no human societal constraint holding me back now, and as long as I have the bigger stick, I will be able to continue to enjoy this euphoric feeling.
So, that brings me to my obsession over power, all Primordials have it, well, maybe not Noir, but we all have that thirst for power, however, for me it is driven by a need even the others would fail to match. That, is my advantage, my purpose may seem hollow, although, to me it is not, with power comes freedom, with power comes control, with power comes conquest, with power comes a feeling like no other, and for someone like me, chasing that feeling is a must and the results of doing that is just a bonus.
For now, I have been experimenting on my most devastating skill I have curated since essentially my first time training, Anti-Magic Armada, when I fought Vert, I had the idea of combining it with another skill Weapon Beam Emission, it worked, I even learned another skill Multicast, because of it, nonetheless, it was not as efficient nor powerful as I would like it to be and was very much a prototype, considering I came up with it on the fly. So, my training has been focused on making this as good as it can be, while experimenting. I had to use up hundreds of weapons by launching them at Verts magic to keep it at bay while the other weapons charged up for the full attack. That was the first thing I fixed. Now the attack instantly charges up, and there is no need to waste precious firepower by launching weapons at the opponent. From there, I have been trying my hardest to get these two skills to combine and merge, that has taken many years of learning, experimenting, patience, and adapting, at this point I can feel it, almost like I know I am close to achieving something great.
And with my ever increasing magic power and magicule reserves, the amount of weapons I can summon with this skill is, astronomical, it must be close to 20 thousand. This will only grow, I am looking forward to the day that millions will be hanging up there in the air like some sort of Angel of Death.
As I pointed my hand at the already destroyed earth in front of me, to push this skill to merge and even evolve, for what must be the thousandth time, I start materialising the weapons in the air using Anti-Magic Armada and instantly using the skill Weapon Beam Emission to add the beams of energy to them, I push myself, I materialise more and more all the while continuing to add the Weapon Beam Emission skill to them. A thousand weapons, then 5 thousand and 10 then 15, 20, 30... once I get to this point, my face is tensing slightly, and I feel my large reserves of magicules feel quite depleted, this is the furthest I have pushed so far, then, I let loose, all 30 thousand weapons hanging in the air like an executioners axe, instantly charge with a quick, VOOM sound, that seems to distort the space around me, as the air vibrates and then they fire, like raining orbital lasers, BOOM! BOOM! The destruction, was surprising even for me, the ground that was already destroyed and full of debris and expansive craters from earlier experimentation, now it has just simply ceased to exist, complete obliteration. Panting slightly, a small smile makes its way on my face as I hear that voice, my favourite... The voice that lets me know I am more powerful than I was a moment ago.
[ NEW SKILL ACQUIRED THROUGH MERGING OF ANTI-MAGIC ARMADA AND WEAPON BEAM EMISSION ]
[ NEW UNIQUE SKILL: DEATH MATERIALISATION ]
New knowledge floods my mind and I can naturally feel that this skill is not just more powerful now, but is also a lot more easier and efficient, magicule wise to use. Not to mention, it evolved too! It is now not just merged, but also an Unique Skill. I materialise a chair, well more like a throne, with my Intrinsic Skill, MaterialCreation, as I catch my breath.
My magicules are already in the process of regenerating, one thing I noticed, which I didn't know from my previous knowledge, is that if a person, through constant training, which naturally depletes magicules every time, once the magicules regenerate, it can be trained like a muscle and become stronger, allowing for quicker recovery and a larger capacity. This has been ironically, my greatest discovery so far, from all these years of training and is something I have just noticed, considering my races already large capacity of magic power and magicules, and the natural growth of these areas through just aging, it took a while for me to discover this revelation because of this.
(A/N I will probably be referring to it as 'magic power' instead of 'magicules' from now on. As I came across some information when researching, and it seems that magic power is what is used to manipulate magicules and skills along with what is used when naming too. It was my mistake and misconception.)