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[Alex Walker POV]
Resurrecting the Eternals Alice had killed has been super easy, barely an inconvenience, all I had to do was use the time stone to reverse to flow of cosmic energy and then when the energy was back, reshape it into its original form, using my own power to meld it all together once again.
It literally took me like two minutes tops, to do it.
After that, I relocated with Ajak to a different place to talk about their destiny, about what they wanted to do now.
Personally I had no need for them, I had golems in my attic that could fold their entire group in less than a minute alone. I just wanted them to choose for themselves, as a way to thank them for helping humanity until now.
Sure their reasons to help humanity were about the same as a farmer would have helping their cows, but still, whatever their reasons were, their actions, their results were good.
I mean, you know the saying… people sometimes do bad things for the right reasons? Well, I prefer the other way around, people doing good things for the bad reasons.
Sure is morally questionable, but who really cares?
So, in honor of that, I was giving them a chance, a chance to be more than they were supposed to be.
"You are a Celestial, Arishem himself recognized you as such," Ajak sighed, her eyes drained in a mix of confusion and something else that I quite couldn't read.
"Enough about me, what do you guys want to do?" I sighed.
"You are a Celestial, your will it's our command," Ajak replied bowing, as I couldn't help but wonder how many times she had said the same thing. It felt so… robotic, like it was almost second nature for her, it was uncanny.
"Hm, yeah, that might work on Judge Judy, but not me," I rolled my eyes, "I asked you what you want to do with your life, not what you think I want to hear as a quote on quote celestial."
Ajak said nothing, but within I could feel her hesitation.
"I know you weren't intending on letting the emergence happen," I sighed, as she looked upon me in mild shock, "I know lots of things, stuff I shouldn't possibly know, so please… stop acting and tell me… no, scratch that, do what you want, whatever it is, no need to tell me." I smiled standing up from the chair I had conjured for our talk.
"I thank you," Ajak bowed.
"Fair warning though, if your… family gets… Well, murdery for the lack of a word, I will… well, I'm sure you get the gist," I winked, teleporting her back to her group before teleporting to mine.
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[Ancient One POV]
Alex's power was inconceivably high now, both cosmically speaking and magically speaking, his power was beyond anything I have ever seen, and what's more, it was only the beginning.
Alex hadn't consumed a Celestial, not really at least, but a seed of one, and even then, the seed was stronger than most fully formed Celestials, a singularity amongst them, one that would take thousands upon thousands of years to grow and reach its full potential.
But even this cosmic singularity, one that went beyond what a Celestial should be, had a very well marked limit to his growth, by that I mean he was to reach its emerging potential in over twenty years or so.
But before he could, Alex consumed him.
Creating an entirely new singularity, born in the midst of their merging, one that combined both Alex's infinite potential for growth, and the Celestial's innate power to absorb cosmic energy generated from intelligent life.
Each Celestial has a clear limit, one they had imposed upon them since their seeding, after all, each seed was different, once they reached said limit, that innate power of them to absorb cosmic energy passively, simply… disappears, which in turn starts their emerging process.
Key point being that limit, one Alex lacks.
Now, imagine a Celestial without limits, one with infinite capacity for growth, for cosmic energy.
That was Alex, who in a way, had become more than a Celestial itself, a seed, one that would grow for all of eternity, consuming the cosmic power intelligent life creates around him.
I could now only wonder, what awaited him at the end of the road? Then again, I guess it didn't matter, after all, I would be there to see it anyway, like I had been for every step of his way.
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[Alex Walker POV]
I wanted the infinity stones, yes I know I said against Knull they would be nothing but pretty jewelry, but… I still wanted them.
Because while Knull was out of their reach in terms of power, I was, because unlike him, I was alive, and frankly sharing a weakness with Superman wasn't on my wishlist.
So, I had decided to collect the stones.
Or rather… have others to do it.
I mean, I already knew Thanos had one stone, the mind stone.
And that the remaining two, the soul stone and the reality stone, were in other dimensions, one required a sacrifice, and the other required time, or power to break the dimension open, power I now had.
Sadly, I couldn't break the dimension where the Soul stone was like I could with the Reality stone, because the stone wasn't hiding on a dimension itself, but on an idea, a concept so to speak, one that that was both attainable, yet unreadable, meaning I either sacrificed that what I loved the most.
Or.
I picked or.
Manipulate someone to do it for me.
Which is why I started Operation Thanos prime. As Amazon prime, my plan was simple: I would spread rumors across the universe about an old spirit living on a desolated planet that spoke about the stone and let the domino effect do the rest.
I estimated Thanos would be visiting the "old man" within a year or so, and from there, well, it was all a waiting game.
I feel bad for Gamora though.
