The Human Cassier watched from her tower, the tallest in the city of Venudum. Where it spiraled into the sky like a sword, at the bottom.
Mansions and bunkers circled the base of the tower, nobles lived in those mansions while the bunkers were an evacuation site in the past. It was a long distant history, used to protect against human invasions, now humans were part of their life. They were not enslaved when they won the ancient war against The Lord of Gooning.
Her eyes though, were staring wide eyed at the enormous giant approaching them from the distance. Its eyes are bright in gold, like a radiance mixing with a sort of brown. It was a Golem, the ones she's ready in her books that was summoned by the enemy of Innovation and Order.
The ground beneath began to tremble from the Rocky giant's steps, she had ordered the peasants, and nobles to head to the bunkers. Soldiers were getting ready on top of the walls, though what could one tiny mortal hold off such a thing?
She turned around, hurriedly going through the chambers of the most sacred room of all Ulthamrix.
A large double door with engraved symbols of Order with an eye in the middle, as if looking at her. She pushed it open, revealing a small room with a grand sword hanging on the wall.
The sword's hilt had squares for a design like a cross. A poor design if you ask her, but a powerful weapon used to kill the Gooner Champions back in the Ancient times.
Her fingers curled on the hilt, and just as she was about to take it, a feeling washed over her.
A soft, kind feeling, the kind that would make her feel calm and happy. What was this feeling? The effect of the sword? The Celestial Order said to evoke feelings of calmness, but she never quite understood it since she never received it herself. And Order never gazed upon them in a long time in this city.
It... Smoothed her. Made her relax, yes. She knew this feeling, but could never point it out what exactly...
It was their Celestial visiting them, wasn't it?
"Hello, Cassier." The Celestial said in the room.
She turned, no one was there. But this feeling, it was there.
"Who are you?" She asked, though she knew in her mind who it was.
"I am who I am, Cassier." The Celestial spoke, "I've always been known to your kind for a long time, haven't I?"
The room turned white, she was on a void. An empty vast whiteness that stretched on for who knows long. There, a man in golden white robes radiated like a sun, though it did not blinded her. He smiled, a smile that was more genuine than her own mother could ever give her.
"How are you doing, Cassie?" He asked.
She stepped back, fear creeping up her heart as she realized this was someone else.
It was not Order.
"Don't be afraid, child." He waved a hand, the void now turned into a beach. The sounds of Waves crashing, the distant birds singing in the air floated to her ears. She was astounded, "Mind walking with me for a while? I don't bite, I promise."
Her instincts told her to run, that this Celestial was incredibly dangerous no matter how harmless or genuine that face was. It reminded her of her late grandfather, who was the most calm and kindest person she's ever known.
"You're..." She gathered up her courage and push past the screaming instincts, "You're the Lord of Gooning, the most detestable Celestial, aren't you?"
The Celestial frowned, shaking his head and the warm smile upon his lips.
"You wouldn't be so quick to judge me as the embodiment of depravity if you got to know me, child." he said.
Cassier stepped up, the sand beneath her forming into her sandals.
"Leave my city alone, tell your Golem to turn back, and Order won't punish you for crossing a territory." She said, "we won that war."
The Celestial raised an eyebrow, the glowing in his skin seemed to dim, then he laughed.
"You lost that war, Cassier. Because I failed all of you." The ocean was calming than before, eerily as no waves crashed, "And no, I won't be leaving. I'll seize this city, and you will be my first champion to lead a new army."
"Lead? No, I refuse. I have made a vow to follow The Order until I die, to restore the greatest thing in life without chaos." She looked to her hand, the Valiant sword gripped tightly as it followed her into whatever place he brought her. She could fight him here, but it was impossible to kill a Celestial, much less fight them, "If you kill me, they will know.".
The Celestial only waved a dismissive hand. Then, he disappeared.
The entire world trembled, the once calming sea beginning to shake terrifyingly as the beach around her shook. The ocean, sand, was being pulled into something in the distance; a pure white void like a circle, burning into nothingness as they remained like fire around it.
Pure white void, a radiant light emitted in the center, it entranced her. Her skin and hair standing up as she stared right into it that was hovering in the sky.
Her entire soul was being dissolved into this white sun, sucking her in as she felt an immense emotion of something that shouldn't be possible; a pleasure to the highest degree, compacted into a single embodiment that sought to transcend beyond limits.
