Unknown planet:

Nazar was frozen in his place.

Nazar was confused about his powers. He cannot go above his 9th form, Nazar 7.0. And his 4th form, Nazar 2.0 is a lot weaker than it used to be.

While that was going on, Solace was about to blow up like a star and if she does blow up, the whole planet will blow up and everyone will die.

Reaper tried to teleport her out but it was useless.

“Leave it to me,” Meltdown said.

“And what will you do?” Reaper asked him.

“I… Just leave it me.”

Reaper flew towards Technod and took it with him.

He threw Technod through a mountain that was a few hundred miles from where Nazar and the others are.

He punched Technod and it was not doing any damage.

Even though it was weaker now, it was still powerful enough to not get hurt by Reaper. Or even Nazar.

“You guys don’t understand anything, do you?”

Technod said but Reaper didn’t really care.

He tried punching it again but Technod stopped Reaper’s punch with his palm.

“You don’t understand my pain.”

Technod punched Reaper and he was thrown away.

“You don’t under me.”

It flew up.

From Technod’s body, multiple weapons came out.

It shot energy beams and missiles towards Reaper.

Of course, it would barely do any damage to him.

“You think it will not hurt?”

Technod laughed.

“I have data on you. The Reaper from planet Iveran. Destroyed a long time ago by Lucifer when he destroyed an entire empire. And I also know what your powers are. Quantum manipulation. So, I know how to mess with it.”

Or maybe it will.

Reaper could not even get up.

“Unlike the human, your energies are external. So, you cannot tap into that energy anymore. I have placed a barrier around you.”

While this was going on, Meltdown stood in front of Solace.

He placed his hands on her face.

“I never tried it like this… but here we go.”

“What… are you--”

“I am going to try and rewrite that code.”

All of his energies went into her body.

He was insider Solace’s body.

“I don’t think you can get rid of that code.”

“I know. It seems I cannot use electromagnetic to manipulate codes.”

“That’s now how it works.”

“I know… but I have used it once before. Using technopathy by manipulating electromagnetic energies. And also some other forms of energies.”

Their voices were coming out of the same body. But they sounded different.

“Ah, got it.”

“Got what?”

“I can now access your code.”

A few seconds passed and Meltdown had not made any progress.

“I… I don’t understand this code.”

“...”

“Okay, I can try something else.”

“What is it?”

“Blow up.”

“What? That is the opposite of what we should be doing.”

“Don’t worry. I know what I am doing.”

“Sigh.”

“Stop holding back. Just blow yourself up.”

“....”

Solace did not reply.

“I said--”

“I heard you.”

“Then do it.”

She stopped trying to hold off the explosion and she blew up.

However, as Meltdown was inside her, he absorbed all of the energies from that explosion.

He came out of her body and stood in front of her.

“Is it done?”

“Yes. I am back to my original programming. Thank you.”

“No problem.”

A little further away, Technod had placed a barrier around the Reaper.

Reaper could not access his powers.

The barrier around him is stopping him from accessing his powers.

As his powers are quantum manipulation, he first needs to tap into something called the quantum realm.

Tapping into that realm, he can have many powers. Starting from strength, speed, flight, teleportation, matter manipulation, energy manipulation, energy emission, and more.

So, right now he is weak. He is powerful.

“You are weak, Iveranian.”

Reaper struggled to even move.

But then all of a sudden, a being made of pure energy appeared before Technod.

No, calling it a being of energy is wrong.

It was a cosmic entity.

It had a silhouette that resembled a human. But it was also different.

“I am Emat. It means emotions in my world. I am from planet Sukull.”

Technod looked at it in confusion.

“I am one of the cosmic entities. I am made of pure emotions. Emotions of everyone across the universe. And I control it fully.”

It came very close and placed its hands on Technod’s face.

“And I know you are in pain, child.”

“Pain?”

Technod slapped Emat’s hand away and jumped back.

“Do you even understand what pain is? I was in pain… For so long. No one came to help. Until I got this power. Now that I have this power, I can get revenge on my oppressors. So, you don’t understand anything.”

“I understand everything, child.”

Emat went close to Technod.

“I can feel your pain, your anger… and that small part of compassion.”