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With Operation Thanos Prime officially on the go, it was time to focus on my next item, conquering the earth, but not really, the quest of the day, or week, who knows how long it will take me, as there were many things to consider, details more than not.
So I had the Ancient One taking care of that, at times I feel like I should have her on a six-figure salary, maybe a seven-figure salary. Anyway, in the meantime, I was focusing on other matters, like planning for Knull's arrival. What can I say? My agenda has been quite busy this week, but back to Knull, as I planned for him, I sadly realized I was more unprepared than I first imagined.
My original plans were simple, rather straightforward so to speak, and that was collecting the infinity stones, and using their power against him, unfortunately, I soon found out, that would not be possible.
Why? Well… allow me to explain.
At the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, at the forge of creation. The Big Bang sent six elemental crystals hurtling across the virgin universe. These crystals were known as the Infinity Stones with each controlling an essential aspect of existence.
Now… where is the problem in all that?
Well, the problem is that Knull existed before… existence, he was there before the dawn of the universe, he was there before time, space, anything for that matter.
He existed before everything, including life, for life was created later, through the hands of the Celestials.
Knull existed before the very fucking concept of life and death, meaning he's older than one primordial beings in creation, which also means he's immortal, well, technically the term with him is amortal.
What's amortality? I'm glad you asked voice in my head.
Amortality differs from any form of immortality in a fundamental essence, which is defined as a living being who cannot die, while amortality means entities who cannot die because they were never alive, to begin with. Almost like a ghost but not really, because ghosts were once living beings, and Knull was never that.
To put it on better terms, Knull is forever frozen in a state of unbirth, rendering him unable to die due to not being alive at all, to begin with. Meaning he essentially lives in a state that's considered neither dead nor alive.
Meaning, that not only that the stones can't affect him, because he's a being outside their realm entirely, but death as well.
Which explains why they sealed him instead of killing him in the first place because the latter was impossible to achieve.
But, fortunately for me, even amortals can die, which… on itself, it's a paradox.
"I will get a headache with that," I sighed.
While ammortals were certainly the closest thing to true immortals I knew for the moment being, that they were not invincible, with them still susceptible to certain things, like for one, being erased which came in handy with my skill, or being given life.
What do I mean by giving life? Well, exactly that, giving life to him. Granted, both ways required me to be well above his level, which I wasn't, but it was good to know there were solutions.
"I suppose I can do the Knull time walking dungeon for training," I mused at the idea, I mean, fighting against Knull, or at least a copy of him, would give me a general idea of what to expect.
Then again, I could also save myself the hassle, and use the time stone to see him, but that would open the possibility of being caught, which would not be ideal.
Bottom line is, that I have some options.
Dangerous options, but options nonetheless.
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As I dwelled on the Knull subject for hours without a clear path to take, I started to experiment with powers I had obtained after absorbing Tiamut, if anything to pass the time amongst them, there was the ability to create sentient life, from humans to Eternals, how cool was that?
Of course, I wasn't quite ready to create my own species, and the implications that brought, so I decided to create something simple, a dog.
Sure, it wasn't an adventurous project, but it was good enough for me. Needless to say, the dog I created wasn't a normal dog, let's just say to short the story up, that I got creative while playing around with my bible like powers and ended up creating the marvel's version of Krypto the dog.
An Eternal-based dog, using a golden retriever as an aesthetic base.
[Fernando De La Vega Walker - Eternal Dog - LV 244]
He… he picked his name, I'll be honest… I have no idea what went wrong with him, like, for some reason he acts like a telenovela actor, from Spain.
"It is! Fernando De La Vega Walker! Primero!" Oh yeah, he talks and barks.
"Didn't I tell you I was working and I wanted to be left alone?" I asked with a sigh.
"Indeed you did, but since then, two whole long painful minutes have passed! And I! Fernando De La Vega Walker! Primero! Can't leave my honorable owner alone! It is my duty to protect you! It is written in the code of dogs! A CODE I uphold with my life!" Code of… he has been alive for ten minutes!?
I sighed, maybe next time I'll test my powers with something… less excitable, a turtle maybe, "Wanna go for a walk?"
"A walk, I knew doing my duty would eventually bring this poor dog his reward, to think I Fernando De–" At this, I glared at him, his name thing was getting old, which was to say something, he was ten minutes old or so, "I apologize, honorable master, I shall refrain from saying my caliente name!"
I snorted, hot-name my ass, "Sure, by the way, I have a cat," I added.
"That's no problem! As the superior pet, I shall protect that inferior being! Loving him, or her, with the love only a superior pet can offer!" Fernando barked wagging his tail, as he put one paw on his furry chest.
"Hmmm," I should warn him about the tentacles, but I kinda want to see how this unfolds, "Sure."
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