It was not simple to describe it as depravity or lust, no. It was the goal of every life to embrace the sensation and be with it forever. It did not tell her to lose her mind, it did not tell her to accept oblivion but rather, stay with it.
Her mind wanted it, her hands reaching into the sun just an inch.
Then, another infinity joined the dimension. This one destroyed the link between the greatest sensation she's ever known as an immeasurable calmness snapped her out of the trance.
The force pulled her back, her soul, body, and clothes coming back as a bright figure glowing in white hovered beside her. What was that?
"Lord of Gooning, I expected you to be more civil than this." The new voice said.
The Sun in the sky began to shrink, then The Celestial of Gooning formed into a more understandable figure instead of the terrifying white sun that consumed all. He hovered down into the white void again, looking at the figure beside her.
"Order?" He said, "Why are you intervening? Choosing Champions is against the rules."
Cassier looked shocked when she saw it was Order beside her, there was one single eye in her face, unblinking then it looked at her and seemed to be more gentler than the other Celestial.
"Cassie, bare with me for a while okay? I'll talk to them about this." Order said.
She nodded, half amazed and half afraid of the two divine beings standing before her.
Order turned to him, her eye showed anything but contempt.
"She is my champion, Aron." She said, "and stealing Champions is also against the rules."
"Yours? shes human, you have no authority over my kind, Order." He said, he wasn't going to let her win again. Not this time.
And neither would she.
"Their kind has given themselves to me, meaning you are but a simple Celestial with no races to look over." She said, "And during your absence, the war has already ended."
Aronesis eyes widened in surprise, the war over? It couldn't be.
It just couldn't be possible. She must be lying, otherwise Ronix would never surrender nor end it as long as he existed.
"You lie!" He pointed an accusatory finger, "I see through your lies, Order. I will not fall for whatever you have for me again, never! Ronix would never!"
Cassier was forced back miles away in single motion by Order, she gasped, a huge explosion in the distance that mixed white and brown, an invisible forced shook her back. She stabbed the sword point first into the white ground as she held it there, holding tightly as the ground was surprisingly strong.
"Aron, this is ridiculous, can you please listen first." Order was no longer in a humanoid form, but of a single eye and thousands of eyes in space that looked at him with different iris colors.
Aron slammed his infinite power into the eyes, but no matter how many times he erased them, they kept growing and growing, he tried to pop Order, the single big Eye in the center above him but his powers could not even reach her.
"How?!" He exclaimed, throwing thousands of small orbs that contained explosions enough to obliterate realities, "How have you grown this strong in just thousands of years."
An invisible hand slammed into him, forcing him in the ground of the white void as he was forced to stay there. He began to cry, all his years being as a Celestial to fight for freedom and equality, wasted as Order was now ten times powerful than him.
If she was this powerful, he couldn't imagine how strong Innovation would be now. It was useless, they won by strength, but how?
The hand slowly retracted, he could feel it's gentleness and guilt. He was a Celestial of Gooning, it also meant he could feel other emotions than just sensation of a pleasure.
"Aron?" Order said, she was back to her humanoid form, "I'm sorry... I didn't mean it would hurt."
He turned around, pathetic piteous cries.
"So that's it, we lost because you Higher Celestials won."
She shook her head.
"I told you before, I'm on your side—"
"—just different."
"—and after your absence, I immediately had to propose to the divine Council to remove the lower Celestial system of beliefs." She said, "they were hesitant at first, but eventually, they gave in after the continued war led by Ronix."
He blinked. That was it? It was too damn simple.
She could read it in his face and she sighed.
"Ronix killed one of the council," she admitted, "they wouldn't accept my proposal, so he targeted one of them. And when that happened, they accepted it."
Slowly, Aronesis stood up, he vanished the tears from his face and studied her. She couldn't be lying, not in this form at least, as lying would be against her nature unless it aligned with it.
"And you left me trapped in a box for many years?" He said.
Order winced.
"I didn't, Innovation insisted you be trapped for a long time until she was satisfied." She said, "you did kill her sister."
'The only reason I was out was because of a group of miners, I will repay them back for that.'
She grabbed his hand, to which he flinched and she snickered.
"What? Don't you want to go back to the divine realm?" She said softly.
"I... You better not be lying, Liana."