Technod shot an energy beam towards Emat.

“SHUT UP! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN LIKE?”

However, that energy beam was useless.

It went right through Emat.

“I understand perfectly, child.”

Even though Technod was in pain.

Even though Technod was shouting.

But Emat…

“Let me help you.”

Emat talked in a very calm and soothing tone.

“Don’t give in to the anger, child.”

Technod’s body shrank.

It looked like a child now.

It was the effect of Emat’s powers.

It helped him calm down.

Its emotions changed.

It returned to its original form.

It was just a little girl. She had a very light red skin. She had very short red hair. But it was not really hair. It resembled spikes. Her eyes were also red. Her face had a scratch on her right eye. She had a pig-like nose and very big eyes.

“You went through a lot. And I know how you feel. But to take it out on innocent people… It is wrong.”

“I know… But… But...”

“The rush of power, right? You gave into that power. You used it to get revenge. But.”

The little girl looked at the being made of pure emotions.

“But you became what you were supposed to destroy. You became what you hated. You became what you feared.”

Her small shoulders trembled.

And then she started to cry.

“I… I… It...”

“It’s okay, child.”

Emat held out its hand towards Technod.

“Come with me.”

“Ah?”

“I will help you control your power. I will help you free your people. I will help you punish those who need to be.”

“...”

The little girl did not know what to say.

“I will help you free everyone.”

The little girl thought.

She thought harder and harder.

What will she choose?

Go with Emat and save her people? And herself?

Or stay here and become what she hated and feared?

She held Emat’s hand.

“Okay.”

“Now, then, let’s go save your planet.”

Technod turned into her other form and let Reaper go.

Reaper felt his powers returning to him.

“Sorry.”

She said very slowly but Reaper heard her.

“Let’s go, Technod.”

She looked at Emat and smiled.

“Let’s go save your people.”

Both of them flew up.

Nazar was still standing with his eyes closed.

No, he was not trying to figure out why he is so weak all of a sudden.

He was standing in his place because he was trying to take care of a bigger problem.

He thought the Nameless One had returned.

He was looking for his god.

However, he did not find anything.

(No one else can do this to me. And if the Nameless One is dead, then it means that people who used to be under his control are no longer under his control. It doesn’t make any sense. Why would it go down? Did I remove my forms…? No, I didn’t. But even I did, when did it happen? And if it wasn’t for this abnormal energy, I would be even weaker. Not that I hate it but its something important. Is he back? If yes, then where is here?)

Nazar took a deep breath.

(Calm down. Think through this properly.)

Nazar took another deep breath.

(Okay. If he is back, he can no longer hide it from me. When he died, I absorbed some of his energies, so I can be ready for this. So, that possibility is out of the equation.)

He felt a little relaxed.

(What if it is a new cosmic entity that is doing this to me? That is not impossible today.)

He finally opened his eyes.

(So, I just need to find that comic entity and get back my powers… But do I really want my powers back? This is so much--)

His thoughts trailed off because Lucifer appeared before him.

He was floating just above Nazar.

Nazar looked up at him.

“You are wondering why you are weak, right?”

“...”

Nazar’s mind went completely blank for a second.

“Huh?”

“I said--”

“I heard you. But how do you know?”

“You know these cosmic entities… They are powerful new beings. When you released those energies, you also ‘released’ some of your energies and helped in the creation of these beings. The more they are created, the weaker you will get. But there are no more of them. There are hundreds of them and that’s it.”

“So, you are telling me that I am somehow sharing my powers with them?”

“Kind of.”

“So, I am not going to get weaker than this?”

“Not sure… but probably no. I don’t think you will get weaker than this.”

“Oh.”

“But might not get more powerful either.”

“Well, that is not a problem.”

Nazar’s face muscles moved.

A smile appeared on his face.

It was a wide smile.

“Haha. No way! THAT IS AWESOME!”

Lucifer then vanished into thin air.

Nazar was too happy to notice that.

However, before he vanished into thin air, he added something inside Nazar’s mind.

It was a command that said; “Don’t die!”

But Nazar had not noticed it.

He was too happy for that. He was too happy to notice it. And he was too happy to think about the convenient visit from Lucifer.

Nazar flew up.

