stonecrandall Chapter 592: The Eternal Lands (3)
Chapter 592: The Eternal Lands (3)
After making sure Goku and Popo were set and ready to become the guardians of this place, the last and final step was to remove the independence from this realm and connect it to Pantheos.
Nia, Thalion, and Elowen left the Eternal Lands, reappearing back in the vast void between universes of Pantheos.
The three of them flew toward the Tower of the Endless — the colossal structure that housed all the restored Endless Realities.
Without wasting much time, they ascended all the way to the top floor, where the view opened up into an endless black expanse dotted with occasional flashes of white, like distant stars in an otherwise infinite void.
Nia stood at the very edge, looking out into the nothingness as she prepared to release the realm.
Thalion adjusted his eyeglass, his voice carrying a hint of scholarly excitement mixed with caution.
"I must say the void of Pantheos as even grown in way I can understand." He said noticing the patches of White.
Then he looked towards Nia,
"Are you ready?"
Elowen stood beside him, her expression a mix of awe and nervousness as she looked at the vast emptiness.
"It feels like we’re standing at the edge of everything. Are you sure this is the right place to anchor it?"
Nia nodded, her dark eyes sharp with focus and determination as she lifted her hands.
"Yes, and yes," she replied, answering both questions without hesitation.
"This is the highest point of Pantheos. Technically, if nothing were ever placed here, it would just continue to grow endlessly." She glanced around, a faint smile tugging at her lips.
"That’s why this is the perfect place to link something new. Once I release the Eternal Lands, it will officially become the Fifth Layer — a bridge to something far greater."
She took a deep breath, her hands glowing with powerful divinity as she began the final process of integration.
As the final stage, it was perhaps the easiest because she didn’t have to create anything or do much at all.
She simply had to disconnect it from her existence and just place it here. This was mostly because of Ash’s ability ’External Conversion’ which allowed him to convert any outside source into Pantheos.
Other than that, the Eternal Lands won’t be fully operational until Ash himself found time to do it.
"The last step, and then it’s yours, Ashy~" she said with a playful lilt in her voice.
She closed her eyes, drawing in a deep, steady breath as she reached far into the depths of herself.
With slow, deliberate intent, she began to devour the bond tying her to The Eternal Lands.
The sensation was strange and deeply personal—like tugging a delicate thread from the very fabric of her soul.
The connection that once granted her the power to shape and command the realm started to fray, each strand of ownership fading away into nothingness until she had consumed them all.
Not only that, but she also consumed the very place it had been tethered to—the small pocket of space it had called home until now.
The act was subtle yet deeply significant, a soft hum rippling through the air as the connection was cut and the place itself was wiped from existence.
HUMMMMM!!
Then, with one last surge of intent, she let it go. In that instant, the Eternal Lands unfolded before them..
It materialized seamlessly into the infinite void — exactly as she had created it.
The colossal world shaped in Ash’s image floated in the center, vast and majestic, with mountains resembling his silhouette, rivers flowing with colors that reminded her of his eyes, and skies painted in the exact shade of his presence.
The tens of pathways made of pure divinity stretched outward from it like radiant bridges into the starry expanse, each glowing with a different color representing a genre of a novel.
Above these pathways, more than thirty blank novels floated like celestial bodies around a much larger, central book — each one brimming with infinite potential, waiting to be written.
The Eternal Lands had finally found its home — the official Fifth Layer of Pantheos.
And all in all, it looked the exact same as their final product.
Nia stood at the edge of the Tower of the Endless’s highest platform, the boundless black void unfurling before her like a vast, untouched canvas waiting for its first stroke of color.
Far away, the newly joined realm drifted with a quiet grandeur, suspended in the emptiness as if it had always belonged there.
She let herself pause, taking it all in, a subtle swell of pride warming her chest. Turning to Thalion and Elowen, her crimson eyes shone with genuine gratitude.
"Thanks to both of you," she said softly, her tone sincere. "I couldn’t have done this without you. I’m off to tell Ashy his gift is ready."
Just before stepping away, she glanced back at them, her look carrying a hint of meaning, and her voice holding the weight of a gentle warning.
"Don’t get too caught up in yourselves," she said with a small smile.
"We’ll be heading to the next stage of existence out there soon—the Prime Expanse."
With that, Nia dissolved into a whirl of black essence, slipping away into the void to seek out Ash.
When she was gone, Elowen pushed her glasses higher on her nose, her gaze thoughtful as it lingered on the freshly laid Eternal Lands.
The gentle luminescence of its winding paths danced in her lenses, casting faint reflections as she began to speak.
"Just how much do they plan to conquer?" she asked, her voice carrying a mix of scholarly curiosity and slight concern.
Thalion let out a low, knowing chuckle, the sound warm and confident as he slipped an arm around her waist, drawing her in.
The question didn’t catch him off guard—he knew the answer by heart.
After all, Ash had repeated it to them more times than he could count.
"Until there’s nothing left to conquer," he said with a grin, his single eyeglass catching the light as he gazed out over the vast expanse of their creation.