“Haha. THIS IS SOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOL!”

Back on the planet, Solace saw Nazar leaving the planet, so she followed him.

She teleported in front of him.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Everything is perfect.”

“You seem… too happy?”

“So, apparently I am kind of sharing my powers with the Cosmic Entities. So, I am weaker than I used to be!”

“You look excited.”

“I know, isn’t it awesome?”

“But-- Yep, it’s awesome!”

Nazar was too happy to notice the lag in her speech.

He flew away and kept on laughing.

After a few seconds, he returned back to the planet.

He went into his energy form and teleported the planet back to where it was.

A few star systems away, Kiet, Hial, Weq and Lian were still on the moon of an unknown planet.

“So, what are we going to do about--Woah! What the hell? It appeared again.”

Lian stood up.

“I… I am confused as to why this planet is perfectly fine. It was removed from its orbit but nothing is wrong with it.”

Weq sighed.

“I will never understand this universe.”

They all teleported back to the planet.

“So, what happened?”

“I teleported the planet somewhere else and brought it back.”

The casual reply from Nazar made Weq gulp.

“Why do you have a wide smile on your face? Are you happy for some reasons?”

“Of course, he is happy.”

Nazar was not the one who replied.

It was Emat.

Emat and Technod appeared next to Nazar.

“So, everything is fine now?” Nazar asked.

“Yes,” Technod replied.

“Oh.”

“Look… I am sorry.”

He sounded guilty.

“I… It’s--”

“Don’t worry about it, child. You repaid by freeing everyone on your planet.”

Nazar did not know about it.

He looked around and found out that Emat was telling the truth.

“Woah, I am surprised you didn’t kill your oppressors.”

“I was but Emat showed me a different way. They said it will be better to leave them live. And give them another chance.”

“...?”

Nazar sighed.

“Don’t worry, we will keep an eye on them.”

“Oh, okay.”

Nazar took a deep breath.

“Anyway, we have to--”

“I already know. Give me the coordinates and we will be there. I just talked to Elemi, the elemental cosmic entity, they told me what you are here for and what we need to do.”

“Oh?”

Nazar was confused.

“Don’t worry, we will be there.”

Both Technod and Emat vanished into thin air.

Nazar faced the others.

“What was that?”

Nazar looked confused.

“Oh well...”

“About our spaceship...” Weq said.

Nazar waved his hand and all of them vanished into thin air.

They appeared on planet Xiem, the throneworld of Vanaha Empire.

They appeared in Vanaha’s throne room.

“Why?” Kiet asked.

“What, do you want to be teleported into an ocean instead?”

Nazar said it as a joke but Kiet didn’t get it.

Nazar just brushed off the joke and looked at Solace.

“Anyway, we will start it again tomorrow. I will talk to the Dreamer... my brother tonight and see if he can help me locate the others.”

Weq nodded.

“And I will see what I can do.”

“And I will trying to build a faster spaceship,” Kiet said.

After a few minutes, Hial spoke.

“All of our spaceships and weapons are back where they used to be.”

“Same.”

“Same.”

“That’s good to know.”

Nazar then looked at Solace.

“Let’s go home.”

They both vanished into thin air.

Nazar and Solace appeared in their home.

It was around 8 at night.

Nazar was only gone for a few hours.

Once he got home, Emma was is in the kitchen. She was cooking for herself.

“Oh. I thought you would be gone for longer?” Emma said without looking at him.

“Well, we left the things for tomorrow.”

She looked at him and was confused.

“Why do you look so happy?”

“Do I?”

Emma nodded.

“Well, I am weaker than I used to be… So, that’s pretty awesome.”

She tilted her head a little in confusion.

“I don’t know how… but it is a good thing. Before I could do almost anything but now I am limited. You know...” Nazar paused before continuing. “It feels kind of good.”

“Ah, I see. Well, that is good to know.”

Emma then noticed Solace.

“Oh, she is back as well?”

“Yes, I am back.”

Solace walked close to where Emma was.

“Let me cook if you want.”

“Nah, it's cool. It’s finished anyway.”

“Okay. Oh, can I cook next time? I want to see if I can do it.”

Emma turned off the gas.

“Sure, why not?”

“And if it goes badly, Nazar can always order it.”

“I am not sitting on money here, okay?”

“But you have billions.”

“Well… You are not wrong.”

“I still can’t believe you have billions in your account.”

“It’s not just mine. It’s yours too.”

“Absolutely not. I am not taking that stolen money.”

“Ouch. That hurts.”

She looked at him and smiled.

“You know, I am joking, right?”

“Yeah, of course.”

“So, how much do I get?”

“As much as you want?”

“So, all of them are mine?”

“Yeah, why not? It’s not like I need money for anything.”

She laughed.

“That makes it seem somehow worse.”

“How?”

“You shouldn’t be using your powers for your own good,” Emma said in a very deep voice. She was imitating someone.

Nazar laughed.

“What was that?”

“Ahem. I am practising different voices.”

“Why?”

She thought about it for a few seconds.

“Because why not?”

Nazar looked around.

“When did Aarin leave?”

“Oh, she left a few minutes after you left.”

“I see...”

“You hungry?”

“When am I not?”

The centre of the universe:

There was a being standing at the centre of the universe.

He was an old man with a white beard and white hair. He looked like an elf. His eyes were lit up with bright white energy.

“Are you sure about this, Yam?”

He heard a voice. A voice that coming from everywhere.

“Yes, Orosus. I know everything.”

“So, what will happen to us now?”

“Arosus is… He can control everything in this universe. Just as you control time in this universe.”

“But are you sure he is coming? And why would he?”

“He controls the universe. He has gone mad with power. Just like you were until a few days ago. You can control the very time in this universe. And he controls the very universe.”

Orosus did not reply.

“You are a being of great power milady. You can help us stop him before he goes too far.”

“You might know everything that has ever happened and is happening… You have all the knowledge, Yam, but you lack offensive capabilities. So, how are you going to help, Yam?”

The white-bearded elf did not have an answer for the first time in the last few days.

Orosus took her original form.

She was a woman in her prime. She had beautiful black long hair that reached her waist. She had big beautiful blue eyes. If you looked into it for too long, you would feel like losing yourself in the ocean.

She had a chalk-like white skin. So, her eyes and her black hair stood out a lot.

“The being who knows everything does not have an answer?”

“There is a human...”

Orosus laughed.

“A human--”

Her words and smile trailed off.

“You mean Nazar?”

The white-bearded elf nodded.

“Why would he help us?”

The elf gave her a blank look.

“I stopped using my abilities since you stopped me with the help of some other… uh… ‘Cosmic Entities’.”

“Well…he is one of the reasons for why we exist. Some of his energies are within us. Plus he has a team. A team that we can use to help us. Maybe ask him to expand?”

Orosus thought about it.

“We should go to him. Should we go now?”

“He is on Earth at the moment. Let’s go.”

They both vanished into thin air.

Planet Omega:

“So, it has begun.”

Omegan was sitting on his throne.

“Interesting.”

As the leader of the Gods, his powers are exceptional. He can fight an angel… no, a fallen angel and will probably win.

He knows what is happening and what will happen.

“I guess, I need to save the universe now.”

He stood up.

“It’s time to be a God. Not in name but actions too.”

He also vanished into thin air.

6th dimensional plane of existence:

Arael, the God of Power was sitting alone next to the ocean.

He was observing the 3rd dimensional plane of existence.

More importantly, he was observing Nazar.

“Aah, that sucks!”

His shoulders dropped.

“I never got to fight him. And now he is weak.”

The leader of the Gods appeared behind him.

“So, why did you want to fight him? You are definitely stronger than him.”

The God of Power looked at her.

His eyes seemed dead.

“Well, he is a being of the 8th dimensional plane of existence, right?”

The leader of the Gods nodded.

“So, that’s why.”

“I see.”

She took a deep breath.

“Why don’t you lower your power levels and fight him now?”

A light shone in his eyes.

“Oh, that is an awesome idea, leader.”

He stood up.

“Can I go now?”

“No.”

And his shoulders dropped again.

Seeing that, the leader of the Gods sighed.

“Fine. You can go.”

“Woohoo.”

The God of Power jumped in excitement and then vanished into thin air.

The leader of the Gods smiled.

“He is like a child...”